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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
TRIALS OF GOLD SEEKERS.
Two Thousand Blockaded BY Impos-
sible Bags.

Two Thousand Blockaded BY Impos-
sible Bags.
A Seattle, Wash, dispatch of the 4th
says Ill efforts to break the blockade at
Skaguay have failed utterly. Advices
received by the steamer Rosalie. which
left Skaguay Monday last arrived
here today, state that when the trail
was opened Monday morning g.
600 men and horses were striving to
get over. Soon the path was in as bad
condition as it was before being re-
paired. When the road had been cordu-
royed over the miry places, the logs
slipped out and the horses went foun-
derin,y in the mire, many of them never
to emsrge. Hundreds of those at Ska
quay have given up all hope of getting
through this winter and will stay till
February at the foot of the pass. Hun
dreds are coming back from the trails,
stopping at Skaguay or juneau for the
winter. A few more adventurers will
try to go over when the first freeze
covers the bogs with ice.
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ANcERED BY LIONS, SHOT HIS WIFE
Then Tanner Haustetter Blew Out His
n-

Then Tanner Haustetter Blew Out His
Own Brains.
William Haustetter, famous the country
over as a lion tanner, fatally shot his wife
in the right lung near the entrance OF the
Geological Garden at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
then shot himself in the head. Haustetter
died instantly.
For fifteen years Haustetter has been en-
ployed at the Zoo, where he handled lions,
tigers, leopards, panthers and hyenas: He
had all the beasts under his control and
was the only man who dared enter all the
cages.
He fed the lions and started for home,
Near the entrance he met his wife and shot
her and himself. No motive for the deed
is known. He had had trouble with two
lions in the afternoon, had beaten them
with an iron bar and was still angry when
he met his wife. He and his wife were
never known to quarrel.
Haustetter was thirty-eight and his wife
is thirty-six. They have two small chill
dren,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
End Of the Coal Strike.

A Columbus, O., dispatch says the
end of the great miners strike is in
sight The national executive board
of the United Mine Workers have
agreed to recommend to the miners Q
proposition to the Pittsburg Operators
for straight price Of IS cents ton, to
continue in force until the end of the
year.
A Pittsburg dispatch also says the
mine operators committee have return
cd from Columbus. Chairman Uhlen-
burg says that the conference between
the miners and operators was q very
amicable one. He said: "We feel
very sanguine that an acceptance of our
65-cent offer will reach US from Mr..
Dolan shortly, and are convinced that
every mine in the district will make q
start on Monday the 18th"
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increase is accounted for by correspond
ing decrease in the amount Of cash on hand.
The debt Is recapitulated as follows:
Interest bearing debt, $S47 ,365 $40.
Debt upon which interest has ceased
since maturity, 81 1886, $50.
Debt bearing no interest, S37S, ,194, ,5o7.
Total, 81, ,226, ,S96, 1927.
This amount, however, does not include
$593, ,961, ,95S in certificates and treasury
notes outstanding, which are offset by an
equal amount Of cash in the Treasury; Inc
cash In the Treasury is classified as follows:
Gold, $1s1 ,294, ,165.
Silver, S519, 1868 ,4s6.
Paper, s139, ,427 ,064.
Bonds. disbursing officers balances, etc,
s18, u.s. .651.
Total, S85S, ,145, 1867.
Against this there are demand liabilities
outstanding amounting to S6S9, ,54, ,l6o,
which leaves q cash balance in the Treasury
OF S218, So, ,206.
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this Is now open to question. Herr Teget-
meier, perhaps the most accurately in
formed man on the habits Of these birds,
states clearly that 1t Is impossible that any
pigeon taken by Andree should ever return
to its original location. In his experience
homing pigeons direct their course by
sight, and all those engaged in long-dis-
tance journeys have to be trained so as to
be made acquainted with the country over
which they fly. II this Is SO, the hundreds
OF miles Of unknown Arctic sea make the
pigeon story just impossible, and we must
wait for news Of Andree until he himself ap-
pears.
In the way OF conjecture there have been
various surmises by scientists, the majority
Of them being unfavorable to the success
Of the expedition. The most important OF
these Is from DR.. Nils Ekholm, an expert
aeronaut, who last year accompanied Herr
Andree to Spitzbergen to tale part In the
voyage then proposed, but who declined to
20 this year because he consi1ere the bal
loon unsatisfactory In respec. to Its imper-
meability. He estimated the longest period
the balloon could remain In the air was
twenty-four days, and that, 10 his opinion,
was not sufficient to make successful voy-
age across the pole or to the pole and back.
On the other hand, Mr.. W. d. Glider, OF
New York, who has had experience In
polar explorations, though not In balloons,
thinks that there Is no reason as yet Tor
discouragement. The voyage may be sue
cessful, but the voyagers be landed 80 re-
mote from civilization that 1t would take
considerable time, perhaps several months,
for them to reach place where they
could communicate with the world. A
reasonable time limit has not vet been
reached, and consequently there Is no
warrant for believing that these daring
adventures have been lost.
There Is no reason to abandon hope that
And-ee and his companions may return.
The fact Of the matter is that the explorer
said before he started that he might not be
heard from for two years. Andree Is fine,
intelligent fellow Of magnificent physique.
He was perfectly well aware OF what ne
was doing when he undertook the trip to
the North Pole, and II pluck, intelligence
and physique could help man through
such an undertaking, he will yet be heard
from. 1t may be that his balloon has come
down on the northern coast OF Alaska, In
which case it will take considerable time
for him to reach telegraph station. Ihen
the balloon may have descended In Siberia
or Greenland, and some time must eiapse
in any case before he could be heard from.
He has his sledges and other necessaries 10
make a journey, and possibly will reach
some civilized point eventually.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
Her Face to Be Washed,

