The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-18
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

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District-Attorney Backus, Of Kings Coun,
ty, Brooklyn, issued a decree that IMMORAL
shows and swindling games must be ban
lshed from Coney Island.
Vice-President Hobart joined President
Mckinley at Lake Champlain.
Samuel Hoadley, sixty years old, rescued
Professor Willard Humphreys, OF Prince
ton, though his mother, Mrs. W. A. Hum.
phreys, was drowned in Lake George, N. l..
Admiral Sicard's North Atlantic squadron
arrived at Newport, R. l., to take part IN
the fete.
Nelson Dingley, father Of Representative
Dingley, died at his home In Lewiston,
Me. He was eighty years of age. Death
by old age.
A combined observation car and locomo-
tive bearing officials of the New York,
Ontario and Western Railroad struck a
wagon containing eight persons at a dan
yerous crossing, near Rockland, Sullivan
County, N. Y, killing two children and
seriously injuring the other occupants OF
The vehicle.
Pickett's division Of ex-Confederates has
been invited by the Grand Army men Of
Philadelphia to join in a Blue and Gray re-
union on September 18th and 18th next.
Mayor Warwick presided at the meeting
and made a speech.
Miss Lizzie Schumann, Of %Secaucus, N.
J., was found dead in home. Her husband
says she shot herself. She had sued for
divorce and swore he threatened her life.
Officers of the Pennsylvania militia
made every preparation to call out troops
quickly in case of IN outbreak among the
striking coal miners.
The largest gold deposit ever made at
The San Francisco Mint was made a few
days ago-$3, IT'S, 000-of which S775, 900
vas from the Kondike.
The Glucose Sugar refining Company,
With a capital Of $40, 000, 900, was incorpor-
,ted at Trenton, N. J.. F. o. Matthiessen,
If New York, is one OF the incorporators.
A train on the Kansas Pacific Railway
vas wrecked east Of Denver, Col; two
;rainmen were killed and several passengers
injured.
By a unanimous vote the City Council Of
indianapolis, Ind, has passed an ordinance
reducing the price Of gas from 1926 to Is
cents a thousand feet.
The long expected consolidation Of the
Chicago Gas Company was affected IN
Springfield, ILL.,, and the company certified
900 to s25, 900, 900. The consolidated COM
panies will be known as the Peoples Cas-
light and Coke Company.
Mrs. Peter Hauptmann, wife Of the mil
lionaire wholesale tobacconist. was found
murdered in the parlor Of her home, in st.
Louis, Mo. Her throat was cut from ear to
ear. A bloody butcher knife was on the
floor near the corpse. She was murdered
by her maniac daughter.
John Flynn, fourteen years old was struck
over the heart while boxing with Frederick
Treichler, thirteen years old, In Newark,
n. j., and died within O few moments.
Lieutenant Michael Moore, the eldest re-
tired soldier OF the United States army,
died in Brooklyn aged ninety-seVen years.
His boyhood days were passed in the coun-
try near Canal street, New York City, and
he often swan and 1shed in the brook that
formerly ran through Lispenard Meadows.
Just across the Ohio River, from Sisters
Vile, W. Va, o wagon containing sixty
quarts Of nitro-gAycerine dropped into a
hole In the. road and the stuff exploded.
W. A. McCleary, Of Marietta, who was driv-
not a vestlge Of his body was found. Both
horses were blown to pieces.
Tyenty-four members Of the faculty Of
Brown University, Providence, R. l., signed
a remonstrance against the action OF the
corporation which caused President An
drews to resign.
The steamer Willamette, which left San
francisco, CAL, for Alaska with q party Of
gold seekers, broke down when two hun
dred miles out.
Marching bands of strikers succeeded In
inducing more miners to leave work In Penn
sylvania. Governor Hastings prepared
to order out the State militia II any violence
was attempted.
Patrick Dolan, President OF the United
Mine Workers and leader Of the strikers In
Pennsylvania, was arrested on charges Of
melting to riot.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley gave
an informal reception ct their hotel on
Lake Champlain to neighborlng citizens.
Mrs. Augusta Mailer was found dead in
her bedroom in New York City, with a bull
let in her brain. Her husband said she
killed herself after attempting bis life.
At Redwood Falls, Mimi, John O'Con.
nell, q w%ell-known politician, was muir
dered at his farmhouse. Mrs. O'Connell,
the wife Of the murdered man, was the
murderess. The wife's antipathy to drink
was strong, and O'Connell's abuse Of her
and the children while under its influence
appears to have driven her temporarily
insane.
Rev. Mr.. Petit, pastor Of the Memorial
Methodist Protestant Church In South
Camden, N. j., declared from the pulpit
that there were liars and perhaps thieves
among the members OF his church. Almost
q riot followed.
The managers Of the Tennessee Centen-
NAL express qualification at the large at
tendance.
More than one-hali Of the miners in the
Pennsylvania coal mines controlled by ".
P. De Armitt have Joined the striking coal
miners.
At Montgomery, Ala, the ~roundhouse
and railroad shops of the Western Railroad
were destroyed Ivy fire. The ~roundhouse
contained sixteen OF the company's fine To-
comotives, valued at $40 900 each, all Of
which were practically destroyed.
Thomas Hillhouse, who was Assistant
Treasurer OF the United States for many
years, was Acknowledgement during the
war, State Comptroller, State Senator and
President of the Metropolitan Trust Com
pany, died at Yonkers, N. Y.
The jury in the third trial Of Charles W.
Spalding, Treasurer Of the Illinois State
University and President OF the Globe Saw
ings Bank OF. Chicago, returned O verdict Of
guilty on an indictment charging him with
hypothecatlng bonds.
Several great New York City banking
houses are equipping expeditions to search
for gold on the Klondike.
Garrett E. Anderson, a wealthy citizen OF
Brooklyn, who went to Arizona to nurse q
diving son, died Of thirst on the desert near