The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-08-18
Domestic.

While leaning from q window Miss Jen-
ME Allison, aged eighteen years. ofShamo-
kin, Penn, was killed instantly by her
nose coming in contact with telephone
wire that had been crossed by live arc
light wire and thus charged with 1900 volts
OF electric fluid.
The bodies OF Wade Counts. famous
West Virginia outlaw, and his son were
found in Roane County, West Virginia, un-
der tree, where the men had been killed
by lightning.
J. Henry Conrad, head Of the wholesale
coffee and spice house Of J. Conrad Co.,
Chicago, was instantly killed by falling
through an elevator shaft from the third
floor to the basement OF his establishment.
Mr.. Conrad was flfty-ssveu years old and
was wealthy.
Michael Cion, aged thirty-three. a we'll
known tobacco dealer OF Hartford, Conn,
was instantly kill in q runaway accident.
He was thrown from his wagon and his
head struck heavily against tree. His
brother, who was with him, escaped.
A severe electrical storm passed over the
camp at Miami, Fla, resulting in the death
OF Private Charles E. Gill, Company X,
First Louisiana, and Corporal E. X. Hum
phreys, Company E, First Texas.
Three hundred men have started down the
Yukon to st. Michaers, Alaska, without
money, depending on the Government to
bring them home. These, with the hundreds
now stranded there unable to get up the
river, are liable to bring about serious
crisis.
Judge J. NJ. Hobson, father OF Lieutenant
Hobson, was appointed postmaster OF
Greensboro, Ala.
Women voted at a special school election
at New Brunswick, n. j., and won by
large majority.
A mob Of $50 masked men, at Corinth,
| Miss, lynched Mullock Walker, colored, for
sandbagging Charles Dasselle.
F.A. Leach, Superintendent OF the Mint
| at San Francisco CAL, estimates the gold
| output ofthe Klondike this season at not
| to exceed S6,000,000 Food riots are feared
| at Fort Yukon. Government artillery and
| infantry will so to st. Michael's to preserve
| order.
Mrs. Kluge, who claims to be Adolph
! Sutro's widow, says she will contest the
will Of the San Francisco millionaire. The
estate is estimated at $4,000, 900.
While cleaning revolver in his Office at
| Carlisle, Penn, Chief Burgess ". E. Fought
| fatally shot himself. The ball penetrated
near the heart and lodged in the back.
| George Webster, OF West Stockbridge,
Mass, shot and killed his brother, Fred
| erick, and then killed himself. Frederick
! Webster was released recently from State
prison, where he was serving q term OF
thirty-three years for attempted murder.
William S. Kulp was arrested at Mar
| SHALL Mich, for making counterfeit dollar
| pieces. His complete outfit OF dies, fur
mace, milling machine, metal, ETC., was
secured Kulp has served one sentence for
| passing counterfeit money, being convic-
| ted in the United States Court at Grand
Rapids.
AIRS. Kate A. Hughes, OF Charlestown,
Mass, was fatally shot in the back OF the
head by Charles McMullin, whom she had
had arrested for assault. McMullin took
this means for revenge.
| A mob near Griffin, Ga, lynched John
Meadows, colored, for an assault upon a
seven-year-old white girl. There was no
resistance from the law officers.
John Evans, Of West Newton, Penn,
armed with two revolvers, went to the
home OF his wife and flred three shots at
her head. She died In few minutes. He
also shot Policeman Harvey in the leg
while trying to arrest him. Evans Is sixty
years OF age. His wife was nearly rs old.
They did not live together.
John Driscoll, q tool sharpener OF White
| Rock. r. l.. threw himself under the wheels
| OF moving freight train and was killed.
| Two cars were dcrailed.
Brigadier- General John S. Poland died
at Asheville. N. c., OF typhoid fever con-
| tracted ut ChickamauGa, where lie COM
manded n division. His wife, son and
| daughter, with Lieutenant Wrenne, OF Gen.
eral Poland's staff, left with the body for
| Westerly, R. l.. where it will be buried.
John S. Poland was born at Princeton,
Ind, October IA, 1886.
Private L. Forsythe and Charles Dunn,
| OF Companies and Arespectivay, Fourth
| Regiment of immunes, were struck by
train at Potomac Run, Va.
Governor Wolcott, OF Massachusetts. has
| commissioned dLieutenant-C Colonel Edmund
Rice. United States Army, to be Colonel OF
| the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, In the
| place OF Colonel Woodward, resigned. Gov
ernor Wolcott also app ointed Adjutant But
Ter R. Ames, OF Lowell, to be Lieutenant
Colonel.
Edward B. Bowers, Of bingham, Mass,
accused af stealing railroad stock valued
at $3.50, committed suicide when an officer
arrived ut his home to arrest him. He was
thirty-seven years Of age and married.
James Roach, private in Company K,
Twenty-second Regiment, ventured out too
far while bathing near Fort Schuyler, n. Y,
and wRs drowned.
Six robbers broke into the Union Bank at
Rlchland. Mich, and opened the safe with
nitro -glycerine, securing nearly 100000
Three men were killed by railroad trains
In Boston. Maurice Conlan, Il switchman:
John Sullivan, brakeman, and John
Reardon, who was run over by train
while crossing railroad track
Samuel L. Black, Mayor of Columbus.
Ohio, was elected President Of the League
of American Municipalities, at Detroit,
Mich.
Lieutenant Hobson was lionized at Long