The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-09
LATER NEWS.

nue. Hotel New York City, ended in a bois-
war Of words caused for two hours. The
electric lights were finally turned out amid
the utmost confusion. The delegates to the
Chicago Convention, however, were ap-
pointed.
The Erie Railway WIS placed in the hands
OF John King and J. G.. Mccullough as Re-
ceivers. the appointment being made by
Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit
Court, New York City. on the application of
Trenor L. Park holder Of first and second
mortgage bonds. Hs stated in his complaint
that the s6,OOO,OOO OF floating debt en-.
barrased the company 80 that il was in dam
ger of defaulting on its bonds, and many
creditors threatened actions.
The Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance
Company Bank OF Milwaukee, Wis. failed ;
two banks in Indianapolis, Ind, and three
in Louisville, Ky., also closed their doors.
GENERAL ST. CLAIR, Worlds Fair Com.
missioner from West Virginia, tried to enter
the Worlds Fair grounds without his badge
and was badly bruised in an encounter with
three gatemen.
COMPTROLLER EcKLEs received dispatch
stating that Cashier Lomax, Of the First No
tional Bank of Vernon, Texas, which failed a
few days before, had committed suicide by
shooting bimself.
FIFTY deaths daily are reported in st.
Louis. Senegal. The disease also prevails In
Naples and vicinity, in Italy, and in Smyrna,
Asia Minor.
NJ. PAv1E, the French Minister Resident,
left Bangkok; Sir Edward Grey, the Parlia-
mentay Secretary of the British Foreign
Office, assured the HOUSE OF Commons that
England would protect her subjects in Siam.
OFFICERS from the Russian man-of-war.
Nicholai I, visited Camp Werts, Sea Girt,
where the New Jersey National Guard was
encamped.
SEVERE electric storms did damage in
various places In the New England and Mid
die States. One man was killed and sew
eral injured at Coney Island, New York, a
man was killed on Staten Island, and man
severely injured at Nyack, by lightning.
AN Italian, Daniel Arats, a saloon keeper,
was taken from the jail at Denver, Col, by
q mob of citizens estimated to number ff-
teen thousand persons and hanged to the
nearest tree. where his body was riddled
with bullets. Arata had killed an old Grand
Army veteran named Benjamin c. Light.
foot. -...'
MAGGIE TAYLOR, Lulu Johnson, Marian
Smith and Nellie Patrick were drowned in
the Wicomico River, near Patrick's Landing,
Nd, by the eapslzing OF 4 sailboat. '''-
TIE Navy Department has transferred to
Admiral Kaznakofr, commanding the Rus
sian feet now In American waters, the elec-
trio launch or gig recently built for the ar.
mored cruiser New York.
POSTMASTER DAYTON visited Westinghouse to
make an effort to secure an additional allow
ance for the conduct OF the New York Post
Office. After q two-hour conference with
First Assistant Postmaster General Jones he
succeeded in obtaining an allowance OF
s5o,7OO.
TIE Spanish steamer San Juan, loaded
with kerosene for Annoy and Manila, was de-
stroyed of HonJ Kong by fire. Out OF $50
people on board, only twenty-nine were
saved.
A NEW treaty OF annexation to the United
States hos been prepared by the Provisional
Government in Eawaii.
The steamship Pearl was run into and
sunk by an unknown steamship of the Irish
coast. Seven people we're drowned.
The revolutionists OF Nicaragua have
captured the city OF Managua, the capital OF
the Republic.