The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-14
Domestic.

mortgage was recorded at the heSlStfy
OF Deeds in Salem, Mass, for 800, 600, 900
New York to the Farmers Loan aud Trust
Company to secure an issue Of bonds. The
document covers forty-two printed pages.
The House at Hartford, Conn, rejected
all bills conferrinc on women the same
rights OF suffrage as men enjoy.
bill was introduced in the Kentucky
Legislature providing for the branding OF
convi cted burglars on each cheek.
The United States battle ship Iowa was
docked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and in
preliminary spin off Sandy Hook reached q
speed Of Is knots an hour, under natural
draught.
The New jersey Legislature adjourned at
Trenton. Appropriation bills were passed.
as we'll as measures to change the day for
elections now held on Monday to Tuesday,
and authorizing Asbury Park to purchase
beach front.
Comptroller Roberts's Graduated Inherit
ance Tax bill was passed by the New York
State Assembly. ,1S1 to 0.
John O'Sullivan, a railroad agent at Com
stock. N. Y, and william Huyck. store
keeper, were drowned in Wood Creek near
Wooden Lock. The men were on their way
home in a carriage, and 1t is supposed that
into the creek.
Two Chicago workmen who did not move
promptly when fuse was lighted in theil
blasting operations. were killed and foul
more were seriously injured.
Four incendiary fires at Altoona, Penn,
indicate concerted efforts to destroy the
town.
Fire DESTROYED two wards at the State In.
sane Asylum for the Insane on Wards Island,
New York City. The 1870 patients marched
out as II merely practising fire drill, and
watched the flames until they are put out by
the island flremen, aided by company from
New York. The fire did S20,0U0 damage.
The American Tobacco Company has sent
out circulars to its jobbers announcing the
abandonment OF the factor system In selling
its products to consumers. So many laws
have beer passed In the various States
against this factor agreement that it was
decided litigation to test the constitution
Seven e1-county officials and well-known
citizen we're indicted at Butler, Ind, for
stealing $50, 900 from the county.
United States Torpedo Boat No. 7, the
Dupont, was launched at Bristol, R. I. Miss
Converse, daughter Of Commander Converse,
christened the vessel.
A tornado destroyed the town Of Chandler.
Oklahoma. A dozen or more persons were
killed and probably $50 persons were badly
injured.
The loss of three lives in a fiat house at 81
West 105th street, New York City, was prob
ably due to delay in sending IN an alarm.
Three victims were found after the fire was
extinguished. They we're Nellie Morrissey,
forty years old, Of Albany; Mrs. Elizabeth
French. twenty-three years old, and Mrs.
French's three-months-old daughter, Fidele.
The Master Steam Filters Association, OF
New York City, looked out 1900 filters and
helpers who refused to sign u new agree
ment.
Near Pryorsburg. Ky, John Hollifsld and
Will Eads were instantly killed at railroad
crossing by an Illinois Central "cannon
ball. train.
A large break occurred In the Mississippi
levee near Greenville, Miss.
The Ohio Board Of Pardons declined to in
terfere in the case Of William Hass, the boy
murderer, and he will be the first to die In
,, the electric chair In that State unless
the Governor interferes-
Archibald Campbell, a jockey, committed
suicide, it is believed, In rowboat of Rob-
bins Reef, New York Harbor. by shooting
himself through the head. His body was
picked up by a tugboat Captain.
william T. Adams, famous as "Oliver OPP
tic" the writer OF stories for boys and girls,
died in Dorchester, Mass. He was seventy
| five years old, and was teacher in public
| schools lor twenty years before he wrote his
| first book.
double drowning happened at McKee's
Rocks, suburb OF Pit:sburg. Penn. when
| Willie Dewalt, Ave years old. and Elmer, his
brother, ten years Of age, were carried off by
| the swollen Charters Creek 10 almost instant
death. The little fellows, on their way home
from Sundsy-school, stopped to play on the
| creek bank.
Latimer E. Jones, who has been wanted
for ten years on nineteen indictments
charging him with forgery to the amount of
$3.50, 900, arrived at New York from England
In charge of u detective.
Benjamin Il. Bevan, aged twelve years,
one of the eight boys bitten at Scranton.
Penn, by mad dog three weeks ago, died
from hydrophoba.
The coal field Of Jackson County, Ohio,
has been sold to a London syndicate for "a :
1000.
Colonel A. C. Tyler's house Mt New Lon
don. Conn. THE Ems," was destroyed with
its contents, the total loss being about $780,
900.