The Goddess Of Liberty, in New York
Harbor, who for eleven years has been well
coming wondering foreigners to the great
New World, is to have her noble face and
majestic bronze gown soundly scrubbed
and "done up" She has been queening it
at Bedloe's Island for 10! these many years,
and time and the scornful waves have taken
many liberties with her-and she the God
dess Of Liberty herself! At any rate, she Is
to be washed with soap and water and
scrubbed with big bath brush at an early
date.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
WEEKS COMMERCIAL REVIEW
Bradstreet Reports a Continuance of
the General Expansion of Prices.
LARGEST AUGUST TRADE YET.
Heavy Exports-The Warm Weather
Has Assured the Corn Crop-Num-
ber of Business Failures.

Bradstreet's commercial review for
the week ending Saturday, Sept. 4th,
says: The previous activity in all lines
of trace is maintained. There is bet
ter tone to the demand from jobbers,
and the volume of business in wool,
leathe:, clothing, hats, groceries and
light hardware has increased. There is
better request for woolen and cotton
goods, jewelry and rubber goods, fabrics
and shoes. Some wholesale merchants
at Western centres report the largest
volume of August trade on record.
There has been an increased consump-
tion Of cotton by Southern mills.
Western iron anu steel mills have Or
ders to keep them busy until January
l. In the Central Western States the
bituminous coal strike has had fur
ther depressing effect on the general
industrial situation. At the Northwest
some commercial houses have had to
work overtime to meet the demand for
goods, and the warm weather is re-
ported to have practically assured the
Indian corn crop. On the Pacific coast
wheat exports have been checked by
inability to secure crews for vessels.
Mercantile collections have improved
in some sections.
Last weeks general and unprece-
dented expansion OF prices for staples
is continued, wool, cotton and wooden
fabrics, hides, leather, white pine lum.
ber, sashes and doors, iron and steel
bars, billets and rods, wire nails, barbed
wire and Southern foundry iron, wheat,
corn, lard and sugar having advanced,
and higher prices being expected for
boots and shoes. Lower prices are re-
corded for cotton, wheat flour and cof-
fee, while those for oats, pork, print
cloths, petroleum and coal are un-
changed.
This weeks export of wheat flour in
cluded as wheat) are the largest with
two exceptions-the second week OF
September and the fourth week in Au-
gusl, 1891. The total shipments amount
to &, 26S, 247 bushels, against 5. l49, 653
bushels last week; 3,369,S62 bushels
last year; 2,260, 261 in 1897; S,207, 300
bushels in 1894, and 4, 900, GOO bushels in
1898. The shipment of corn is also
large, aggregating 3,1s5, O64 bushels
this week, against. 2,682, 452 bushels
last week; 2,597, 5a6 bushels last year;
1,4O5, $40 bushels in 1895; $4,000
bushels in 1894, and 672, ,s75 bushels in
1893.
There are 1893 business failures re-
ported through the United States this
week, against 210 last week, 1856 in the
week one year ago, 1S4 two years ago.
2O7 three years ago, and as contrasted
with 3l9 in the like week of 1898. There
are Sc business failures reported from
the Canadian Dominion this week. Last
week the total was 80, and year ago 1t
was 80.
Dun & Co. 8 report says that failures
in August 1897, were not II per cent.
less in number than in August 1896, but
in amount of liabilities were 70p per cent.
less; July and August show lower
average Of liabilities per failure than
for any quarter in the last twenty three
years; the improvement extends to
nearly every important branch Of
business.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZEo.
Washington Items.

