The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-10-23
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The first snowfall ofthe season in
South Carolina was reported from
Spartanburg Monday.
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Two hundred and thirty miners
are said to be entombed in mine
near Dawson. New Mexico.
Fire at Chatham. Va, 18 miles
north of Danville, Thursday of last
week destroyed tobacco warehouse
and its contents, $4,000 pounds OF
tobacco.
Sarah Jane Colburn of Somerville,
Massachusetts. has left the bulk of
her fortune, said to be large, to the
Unitarian church at Charleston, S G,
to found home for consumptives.
James McBeth, a negro waiter in
the station restaurant at Spartan
burg, was shot to death Tuesday
night by Carl Byrum, white man
in charge of the restaurant. Byrum
claims that the shooting was acci-
dental.
Polk Miller, we'll known through
out the South for his inimitable
wartime plantation songs and sto-
ries and his banjo performances at
many Confederate celebrations. died
suddenly at his home in Richmond,
Va, Monday night.
Five members of train crews and
seven passengers were seriously in
jured in a head-on collision between
local north-bound passenger train
and a south-bound freight yester-
day morning about seven miles
south of Columbia.
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James Ramsey, colored fireman Of
Atlantic Coast Line train No 86,
north-bound from Savannah to
Charleston. was killed and Engineer
w H Martin slightly injured Sunday
night when the engine, express car
and two forward coaches jumped
the track a few miles south of Green
Pond.
On his way to the circus at Ander-
son last week John Gilbo, negro,
fell from his wagon under the wheels
and was killed. The Coroner's jury
decided that the negro died from
heart failure caused by the shock of
his fall rather than from injuries
from the wagon wheels passing over
his body.
Twenty-eight persons were killed
near Johanesthal, Prussia, last week
when Count Zeppelin's latest dirigi-
bic war balloon exploded in mid-air
at height of 900 feet. Only one
man reached the ground alive with
his eyes burned out, begging to be
killed. He died after several hours
of agony.
James G Zeigler, of Aiken county,
serving life sentence in the peni-
tertiary for manslaughter. has been
paroled by Governor Blease until
November / to 60 home to try to
save a part of his property, which is
advertised for sale the first Monday
in November to satisfy mortgages
aggregating $4,000.
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Twenty soldiers were killed and
more than 100 injured when a por-
ton of a train on the Mobile & Ohio
railroad plunged through trestle
near State Line, Miss, Sunday after
noon. The tender and three coaches
fell twenty-five feet. The wreck was
caused by the engine tender jump
ing the track about 200 feet from
the trestle.
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Thursday, October 16, William
Sulzer, Democratic Governor of New
York, was found guilty by the High
Court Of Impeachment of three of
the articles charged against him,
which included Justification of cam
paign statement, perjury and sup
pressing evidence. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Martin H Glynn, Republican,
who has been acting Governor since
the impeachment of Sulzer, will sue
ceed the latter as Chief Executive of
the Empire State. The vote against
Sulzer stood 43 to II. This is the