The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-21
DOMESTIC.


"Phir' Weinseimer resigned the pres
idency Of the Building Trades Alliance
and William P. Mason. a stonecutter,
was elected his successor.
A policeman was stabbed by a gang
of pickpockets in Washington Square,
New York City.
Edward P. Bryan, general manager
of the New York City marlborough
Rapid Transit Company. consented to
meet in conference representatives OF
the b~rotherhoods Of locomotive engi-
neers and iremen.
The final splicing of the Se~attle-Sitka
Government cable was made on Seat
tie.
A gas explosion wrecked a two-story
building at Cass Lake, Mimi, used as
a saloon, and the proprietor was taken
from the ruins fatally hurt.
-Four persons We're badly hurt in q
collision between passenger and
freight trains on the Texas and Pacific
Railway near Fort Worth, Tex.
Admitting his guilt after his arrest,
William F. Fuller, bookkeeper Of the
Second National Bank, Of Baltimore,
Md, was committed to Jail for steal
ing $500 from the bank.
The bursting of a rendering vat at
the Dalton Packing Company's plant
ut Negaunee, Mich, fatally scalded
two employees.
Following a quarrel, Assistant City
Solicitor Harry e. Payer was seriously
stabbed in the neck at Cleveland, Ohio,
by his father-in-laW, Thomas Graves.
Connecticut Populists at their State
convention instructed q committee to
place a full ticket in nomination.
The Archbishop of Canterbury ar
rived in New York City on the Celtic
and was greeted by Bishop Potter, the
Rev. Morgan Dix and Dir. j.. Pierpont
Morgan.
A Baltimore and Ohio engine
plunged into the Potomac River at
Luke, Md, and Fireman L. r. Kooken
was killed.
In a head-on collision of trolley cars
at Pittsford, N. Y, thirty-fve persons
were hurt, but one fatally.
It was announced that there we're
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Bronx, New York City.
DR.. Edmond J. James. president Of
Northwestern University. has been
elected president of the University OF
Illinois.
A Santa Fe passenger train was
ditched near Topeka, Kan, and four
people were injured, one fatally.
Visiting Austrian merchants and
manufacturers expressed establishment
at the development of the technical
arts as applied to every day hfe which
they see in New York City.
The New York Grand Jury indicted
two striking butchers for rioting.
Magistrate Richard C. Folk was shot
and killed at Providence. S. c., by
County Supervisor ". H Beale. after
a quarrel.
The house Of a nop-union miner at
Dolomite. Ala, was wrecked by dyna-
mite, the first violence in connection
with the miners strike in the Birmins-
ham district.
Wash-outs in the desert east Of Bag,
dad, CAL. have caused great damage
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad.
Three of the Morse oil wells, at Jen.
nings. La. were set on fire by friction
in the pipes, and fears were enter.
tanned for the whole field.
Writs were issued for the arrest OF
twenty-eight Cripple Creek tCol.) citi.
zens for their participation in the de-
porting of the union men and sympa.
thizers.
The Exposition officials at st. Louis,
Mo-, deny that there is any thought OF
opening the Fair gates on Sunday.
An inspector from Washington, D.
c.. has been Investigating alleged i-
Irregularities in the postottice at Limo
leumville. S. I.
Drawing for the Fort Totten Indian
reservation lands began at DeviPs
Lake, n. D.