The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-11
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TRoops were ordered to go to Pupasu- !
tawney. Penn, as striking miners there were
running things With lawless hand.
G. KsApPE. assistant teller OF the Chic
opee National Bank, of Springfield. Mass,
acknowledged embezzling about S25,ooo OF
its funds
MRS. LIZZIE HALLIDAY was conv1cted OF
murder in the first degree In Monticello. n
Y, for the killing OF her husband, Paul Hal
Hday, and the two McQuillan women.
ABouTthree hundred representative South
ern business men met New York and East
ern capitalists at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York City, and discussed plans by which
Northern capital may be attracted to the
South. Secretary Hoke Smith made tell
ing speech
THE eleventh Suburban was run over the
Coney Island Jockey Clubs course at Sleeps
head Bay, n Y, in the presence OF 25,0o1
people, and was won by Gideon q Days
chestnut horse, Ramapo, ,120 pounds, Taral up.
with N. F. Dwyer's bay gelding, Banquet, lls
pounds, Sims up. second, and Gllpin &c
Taylor's Sport. ia pounds: Thompson up;
third. The time was 2.06 is, the fastest
Suburban ever run by two-hfths of second ;
The stake was worth ITO to the winner,
$500 to the second horse and $3.50 to the
third horse
THERE were 10,0oO men in line In the night
parade OF the National saengerbund, New
York City. The spectacle was magnificent
Governor Flower and Mayor Gilroy reviewed.
the procession.
TIE Rev. Charles Warmkessel, OF Mahan-
tango Valley, Pennsylvania, committed sui
eide by hanging. He was of the Evangeli-;
cal faith. While his body was being cut
down his nephew was killed on the railroad. !
Mrs. LIZZIE HALLIDAY was sentenced at
Monticello, N. Y, to die in the electric chair
during the week beginning August for the,
murder of her husband, Paul Halliday, and
the two McQuillan women.
WOMEN in State street, Passaic, N. J., by.
force prevented workmen from erectirg
trolley poles.
AN unknown man made fatal plunge
from the Brooklyn On. ~ Bridge.
Rioters In the Clearfeld-J Jefferson Dis
trict of Pennsylvania were held in check BY
the arrival of State troops, and the back
bone of the miners strike was broken.
JOHN K1RcHNER, a laborer, ffty-nine years
old, killed his wife, Margaret, at Williams
burg, N. Y, as the result OF quarrel caused
by Mrs. Krchner objecting to his actions at
the table.
CAMDEN, N. j., experienced one Of the hot
test and at the same time one of the saddest
DAYS In 1t9 history. WltQ the mercury 1t luo
In some localities and ninety-four in the
coolest part, the mortality footed up total
of nine children, whose deaths were due, d.
rectly or indirectly, to tle heat, and one In
FAINT was found dead in a lot. Four OF the
victims were boys who sought the cool
waters for bath.
FREDERICK BAHR, forty-eigh: years old, q
workman in the United States Rubber
Works, and living in New Brunswick, N. j.,
killed his wife. Ida, aged thirty-eiGat. he
fired at her three times. One bullet pene-
trated her brain, causing death almost In
stantly. He then turned the revolver and
shot himself in two places, dying soon after
wards. His wife was In delicate condition.
THOMAS A. EDISON. the inventor, IS at his
homo In Orange, n j., suffering from what
was feared might prove to be serious in
ternal injuries received by falling backward
from q chair.
A VAST audience heard the closing concert
of The Saengerfest in New York City, the
most successful OF the series.
TIE five persons drowned by the sinking
of sloop in Gowanus Bay. Brooklyn, N. Y,
are found to have been Charles Nelson. OF
964 Columbia street, Brooklyn. his wife,
eldest child, servant and boardar.
AT New York City Erastus Wiman pro-
cured a stay of execution OF his sentence Ion
forgery.