The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-07
Domestic.

Sixteen apprentice boys deserted at San
Diego, Cal. , from the United States gunboat
Adams in two days. The officers say that
different tactics in training the boys must be
pursued, or wholesale desertion IN every
port will result. An officer went ashore IN a
launch with crew of e.even apprentices.
When he returned to the launch all the boys
were missing, and he had to hire DoatmaD
to take him back to the ship.
Three ships grounded during fog, the
Saginaw and the Emily E. Johnson on the
New Jersey coast, and the Wandrian lear
Jones's Inlet: no lives were lost and the
damage was slight.
William R. Grace, his wife, and son, have
set aside S20O0 900 for the establishment In
New York City Of q manual training school
for women and young girls.
Because Of the Supreme Courts Trans.
Missouri decision, several Western railroads
withdrew from traffic associations.
A severe storm struck Chicago, accompan-
led by snow and high wind, and soon as
sumed the proportions OF blizzard. Rail-
road and street car traffic was seriously
interfered with. Reports indicated the
storm general throughout the northern part
OF Illinois and portions of Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota.
The Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn,
Is falling, and the food prospect Is more en-
couragng.
In Cleveland. Ohio, man has confessed
10 starting forty fires in Detroit, Mich.
The New York Court of Appeals denied
the motion for reargument in the cele-
brated Fayerweather will case. This allows
to stand the courts decision OF several
weeks ago distributing the 5000, QUO residue
ofthe estate to the twenty colleges named
originally in the tenth clause of the will.
An explosion Of gas occurred in the Will
liam Penn shaft near Shenandoah, Penn: II
was caused by a tall in an old working which
forced large volume Of gas into the gang
way where workmen we're using naked lamps.
Joseph Sergeant. Philip Haggerty and Will
liam Lavenburg we're fatally injured.
Some unknown vandal, believed to have
been an expert stone cutter Clipped guam
tity of granite from one OF the pillow blocks
beneath General Grants sarccphagus at New
York City.
Mrs, Honorah Hennessey, of Providence,
R. T., was burned to death In closet, and
her husband is under arrest charged with
the crime.
A female convict confined at the Peachtree
Creek Camp, near Atlanta, Ga, attempted
to escape by swimming the creek. She was
followed by bloodhound and was finally
fO-ced, through EXHAUSTION. 10 Seek tEe
shore, where she was recaptured.
Several Western railroads have withdrawn
from existing freight and passenger combtn-
ations as result Of the United States Su.
preme Courts decision In the Trans Missouri
Association case.
The Farmers l. Merchants Bank, of Paris,
Texas, suspended. The failure was caused
by the suspension of Martin, Wise Il Fitz.
hugh, cotton buyers.
More than twenty people were killed and
at least 200 injured by the late tornado ir
Georgia and Alabama.
There was heavy earthquake shock al
Malone, N. Y, starting with sudden boom
like an explosion and reverberating with
grinding motion for several seconds. II
seemed to travel from southeast to north
west. The shock caused considerable alarm
for moment, but there was no damage.
William johnson was hanged at Hamburg,
Ark, for the killing of Henry Hobson last
June. His neck was not broken and he died
In awful agony.
Four staatsburg On. W schoolboys tied
two companions to tree In the woods and
started brush fire around them. The chill
dren suffered seriously from fright and
smoke. A forest fire resulted.
Two men dis1 In Ph ilaielphia Of blows
over the heart administ cred in boxing con-
tests.
General ]. 8. Fullerton. of st. Louis, Mo-.
was killed and several persons hurt In
railroad accident in Maryland.
Scott Jackson, OF Greencastle, Ind. and
Alonzo walling, OF Oxford. Ohio, the dental
students. were hanged in Newport, Ky., for
the murder Of Pearl Bryan.
The Mississippi River from Cairo, H., to
Friar's Point, Miss, rose higher than ever be-
fore known. Several levees broke, and 10000
persons are homeless. Five thousand refugees
are In Memphis and Dyersburg.
A locomotive blew up in Chicago, instant
iy killing the engineer, Alexander Franks,
and Edward B. Smith, the fireman.
Mrs. Mary Skif1ngton die | Mt her home in
Woonsocket. R. l., at the age OF 1O2 years.
She was born in Ireland In 1895 and had
been resident OF Woonsocket forty years.
Her mind was clear up to the morning OF
her death when she dropped dead while
walking about the house.
Between fifteen and twenty miles Of the
Mississippi River levee yielded to the high
waters and thousands Of acres OF land south
Of Osceola, Ark, were submerged.