The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-09
THE NEWS EPIT0MIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

eastern anu miouke SIdscS.
A FLOOD did damage in Steuben County,
N. Y, and Toga County, Penn.
Mrs. HARRISON and Mrs. Mckee, wife and
daughter Of the President, the babies Mckee,
Mrs. Dimmick, two maids and White House
Steward Thomas McKim, arrived at Cape
May Point, N j., on a special train. They
were driven Immediately to Mrs. Harrlsons
handsome new cottage, which nad Deen
opened, ready to receive them.
The Vermont Republican State Conven-
tion at Montpelier nominated Carroll s.
Page for Governor His opponent was u.
A. Woodbury., the present LieutenantGoV-
ernor.
WILLIAM T. MEAD, an ex-member of the
Common Council of Camden, N. j., has been
sentenced to three years Imprisonment Tor
forging the name of D. Il. Erdman to note
for $3.50.
GEORGE YORK, fifty years old, has been
arrested in Portland, Me-, for setting hre 10
his fathers house.
A SMALLPOX epidemic has broken out at
Searsport, Me-, and great excitement exists
in Eastern Maine in consequence.
MISS IDALENE M. FRIsBrE, the twenty
three-year-old daughter Of Henry l.. Frls-
brie, Superintendent Of the Illinois Central
Railroad, was kicked to death at Now Ha-
ven, Conn.,, by horse
MICHAEL WYMAN, farmer living five
miles north Of Newark, N. Y, and his son,
Edward, were both drowned while engaged
in washing sheep in a creek. One Of the
sheep pulled Edward into deep water. His
father went to his rescue aud both were
drowned.
ACCORDING to the census returns the pop
ulation Of New York city is 1,6S7,221. In
A. ,1o4i@ 4
MRS. PATRICK STANTON, Of Upper Pros
pect, Penn, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. Her husband and son were
also shocked and fatally injured.
EDWARD McCULLocK hung himself with q
clothesline from tree in the rear OF his
house at Rock Glen, N. Y, because of dis
Cullock mounted a tree limb Of which
grew out over q gorge whose bottom lay
eighty feet below. He had calculated that If
tae rope broke he would be killed by the fall.
RICHARD CROKER, the head of Tammany
Hall, was witness before ths Fassett Com
mittee, in New YORK city, and denied all
charges made against him by Patrick b..
McCann, his wife's brother-in-law.
THE boiler of the tug Alice D. Carew ex-
ploded while the boat was lying at the foot
of Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Two
men were instantly killed and three Others
were injured.
A TERRIFIC wind, hail and rain storm, &C
companied by fierce and incessant lightning,
visited the Juniata Valley, Penn, doing
much damage to growing crops. Three
houses in Huntingdon, Penn, were struck
by lightning and James Swoope was fatally
injured. Miss Mary Hoffman, a twin daugh.
ter of John Hoffman, died from fright.
AUSTIN CoRB1N cabled from Europe to
Philadelphia his resignation as President Of
the Reading Railroad.
The American Gas Investment Company,
with capital of $50, 600. 900, has been incor-
porated at Trenton, N. j.
The New York Court Of Appeals decided
the Sugar Trust case adversely to the Trust;
it also affirmed the death sentence of Will
lam Kemmler, upholding the constutionality
of the Electrical Execution law.
TIE sixth International Sunday-schoo
Convention met at Pittsburg, Penn. Will
lam Reynolds, of Peoria, ILL.,, called the
meeting to order.