The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-01
Domestic.

Mrs. {. h. MakkemaUS, or JackS0nvllle,
Cal. sacrificed her life in saving her three
children from death In fire started by
the accidental upsettinG Of lamp. All
we're terribly burned. The mother IS dead,
but the children will recover.
Nathan Hollenbeck, a deputy pound
master, OF Oakland, Cal, was shot dead by
Quan Non, q Chinese gardener, who was
watching fonvegetable thieves. Non sur
rendered.
The business portion Of Cartervijle, H.,
was almost completely wiped out by fire.
Twenty-Five business 1rms were burned
The loss was about s25O, 900, with but small
insurance.
The forgery case against Mrs. Myra
Atkinson, wife Of Governor Atkinson, OF
West Virginia, has been dismissed.
The HereschofTs will turn out for the
Morgan-Iselin syndicate, the fastest and
costliest ninety-footer ever built. The
contract has been signed, and the cost Is
placed at Sl20,600.
Sixty prospectors, just returned to
Tacoma, Wash, from Copper River, Alaska,
tell stories OF terrible suffering. They say
that an unknown number OF men, estima-
ted at fully fifty, have lost their lives by
crevasses of the Valdes glacier while get
ting back 70 the seacoast.
Rev. J. B. Fletcher was riddled with
buckshot while standing in pulpit at
Smiley Ga. while lie was attempting to
organize Congregational Church at that
place. He was not killed.
William c. Hinchman, q wealthy cram
berry grower Of Haddonfield, n. j., was In
or Liila5 hy trnllav-oar Had
donneld. He was driving il buggy,
when the car struck him, and he was thrown
under the car wheels.
An explosion at the plant Of the Chatta-
nooga Powder Company at Coltowah
Station, eighteen miles from Chattanooga,
Tenn, killed two men, Lucius B. Eakin and
Harton Mortchke, and wounded seriously
six others. After the explosion the plant
was destroyed by fire.
A passenger train on the Atlantic, Knox
Vile and Northern was wrecked in col
lision with freight cars three miles south
OF Knoxville, Tenn. Two Of thefrain crew
were fatally injured. Engineer Bert Gar
wood, OF Blue Ridge, Ga. was killed, and
tho fireman, name unknown, was fatally
injured. Several passengers were slightly
injured.
The atth trial Of A. \. Ward at Memphis.
Tenn. charged with forging notes to the
amount II nearly S250,O00, resulted in a
verdict Of guilty, and the defendant was
sentenced TO three years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. All the previous at.
tempts to convict Ward had resulted In
mistrials.
Hugo Zeilner and wife. Of Chicago,
aged respectively sixty-five and seventy,
were found dead In their room at board
inghouse In Milwaukee, Wis, having COM
mitted suicide by taking chloroform. De.
spondency over financial reverses caused
the aged couple to end their lives.
Theodore Gusman. who refused to lower
the American flag at Clipperton Island when
ordered to do so by Mexican man-of-war,
remained on the desolate island thirteen
months and left Old Glory flying, arrived
safely at San Diego, California.
Mrs. Christensen, Wife OF balloonist,
was killed at Jamaica Bay, Long Island, by
falling from balloon 200 feet into the
water.
The Air Line Elevator, at Chicago owned
by P. D. Armour, and the Galena Elevated
Company, was totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is 50 10000. It contained $780,
300 bushels of wheat, and 209,0 900 bushels Of
cleanings. A defective gas jet caused the
fire. The buildiDsAand contents were fully
insured.
John T. Lee, thirteen-year-old son OF
James F. Lee, OF New Haven, Conn.,, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. Upon being
punished for neglecting to do some chores,
he went down to the cellar, and adjusting
strap about his neck, hanged himself
from q rafter.