The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-08-11
Domestic.

EDWARD Is. bowers. ol
accused af stealing railroad stock vnlued
nj 1850. committed suicide when an officer
arrived Mt his home to arrest him. He was
thir.y-seven years OF age and married.
James Roach. n private in Company r,
Twenty-second Regiment, veutured ont too
far while bathing near Fort Schuyler, n. Y.
and was drowned.
Six robbers broke into the Union Bank at
Richland. Mich, and opened the safe with
nitro glycerine, securing nearly slO,OO
George Greenleff. OF Buffalo, N. Y. shot
and killed his mother-in-law. Mrs. Edgar
Meisner. and fatally wounded William Fle-
we'll. who was at the house at the time.
Greenleffis blacksmith, thirty-seveny years
old.
Samuel L. Black. Mavor OF Columbus.
Ohio, was elected President OF the League
OF American Municipalities, at Detroit,
Mich.
Three men were killed by railroad trains
In Boston. Maurice Conlan, switchman;
John Sullivan, a brakeman. and John
Reardon, who was run over by train
while crossing railroad track.
Lieutenant Hobson was lionized at Long
Beach, Y. J.. where he was presented with
a gold sword and kissed by the prettiest girl
at the hotel.
Miss Mira North. OF Stafford, n. Y. was
instantly killed by running into q railroad
train with her wheel. She lost control Of
her wheel, and it ran between the engine
and tender.
John Petit, OF New York City, reputed
to be many times O millionaire, disap-
peared four months ago, and his partner,
william Calhoun, sues him to recover prop
erty worth IS, 100000.
Commissioner Of Immigration North has
discovered In San Francisco, Cal, an Or
ganizaton similar in its aims and purposes
to Chinese highlander tong. Wakayama
jim Kai is its name, and its members are
some of the wors tcharacter5 in the Japan
ese colony.
The Spanish Transatlantic Steamship
Company will not be able to fulfil its con-
tract for carrying the prisoners from San
tiago to Spain.
james Carney. twelve years old, OF Cam
den, y. j., saved Frank Post, q playmate,
from drowning and then, eyhaused by his
efforts, sank from sight and did Hct rise
again.
George Partlow, six years old, and John
Collins, four years old, OF Haverhfll, Mass,
were buried by the cavinS-in OF sand
bank while playing. The bodies were re-
covered.
John ". Battshill, of Ecorse, Mich, shot
and killed james st. James, Of st. 1gnace,
corporal in Company l, Thirty-hfth
Michigan Infantry. st. James married
Bertha May Welsh, Battishill's sister-in-
the fatal result.
Ephraim W. Sells, the elder OF the Sells
brothers, well-known circus men. died In
Columbus, Ohio, Of Brights disease, after
an illness of several months.
Frank C. Fleming, OF Chicago, while
crossing Valdez Glacier, Alaska, fell 200
feet and was killed.
During fit of temporary insanity George
Tod. q brother Of j. Kennedy Tod, the
banker. jumped from a tenth-story window
at the Hotel Majestic, New York City, and
was instantly killed. He had been suner-
ing from nervous prostratIon.
r. Hugh. the Chancellor OF the Swiss
Legation at Washington, who Is spending
the summer at Cottage CitT,. Mass, res
cued X. Sico. OF Toxic, Japan, from drown
ing. Mr.. Sico had gone under twice when
the Swiss Chancellor saw him, and, plunG-
ing in, brought him to the surface.
William Reid was sentenced by Justice
Lippincott in the Hudson County Court,
jersey City, n. j., to be hanged on Sep
tember Is. Reid was convicted OF the mur-
der OF Andrew Henry in Hoboken.
Two Young women and five young men
we're drowned by the cepsizlng OF three
pleasure boats at Willow Springs, suburb
OF Chicago. The bodies were recovered.
Twenty-Five United States marines, under
command OF Lieutenant Lambert, sailed
from Seattle, Wash, on the City OF topeka
from Skaguay, ALASKA.