The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THERE were eight deaths in one day from
The heat in New York city.
THE entire force of ropemakers connected
with the ropewalk of the Charlestown (MaSs.)
navy yard has been discharged.
Mrs. SALLY BROWN died at Chichester,
| Il. H., at the age of los. She was the oldest
! person in the State.
OVER $4,000 worth Of stamps have been
stolen from the postofice at Newport 4. L.
ADMIRAL WATSON and Sir John Ross,
with the British warships Bellerophon
Canada and Partridge, arrived at Newport,
r. !.
MILLIONAIRE GEORGE L. SCHUYLER, OF
New York, the sole surviving owner Of the
Americas Cup, which he formally gave in
in 1897 to the New York Yacht Club died
very suddenly in his stateroom on the flag
ship Electra anchored of the Pequot House,
New London, Conn.
A TORNADO swept across New Hampshire
| from the northeast and wrought havoc in
many places. The wind tore up big trees
| eighteen inches in diameter as though they
were straws ripped off chimneys and blinds,
and blew down few buildings. Damage
was done at WeirS, Plymouth, Laconia and
Meredith
The Volunteer Won the Goelet Cup for
SlOOpS ut NSWpCFt, T.. l., lue -heiIlu Was
first in the schooner class.
THIRTEEN fatal cases of helt prostration,
one suicide caused by the heat and sixteen
cases of serious prostration were reported in
one day in New York city.
SECRETARY BLAINE arrived at Cape May,
n. j., where he was to remain several days
in consultation with President Harrison.
AT Ararat, Penn, two children Of Joseph
SoX-Qnfann n
age fourteen, took a neighbors team during
their parents absence, and ran away with
George Wyman, age eighteen, and Myrtle
Wymar, age seventeen. The two couples
drove quickly to Windsor, N. Y, where
they were married. The Hobbs family will
take legal steps to regain their children
MRS. REESoR and her sister, Miss Ander-
son, were drowned while bathing in the
Niagara River, at Youngstown, NY.
FROM the United States Assay Office in
Wall street, New York city, S. 000, 900 in
gold, in the form Of bullion bars, was taken
in one day for Shipment on European steam
ers for Europe.
Mr. AND MRS. CHARLES b. TONGUE,
boarders at a summer hotel at Magnolia, n
j., while enjoying midnight stroll on the
tracks of the Atlantic City Railroad were
struck by train Of empty freight cars and
| instantly Killed.
MANAGER CHANLER and Treasurer Challer
of the Erie Transfer Company, have been
arrested in New York city charged with
stealing $40, 900 of the company's funds.
FRED AND ANDREW RAYMOND, aged ten
and twelve, respectively, children Of J. F.
Raymond, Of New York, together with Mag
gle, the seventeen-year-old daughter Of
Matthew McV eigh, farmer, were drowned
| in WpSt River at Rrattlehoro Vt
| THOMAS CALVIN, lad, got beyond his
depth while bathing at Bullock's Point, at
! Providence, r. l., and was drowned. Mich
ael Clossck, Of Providence r. l., eighteen
years old, was drowned while bathing at
Mark Rock; Robert Reglan, of the same city,
was drowned in Scott's Pond, Central Falls;
and Thomas Kelly was drowned in Masha-
paug Pond, r. l.
THE ceremony Of making tho Pensacola
| the flagship of Acting Rear Admiral William
P. McCann, Of the South Atlantic Squadron,
took place at the Brooklyn IN. " Navy
Yard.
The bathing ground at Cape May Point
n. j., was the scene Of tho widest excite
ment occasioned by the narrow escape from
drowning Of Mrs. Dimmick, niece Of Presi.
dent Harrison, and Miss Florence Hazard
of Philadelphia The President and Secre
tary Blaine were witnesses of the incident.
The reception rendered President Har.
rison and Secretary Blaine at Cape May,
n. j., was brilliant affair." About 250(
persons were present and shook hands with
the President and Secretary.
FERDINAND ScH1FFER, who weighs 3o(
pounds, after floating an hour on the water
in New York harbor, having fallen from q
! steamboat, was rescued by the Eliza Hancox
crew rigging derrick and hauling him OF
board.
A THUNDER SHOWER resulted most disas-
trously at West Creek, n. Y, and Nelson
Shinn, of the firm Of Shinn Brothers, fish
and oyster dealers, and one Of their EN-.
ployes, BENJAMIN Kelly, lie dead They are
the victims Of lightning's terrible work.
A FAIrHLEsS sweetheart, an enraged
lover aud an incensed husband brought on q
free fight among the Italians who work in
the gravel pits at Bound Brook, N. j., which
resulted in the death of two men and the
wounding of four or five more.
A RIOT broke out during parade of Ital
ians in Brooklyn, n. Y, and several police
men were injured. A similar affray tooa
place between Anarchists and the police ir
Elizabeth, N. J.
CoNv1cTs at the Mass sachusetts State
Prison cut up the manufactured stock and
damaged the machinery IN reCanaClon iol
punishment inflicted upon fellow convict
who had endeavore1 to escape.
Mrs. JOHN NABoE threw her new born
babe into vault at Syracuse, n. Y, and
then hastened its death by pounding its head
with O cobblestone.
REV. Adm BALLoC. venerable Uniyer-
salist preacher, died at his home in Hopedale
Mass, of paralysis He was much revered
all over New England.