The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-12
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS

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A dynamite explosion occurred on the
ton, Md. Pyle and several workmen were
killed.
Evidence was presented to the Grand Jury
with view to indicting the projectors OF
:welve of the largest department stores in
New York City for selling spurious silver
ware.
The overdue French line steamer La Gas
cogne arrived at New York with the piston
head Of her intermediate cylinder broken.
Eight thousand union brlckmakers OF
| Chicago went on strike.
Twenty shopmates saw sixteen-year-old
Rachel Radius caught in the machinery and
whrled to her death in the bindery in New
| York City where she worked, and many
tainted at the sight.
| The dedicatory exercises Of the $1,000, 900
| Odd Fellows Temple were held in Philadel-
phia.
At Nantieoke. Penn, George and Arthur
Watkins, aged five and eight years, respec-
| lively, were burned to death.
| Ex-Recorder Smyth was installed as Grand
Sachem OF the Tammany Society inNew York
City.
The Confederate monument was unveiled
at Raleigh, N. c., by Stonewal Jacksons
| grandchild.
The United States cruiser Columbia started
from the Brooklyn N. W Navy Yard on her
| rip to Kiel.
Secretary Carlisle made speech in Gov.
lngton, KY, opposing the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver aud favoring the gold
standard.
The Presbyterian General Assembly adopt.
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Committee in favor of church control OF
,eminaries by vote Of 4S2 to SO.
Charles Meister, q teamster at Grants Pass,
Oregon, threw his wife into a pool OF water
Ind held her head under until she was
| drowned.
Wheat advanced sixteen points and caused
yreat excitement on the Produce Exchanges
n Chicago and New York City. Crawford q
Valentine, one Of the largest firms OF grain
brokers' In Chicago, assigned. They were
short on wheat Stevens & Co., commission
brokers' in New York City, failed.
At Athens, Ca, daughter was born to
Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife Of the Secretary Of
The Interior, where Mrs. Smith Is spending
The summer.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison was the
principal guest Of honor at the semi-centen..
aial celebration of the New Jersey Historical
Society at Newark, and was presented with q
gold medal as the centennial President OF
the United States.
DR.. Robert Russell Booth, Of New York,
was elected Moderator OF the Presbyterian
General Assembly at Pittsburg, Penn, on
The first ballot.
The New Jersey Court Of Pardons, by q
vote of six to two, remitted the sentence OF
one years Imprisonment imposed on Dennis
Mclaughlin, John C. Carr, Nicholas Crusius
and Gottfried Walbaum, the "Big Four" OF
the Gutenberg race track.
Jones 4 Laughlin, operating the extensive
American Iron Works, Pittsburg, Penn,
nave voluntarily advanced the wages OF all
their skilled workmen ten per cent. About
1000 men share in the advance.
The widow OF Policeman Christian Otto
vas awarded $500 by jury at Elizabeth,
Y. j., in a case brought to recover $4,000
from the Suburban Electric Light Company
ior the killing of her husband by electricity
IN pole with which he came in contact.
Peter Hardeman Burnett, first Governor OF
California, died in San Francisco. eighty
seven years old. He was born in Nashville,
renp.. Of Virginia parentage.
A twenty days extra session Of the Ten
aessee Legislature will be held.
Warrants were issued for seventy-four
members Of the Pennsylvania Legislature
Tor absence without leave.
The price OF wheat in Chicago rose to 70S
cents bushel.