The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-17

Domestic.
At Wilkesbarre. Penn, Edward Hughes
' was killed and Thomas Anderson fatally
Injured by 4 fall Of rock in the Baltimore
Mine.
The employees OF the Hillsboro Woolen
Mills at Hillsboro Bridge, N. H., were told
OF five Per cent. increase in wages, to
take effect at once
c. II. Starkey. of Macedonia, Summit
J County, Ohio, who had an inch taken from
his right jugular vein, died at the Cleve-
land Hospital. Starkey lived five days
after his jugular was shortened.
The Assembly at Albany, NY, by vote
OF IS to 63, passed resolution censuring
United States Senator Murphy for support
=, ing the Teller silver resolution.
President Baldwin, OF tho Long Island
, Railroad. has made tour of inspection
! with view to connecting Long Island vii
, lages by means Of trolley service with the
| steam lines.
Eleven persons were killed by the ex-
| ptosions Of ammonia and whisky In the
! cold storage plant Of the Chautauqua
. Lake Ice Company, n six-story building in
were reported to be missing, and were sup
! posed to be buried in the ruins, and nine
/ teen are seriously injured.
The good roads movement was discussed
at the National Assembly OF the League Of
| American Wheelmen in st. Louis,
Charles r. Skinner was reelected State
| Superintendent OF Public Instruction Of
! New York.
Major Charles T. Roe was nominated by
the Governor for Major-General OF the
| National Guard Of the State OF New York,
and was promptly confirmed by the Senate.
A bill was introduced in the State Sem
ate Mt Albany, N. Y, providing for the
| purchase Of % 900 acres Of forest land In
| the Adirondacks. to be put under the con-
troll of Cornell University.
The Buffalo On. Y.) Board OF Councilmen
has decided to make department stores pay
| license for "every branch Of business ex-
cepting their one legitimate business"
In one of the densest fogs that ever set
| tied on New York there were many accl-
dents on the water, and series OF collisions
on the az" roads.
The ice harvesters employed at i've
houses on the Hudson struck for an in
crease Of wages, and obtained 1t. There
was considerable violence while the strike
| lasted.
Chris Won der Abe, the st. Louis baseball
magnate, has been taken to Pfttsburg un-
der an order OF arrest obtained by Pitcher
Mark Baldwin, who has a judgment for
S2500 against him. The arrest was in the
nature OF an abduction.
Democrats made slight gains in tho New
York township elections.
State Senator James E. Hayes, OF Charles
town, Mass, who was taken to the City
Hospital, Boston, suffering from abdominal
frouhla cauaad 10 m xyrapnh IN allipo oy
, piece Of ice, Is dead. He was thirty-two
years Of age.
The mutilated body Of a murdered man,
headless, legless and armless, was found
| in the East River between Roosevelt and
James street slips, New York City. Life
had been extinct apparently for q few
days only.
, Salter D. Worden, who Is held in Folsom
(Cal.) Prison under sentence Of death for
wrecking the train which killed United
States trooper named Clark during the
great railroad strike Of 1894, made what he
says Is full confession. He says no drove
the strikers who placed distractions on
the tracks by direction OF labor leaders.
Ex-Mayor Sutro, Of San Francisco, has
been adjudged mentally incompetent, and
his daughter has been appointed his guar
dian.
Joseph NJ. Noonan, former Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney Of Hudson County, New
Jersey, and Assembiyman Alexander Simp-
son were placed on trial IN Jersey City on
IN indictment charging them with accept
a $500 bribe to defeat the ends Of justice.
Henry G. Young, City Treasurer Of Read-
ing, Penn, was removed by the City Coun-
Gil after shortage Of $1,000 was discovered
In his accounts. He made the amount
good.
Elizabeth Flanders and Fannie Eagle
horn, Indian girls, who tried to burn the
girls building at the Indian school, Car
Isle, Penn; pleaded guilty and were
| sentenced to one year and six months.
They said they were homesick and wanted
Captain Pratt to send them home.
The dead body of Kate Drought, eight
: cen years old. was found on the roof over
. her aunt's fiat, in New York City. She had
poisoned herself. She had been MISSING
from her home for two days.
A boy named Heary Smith was buried by
the fall OF snow house which he had dug
ont of bank N the yard OF his home in
Williamsburg. Brooklyn. He was dead