The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-03
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

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Baltimore Is II SIT st. Louis..9 1S 1888
John +. Graham, of Rochester. was chosen
Department Commander by the G. A R. En-
campment at Utica, N. Y.
Tillie Lock, nineteen-year-old girl, whose
clothing became ignited from gas stove in
New York City, ran across ave-story fire
escape into neighboring fiat, which her
burning garments set on fire. She died later
In Roosevelt Hospital.
Andover, Mass, celebrated its 25Oth ami
versary.
In an affray at Fort Thomas, Ky., Private
Brown Of the United States Army was fatal
A, while Harkins was shot through the ear
by Sergeant Raymond, Of Company G.
James Dazzel, colored, was taken from the
Jail In St. Bernard parish, Louisiana, and
lynched. He was arrested for attacking
white woman near the Poydras plantation.
Henry Whalen perishod in the barn OF
George W. Ives at Hamden, Conn. The barn
burned with eleven horses, three COWS and
thirty tons of hay. Loss, $4,000.
A fire in coal bunker near the magazine
of the United Statesbattle ship Indiana, at
anchor in New York harbor, was extinguished
quickly and quietly while the ship was
thronged with visitors.
The town of Andover, Mass, celebrated
the 250th anniversary of its founding.
By the explosion of sawmill boiler at
Hoffman, N. c., three men were killed.
The prisoners in Newport (Ky.) jail sawed
the hinges off rear door and all escaped ex-
cept Jackson and Walling, the alleged mur-
derers of Pearl Bryan, who refused to leave,
thinking 1t plan to lynch them.
A railroad wreck occurred two miles south
OF Waldo, Wis, In which three men were
killed and two seriously injured. The dead
are Emil Caspari, brakeman; John Miller,
tramp; and John O'Connor, engineer.
Fires of incendiary origin have destroyed
timber valued at S5O0,000 in West Virginia
Excited Italians drove fourteen spectators
from ball field, near Hazleton, Penn, and
many persons were shot In the riot.
The trotting mare Nightingale. the prop
erty of G. J. Hamlin, dropped dead at Louis
vile, KY; she was valued at over S10,00o.
The Democratic State Committee met in
New York City and fixed June "a as the date
and Saratoga as the place for the New York
State Convention to elect four delegates-at-
large to the National Convention.
Rear Admiral Thomas b. Stevens, United
States Navy (retired), died in Rockville, Md.
Admiral Stevens was born In Middletown,
Conn.,, In 1919.
Scott Jackson was convicted and sentenced
to death at Newport, ky., for the murder OF
Pearl Bryan.
John Hepner, hotel keeper of Centralia,
Penn, WAS shot and killed by Michael Corri-
gan, to whom he had refused to sell drink.
During a terrific electric storm near Nor
folk, Va, large frame house on the farm Of
T. J. Cramer was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. s. L. Dashiel and an
unknown boy persisted in the flames.
The doors of the Sumner National Bank.
wellington, kan., were closed because of
run which has been IN progress for several
days. The obligations to depositors and re-
serve agents are !63,000. The assets are es-
timated to be largely In excess Of that
amount.
Eugene Akers, also known as Diamond"
Akers, coniectioner Of New York City, was
robbed OF 525.0G0 worth OF diamonds.
Police Captain KilIiea, of New York City,
was acquired of the charge Of improperly
accepting 500 from the managers OF the
Yale-Princeton football game.
Foreign Notes.
Queen yictoria's birthday was officially
SeIeuIdleu III LOuuOu.
British colonists in Guiana are greatly
alarmed ut the prospect Of an adverse de-
eision Of the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary
dispute.
A despatch from Bulowayo, South Africa,
says that Colonel Napier, of the British
forces, with leo men, wni!e engaged in estab-
fishing a heiograph station, was attacked
by large force Of natives, but after a sharp
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eighty dead behind them.
The Russian press continues its attacks on
the Cuban policy Of the United States.
The German life insurance companies have
been summoned to conference at Essen
ach to establish a consolidated union Of oil
the German companies.
Baron vou kotze, formerly Court Cham
berlain. was sentenced at Berlin, Germany
10 two years Imprisonment in fortress for
the killing of Baron Won Schrader, Muster OF
Ceremonies of the Prussian Court, in duel.
Italian troops withdrew from Adigrat
Abyssinia. and the campaign Is considered
to be at an end.
Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby farmer, who.
with her SON. -in-law ", Arthur E. Palmer, was
arrested at Reading, England. on Aprii II,
charged with numbering number OF infants
whose bodies were found in the river, has
been legally declared insane.
There were five fatal cases OF cholera In
Marseilles, France.
The bark Mozambique lost five men from
yellow fever on her voyage from Rio Janeiro
to New York, and one man jumped over
board and was drowned.
It is reported from Suakinn, on the Red
Sea, that the Khalifa, the leader OF the
Dervishes, Is deal