The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AN attachment Of over 500, 600 was issued
in New York City against E1-Presiden'
John Hoey's property, and direct charge
Of embezzlement was made against him by
the Adams Express Company.
The three-masted schooner Rebecca A.
Taulane of Boston, commanded by Captain
! Amia Nickerson, of South Chatham, Mass,
went down at sea, and her crew of seven
men were drowned.
The body of Miss Laury S. Presbery, the
missing Smith College girl. was found in
Paradise Pond, Springfield, Mass. She had
committed suicide. She was the daughter
Of wealthy parents but was detected rob-
bing one of her college mates, and preferred
death to disgrace. 1t is believed she was q
kleptomaniac, as she had plenty of money Of
her own.
SAMUEL WHITNEY HALE, Ex-Governor Of
New Hampshire, died at the home of his
brother, in Brooklyn. n: Y. He was born in
Fitchburg, Mass, in 1928
The General Conference of the Evangeli-
cal Church, which had been in session at
Philadelphia, Penn, for two week, has just
adjourned. The next General Conference
will be held in the autumn of 1895, at Naper.
vile, Ill.
AS four men of Occum, Conn.,, who had
acted as pall-bearers at funeral in Wlll-
mantle, were driving back to Occum, their
horse ran away down hill. Peter McCaf-
ferty, aged thirty-fve, was killed and John
Shea was fatally hurt. The horses dashed
over precipice sixty feet high and were
killed.
OK the first day Of the sale at Hunts
Point, n. Y. o. the racing stable Of tho late
August Belmont, seventy-six stations,
broodmares and youngsters brought S27o,-
050.
IRVING A. EVANS, the stock broker,
as Merry" Evans, shot himself dead at the
summer residence of his uncle, Brlce l..
Evans, in Allentown, n. Il.
SAM SMALL, the evangelist, was arrested
in Boston, Mass, charged by another clergy
man with swindling.
The great shipbuilding firm OF Harrison,
Loring & Co., proprietors of the City Point
Works, South Boston, Mass, has assigned.
The liabilities are stated to be 1915, 600.
JOHN HoEY, OF New York City, has re-
signed the managership of the Adams Ex-
press Company. E1-Vice-President Spoon
er's property in Connecticut has been at
tached.
JAMES PARTON, the well known author
and biographer, died at his home in New
buryport, Mass, after an illness Of several
weeks. He was born in Canterbury, Eng
land, on February 9, 1922.
OK the second day of the sale in New York
City of thoroughbred horses belonging to the
estate of the late August Belmont, tbs i'm.
ported ST. Blaise was sold to Charles Reed, Of
Gallatin. Tenn, for 500, the highest
price ever paid for stallion. A yearling by
St. Blaise brought $4,000. 1wenty-four
yearlings sold for 1924, $50. The total sum
realized from the sale was $641, 400.
AGED Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Huyler,
Of Bergens6eld, NJ, were instantly killed
by an express train while driving over an
ungraded railroad crossing in that village.
A LOCOMOTIVES boiler exploded near
Pottsville. Penn, killing three men and
fatally injuring another.
JONATHAN STEWARD, wholesale grocer,
Of Trenton, N. j., made an assignment.
Liabilities, 1929, 900.
The Pennsylvania Senate, in session at
Harrisburg, took up the investigation Of
State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor. General
McCamant.
By the premature explosion of blast,
three men at work on DR.. Webb's new rail
road at Malone, n. Y, were killed and
fourth, an Italian, was terribly injured.