The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23
Domestic.

Three children OF John Hill were purleu
under five tons OF stone at tho unused
Langdon quarry at Montpelier. Vt. Two
OF them were instantly killed and the other
died after being taken out of the debris.
They were aged respectively eight, seven
and four.
Beulah Sanders and Hattie Hill quar-.
relied over a young man at Birmingham,
Ala, and r-puliing fight occurred In
which the Sanders woman was beaten.
She retreated into her house, and when the
Hill girl sought to enter took pistol and
shot her rival through the heart.
Solomon Jones, a negro, was hanged by
a mob near Forest, Ala, for making an at
tack on white woman.
Rear-Admiral Sampson returned to New.
port, R. l., from leave OF absence and
hoisted his flag again on the New York.
Advices have been received at North Bal.
timore, Ohio, Of the drowning at Cooks
Inlet, In the Klondike. .of DR.. A. l.. Lee and
Gideon Kratzer, of thel city, together with
twenty others.
Angry because she left his service as
housekeeper one month ago, John Thomp-
son shot and instantly killed Mrs. Abraham
Campbell at Shamokin, Penn, after which
he shot himself to death. Thompson was
a widower, seventy-three. years old, while
She had husband and several children IN
Sunbury.
Six weeks ago the citizens Of Somervilla,
Westfield, Crawford, and Bound Brook, n.
J., appealed to the postal authorities at
WASHINGTON for the establishment OF free
mail delivery system In their towns. First
Assistant Postmaster General Heath has
replied to the effact that an investigation
made by Inspector Snow does not warrant
the service being established.
Mrs. Kate Cohen. forty-two years old,
died suddenly at the Ocean House, Long
Branch, NJ She bai been dancing in
the ballroom and had stepped to the front
porch when she was stricken. She died In
q few minutes. Her death WAS due to
heart disease. Mrs. Cohen lived In New
York City.
Four thousand postmasters will be invl-
ted to attend the Federal Building corner
stone exercises in Chicago In October. The
list includes the first class postmasters
throughout the country, all the postmas-
ters OF Illinois and some from Iowa, Wis.,
consin and Michigan.
Bishop Thomas 4. Decker, OF the Diocese
OF Savannah died at Washington. Ga. He
went to Washington some time ago to take
charge OF the Smmmer School during the
absence Of Father Riley in Europe.
The aged wife OF John Pritzke was found
dead ut her home, IN North Little Rock,
Ark. Tho body was horribly mutilated,
having been chopped to pieces with an axe.
Near the body sat the husband, who was
in dying condition from wounds inflicted
with an axe. The house had been robbed.
There is no clue to the perpetrators OF the
crime.
The Carpenter Steel Company, OF Read
ing, Penn, has just secured one OF the
largest contracts from the War Depart
ment 1t has yet obtained. There were ten
competitors. 1t will require from eighteen
months to two years Of ateady work to fill
the order. 1t Is fos army shells.
"Generap' Jacob S. Cozey has pur-
chased the old steel plant OF Graft, Ben
nett l. Co., at Millville, near Ptrtsburg,
Penn, aud will remove 1t to Massillon,
Ohio. It Is his Intention to erect q large
open-hearth steel plant at cost OF $780,
600. The new works will give employment
to 800 men.
Lloyd Tevls, one OF the wealthlest AMI
best-known residents OF San Francisco,
dled at o private sanitarium. Mr.. Tevls
was born In shelbyvllie: ky;. on March 20,
1924, and went to California in 184o with
the gold hunters. his fortune Is esti-
mated at S2O, 900, 900.
In the case of Paul Corcoran, charged
with the murder of James Cheyne, in con-
nection with the Wardner strike, whose
trial was held at Wallace, Idaho. the jury
arrived at verdict OF guilty Of murder in
the second degree. Judge Stewart SEN
tenced Corcoran to seventeen years In the
penitentiary. .."-. -
State Inspector and Examiner c. ".
Lester, Governor Bradley's special agent,
who was sent to Clay County to investl-
gate the Clay County feud and make
complete report, returned to Frankfort,
Ky., and fled his report with the Govern
or. Mr.. Lester reports that the feul Is
Mt m end.
The body Of Colonel Robert G.. IhSersoll
was taken to the crenatory at Fresh Pond,
l.. l., and there incinerated. His family
took back the ashes in bronze urn to
their country home at obbs Ferry, N. Y.