The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-09-13
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Two colored women have sued Chicago
! theatre for an alleged refusal to allow
them to occupy seats they had purchased
,or matinee performance.
Twenty-six skilled American mechanics
sailed Oh the steamer Majestic to work on
! bridge to be erected near Rangoon, In
British India, by an American company.
Mrs. Lucy Williams, who Is believed to
have been the oldest woman In Connecti-
cut, died at Uncasville few nights ago,
| aged 103 years.
John I. Blair, the founder and public
oenefactor OF Blairstown, N. j., was ninety
seven years old Tuesday, and the towns
people observed the day fttingly. Most OF
The stores were closed for the day.
The Ramapo Water Company has secured
options on a large part Of the Catsklll re-
| sion as watershed. 1t has filed maps In
| Greene and Ulster Counties.
Three tramps stealing ride on freigh t
rain that left Marshalltown, Iowa, shortly
| after midnight, shot and killed Brakeman
J.E. Wilson aud Conney Matthews and
threw their bodies under the wheels.
John Landauer, a marrie1 man, killed
| ifteen- -year-old Josephine Engel In va
can't lot in New York City and committed
suicide.
John Paula farmer of Logansport, Ind,
recently returned from Chicago, where he
took treatment at an alcoholic institute,
1rove seven fine hogs TO the woods, shot
them with rifle and cremated the cnr.
casses on bush heap. He had declined n
good price for the hogs, saying that they
were possessed Of the devil and must be
sacrificed.
Some one murdered John Conors, an
Olneyville (R. ~ weaver, thirty-fve years
old, and laid his body twenty feet from a
railroad crossing In Webster Mass, taking
extraordinary pains to disguise the nature
OF the crime. Both the ears had been
clipped off,
William J. Bryan declared In Omaha,
Neb., that he had never said the money
question should be relegated to the rear,
and that he had never thought OF COM
promise.
SQUAD Bolin, negro lodged in jail ct
Fulton, KY, on a charge OF highway rob-
berry and attempted murder, was taken out
and ly nched by a mob OF masked white
men.
Suit for 81, 900 900 damages was brought
against the Westinghouse Air Brake Com
oany by the New YORK Air Brake Company.
Conspiracy Is alleged to have Injured the
business OF the latter.
Two bridges over the Chicago River at
chicago nave D6SQ clOSeu tO LEautC, ooNSa
others condemned as dangerous and two
more labeled Every suspicious"
Armstrong Taylor and John Alfred
Brown were hanged at Rockville, Md, for
the murder OF aged Louis Kosenstetn and
bis wife. The motive OF the crime was
robbery. The hanging was horrible
botch. Taylor declared on the scanold
that Brown vas innocent.
A syndicate proposes to organize Ma
:Ional Cotton Mill Trust with capttaltza-
tion OF S135, 900, ,0OO The Hide and Leathe
Trust has been organized with capital or
$50 600, 900.
A pugillst named "Jlm" Frauey died In
San Francisco, after being Knocked out by
Frank McConnell In the fourteenth round
Of q prize fight.
The Continental Match Factory, at Pas
sale. N. j., recently sold by Edwin Gould
% the Diamond Match Company, has been
closed, and the 200 hands have been dis
charged.
It is reported from the West that pro-
nounced shortage OF cattle has prevailed
for some time on the ranges. Not herd
Is left in Nevada and Utah. The grass
there Is d complete failure this year.
Bows exploded ton OF dyn mite by
building q bonfire near the shed where 1t
was stored in Harlem, New York City;
windows were broken for blocks around
and a number OF persons injured, one per-
haps fatally.
The State Department is advised from
Yokohama OF the formation OF an Ameri-
can Asiatic Association there, to guard the
interests OF American citizens In japan.