The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-08
Domestic.

Zacharias Wilkinson, seventy-two years
old, wool sorter of Bordentown, N. j., was
attacked three weeks ago with hiccoughs,
from which he suffered very badly until he
died from exhaustion. g~%
J.R. Bright, President Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Corsicana, Texas, committed
suicide in his private Office by shooting him
self In the head. A. brisk run was made on
the bank. No cause is known for the suicide.
A locomotive pitched into the Ashley River
through trestle about two miles from
Charleston, 8. G. Engineer George baxter
and Brakeman Clarence Turner were Killed.
The wife Of ex-ComptrolleS Edward
Wemple died Mt Fultonville, N. T., from In
.juries received in a fell. She was about fifty
years old. ~
Some Of the street-car men il. philadelphia
went on strike again, and there was consld-
erable rloting, but the trouble was temper
arily settle d.
Henry J. Newton, prominent spiritualtst
and retired millionaire. was run over ana
instantly killed by cable car in New YORK
City.
The New England Society celebrated its
ninetieth birthday with a banquet In New
George W. K1pp, "a farmer, Of Rhinebeok, !,
N. Y. who said he loved a village girl VINO
would not return his affection, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. He was young man OF means. De
left no explanation, except that ne died for
loVe.,
The Memphis Cotton Exchange began a
movement looking to a reduction In the cot
ton acreage the coming season.
P. J. Kerrigan, Member Of the New York
Assembly from the new Seventeenth Dis
triot, New York City. died in the Pulaski
House, In Savannah, Ga. His death was
very sudden one, and was due to dropsy.
The Jury in the case of DR.. James A.
Hearne, on trial at Bowling Green, No., for
the murder of Amos Stillwell, returned YER
dict OF not guilty. The case against Mrs.
Hearne. charged with being an accomplice,
was dismissed.
An investigation committee reported to
the State Prison Commission that the condt-
tion OF the New York City prisons IS repre-
henslble. and recommends that the Tombs
and Penitentiary on Blsckwell's Island be
torn down.
5Georgiana A. C1rley, Of Boston, killed
herself because her desire to take the veil
was opposed by her family.
r. A. Ford, lineman, was killed while
mending cable on pole In Hartford, Conn.
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his body, making death instantaneous.
There was q head-on collision between
two passenger trains on the Reading railroad
at Frankford, suburb Of Philadelphia. by
which George Anderson. aged sixteen, and
Daniel Hart, aged seventy, were killed.
Postmaster A. B. Payne, in Longyiew,
Ala, was shot and killed ina fonl manner by
Jasper Nabers, young man and relative
of Payne's wife. (,
The trolley-car strikers in philadelphia
called Eugene v. Debs and e1-President
Mcbride, ofthe American Federation Of La
Dor. to their aid.
,, Justice Gaynor decided that Patrick
Gleason was elected Mayor OF Long Island
Z City.
THE New York and Montreal Express col
Hded with freight engine near Tupper
Lake NJ Y, killing both engineers and
Fatally injuring two other trainmen.
:E Excessive SORROW and shock over the
tragic death OF favodte child friend caused
the death Of Mrs, Henry McAdams, at her
home In Elizabeth, Nj.
Unprecedented rains In Missouri and ILL.,
nois caused DISASTROUS floods in those States.
aThe jury in the trial of Lloyd Montgom.
cry, the eighteen year-old boy, for the muir
der Of his father and mother and Daniel Nc
Keercher, Brownsville; n. W returned.
verdict OF guilty Of murder In the first de-
gree. 49, Il
Charles B. Atwood, the well known archi.
tect, died at his home In Buena Park,
suburb OF Chicago, of q complication OF dist,
eases, brought on by overwork during the
Worlds Fair. aE r}&9a y
New York City will have to pay 81, 500, 900,
Its part Of the State tax for the care of the
insane, tine suit to evade such payment hav-
ing been decided against the city by the New
York Court of Appeals.
RThe power Of the Government was brought
to bear on the street car strike In Philadel..
phia, Penn, owing to the fat that acts OF
violence by the strikers interfered with the
running, OF cars carrying United States mail.
The New York Court of Appeals sustained
The General Term of the Supreme Conrt,
which granted Erastus Wiman anew trial on
the charge Of forgery.