The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States

eastern ana Nl1OOle SCaCeSs
THREE miners we're killed in the Williams
| town (Penn.) colliery by their car gettin
| iammed against the root.
SEVEN tenement houses were destroyed b!
| fire in Newark, N. j., and two score famllie
were rendered homeless.
KATE SULLIVAN, schoolgirl living will
her widowed mother in New York City, ha
fallen heir to an estate OF 81, ,000,0 900 in Ire
land.
JOSEPH WALLw1Tz, the convict who at
tempted to escape from the State Prison
| early on the morning OF March I'd last and
who killed Keeper James B. Lippincott wher
he was intercepted in his flight, was hanged
at Trenton, N. J.
The First Naval Battalion OF the State o
New York went on n cruise OF instructio;
aboard the cruisers New York and San Fran
cisco.
The residence OF James D. Avery, Town
Clerk of Groton, Conn.,, was burned to the
ground. The oldest records of the town
were destroyed. The papers in the saf,
were saved. The building was 264 years ole
and built entirely OF oak.
BROOKLYN Aldermen voted an appropria-
ton of $3.50, 900 for an increased water sup
ply.
CHARLES WILFRED MowBRAY, the Englist
anarchist. and John Most addressed large
meeting in Clarendon Hall, New York City
on the subjects Of anarchy and communism.
South and West.
The wheat crop in the Northwest is below
tho average.
TIE special Grand Jury in Chicago found
big batch OF indictments against those
concerned in the railroad strike. which was
supposed to include President Debs and
many of the rank and file. The Federal
troops and part OF the Illinois militia left
Chicago.
THREE miners were fatally injured by the
explosion OF blast In the Sally Waters mine
near Galena, III.
Four HUNDRED pounds ofpowder exploded
Mt Fort Pulaski, Ga, fatally injuring the
sergeant in charge, badly burning a woman
and setting fire to the fort.
WILMoRE, small town in Jessamine
County, Kentucky, was badly damaged by a
cyclone and at least dozen people were in
iured, one Of them fatally. Hardly house
escaped complete wreck or damage.
SEvENrEEN-YEAR locusts have appeared at
Kalamazoo, Mich.
A BOAT in which the Misses Minnie and
Hester Hern, Thomas Shultz and Harry
McMurray were riding on Prairie River at
Mlchell's Park. Ind, capsized and both
ladies and McMurray were drowned.
THE great railroad strike in California has
come to an end. It was an unconditional
surrender on the part OF the American Rail-
way Union. This action was not a surprise.
rs railroads under military protection had
been getting the better of the strikers and
the latter had virtually acknowledged de.
ieat.
GOVERNOR TLLMAN issued proclamation
announcing the reopening Of the dispensarles
in South Carolina on August 1.
A bYSoH1Sa took place at midday in New
iberia, La. The victim was Vance Mcclure,
q colored hostler, who attempted to assault
young lady, the daughter of his employer.
PRESIDENT DEBs and his associate leaders
OF the American Railway Union appeared in
court at Chicago to answer the charge Of
contempt in violating the Federal injunction,
and In their answer denied having sent cer-
tain kilograms, ordered strike or made war
on railroads.