The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-29
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The President and family enjoyed fish
ing trip to Herford banks, about fifteen
miles of Cape May, N. j. About 10 o'clock
in the morning the President Mrs. Harri-
Congressman and Mrs. J. E. Reyburn, Mrs.
Dimmick, Mr.. and Mrs. William Buckman,
Miss Alice B. Sanger and Thomas V. Cooper,
Of Philadelphia, left on the United States
revenue cutter Hamilton. The voyage was
pleasant one, and over 500 OF the finest OF
sea bass. founders and porgies were caught.
THE investigating committee of the Phila-
delpnia Councils heard the interview of ez-
Treasurer John Bardsley, now convict,
concerning the Keystone Bank, into which
! the names of Postmaster-Geuera Wana-
maker and other prominent PhiladelphiaIs
, are brought.
CORPORAL WESTERvELT, of Company A,
Seventy-irst Regiment, ran a bayonet
through the leg OF Private Wilkes, who was
trying to sneak through the guard lines at
night at the State Camp Peekskill, N. Y.
THE Massachusetts, Naval Militia, in con-
junction with the Squadron OF Evolution,
had sham battle on Deer Island, in Boston
Bay.
FRENcHY, or Ameer Ben Ali, tne Ameri-
can imitator of London's Jack the Ripper"
convicted of murder in the second degree for
killing "Old Shakespeare" was sentenced in
New York by Recorder Smyth to State
Prison for life.
GEORGE VAN RIsro's two children were
drowned in the Hudson, OFF New York City,
despite the fathers efforts to save them.
EDWARD BURGESS, the celebrated yacht
designer, died from typhoid fever at his
home in Boston, Mass. He was born at
West Sandwich, Mass, June 80 1915.
P. W. BARNEY. Superintendent of the
Lake George N. " transportation Co., was
fatally hurt whils rescuing his boy from
drowning.
WILLIAM CARPENTER, his W ife, Mollie,
aged thirty, and their son John, age seven
went out iu small boat on the Delaware,
at Philadelphia, Penn. Just off the Federal
street ferry on the Camden side their boat
was run down by the ferryboat Pennsyi.
yania. The wife and son were drowned, the,
husband being rescued.
E. c. STARK & Co., bankers of Oneida,
N. Y, made an assignment. Liabilities are
estimated at s220, 900.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY,
of the Knights of Labor, forwarded to Gov
ernor Pattison his deciination OF his appoint
ment as one of the Worlds Fair Commits
sioners from Pennsylvania.
JOHN SIPLE and William Long, boys Of
fifteen, were drowned while bathing at Fort
Plain, N. Y.
The little naphtba launch Ethel was
wrecked in the heavy surf on the bar off
Long Beach, n. Y. and Louis Caemmerer,
of Brooklyn; Daniel Dennis, neighbor of
Mr.. Caemmerer, and George Norwood, Of
Flatbusb, were drowned.
PHINEAs NJ. AUGUR, the Prohibition can
didate for Governor of Connecticut last fall,
died at his home in Middlsfield of heart dis
ease.
THOMAS vAcHoN French Canadian,
shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Nora Landry,
at Gardiner, Me-, because she would not
board him for nothing and then killed him
self.
A DECISION by Judge Wallace was filed in
the United States Circuit Court New York,
in the caseof the E 1ison Electric Light Com
pany against the United States Electric
Light Company towned by the Westinghouse
Company, sustaining the Ellison patent on
the incandeScent lamp. The suit was begun
in 1885.
BRAcKEN's new brick block on North
street, Pitts6eld, Mass, was burned. Losa
100000.
PETER YARD and George Nossman were
killed and C. F. veteran and Andrew Gill
bert fatally burned by premature e1plo
sion in mine at Hazleton, Penn.