The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Domestic.
RECORD OF TIE LEAGUE CLUBS.

Boston 40 IA TAI Brooklyn. 26 20 .4s1
Baltimore.36 II .679tPhiladel. .27 80 .44
O~inoinrati3S II $50 W'shing'n22 81 .415
New YorS93 20 1928 Louisville 81 80 1896
Cleveland 81 81 800 Chicago. 20 IS 1864
PIttsburc .26 II .43lSt. Louis.11 A 200
Alvan S. Dillaway, son Of President c. O..
L. Dillaway of the Mechanics National
Bank, committed suicide at his home, so
King street, Dorcester, Mass, by taking q
dose or morphine.
At Somerville, Mass, Robert Shaw, aged
sixty, shot his wife three times, fired one
shot at his daughter, which just grazed her
neck, and then turning the revolver on
himself put 6 bullet into his neck. The
man had been drinking.
A disease which resembles and is de-
ciared bylocal veterinarians to be anthrax
has broken out among the cattle or the
farm Of George Mahan, near Sugar Grove,
Penn.
William Dickson, Of Hoboken, NJ, dis
regarded a warning and took hold or an
electric wire to prove that it was insulated.
He met instant death.
Turnpike raiders In Kentucky burned
four bridges on Richmond and Big Hill
Pike, and two>on Big Hill and Berea Pike
About.twenty horsemen are said to have
composed the party. Trayel Is suspended.
Many houses in Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
have been washed away and possibly some
lives lost by the heaviest food that section
Of the country has ever known.
The Keystone National Bank, at Erie.
Penn, closed it's doors. It's officers and
stockholders have published q statement to
the effect that the bank was making no
money, and they had decided that 1t was
best for stockholders and depositors for
the bank to go into liquidation.
It is announced that the price Of Virginia
peanuts will be advanced soon. This Is
owing to the limited supply. The stocks
OF shelled nuts in Virginia at the present
time will barely exceed $4,000 bags. as
against $4,000 last year and 5000 in 1895.
Fanny Taylor, a colored girl, was arrested
blythe Sheriff for having attempted wreck
trains near S~locumville, RI.
Chairman Bynum, Of the NatlonalD emoc-
racy, opened headquarters in New York
City, and said that a vigorous campaign
would be waged against free silver.
The San Francisco Chamber OF Com
merce adopted resolutions urging Congress
promptly to annex Hawaii. b resolu-
tions demand annexation on the broad
ground of national policy, prestige and
commercial necessity.
Lightning struck the house Of J. Bandine,
at Stanwood, Mich, burning 1t to the
ground, killing one child ten years old and
badly burning Mrs. Bandine and q child
eight years old.
At Cadillac, Mich, the house OF George
Copeland was struck by lightning and his
wife's sister and her little child were In
stantly killed.
William F. Hoey ("Old Hoss") the IA
nous delineator Of the American tramp,
died a few days ago In New York City.
The jury at New York City in the To-
bacco Trust case, after being out twenty
one hours. were unable to agree n were
discharged. They stood 10 to 2 for convic-
tion on every ballot.
A dynamite explosion In South Scranton,
Penn, blew up the business block OF Leon
OIchefski, double dwelling block owned
Michael O'Hara. The business black, O
two-story building, was torn to pieces.
Twenty other houses had all the windows
blown out and plaster torn from the walls.
The shock was felt all over the city. o.
chefski was arrested for arson.
Mrs. F. J. Jackson, who Is wealthy and
OWLS q big laundry and a drugstore at
Kansas City, Mo-, was arrested charged
with completely IN the murder OF her bus
band, Frederick J. Jackson. who was shot
several months ago in Mrs. Jackson's apart
ments at the Woodland Hotel by Dr.. J. D.
Goddard, who Is the manager OF MIS-. JACK
sons drug business.
At Leadville, Col, public gambling prob
ably has received its death blow. A posse
of deputy sheriffs has raided every gamb-
ling establishment in the city, Selling tables
and implements worth more than $1,000,
which will be destroyed. All the proprie-
tors OF the gambling houses were arrested.
The raid has caused a great sensation, as 1t
breaks up an "industry" which has Hour
ished here since 1879.
Miss Lille Blais was awakened at Red
Bud, ILL.,, by O mar who had entered her
room and threatened to kill he unless she
Kept quiet. She screamed at the top OF her
voice, and he placed his pistol to her breast
and fired, the bullet inflicting q mortal
wound.
TIL Bard Coleman furnaces at Cornwall,
Penn, will be put in operation soon. They
have not been in blast for a year, Inc
North Cornwall furnaces, owned by james
C. Freeman, and which have not been
opened for several years, will also be
started up soon.
Harry Gillian, a colored man, was taken
from the Monroe County CMiss.) jail, car
ried FIVE miles from Aberdeen and hanged
to a tree. He was charged with having
robbed a white woman at Okolora, n
with having attempted an assault upon
her.
Tube works In and rear P%ittsburg. Penn,
have lust concluded contracts with the
Australian Government for steel-rivited
pipe. The contract includes 100 miles CT
twelve-inch lap-welded steel pipe and 900
miles OF thirty-inch pipe. It Is for the
water supply Of the ~Koolgardie gold helds.
This Is the largest order on record In this
line.
Franklin Bassford, marine artist and
yacht designer, killed himself of Jersey
City, N. j., on the nearly completed La
Rita, a craft he had designed on novel
lines. He was disappointed with the boat
Robert Taylor, q young Englishman, m
ployed as assistant cashier in o Nassau
street bank, New York City, confessed to
the theft OF s247O.
Guy c. Ledyard, Jr.. manager Of the Chi"
cago office Of the National Starch Com
pany, committed suicide at the home OF his
father, Chicago, by shooting. Ledyard was
a Yale man and at enc lime a member OF
the Yale ball team. In a game he sustained
O broken leg. 1t was badly set and had to
be scraped once q year, and the pain at
such times was intense.
Colonel F. D. Mussey, a w%ell-known
Washington correspondent, died at Middle
bury, Vt. of Bright's disease. He was fifty
one years old.
derrick on the roof Of a new building
at Atlanta, Ga, fell, knocking three work
men from a scaffoldiag en- the ninth story.
Two OF them were dashed to instant death
on the ground, 125 feet below, and the
third was saved in m almost miraculous
way. The killed are Pail letta Ayres and
Charles Kargill, colored.
Augusta Garrison and Frank Jones are
dead and Thomas Jones, the latter's brother,
il dying, rs the result of a shooting in front
of the Methodist Church at Pleasant Valley,