The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-29
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

rear OF yellow teVer mas practlcdlly ue-
populated Jackson, Miss. There are sew.
eral cases at Edwards, near Jackson
The overdue steamer Excelsior arrived in
San Francisco with sS00,000 in Klondike
gold.
Michael defeated Lesna by $50 yards in
the twenty-mile bicycle race at the Spring
field (Mass:) Bicycle Clubs tournament,
lowering the American record. Arthur
Gardiner, Of Chicago, broke the worlds
record in the one-mile professional handi-
cap.
During the unloading at Glasgow, Scot
land, Of the Allan Line steamship Tower
Hill, the body Of young American was
found deep in the grain. 1t Is supposed
that the young man was shot in with the
grain when the vessel was being loaded in
New York.
There have been no disturbances in the
mining region about Hazleton, Penn, but
the strike Is spreading rapidly.
United States Senator George L. Well
lngton resigned the Craftsmanship Of the
Maryland Republican State Central Com
mittee, thus relinquishing the leadership Of
the party in the State, which he has held
for the past three years.
sJoe" Farnsworth, who shot one Of the
young Hatfelds and tried to kill Miss Alice
Ferguson in Lee County, Virginia, was
found hanging to limb in the Cumberland
Mountains in Kentucky. 1t was evident
that he was lynched, though an attempt
had been made to make 1t appear that he
had committed suicide.
George NJ. Judd, lawyer, was arrested
on a charge Of having stolen $4,000 from
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, Of
New York City, his former employers.
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Committee deposed in 'ob Worth as leader
and unqualifledly indorsed Seth Low.
Miners in Eckley, Penn. were forced to
stop work by strikers before troops sent
from Hazleton to head them off reached
the place.
The public schools Of New York City
opened at the close Of the summer vaca-
tion. 1t is estimated that 900 children
out of total OF 225, 900 applied for admis-
sion. The crowding was less than usual.
The Rev. &c. F. B. Howard" notorious
swindler, escaped from the Ohio Peniten-
tiary.
Charles Gibson, a colored man, who had
murdered another colored man was lynched
by q Georgia mob near Macon, not for the
murder but for an assault committed on o
white woman.
The second great drought OF the season
Is being seriously felt In Indiana. It Is ac-
companied by unusually high temperature,
prevalent all over the State. Throughout
Central Indiana corn is prematurely ripen-
ing, fields are burning brown, and fall seed
ing is seriously retarded. The same is gen.
erally true throughout the State. In many
localities the limited water supply Is giving
much concern. farmers being put to great
embarrassment for needful supplies.
On her trial trip in New York Harbor the
machinery Of the new torpedo boat Rodgers
went to pieces and five men were seriously
scalded. among them Chief Engineer J. r.
Edwards.
Three prisoners on Blackwell's Island,
New York City. tried to escape by swim
ming the East River. A ferry-boat pursued
two, one Of whom was drowned obeying his
eomrade, who ordered him not to touch q
life-buoy under penalty Of death.
Judge Augustus H. Fem, OF the Supreme
Court OF Connecticut died in Wlnsted.
The Enchanted Mesa in New Mexico has
been climbed again, and evidences OF civ
ilizaton have been found on the summit by
F. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian Institu.
tion. Professor Libbey, who made the as
cent in early summer, reported no signs oi
early occupancy.
Mark Hanna opened his Senatorial cam
paign in Ohio at Burton, a small village
without railroad or telegraph line, max
ing his first stump speech. Senator Foraker
also spoke.
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn
his resignation from the presidency oI
Brown University.