The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-11-29
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It is feared that the Government stores
OF winter clothing consigned to the two
companies Of military at Fort Gibbon
| (Weare on the Yukon) will not reach the
| troops this winter, In which case tho men
will suffer severely. It Is believed the goods
! reached st. Michael too late to be sent up
| the river.
It is learned at San Francisco. CAL, that
during the typhoon encountered 6y the
transport Siam, on the way to Manila, $50
horses were killed by being stampeded. and
that their dead bodies could not be thrown
overheard for four days.
Alonzo J. Whiteman and three OF the
gang OF five men said to be the cleverest
Eank swindIers In the country. are under
arrest In New York City, while the other
member OF the quintet has been caught In
Plttsburg.
The Municipal Assembly OF Greater New
York met In joint session aud adopted the
budget for 1900, $50, IT'S, ,s72.4s, the amount
to be raised by taxation being sso,OOO,OO 600.
Four zlnc-lined trunks. suoh as are used
by travelling men to carry samples, each
containing dead body, were taken from
the baggage room at Union Station at st.
Louis, No., and Frank Thompsou,a brother
Di E. D. Thompson, city undertaken OF
Memphis Tenn, Is under arrest.
Tammany Hall in New York City pledged
$40, 1000 to complete the fund needed to
save the home OF Charles Stewart Parnell
In Ireland from foreclosure sale.
W. F. Bell, Assistant Postmaster at
Exemor, Va, was arrested by Inspector
Maxwell for issuing bogus money orders
to the amount Of S1400 to defray his per-
sonal expenses. Former Postmaster j. A.
Smith was placed in charge OF the office.
A Mormon circular placed in the hands
OF the Rev. s. Shar rett, ninety-one years
old and an inmate Of the Monroe County
CTenn.) Poor Asylum, changed his religious
views. Sharrett and five female patients
OF the institution escaped, leaving note
that they would walk to Utan.
A fall OF coal at the Eddy Creek Mine
Olyphant, Penn, crushed three miners.
One OF them, Stanislaus Woslopki, was
taken out dead, aud the others, John Null
ligan and Michael Woslopki were badly in
jured.
Tho transport Indiana with a Tennessee
regiment arrived at San Francisco, CAL,
from Manila after an uneventtul voyage.
The regiment, as 1t comes home, conslsts
OF fourteen officers and 610 men.
Clarence Durrell, son ofBanker JIG. Bur.
rell, was instantly killed by IN explosion OF
dynamite which wrecked the bank building
at Urbana, Iowa. There Is no known cause
10f tue 64ElOSlOn, Out Cuo dutuorltloo dl
working on the theory that 1t was done by
incendiaries.
The Michigan Central passenger train
running from Toledo to Detroit, wac
wrecked between Alexis and Vienna, Mich.
The rails, which had been loosened by
wreckers, spread under the weight Of the
train, plunglng 1t into the ditch. Three
persons were fatally injured. Fifteen or
twenty other passengers were bruised, and
some Of them had slight wounds.
Sam Brock, an aged farmer living near
Owenton, KY. mistook his son for burg
lar and stabbed him, inflioting a wound
from which he died. Brock has disap-
peared.
Mrs. Sarah C. King, sixty years old, was
murdered In lonely farmhouse seven
miles from Stamford, Conn. Charles Bert
ram Cross, seventeen years old. the hired
man on the farm, Is under arrest as the
murderer.
Articles OF Incorporation for the Tele.
phone, Telegraph and Cable Company OF
America, with a capital Of $50 900 900, were
filed at Trenton, N. J. The new concern Is
controlled by the Whitney syndicate and
will fight the Bell company.