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m I ... ?.. . ... - ? | ^ Family Nctvrpaper ; For Lhe Promotion of tVe Political, {facial, AgriraUxural and Ooenruarrial hUcrwi*. | "TAaWB^*^ ?*? - " ? ? ok.il WEl-.KLV L A N I; A 6 T K K 8. (J, () o T O B K U 25 1H99 ??.STA HLlS^EI) 1*52. 17 ? ' ~ ino rsew lorn iresnyterian; synod officially endorses Bishop ] Potter's stand on the divorce question, refusing to recognize di- i vorco except on the New Testa-1 inent ground. NOTICE. PERSONS HOIiDING claims -1? against the estate of H Jackson Oregory, deceased, arc hereby otified t<? present the same July verified ami j those iiidet>t'd to said estate must come I forward at once and settle with the I undersigned It' T Oregory. Ailmr, Ori'en A Mines \ttys for A'/uir. Hq>t. 30, '09?3 weeks. IMPORTANT NOTICE. : 1 WILL BE IN L\Nr\-TER for J. ? short tntiM to settle up the ac ! counts due T. M. Fitzpatrick A Bro,, all parties owing the above firm must . sett'e up at once When I leave all ae-? I Counts unpaid, will he placed in an officers hand for collection, /loa't fail to heed this not ice a* it \vi I be! positively tile ia*t time I w'll he here. ! J . H FITZP aTRIi ' K I Oct 9, '99 n t\ h at r it a m v n r? ? bfKClAL NUT1CIS ! A 1,1/ PERSONS INDEBTED TO, -? ? its, either by note or account, ^liuft come forward and nettle prompt |7 We have Hold out our mercantile DusineaH to the Lancaster Mercantile Co , and it will be impoMdble for iih to carry our customers anv long r Ah you well know, we 'uive always tried to be verv indulgent hihI acc nmio* dating to our cu tvomers and have never pressed them unnecessarily, ho we hope they will appreciate the fact U'?w that we are going out of business* and will come forward promptly and make aettleiueut. All notes and ac eouuU will be due by the *1rst of No vemherand we will expect settlement in full by that time. Titan king our ft iends and tbe public jfetterally for their liberal patronage in the past, we are, Very respectfully. HEATH, HPRING8ACO. Oct. 3. 1895) -int. NOTICE TO DEBTORS. ON ACCOUNT OF WRETCHED health for the past few moutlm I am comnelled to b*? absent from Lan- j caster for treatment for Home weeks j I leave my hooka and accoutitH with | Mr John Crawford at Elliott A Craw* fo d's stwbles He is duly authorized to col feet for me, and I will be glad for,-it my friends who are indebted to | me to call on him and settle at their ; ear li?*Ht convenience I will necessarily need money in undergoing treats, meut and I will appreciate your prompt settlement. Very Respectfully, W. M.CRAWFORD, M. I). Sept 29. 1899 -tlw. Itucgies. Buggies; Buggies galore? Bougies good, Huggien better, Hug> gies Best Itnviries hie Hiiiririo H?tl? itmnriuu on ? "oi ~*no" wj **<a^^>,VD I on c\ery Htory? HuKtgto* for comfort and HugKieH to iHft, mVVE HAVE BUGGIES j ALMOST WITH I OUT NUMBER, Of till grades and at prices ranging from for a good top bug* gy on up. In fact, just at this! season wo are making a specialty of BUGGIES. Our large weekly sales is the secret of our being j able to sell a good BUGGY for] SO LITTLE MONEY. 1) flllD CONTINUES TO GROW UUn IN POPULAR FAVOR. f 1 UPD V 00 41 GENTLE LIVLJUI HORSES. I WRVIPt? HTYIIStl OLJII I IUU TURNOUTS AND CAREFUL DRIVERS. Plenty of Wagon* and Harneaa, too. <Ja|1 and ?e? ua. ELLIOTT & MEORD. A FIENDISH NEGRO BURNED AT THE STAKE. His Crime Unparalleled for Its Merciless Barbarity. Tied Mrs. Gamhrel and Four Children to Floor, Saturuted II ouse With Oil. and Applied Fire. Me mphis, Tenn., Oct 20 ? A special to The Sciinetar from Canton, Miss., says: The little town of Saint Anne, 20 miles east of Canton, in Leake county, was last night thcs scene of a tragedy?ft sequel to the burning of the Gatuhrel family the night before. Joe Leflore, a no gro, who was captured by a posse, confessed that he, in company with othor negroes, had tied Mrs Gamhrel and her four children to the floor of the house, saturated the surroundings