The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE nEa&uE CLUBS.

Clubs. Won. Lost. Ct Clubs. Won. lost ct
Cleveland Il 80 .s7l|Ph1ladsl. .ss 81 .4s:
Cincinnati46 81 .657 Brooklyn .32 81 .4Ss
Boston. ...3s 26 .594New York27 36 .42s
Pittsbure .35 20 SAT st. Louis.15 81 .224
Chicago. 81 81 .521 Louisville 19 4S AIS
At North Adams, Mass. Alfred N. T. Cell.
Office, was arrested for the eubezzlement oi
s420 IN postage stamps. he has confessed
his crime.
Charles 8. Alden, OF New York, an artist
saved two women from drowning at Cottage
City, Mass. 7
The headless body OF Miss Jessie Schrieber
seventeen years old, music teacher, was
found on the railroad track at Elizabeth
N. j. It Is thought she was killed and placed
there to prevent The detection Of the crime
Romulus Cotell, boy eighteen years old,
was found guilty of murder In the first de-
Stone and his wife and the hired man, Ora
N. Stillsop, at Tallmadge, three months ago
for the purpose Of assaulttng Stones daugh.
ter Flora.
Secretary Pierce, of the United Mine
Workers, says that thousands Of Ohio miners
are now suffering for food. The worst con-
ditions prevail in the Hooking Valley. The
Ohio companies secured few lake orders this
year. .a.
The wind OF the storm which ragged In the
Gulf reached 100 miles at Pensacola, Fla.
Nearly every business house In Pensacola
was unroofed and damaged Some small
houses were blown down. In the harbos
vessels dragged their anchors and were
drawn against wharves and other craft. The
steamers kept away by using their steam.
The damage in the city Is about S2o0, 600,
but no lives were lost.
Peter Hill. while attempting to hive bees
during rain storm on the farm OF John Nor
ley, near Grahnmsville, Sullivan County, N.
Y, was struck By lightning and instantly
killed. The bees had settled In maple tree
and Hill was climbing ladder that rested
against the tree.
A fire, caused by the explosion OF an oil
lamp, destroyed the three-story brick dwell.
ing at 1s9 Elm street, Buffalo, N. Y, causing
the death Of two women and child and
seriously fnjuring one man. The dead are:
Mrs. Jennie Mills, aged forty; Mrs. Morians,
aged sixty, and Maggie King. aged two. The
injured man is Greek peddler.
Charles Parrish, OF Wilkesbarre. Penn,
announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad
has subscribed $500 toward the Pittston re-
lief fund. and that no less than twenty-five
other corporations will do likewise.
Fifteen thousand teachers visited Buffalo,
N. Y, to attend to the meetings OF the Na-
tional Education Association
The New York Republican State Commit
tee met in New York City and decided to
hold the State Convention on August rs.
Charles Ferron was arrested for counter.
feiting medicine labels. The criminal and
civil prosecutions cost him his fortune and
he committed suicide In Ludlow street jail,
in New York. CITY,
At Easton, Penn, during heavy shower,
George Miller twenty years old, OF Paxinsoa,
Heights, was struck by lightning and I'M
stantly killed. He and his brother had takenl
refuge under cherry tree to escape the
storm.
Sydney Randolph. a colored man charged
with assaulting the Buxton family. was takeul
from the jail IN Rockville, Md.r by masked
mob aud lynched.
At a fight at Loeb Haven. near Baltmore{
six colored men were shot and several others
injured.
The rescue party at the Twin Shaft mine
Pittston, Penn, reported that they had heart
rappings from the entombed miners.
The Tooth anniversary of the incorpora
ReAS<&s >~~>
Me-, was celebrated.
The jury at Santa Fe, New Mexico. in TIL
celebrated Peralta land ease-the Unite
States against J. A. Psralta-Reavis, charge
with conspiracy to defraud the Governmen
out Of 12,0e0, 600 acres OF land-returned
verdict Of guilty.
The cornerstone Of q monument to Jefe1
son Davis was laid at Richmond, Va Twenty
FIVE thousand people took part in the p1
rade.
Alexander r. Lawton. of Savannah, Ga
one OF the most widely known men OF Il
South. died at Clifton Springs, n.
General Lawton was born in South Car
lima, in 1918, and was graduated from We
Point in the class Of 1889. At the outbrei
Of the Civil War he entered the Confedera
army.
Prominent Republicans in Minneso
signed manifesto declaring they cam
support Mckinley and the single gold stan
ard.
Charles Williams, eolored. of Baltimo
Nd, cut the throats Of his wife and himse
ut Atlantic City, N. J. He is dead.