The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-05-20
Domestic.

Chang Yen Hoon, head of the Chinese
imperial Treasury and special Ambassador
20 the Queens jubilee celebration, arrived
IN New York on his way to England.
Edward b. Dodge, aged fifty years, COM
nitted suicide at Worcester, Mass. he went
10 DR.. Rice's house, where he met Dr.. Rice,
and presenteda pistol to the latter's head.
The doctor induced him to lie down In an
adjoining room. No sooner had the doctor
turned his back than Dodge fred bullet
INTO hfs head.
Gerald Peters, West Indian colored
eper, stole boat and escaped from North
Brother Island, New York City.
A late break In q Louisiana levee will
cause some Of the richest sugar lands In
hat State to be submerged.
The Grand Jury in New York City In
iicted Commander Booth Tucker, Of the
Salvation Army, for maintaining public.
,uisance-the Fourteenth street barracks.
The new Flower telescope and observa-l
sory buildings Of the University Of Pennsyl.
rsnia were dedicated at Philadelphia in
he presence Of about fifteen hundred per-
IONS.
C. @. Baldwin, Naval officer Of the Port
II New York, died in Newport, R. I. He
Eas born IN Anne Arundel County, Mary
and, in 1884, and when the war broke out
,ntered the Confederate Army from Balti-
more.
Ten-year-old Mamie Cummings, who was
arrested at Mount Vernon, N. Y, April II
.or stealing bicycle from Charles McKen-i
he, was sent to the Catholic Protectory at
Testchester.
One Of the worst failures known In San
francisco, Cal, for several years occurred
ghen Williams, Brown d Co., who did Q,
heavy trade In canned salmon, wheat and;
ruit with Australia, failed for S6C0, 600.
The firm was established five years ago byI
William Brown, son Of Cashier Thomasi
Brown, Of the Bank Of California.
Rumford Falls, Me-, will soon have the
biggest paper machine In the world. ~
vas made in Worcester, Mass, and VIII
produce paper $50 inches wide, beating the
worlds record by two inches.
Professor shsffer, Of the Rochester On.
~ Theological Seminary, fell out OF
window and was killed.
Owen Bowie asked Charles Smith, q farm
land, for a chew Of tobacco at Frederick,
Nd, and upon being refused shot Smith
With an old army musket and made his eS-
,ape. Smith died. Both are colored, and
Bowie Is known as desperate character.
Frederick Jackson Cunningham, q young
nan OF good family and high social posi-!
ion, is in prison at Atlanta, Ga, charged
With highway robbery and with assault
With intent to kill.
Fifteen students Of Grove City College,
me OF the best known schools In Western
Pennsylvania, have been expelled by the
,ollege faculty for riotous conduct.
C. IL. Damsel, general bookkeeper at the
National Bank Of Columbus, Ohio, Is found
@ be short S25, 900 in his accounts with the
,ank. He fed.
In anticipation OF the duty OF ten cents
,er pound provided for In the Senate
amendment to the tariff bill the price OF
ca has been advanced in New York markets
rom three to FIVE cents pound.
The sealed verdict Of tho jury in the case
HF. A. Rockafellow, the former banker,
Who was charged with embezzlement, was
opened in court at Wilkesbarre, Penn. The
defendant was found guilty with recon-
nendation to mercy.