The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-15
TIE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


The monument of the 1l1th New York
Volunteer Infantry was dedicated at Gettys-
burg, Penn. Benjamin B. Snow, of Auburn.
n. Y, delivered the oration, and c. D. Mac
Dougall of the same place. made an address.
| The benediction was pronounced by Rev. S.
| G. Hopkins, Of Palmyra, n. Y.
DURING baseball game at Johnstown,
| Penn, few days ago, one Of the PLAYERS
discovered the body of al unknown flood
| victim.
A ScAFFoLD erected at the Worthinston
! pump works, Elizabethport n. j., on which
seventeen bricklayers were at work, sudden
| ly fell and precipitated tn, men forty feet
| to the ground. Michael Nolan, thirty-fve,
unmarried, and Gabriel Williams, thirty.
also unmarried, were instantly Gillei. Ths
other men were all more or less injured
THE great Yale-Harvard University four
mile boat race at New London Conn, for
the sixteenth time in the history Of the an
nual event was won by Harvard, leaving
Yale with a record Of eleven out of the
twenty-saven contests which have taken
place between the two great rival institu-
tions. Yale was beaten by eleven lengths,
time twenty-one minutes and twenty-three
seconds.
THE Governor of Vermont decided to call
special session of the Legislature to coz
slider the disposition Of the Direct Tax
money.
Rev. WIN. OGDEN, rector of the Church
Of the Holy Cross at Warrensburg, n. Y,
fell dead in tho pulpit while preaching. He
was fifty five years Of age and had been pas
tor Of the church for twenty years.
ALLIE B. Dorm, aged twenty-five, SER
want committed suicide at Bar Harbor, Me-,
by hanging. Her twin brother, Edward
Dorr, and Lester Stevens, were drowned by
the upsetting of a sail boat in the harbor a
short time before.
MRS. ELIZABETH NJ. HAsLErT, wife Of
wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, met shocking
death by leaping from window, after hav-
ing accidentally set her clothing on fire.
The funeral of Frederick Brokaw,
drowned while trying to rescue servant
girl, took place at Elberon, N. j. Two thou
sand persons were present. It was attended
by prominent people from New York, Phila-
delphia and all seaside resorts; President
Francis L. Patton, Of Princeton College;
several Of the Faculty and large body OF
the students.
MERCANTILE circles Of New Bedford,
Mass, were startled to learn that J. H. J.
Doane, q clothing dealer had disappeared,
and was forger to the extent of sl2, 900.
Doane is a son of the late Simeon Doane, a
retired whaling merchant.
JUDGE BUTLER, in Philadelphia, Penn.
directed the Centennial Exposition Board
Of Finance to distribute balance of sl3,-
l03.Gl among the stockholders. There are
Is, ,915 holders of stock. The dividend will
be about two cents q share and the board
doesn't know how it Is going to make the
distribution.
THE boiler Of shifting engine 235 exploded
at Mauch Chunk Penn. Engineer Tripp
and Fireman Pope were blown to atoms and
cannot be found. Brakemen Gallagher and
Smith were found among the debris having
living to tell the story.
CAPTAIN F. NJ. BRUCE, United States
Navy, took command Of the United States
Naval Training Station at Newport R. l.,
relieving Commodore D. F. Stanton.
The ladies Of the Christian Church of
Brushton, n. Y, gave an ice cream sociable.
Forty-three people who ate the cream were
poisoned. The pastor Of the church and two
ladies died, and all the others were, for sew
eral days, in critical condition.
AT Lawrence, Mass, John Rausch, twenty
four years old, shot and killed his sweet
heart, Maria Burcket, sixteen years old, and
then shot himself through tho head, dying
Immediately. Rausch was extremely jeal-
Gus.
PRINCE GEORGE OF GREECE who saved
the life of the Czarowitz Of Russia in ia
pan, arrived at New York City from Chi
cago, en- route, by Atlantic steamer. for
home. There were fully 1000 Greeks at the
station to honor the coming Of their royal
countryman, and their enthusiasm was
marked.