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

Floods and avalanches have partly de-
stroyed the town OF Monte Cristo, situated
In the heart Of the Cascade Mountains,
Wash.
Three buildings OF the National Tobacco
Company IN Louisville. Ky.. were destroyed
nre Friday. Loss, $3.50, 900. Two men
received fatal injuries.
The new steel strut for the torpedo boat
por.er, now lying disabled at Mobile, has
been sent to that city from the Herreshoff
works at Bristol, R. I.
A schooner from Gloucester, Mass. ha,
arrived at San Francisco with party
bound for the Klondike. The trip took II;
days.
Thirty American locomotives and 150t
tons Of railroad iron left New York by thd
steamer Chaigearn for China.
DR.. Henry G. McGonegal, who was sen
fenced to fourteen years in Sing Sing Pris'
on October Is, 1890, for causing the death
in New York City, Of Annie Goodwin, diet
in the prison hospital from senility.
An assessment amounting to s1SS,0o0
will be levied on the policy holders OF the
bankrupt United Life Association by the
receiver.
Adam Weaver, OF Bursonyille, Penn, shot
and killed Erwin Mondeau. Deputy Con.
stable, and Constable Atheraolt.
The Portland (Me.) Chamber OF Com.
merce passed resolutions urging Congress
to withdraw tho bonding privilege from
the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
The monitor Terror left the Norfolk Va.)
Navy Yard under sealed orders.
An avalanche swept down the mountain
slope at the south end OF Lake Bennett,
Alaska, buryinS 200 tons OF miners sup
plies.
General Wesley Merritt left Governors
Island, Nsw York Harbor, on tour OF in
spection OF the Notifications In the Depart
ment OF the East.
Thomas A. Edison began many suits
against the manufacturers and exhibitors
Of movable film pictures, alleging that all
such devices are infringements on his
kinetoscope patents, and IL he can estab-
lish his claim he will levy royalty.
Marine insurance companies raised their
rates on vessels in KIondlke regions.
John D. Hart, President of the Hart
Steamship Company, OF Philadelphia, who
was sentenced to two years Imprisonment
for aiding Cuban fllibustering expedition
on the steamer Laurada, was taken to the
Eastern Penitentiary.'
IbpdltS 10 tilo SudritslOH, lOIhtONu,
Philadelphia, Pensacola, Hartford and
Adams are being rushed at Sac Mare Island
(Cal.) Navy Yard.
Testimony was brought out at the trial
of Sheriff Martin and his deputies for
murder at Wilkesbarre, Penn, to the ef-
feet that the strikers threatened to stop
the Harwood Colliery. Incidents were
narrated to show where they shot at men
and wanted to cut the rope OF plane when
carload Of men were being hauled up.
Ignatius Donnelly and his stenographer,
Miss Marion Olive Hansen, were married
in Minneapolis, MINI.
Amos Il. Emo, the well-known merchant,
real estate owner and finane,er, died at
his home, in New York City, in his eighty
eighth-year.
Admiral Bunce, Major General Wesley
Merritt, and Spanish Copsul-General Bal
dasino visited Captain Eulate On board the
Spanish warship Yizcaya in New York Har-
Dor. Thousands OF persons went to Tomp-
kinsville TO try to get view OF the cruiser,
but the fog was in the way. The vessel
was decorated and salute was fred in
honor Of Washington's Birthday. :
The Senate at Albany, N. Y, passed tho
Biennial Sessions amendment to the Con-
stitution.
George W. Simmons, Boston merchant.
accidently shot and killed himself at his
summer residence, at Nahant, Mass.
washington's Farewell Address was read
in the court at Wilkesbarre, Penn, Tues
day, where Sheriff Martin and his deputies
are are trial for murder. Witnesses said
that the strikers at Lattimer were armed
and fired ut people promiscuously, while
they used violence to make others so With
them