The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-23
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Clubs. Won. Lost. G.: Clubs: Won. Lost. g; Ct;
Bait .....a4 SO .71slBrooklyn "a 66 .450
Boston ...s5 IS .70sl Chicago .5s 63 .4Ss
NV York.76 AZ .644 Pittsb'g 50 81 .42s
Clevepd. GO SO .504 Louisville 81 II .41S
wash'n. IS es 1866 st. Louis.H 90 .227
Sarah Elmendorf, colored, died at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. John Dorsey,
in Kingston, N. Y. at the age OF ITO years.
When only ten years OF age, together with
her parents, she was sold as slave to the
Tremper family, with whom she lived un-
I'll freed by the Civil War. Her health was
good until last January, when she fell
down stairs.
The Republican County Committee OF
New York City decided unanimously that
District Clcott should be nomin-
sted for Mayor Of Greater New York.
Bridget Hayes, a servant. was found
mysteriously murdered in the Carpenter
residence In a suburb OF NewburG, N. Y.
She had been dead fifteen hours In the
house before the body was discovered.
NJ. J. Patenotre, French Ambassador to
the United States, has been transferred to
Madrid, Spain, and Comte de Month olon,
French Minister to Belgium, has been
transferred from the post at Brussels to
Washington.
"Ben" Ferguson, colored, was convicted
at Walhalla. Ocean County, 8. c.. OF as
saulting six-year-old colored girl. The
white Jury recommended him to mercy,
which changes the penalty from death to
life Imprisonment.
There was considerable rioting by the
coal strikers In the vicinity OF Hazleton,
Penn, and the troops were kept on the
march to suppress it.
From Is, 900 to 1s, 900 coal miners returned
to work in the Pittsaeld Penn.) district.
D. T. Watson, colored school teacher,
was lynched in Hamilton, Ark.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Brooks, better known as
"Auntie Brooks" died in Pana, Ill. She
was well-known nurse in the Union Army
during the Civil War.
A severe windstorm swept over Fort
Wayne, Ind, and vicinity, doing consider
able damage and fatally ipjurlng George
K. Rockenberger, Frederick Wehr and An
drew Eindefer. The men were injured by
falling bricks from demolished chimneys.
At4p. m. Thursday three prisoners ap-
peared in the guardroom of the panitentfary
at Columbus, Ohio, and, leveling revolvers
at Captain Saxbe. attempted to escape. A
fight ensued. Two Of the prisoners, Bolts
and Clark, got away. Lincoln. the third
prisoner, was held. BENJAMIN James: SUD-
guard, was shot twice. Bolts Is from Lucas
and Clark Is from Cuyahoga County.
Fear OF yellow fever has practically de-
populated Jackson, Miss. There are sew
eral cases at Edwards, near Jackson.
The overdue steamer Excelsior arrived In
San Francisco with ss00, 900 In klondike
gold.
Michael defeated Lesna by $50 yards in
the twenty-mile bicycle race at the Spring.
field (Mass.) Bicycle Clubs tournament,
lowering the American record. Arthur
Gardiner, Of Chicago. broke the worlds
record in the one-mile professional handi-
cap.
During the unloading at Glasgow. Scot
land. of the Allan Line steamship Tower
Hill, the body Of young American was
found deep In the grain. 1t Is supposed
that the Young man was shot In with the
grain when the vessel was being loaded In
New York.
There have been no disturbances In the
mining region about Hazleton, Penn, but
,, the strike is spreading rapidly.
United States Senator George L. Well
incton resigned the Craftsmanship OF the
MARYLAND Republican State Central Com:
mittee, thus relinquishing the leadership OF
the party In the State, which he has held
for the past three years.
"Joe" Farnsworth, who shot one OF the
Young Hatfelds and tried to kill Miss Alice
Ferguson in Lee County, Virginia, was
found hanging to limb In the Cumberland
| Mountains in Kentucky. 1t was evldent
| that he was lynched, though an attempt
had been made to make 1t appear that ne
had committed suicide.
George NJ. Judd. a lawyer, was arrested
on a charge Of having stolen S1e,ooo 1ron
| the Title Guarantee and Trust company, o.
New York City, his former employers.
The Kings County (Brooklyn) Republican
! Committee deposed jacob worm as leaue'
! and unouslifiedly indorsed Seth Low.
Miners in Ecklsy, Penn, were forced tt
stop work by strikers before troops sen,
/ from Hazleton tc head them on reachee
the place.
! The Rev. &c. F. B. Howard" notorious
swindler, escaped from the Ohio Peniten
tiary.
Dr. Benjamin Andrews has withdraw
his resignation from the presidency o
| Brown University.
The public schools OF New York CIT!
| onened at the close of the summer vaca
ton. It is estimated that 900 children
out of a total OF 225, 600 applied for admis
sion. The crowding was less than usuai.