with kerosene and burned the people alive. The negro, after a confession of the crime, was promptly roped to a stake and burned to a crisp while the citizens looked on in silence. Another negro, Boh Smith, was saved in the nick of timo, as there was doubt as to his guilt. The Gamhrel tragedy occurred Thursday morning, and it wa? first thought that the lire was the result of an uccident. A casual investigation revealed circumstances so suspicious that a more searching investigation was made, and it was soon established beyond doubt that the family had beer murdered and the house fired. Posses were immediately form ed to scour the country and followed every possible clue Bo fore the posses loft St. Anne il was discovered that .loo Leflore, f negro who lived in the neighhoi hood and who had heretofore borne a good reputation, had disappeared. Early last evening Leflore waa captured several rnilet from the scene of murder. At first the murderer denied nnv knowledge of the crime, but finally broke down ami confessed thai he and Bob and Andrew Smith, two other negroes, were guilty. He hoped for no mercy ami told with a brutal frankness all thf details of the crime. In the yard where the Gamhrel residence had stood Leflore was tied to a stake and burned alive. No one sent n merciful bullet into his body t< kill him. Andrew Smith escaped from tho mob while Leflore wa* being burned and has not been captured. Bob Smith was tied t< another stake and a tire started, though ho was finally released rk there was a possibility of his proving his innocence. Andrew Smith will be recap tured, and if it is proven that he and his brother Bob are guilty, it is thought no power can ssTethon from a similar fate meted out t< Leflore. The sheriff of Leake count) went to the scone of tho traged) this afternoon and took tho negro Robert Smith and three negro women who were implicated h) lx?flore and started to Carthage, the county seat. It is not thought the sheriff will leach Carthage with his prisoners, an there an about 500 men gathered about the scene of the crime, and tbey seen: determined to let no guilty on< escaj>e their vengeance. Tele phone communication is ver) limited, the nearest connectioc being St Anne's, about four milef distant from the Oainbrel place. ONE MORE LYNCHED. Leake County, Miss., Aroused l? Fiendish Murder of Cambrel Fiimily. Memphis, Oct 21 ? A special f The Commercial Appeal froti ! Carthage, Miss., says: Forth fiendish murder of the live mem l hers of Hie Cambrel family a St Anne's, in this (l^eake) county two men have paid the deatl ! penalty?one by burning at tin ! stake, the other by hanging. Tw< j negroes are under arrest hcyom 11h<? confines of this county and i I posse is said to be in pursuit o i inn vvmie men. i 11 is Inst state | menu, however, i? cotitrudictei j from another point, ami develop t ments must he awaited. Last night John Oliver Gray, i negro, was captured after heinj chased for miles in the swamps , He confessed that he was one o i the party that did the nmrdcroui j work, and the posse made shor work of him. He was hungc< and his swaying body riddled witl bullets. Gray in his confessioi implicated two white men, am these men, according to report are being pursued, having, it i said, left the neighborhood. ' BLACK ON OUTZS. i Language Which Seems to Invit an Immediate Fight. * Special to Greenville News. ' Columbia, S C, Oct 21. ? Ship ' ping Clerk John Black today gav out a card replying to Ouzts* charges. In brief, he says thii ho has been connected with th dispensary since May lhl)N, an L that no one ever found fault w it 1 him except Ouzts, who basal way disliked him. When Douthit was elected com missioner, Ouzts, Mr Black say> ' was as near heaven as ho wanto 4 to ho as ho then thought that h t : would have a say. He at one started to run the whole thing. J "I found that ho was goin through my desk," Mr Bluck say? | 4'and told hiin if I ever caugh I him