The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-01
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

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Bait. SO 80 .677!Louisv'le 43 IS .439
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NV York57 SO .6l3 Wash'n. 3S 81 400
Clevepd. so A .532 Brooklyn 3S 81 400
Chicago AT 81 .4S0 st. Louis.26 u .265
Jane and Minerva Young, sisters-in-Iaw,
who live with their husbands on Beech
Ford, KY, bad a battle at the family spring.
Minerva, true to her war-like name, was
armed with big knife. Jane was armed
with a club. They fought for fifteen min
utes. Minerva welded her knife skillfully,
and after cutting Jane in dozen places
followed her work by stabbing her in the
breast. Jane died an hour later.
Pig iron in Cleveland, Ohio, has ad-
vanced from 1925 to $3.50 for future de-
livery.
Statistican Neill, of New Orleans, says
the outlook this year is for cotton crop
of at least 9,750,OOO bales, conceding o
short crop in Texas.
George Leuthhauser, q Brooklyn elec-
trician, was killed by current Of 2400
volts in Unionport On. W power house.
The injunction against the striking coal
miners near Pittsburg, Penn, has been
made permanent, forbidding marching and
trespass.
Private J. H. Williams, OF the United
States Marine Corps, at Charlestown, Mass,
committed suicide.
High officials of the Pennsylvania and
Reading Railroad Companies said that the
demand for cars was so great that it
threatened car famine,
There is great enthusiasm at Rome. N. Y,
overt the success Of the new gas wells, and
four more wells will be drilled at once.
At Middletown. N. Y, Austin, the eleven
year-old son of George w. Decker Jr., OF
Warwick, was shot and instantly killed.
Austin and his nine-year-old brother
secured a revolver and loaded shotgun.
The gun was placed on a bed. The trigger
caught in the bedclothes. which the
younger boy pulled, and the gun was dis
charged, the shot passing through Austin's
windpipe.
Receivers were appointed for the Massa-
chuse:ts Benefit Life Association, OF Bos-
ton.
At Jacksonville, Fla, the situation in re-
gard to the floating hyacinths Is growing
serious. The decayed vegetation blocks
the river front, and navigation is greatly
impeded. An epidemic OF fever is threat
ened. There is movement on foot to ap-
peal to the State Board Of Health.
May Anderson, arrested for the sale Of
forged Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mile
age books, has been sentenced to pay fine
OF $500 and costs and to serve six months
In Cleveland, Ohio. II her fine be not paid
she will remain in prison four years. The
woman wept bitterly when sentence was
passed, and shrieked as she was taken
from the court room.
Mine operators in the Pittsburg Penn.)
district said they would open their mines
at all hazards, and would use Gatling
guns to protect their Workmen against
strikers.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has dis
charged 500 city employees in batch.
A sensational meeting of Anarchists In
which murder was applauded was held in
New York City with police present.
william c. Wilson, proprietor Of Will
sons Circulating Library in Philadelphia,
was murdered at his place Of business by
robbers, who made their escape after COM
mitting the murder and looting the office.
One OF the first effects Of the pronounced
public sentiment against lynching is re-
ported from Walker County, Georgia. where
Colonel Jones saved the life Of Will Phillips,
who had assaulted his daughter, and turned
him over to the authorities for punishment.
There was wild scramble in New York
City to buy wheat, and every available
steamship around New York had been en-
gagged for shipments abroad.
George l.. Fish, who has just returned to
San Francisco, reports intense suffering
among the gold seekers at Dyea, Alaska.
The report Of the Enrolment Committee
Of the Citizens Union showed 100000
Greater New York voters pledged to sup
port Seth Low for Mayor.
Storms did much damage around New
York City. Lightning struck in many Sec
tions OF New Jersey and Connecticut.
Frank Hinkey, formerly prominent
football player at Yale. rescued eight men
from drowning in the Niagara River at
Edgewater, N. Y.
Three women cyclists ran down John
Fossett, aged seventy-two, in Buffalo, N.
Y, and rode away before their names could
be learned. FosSett died OF his injuries.
Captain Allen, of the Whale Rock Light,
of Narragansett Pier r. l., had u desper.
ate fight with his rum-crazed assistant.
The striking miners In various States, in
obedience to the District President, gave
up marching.
An unknown white man assaulted and
attempted to murder Mrs. Daniel Has
colt and her thirteen-year-old daughter, in
Chickamauga Park, eight miles from Chat
tanooga, Tenn. The Sheriff was telegraphed
for, and with posse and bloodhounds
went to the scene. The dogs at once took
the trail and the man was captured and
lynched, being hanged to Il tree within ten
feet Of the monument erected to the
Eighty-nnth Illinois Regiment.
Charles Russell, of New York City, while
trying to avoid running down child with
his bicycle in Brooklyn was thrown to the
roadway and killed. The child was un-
hurt.
The yacht Mono won the first race in
the series for the Seawanhaka-C -Corinthian
trophy on Lake st. Louis, beating the
Canadian boat Glencairn II.
A fire, due to lightning, caused damage
amounting to 5000, 900 in Baltimore, Md.
The final heats of the National regatta on
the Schuylkill, at Philadelphia, were rowed
in the presence Of 81. 900 people. Mcguire,
OF Cambridge, Mass, won the seniors ingles;,
and Lewis, OF Worcester, Mass, the inter.
mediate. Four Of the crew events were.
won by PHILADELPHIA clubs, and one each
by the Argonauts, Of Toronto, and the In
stitutes, OF Newark.
Congressman Ashley B. Wright dropped
dead ut his homo at North Adams, Mass.
He represented the First Massachusetts, Dis.