The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-02
Domestic.

the war.
Domestic.
There is talk in Japan Of retaliatory
measures against the new American tariff.
Five cannon, captured by General Scott
from General Santa Anna during the
West Point On. W Military Academy
grounds.
Judge Chester, at Monticello. N. Y, de-
clined to vacate the order granted May II
with reference to changing the place OF
taking testimony in the proceedings
against the alleged Coal Trust. He did
grant an order, however, tending to delay
the beginning Of the investigation.
At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has
oeen struck at depth Of 600 feet In well
on the County Court House grounds.
Mrs. L. C. Elliott Of Nashua, N. H., died
OF excessive bicycle riding, according to
physicians. She spent much OF her time on
her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal men-
ingitis developed.
BY fire in Jersey City, N. J., six hous es
we're destroyed, eleven badly damaged,
and seventy families were rendered home
less. No lives were lost. The loss Is esti-
mated at S100,000
Miss Fannie Richardson, recluse and
miser, died in Taunton, Mass, worth $780,
900. No will has been found, and as far as
is known she had no relatives.
The Pittsburg jury returned verdict OF
ac1uittal in the case Of Lieutenant Edward
s. Farrow, charged with conspiring to de-
fraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life AS
sociation OF New York.
The members Of the United States Bimet-
allie Commission are in Paris waiting for
the appointment OF French delegates by
President Faure before they proceed to
England.
Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced On
May 25, 1895, to two years imprisonment
with hard labor, was released from Hollo-
way (England) Prison. He refused $4,000
literary work In London under his own
name.
SUPERINTENDENT of Streets Thomas F.
Maloney, OF Buffalo, N. Y, was convicted
OF attempting to bribe Superintendent OF
Police ". s. Bull by Offering him $500 to
protect the Goeiet Gambling Club last July.
The Presbyterian Union Theological Sem
Inary graduation exercises were held In
New York City, and Miss Briggs, daughter
OF Professor C. a. Briggs, received the de-
gree OF Bachelor of Divinity, being the first
woman graduate of the seminary.
A diver discovered that the leak In the
big navy yard dock at Brooklyn is caused
by ten-foot-square hole In the apron out
side OF the caisson.
Much additional damaging evidence has
been found against Adolph l.. Luetgert, the
rich sausage manufacturer, OF Chicago,
ILL.,. who Is accused OF numbering his wife
and burning her body.
Phineas B. Smith, a well-known citizen
OF Roxbury, Mass, died Of heart trouble
resulting from overexertion In climbing q
hill while riding bicycle. He was fifty
nine years OF age and was lawyer.
Governor Black, Of New York, has signed
the General Tax Rate bill. The State tax
rate for the year Is 2.67 mills. The rev.
enues from direct taxation are estimated at
S12, ,003 792.92, and from Indirect taxation
at $10,O4s,708.
The Illinois Battlefield Commission has
decided to erect nine monuments each at
Lookout Mountain and at the north end OF
Mission Ridge to the Illinois regiments
which participated In these battles.
The Government Building at the Tennes-
see Centennial Exposition was opened.
In New York City Helen Horsford, left an
orphan by the death Of her mother, grieved
constantly, and committed suicide by hang
ing.
George Bartholomew, an engineer for the
Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyll, Penn,
was blown to pieces by the explosion OF
boiler. Bartholomew Is supposed to have,
fallen asleep and on awakening found the
boiler dry and turned on the water, there
by causing the explosion. His sister, when
she learned of her brothers death, at
tempted to commit suicide by throwing
herself into the burning boiler house.
John Farrell was fined IS for planting
potatoes on Sunday at Manuel, N. Y.
The Holland, small vessel owned by her
inventor and designed for submarine war
fare, was successfully launched at Eliza.
bethport, j.
Mr.. Bissel, farmer livinging east OF
Carthage, ILL.,, having no faith IN banks,
kept his money hidden about his farm.
The other day he hid 1t up fue. The
next day his wife put up stove and
started fire and burned up $4,000 In bank
notes.
Three men, one Of them James Francis,
son Of Names famous guide and hunter.
we're drowned In lake by the upsetting OF
their canoe.
John Reichart, a railroad brakeman, saw
a child In the water as his train was pass
ing the Allegheny River at Pittsburg. He
Jumped off the train and into the water ano
both were drowned.
Martin Wicks and wife, who live near
Gresham, Wis, left their home to look after
some stock that had strayed away. Dur
ing their absence forest fires spread over
the farm and destroyed the house. Three
small children who had been left alone
perished.
. The Coroner's inquiry In New York City
into the Leona fire horror, by which thir-
teen persons lost their lives at sea- resulted
in verdict by the jury generating the
captain and crew Of the Leona and man
agement OF the Mallory Line from any
blame in the matter.
Judge Gibbons in Chicago pronounced
the American Tobacco Company an illegal
combination and forbade 1t doing business
in Illinois.
Governor Black signed the act changing
the Civil Service system in New York State.
There was q S25, 900 run on the Framing.
ham Savings Bank at South Framingham,
Mass.
Twelve thousand tsilors OF New York
CITY forced their leaders to order them to
strike after they had decided to organize
to avoid strike.
Henry Van Buskirk, of East Stroudsburg,
Penn, fatally shot one Of three men who
attacked his wife, and then received q fatal
wound.
Foreign.
A bill intended to divert German emil
grafton from the United States to South
America passed the Reichstag.
Owing to short coffee crop financial
crisis has arisen in Venezuela, and the
banks refuse all commercial operations.