The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-29
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

The resolutions adopted by the Iowa State
Bimetallic Convention were long. After lay
ing down the principles Of silver. Bryan and
Sewall for President and Vice-President
were endorsed, and the State delegates were
instructed to vote for them at st. Louis.
The New Jersey Republican State League
Convention, composed of more than 1000
delegates. representing 500 clubs, met at As
bury Park In the Beach Auditorium. -
Patrick Sheridan. Postmaster at Elizabeth.
N. j., died at his home there, aged sixty-two
years. he was appointed Postmaster BY
President Cleveland at the beginning OF the
present Administration, succeeding 8. 8.
Moore.
Twenty-stx delegates composed the Kansas
State Prohibition Convention at Topeka,
which nominated State ticket headed with
Horace Hurley for Governor.
Two companies Of the Ohio National
Guard pitched their tents around the works
OF the Brown Hosting and Conveying
Company. to preserve peace In that section
OF Cleveland. Striking holsters made vicious
attacks on non-union men. After many
pitched battles had been fought the Mayor
was forced to call out the troops.
Adolf Herschkopf, convicted IN New York
City of murder In the second degree by
means Of arson, was sentenced to LIE I'm.
prisonment in Sing Sing.
The Canadian yacht. the Glencairn, won
the third and deciding race In Long Island
Sound, off New York, Of the half-rater series
for the international challenge cup.
A farewell demonstration In honor Of ".
J. Bryan was held in Salem, ILL.,, the candi-
dates birthplace.
Lieber's brewery, the largest In Indiana.
was almost completely burned. II ts one OF
the syndicate, which Is capitalized for
s2,OO0, 900. The loss will reach s5oO, 1000.
A large delegation of women from Cleve.
land visited Major Mckinley at Canton,
Ohio, to congratulate him on his nomina-
ton for the Presidency.
The Addicks wing Of the Republican party
In DelaWare held Its State Convention In
Dover.
The Mallory line steamship Colorado. from
Galveston, Texas, was beaohed on the west
bark In Lower Bay, New York Harbor, to
prevent sinking, afteS collision with dump
Ing scow in tow OF tug Runyon.
The Board OF Health has condemned forty
two rear tenements In the populous sections
Of the east and west side Of New York City.
The visit OF W. J. Bryan, the Democratic
Presidential nominee, to Salem, ILL.,, his
birthplace. aroused great enthusiasmamong
bis old neiehbors.
Conrad Knoedel. New York cabinet
maker, after shooting at his wife and think
ing he had killed her, committed suicide by
shot through the mouth.
An express train while rounding curve
between White Haven, Penn, and Freeland,
struck COW. The engine was derailed and
thrown down an embankment 200 feet high,
and the three passenger coaches were thrown
ha ot,o
Dowd, the engineer, was killed, and score
Of people hurt, several seriously.
Major ". O. Moreland, former City Attor-
ney, pleaded guilty at Pittsburg, Penn, to
the charge of embezzlement OF S26,00O Of
city funds. His assistant, W. d. Heuse,
pleaded not guilty, and was placed on trial.
The Auditors report shows q discrepancy OF
$500, 900 In the accounts OF Messrs. Moreland
and Heuse.
William G. Whitney and his party Of gold
Democrats returned from Chicago with no
settled plan OF action.
The employees in the Office of the New York
Biscuit Company, in Chicago, Ill. were held
up by four men, who stole $4,000 and es-
capped.
julius Freudenthal, New York merchant,
disappeared, leaving liabilities estimated at
$500, 900.
George Stone, druggist of Wilkesbarre,
Penn, and Charles Sanford, an engineer on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, residing at
Athens, Penn, while coasting down hill
on tandem bicycle near Campvtlle, Penn. +,
lost control of their wheel and crashed into
a bridge. Stone was killed instantly and
Sanford was injured fatally.
The canalmen of Buffalo. N. Y. sent an
appeal to the New YorE Produce Exchange,
asking relief from the alleged e1tortions and
determinations of the grain elevators and
the railroads.
Fire began In the centre of the third floor
OF Rosenheim's drygoods store. Almost an
entire square Of the best business houses IN
Nashville was either burned to the ground
or .,adly damaged by smoke and water:
Most of the houses and blocks are total
loss, and the damage will aggregate not less
than S500,000.
The Peter Cooper Glue Conpany's works
at West New York, N. j., were destroyed by
fire. the loss being $4,000.
John Golden, a conductor on the elevated
road, New York City. fired three shots at
Mrs. Catharine Hayoner at an uptown sta
ton and then committed suicide by jumping
In front Of moving train.
The town Of Marengo, Ohio, In Morrow
County, was almost completely wiped out
by fire. A high wind and the lack OF IRE
apparatus gave the flames full sway.
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