The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-05-03
Domestic.

| Omaha, in contempt and fined them f2oO
| each for ejecting Edward johnson from
reeistration booth in the face OF restrain
| ing order.
To Lieutenant Stokely Morgan, OF
Dewey's flagship Olympia, has been pre-:
sented beautiful sword by the citizens OF
| Camden, Ark. his home.
Judge Schuyler, at Easton, Penn, SEN
| fenced Llewellyn Stout, the murderer OF
Harvey Wurster, the Philadelphia and
Reading telegraph operator, to be hanged.
Date OF execution will be fixed by the Gov
srnor.
Little Mary Dutour, while playing in a
field near her house in Bound Brook, N.
J., stepped in nest of copperhead snakes.
Not knowing what they were, she called
DER mother, who was Mortified to see
large number Of the poisonous reptiles
crawling about. Luckily they were still IN
dormant state. Help was called and
nineteen Of them were killed. The rest
escaped
Edna J. Morrow, the ten-y year-old daugh-
ter Of Samuel T. Morrow, of Elizabeth, N.
J., died as the result OF injuries received
from schoolmate O month ago, on the
anniversary Of her birthday. She attended
public school, and boy named Lentz, fol-
lowing q custom among the school chill
iren, struck her twenty blows on the arm
two for each year Of her ago. The blows
frame. Three days later her arm stiffened
and abscesses formed. She died from blood
poisoning.
Edwin OKeefe wire worker employed
In the mill Of the Seymour Manufacturing
| Company, at Derby, Conn, was killed while
at work few days ago. He was feeding
| 4 set OF rolls and wore mitts OF kurlaps to
protect his.hands. One mitt was caught by
the wire as It passed into the rolls.
O'Kesfe's hand, arm and body were drawn
forward and crushed by the rolls, stopping
The machinery. His death was almost in
,tantaneous. rs leaves vile and four
children.
Christian Trobitz, a retired soldier and
until recently O member OF Company E,
Engineers, at West Point, N. Y, committed
Temporary insanity Is assigned as the
cause. He was sixty-seven years OF age
and leaves wife and three little girls. He
was member Of the Grand Army.
The United States Commissioner at Kan
,as City, Mo-, decided that Santiago Nor
ply, charged with embezzling 900 from
:he National Bank OF the City OF Mexico
should be turned over to the Mexican of-
acals vino followed him there.
The Two Hundred and Second New
York Volunteers, Colonel Seyburn COM
manding, have been mustered out OF the
service at Savannah, Ga.
At North Birmingham, Ala, four girls.
ranging in age from six to eleven years,
we're playing on the Southern Railway
track when a westbound train approached.
The girls ran on trestle instead OF getting
of the track. The train struck them, kill.
ing two instantly and seriously .iDjurinG
the others.
While engaged In clearing a snowslide
from the track on the Great Northern
Railroad, near Seattle, WASH, big rotary
plow with a crew OF five men was struck
by an avalanche and hurled down the
mountain distance of 1000 feet, killing
one and mortally injuring three others.
The man killed is A Lingrem. Those
fatally Injured we're George Adams, George
Heart and Thomas Grant.
William S. Pearson, who brought the
frst overland mail by stage to San Fran
cisco, died ut the age OF seventy-seven.
He went to San Francisco from New Hamp-
shire in 1e49 and became famous as stage
line owner In Nevada. When the stages
supplanted the pony express, Pearson
brought the first mall through to San
Jose.
Mrs. Emma West, widow OF DR.. John
West, fell dead few days ago on the
grave Of her husband, In Green Mount
Cemetery, York, Penn.
Frank G. Jennings, proprietor OF the
Jennings Hotel, Rochester, N. Y. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself In the
head. No cause for the act is known.
The movement to change the law so
hat United States Senators from Massa-
chusetts shall be elected by popular vote
was defeated In the Senate by vote OF
II toe.
At villa twenty miles north OF Fort
Wayne, Ind, Walter Goodrich, aged
nineteen, fatally shot his brother Wallace,
aged thirty-fve, and then blew his brains
out. The brothers had qnarreled over who
should hitch up horse, and the shooting
was the result.
Captain McClusky, OF the New York City
Police, received from proprietary medi.
cine manufacturer letter signed Roland
Molineux," asking for drugs, and which Is
written on tha same kind Of paper as the
Cornish and Barnet letters. The police
say it is in the accused mans natural
hand writing and that it completes the
case against him.