The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-12-09
Domestic.

Benson Cross. Of Detroit, Me-. while
hunting. mistook Da2a Gray. OF Plymouth,
for deer and fatally shot him.
The Maine hunting season has closed.
4 total OF go deer. thirty moose aad six
caribou heads passed through kineo during
the open time. The number OF deer killed
exceeds that % previous years.
A light earthquake shock startled the
citizens OF Kansas. Thursday. Messages
from Wellington and Hunnewell, Kan, de-
scribes the earthquake as quite severe In
those cities. 1t reached south into Okla
homa.
Washington Remington, the last OF the
famous Remington triplets, died at his
home in North Smithfield. r. l., OF acute
bronchitis. He was eighty-one years old,
and had been i'll but few days.
Mrs. Jacob Rupp. OF Fresh Ponds, \. j.,
committed suicide by hanging herself to a
bedpost. She had been suffering from
nervous prostration for long time, and
her act was probably prompted by her
sufferings. She was the wife OF clarinet
player in Sousa's band and the mother OF
seven children.
The grain receipts ut the port OF Buffalo,
NY. for the season OF 1897 to December l.,
including IL ,0O0, 900 barrels OF flour esti-
dented aggregate OF 2i0, 900 600 bushels.
A Pennsylvania Railroad train made the
eastward run from Chicago to PittsburS in
565 minutes. It is expected to reduce the
time OF the limited between Chicago and
New York to twenty hours.
The Yale crew has challenged Cornell to
a race at New London, Conn.,, next June,
and arrangements have been made for a
conference to settle the details. Harvard
has been invited to send representatives, to
the conference, with a view to arranging
for triangular race.
The Poughkeepsie (N. W Board OF Edu-
cation has refused to recognize the opinion
OF State Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
tion Skinner against employing Sisters OF
Charity to teach IL they wear their religious
garb in the schoolroom.
The Yukon Cariboo Company, organized
by J. Edward Addicks. and the Northwest
Company, the products OF the Klondike
boom, are retiring from business, 1t is said,
and will refund subscriptions to its stock.
Alexander Owens. q marble dealer. was
placing a monument over grave at Terre
Haute, Ind, when Alexander Lawrence.
an employe OF the cemetery, suggested
that the base was not in good condition.
Owens resented the criticism. and selling
hsavy oaken roller. struck Lawrence on
the head. Lawrepce's skull was crushed.
and he was completely paralyzed. he died
soon after.
The steamship Miami, built by the
Cramps, Of Philadelphia, in her trial trip
made speed OF 1925 knots during six
hours continuous run. She broke the rec
ord Of coastwise steamers.
C. ". SpaldinS, the Chicago bank Presi-
dent, was sentenced to an indeterminate
term in the penitentiary for embezzlement
Yale decided to row Harvard at New
London, Conn.,, next year.
The canals Of New YORK State were
closed for tho season.
The report OF State Bank Examiner H.
A. Langley, just compiled. shows an in
crease in deposits OF State banks OF North
Dakota from July 8 to October 5. the date
OF the last call for statements, OF seventy
six per cent, having nearly doubled in
sixty days.
Mr.. Meiklejohn. OF Nebraska. the Assist
ant Secretary OF War, who has just re-
turned from tour Of inspection through
tion OF trade and industry in oil the States
through which he travelled.
The tug Dauntless is said to have gone
from New York to Cuba with large cargo
OF arms and ammunition for the insurgents.
Frederick McH. Kitching, the young
New York forger, was sentenced to five
years in Sing Sing by Judge Aspinwall
but stay was later secured by his lawyer.
His wife tainted in the courtroom when
sentence was pronounced.
VIC. Woodward, alias "Big Hawley,"
was sentenced in New York City to the
maximum period OF five years imprison-
ment on the charge Of blackmailing S. W.
Bridgham. Woodward thereupon issued a
statement to the newspapers.
The second trial OF Adolph T.. Luetger.
on the charge Of numbering his wife was
begun in Chicago.