The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-10-07
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Several strike leaders in Leadville, Col.
we're arrested charged with riot and murder;
the city was placed under martial rule.
The Reading railroad and mining assets
were sold at Philadelphia, Penn. to j. P.
Morgan d Co., representing the Reorganiza.
tion Committee, for s2O.5O0,C0O.
The Clyde Line passenger steamboat Fred
erick de Barry, from New York for Jackson
Vile, was wrecked at Kitty Hawk, N. c.
The crew was taken off by the life savers.
The steamer bad no passengers or cargo.
She will be total loss.
George ". Hess, who was to have been
taken to Dannemora Prison to serve sem
| tence of seven years for the killing OF Heze-
kiah Bedell at Coxsackie, four years ago,
died in the county Jail at Catsktll, N. Y,
from opium. self-administered.
Bankers In National convention in st.
Louis, No.. adopted declaration OF princi-
| Piles warning the country against the evils OF
| free coinage.
Mme Klafsky-Lohse, the famous German
| prima donna, IS dead.
A Brooklyn Heights trolley car killed
boy, he making the 165th victim Of the troll
| ley In Brooklyn.
The body OF James McNerney, wealthy
contractor, of Watkins Park, n. j., who dis
! appeared, was found in the Harlem River.
He bad money when his friends saw him
last. and It Is believed he was murdered.
Oliver Winthrop was sentenced at San
Francisco, CAL, to life Imprisonment for
robbery in connection with the abduction OF
, James Campbell, the Hawaiian millionaire.
whom he kept q prisoner three days in hope
of getting a twenty-thousand-dollar ransom.
The Hodgman Rubber Company, one Of
the oldest concerns in New York CITY, went
into a receivers hands. Inability to rcise
money, even on good security, was given as
the cause.
The Australian cricket players won the
first match OF the series with the Gentlemen
Of Philadelphia.
Arthur Sewal Democratic nominee for
Vice-President, has resigned the Office OF
President Of the American Maritime Associa-
tion because, he alleges, the association was
being used for partisan political purposes.
Governor Hastings has signed the recon-
mendation for pardon for John Bardsley,
ex-CIty Treasurer of Philadelphia, who in
1891 was sentenced to fifteen years for EN-.
bezzling nearly million dollars Of city and
State moneys.
Three burglars, after robbng Broadway
store, New York City, we're chased by po-
icemen. One OF the thieves was shot dead
At Camden, NO., two boys, Garfield and
Victor Vanhorp, brothers, aged respectively
six and seven years, were killed, and Ora
West aged fourteen years, fatally wounded,
by railroad train.
A fire in Oswego, N. Y, did 100000 dam
age.
John s. Robinson, nephew by marriage OF
former Governor Flower. and well-known
real estate operator, killed himself by inhal-
ing Illuminating gas at his home In New
York City.
Two small children, who lived at Holland,
Ohio, were accused Of finding pocketbook,
but denied II. The following night mob
went to their home, dragged the whole fam
lily from bed, strung up the father to tree
by his feet, and oil were fearfully beaten.
Major Mckinley addressed at Canton,
Ohio, delegation of $500 men from the Ed
gar Thomson Steel Works, Of Braddock,
Penn.
At Alexandria, La, the State Democratic
Sub-Campaign Committee and the State Pop
ulist Fusion Committee met and agreed on
fusion ticket Of four Democrats and four
Populists.
Frank Ward and Scott Jackson, miners at
Orenaga, Mo-, were precipitated about $50
feet down shaft by the breaking OF rope.
Ward was instantly killed and soon after
ward Jackson died.
The monument erected by the Philadel-
phia Brigade Association to the memory OF
the 545 men Of the old Philadelphia Brigade
who fell at Antietsm was unveiled and dedt-
Gated. The exercises were participated IN
by the Governors ofPennsylvanta Of and Mary
land.
Burlington, N. J., was visited by the ter
rife hail and rain storm, which caused con.
siderable damage and great deal OF excit-
ment.
Arnold Flesh, a once wealthy button manu-
facturer, was shot three times while IN bed
at the Hotel Peteler, New York City. His
son, who was with him, WAS locked up and
the wounded man was also held as prisoner.
A Republican rally, attended by more than
$4,000 people, was held in Canton, Ohio.
Major Mckinley reviewed the parades and
made brief speeches to visiting delegations;
the speakers OF the day were Senators Thurs
ten and Cullom, Governor Hastings and
Congressman McCleary.
At Hollidaysburg, Penn, the private bank
ing house OF Gardner, Morrow 4 Co., the
oldest In Central Pennsylvania, closed its
doors. The firm was thought to be one OF
the strongest banking lQStltutlOQS IN tuat
part Of the State It had many depositors,
and the news Of the failure has plunged the
community into the utmost CONSERVATION
and distress. Three other firms In town were
pulled down by the failure.
Four trainmen were killed and seven in
jured in a head-on collision between wild
engine and a pay train In Indiana, four
miles west OF Connersvllle. Engineer Sweet
man and Kinsey, the fireman, both OF tho
pay.train, and Conductor House and fire.
nun named Hughes were killed.
FL. Fowler, OF Saltwater, Oklahoma, who
had been in search OF his runaway wife,
found her in st. Joseph, No., shot her and
then shot himself. Both ara dead.
Pretty little Matilda Summers, OF Chicago,
died from dose Of poison taken because her
mother whipped her.
John Murphy (Albert George Whitehead),
the alleged Irish dynamit-r. lately returned
from Portland Prison, England, arrived at
New York on the Lucania. He is thought
to be insane.
Enoch Pratt, the well-known banker and
uhilanthropist, died In Baltimore, Md.
Foreign Notes.
Callias Bty, the husband OF P. T. Barnum's
widow, died in Constantinople, Turkey.
The E syptian flag was raised over D ongola.
and the success OF tho Nile expedition was
made complete.