The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-15
Domestic.

Two boilers in the Planters Oil Mill,
Greenville, Miss. exploded, wrecking the
mill property and causing the death OF four
colored men and one white man and the Sc
rious injury of half a dozen others.
The boiler Of portable sawmill owned by
Frederick Groves. OF MEANWHILE, Ohio, and
situated on the Wooiville Pike, four miles
north of Milford. exploded. Two men We're
killed and three injured, one fatally and the
others seriously.
Emanuel Ninger, for seventeen years
known to the Secret Service men only as
"Jim the Penman." because all his work OF
counterfeiting $50. 800 and $40 notes was
done with the pen. has been captured. He
bought farm at Flagtown. Somerset CouD.
ty. n. j.. about five years ago.
Five train robbers fought officers In
Bremen, Ind. who shot one Of them and cap
tured another.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Saliva
tion Army, arrived in New York City.
Colonel Henry H. Lyman was confirmed
by the New York Senate as State Excise
Commissioner.
broken strand caused two series OF coll
Iisions on the Broadway cable road. New
York City, during the evening rush hour.
Cars were telescoped and five persons were
seriously injured.
Edward Knauppe a saloonkeeper, whose
home is in Lockbourne, Ohio. shot Mrs:
Frances Russ, mortally wounding her. and
then blew out his brains with the same
weapon.
The Maryland Legislature has adjourned
for the session.
At Augusta, Ga, Secretary Hoke Smith
and ex-Speaker Crisp debated for three hours
on the financial question. The champions
Of each assert victory.
A waterspout in Turkey Cove, Va,
drowned four children. In Russell County,
Virginia, Charles Holt and child and John
Jenkins and two children were drowned.
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the
verdict and sentence against the Taylor
brothers, convicted at Carrolltop. Mo-, OF
the murder OF the Meeks family. They will
be hanged April 80.
The railroad station at Gate City, Va. in
which were the express, telegraph and ticket
offices, was struck by lightning and burned.
The loss Is heavy, as the station contained
great many goods.
The "Comp.omise" School bill. legislating
out Of Office the Board Of Trustees in New
York City, was passed In the New York Sem
ate, at Albany, by party vote OF 81 to 13.
John Martin, q politician. was shot and
of the City Hall, San Francisco, Cal. Her
motive was revenge for desertion and abuse
The Manufacturers Club. of Philadelphia,
passed resolutions favoring single currency
standard and disavowing responsibility for
the Washington conference with free silver
Senators.
The steamship Paris, Of the American
Line, went aground near Quickstep Buoy,
New York City, but was soon floated.
Rivers and streams in Western New York
were greatly swollen by the thaw and they
did great damage to property.
Information has arrived Of an affair
near Fort Sill Indian Agency, Oklahoma, in
which more than $4,000 in money on horse
races changed hands, two Indians were
killed, a Fedora! soldier wounded and two
| spectators hurt.
Alvin n. Stone and his wife were murdered
by an unknown man at their home near
Akron, Ohio. Three of their daughters were
attacked and one was dangerously injured.
The hired man was fatally beaten.
Propositions were made to the Mayors of
! New York and Brooklyn to operate the
Brooklyn Bridge railroad as connecting
link between the elevated systems ofthe two
cities.
Governor Griggs. Of New Jersey, in refus-
ing to extradite Alice ]. Jones, establishes a
precedent whereby persons living in llis
State who commit crime in New York City
and return home are secure from punish
ment.
Nearly two hundred cigarette girls,
thrown cut of employment at an East
Thirty-serenth street factory, New York
City, by the installment OF machines, hang ID
the inven. or in ef1gy.
The Ridley Hotel was burned at Geneva,
n. Y. One bnarGer. Thomas Danton, fire.
| man, was burned to death. Engineer
| SpaDg'er AMI Brakeman Gorseline were
badly burned about the hands and face.
| Gorseline died.
Warehouses Nos. an! 5 of the Pleasure
| Ridge Distillery, twelve miles below Louis
vile. kv.. burned, entailing a loss of nearly
| S1,000,000.