The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-09

National bank has no right to deal in stocks.
The United States Supreme Court ad-
journed until October, after rendering a
number of important railroad and other
decisions.
| Domestic.
There IS great boom in Denver, Col,
over gold and silver mining stocks.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hennigge threw her child
from the roof OF three-story house In
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and then jumped
| to the street. The woman was killed in
stantly, but the baby's life was spared. II
fell in q coal box, whence 1t was taken, ap.
parently unharmed by its terrible expert
| ence.
The boiler in a sawmill owned by Joseph
Haney. in Glen Hazel, Penn, blew up, kill
| ing william johnson and a man named
| Schaffer.
Mrs. George Kelsey committed suicide by
drowning near Antwerp, N. Y. She was
bride of only few months, and is sup.
posed to have become despondent, owing
| to i'll health. The place where she killed
herself recently has been the scene OF three
deaths by drowning, two by hanging and
| one by shooting, while two men were acct'
| dentally killed.
Axel Lawson, a travelling produce ped
dler, was held up near Sinclairville, N. T.,
robbed and murdered.
James Raymond, whose body was found
off Randsll's Island, New York City, was
| the tenth member Of his immediate family
to be drowned, and frequently predicted
the manner Of his own death.
In New York City, with the aid Of an
electrical probe bullet was located In the
brain Of Bellevue Hospital patient and
successfully removed
The fishing schooner Joseph E. Johnson,
OF Proyincetown, Mass, lost sixteen men
Of her crew, whose dories became separ-
ated from the ship in fog.
The Judicial Committee Of the Presby-
terian General Assembly, in Eagle Lake
Ind, ordered all Presbyteries to exclude
students Of the Union Seminary from their
care.
Elzer Murray, son of George Murray, a
well-known Georgia farmer, accidentally
shot and killed himself He and his brother
went to the river near their home, in Rome,
late in the afternoon to put in some set
hooks for fishing. Elzer attempted to hand
loaded gun to his brother. keeping the
muzzle turned toward himself. He slipped
and fell, and the gun was discharged into
his body.
Gertie Fisher, aged sixteen, the first wo-
man In Ohio to be convicted OF horse steal
ing, was placed in the State prison, at
Columbus, by the Sheriff OF Clinton County
to serve two years, but she was Immediately
pardoned by Governor Bushnell. She
pleaded guilty. Her accomplice in the
crime, Irwin Shaw, then her lover, was mar.
ried to her in the jail at Wilmington and
then sent to reformatory.
A dwelling house in Burlington, Conn.,.
occupied by Henry Johnson, was burned
and his father-in-law, an aged man named
Gill, lost his life. Two children OF the
johnson family were saved with difficulty.
President Mckinley granted permission
for armed men from the British warship
Pallas to take part in celebration OF the
Queens Birthday at Tampa. Fla.
The town OF Granite, Col, one Of the
oldest mining camps in the State and the
outlet for the Twin Lake district, was al
most DESTROYED by fire. The fire started
in the Granite House. All the principal
buildings in town, except the Denver and
Rio Grande depots, were burned.
The dismissal by the United States Su-
preme Court Of the appeal OF the Gypsy
claimants to the Blythe estate practically
cisco, CAL, for the possession of the $4,000
900 left by the late Thomas Blythe. His
natural daughter. Mrs. Florence Blythe
| Hinckley, gets what lawyers leave OF the
big estate. The share Of the lawyers will
be s2.75O,O 900, thus leaving 1,25O, 900 for the
daughter.
Albert NJ. King, the absconding messen-
ger OF the Boylston Bank, Boston, Mass,
was captured at Pennington, Me-, with
more than $50, 900 in his possession.
Otto KAppling, of Rochester, N. Y,
eighteen years old, while racing on his
| bicycle with train on the Irondequoit
Bay Railroad caught his pedal in the step
Of car and was thrown under the wheels.
he was instantly killed.
Public feeling in Athens against the royal
family is so strong the Crown Prince dares
not return, and an Austrian cruiser has
| been ordered to Phalerum to serve as an
asylum for King George in case Of need.
All news Of the belligerency resolution as
passed by the United States Senate is sup
pressed In Havana, Cuba, the authorities
fearing demonstrations against Americans
should the fact become suddenly known.
Richard NJ. Scruggs, one OF st. Louis's
leading retail drygoods dealers, and E. G..
Langhorne, also a st. Louis merchant,
were arrested in New York City, accused
OF smuggling iewelry, which they claimed
was intended for Sunday school prizes.
! Foreign.
Charges of dishonesty and incompetency
In the administration OF the India Famine
Fund are made public In London.
The Norwegian town of Levander has
been nearly destroyed by fire.
General Horace Porter presented to Pres
ident Faure his credentials as United States
Ambassador to France. He made his ad-
dress in French, upon the insisteace Of the
Frsnch authorities.
The German Reichstag has voted $780,
000 for the improvement Of field artillery.
A company OF Americans has just pur-
chased 10000 acres OF coffee land on the
Rio Tinto in Mexico. It will colonize the
tract with several hundred families Of
Americans.
The Queens birthday was observed off,
cially in London; the ceremony Of trooping
the colors at the Horse Guards parade was
witnessed by many royal personages.
A young artisan, armed with dagger and
revolver, was arrested at Tsarskoe-Selo,
Russia. the Cars summer residence; he
avowed his purpose to kill the Gear.
crowd Of poor people, expecting that
Consul-General Lee would distribute re-