The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-02-27
Domestic.

ANuMBER of ofappointments were announced
by Mayor Strong, of New York City, among
them william Brookfleld as Commissioner OF
Public Works, F. NJ. Scott as Counsel to the
Corporation, four Civil Service Commission
ers and three members Of the Park Board, the
new officials being taken from all the reform
parties.
WHILE John Burke, OF Sedalia, Ind, was
chopping wood his brother, Willie, stopped
to pick up a stick and received blow from
the axe on his head. His skull was split open
and fatal injuries were inflicted.
AT Fort Smith, Ark, the notorious outlaw,
Bill Cook. was sentenced by the United States
Court to foty-five years in the penitentiary
at Albany, N. Y.
FIRE destroyed the car barns in Chicago.
The loss to the company will be fully $780,
900. One hundred and ten cable cars were
burned.
AN explosion of natural gas at Meadville,
Penn, wrecked two buildings. One person
was killed and three others injured seriously.
BY m explosion Of natural gas at Elwood,
Ind, the building occupied by the Elwood
Fruit Co. and C. c. Henze Co. was wrecked,
and three persons badly injured.
PEOPLE in North Georgia have had novel
experience. Snow fell to the depth OF about
FIVE inches and sleighs were hastily tmpro-
vised by placing buggies on runners. Busi-
ness was almost sus pended in Atlanta.
CATTLE in the Indian Territory are dying
in large numbers, because Of the cold. Peo-
pie are in destitute condition and starVa-
tion is staring them in the face.
AT Pittsburg, Kan. the safe in the oftce OF
the Long-Beu Lumber Company was bur-
glarized of S120 900 in notes and mortgages.
JOHN BURKE, living near Manersville, Utah,
stabbed his brother-in-law fatally and then
borrowed gun from neighbor and blew
out his own brains.
The Bank Of Superior has been closed by
the State Bank Examiner Of Nebraska. Cen
eral business depression was alleged as the
cause Of failure.
AT Fayetteville, Ark, j. L. Dickson,
prominent young business man. committed
suicide by taking strychnine. He had been
cashier OF the McIlroy Banking Company. An
investigation of his books showed shortage
Of S21 900.
BY an explosion on the drainage channel
at Qualey Brothers camp, at Joliet, ILL.,,
three mon were killed and one fatally in
iured.
Two locomotives that were bucking snow
drifts near Far Rockaway ran on dead
switch, and were wrecked. Engineer Pat
rick Mahoney and Fireman Daniel LaTelle
were killed.
AT Brownstown. ILL.,. Ira Payne and Rich
ard Laws, young business men, while cross
ing the railroad track in a buggy, were run
down by an express train and instantly
killed.
THE steamship Umbria arrived at Now
York with three survivors Of the Elbe disas-
ter and fourteen Of the crew Of the French
bark Jean Bnptiste, rescued in mid-ocean.
AFTER one of the most stormy passages ON
record the White Star liner Teutonic arrived
at New York. During the blizzard she
rescued the crew Of nine of the wrecked fish
ing schooner Josie Reeves, Of New York,
from drowning.
Ir is estimated that the damage to the fruit
and vegetable crop of Florida by the storm
will reach a15, 900.
WILLIAM CALLAHAN, one OF a gang OF men
working on the Broadway cable road, New
York City. nearly killed his foreman. John
Barry, with q chisel. and Edward Murray.
who had interceded for him when Barry dis
charged him, was killed by cable car.
THREE men lost their lives during the
storm at the intake crib in Lake Michigan at
Milwaukee, Wis.
EDWIN P. BROWN, a hermit, was found dead
in his hut of field stones which he occupied
in the woods about mile from Westpor
Harbor, Mass. The body was frozen stih and
had been nibbled at by rats.
FIRE has destroyed the Denison Hotel In
Indianapolis Ind