The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-08-26
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS,


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A meeting of coal mine operators was
held in Pittsburg, Penn, and an organiza-
tion was form ed with the purpose Of end
ing the strike.
The convention OF the American Bankers
Association came to close at Detroit,
Mich; Joseph C. Hendrix, Of New York,
was elected President for the ensuing year.
Mrs. W. n. Thompson was arrested at her
fathers home, south OF Terre Haute, Ind,
for burying b II rthree-weeks-oldb baby alive.
When Detective McRae lifted the child out
of shallow grave and found 1t yet alive,
though she says she had buried 1t three
days before, her only comment was: II
thought it was strangled."
At the elevator OF the Davenport Qowa)
Glucose Works two terrific dust explosions
took place, as result Of which four lives
were lost and two persons seriously injured.
The dead are: John Raap, fell from top Of
building, sixty feet; John Hamm, fell from
top OF elevator; William Wolh. caught by
falling wall, and Paul A. Wolff, caught by
falling wall.
Joseph Perry was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at Fitchburg, Mass, for as
saulting Estelle G. Stratton.
The failure Of packers on the Klondike
trail to keep their agreement caused the
gold seekers to take determined stand, in
which rifles were shown to bring the packers
to terms.
Harvey Be Berry, colored, was hanged in
the jailyard at Memphis. Tenn. He pro-
tested his innocence while on the gallows.
He was hanged for attempted assault on a
seven-year-old girl on October 8, 1886.
This is the first legal hanging for this
crime In Tennessee.
The Middle-of-the-Ro Populists, Of
Iowa, held State convention and placed q
ticket in the field headed by Charles A.
Lloyd, Of Muscatine County, for Governor.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition may
be able to return subscriptions and pay q
small dividend. Many exhibits will be sent
to Paris for 1900.
who live with their husbands on Beech
Ford, KY, had battle at the family spring.
Minerva, true to her war-like name, was
armed with big knife. Jane was armed
with club. They fought for fifteen min
utes. Minerva welded her knife skillfully,
and after cutting Jane in dozen places
followed her work by stabbing her in the
breast. Jane died an hour later.
Pig iron in Cleveland, Ohio, has ad-
vanced from 1925 to $3.50 for future de-
livery.
Statistician Neill, Of New Orleans, says
the outlook this year Is for cotton crop
OF at least 9,750, 900 bales, conceding q
short crop in Texas.
George Leuthhauser, q Brooklyn cleo
trician, was killed by current Of 24OO
volts in Unionport On. Y.) power house.
The Injunction against the striking coal
miners near Pittsburg, Penn, his been
made permanent, forbidding marching and
trespass.
Private J. q. Williams, OF the United
States Marine Corps, at Charlestowp, Mass,
committed suicide.
High officials OF the Pennsylvania and
Reading Railroad Companies said mat the
demand for cars was so great that 1t
threatened car famine,
There is great enthusiasm at Rome. N. Y,
four more wells win be drilled at once.
At Middletown, N. Y, Austin, the eleven
year-old son Of George ". Decker, Jr., Of
Warwick, was shot and instantly killed.
Austin and his nine-yesr-old brother
The gun was placed on q bed. The trigger
caught In the bedclothes. which the
younger boy pulled, and the gun was dis
charged, the shot passing through Austin's
windpipe.
Receivers were appointed for the Massa-
chuse.ts Benefit Life Association, OF Bos-
ton.
At Jacksonville, Fla, the situation In re-
gard to the floating hyacinths is growing
serious. The decayed vegetation blocks
the river front, and navigation Is greatly
impeded. An epidemic Of fever Is threat
ened. There is q movement on foot to ap-
peal to the State Board Of Health.
May Anderson, arrested for the sale O.
forged Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mile
age books, has been sentenced to pay fine
OF $500 and costs and to serve six months
In Cleveland, Ohio. I: her fine be not paid
she will remain in prison four years. The
woman wept bitterly when sentence was
passed, and shrieked as she was taken
from the court room.
Mine operators in the Pittsburg (Penn.)
district said they would open their mines
at all hazards, and would use Gatling
guns to protect their workmen against
strikers.
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago, has dis
charged 500 city employees in batch.
A sensational meeting Of Anarchists in
which murder was applauded was held In
New York City with police present.
William @. Wilson, proprietor Of Will
sons Circulating Library In Philadelphia,
was murdered at his place Of business by
robbers, who made their escape after COM
mitting the murder and looting the office.
One OF the first effects OF the pronounced
public sentiment against lynching is re-
ported from Walker County, Georgia, where
Colonel Jones saved the life Of Will Phillips,
who had assaulted his daughter, and turned
him over to the authorities for punishment.
There was wild scramble in New York
City to buy wheat, and every available
steamship around New York had been en-
gagged for shipments abroad.
George L. Fish, who has just returned to
San Francisco, reports intense suffering
among the gold seekers at Dyea, Alaska.
Storms did much damage around New
York City. Lightning struck in many Sec
tions OF New Jersey and Connecticut.
Foreign.
General Woodford, the American Minis
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