The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-07
Domestic.

Select Councilman j. Emery Bryan, ana
Nelson G. Green, attorney for the Schuyl.
kill Valley Water Company, were arrested
in Philadelphia. charged with bribery, and
placed under heavy bonds.
Bank Examiner Hardt testified before
United States Commissioner Edmunds, in
Philadelphia, that the Chestnut Street
Bank was wrecked on account Of over
drafts by William M. Singerly.
A feet OF barSes in the Ohio Rivor carry
ing coal for the Navy from Pittsburg to the
Gull has been ordered to proceed with al!
speed.
Jar.es Allen, O., Rochester. n. T., AID
Glen Sherburne, OF Ontario, were frozen to
death in an open boat on Lake Ontario,
near Sodus Point, q few days ago.
Arnout Cannon, au architect, and prom.
inent Mason Of PouShkeepsie, n. T., killed
himself while Ill and in fear OF becoming
insane.
Because Bertha Spiegle would not marry
him, William Eillman, . farmer near Pitts
his own throat with razor. The girl was
fifteen years old and refused Hillnan on
account Of her youth.
At the New York Conference in New York
City OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
thusiasm and talk OF war was checred.
Funeral services OF Anton Seidl at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York City,
furnished one OF the most remarkable de-
monstrations ever seen in New York.
Work on three more OF the old monitors
in the League Island Navy Yard, Philadel-
phia, Will begin at once.
The Senate st Albany, N. Y, killed the
81 900, 900 canal bill.
It was announced that s. r. Galloway,
President OF the Lake Shore Railroad, will
succeed Chauncey NJ. Depew as President
of the New York Central on April 20, when
Mr.. Depew will become Chairman OF the
Boards Of Directors Of the Vanderbilt
lines.
The Central Cuban Relief Committee has
decided to charter q vessel to carry sup
plies to the island, as the present means of
transportation are inadequate to dispose
OF the provisions coming from all parts OF
the country.
The annual New York Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church held its
ninety. ninth session In the Metropolitan
Temple, New York City. A resolution OF
loyalty to the President in his policy In
the present crisis was unanimously
adopted.
DR.. A. s. Lesser, OF the Red Cross Soci-
city, returned to New York from Cuba. He
confirms the stories Of starvation among
the reooncentrados.
At least fourteen persons were killed and
much loss of property resulted from cy-
clone that struck Lehigh and CoalSate In
Indian Territory and moved path about
half mile wide almost to South McAlester.
The families OF four farmers were de-
stroyed.
Democrats made winnings at the West
chester On. W town elections, some Re-
pubicans proclaiming their disagreement
with the National Administrations action
toward Spain and Cuba.
The Peoples Bank OF Philadelphia was
announced to be short more than 81 900 900.
President McManes declared he personally
would pay all depositors.
Commander Mark. Judge Advocate Of
the Maine court, returned to the Vermont,
at New York.
The Texas and the Dolphin are being
rapidly put in fighting trim at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard,
Amsn named Chute came from Chicago
and spent &500 in Long Island City "green
goods" One OF the gang has been iden-
titled and Is held for trial.
Andrew Bossert was shot and instantly
killed in Brooklyn by Martin Hans, who
found him in his rooms at night and mis-
took his fellow tenant for a burglar.
Ester K. Woodbury., eighty years old, Of
Springfield, Mass, was killed by train
while riding his bicycle In Portchester,
NY.
A burning coal bed, covering several
miles in extent from twenty-five to three
hundred feet below the surface. was found
by prospectors In the western part Of South
Dakota. The bed shows indications Of
having smouldered for years.
James W. Buchanan, q granddaughter OF
former President Buchanan, was run down
by train and killed In the Pennsylvania
Railroad yard in Altoona, Penn. The body
was discovered By his wife.
In New York because Mrs. Theodore
Cerny refused to give him food, Joseph
Skoda shot her in the eye, wounded her
husband and then killed himself.
The Austrian warship D onau arrived from
Havana and anchored In the North River
off Forty-second street, New York.
Karl Wo1en, the Consul General at New
York for Norway and Sweden, has disap-
psared. vice-Consul Rayn believes his
mind Is affected, but a cable from Christ
iania calls for his arrest on the presump-
ton Of enbezzlement.
Foreign.
The German cruiser Gazelle was launched
at Kiel and christened by Prince Henry Of
Prussia