The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-03-27
Domestic.

FIRE in New York City destroyed the lab
oratory of the great electrician, Nikola
Tesla, and threw hundreds OF men out OF
woJk.
ATT San Francisco, CAL, Harry Browne, q
notorious charater, shot and killed his wife.
and then shot and killed himself. Browne
was thought to have been crazy. He was
possessed Of over 100000.
LIZZIE MARTIN, bride of month, COM,
mttted suicide at Kendallville, Ind, by TAX
ing morphine. She was driven out into the
cold by her husbands parents.
The tug N. B. Starbuck was sunk In the
Captain was picked up, injured about the
head, and died soon after.
LOUIS A. TRACY, Secretary Of the Security,
Company, of Hartford, Conn.,, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzling $9700 from
that bank.
WILLIAM J. McKELvKY was appointed Su-.
perintendent of Police in Brooklyn.
The Violet, with President Cleveland and
party on board, left Pamlico Sound on the,
return trip to Washington.
THE oyster dredging schooner Ida Y.
Seward was capsized In Broad Creek, Talbot
County, Maryland, and the crew, consisting
of seven men, were drowned.
The Toledo (Ohio) High School building,
a four-story brick structure, was almost de-
stroyed by fire. The fire was caused by an
explosion, probably Of chemicals In the
laboratory. The loss Is estimated at S15O, 900.
BosroNs new s5.OOO,OOO public library
building In Copley square was opened Tor
routine business. There was good-natured
rivalry to obtain the first book In each de-
partment.
A.
convicted OF the murder of Miss Cling, was
sentenced to be hanged three months from
date.
The six-year-old daughter Of William
Sprigle, farmer south OF Logansport, Ind,
bled to death after having an aching tooth
extracted.
AwHALE was killed off Nahsnt, Mass.
ELISHA SMITH THOMAS, Protestant Episco-
pal Bishop Of Kansas, Is dead.
EIGHT men were imprisoned In the Old
Abe mine Of New Mexico by the burning OF
the hoist house, and the chances were against
their ever coming out alive.
CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New York
Sun, surrendered himself to the United
States authorities and was released on his
own recognizance. He Is charged with
criminal libel.
HARRY HAYWARD was found guilty at Min
nespolis, Mimi, Of the murder OF Miss Cnth-
crime Cling.
THE First National Bank Of Texarkana,
Texas, has closed its doors.
THE House at Augusta. Me-. voted 70 to 81
in favor Of the bill giving municipal suffrage
to women.
The burning Of the steamer Laura Banks
on the Tensas River, Louisiana, caused the
deeth Of Captain knights twelve-yearold
boy and two colored hands.
AT Middlesboro, Ky., Thomas Howard,
Deputy Sheriff Of Bell County, was shot
through a window while eating his supper
and instantly killed by an assassin. Howard
was dreaded by the desperadoes.
GRAVE charges OF misappropriation. OF
funds were made at New York City against
the Rev. w. A. Newbold, the deposed Secre-
tary Of the American Church Missionary 80
ciety.
, TIE inbound North German Lloyd steamer
Hayel, with 149 cabin and 274 steerage pas
sengers, ran hard and fast aground on Romer
Shoal In Gedneys Channel, three miles out
from Sandy Hook, N. j.; efforts to float her
at high tide proved unsuccessful.