The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-12-30
Domestic.

Domestic.
~ Martin Rood, O watchman in q store at
Canaan, Conn.,, attacked six burglars and
| captured four, two Of whom he had shot
| own.
fapan's new war ship, Chitos, will soon
beSfnished at the San Francisco (Cal.)
woAks.
ANlersen, the cook OF the schooner Olive
PecA'r, was convicted Of murder at Nor
folk, Va, and sentenced to be hanged.
A Navy snowstorm prevailed in the
northeNa and western parts OF New YORK
A Chrftmas rabbit hunt for the poor in
Monroe \ounty, Missouri, netted 5000 ami
mails.
Amid gA'at excitement the Illinois House
| OF Represd tatives passed the Republican
! Senatorial lkpportionmen bill with only
two votes tN spare.
In the SuAene Court in Brooklyn jury
! awarded Joh\ J.Lewis $1,000 damages for
| injuries recei&din the Merrick road dis
aster. BewisS though his guardian, be-
| gan suit AGAIN. t tle Long Island Railroad
| Company for Ss5A, 900. This is the first
suit brought by p survivor Of the disaster.
The leading bhcrt manufacturers have
| announced @mIltaneous advance In
| prices. indicatinA tint the proposed s55,-
, 600. 900 combinaN ON among them is prac-
tically accomplished
The New Englanasociety Of Brooklyn
! held its eiShteenth\ akual dinner in Brook
| lyn. One hundre4 nd forty men and
women participated in the festivities.
Governor Black waS aLong the guests and
made an address. st Clair McKelway,
| Senator Hawley and George W. Smalley
| also spoke.
John D. Hart, an owner Of the fllibuster-
ing steamer Laurada, was surrendered by
! one Of his bondsmen a Philadelphia and
taken to the Eastern P,nitentiary.
James r. Grlner, Intel proprietor, OF
| Duryea, Penn, shot aid killed his step
| daughter, Mrs. Schaeffer who served him
| as cook and sued him for money loaned.
Russia has placed orders in San Fran
| cisco and Chicago for larce food supplies
| for her garrison in Vaiivostock, and.
Japan is making extensive laval prepara-
tions, both countries acting probably with
| a view to trouble over the Russian occupa-
tion at Port Arthur.
J. Pierpont Morgan has. outlined plan
for great selling agency in Sew York for
anthracite coal thereby doinr away with
the middlemen and saving the~-ompanies
| - fNSPSoOe
buy the entire output OF the RAILROADS.
Seven boys, each less than FIFTEEN years
! o: age, were charged with tryingto wreck
trains in New jersey.
The Fall River Mass.) Manufacturers
| Committee sent reply to the operatives,
rejecting their propositions.
The sewer-pipe manufacturers easi OF the
| Mississippi River have virtually reached
m hy which there iS TO ba oap-
trail selling agency. -
Martin ]. Oakley, Jr, fireman OF Eigine
Company No. 5, New York City, was killed
| by being suffocated by gas In the celia. OF
| 426 East Fourteenth street, where Shall
| flre was smouldering. Three other frehen
, were overcome, and were taken to hospit,Li.
broken gas pipe caused the damage.
The Farm and Dairy Product Compa,t
| OF Jersey City has fled articles Of inco-!
/ poration at Trenton, the object being to OF.
| ganize trust to control the supply OF milk
| for the Greater New York.
An explosion Of dynamite cartridge in
| Brooklyn broke six thousand windows In
| many factories and tenement houses and
caused much excitement.
A baby Weighing nineteen pounds was
| torn to Mr.. and Mrs. Radke, OF Oshkosh,
| Mis-.
| A largely attended sugar beet institute
| was held at Union, Broome County, N. Y.
A refinery will be elected at Binghamton.
Cashier Long. OF the Dime Savings Bank,
in Brooklyn, disappeared over week ago,
! owing to u temporary alteration, and re-
turned Just after the officials, fearing for
the safety Of S22, 600 900 in securities, had
succeeded in having the vault opened by
| two expert mechanics, who worked for
seven days upon It.. The securities and the
cashiers accounts were found correct.
|, julius A. Brose, discount clerk for the
State Banking Company in Newark, N. J.,
| was arrested, charged with being defaul-
ter In the sum OF $1,000.
Washington Hesing, ex-Postmaster OF
| Chicago, died q few days ago.
| Pardee Hall, at Lafayette College. Eas-
ton, Penn, was nearly destroyed by fire.
"Jack" Dalton. the Alaska prospector,
| said in an interview at Seattle, WASH, that
| horses could be used to better advantage
than reindeer In the Klondike relief expe-
| dition.
Mrs. Flora Yager, supposed to be insane.
| shot and killed her mother, Mrs. @. o,
Sweet, OF Susquehanna, Penn.
The bronze tablet marking the birthplace
| OF General Israel Putnam, placed by the
| Daughters of the American Revolution, was
| dedicated at Danvers, Mass.
Four notes for $1,000 each, which Adolph
| d. Luctgert, Of Chicago, the alleged MUIR
! derer OF his wife, gave ex-Judge Vincent
for legal services, are said to have forged
Endorsements.
William Hanson, well-known figure
among social agitators in New York City,
killed himself by taking prussie acid. He
called himself u philosophical Anarchist, -
| and committed suicide because he was an
object Of charity.
The Collector OF Customs OF Key West.
Fla, has been ordered to watch the tug
| Dauntless which is suspected OF getting
ready to take another expedition to Cuba.
| The Montgomery at Pensacola had steam
up to intercept any one OF the suspected
vessels which are taking Oh cargo at that
| port.
A freight train became unnanaceable
| on mountain grade near Altoona, Penn.
and after running twelve miles in as many
minutes, crashed into another train, in
| juripG several men, probably killing two
and wrecking fifty cars.
Heavy SHOWS and sleet in Nebraska and
Indiana impeded railroad traffic.
Several more New Hampshire cotton
\ mills announced reductions in wages.
George ]. Fritch. St. Louis (Mo.) busi-
ness man, hanged himself on account Of