The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02
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Inc IreSl0ent mas appointed WliIlam u
Forman, eI-Congressman from Illinois. tt
be Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, Il
succeed Miller. resigned.
1t was announced from Republican Con
eressional Headquarters In Washington tha
the next Congress would consist OF 2O7 Re
publicans, 1877 Democrats. and IS Populists
Commissioner OF Navigation Chamberlain
In his annual report presents some strong
fscts as an argument in favor OF free Amert-
:an ships.
General Thos. 81. Vincent, Assistant Adju'
sand- General, has ended his active career II
Ihe army. having reached his sixty-fourtf
year. He hns been in the service since 1849,
and Is now transferred TO the retired List
His last detail was rs Chief of the Bureau o.
Military Information, War Department.
The Plasterers' Labor Union. Of New York
City, reported that two OF Its members
Michael Herman and Timothy Sullivan, had
absconded with 1876 Of the unions money.
The Office OF Senator Marion Butler news
paper in Rcleigh. N. G., was seized by the
sheriff. ...
The Chattanooga and Norfolk vestibule
limited collided with helper engine which
was racing down the mountain at Old Fort,
n. c. John Howard, fireman, end Engineer
William A. James OF The limited were killed,
and Postal Clerk william Henderson had his
left leg cut of. The accident WAS caused
by Engineer Terrell Of the helper disregard
Ing an order.
Portsmouth On. H. harbor is to be forti-
fed. Two eight-inoh disappearing guns are
TO be mounted near the famous old Walsback
IN ha Ill IaS To- x1c D,Nf Inf
and battery will be put on one OF the ISL
ands OF the Shoals group.
Edith Behr was released from Jail in Eliza
beth. N, j.. after serving four OF the ninety
lays sentence Of prisonment imposed by
Judge Mccormack for assaulting two farm
srs who had attacked her father.
Clintwood. Dickinson County. Va an anvil
exploded. killing Pelham Colley and Preston
Mullins, and injuring'three other men.
One Of the big ten-inch disappearing guns
at the fort on Wilets Point, Long Island,
was successfully tested by ordnance officers.
The annual Chamber OF Commerce ban
luet at Delmonico's, New York City. re-
solved itself into an enthusiastic celebration
Of the gold standard victory, and speeches
were made by Bourke Cochran, Postmaster
General Wilson and others.
William J. Bryan has agreed to deliver
fifty lectures at $1,000 each. He will soon
publish book dealing with the silver ques-
ton and the recent campaign.
Richard P. Owens died at Trenton. n. j.,
from serious attack Of hiccoughs.
The eight-inch rifles at Fort Wadsworth.
New York Harbor, were tested. Nine shots
were fired at small target. three and a half
miles away. near Coney Island. Several
shots were within ship.striking distance of
1t, and one shot hit the target.
Mayor PatrickJ J. Gleason. Of Long Island
City, N. Y, was arrested on the indictment
for Illegally appointing Election Inspectors.
Justice Gaynor released him under $1,000
bonds.
William L. TerilI, at Hamden Plains, near
New Haven, Conn.,, shot his wife. who will
recover; then ended bis own life with bull
let in the temple.
The crew OF the British steamship Cola
shipwrecked on Cuban reef, arrived at New
York and told how they had been mistaken
for fllibHsters and maltreated by Spaniards.
What was known as the pencil will was
with irnwn in the FAIR will contest In San
Francisco. CAL. and the so-cailed trust will
was admitted to probate.
The body OF m unknown well-dressed man
with marks Of violence was found In a lonely
field at Railway. N. ].
The tollgate at the Owenton pike. mile
and half from the Kentucky State Capitol.
ut Frankfort, was blown up with dynamite
md burned by turnpike raiders.
The famous Ferris wheel. at Chicago, Is In
the hands OF a receiver. The company was
nine months in arrears on the interest due
On mortgage bonds OF $500. 900 and Is totally
insolvent.
George Baker, OF Hyde Park. N Y, has
brought an action to annul his marriage
with Rachael A. Schryver, Into which he
claims be was entrapped by hypnotic in
duence.
Tho examination of the battleship Texas.
which sank at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
show that water leaked in at the seams Of
hull plates.
William J. Bryan delivered two speeches
1t Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, the first to
women at the Epnke Opera House and the
second to the Bryan Travelling Mems Club at
Bohano's Hall. where about 1000 persons
gathered to hear him. An audience OF wo-
men which packed the Funke Opera House
from pit to dome greeted Mr.. Bryan in the
afternoon.
Three men boarded a trolley car on Its
why to Hoboken. N. j., forced the moterman
at the muzzle OF revolver to go ahead at
Iull speed, beat the conductor into insensi-
bility. robbed him OF money and watch, and
escaped.
The first convention Of Jewish women met
in New York City and listened 10 an eloquent
address by Its President
Electric power from the big plant at Mag
ara Falls was turned into Buffalo, N. T., over
!wenty-seven miles OF wire 20 furnish the
power to run trolley cars there.
The new United States battleship Iowa on
q builders trial developed II 900 horse power
and showed q speed OF 627 Knots.
The Court House OF Custer County, Mis-
souri. has been burned by incendiaries in the
attempt, 1t is thought, to destroy bills OF in
1ietment.
James Facin, who threw lighted cigar
into the face OF Secretary Of the Treasury
Carlisle after the gold Democratic meeting
held in Covington: KY. was fined s2o' and
costs. This was the meeting at which eggs
Tere thrown on the stage at the Secretary
while he was speaking.
McKinlev's plurality in Ohio was 5000
and his majority S9,71S.
The large hotel at Eastsmethport, Penn,
vas d@ troyet by fire. The boarders had
barrow escapes in their nightclothes. and
Wake Chambere. son-in-law OF Mrs. Sow
srs, the propietress. dropped dead as he ran
from the burning building. The loss will be
about $4,000
All three Republican electors In Delaware
we're declared elected; the Republicans con-
seded South Dakota to Bryan. The Demo-
cratic electors win by 200 votes
The annual convention OF the Womans
Ch.Istian Temperance Union was opened at
st. Louis, Mo-. with an address by Misc
Frances E. Willard.
Foreign Notes.
Prince Bismarck received at Friedrichs-
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