Exports from the United States for July
were SOS, ,925, 10, an increase over the same
month last year of about $4,000, 900. The
exports for the first seven months OF the
calendar year were S549, ,943, ,S79, against
$500, ,527 ,005 for the first seven months OF
last year.
According to semi-official advices re-
ceived IN Washington. Japan is secretly
negotiating with the Diet of the Greater
Republic Of Central America for control OF
the Niearaguan canal project in defiance OF
the United States.
The armor plate board appointed to in.
vestigate the cost OF manufacture and OF
establishing a Government plant has
finished it's tour and will draw plans for
possible factory.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
GERMANY AROUSED.

An Explanation May Be Demanded From
France OF M. Meline's Language.
Much resentment has been caused in
Germany by the language employed by NJ.
Meline, the French Prime Minister, in re-
plying to telegram addressed to him by
q number of the residents OF Lorraine
congratulating France upon her alliance
with Russia.
II. Meline thanked the senders Of the de-
spatch In behalf OF the Government for
their glowing patriotism. The German
newspapers make most severe attacks
upon the senders OF the despatch, accus-
Ing them OF tresson, aud upon NJ. Meline
1or speaking as he did to German subjects.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
SETH LOW HAS ACCEPTED.
Agrees to Become the Mayoralty Candi-
date of the Citizens Union.


Seth Low, President Of Columbia College,
is formally in the field as q candidate for
the office OF Mayor Of Greater New York.
He made his announcement in his cottage
at Northeast Harbor, Ne. Secretary Clark,
Of the Citizens Union, called at II o'clock
a. m. and after the newspaper men had
been admitted. Mr.. Clark, addressing the
President of Columbia. said:
'Mr Low, / have the honor, on behalf
of the Citizens Union. to tender you the
nomination for Mayor OF Greater New
York"
Then Mr.. Clark read the formal letter OF
notification. President Low listened at
tentivelv, and. when Mr.. Clark had fin
ished, accepted the nomination. He spoke
earnestly, and his manner indicated that
he had weighed well the step he was tax
ing. Mr. Low will write formal letter to
the Citizens Union Nominating Commit
tees. This letter will be his platform in
the campaign.
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EXPERT ON kLoNDlKE.
Gold An Over THO Country. But 1t is More
or Less Spotty.

Gold An Over tho Country, But 1t is More
or Lees Spotty.
OAKLAND, Cal. Especially byron E. james,
u assayer for the Alaska Commercial Com
any. who cane from Dawson on the Port
nd, brings with him the latest and about
z only scientific information that has
coo from the Klondike.
yhe gold fields are as yet practically
unkoWn,P said Mr.. James. 'The whole
coutry contains fne gold In greater or
less fanfities, but In most Of the regions
the sd n In pockets. As 1t Is sometimes
caileds the country Is spotted. That Is,
tho pa1airt and the gold run in streaks
througkhe ground, Just like q streak OF
Gola - 4axtx.
3 H0f cdfse. considerable amount OF
prospectiH has been done In streaks along:
certatn cxeks, but there Is vast amount
tof country Aich has never been explored,
much les pAspected. s.
A. yek Aectically nothing has been
done toward kartz prospecting. The gold
- lar taken a has come from placer de-
posts Along tel smaller streams. The
PAY etreAks AreSfom thirty to seventy feet
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
Nav Railroad Terminal.

