The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-05-27
Domestic.

owner at Southport. Conn, dropped dead
just after discharging shotgun at cat.
Mr.. Banks was sixty-seven years old, and
was sufferer from heart disease.
James A. Marks, of Newark, N. j. shot
and killed John Sauerbrei, who conducted q
delicatessen shop in Bayonne, n. ]. Marks
attempted to dispossess Sauerbrei Illegally
from the shop.
George Louis Shaw, OF Baltimore, was
arrested, charged with having aided George
Barnard, the dead cashier Of the Fort STAN
wix National Bank o! Rome, n. Y, to en-
bezzle or misapproI riate $4,000 Of the
funds Of the bank.
= The Rev. Dr.. Sheldon Jackson was elect
ed Moderator Of the Presbyterian Assem-
bly,; the retiring Moderator Dr.. Withrow,
preached the opening sermon.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard bard has ap-
piled for discharge from the Government
service because it has been ordered to ac-
company the Brooklyn to English waters
during the Queens jubilee.
The Florida House Of Representatives
has adopted resolution appointing ey-
Senator Call State agent for the collection
Of an Indian war claim Of s75o.o0o.
Marquis visconti venosta, the italian
Minister OF Foreign Affairs, suggests re-.
prisals for American tariff duties.
"A new loan Of "a, 900 900 has been sane
toned by the Uruguayan Chamber.
The armistice between Greece and Tur-
key has been fixed at seventeen days. A
neutral zone Is to be established between
the armies. The terms Of peace may be
the result OF long deliberation on the part
Of the powers.
There Is talk in Japan OF retaliatory
measures against the new American taran.
Five cannon, captured by General Scott
from General Santa Anna during the
Mexican war have been stolen from the
West Point On. W Military Academy
grounds.
Judge Chester, at Monticello. N. Y, de-
clined to vacate the order granted May 1!
with reference to changing the place OF
taking testimony in the proceedings
against the alleged Coal Trust. He did
grant an order, however, tendiag to delay
the beginning of tho investigation.
At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has
been struck at depth Of 600 feet In well
on the County Court House grounds.
Mrs. L. C. Elliott. OF Nashua, N. a., died
of excessive bicycle riding, according to
physicians. She spsnt much Of her time on
her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal men
ingitis developed.
By fire in Jersey City, N. j., six hous es
were destroyed, eleven badly damaged,
and seventy families were rendered home
less. No lives were lost. The loss Is esti-
mated at 100000.
Miss Fannie Richardson, a recluse and
miser. died in Taunton, Mass, worth $780,
600. No will has been found, and as lar as
Is known she had o relatives.
The Pittsburg jury returned a verdict OF
xlo 80 r tont onf DUG I'd
s. Farrow, charged with conspiring to de-
fraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life As
sociation Of New York.
The members Of the United States Birnet-
allie Commission are in Paris waiting for
the appointment of French delegates by
President Faure before they proceed to
England.
Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced on
Nav 25, 1895, to two years Imprisonment
with hard labor. was released from Hollo-
way England) Prison. He refused $4,000
TO write his prison experiences. He will do
literary work in London under his own
name.
Superintendent Of Streets Thomas F.
Maloney, OF Buffalo, N. Y, was convicted
OF attempting to bribe Superintendent OF
Police W. s. Bull by Offering him $500 to
protect the Goelet Gambling Club last July.
The PRESBYTERIAN Union Theological Sem
inary graduation exercises were held In
New York City, and Miss Briggs, dau ghter
of Professor c. A. Briggs. received the de-
gree of Bachelor Of Divinity, being the first
woman graduate Of the seminary.
A diver discovered that the leak In the
big navy yard dock at Brooklyn Is caused
by a ten-foot-square hole in the apron out
side OF the caisson.
Much additional damaging evidence has
been found against Adolph L. Luetgert, the
rich sausage manufacturer. OF Chlcago,
ILL.,. who Is accused OF murderlnS MS Wlle
and burning her body.
Phineas B. Smith, well-known citizen
OF Roxbury, Mass, died of heart trouble
resulting from overe1ertion in climbing
hill while riding bicycle. He was fifty
nine years of age and was lawyer.
Governor Black. of New York, has signed
the General Tax Rate bill. The State tax
rate for the year is 2.67 mills. The rev.
enues from direct taxation are estimated at
| S12,O03 792. go, and from indirect taxation
| at S10, ,7oS.
The Illinois Battlefield Commission has
! decided to erect nine monuments each at
! Lookout Mountain and at the north end OF
Mission Ridge to the Illinois regiments
| which participated in these battles.
| In New York City Helen Horsford, left an
orphan by the death Of her mother, e'rieved
constantly, and committed suicideby hang
| ing.
There was SIS, 900 run on the Framing
! ham Savings Bank at South birmingham,
| Mass.
The Government Building at the Iennes-
see Centennial Exposition was opened.
| George Bartholomew, an engineer for the
Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyll, Penn,
was blown to pieces by the explosion OF
boiler. Bartholomew is supposed to have
fallen asleep and on awakening found the
boiler dry and turned on the water, there
by causing the explosion. His sister, when
she learned Of her brothers death, at
tempted to commit suicide by throwing
herself into the burning boiler house.
John Farrell was fined s5 for planting
potatoes on Sunday at Manuel, N. Y.
The Holland, a small vessel owned by her
inventor and designed for submarine war
fare, was successfully launched at Eliza
bethpoEt. NJ.