The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-21
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

AHSNoN SH u ASnuoH SAooSs
Per Per
Climbs. Won. Loaf. ct Clubs. Won. Lost. Ct.
Boston. AS IA .76SIBrooklyn. 2s 80 .467
GnoinnatiS8 IS .679I Philadel. .2s 81 .46o
Baltimore. SO 20 .655I Louisville "a "a .414
New York35 % sos W'shing'n23 IS 1897
Cleveland 81 20 .517iChicago. "a 81 1893
Pittsburg .29 so .492 St Louis.11 40 1852
Three hundred residents Of w~appinger's
Falls, N. Y, were poisoned by eating ham
that had absorbed poison from a copper
boiler.
Misses Pauline Widlar and Blanche Hud.
son, daughters Of families who move In
fashionable circles, were drowned while
bathing at Maple Glen, a summer resort on
Lake Erie. just east Of Cleveland, Ohio.
About 200 National Democrats met in
State Convention In Des Moines, Iowa, to
nominate q State ticket. A letter was read
from ex-President Grover Cleveland. Ma
thaniel French, as Temporary Chairman,
made the principal address.
The coal-miners' strike increased, and
the mines In Jefferson County, Ohio, giving
rise to fears Of q riot.
In New York City, John Gartha told the
that he murdered William Guldensuppe,
%butchered the body and was helped by Mrs.
Mack In disposlng Of it.
The United States torpedo boat Dupont
was speeded in the bay of Newport, R. l.,
under her three boilers, for the first time,
and her work was something marvellous.
The stokeholes were closed, and, with a
steam pressure Of 225 pounds, she made 420
revolutions, driving her through the water
at a speed OF S0.83 knots. She had seventy
five men on board working on various parts,
which added greatly to her weight.
Two men died from excitement produced
by viewing fires. d.. L.. 81. Holbrook, Of
Revere, Mass, was one victim, and Melvin
Woodward, Of Tacoma, N. Y, the other.
The National Educational Association
met at Milwaukee, Wis.
Nellie Burns, six years old, was killed by
a trolley car Of the Brooklyn Heights Rail-
road Company. The motorman became in
sane.
The Tax Commissioners OF New York City
fled their report with the Board Of Alder
men, showing figures calling for a 2.05 tax
rate this year, o reduction Of nine points
from 1896.
Miss Louise Imogen Quincy, poet and
boycotted postmistress at Auburndale,
Mass, hos resigned her Office.
Two young women and two young men
were drowned in Lake Superior by the cap
sizing Of q rowboat. The party left Itssca.
Wis, for Minnesota Point, In IN overloaded
boat. Seven were In the party. The
drowned are: Christie Med onald, aged sew
enteen; May Med onald, aged twenty-four;
Daniel Med onald, aged nineteen, and John
McCreary, aged twenty-five.
1t Is now learned that Theodore Krause,
Of Brooklyn, who attacked his wife with a
knife and killed himself, knew himself to
be a victim Of homicidal mania, and had
begged the police to lock him up.
Letters from W. J. Bryan and Grover
Cleveland were read at the Tammany
Democracy's celebration Of Independence
Day.
Heat and humidity made the Fourth of
July very oppressive In all parts Of the
country. The National holiday was gener-
ally celebrated with fireworks, flag rails
ings and presentations and sports.
Extreme heat prevailed In many parts OF
the country, and q number Of prostrstions
and deaths occurred. Twenty-Five cases Of
prostration were reported in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and eight deaths. The streets were
almost deserted, onlythose going out whose
business was imperative.
snowshoe races were run in Ouray, Col,
as a part Of the celebration Of Independence
Day.
Women were allowed an equal share In
the government Of the newtown Of Lincoln,
NJ. just organized. Attic caucus q man was
elected Mayor, but two ofthe four members
Of the Common Council chosen are women.
One, Miss Fgel, is the daughter OF Jonathan
Egel, a farmer. She Is twenty-one years
old. Her associate In the Council is thirty
years old and the wife Of George Hazard,
an employee in q grain mill.
An examination following the explosion
on the monitor Puritan, now at the Brook
Ign Navy Yard, has revealed the fact that
some Of the boiler. metal Is rotten. The
monitor had been ordered to sea for target
practice. The boilers are over twenty-five
years old.
The National Executive Board Of the
United Mine Workers Of America ordered a
general strike. The officers said 375, 900
men were involved in the movement.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court has sustained the decision OF Justice
Beach, refusing to enjoin the COMMISSIONS
of Public Works, New York City, from Civ
Ing permission to the Eighth Avenue Rail-
road Company or its lessee to change the
motive power Of the road.
jeremiah O'Sullivan, sentenced to eight
cen months in the Salem (Mass.) jail for
libeling a member Of the Lawrence Com
mon Council, was released bya pardon
from Governor Wolcott.
Leading lawyers advocated lynching In
the Georgia Bar Association meeting.
In New York City Charles Ferdinand
Herye shot and severely wounded Mrs.
Rose Drolst and then killed himself.
They had quarreled, and she refused to re-
turn to his protection.