The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-30

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Senator Jacob A. Cantor, OF New York
City, and Miss Lydia Miriam Greenebaum
| were married in Chicago. Richard croker
was Senator Cantor's best man.
Two men were killed and three seriously
injured by the bursting Of fve-ton fy-
! wheel at the factory OF the Providence (h.
~ Rubber Shoe Co.
Fully Sc, ,50O. 900 In gold coin Is In sight
! bound from Europe and Australia for'
| America. OF this %, 2,500, 900 will come d.
rect to New York.
United States Judge Constantine Buckley!
i Kilgore, ex-Congressman from Iexas, dleai
at Ardmore, Indian Territory, after snort
| illness. He was born In Newman, Ga., IN
| 1885.
RE. Peary, the arctic explorer, In an in
| terview in Philadelphia, says that when ne
goes North next year he viii! stay until ne
| reaches the pole or loses his lie In the
attempt. He has five years leave OF ao-
: sence.
General Benjamin F. Tracy says ne win
| accept the nomination for Mayor OF Greater
| New York IL offered to him by the Repu bli-
can organization. Henry George also an
| nounces that he will accept nomination
by the free silvsrites, II an issue Is made
! for him.
President Mckinley and the partyaccom-
, panyinp him on hts Massachusetts, trip
went to Lenox, where they were the guests
| Of John Sloane.
Eighteen, gold seekers are said to have
| been been killed by land slide near Sheep
| Camp, on the Chilkoot Pass, In Alaska. All
! the bridges on the Skaguay River have
| been wash ID out, and 1t is raging tor
rent.
Nearly dozen miners, mostly Russians
| and Italians, were killed or wounded by an
explosion In coal mine near Manon, Ill.
John R. Gentry and Robert J. broke the
worlds team pacing record In Philadelphia,
making mile in 209.
President Mckinley and his party were
warmly welcomed in the Berkshire Hills OF
Massachusetts,. The President Is the guest
! of an old friend, and made speech to
big crowd at the Hoosic Valley Fair, North
Adams.
| Sheriff Martin and his deputies were held
] for trial by the Court in Wilkesbarre, PENN,
! for the shooting Of strikers at Lattimer.
The State Committee Of the National
! Democrats, at a meeting in New York, en-
dorsed Alton B. Parker, the candidate OF
the regular D Democracy for Supreme Court
Judge.
Joseph VI. Hardy and Henry G. Blake
were sentenced at Albany, Y. Y. to four
! teen years and four months Imprisonment
. for Kidnapping little John Conway. Hardy
is the boys uncle. Albert 5. warner, New
York LAWYER. Is charged with being an ac-
complice. but has lot yet been captured.
The object Of the kidnappers was money,
and the case aroused great interest through
out the State.
: The Jury at Frankfort, Ky.,in the trial
OF DR.. Hunter and others accused OF bril-
berry in attempting to secure Hunter 9 cleo
ton to the United States Senate, returned
verdict OF not guilty in all the cases.
! Mrs. Elizabeth McBoberts, OF Buffalo, N
Y, Jumped into the Niagara River and was
carried over the Falls. She was sixty-fve
years old, and suffering from ill-health and
melancholla,
Hon. George F. Hoar, OF Worcester. Mass,
made the address Of welcome at the Ma
ticnal Conference OF Unitarian and other
Christian churches In Saratoga, N. Y.
The widow OF Dr.. Rial. the former
leader OF the partiots in the Philippines, Is
in Philadelphia, where she has made ar
rangements for military expeditions to AID
the insurgents, and concluded an agree
ment for mutual assistance with the Cuban
Junta. She intends to return to the Phil
ippines to lead the patriots in person. Her
husband was executed by the spaniards.
| William Gantz, a pressman, who had
often boasted that he would accomplish
the feat, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge
and was rescued from the water with ap-
parently but slight injuries.
The first snow storm Of the season is re-
ported from Juneau, Alaska, stopping
travel over the passes to the Klondiie gold
fields.
The Republican organization, under SEN
ator Platt's leadership, carried the Repup-
lican primaries in New York without oppo-
! sition, assuring solid delegation against
Seth Low for Mayor. The Democratic
primaries in Brooklyn resulted in the gen.
eral success Of Hugh McLaughlin's organ
ization.
| - Further Improvement in the yellow FEVER
situation in the South is reported.
! A coal mine near Blocton, Ala., caught
fire, and before all the miners could be
rescued FIVE were burned to death and
three or four were reported missing.
The bones Of a mastodom have been un-
earthed near Waterloo, Ind. One tooth
weighs about five pounds. The bones,
measured separately, give the standing
! height about eighteen feet.
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