stealing from me again that I would blow his head off." ) I I Mr Black admits that ho mad I mistakes and shows that Ouzl . I made mistakes also by soveial al , j fidavits from Wohh and other.' ( 'There is now locked up in Ouzts't I desk at the dispensary," he says . "twenty one tiottles of whiskey.' . lie says that Ouzts visited north 1 . icrn whiskey men last winter an ' i # insinuates that they paid his e> . pen .sea. Ho says that ''Young is an 01 : phan hoy working hard to suj .port his mother and aunt" and i J conclusion declares that ()u/l t . was turned out for dishonesty an i violating orders "and my opinio > | of him is that he is a thief, scour i drel and liar." llo is severe i r his 'anguage against Ouzts an r says he did not want to let go tli , joh of shipping clerk, insinuatin , he made money out of it. ' A FRI?IITFUI<, II Is US t l)EK, Will often cau?o a horrihl K I II - I 1 ' 1 * ? 5 nurii, ocaiu, uut or Bruiai 5 Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the l>ei i in the world, will kill the pai > and promptly heal it. Cures Ol Soros, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boili r Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptioni i Beat Pilo cure on earth. Onl i 25 cts*a tK)X. Cure guarantee* . Sold by Crawford Bros Druggist! BOERS BEATEN BY THE'11 BRITISH. ' V j i First Serious Battle of Cam-jf paiga Fought at Glencoe. a, I r 11 ? Si^ht Desrribod us Grand Kxhihition of Coura?ro ? Boers Fled t ?British Loss 250; Boers, ,1 son. * " i, [> j Glencoe Camp, Oct 20, 2:50 pj ' j m.?Aft^r ei?;ht hours of continI i ~ ^ ^ j 1 j uous heavy tightinjj, Talana hilljK( 1 was carried l?y the Dublin Fusi- ?i *| leers and the Kiel's Rifles under * I cover of a well served artillery by w( i the Thirteenth and Sixtv-ninth ' ? batteries. Tho Boers, who threatened tho j 11 British rear, have retired. The I r * fight was almost an exact counter 1p ^ part of that at Majuha Ilill, ex-^ |( cept that the positions of the Boer , g and British forces wore reversed. | t j Gen Sy rnons was severely but b ^ not dangerously wounded. . t< Afternoon?The Guttle today ;ii j has been a brilliant success. The jo Boers got a reverse which may e a possibly, for a time at any rate, si check all aggressive action. n The British artillery practice in f< tho early part of tho day decided o the buttle. The seizure of Dun- a deo Hill by tho Boers was a sur c prise, for although the pickets had N been exchanging shots all night, it was not until a shell boomed over F the town into tho camp that their r > presence was discovered. Then 8 e the shells came fast. The hill s was positively alive with the it swarming Boers,[Jtill the British o artillery got to work with magd nificent energy and precision. h The batteries from tho camp 5 I s took up positions to tho south of the town and after a quarter of " , an hour's magniticient firing, silencod tho guns on the hills, d The correspondent could see * o shells dropping among tho Boer o pieces with remarkable accuracy and doing tremendous execution, for tho enemy were present in . | very large numbers and in placos ^ I considerably exposed, j i By this time the army held the ' whole of the hill behind Smith's 1 i Farms and tho Dundee Kopje, 0 I 1; , . rioht away to tho south, in which 1 . direction the British infantry and 1 rcavalry moved at once. ' The fighting raged particularly i 1 i hot at tho valley outside the town. ( ,! Directly tho Boer guns ceased fir- 1 ( I ing (Jen Symons ordered the in j 'fantry to move on the position. 