The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-04-19
Domestic.

The crew OF the battlesh1p Iowa, Wnlcn
ls now on the Pacific Coast, have presented
to Captain Robley D. Evans a handsomt,
sword, accompanied by a letter. The sWore To r
lain Robley D. Evans, U. 8. N, by the crew
Of the q. 8. s. Iowa" On the reverse sid'
sre the words: "ro our hero-Too just to
rake fallen foe's-We give this SWORD In,
stead" Captain Evans has acknowledged
the receipt OF the sword by letter.
Lily Post, the opera singer, is dead ol
heart failure. She was taken to the lnsant
asylum at San Francisco, Cal, by her SOD,
who had trouble In restraining her: On the
day after she was stricken with nears
trouble and died peacefully.
Lieutenant N. C. Twinning, OF the battle
lhip Iowa, was married at st. Stepheni
Church, San Francisco, CAL, to Mrs. Caro-
line s. Baker, OF Washington, d. Q. Tha
bride was given away by her brother-ln'
law, B. W. !. Fox, OF New York.
The State election In Rhode Island re-
yulted in a general victory for the RepuD
loan ticket. Governor Elisha Dyer ts re-
elected, with a decrease OF about 5000 10
bis plurality as compared with last year.
The body Of DR.. Gideon J. Stlvers was
found floating In the river at the loot Of
Seventh street, Louisville, KY, and the
Coroner's jury rendered verdict OF suicide
5y drowning. The suicide OF Dr.. Stivers
was the elimination OF train OF mis-
fortunes that left hia wreck financially
Ind socially.
The mutilated body OF Joe Choung, g
Christian Chinaman, was found under an
oil tauk In st. Louis, Mo. Pinned to the
.Iothing was a note In Chinese characters,
md near bv an empty opium pot, oot9
trademarks Of fHighbinders: A cousin OF
he dead Mongolian identified the body
aud said that he had been pursued oy
Highbinders for year, going from New
Orleans TO San Francisco, and from there
20 st. Louis.
Hannah Gafey, aged twenty-five years
The oldest OF the two Gafey sisters. wht
have been afiicted with leprosy for the lssI
seventeen years, died at her home, thre'
niles from Junction City, Mo. About twt
months ago the Gafey sisters were exam
med by a specialist. who diagnosed they
disease as genuine leprosy. The famil
i've on an Isolated farm, which Is shunnet
oy oil the natives.
George A. Marden. OF Lowell, Mass, ha
:sken the oath OF Office as Assistant Dis
rict Treasurer OF the United States
Boston.
George Ferina. siXty-fve years old,
Elizabeth, N. j., was killed by fast east
bound freight train on the Central Rail-
:oad ut Aldene. He was run down Whil'
crossing the tracks. A widow and sl'
children survive him.
Neil B. Shaw, flfty-ave years old, com
nitted suicide at Buffalo, N. T.. by taktni
.arbolic acid. Shaw had been for severa
,ears employed by the Delaware, Lacka
wana and Western Railroad as CLERK
Sad health and impaired eyesight. inca
oacitatlng him for work, were the causes
Five men working in narrow ditch q
Joplin, Mo-, lost their lives by cave-li
hat caught them from both sides. Fou
81 the men were buried under eighteel
eet of rock. One, named Neigbarger'
vas covered to tho waist and died from
lis injuries before he could be dug out.
Henry Weidman. Tax Collector OF Eliza
beth Township, Penn, committed suicide
BY hanging himself. he was forty-hve
Scars OF age.
w.B. Bryant, manager Of the Southwest
srn telegraph and Telephone Company, at
alllsboro, Texas, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart. The
luditor OF the company was checking up
The Office accounts and discovered short
age In the cash for which Bryant was re:
lponsible. Bryant asked to be excused for
! moment, stepped into an adjoining room
and killed himself. A young wife and lit:
lie baby survive him.
While Dennis Bannon, OF North Tarryi
town. N. Y, was at the cemetery few day!
AGO, at his wifes funeral, his youngest
daughter, who had been Ill only a few days.
lied. 1t is believed that her grief for hei
mother and little sister caused her death.
Her little sister was drowned In John u.
Rockefeller's pond last fall.
Liquor dealers In Indiana paid In feet
md hnes last year s94S,525