The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-09
Domestic.
RECORD OF TIE LEAGUE CLUBS.

Cleveland Ga SO .621 Phiadel. .49 81 .462
Chicago. so 46 .574 W'shing'n40 SO 1888
Pittsburg SO 46 .55sSt. Louis.93 II .317
Boston. ..57 4s $40 Louisville 28 rs .255
The Miami Powder Works, at Goes Station.
Ohio, were blown up. The report was heard
fifty miles distant. Frank Eich. general
foreman, and Silas Higgins, boss carpenter,
were killed.
Silas D. Mead, farmer, living in North
Greenwich, Conn, died from Injuries in.
flicted by a bull. He was seventy.seven
years old and one OF the wealthiest and best
known men in the State.
ID. Woodmansee, Of Ohio, was chosen
President of the Republican National League
BY the convention at Milwaukee. Wis.
The Emerson Piano Company, with fac.
tory and store In Boston, Mass, and branch
stores In New York and Chicago, has made
an assignment.
The Canada defeated the Vencedor for the
second time on Lake Erie, thereby winning
the International yachting championship Of
the lakes.
The locked .out men of the Brown Hosting
and Conveying Works, Cleveland, Ohio,
voted to return to work, and the famous
strike. productive Of several battles and riots,
is broken.
New Jerseys gold standard Democrats, In
convention at Trenton, reafflrmed the fnan-
cial plank in the platform adopted by the
regular State Convention In May. 1t de-
clares for the gold standard.
Would-be lynchers who tried to shoot
Dave Williams near Mount Tabor, N. j., for
an alleged assault on woman, were foiled
by constable, who took the man to jail.
Captain Burnside and twenty-three men
CT the steamship Moldava, which was sunk
by collision with berg, reached New York
on board the Anchor line steamship Circas-
sia.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed addressed Re-
publican mass meeting at Old Orchard, Me.
The international yacht race on Lake Erie
was won by the Canadian boat Canada.
The Postofice at Pattenburg, N. j., was
again entered by burglars, arouslng the Post
master, who shot one OF them as he was run
ming away In the darkn sss.
In the preliminary or practice trial the
United States cruiser Brooklyn developed
an average speed closely approximating
twenty-one knots. The trial was made over
the Government official course from of
Cape Ann, Mass, to point of Cape Por-
poise, Me-, and return.
The through express train from Chicago
on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad was
wrecked at Valencia. Penn, and more than
score OF passengers were injured, four OF
them fatally.
The Republican campaign was formally
opened In Indiana. 1t Is estimated that
100000 voters participated In the sixty-one
meetings. Charles W. Fairbanks spoke In
Indianapolis.
"Chris" Lowering, desperate and outlaw,
was captured on the top OF Saurland Noun.
tain by detective, George D. Totten, OF
Somerville, NJ
The State Convention OF the National Pro-
hibition party In North Carolina nominated
the Rev. ]. ". Holt for Governor, and full
State ticket.
d. ". Reed. Populist National Committee
man from Georgia, has resigned the Presi-
wick because, being an ardent believer In the
free coinage Of silver, he could not conform
to the wishes Of his bank associates.
Frederick Gordon Rev, the Cornell student
who disappeared from Ithaca, N. Y, on
October Q, 1894, and who was supposed to
have met with foul play, has been heard
from. His father, Fabian B. Rev. of Buffalo,
received letter from him. dated In India.
stating that he was In good health and bound
for home.
John Henke, an old miser. OF Burlington,
NJ, was strangled and beaten to death for
his money by unknown persons.
Senator Hill invited W. J. Bryan to dine
with him at Wolfert's Roost, Albany, N. y,
and the invitation was accepted.
Four men were killed by the wreck OF a
train on the Northern Pacific Road in Mon
tana.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stephenson, Of Boston,
Mass, returning home to die OF an incura-
bic trouble, jumped from the steamship
Spaarndam In nidocean and was drowned.
The safe in the Eberon On. J.) Postoflce
was blown open and robbed. A gold wntoh,
q freman's gold badge, and $1l0 were lost
by Mr.. Fay. Two registered letters and
many sheets OF postage stamps also were
stolen.
Lord Russell OF Killowen, Lord Chief JUS
tice OF England. addressed the American Bar
Association in Saratoga, N. Y, on "Inter-
national Law and Arbitration"
A report was current in Boston, Mass,
that the Western Union Telegraph Company
had obtained control OF the Bell Telephone
COMPANIES. The united capital OF the COM
bination is $3.50, 100000.
Atartments for Ii Hung Chang were en-
gagged at the Waldorf. New York City Prcsi-
dent Cleveland will be the guest of former
receive the Chinese Envoy.
The Stock Yards branch of tho American
National Bank, on the second floor OF the
Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City, No., was
robbed of p zoo In cash bya thief.
The Bank of Wymore, Nebraska. closed its
doors. 1t was one OF the repositories for
Gage County; $4,000 are on deposit, amply
protected by $50, 900 in bonds No run was
made on the bank, the directors deeming It
advisable TO close on account Of slow coilec-
tions and inability to lenew loans.
A dispatch from North Baltimore, Ohio,
says that the Ohio Oil Company, the Ohio
branch of the Standard, decided to reduce
the wages of bumpers in all the Buckeye
fields from $50 to $50 q mouth. About 5000
men are affected.
Mrs. Wilson Terry, Of Saltwater. N. Y,
was missed from her home. domestic
found two of the children, girls aged six
and four years, asleep in crib, bat the
Youngest child, two months old, had been
drowned BY being plunged head first into
slop Jar The searching party traced the
mother to the towpath OF the Champlain
Canal. After dragging the canal her body
was recovered. Her mind was unbalanced.
.The Atlantic squadron returned from its
sea manpuvres and anchored OIL Tomkins-
Vile, Staten Island, New York Harbor.
Leopold We'll Il Co., jewelry manufactur-
ers, of New York City, were forced to trans
fer their stock and accounts to their princi-
pal creditors. The failure is ascrlbed to the
silver agitation.
An attachment was served on Ovington
Brothers, the china and glass dealers OF New
York and Brooklyn.
Foreign Notes.
British Admiral sent an ultimatum to
the new Sultan Of Zanzibar ordering him to
give up the throne and surrender.
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