The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
Domestic.

Domestic.
William Quinn, q young bicyclist, was
knocked from his wheel by collision with
farmers wagon and run over and killed on
the Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The far
mer, Pasquale Pietro. was pursued by fel-
low-wheelman and was arrested In Jamaica.
Raymond Allen, school boy, Of Spring
field, Mo-. carried stick Of dynamite In his
pocket with other toys. and 1t exploded In
school. He was fatally injured.
Benjamin F. Hunt. eighty-seven years
old, and Mrs. Julia Ann Sherman, ninety
years old, were married at Watertown, N. Y.
While a funeral sermon was being
preached In a Little Rock (Ark. church,
Mrs. Thomas Story, a daugbter-in-law OF
the deceased arose and denounced as
yillaiuously false statement Of the minis
ter that the deceased had lost her mind be-
fore death. ..
In New. York City Mrs. Ann Ahlborn, a
bride OF three months, was severely cut
with a carving knife by her stepson, Her
man, who Is twenty-one years old.
Funeral services for Charles A. Dana
we're held at st. Pauls Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Glen Cove, Long Island. The
body was inferred on the crest OF the hill
back OF the church.
The Chicago Gas Trust swallowed up all
Of the opposition companies except one.
Brown University rolled up the biggest
football score ever made against Yale on
Yales own field. The score was, Yale, IL;
Brown, IA.
ZebuIon Rudolph, the father OF Mrs.
James A. Garfield, widow OF President Gar
field died at Lawnfeld. Mentor, Ohio, the
Garfield home, Of old age. He was ninety
nP haGidA6
Mrs. Garfield, survive him.
John Murphy, the oldest inhabitant OF
Marlborough, Mass, died few days ago,
aged 103 years and seven months.
William Mlllard, ex-Collector Of Taxes Of
Peoria, ILL.,, was arrested charged with the
defalcation OF S20, 1000.
The special convention Of Rhode Island
Episcopalians, called for the purpose OF
electing coadjutor to assist the venerable
Bishop Thomas March Clark, was held at
Providence in the Church of the Redeemer.
The Rev. William N. MeVickar, Of Phila-
delphia, was chosen.
The ordinance providing for three-cent
fare on the street car lines in Cleveland,
Ohio, has been killed by the Council, the
vote to reconsider the ordinance being lost
by II to II. Charles Wetzel, the member
who week ago moved reconsideration
and was depended upon by the low-fare
members, made bitter speech and cast
the deciding vote. There were hisses,
shouts and cries OF "Lynch himl" and he
was escorted from the chamber by body
guard.
Former head nurse at Sailors Snug Har-
Dor, Staten Island, N. Y, tells OF horrible
sufferings inflicted upon inmates Of the
hospital and of bottles Of poison left with
out labels.
The engine and dynamo house OF the
female department in the Manhattan State
Asylum for the Insane, on Wards Island,
New York City, was burned. The patients
were quieted by being told that the fire was
spectacle arranged for them.
The flgurehead of Fsrragut's flagship,
the Hartford, was received in the Connecti-
cut Capitol with public demonstrations,
At the fire which burned Maloney's
Hotel, Shreveport La. H. s. Newcomb, Of
Kansas City, leaped from a second-story
window and broke both legs. Mr..
and Mrs. Rose, Of Saginaw, Mich, were
also injured. Mr.. Rose was 80 badly
burned that he died soon afterwards. Mrs.
Rose was severely burned.
The New Jersey State Board Of Canvass.
ers declared the anti-gambling amendment
carried by majority of 802 and denied
track men, to send the returns back to the
| county canvassing boards on the ground
that certain ballots had been rejected ille-
gally.
DR.. William n. Ford, President Of the
Board Of Health of Philadelphia, died sud-
| denly at his summer home in Belmar, N. j.,
aged flfty-eight. He was we'll known to
| physicians throughout the country, and
had contributed to medical journals on
hygiene and sanitation.
A Brooklyn Police Justice reprimanded
Policeman Uhl for clubbing a little girl, a
young woman and two men-one con-
sumptive, the other helplessly intoxicated.
The City Bank, of Sherman, Texas,
closed its doors. and after a meeting the
directors decided to make an assignment.
Cashier Hall says the hank has assets Of
four to one Of liabilities. He says the
banks indebtedness Is $50 900 and assets
s20O, 900.
Frank E. Angerer, bookkeeper Of the
Lilly-Brackett Company, and an ex-Coun-
Gilman, was arrested at Brockton. Mass,
On a charge of embezzling 5000. He is q
member OF the corporation and prominent
socially.
Reports from Somerville, Ga. state that
two colored men, named Penn and Hazel
ton, were lynched. The men were accused
Of arson. and had been arrested by the
Sheriff and posse. While returning with
their prisoners, a masked mob overpow-
cred the officers and disappeared with the
prisoners into the woods.
Henry R. Packard, OF Attleboro, Mass,
shot and killed Henry D. Olmstead, Of
Medford, In the Maine woods, near South
Twin Lake. Olmstead was thirty-one years
Did, and a lumberman and trapper. He was
mistaken for a deer.
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