The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-21
Domestic.

Twen.y-two cotton mills wcrc reopened
: at New Bedford. Mass, to give the strikers
chance to return. Tie York Cloth MILLS.
at Saco. Me-, also resumed. More than
1000 mill operatives at Fitchburg, Mass,
turned out because OF a cut In wages.
Thomas E. Edwards. foreman Of the
March Grand Jury in Brooklyn, declared
that money had been offered to him and 70
other members OF that body to prevent
the Indictment Of ex-City Works Commis-
sioner Willis and Police Commissioner,
Philips. | y
Rear Admiral Bunce, Copmandant OF the
New York NAVY yard. issued orders for
bidding the admission OF visitors there In
the future. Reporters are also to be ex.:
cluded. because certain papers have printed
false stories regarding affairs and move
ments there.
Spanish Consul Seco and yice-Consul
Fernandez, at Key West, turned their Of
fees over to the British Consul and left for
Tampa on their way to Spain.
The new torpedo boat catcher bought in
London reached New York on the steamer
Minnewaska. The steamer Europe, from
London, brought twenty tons OF rapid IRE
ammunition.
In the New Jersey elections the Demo-
gratis scored gains in Jersey City, Newark
and other large cities.
The Miller powder works in Sumneytown,
Penn, exploded, the shock being felt thirty
miles away.
The City Council OF Portsmouth, Va, is
registering the malo population as favor-
ing peace or war. When recruiting
officer arrives in town ho is to be given tho
war list first, and now many street-corner
warriors have become silent.
Ill ttxa
brated In New York the 300th anniversary
of the promulgation Of the edict OF Nantes.
The New York Presbytery proposes to
make war on the saloons by SIartiog rooms
where cheerful amusemert$wi will be fur
nished.
C. II. Guosyenor was renomirsted at
Athens. Ohio, for the sixth time by the
Eleventh Congress Districc. The conyen-
tion indorsed the policy OF President Me-
Kinley on the Cuban question.
Remorse because Of trouble with his
wife caused Edward Tyler, prominent
resident of the Town OF Shandaken to hang
himself in the attic OF his house at Peck's
Hollow, N. Y. 8
The Red D Line Steamer Venezuela and
the tug Hercules were bought for the
Government.
The Union League Club, Of New York
City, adopted resolutions arraigning Spain
for its barbarity In Cuba and the destruc-
tfon of the Maine. and praising President
Mckinley and promising him support.
The Oregon Republican State Convention
at Astoria nominated for Governor Theo-
dore Thurston Geer, OF Marion County, by
acclamatiou. For supreme Judge frank
A. Moore was nominated.
Charles Boinay, the murderer Of George
Marcus Nichols, the aged farmer OF Trum-
bull, was hanged on the automatic gallows
in the State Prison at Wethersneio, conn;
He wore the suit in which he was married
to his wife, sister Of his partner in the
crime. last June. O few weeks before the
murder.
Henry B. Pierce, Secretary OF the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, for sixteen
year, died at his home, Arlington. Mr.:
Pierce's death was due to apoplexy, by
which he was stricken while making an
address. Mr.. Pierce was born In Sudbury
in lS41. He was prominent in town and
State affairs, and his term OF service as
Secretary OF the Commonwealth was one
Of the longest in the history Of the State.
Telespore Gagnon, proprietor Of the An
droscoggin House, Berlin, n. H., was shot
through the breast and Assistant City Mar
shall Youngcliss in the hand and foot by a
UeSDefdL0 Sduduiuu, VIM Soso sAS ASsOr
of John Picot. Picot was captured, but
no. until he bad been shot in the arm and
leg by Patrolman Christianson: The
shooting was the result OF the refusal OF
Gagnon to give Picot liquor.
Representatives OF knit goods mills met,
in New York and signed an agreement to
organize In order to control the manufac7
turs of underwear. They expect to in.
corporate with capital of from $40, ,000, 900
to $50 ,0Q0, 900. a
Aman snatched cash box containing
$1,000 in money and checks from woman
cashier OF Higgins & Setter in their store
in New York City, and made his escape un-l
pursued through second-story window
Upon tho suggestion OF ex-President;
Cleveland that it would be unpatrioticjtol
indulge to partisan political discussionsatI
a crisis like the present, the Ipoquois Clubd
of Chicago, has postponed the. Democratio
gold standard demonstration which 1t had
proposed to hold. -. --.-..-