The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-03-14
DouiHstic.

Dr.WIlliam Tod Helmuth, in delivering
1Istannuai lecture to the class OF 1900 OF
1;het New York Homeopathic College.
ienied that agnosticlsm has been fostered
soy the microscope:
Passenger agents OF the railroads enter
,ng the Northwest from Chicago estimate
hat during the next three months 5000 per-
,ops Will be; taken from Chicago to Cape
Some. in the Alaska gold fields. y
b W. .. Flynn, ,sot the United States Secret
Service at PittsburE ,arrested George Austin
sJn Tam8rdck MonntGfn, Clinton County.
Penn, Tor the tnauufacturs.a and passage OF
counterfeit money. g..
Mrs. Elizabeth Vessels died in Green.
glch, Conn.,, Just a, week after her hus.
>and's funeral She survived him only
,levea days. She was elghty-one years
| I'D. st'f
James Mansen, OF Putnam, Conn, fs sui
erlng from poisoning With mercury, which
{ Is believed was administered in coffee
served 10 his own house.
The Rising Sun TMd.) Postofice was
broken into and robbed Of $500 10 money
md stamps. The thieves escaped. The
Iaie was forced with dynamite.
The Democratic State Committee of In.
LLAMA Fixed June 6 as the date OF the State
Convention. The convention will be held
1t Indianapolis
The Virginia Legislature has made June
}, Jefferson Davls's birthday, a legal holi.
lay In Virginia. -.
Tom Hammond aad G. G. Geary were ar
:ested at Jacksonville, Fla, charged, with
numbering the three members OF the Rob
,rts family ten days ago, and with robbing
hem OF $4,000. .
Mrs. J. A. B. Scully, who married her
orandmother's coachman and recently In
herlted 5000, 900, hns entered suit against
her husband for separation IN the Propate
Court OF Fall River, Mass.
"A severe storm was felt in Northern
Ohio and the upper 1art OF New YORK
State, and In the gale of the New England
coast two coal barges went ashore near
Boston Light.
At Mechanicsville, s. c., James Gardner,
aged ffty-hve, q prosperous merchant,
after making a will leaving all bis property
TO the Young girl who had rejected him,
took stryohnine and died.
Chief Wash A. Kie, OF the Eastern Sho-
shone Indians, died on Wind River reser-
walton, In Wyoming, at the age OF ninety
three. Some time ago he was baptized by
An Episcopal minister. His son will succeed
him.
In one Of the benzola corn OIL tanks at
the plant OF the Decatur Cereal Mill Com.
pany at D ecstur, ILL.,, Edwin c. Vance, the
mananger, and Irving Edgar, one OF the
attendants, met instant death. They were
overcome by the fumes of the benzoa.
Henry @. Miner, who had had success.
full career as theatrical manager aud
owner Of theatres, and former Congress-
man. died suddenly at his home In New
York City.
Jesse Ogerstreet, author Of the House
financial bill, was renominated for Con-
gress from the Seventh Indiana District by
he Republican district cpnvention. The
comination was by acclamation.
The Republicans and Popultsts of Louis
lana are arranging compromise by which
.he vote of the disaffected Democrats OF
The State may be controlled In the State
campaign May next.
A concern in Iowa Is making farm
wagons wholly OF steel. and 1t can scarcely
i'll the orders that pour in from the wheat
growers out in the Dakotas and other parts
3f the West.
The9 Hazleton (Psnn.) authorities have
:aken vigorous steps to suppress the sale
II cigarettes to boys at the public schools.