The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUES.

The Court House at Liteh1eld, KY. with
oil its contents was burned.
A hurricane at Guthrie. Oklahoma,
wrecked the Central High School building
and State Capitol grounds, badly damaging
the Episcopal Bishops residence, the Catho-
lie Colored Academy and many residences,
besides doing many thousands dollars dam
age to other property.
ReverdyJ Daingerfeld. one OF the best.
known citizens of Alexandria, Va, commit.
ted suicide there with pistol. He had sui
years old, and leaves wife, three daughters
and son.
The man who shot George a. Wyckof in
his office at the Bank of New Amsterdam,
! New York City. and then attempted suicide,
died at the New York Hospital, after being
identified as George d. Semple, a book
agent.
Mrs. Chauncey Wakeman. of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, while mentally deransed. cut her
ffteen-months-old infants throat with q
razor, killing him almost instantly. Mrs.
Wakeman was seriously i'll last Deceu Der,
and since that time had been subject to fits
of meancholia. She will be sent to an
asylum.
At Elkhart, Ind, an atrocious murder
was committed, the victim, Miss Jennie
the accused murderer, is In the County Jail
at Goshen, and refuses to talk about the
crime. The two families live in adjoining
houses, and both are prominent members OF
the community.
Thomas Lynch, boilermaker, shot his
wife and Thomas Bannon on street IN New
York City The woman was instantly
killed. Bannon was seriously wounded.
mob threatened Lynch with violence.
At New Brunswick, n. J., Charles ". Jack
SOD, the New York newspaper writer who
was accused two weeks before OF the murder
Of his wife at New Market, walked out OF
court free and with all suspicion removed
from him.
Flag Dav was generally observed by
special services in the public schools In New
York City.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott preached the
baccalaureate sermon at Harvard; baccal-
aureate sermons were also preached at
numerous other colleges. including Brown
Rochester, Lehigh, Cornell and Lafayette.
Thomas ]. Small, o merchant of ,Wnghts-
Vile, Ark. was burned to death IN his store.
His store, home and warehouse were burned.
Explosion of lamp caused the fire.
Sheep Palmer. a colored man, was hanged
in Jackson, Miss, for the murder In Decem-
ber OF Charlie Cordrey and wife, a newly
married couple.
Ex-Governor Alpheus Felch, OF Michigan,
died in Ann Arbor In that State. he was
born at Limerick, Me-. In 1906. He was
United States Senator from 1S47 to 1853.
Captain T. P. Leathers the Oldest and best
known steamboat man In the Mississippi
Valley, died in New Orleans, aged eighty.
Two weeks before, returning from recep.
ton given in honor of his eightieth birthday,
he was run down by a bicyclist and badly
cut about tho face. Death was the result Of
bis injuries.
The railroad station at Gray Gables, Mass,
has bsen discontinued. The nearest station
to President Cleveland's home Is now four
miles distant.
The Sinking Fund Trustees of Cincinnati,
Ohio, accepted bid OF $4,000, 900 for the
sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railway.
The successful bidders represent the present
lessees of the road.
Returns from the Fifth Congress District,
Louisiana, where an election was held to fill
the vacancy caused by the unseattng OF
Charles A Boatner (Dem. by the House, In.
dicated the reelection Of Boatner.
Indictments have been found against eI.
City Treasurer F. F. Michellon, of Camden,
N. j., who is alleged to be short In his &C.
counts S10,7OO. Bail was fixed at $4,000.
At Chillicothe, Ohio, Thomas White fatally
shot his sweetheart, Bertha McKeIvey. and
then killed himself. White had grown In
sanely jealous OF the girl
The steamship Bermuda left Philadelphia
with another expedition for the Cuban in.
surgents.
Harry Buell. jumped into the hopper Of
stone-crusher in Brooklyn and was ground
to death between the rollers.