The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
Domestic.

Frederick W. Griffin. the assistant cashier
of The Northwestern National Bank at Chi.
cago, has confessed the embezzlement OF
$50 900, which he lost in stock speculations.
While putting off freight at Antiquity,
Ohio, the passenger steamer Iron Queen took
fire from an exploded lamp and was totally
destroyed. A chambermaid was burned to
death.
Ne ar Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Harry St:
John, son Of Ex-Governor John P. st. John, OF
Kansas, and a member of the last Oklahoma
Legislature, shot and killed his wife. He
was jealous.
Frank C. Marin, lawyer Of Brooklyn,
was arrested, charged with defrauding Mrs.
Catharine Barry out OF S4O,0O0.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, 50 long identified with
fashionable life, died suddenly at her
house in New York City.
Major Andrew Jackson Hamilton, aged
flfty-seven, who planned and superintended
the famous tunnel escape from Libby Prison,
in which 120 Union soldiers secured their
freedom, was murdered in Reedyville, KY,
by Samuel Spencer during drunken quar-
rel.
Governor Stone called a special session Of
the Missouri Legislature to consider
measures to abolish the legislative lobby
and election frauds.
By a vote Of 2S to the congregation Of the
Presbyterian Church at Chaumont, N. y,
asked the Rev. William N. Cleveland,
brother of President Cleveland, to resign.
David NJ. Stone, the veteran editor of the
Brooklyn. from enlargement Of the heart and
catarrh of the stomach. Mr.. Stone was born
in Connecticut, December 23, 1917.
The Georgia Southern and Florida Rail-
road was sold at Macon, Ga, at auction Tor
$4,000 900. 1t was bought by SGipwith Will
mer, Of Baltimore, for the bondholders.
George B. Swift. Republican, was elected
Mayor of Chicago; his plurality Is 45,OO0i the
Republicans have carried st. Louis.
It was reported that the sloop Robinson
Crusoe was wrecked in Biscayne Bay, of
Florida, and all of her passengers, includ.
Ing William ZieSler, Of New York City, and
John G. Wells. of Brooklyn, were lost.
Charles F. Warwick was inaugurated as
Mayor of Philadelphia.
Mrs. W. H. B. Williams murdered her two
children in Columbus, Ohio.
Judge Randolph B. MARITIME, of General
Sessions Court. died in New York City OF
heart failure, superinduced by Brights dis
ease.
Train robbers DOarQeQ an express tEttlu III
California and a battle followed, in which
Sheriff Bogard and one of the robbers were
killed.
JOHN A. Brown, a salesman for New
York merchant, shot his wife and killed
himself in Philadelphia.
AlRs. EDNA REEVES, aged foty-five, and
her child met their death in the burning OF
Israel Higbie's house, near Northport, N. Y.
Two bandits. former comrades Of Bill Cook,
were killed at Braggs, Indian Territory, while
trying to rob store.
CUSTOMS frauds on large scale by means
of forged Chinese return certificates were
discovered in San Francisco, Cal.
THE wind blew seventy-Ave miles an houi
in New York City and along the Atlantic
coast the highest ever recorded. The tug Mary
A. Packer was sunk and the schooner Agri.
cola was blown ashore.
ANDREW J. CAMPBELL, Secretary OF the
Lexington (Ky.) Chamber Of Commerce, and
a member Of the A. p. A., was found dead on
his own porch. 1t was believed be was as
sassinated.