The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-07-08
Domestic.
RECORD OF TIE LEAGUE CLUBS.

| Per Per
y Clubs. Won. Lnst Ct Club; wo,. Ls''. L. 6, 6,
Boston. 40 IA TAI Brooklyn. .26 % .48l
Baltimore. 36 II .679 Phlladel. .27 80 .474
New York33 20 .629 Louisville 81 SO .39t
Cleveland q q 800 Chicago. 30 IS 1854
Pittsburg .26 ~ .4a1St. Louis.l1 A .2oO
Alvan s. Dillaway, son Of President C. O.
| L. Dillaway Of the Mechanics National
Bank, committed suicide at his home, 80
King street, Dorcester, Mass, by taking q
dose OF m orphine.
At Somerville, Mass, Robert Shaw, aged
sixty, shot his wife three times, fired one
shot at his daughter, which just grazed her
neck, and then turning the revolver on
! himself put bullet into his neck. The
man had been drinking.
A disease which resembles and is de-
clared bylocal veterinarians to be anthrax
has broken out among the cattle on the
farm OF George Mahan, near Sugar Grove,
Penn.
William Dickson, OF Hoboken, y. J., dis
regarded a warning and took hold Of an
electric wire to prove that it was insulated.
He met instant death.
Turnpike raiders in Kentucky burned
four bridges on Richmond and Big Hill
Pike, and two on Big Hill and Berea Pike.
About twenty horsemen are said to have
composed the party. Travel is suspended.
Many houses In Excelsior Springs, No.,
have been washed away and possibly some
lives lost by the heaviest food that section
OF the untry has ever known.
The Keystone National Bank. at Erie.
Penn, closed its doors. It's officers and
stockholders have published statement to
the effect that the bank was making no
money, and they had decided that it was
best for stockholders and depositors for
the bank TO 60 into liquidation.
1t is announced that the price Of Virginia
peanuts will be advanced soon. This Is
owing to the limited supply. The stocks
of shelled nuts in Virginia at the present
time will barely exceed $4,000 bags, as
against 81, 900 last year and 60 900 in 1895.
Fanny Taylor. colored girl, was arrested
BY the Sheriff for having attempted to wreck
trains near Slocumville, r. 1.
Chairman Bynum, OF the National D Democ-
racy, opened headquarters in New York
City. and said that a vigorous campaign
would be waged against free silver.
The San Francisco Chamber Of Com
merce adopted resolutions urging Congress
promptly to annex Hawaii. The resolu-
tions demand annexation on the broad
ground OF national policy, prestige and
commercial necessity.
Lightning struck thehouse Of ]. Bandine,
at Stanwood, Mich, burning 1t to the
ground, killing one child ten years old and
badly burning Mrs. Bandine and child
eight years old.
At Cadillac, Mich, the house of George
Copeland was struck by lightning and his
wife's sister and her little child were in
stantly killed.
William F. Hoey ("Old Hoss") the IA
nous delineator OF the American tramp,
died few days ago in New York City.
The jury at New York City In the To-
bacco Trust case, after being out twenty
one hours, were unable to agree and were
discharged. They stood 10 to for convic-
tion on every ballot.
A dynamite explosion In South Scranton,
Penn. blew up the business block OF Leon
Olchefski, double dwelling block owned
by him and single house owned by
Michael O'Hara. The business black, q
two-story building, was torn. to pieces.
Twenty other houses had all the windows
blown out and plaster torn from the walls.
The shock was felt all over the city. o.
chefski was arrested for arson.
Mrs. F. J. Jackson, who Is wealthy and
OWLS a big laundry and drugstore at
Kansas City, No., was arrested charged
with completely in the murder Of her hus-
band, Frederick J. Jackson. who was shot
several months ago in Mrs. Jackson's apart
ments at the Woodland Hotel by Dr.. J. D.
Goddard, who Is the manager OF Mrs. Jack
sons drug business.
At Leadville, COL, public gambling prob
ably has received its death blow. A posse
OF deputy sheriffs has raided every gamb-
ling establishment in the city, selling tables
and implements worth more than $1,000,
which will be destroyed. All the proprie-
tors OF the gambling houses were arrested.
The raid has caused great sensation, as. it
breaks up an Industry" which has hour
ished here since 1879.
Miss Lille Blais was awakened at Bed
Bud, III, by man who had entered her
room and threatened to kill her unless she
kept quiet. She screamed at the top OF her
voice, and he placed his pistol to her breast
and fred, the bullet inficting mortal
wound.
The Bard Coleman furna nt Cornwall,
Penn, will be put in operation soon. They
have not been In blast for year. The
North Cornwall furnaces, owned by James
c. Freeman, and which have not been
opened for several years, will also be
started up soon.
Harry Gillian, colored man, was taken
from the Monroe County Chfss.) Jail, car.
ried five miles from Aberdeen and hanged
to a tree. He was charged with having
robbed a white woman ct Okolona, and
with having attempted an assault upon
her.
Tube works In and near Pittsburg. Pena.,
have Jus: concluded contracts with the
Australian Government for steel-dvited
pipe. The contract includes 100 miles OF
twelve-inch lap-welded steel pipe and 300
miles OF thirty-inch pipe. 1t Is for the
water supply OF the Koolgardie gold fields.
This Is the largest order on record In this
line.
Franklyn Bassford, marine artist and
yacht designer, killed himself of jersey
CITY, N. j., on the nearly completed La
Rita, a craft he had designed on novel
lines. He was disappointed with the boat.
Robert Taylor, young Englishman, en-
ployed as assistant cashier in a Nassau
street bank, New York City, confessed to
the theft OF s247o.
Guy C. Ledyard, Jr., manager OF the Chi
cago office OF the National Starch Com
pany, committed suicide at the home OF his
father, Chicago, by shooting. Ledyard was
a Yale man and at one time member OF
the Yale ball team. In game he sustained
a broken leg. 1t was badly set and had to
be scraped once a year, and the pain ut
such times was intense.
Colonel F. D. Mussey, a well-known
Washington correspondent, died ct Middle
bury, VT, OF Bright's disease. He was fifty