The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-05-20
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

GOVERNOR HILL, Of New York, appointed
ex-Attorney-General Ward Justice OF the
Supreme Court, in place Of Judge Corlette
deceased.
AT the Bessemer Steel Works, Troy, N.
Y, huge ladle in the converter upset and
the molten metal fell on the three men. JOHN
Berry and Frank Van Breski were fatally
burned. Charles Yarwood had both hand1
burned off.
BY swift AMI terrible fire at the fire.
works factory of George Kraemer, New
York City, three young girls were burned
to death and another girl so badly burned
that she died few hours afterward. The
proprietor of the factory was also seriously
burned.
A HEAVY fall Of rain, lasting two hours,
e1tinguished the forest fires on the Blue
Mountains Of Pennsylvania, after they had
burned three days and devastated over 1000
acres of timber land.
Two fires in Altoona, Penn, destroyed
the Bohm and Rising Sun Hotels, the hard
pany, and the large exchange stables at
tached to the Whitehall Hotel. The stock
of William Murray G. Son, dry goods, was
also partially damaged by smoke and water.
The fires were of incendiary origin, and the
loss will amount to S75, 600.
EDWARD E. GEDNEY, late President Of
the wrecked North River Bank, and Frank
R. Ingersoll, its late Cashier, were arrested
in New York City charged with perjury in
swearing to false statements Of the banks
condition.
JESSE H. LIpPINcoTT, President of the
North American Photograph Company,
made an individual assignment in New York
CITY. with liabilities Of $500, 600.
The Polish colony of New York City cele-
brated the centennial anniversary OF the pro-
mitigation Of their constitution.
A FIRE in the Steel Works at Breaker Isl.
and, near Troy, n. Y, caused q les Of
S4OO, 900. Seven Westinghouse engines were
destroyed. Nearly 1000 people will be de-
prived Of work.
CHARLES PRATT, the millionaire oil mer-
chant, Vice-President of the Standard Oil
Company, and founder Of the great indus.
trial school known as the Pratt Institute,
in Brooklyn, died suddenly at his Office In
New York City of heart disease.
DEPUTY SHER1FFs and mine officials fired
on strikers in the Connellsvllle PENN coke
region, and one striker, John Mohan, q
Slav was killed. Three mine officials were
arrested.
NOEL SoUCL Theodore Forbes and John
Forbes were drowned at Braddock's Bay
Outlet, N. Y, while working on the new
Manitou Beach Railroad drawbridge.
CoAL-BREAKERs Nos. l and Of the
Kingston Coal Company, at Edwardsville,
Penn, with several boiler and machine
houses, were destroyed by fire. The loss
will reach S250O0O. About 500 men and boys
are thrown out of employment.
The United States Senate committee on
trade relations with Canada began an inves.
tigation at Buffalo, n. Y. There were pres
ent Senators Hoar, Gray, Dolph and Hale.
In the Excelsior Concert Hall. on the
Bowery, New York City, Ida E. Brevoort,
a singer, and one of the leading attractions
of the place, was shot and killed by G. s.
Wilbur, a former lover. Then Wilbur sent
bullet into his own brain and fell dead by
the side of the woman he had murdered.
Music HALL, the magnificent gift of An
drew Carnegie to the city Of New York, was
formally opened to the public.
THE ArbucSle Building, the Pttsburg
Female College, and Christ Methodist Epis,
copal Church at Pittsburg. Penn, were de
stroyed by fire. Loss, S75O,0O0.