The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-27
Domestic.

Drummers' Day at the Exposition drew
5000 commercial travellers to Atlanta, Ga.
Governor Atkinson has called the atten.
tion of the Georgia Legislature to the cruel
ties practiced by the chain-gang guards.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad. New
York City, carried II. .435, ,49S fewer passen.
gers this year than last year. 50, ,224, o5l
fewer than in 1893 and has deficit.
Stephen B. Dunk of the tribe of Jackson
Whites, of the Ramapo Mountains, was taken
to Jail at Hackensack. N. j., on the charge
of having, with two other men OF the tribe,
stolen a valuable horse from the stables at
Darlington Of A. B. Darling.
Ex-Speaker Crisp addressed the Georgia
Legislature. He declared himself unequiyo-
cally in favor Of the free, unlimited and In.
dependent coinage Of silver, at a ratio OF 16
to1. ...
The first United States Court ever held In
Tahlequab, Indian Territory, was opened
few days ago, with Judge W. NJ Springer on
the bench.
Charles Ernst. conductor, and John Adams,
brakeman, asleep In caboose, were killed
In collision Of freight trains at Warwick,
Ohio.
At the unveiling at Hartford, Conn.,. OF the
statue to Colonel Thomas Rnowlton. the
Revolutionary hero, addresses were made by
Charles Dudley Warner, Governor y. VIM
cent Coffin and P. II. Woodward.
At a session of the National convention IN
Baltimore, Nd, OF the United Garment
Workers q resolution was passed favorlng
the establishment of an eight-hour work-day
In all branches OF the United Garment Work
ers Of America, to be affected gradually.
A construction train was run into by a
freight train near America, Ala. OF
twenty laborers asleep in the caboose OF
the work train four were killed. viz: An
thony Cunningham, Moses McGee, Joe
Davis and Luke Bailey, and two-Jake
Bailey and Steve McDonald-were fatally In
jured.
Governor Brown and ". q. Newhall, a
clerk in the Auditors Office, quarrelled IN
the State House, Frankfort, KY, passed the
lie and would have come to blows had by.
ISLANDERS not interfered. Newhall accused
the Governor of voting the Republican
ticket.
Runaway freight cars, descending steep
grade, struck combination train near
Short Hills, N. j., causing bad wreck, fol-
lowed by fire.. Herman Rush, the engineer,
was killed and two men injured.
The eleventh annual Horse Show was
opened at Madison Square Garden, New YORK
City. with IN immense and fashionable au-
dience In attendance.
The committee appointed by the Pennsyl.:
yania Senate began its investigation OF
charges OF corruption in the city govern
ment OF Philadelphia.
William Krauel. middle aged German,
was mysteriously murdered In the
kitchen of restaurant he was about to open
at New York City, The body was rot found
until thirty-six hours after the tragedy.
Charles Tubberts. OF Syracuse. N. Y, a
boiler maker. while at work on the city water
tower fell n distance Of forty-fve feet. BE
died at the Ellis Hospital shortly afterwarc.
Josiah Quincy was nominated for Mayor
OF Boston by the Democrats.
Policeman Tremper. Of Mount Vernon, N.
Y, was caught robbing trunk in the rail
way baggage-room. He Is accused OF several
burglaries.
A boiler explosion on the Lehigh and Hnd-
son River Railroad near Warwick, n. Y,
killed Martin O'Neil, conductor; William
Cooper, engineer, and James L. Sloan,
brakeman. Herbert Bittner, fireman, was
seriously injured.
The price OF the Chicago Tribune, one ofthe
largest papers in the West. has been reduced
from two cents to one cent to its city SUBJ
scribers.
Complete success has attended the first
months operations of the street railway mail
service on the Third avenue line in New
York City.
Particles of gold were discovered at Ham,
mond Brothers gravel pit, near Elgin, ILL.,,
while working over the gravel, and George
Chisholm, mining expert says that the par
ticles are genuine gold, and indications .are
that pocket will be discovered.