The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-08-05
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

| Clubs. Won. Lost CT. lluos: VOL. Lvs'' &c ~,
Cincin 'ati5O 26 .65S 5SB,ooklynS4 As .49O
NV York. .48 81 .597L Louisv'le IS AZ .4N
| Cleveld. .4S IS ISL 1Wash'n. 29 49 .S72
Philad'a.40 43 .4s2 81. Louis.20 81 PAT
| At the convention Of the United States
| in etroit, It was stated that the member.
ship OF these associations had Increased
more than sixty-flve thousand In the last
year,
The striking miners in West Virginia made
large gains as result Of conference OF
labor leaders.
The first real application OF the section
Of the new tariff imposing duty on for
eien-made articles Of wearing apparel was
tested on the arrival Of the Majestic at New
York City. The result was satisfactory to
the customs officers, the passengers con-
tributing over $4,000 in duties.
Judge William L. Dayton, Of the New
Jersey Court OF Errors and Appeals. was
stricken with epoplexy in his oftice at Iren-
| ton and died an hour later in the Mercer
Hospital, OF which he was the executive
officer and the most generous patron.
The steamer Excelsior left San Francisco,
| Cal, for the Klondike gold fields with ITO
| passengers.
At Waco, Texas, in the stock brokerage
Office OF G. E. TrIce 4 Co., B. F. Kivett and
| W. W. Kiyett were shot and killed by W.
! Lamden, q member OF the firm. Bad feel-
| ing had existed between the Kivett broth
ers and Lamden for some time. 1t grew
out Of charges made by the relatives OF
Lamden and sister OF the Kivetts.
The Japanese Government has ordered
| twenty more locomotives from the Bald
win Locomotive Works, Philadelphia,
Penn, making fifty in all. European loco
motive makers cannot compete success
fully for the business Of the Orient, but
American companies are bidding prlskly
against one another.
John Hearst, Baptist preacher, who
lives few miles from the city went to Tus-
cola. ILL.,, and surrendered to Sheriff Bag
| lev, saying that he had an hour before
| emptied two loads Of shot into Mason Cald-
well. He says Caldwell had assaulted his
| daughter, Madeline, fifteen years old, re-
Gently.
At Greenfield, Mass, John O'Neil was
I convicted Of murder in the first degree. he
killed Mrs. McCloud.
At Montgomery, Ala, Deacon P. d. Pat
terson, colored, the editor OF newspaper,
was killed In his pulpit Of the Dexter Ave
nue. Colored Baptist Church. George Prit-
chett, another deacon, Is in jail charged
with the crime, The church was crowded
at the time Of the tragedy. The killing was
the sequel to faotional dissension in the
church Of about six months duration.
In speech to Boston business men Sec
retary OF the Treasury Gage urged his
hearers to bring all the influence possible
| upon Congress to secure currency reform.
The police OF Bridgeport, Conn.,, arrested
John Weekes on charge OF completely IN
the murder Of George Nichols.
The remarkable cold weather played
havoc ut all the summer resorts, overcoats,
crate fires and dancing having taken the
place Of bathing suits, ice cream and hsh-
ing as amusements.
Isaac N. Weaver, late Secretary. OF the
! Citizens Savings, Loan and Building AS.
sociation. of Pena, ILL.,, has been arrested
for embezzling $4,000.
The Avery plow factory, at New Albany,
Ind, has resumed operations, after q three
years shut down, giving employment to
1000 men.
Terrific hailstorms prevailed IN various
sections OF Nebraska. At Franklin the wind
blew hurricane. Several houses were un-
rooted and grain elevator was destroyed.
At Kearney much minor damage was done.
Pasoualle Dedarlo was hanged at Phila-
delphia for the murder, under most afro.
cious circumstances, January % last, Oh
Modestino MOTTO, boy three years old.
Ex-United States Senator Doolittle, OIL
Wisconsin, died at the home OF his daugh-
ter. near Providence, r. l., OF Brights dis
ease. He was eighty-two years old.
Fire destroyed half a million dollars
worth Of factory property in Yonkers, \:
Y, and threatened the business section OF
the town.
VA. Larned, OF Summit, n. j., defeated
a. s. Mahoney, the English expert, IN the
tennis tournament. .
Mrs. Nora L. Bryan, Postmistress at Mid;
dlefeld, Mass, was arrested by United
States Deputy Marshal Waters on charge
OF opening letters belonging to other peo-
ple. It is said that she opened the letters
through curiosity.
Brooklyn Corporation Counsel delivered
On opinion that will make it possible to
supply work for many Of the conyIcts IN
the Kings County Penitentiary, VINO are
now in enforced idleness.
William Karstens, of Newark, n. j., was
killed on telephone pole While trying to
climb up the cross arms to sing.
Herman Keller, aged seven, fell into the
water at Brooklyn and was brayely rescued
by Edward Dobson, aged ten.
Footpads near Little Silver, Nj, dragged
the Misses Lillian and Louise Blackburn
from their carriage, beat them into insensi-
bility and robbed them.
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, Of Michigan
was taken to sanitarium mental and
physical wreck.
Steamship captains plying between Sar
Francisco and the Yukon report that the
| wholesale desertion Of crews for the goic
felds makes it difficult to man their vessels
for the trip south. i