The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-23

The Navy Department awarded the con.
tract for IL, ono Of the Lee magazine guns to
the Winchester Repeating Arms Company OF
New Haven. Conn.,, at their bid OF S17.60
each. This is the new small arm adopted
for use Of the nary. -. fssi
Domestic. III
Thirty dwellings and six stores burned In
Bayard, W. Va. Loss, $50, 900.
In New York City the German-American
Union nominated the Tammany ticket and
indorsed the Tammany platform.
Charles Flaherty, Catholic priest, was
sentenced to seven years confinement In the
Auburn IN. W Prison by Judge Norton, In
GeneSeo, N. Y. He was convicted on TIE
charges of Marie Sweeney, a girl under six
teen years OF age. Ssy
At Corsicana, Texas, while the mechanics
OF the "Devlrs Auction" Company were ars
ranging the stage for q performance q gas
Norfolk, Va, and Waiter r. Moore, OF KAN.
sas City. u
A monument to the memory OF the Eight:
eenth Connecticut Volunteers. who fell
during the late war WAS dedicated in the
visiting veterans were the guests OF the.
General Turner Ashby Camp OF Confe derntei
Veterans. | ..a.
The divorce OF Amalie Riyes Chanler, the
novelist, and John Armstrong Ohanler WAS
announced In New York City. Cause, in-l
compatibility. ss,C
Theodore Durrant, accused Of the murder
OF Blanche Lamont. In Emanuel Church,
San Francisco, CAL, testified In his own be-
half.
Inspector Schars, of the Unitel States
Treasury Department. arrested thirty CHS
nese women at the Exposition grounds, At
lanta. It Is charged that they were imt
ported for immoral purposes.
Governor Culberson caused tina arrest OF.
the managers Of the Corbett-F Fitzsimmonsi
fight on the charge that they were conspir-i
atty Is imprisonment for not less than two;
nor more than five years.
The New York Court Of Appeals sustained:
the decision Of the lower court in the case OF
"Bat" Shea, convicted aud sentenced to,
death for numbering Robert Ross at Troy
Wy.
The wedding OF the Dake OF Marlborough
and Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt Is announced
for November IA at ST. Thomas's Church,
Fifth avenue, New York City.
Nearly all the sanitary ware potteries In
Trenton. N. j.. closed down owing to diff
ference between the manufacturers and the
employees. as to defective ware and employ
ment OF apprentices. @
Reported charges by superintendent
Lathrop against Principal Keeper Con-
naughton, Of Sing Sing IN. " Prison,
brought out the allegation that Wife MUIR
derer Carlyle W. Harris tried suicide by
poison the day before his execution.
At Greensburg, Ind. "Tauglefoot'' Jones
got drunk and, pulling MS razor in crowd,
began slashing right and left. Eleven per-
SONS were wounded, two fatally. They were
Cash Myers and John Moody. Jones had
lust been released from the Prison South. +
It was announced that William B. Hearst,
the millionaire owner of the San Francisco
Examiner. had bought the Morning Journal,
o. New York City. .&,M
An excellent counterfeit l5 silver Ger.
tihcate Of the issue Of 1886. which bears
portrait Of General Grant. has been circu-
lated extensively In Boston.
lIIn New York City the Republican Nonin-
atinc Committee and the representatives OF
the Chamber Of Commerce. the State Dennoc.
racy and the German-American Re orm
Union agreed upon fusion ticket which
was Endorsed by the Republican County
Convention and the State Democracy Coun-
ty Convention. The Republican excise
plank Is the State Democracy plank REIN
forced with a distinct pledge for excise re-.
form. The German vote was pledged to the
ticket *
Three children Of s. E. Barrowcliffe. near
Laceyvllle, Penn, were playing rabbit hunt
ing with a shotgun supposed to be unloaded.
The eleven-year-old boy, standing higher
than his fye-year-old brother. pulled the
trigger, the load going through the latter's
old sister. The little boy died instantly. ~
John Farr. elevator boy at the Batterson
Building. Hartford. stuck his head through
the netting into the elevator we'll and was
struck by the weight. He was killed, his
skull being fractured. Janitor Melvin Bar
Der. short time later, was showing how 1t
happened when he was struck by the weight
and killed.
John Don Farden, alias T. J. franklin,
formerly clerk in the Adams Express Office
at Terre Haute. Ind.. was arrested at Baltt-
more, Nd, charged with the theft OF GIG, 600
from his employers. rs
= By the bursting of q hywheel in the power
house OF the Hudson County Electric Light
Company. in Hobo!ian, n. j., one man was
killed, three injured and the building
wrecked.
Tobe McCredy, colorej, assaulted Mrs. Gus
Berry, near Perrote, Ala. choking her and G
leaving her unconscious in the road. Deputy
Sheriff CLANCY captured McCredy and was
taking him to jail when he was met by mob. Z
Me Greedy sprang from the deputy's buggy
and fled. The mob fired twenty shots at
him, riddlins him with bullets.
Mrs. Flora Joseph. twenty-five years old,
went to the office of DR.. Richard Wolf, q
dentist in New York City, to have four teeth
extracted She took gas and died under It's
Influence. *
William Greenwald, who was bitten by
,at six weeks before. died at Gouverneur
Hospital. New York City. The official report
,f his death gives the cause as hydrophobia.
Edward Blystone, Ezra Blystone and Ralph
Van Auler. all prosperous farmers residing
near Venangoboro. Penn, were arrested,
charged with counterfeiting silver dollars Of
1894 and fve-cent pieces.
The official returns from the Congress
election in the Tenth District show a ma
orlty for J. G. Black. Democrat, OF 1909
'otes. Black received II, ,312 votes and Wat
on (Pop.) S710. making the total vote
,olled 1902 in the entire district. B.
County Treasurer B. F. Wood was held up
~ four masked men at Arcadia. Fla, and
vas made to open the county safe aud turn
'ver the contents, which amounted to about
5000. "
As the Liberty Bell passel through Ellis
on, Tenn, on its way to Atlanta, q great
,randson OF Patrick Henry, himself white
hatred man Of seventy. prassei forwari and
Isked permission to touch the bell. The re-
lIest was granted.
The consolidation OF Phiiaielphia trac.