The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-07-14
FROM THE WIRES.
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A bill providing for the creation of
the department. Of public health has been
Introduced in the Senate The bead of
it is 10 be a member Of the cabinet
The government has bought for So
601. .615 SO the property OF tue Mooon. +.
gabela River Navigation Company and
will throw the river open to public na7i-
cation.
Fitzsimmons aud Sullivan have
agreed to make a tour Of the country
giving sparring exhibitions
The tariff bill passed the Senate
yesterday. The vote was SO to 2S.
The New York detectives claim that
Martio Thorn has1confessed TO the mar
der of the mac whose body vas found
cut :neo two parts in one Of the suburbs
Of the city
Con- ptroller General Norton has an
rounced his candidacy for Congress To-
the SlXe0 UiStrlcC
Dr.. w. NJ. Meadow. of Union. has
been arrested for attempting to burn
the Opera House aud bank in that
town. He bad drug store ic the
building.
President Mckinley se0ds message
to Congress to-day argius the lnme-
diate consideration Of tie 6oaocial
si,natioo and revision Of the curreocy
system.
B. c. Webb, Of Charleston, was ou
yesterday elected clerk of the State
Board Of Control, vice w. H. Law
renee resigned.
Fourteen people are koown to
have been killed by a cyclone and
cloudburst 10 Minnesota yesterday
The damage to property vas immense.
July g.
The tariff bill has been turaed over to
conference committees from the Sea-
ate and House
Fire broke ont in Buckingham
pelace. Londoo, last eight while q
great ball was in progress. Twas ez-
tiDguisbed. after an hours work by the
6remea-
Minnie Toroer. a colored woman,
vas fouod dead near Newberry yester
day from pistol shot wound in her
head. Her husband is suspected of
the crime.
The 10. wave continues with an-
abated intensity in S.. Louis aud
throughout the West and Northwest.
The death rate is Increasing.
The Queen Regent of Spain has par
doned 108 Cubans now serving sen-
tences in penal settlements.
The situation 10 Turkey and Greece
is unchanged.
Washington, July 9.-United States
Consul General Lee has been rendering
some account to the government of his
expenditures from the fund appropriated
by congress for the relief of destitute
Americans in Cuba. His figures were
presented to the cabinet to day, aud the
showing was remarkable. for it appear
ed that ofthe total Of $50, 900 at the dis
posal Of the general be had expended
only $4,000. and yet had given SUBJ
ssantial relief to every distressed Amer
icaa whom be could 6nd resdy to re-
ceive aid, and besides had shipped some
of them back to the United States.
Six negro laborers we're killed By an
explosion Of dynamite while at work 10
an excavation for street railway 10
Lexington. Ky. No one knows how
the dynamite came to be 10 the ground
July IL.
The Nashville grand jury has indict-
ed nine Of the leading ice dealers and
manufacturers for forming a trust or
combine to control prices.
The State Alliance meets 10 annual
session in Columbia on July 2S:h.
Senator Tillmen returned to Wash
iugton yesterday.
Hail fell to the depth of eight inches
at Massilon. O., Saturday.
There have been $50 deaths in the
oor,hern cities from the. heat since
July 1st.
Marc Morris. aged 2l, killed himself
in Augusta on Saturday. He did SO
because he failed to receive legacy Of
$4,000 that be expected.
Presidens Mckinley has pardoned
E. R. Carter. of New York, who em-
bezzled $4,000 Of the Bank Of Com
mercs funds.
The strike Of coal miners continues
to grow in magnitude, but the West
VIRGINIA m;ners nave so far refnsed to