The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-16
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fast in their home. near Wilkesbarre, Penn,
fatally stabbed the mother, brutally peat the
girl and escaped with S4l0.
Professor A. Ernest Lodeman. OF Ithaca,
an instructor in Cornell University. commit
ted suicide at Mexico, n. Y, by shooting: !,
At the investigation OF the Ratnes Liquor
law in New York City clergymen, detectives
and others testified that the new excise law
had increased vice In New York City and
Brooklyn.
The New York State Prison Commission
directed Superintendent Lathrop to provide
n way for keeping the convictS In the state
prisons ut work after January.
Funeral services for william Steinway we're
held at his residence and at the Liederkran2
Hall In New York City. OF 200U persons nj
the hall it was said that each had personally
known Mr.. Steinway. Carl Schurz and Julius
Hoffman were 80 deeply affected that neither
was able 10 finished the eulogy he had begun.
The music vas by members OF the Metropoi-
itau Opera Company.
Chairman Bynum, Of the Executive Com
mittee OF the National Democracy, called
conference of the party leaders to meet at
indianapolis, Ind, December 10. @
Governor Griggs has appointed ]. Frank.
lin Fort, OF East Orange, as Law Judge OF
Essex County; vice Judge Andrew kirkpat-
rick, recently appointed by President Cieye-
land as United States District Court Judge
for the District OF New jersey.
Boariman L. bennett, flfty-two years old,
an engineer in the Everett (tlass) Fire De-
patment. was instantly killed in collision
between his engine and train on the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad at Everett. Walter
Stevens, driver OF the flre engine, was badly
injured, but will recover. The fire engine
was responding to IN alarm when the affair
occurred.
Reports from Texas state that a severe
blizzard has been raging in portions OF that
Slate. At Houston, Victoria, and Eagle
Pass, the heaviest snow storm OF recent years
ragged. II is not thought that cattle Will
suffer very much. s;ISa
The glass manufactures met in Indiana
polls, Ind, divided the country MP among
the members, decided to allow furnaces TO
start up December II, and left prices to be
fixed by the Trusts Executive Committee.
John Scott, former United States Senator
from Pennsylvania and formerly Solicitor
General Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pauy, died Mt his residence in Philadelphia
after brief illness. He was seventy-four
years old. -
Ira Shaier, a picturesque figure of the
New York Bar. noted for his eccentr1cites
diei at his home, near Highland. n. Y.
The First National Bank OF Tyler. Texas,
failed. At !he date Of its last report the cap
ital OF the bank was s200, ,00o;, ttssarplus and
profits, S62, ,0cO: due by 1t to other banks,
$4,000; due individual deposttors, S28l QUO;
borrowed money owed, 1924 900.
There is au epidemic OF typhoid fever in
Paterson, y. j.
Window glass manufacturers are forming
new and more powerful combination.
Iowa has warrants for s450, 900 outstand-
ing ana no cash to meet them. - e.
f Miss Minnie Selig, eighteen years old and
a bride OF ten months died from the effects
OF Paris green, which she took With suict-
dnl intent. at her uncle's home, New York
City.
DR.. Robert D'Unger, OF Chicago, has IN
vented machine for transmitting over the
wires pictures, writing and pnntea matter
by means OF x rays. "
The steamboat John E. Moore sank on
Romer shoai. New York Harbor, but IN
shallow water, SO that the 100 persons on
board, who took refuge on the top deck,
were easily rescued.
A blizzard ruSed In North Dakota. Busi-
ness was suspended and railroad traffic was
at a standStill. +. .... p
The Brown University football team de-
feated the Carlisle Indian School eleven In
New York City by the score OF AZ to IL. "
Walter B. Rue, aged sixteen. OF Brooklyn
was umpiinga football game when.he was
caught In serlmmage and was killed,
Prohibltionists in the town OF Alexis, Ill. ,
blew up with dynamite liquor saloon which
was operated without license.
The United States gunboat Newport was
launched at Bath, Me-, in the presence OF g
large crowd. The oldest unmarried great
granddaughter of Commodore Perry, victor OF
Lake Erie, Miss La Fargo, the daughter oi
John La Fargo. the we'll kno own artist OF New
York City, ehristened the vessel.
Alfred Daniels, alias Frank Williams,
charged with burning J. D. Strngerfellow's g
barn some months since. and who was ar
rested In Jacksonville, was lynched about
five miles north OF Gainesville, Fla, having
been taken from the custody OF "a deputy
sheriff.
Professor Witthaus found no Knockout
drops In the stomach OF Frank ?. Arbuckle,
the Denver mine owcer found dead ut High
. bridge Heights, New York City.
Professor Benjamin Apthorp Gould, the
distinguished astronomer, died at his resi-.
dence in Cambridge, Macs, at the age oi
seventy-two He was preparing to leave the
house in The evening when he fell down
stairs and received injuries from which he
died two hours later. -.
Three men were fatally shot and several
others more or less seriously wounded in q
drunken riot at Duryea. Duryea is small
mining village near Pittston, Penn. There
il large colony Of foreigners there who
work in the mines.
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