The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

A PAYING vein Of gold ore has been found
in Silver Lake Township. Penn.
WRIrs of quo warranto were issued
against the State Treasurer and State Sec
retary of Connecticut
WATER in the New Hampshire rivers is so
low that many Of the mills can run only on
half time.
THE public schools in Syracuse, N. Y,
closed for a few days because of the phe-
nomenal heat.
JAMES DARLING and Sandy Ferry, while
dynamiting stumps near Garfield Penn,
were instantly killed by the premature e1-
plosion of cartridge.
Rev. DIR. S. D. BURcHARD, author of the
famous Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
speech during the Cleveland Blaine Presi-
Dental campaign, died in Saratoga, N. Y.
He was born at Steuben, N. Y, September
9th, 1912.
On the day following the accident it was
works explosion in Newark, n. j., were
dead, and other fatalities were expected.
All the victims were Italians.
Two freight trains came into collision
about two miles west Of Hawleyville, Conn.
Ths engineer, William Day; the fireman.
James Gardner, and q brakeman, &. A.
Sprague, of the eastbound train, were
killed. They all lived in Hartford.
The Rev. Caspar Wistar Hodge, D. D.,
LII. D., Professor of New Testament Lit ,r-
ature AID Biblical Greek at Princeton IN.
J., Seminary, is deal. His death resulted
from a surgical operation to remove cancer
from the throat. He was born at Prince
ton on February 81, 1881.
Ex-STATE TREASURER WILLIAM d.
KEMBLE, of Pennsylvania, died at Philadel-
phia of heart failure. He was worth So, 000,-
0OO.
A FoURTEEN.YEAR-oLD boy named Am
brose Parr committed suicide at Millville,
n. j., by hanging himself in the garret Of
his home. He was employed as O tending
boy at Whitall. Tatum & Co.'s flint glass
works, and refused to 60 out with the other
tending boys when they struck. On several
occasions, it is said, the strikers called young
Parr ''scab," and he brooled over the mat
ter SO much that it unbalanced his mind.
AN explosion of oil destroyed the wh ole
sale coal-oil house Of Phillips & Cunning
ham at Philadelphia, Penn. The total loss
is estimated at a little over S50O,0O0.
FRANCIS HENDRICKS. Mr.. Fassett's sue
cessor as Collector Of the Port Of New York,
was sworn into Office by Uni ted States Com
missioner John Shields at the Custom House.
The new Collectors bond for 5000, 600 was
uleQ aU CQ0 SeiL1e SuTeUSS OSiues
United States Senator Frank Hiscock,
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard and Edward B.
Judson.
SOME lime ago Mrs Catherine F. Felt, Of
Salem, Mass, quarreled with and left her
husband. Recently her pug dog was killed
and its collar was sent her, as she believed,
by Felt. She poured two quarts Of kerosene
over her clothing and lighted it. Wrapped
in flames she ran into the street and was so
horribly burned that she died few houri
later.
JOHN W. MAcKAY and Mrs. Fair reached
New York from San Francisco in four days,
twelve hours, twenty-eight minutes the fast
est trip on record.
The Massachusetts, Democrats in conven.
tion at Worcester renominatei William E.
Russell for Governor.
JUDGMENT was rendered against John
Bardsley; ex-Treasurer of Philadelphia,
Penn, for S394, 4,01O.
REMEL, the man who attempted to wreck
q Lehigh Valley Railroad train at Kennedy
station, near Phillipsburg, Nj, month
ago, has been sentenced to ten years at hard
labor in State prison and fined $1,000.
WILLIAM GOULD. JR., Of Albany, N. Y,
who was found guilty of aiding and abetting
Bookkeeper Whitney in falsifying the &C
counts OF the Albany City National Bank,
han been sentenced to six years lmprlson.
ment.