The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-24
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

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The Legislature of Massachusetts, ad-
journed sine die.
A cyclone swept over portion Of Cooke
County, Tennessee, and laid waste tract
Of land three-quarters of mile In length
and a quarter of a mile wide. 1t carried
trees, fences. telephone poles and every
thing In its track.
The United States battleship Massachu-
sets was placed in commission at the League
Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia
Unscrupulous specu ators circulated false
reports in Wall street In the vain hope Of
causing a panic. Wall street, at the same
time, was duped by rumor that warlke
message on Cuba was to be issued by the
President, and in two hours bears gathered
in about s5O0000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson have
made the formal announcement In New York
City of the engagement Of their daughter,
Grace, to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., son OF
the millionaire.
BY premature explosion of 1so cans of dy-
Mantle at Lilly. Penn. Michael Scawncski
was killed and five fellow workmen on the
Pennsylvania Railroad we're probably fatally
injured.
Captain John G. Bourke, of the Third
Cavalry, United States Army, we'll.
known Indian fighter and frontier soldier,
died in Philadelphia, Penn, at the Polytechnic
Hospital, where he had been under treatment
for several weeks tor an abdominal trouble.
He was about fifty years Of age.
Dwight Steere, life convict for murder,
and William johnson. who had served eight
terms for various crimes, secured key and
escaped from the State prison at Wethers-
field, Conn.
Two children, eight and eleven years old
respectively. of Mail Clerk j. E. Jones. Of
North Vernon, Ind, were drowned in the
water works at that place.
Four men and three women Of East Pitts
burg went fishing on the Monongahela, got
drunk and were run down by the packet
James G. Blaine. Two Of them-a man and
a woman, names unknown-were drowned.
Ex-State Senator Tobias Lord. of Steep
Falls, Me-, shot and killed himself as he was
being taken to an insane asylum.
During heavy electrical storm at Clear
field, Penn, Mrs. George Hess, ofStoneVille,
was killed bylightning.
Fred Bush, aged seventeen, and Fred
Smarr, about the same age, were drowned
in the Ohio River of Augusta, Ky., while
bathing.
Thomas Thompson, of jersey, N. j.. while
riding bicycle. rode over the precipice OF
the Gorge, on the Palisades. falling twenty
feet. he received fatal injuries.
The handsome bronze statue of B.njamin
Franklin. presented to the printers of Chi
cago by Joseph Medill. and erected In Lin
coin Park, Chicago, was unveiled.
Charles P. Symonds. a prominent citizen
of Salem, Mass, was found guilty In the
contract alien labor laws by employing ar
Englishman and bringing him to this coun-
$1,000. 500 n' ''fO''' '"'ilS' WILL 'A'
An eight-year-old son of Henry Acklen, Of
Racine, Wis, was torn to pieces by two bull.
dogs while returning from school.
A Long Island City jury found verdict
for $4,000 against DR.. Seigbert Balaban for
making similar statement about q woman
patient as did DR.. Playfair, the London
physician.
Turner and Dunlop. the Burden servants
who were arrested in London with the family
jewels in their possession, arrived In New
York in charge of detectives.
Henry B. Hill. who for thirty years past
was cashier Of the Catskill On. ~ National
Bank, died, aged seventy-nine. His sister.
widow of DR.. A. Cooke Hull, who was
prominent New York physician, died the
same morning.
Joseph W1ndrath, one OF the SlayerS OF
Carey B. Birch. receiver and cashier OF the
West Chicago Street Railway Company was
hanged at the county jail at Chicago, III.
Mayor Strong, of New York City. trans
ferred from the exempt schedule to the com
petitive list, subject to the rules Of Civil Ser
vice examination, 40 city offices, with
annual salaries aggregating SS1s.0OO.
At Ellsworth, Me-, Burton E. Frazer,
twen,y-seven years old, died from an over
dose of morphine prepared by his friend
James Clouch. and administered by Miss
Nellie Newell, his sweetheart. Frazer had
been suffering from acute rheumatism.
The Yale crew that is to race at Henley,
England, left New Haven, Conn. and the
students gave the oarsmen rousing send-of.
Equestrian statues of Generals Meade and
Hancock were unveiled on the battlefield OF
Gettysburg, Penn.
John Boylan, lineman, was shocked to
death on an electric-light pole in Brooklyn.
Antoine Nedou, aged sixty-seven, and his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Levy Paulin, were
thrown from buggy at Clinton, Mass, and
killed.