The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-18
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indictment charging misappropriation and
was admitted to bail.
The iegel-Cooper Company, New York
City, teegraphed to William Jennings
Bryan, the defeated candidate for President,
offering the position Of manager Of their law
department at a yearly salary OF S25.0OO to
him.
A bold attempt was male to "hold up" the
"Katy" train near Alvaredo. Texas; no booty
was secured.
OF Hall, confidential man for the Stock.
mans Commission Company, OF Chicago. has
disappeared; the cash assets OF the company
are also missing.
The half burned body Of John Mudgett, a
wealthy rancher OF Usnl. Cal. was found in
the ru ms OF his home bv W. b. Davis,
neighbor. Mudgett lived alone on IN I'm
mense tract Of land. He WAS a reputed
hoardnr OF wealth, and 1t was rumored that
he had money stored about the house. His
body bore unrnis akable evidence OF death
by violence before the flames reached him.
Both lower limbs were missing.
The Bay State Gas Company passed under
the control OF members Of the Standard Oil
Company.
The parade Of the gold forces in New York
City on the Saturday before election was
one OF the largest affairs OF the kind ever
neld. It was estimated that about hun1red
thousand men marched. The parade was In
motion seven hours and thlrty-fve minutes
A blizzard prevailed throughout the west
ern and central part Of Wisconsin. Snow
began to fall early in the morning. Heavy
falls are reported from Watertown, Grand
Rapids. Mauston, Beaver, Dam, Chiffon,
juneau, Horizon, and number Of other
places.
A desperate fight took place on train
near Beattyville, KY. between John Hargis
and Jerry Caldwell, In which the former was
instantly killed and the latter fatally
wcunaed. Hargis was a cousin Of Judge
Hargis, the prominent Louisville lawyer, and
ex-Judge OF the Kentucky Court OF Appeals.
The Ohio collateral inheritance tax law,
on its way to the Supreme Court, was sus-
tanned at Columbus In the Circuit Court.
r. 8. Illingsworth was shot and killed at
Davld's Lake. North Dakota, by Thomas s.
Cordner, City Treasurer, and a leading polt-
tcian and business man. Cordner says the
shooting was IN self-defence.
An attempt of convic,s to break out Of Erie
County New York; Penitentiary was folled
by. the storekeeper locking the gate and
running away with the key amid shower
of bullets.
August Schroeder, who calls himself the
"Dlyne Healer" ministered to several af-
flctel persons at Bayonne, Nd.
The greater part OF the business portion OF
the town ofManilla, Ind, was wiped out By
the most disastrous fire IN is history. The
town has no Firs Department, and Rushvile
was called on for aid.
A sad fatality happened at Shirley, Mass.
when two Lancaster girls, Grace Maynard
and Louise Scribner were struck by west
bound express, which dashed cut from be-
hind a freight train they were waiting to
pass. Miss Scribner was killed and Miss
Maynard severely injured internally. The
horse was killed and the carriage shattered.
"Okahoma Bill" alias William Payne,
alias Pratt, has committed suicide at Kansas
City, No., by shooting. He Is said to have
been member of the Dalton gang OF out.
laws. and was out on bonds Oh charge OF
highway robbery. committed in Oklahoma.
Sickness and worry over his trial, which was
to come up, caused him to take his life.
Andrew Smith Musgrove died at his resi-
dence at Marsballsea, Penn. recently. Mus
groves head weighed over sixty pounds,
while the rest Of his body only weighed
afty-eight and oEe-half. He was twenty
eight years old.
Herman Levison. pioneer jeweler and
millionaire, Of San Francisco. CAL, Is dead,
leaving an estate worth $4,000, ,0O0
Amad horse got loose in Vineland, N. j.,
injured two men, but was at last caught and
shot.
julius Mannow was hanged at the County
Jail in Chicago for the murder OF Carey
B. Birch.
Frank T. Lees Gold Legion. while parad-
ing through Fair Haven. Conn.,, Was at
tackled and one man was shot through the
arm and another knocked senseless with
brick.
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton coal
train ran into a switching train! q which
were three loaded oil tank cars at u lnhat-
tan, Ohio. The oil tanks caught - and
violent explosion followed. Engineer A. L.
Jacobs, of Lima, was killed. Timothy Rea-
gan, an iron moulder OF Springfield. beating
his way on the train, was fatally injured.
Mr. and Mrs. J. ". Allen, of Marysville,
Montana, quarreled about the right OF the
father to punish their twelve-year-old son.
The wife and mother ordered Allen to de.
sist, but when he paid no attention to her she
fired at her husband. She missed him, but
shot ard killed the boy. She then fired two
more shots at her husband. One ball frac-
tured his skull. The other broke bis arm.
The Grand Jury in the United Stutes Cir
cult Court, Boston, Mass, indicted Thomas
Bran. first mate OF the barkentine Herbert
Fuller, for the murder OF Captain Thomas
Nash, his wife Laura, and Second Mate
Bamberg on board the Herbert Fuller last
July
Stephen s. Gregory, a Fellow in Civil En-
gineering at Cornell University. Ithaca, n.
Y, who entered this fall from the University
OF Texas, was founl dead few days ago.
1t was said ut the house that Mr.. Gregory
committed suicide BY taking potassium
cyanide.
The residence OF a farmer named Robin
son, living near Woodville, Mich, was de,
stroyed by fire and Mrs. Robinson and child
were burned to death. Robinson was badly
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