The Locust Point yards Of the B. and o.
Railroad are completed and that ocean ter
minal at Bal imore now has capacity for
5000 cars. During the past few weeks the
wisdom Of making the improvement has
been amply demonstrated. Thousands OF
cars Of export grain were handled without
single blockade and with such celebrity
and ease that the old timers were greatly
astonished
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
ANDREE NOT HEARD FROM
No Tidings About His Daring Dash
For the North Pole.
BALLOON MAY HAVE LANDED

The Arctic Explorer Started on July IL
in His Balloon, and Although There
Have Been Several Reports of Mes
sages From Him, All Proved to Be
Bogus-Speculations About His Fate.
CHR1srIAS1A, Norway (By Cable).-1t is
now about eight weeks since Herr An6ree
and his two companions set off from from
soc on their daring voyage to the north
pole. What their fate has been is only a
matter Of conjecture, for, Notwithstanding
the picked-up carrier pigeons, there have
been no authentic tidings since their de-
parture.
At first it was generally accepted that
the pigeon said to have been shot by the
Captain Of the fishing vessel Aiken between
Spitzbergen and Seven Islands, carried
genuine message from the explorer, but
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
MINERS FEAR A FAMINE.
Prediction That Starvation Awaits the
klondike Adventures.
POSTAL SERVICE FOR ALASKA,
InferestinS Stories'of the Condition of At
4 fairs mt the White Pass-The Men at
Dyea Crossing the Divide-The Canyon
~ IL Strewn With Tents, Provisions
4 Dead Horses and Discarded Baggage

III
(, Dead Horses and Discarded Baggage
( PoRr TOWNSEND, Wash. (SpeciaD The
steamer Farallon arrived here from Dyea
and Skaguay. Her officers tell interesting
stories OF the condition Of affairs at both
landings. They say the men in Dyea are
slowly but surely crossing the divide, and
the road for ten miles up the canyon is
strewn with tents, provisions, discarded
baggage and dead horses. Less than one
Thousand persons are on the beach at Dyea'
as all make efforts to get across the divide
Is soon as landed.
In Skaguay things present different ap'
pearance. There are between five thousand
and six thousand persons there. Less than
Afty men have succeeded in getting across
White Pass, and hundreds have given up
irving to cross until spring. The Farallon's
sofiicers saw rain had fallen continually in
4kaguay for eight days, and it WIS utterly
Impossible to cross.
Z All kinds of business are fourishlng.
Hen are selling outfits for little or nothing.
a letter on the Farallon states that one
Asy last week one hundred men sold their
0ufflts at a sacrifice and started back. The
farallon will start on her return trip to
6kaguay with about five passengers, l59
horses and cattle. and about two hundred
tons Of freight.
A saloon keeper in Dyea is buying flour,
epytying it into hopper in a tent and
selling the empty sacks for seventy-hve
dents each.
The Farallon's officers deny that man
vas killed in Skaguay for stealing. but say
that in case of theft death would be the re-
suh.
{ The demand for horses to be used in pack
inc over the passes from Skaguay is inereas-
ing, and during the present week several
bundled horses will be shipped there. There
are now at Skaguay about four Thousand
horses. and IL is difficult to see how this
number can be fed during the winter. Many
predict that both men and horses will be
Starving before spring, and that the horses
VII be killed and eaten.
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NEw uIx. MINI Especial. A most re-
'm&rkabie story ofhiuck, adventure and
anek reached here bjthe rcceipt Of let
ltsr from the Eondke. Last September
Willte Gollmas, the farteen-year- son
of fernald Gollmas, Of this place, ran
away from home, and his parents had
not heard from hin until the re-
teeipt Of this letter. BE ssys he fell in with
sosoe miners, who gave hm his board to
lhelp them pack their stunio the gold re-
gion. Here he got work ats11 a day and
board.
3 As soonas he got &100 together he pat
ented claim, from which be has already
taken e10.00o. He says that us claim viii
p6y t3o0 day. He has been dered ESQ.,
90 forit, but refused to sell.
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Bank Broke, Cashier Gone.

