The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-08
Domestic.

InleVeS rnnSackeu tue Iolner uolle VI
Calvin 8. Brice, In Lima, Ohio, to which 1t
shipped from the Brlce home in New York.
The amount Of goods stolen is not known
Judge Thomas Mittenberger, Of Belle.
days ago and his wife in an unconscious
and dying condition. Escaping gas from a
broken fixture was the cause.
Within sight OF number Of fishermen q
well-dressed man walked out on the Ice In
the lake In Chicago few days ago and,
finding an airhoie, deliberately drowned
himself No clue to his identity has been
found and the body was not recovered.
The engagement OF Miss Clara Fitch, Of
Louisville. KY, to Edwin Stanton Carpen-
ter, OF PlttsburS, Penn, was announced q
few days ago. In the afternoon Miss Fitch
received telegram OF Mr.. Carpenters sud-
den death In New York City.
Ebenezer Havens, aged seventy years,
was killed almost instantly at Rocky Hill,
near Middletown, Conn.,, few days ago,
while cutting ice. Havens was work king on
a machine used to plane Ice. when he sud
denly slipped and fell into it. Both OF bis
legs were severed above the knees and he
died In minute or two later.
Charles Davis was instantly killed and
Iured in cave-in at the Central City
mines, near Joplin, Mo-, few days ago:
Davis was buried under tons Of earth and
rocks. Sullivan had one leg broken. and
Mott had one leg badly bruised and re-
ceived other severe bruises.
According to the death returns filed at
the Health Office, Louisville. KY, a few
days ago, Rosetta Washington died at 135
years of age. Harrietanos Hutchersen.
colored. whose age was reported at 10y
years, died OF pneumonia.
George Panzeter, forty-six years old, a
maltster out OF work, In New York City a
few days ago shot and killed his wife,
Anna, forty years old, and her boarder,
John Goltze, because she refused longer to
support him. Panzeter escaped.
The United States cruiser Marblehead
reached New York port few days ago.
after temptuous voyage from Boston, IN
which she narrowly escaped collision With
the Cunarder Etruria.
The Missouri Senate, at Jefferson City,
has passed house resolution asking Con.
gress to provide for the election OF United
people.
Three persons were burned to death In
the fire which destroyed the Arlington flats
a mail carrier, his wife and their infant
son.
James Pratt, a millionaire Of Hacken-
sack, N. j., a few days ago took out formal
papers OF adoption for a four-year-old
girlin State Institution. Mr.. Pratt has
eleven children OF his own, but he said he
wanted to make the number an even one.
Judge Zabrlskie signed the papers.
At Sneedville, Ark. few days ago, the
home Of Charles Bannistef. a farmer, was
destroyed by FIRE. Three children, aged
seven, nine and twelve, were burned to
death in the flames.
J. W. Jorgepson, eon OF c. E. Jorgenson,
q wholesale furniture manufacturer, OF
Chicago, was arrested few days ago,
charged with cutting of the hair OF Erna
Franskey, thirteen years cid. It Is believed
that Jorgenson has been guilty OF similar
offences during period Of FIVE years past.
s. Odakaki, representing the interests OF
the Mitsui family In Japan, Is in Seattle,
Wash. for the purpose Of securing a num-
Der Of bright American boys to be sent to
Japan and China and educated In Oriental
business methods, with view Of extending
trade with the United States. The Mitsui
family, it Is said, Is the richest in Japan,
and its various interests are capitalized at
over $50, ,000, 900.
The graduating exercises OF the Military
Academy at West Point took place few
days ago. Seventy-two young men received
their diplomas from Colonel A. L. Mills,
the Superintendent. Colonel Mills well
coined the young N en- into the ranks OF the
army. The ceremonies took place in the
Cullum Memorial Hail.
Mary Hubbard. twenty-five years old, OF
Brooklyn, was arrested few days ago on
suspicion Of having killed her two-months-
old baby, which was found dead In bed by
her side, aud was supposed to have been
accidentally smothered.
The New York and the Indiana left the
Port OF New York to join the other vessels
OF the North Atlantic Squadron at Havana
for man9uvSes.
Much damage was done bya heavy rain
In Baltimore.