The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-03-13
Domestic.

LEROY FEESoLD. aged thirty-eight. an
insane son, first killed his mother with IN
axe and then set fire to thoir home at East
Lebanon, Me-, where the body lay.
DETECTIVES JACOB AND McMANUs, of SUP
srintendent Byrness staff. New York City,
were arrested and held in $1,000 each on
,harge made by Parkhurst Society agents, to
the effect that they had allowed burglary to
take place and received money therefore.
A CUBAN mass meeting at New York City
| developed wild enthusiasm for the rebel
cause and much money was contributed.
An explosion in three empty ramshackle
buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which
nobody could explain. killed one boy, John
Fluhr; fatally hurt another, Peter Wenz; in
iured six persons and broke windows blocks
away.
The cupola of Brooklyns City Hall burned
and with it went the figure OF Justice, the
two-ton bell and she clock Loss $Z5,O to
S35 900, mostly by water.
The bids for the city three per cent. gold
| bonds, on being opened in New York City,
were found to amount to almost four times
the amount of the issue.
WHILE skylarking at Louisville, Ky., Max
Brunn shot,to death through the heart Clar-
ence Watts, with supposedly empty re-
volyer.
The new naval dry dock at Port Royal, s.
c., has been completed and tested with highly
satisfactory results.
The drouth district of Nebraska has been
blessed with heavy rain.
WILLIAM HAvERLY was shot and fatally in
jured at Engel's Pavilion, Chicago, by PRO
fessor" Alfred Eieckhoff, alleged champion
rifle shot Of the world" The men were per-
forming the human target act.
ConDELrA HILL, the eleven-year-old colored
child who shot and killed her father in de-
fense of her mother in Charleston, Va, has
been acquitted, the trial lasted about three
hours and a verdict was reached i'll half an
hour.
AT Mansfield, Ohio, Fred J. Crooks, aged
nineteen, and his sister. Mary E. Crooks,
aged twenty, were out driving when they
were struck by freight train and instantly
killed.
THOMAS CAvANAUGu and his wife, who lived
in Hogs Hill. Conn.,, were burned to death
in their house. Their charred bodies were
found in the ruins.
GEORGE HEINzELMAN, OF Chillicothe, Ohio,
died of grief two hours after the death Of his
wife.
FARMER FRANK HENDRIcK and his wife were
found mysteriously murdered in their house,
two miles south of Lebanon. Ind.
MAJoR-GENEsAL Jospru B. CARR died sud-
denly in Troy. NY.
WALKER G. HAMMER, for twenty years
teller of the First National Bank,
Lynchburg, Va, was arrested for embezzling
S23, 900 Of the funds of the bank. His pecu-
lations are said to have been going on for
ten years.
AT Guthrie, Oklahoma. Mrs. Minerva c.
Taylor.a seamstress, shot and killed William
II hn~ hol
| annoyed the woman ny persistent attentions.
EDWIN 2. BRowN, a hermit, was found dead
in his hut of field stones which he occupied
in the woods about G mile from Wcstport
Harbor, Mass The body wac frozen still and
had been nibDled at by rats.
AT the Rhode Island State Prohibition
| Convention at Providence the nominees were:
| For Governor. the Hon. Smith Quimby, Of
| Warwick; Lieutenant-Gove-Eor, William B.
| Franklin. Of Newport.
The Missouri Legislature Ees voted to
| move the capital OF the State from Jefferson
City to Sedala.
GOVERNOR MORTON, OF New York, desig-
mated the seven justices who are to compose
| the new appellate division Of the Supreme
J Court for the First Judicial Department.
A SPECIAL train OF eleven coaches carried
the body of Isaac p Gray late Minister to
| Mexico. to Unioh City. Ind. for burial. The
| militia companies conducted the remains
from the Capitol Building, Indianapolis,
where they had been lying in state.
A GREAT sensation was created at Raleigh,
y. c.. by the adoption, in the House. of Il
resolution, introduced by a colored man.
that the General Assembly adjourn in honor
| of Frederick Douglass. The resolution was
passed, all the Democrats voting against it.
| WHEN Mrs. Millison Presher, one Of the
few remaining pensioners OF 1872. was buried
in Janesville, Wis. recently, five generations
| OF descendants were present.