Charles A. Norton, cashier Of the bank of
Durand, Ill.,, is alleged to have embezzled
large sum Of money and disappeared.
BE was Sunday-school Superintendent
and the leading light Of the community.
Forged notes to the extent OF $1,000 have
been found. The bank carried 5000 in
deposits. Norton is supposed to have taken
80. 600. TIE bank is closed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
Hanged in the Public Square.

"Doc" Kelley, alias Black, colored, twen-
ty-three years old, was hanged at Snow
Hill, n. c., for assaulting Mrs. Merritt, a
white woman. The gallows was in the pub
lie square Of the town, and 5000 people were
spectators. Kelley was accused OF several
of ther crimes.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
A Wordy War In Virginia.

A wordy war has been opened in Vir-
ginia- Senator Daniel has sent letter
to the Lynchburg News, in which he
replied at length to Governor O'Fer-
rails recent interview in the Washing
ton Post, in which the Senator was &C
cused of inconsistency and other sims
more or less mild.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
Murder For a Song.

Edward Register, young farmer living
near Jacksonville, Fla, was shot and
killed by his adopted son, Robert, who is
fourteen years old. The boy and man,
Henry N. Tyre, were arrested, and the lad
confessed that he committed the murder.
The victims wife gave htR IS to do 1t.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
UNCLE SANS STRONG BOX.

Cash Balance of sa1s,561 ,eo6 in the
Treasury.
The August statement OF the public debt,
issued at the Treasury Department, Wash
ington, shows the debt less cash in the
Treasury to be 81 ,OOs, 1856, ,121, which is an
increase for the month OF s14, ATS. This
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09

2 Abolishing the Siberian Exile System.
The Czar has decided to partly abolish
the Siberian exile system, and to erect large
central prisons in Russia proper. The
change will go into operation year hence
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
POSTAL SERVICE FOR MINERS.
,,Yhs Order Establishing 1t Issued by
Postmaster er-General Gary.

4@c~<e1~~ce
Postmaster-GeneralG Gary.
3 WAsHrSdrox, D. @. (SpeciaD D.-Postmas-
tar General Gary has issued formal order
Establishing an exchange OF mails once
month between the postoflces at Dyea,
tlaska, and Dawson City, Canada. The
s srsice Is to consist OF one round trip each
mcrth. The mails In question shall contain.
only letters and postal cards, to the exciu"
don Of al other articles. The mails made
sRp at the once OF Dyea for Dawson City
i6SlaIl ooztain, letters and postal cards ad-
illxoszed for any place In the Yukon district
l0f Canada, and the mails made up at the
joflce Of Dswson City for the office OF Dyea
shall contain letters and postal cards ad-
dressed for delivery at any place In the
United States.
: This Is the formal announcement Of the
nsW postal service into the gold region,
which has been established through an
Agreement between this country and Can
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
The Klondike Not Ours

WAsmSaroS, D. G. CspeciaD III any
United States officials attempt tosssume
authority over the Klondlke gold region
the Government will disavow their ats, as
lit does not dispute that the Klondke Is
within British territory.
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Accents the NomiJaation.

President Seth Low, of Columbia
University, has accepted the nomination
of the citizens Union for mayor of
Greater New York.
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Case Dismissed.

The suit Of the Edwards, of South
Carolina against Trinity Church to re-
cover large tract of land in New York
city is dismissed by the court.
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IN WHICH ANDREE SAILED FOB THE NORTH POLE.
sailed
balloons
the gas being ndsd hioS Oyinpe
sails with the aid the keel the oaoGn sn can ot .
direction The
diameter q Above the the
bsc tot the watch
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-09
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
To Remove Dust From Linen.

Stains of dust may be removed from
fine linen and similar fabrics without
injury to the material. The articles
must be first well soaped, as if they
were to be washed in the ordinary way.
An iron is heated and on this laid q
wet cloth. When the heat makes the
cloth steam the rust stain is laid on it
and little oxalic acid is rubbed on
with the finger. The heat and the
moisture hasten the effect of the acid
on the rust, and when this has disap-
peared the soaping and washing may
be continued.