The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-03-17
Domestic.

Mrs. J. C. Wilmerding, Jr., great grand
daughter Of Commodore Vanderbilt, has
been adjudged insane, In New York City,
and taken to Bloomingdale Asylum.
A fierce gale did a2Oo, 900 damage to the
shipping and docks at San Francisco.
Governor Leedy, o: Kansas, has issued an
address attacking the United States Su-
preme Court on account Of its decision In
the Nebraska maximum rate case.
George Jackson, q motorman, was
killed and William Gardner, o conductor,
injured In collision between passenger
trolley car and a construction car at Red
Bank, N. j.
A bitter warfare Is being waged between
the several transportation companies OPP
Grating tramways and toll-road wagons
oY(f the ChiIkoot and White Passes. The
|eaistenee Of the smaller companies Is In
volved.
Edward Price, an aged resident OF Taun-
ton, Mass, committed suicide by hanging
on the front steps Of the house where be
resided. Price. who was eighty years old,
was victim of paralysis and was pennt-
less It Is said he determined to commit
suicide rather than become apublic charge.
Chung Hee, wealthy Chinaman from
Now York, was found dead In bed In .
Chinese lodging house at Seattle, Wash.
The cause of death was consumption. He
had $1,000 In drafts and small amount Of
cash on his person.
John Wauamaker announced his consent
to be the candidate for Governor OF the
Business Mems Republican League OF Penn
sylvania.
? Senior Louis Polo y Bernabe, the new
Spanish Minister to Washington, arrived
at New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. He
declared that he was glad to come back to-
the United States. =
The Cuban Junta received from General
Lope Recio his report Of the four days
battle beginning on February FL near
Najasa, which is to the effect that the in
surgsnts won brilliant victory.
At !,illerville, Penn, Boy Gehrig, o.
Milton, shot and severely wounded his
ohum, VIII 3. Davis, OF st. Clair, and then
killed himself. Both were students OF
Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia,
and each was about nineteen years Old
The affair was caused by a dispute over q
young woman IN Millervilie.
Hsouth Town Collector Ernst, at Chicago,
required Vice-President Forgan, Of tho
First National Bank to pay instantly S85,-
273,2 disputed taxes, under q decision or
the Supreme Court, on penalty CT having
his doors closed. The money was paid
under protest. Other banks were saniiariy
dealt with.
Henry Southgate, son OF Protestant
Episcopal bishop, was sent to jail In New
York City by Magistrate Flammer because
he could not pay s6a week for his wife's
support.
Dr.A. 8. Draper has declined the place
OF City Superintendent OF Schools OF New
York City.
Judge Woodward In his charge at the
close Of the Lattimer murder trial at Wilkes
barre, PENN, defined the rights and au-
thority OF the Sheriff. the power OF the
posse comitatus, and the rights OF citizens
as regards refusing to work and inducing
others to join them in the refusal.
It is understood at Albany. N. Y, that
the Ellsworth Newspaper bill has been
abandoned on account OF the Governors
opposition.
Martin Ko2Sa, New York butcher, hid
himself in his refrigerator, after removing
the meat, and inhaled death through a.
gas tube. Els body was almost frozen
when found.
Enlistments are still going ahead at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Two hundred men;
were ordered for examination, and the un-!,
loading Of big guns from Washington con-,
tinued.
The Nebraska Populists may call an extra
session Of the Legislature to pass a maxi.
mum freight rate law, instead OF the one
declared unconstitutional.
William o. Hutchins, one OF the best.
known manufacturing jewelers. in the East
was shot and killed by a burglar at Provi-
dence, r. I.
The cruiser Montgomery left Key West,
Fla, to replace the Fern Ht Havana. The
latter vessel is to be used in carrying relief
supplies to Matanzas and Sagua. Anchor.
age has been provided for the Montgomery;
by moving the Spanish cruiser Alfonso;
XII. to the position recently held by the.