The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-07-29
Domestic.
REooRD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

Cleveland 40 81 1868 w'shing'nT A $3.50
Philadel. SO 40 .474 st. Louis.15 So .205
The Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mill Com
| pany shut down for want Of fuel. The COM
| pany refused to pay the advanced price.
| Over 1900 men were thrown out OF employ
/ ment.
E.V. Debs, the labor agitator, left West
| Virginia, his efforts to induce the coal
miners to strike having failed.
D. W. Caldwell, President Of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, is
dead.
A conference OF colored peopls was held
In Hampton, Va, to consider questions
pertaining to the elevation Of their race.
At Morgantown, W. Va, William Jen-
nings and his wife, Of Cheat Neck, traded
one of their eight children to neighbor
for cow and left the State to escape ar
, rest. The absconding parents left five
children in the care Of the poor authorities.
The child that was traded is ten years old.
At Moundsville, W. Va, two sons Of Mar
dotha Edwards, aged ten and i've years,
were attacked by an unknown man In the
absence of their mother. Stanley, the
elder, was killed, and Willie, the younger,
was fatally hurt. A bloody grub hoe was
found near the bodies. In addition to
other horrible wounds, tho throats OF both
boys were cut.
Herman Paul Schultz, OF New York, was
sentencedat Milford. Penn, to be hanged
for the murder Of his wife.
The celebration Of the Mormon settlement
OF Utah, fifty years ago, was begun, $50
survivors OF the 1000 pioneers participating.
W.. Bryan was In attendance.
Elias P. Ford and Arthur G. Gault ran
into each other while riding bicycles at
Holyoke, Mass. Mr.. Ford died soon after
wards. Mr.. Gault was badly hurt.
At Allentown, Penn, William a.. Lau-
bach, aged sixty years, prominent coal
dealer OF Catasauqua, tried to cross tho
tracks ahead Of a moving freight train. He
was instantly killed.
Chicago's chronic bears on wheat were
badly punished by New York bulls, who got
early news on Europe's shortage and used
1t to push wheat prices up.
A succession OF terrible electrical storms,
with heavy rainfall, passed over Marion,
driving a mower, was killed by lightning.
Charles Setter and william Sontag, mechan-
les, returning home from work, were struck
down on the street. Four men near Rad
nor, Ohio, were killed.
A severe snowstorm Is reported from all
the higher portions in the mountain dis
tricts OF Colorado. Three inches Of snow
is reported at Cripple Creek, Aspen and
other points, and one inch at Leadville.
The weather Is uncomfortably cool even in
Denver.
The boiler at Brewster Brothers sawmill,
on Dry Fork, W. Va, exploded. killing H.
s. White, sawyer. OF Weston, W. Va, and
Smith Hicks, engineer, Of Petenville.
Mouse, the Papute murderer, has been
killed at Muddy Creek, In Lincoln County,
New, by a party OF pursuers. Mouse
killed Sterns and Davis on the Colorado
River last winter, near White Hills.
Strikers, headed by brass band, marched
to mines near Canonsburg, Penn, and in
duced the miners to leave work. Similar
missionaries marched through Illinois.
Edward Pullen, farm hand employed
by Captain Edward Mount, OF Trenton, N.
j., committed suicide by blowing of his
head with shotgun. Pullen was sunstruck
recently and had been acting qaeerly ever
since.
District-Attorneys Olcott a,ad Youngs
agreed to have the cases Of Mrs.. Mack and
Martin Thorn. charged with tho murder OF
County instead Of in New York City.
Brooklyn fremen, while extinguishing
small blaze at 2S3 Snedeker avenue, dis
covered an Illicit still. The family occupy
ing the house was arrested.
Lieutenant Peary and his parry sailed on
the Hope from Boston for Greenland.
E. Y. Debs induced many miners in the
Fairmont region OF West Virginia to
strike, but the number OF strikers dimin-
ished greatly along the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad.
William A. Bellwood, Frenchman, forty
three years old, is prisoner in New York
City on charge Of having swindled Mar
Gus Co, jewellers, out Of jewelry valued
at 1926, 900, which he secured on memoran-
dunn. He lost the money on the races.
DR.. Richmond Cornwall, OF Kansas City,
Mo-, who, while defending his father, killed
his brother, Herbert Cornwall, was acquit-
ted. The prosecution attempted to show
that the killing was premeditated, but
failed. No further action will he taken.
Frederick C. Billings, bicycle rider, was
run down and almost instantly killed on
Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill, by a. C.
Wagner, member Of Troop A, Illinois Ma
tional Guard. The fault was entirely that
OF Wagner, who, according to witnesses,
rode his horse directly upon Billings. The
latter was trampled by the horse and his
skull was crushed.
Foreign.
The Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, formerly
Q member Of the British Cabine:, died from
paralysis.
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