The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

General Wheaton, Of the United States
Army, stationed at Denver, COL, was In
formed that Massia, the renegade Apache
Chief, had been slain in Southern Arizona by
Indian scouts after he had killed three
scouts. The passing Of Massia will be heard
of with delight by all Of the inhabitants OF
Southern Arizona and New Mexico, for he
was a red-handed murderer.
The National Brewers Association held
its thirty-sixth annual convention at
Philadelphia. The association represents
1771 breweries, having an aggregate capital
Of $3.50, 100000.
John Hogan was sentenced to forty-eight
years Imprisonment for barn burning at
DoylestowD, Penn.
Thirteen persons were injured, some OF
them fatally. by the fall Of an elevator In
Baltimore, Nd.
Kentucky's Democratic State Convention
was controlled by the free silver men.
Ceveland's and Carlsle's names we're hissed.
Temporary Chairman Long made speech
In favor OF the gold standard. When the
State Senator Charles j. Bronston, the free
silver candidate. received 691 votes, while
Judge Humphrey the gold standard candi-
date, got 206.
The town of Pratt. Kan, has repudIated
its bonded Indebtedness. The City Council
has instructed the Treasurer not to pay any
more interest coupons on the clty's bonded
Indebtedness. Pratt carries BONDED debt
OF s75.0o0.
Six women were graduated from the Law
Department of the University Of New York In
New York City.
fllibuster expedition sailed from Mobile,
Ala. with the purpose, II is said, Of captur-
ing Cuban seaport.
Judge Woodbridge Strong, at New
Brunswick, n j., sentenced Henry Jackson,
a coIored man. to six years confinement in
State prison for attempting to wreck trains
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Deans.
Station, on the night of Mays.
John E. Blair and his son, Alva Blair, at.
tackled the formers son-in-aw, Henry An.
thony, in the streets of Nevada, Mo-. with
revolvers and knives. Over twenty-five shots
were fired at him, and seven Of them struck
the victim. Blair cut his throat In the pres
ence Of 200 people.
Sophronia Beauregard was found dead ina
Springfield (Mass.) hotel, and 1t is supposed
she was murdered.
Herman FAX, New Jersey farmer, was
found on the track of the Rarltan River Rail-
way with bullet wound in his head and his
hand cut off, He died and Is supposed tc
have been the victim Of robbers.
At Newbury, VT. John Evans, Jr, aged
twenty-five. and Joseph Eggleston, aged
fifty. quarreled as to right Of way In passing
on the road, and Evans killed Eogleston With
blow of the fist.
An explosion of gas at the Back Ridge
colliery, Shanokin Penn, killed John
Thompson. Samuel Faust and four others
were fatally injured.
Mrs. Freeland Dustin died at Holland, N.
~ hol tbo
during which time her limbs gradually be-
came ossified. At the time Of her death they
were nearly as hard and heavy as stone.
The 500 or 600 grain scoopers who are
members Of the Grain Shovelers' Union,
local No. 81. International Longshoremen's
Association, went out on strike at Buffalo,
NY.
The Postmaster at New Baden, H., says
his Office, with entire contents, including
mail, stamps and supplies, was blown away
by tornado, his home wrecked, himself and
family all hurt. and one member killed. He
asks that stamps and supplies besent at once.
DR.. Joseph Clifford Moore now stands ad-
judged guilty of making false entries on the
stub book Of the Union Publishing Company,
Of Manchester, N. q. The jury deliberated
eight hours.
The registration papers of the Cuban flli-
by the British Consul In Philadelphia.
Seven persons were killed in Chicago by
electric cur accidents during May, and fifty
two were more or less seriously injured.
Four horses were killed upon the street, but
their drivers escaped.
Ed. Cross, living ten miles east of Camden,
Ark. killed his mother-in-law by striking
her on the head with a hoe. He then at
tempted to XII | his wife and sister-in-law, but
failed and escaped.
The Presbyterian General Assembly. in
Saratoga, N. Y, adjourned after adopting
the Recommendation made by the Committee
on Pills and Overtures. reaffirming the iu-
diclal deliverance 10 the effect that the
Scriptures prohibited public preaching by
women.
Foreign Notes.
Colonel Rafael Portuendo Is said to have
landed formidable expedition in Cuba.
The Prince OF Wa!es's horse Persimmon
won the great English Derby race; Leopold
de Rothsch!d's st. Frusquin was second.
The Chinese army operating against the
kan-Soo rebels has been defeated with great
slaughter.