The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-05-08
Domestic.
Domestic.
RECORD or TIE LEAGUE CLUBS.

pttsSurS fsSs Won LIST 800 GlGS ES' h 500
Boston,. ESQ St. Louis. 2 400
Baltimore. 8 .75O Louisville. 2 8 400
| Cincinnati. 2 COO New York. $50
Chicago. -. 8 2 GOO Phiadel.: .2sO
Morris Hopkins, colored, was hanged at
Richmond, Va. for the murder ot H. >. Iar-
sons, his employer, whom he Killed With
club.
Tho defalcation OF Paul Schulz. land agent
of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Tacoma,
| WASH, is now estimated at s5OO,0JO.
The New York City Police Reorganization
bill was beaten in the Senate at Albany by
| tie vote, three Republicans joining the Demo-
Gratis in opposition to it.
The Pennsylvania House at Harrisburg
passed the Greater Pttsburg' Dill, ana aiso
the bills known az the second and third
'.Greater Pittsburg" bills by decisive ma
! jorIties.
The defalcations Of Cashier Risley, OF the
Willimantic Comm National Bank, amount
to S125,0OO. The city was in state OF con-
sternation over the discovery, and run on a
local savings institution took place.
George Payne. aged sixty-four years. an
old and respected business man OF Rome.
committed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor. He had been mentally deranged for
several days.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt de-
cided to accept one Of the Police Commls-
sionerships of the city of New York rendered
to him by Mayor Strong.
Louisville's Board OF Trade authorized the
appointment OF delegates to the Memphis
Sound Money Convention.
Julia Gross, a siXteen-year-old girl, who
was lured away by young man from her
home in New York City. and returned two
days after, was found lying dead in the yard
of her home. She had committed suicide
through remorse.
Edward B. Shaw. of Newburyport, was
nominated for State Treasurer and Receiver
General by the Republicans OF the Massa-
chusetts Legislature. The nomination was
tantamount to election.
Thomas s. Borden, agent and treasurer OF
the Metacomet and Anawan Mills, has fed
from Fall River, Mass. He is short in his
accounts to the extent of $4,000.
Salvatore Cavalere, an Italian shoemaker.
is in the Long Branch On. J.) Jail charged
with q score of burglaries, committed during
the last five years. Three houses are said
to have been built by him with stolen luEl-
Der. He had enough stolen; ;gooas On Land
to stock store. ~ Sgss.
Mrs. Catharine Scott Believed Is be tho
oldest woman in Brooklyn, died at her homo,
in the city, aged lO3. :. Despite her great nge
she had not gray hair In her head, and
read without glasses. ~
The First National Bank Of Willimanttc,
Conn.,, was closed bys.erder Of Controller
Eckels. ItwasasuEp1isefoWil Willimantic busl-
ness men, whose deposits in the bank aggre-
gate about $3.50, 600. Its cashier was un-
willing to assume responsibility for some OF
its assets.
II. H.. Kohlsaat has purchased control
ling interest in the Chicago Times-Herald,
whose former proprietor, James ". Scott,
died few days before, and converted it in
to Republican, protection and hard money
Epapery This transfer left Chicago without
Democratic morning daily newspaper.
Atrain struck team containing Mr.. and
Mira, Henry Frank, aged siXty-two and
SIXTY five respectively, near Richland, Penn,
and both were instantly killed. The couple
lswere wealthy.
Beef is so high priced in Chicago the
poorer residents of the city subsist on fish,
which thousands are catching in Lake
Michigan.
Alice Walsh was murdered in Thompson
street, New York City, in fashion that
strongly recalls the crimes in the White
chapel district of London.
BY the capsizing of skiff in the Delaware
River at Philadelphia, Penn. three boys
were drowned. They were Julius Haehin,
eighteen years old. and his brother, Ernest,
sixteen years old, and John Miller, sixteen
! years old, all of the Kensington district.
Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the famous
American novelist, died at Albany, N. Y.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, an
nounced himself as in favor OF free silver
coinage at 16 to l.
Mrs. Della T. s. Parnell, mother Of the
noted Irish leader, was assaulted and robbed
by footpads near her home at Bordentown,
N. J. Her injuries were serious.
The Empire State Society, OF the Sons OF
! the American Revolution, presented loving
cup to the New York City Chapter OF the
Daughters Of the American Revolution.
At Winchester. Va. Thornton Parker was
| executed. On March Parker made an as
sault upon Mrs. Milton, OF Middletown.
R.C. Wickliffe, On Ex-Governor OF Louisi-
ana, died at Shelbyville. KY, at the home OF
J. G. Beckham. his son-in-law, from grip. He
was born in Washington County, Kentucky,
seventy-fve years ago.
Three workmen were killed, two others
were fatally injured and one seriously hurt
| by the fall of great derrick in the yards Of
the South Chicago Ill.) Shipbuilding Com
| pany.
| A dead whale, sixty-;eet long. picked up
| off Chatham, Mass, was taken to New York
City for exhibition by the tug Taurus.
American beef costs more in New York
| City than it does in London.
| The Ammen ram Katahdin was tested of
Booth Bay, Me-, and showed wonderful
speed over the mile course and ease in man.
ouvering.