1 j Tho infantry charge was magnifi- I cent. ( The storming of the position by 1 the King's Koyal Initios ami the 1 ' ! Dublin Fusileors was one of the * n j most magnificent sights ever wit- i ^ S ' 1 " nessed. The tiring of the Boers 1 was not so deadly sh might have i 11 been expected froni troops occu 1 1 pving such an excellent position; 1 n but the infantry lost heavily go- 1 ( ing up the hill, and only the con- ( ie snmmately brilliant way in which " Gen Symons had trained them to fighting of this kind saved them 1 being swept away. Indeed tho 1 hill was almost inaccessible to the storming party, and any hcsita 1 lo tion would have lost the day. The * enemy's guns, so far as the cor- 1 ^ respondent could see, wore all (| abandoned, for the Boers had no ), ti?e to remove them. A stream ?. of fugitives poured down the hill y side into the valley, where tho 1. hattle went on with no abatement, i. Gen Sytuons was wounded I , arly in t ?? action, and the comnand then devolved on Gen Yule, t is feared Gen Svmons is fatally uirt. 'l'ho enemy as they lied were ollowed hy the cavalry, mounted ufantrv and artillery. The di oetion taken was to the eastward. it the hitast reports the cavalry ad not returned. Some say that four and some ay tive guns were captured. The loer artillery firing was weak. A >t of plumed shells were used. Although the enemy's position uis carried soon sfter 1 o'clock, mattered firing went on almost all le afternoon. The British losses are very ?vore, hut those of the Boers are inch heavier. The final rush was made with a numphant yell, and as the Britih troops charged to close quar?rs the enemy turned and tied, j ?aving all their impediments and uns behind them. While this was going on, one attery of artillery, the Eigh.'enth Hussars, and the mounted lfantry, with u part of the I^ei-; ester regiment, pot on the nemy's Hank aud as the Boers treamed wildly down the hills, ; taking for the main road, they nund their retreat had been cut fT, but they rallied for a while nd there was severe firing, with onsidorahla loss to each side, lany of the enemy surrendered. A rough estimate places the British loss at 250 killed or rounded, and that of the Boers at 100. The British Casualties. London, Oct 21?The war ofieo announces that in the lighting 'estorday between Glencoe and Dundee, in Natal, 31 non-comnissioned officers and mon were tilled and 151 wounded. HOHTIXG CONTJN'UES NEAK GLEXCOE C.AMP. d eagre Dispatches Tell of Engagements Around Dundee. n Cilencoo Camp, Natal Oct 22.? Ieavy firing is now in progress o the northwest of this camp. London, Oct 22. ? According O a special dispatch from (Jlen roe camp the British cavalry while >un?uing the defeated Boers, were mgaged I?v a strong force of the tneiny <>n the north road. Firing s now in pi gross. Cape Town, ()ct 21, 10 a m.? It is reported here from (ilencoe hat the Boer force under the 'ommandant, Gen Joubert, has ittacked, or is about to attack, :he British entrenched position at [ilcncoo. 3 i) in. ? It is now definitely known that Glencoe was attacked yesterday by tlie Boer main northem column. Our forces are entrenched in a good position. The situation there is not yet fully clearod up. Cape Town, Oct '22, 2 p in.? A. dispatch has just arrived announcing that tho Boers are shelling Dundee, east .of Glencoe, at long range, but that their tiro is ineffective. Lourenzo Marques, Oct 21 (delayed in transmission)?The town is fairly ?run over with refugees, among whom aro a thousand persons released from Transvaal jails. Thousands of natives, men and women, are huddled together, and there is a large representation of Johannesburg j roughs, Malays and Indians, who speaking different languages, 'create u perfect pandemonium. A transport has been ordered to take the British destitute away immediately. British Arms Win After Fine Fight. Glenco, Camps, S. A, Get 23? An uttack made by the Boers on the British position Saturday enabled the British to secure a si<r mil success. The Boer column was driven pell inell over the nlttinw lusdnnr ItHO in L-ill..<l on.l wounded. In addition tlie British 0 iptured several hundred homes, and made many prisoner*. THE nOEH CAKl" A1.T1KS. London, Oct 23? An official dispatch from Ludysmith, gives the list of casualties among the Boers at the hattle of Elands Laagte, among whom are, Gen Villjoen, killed; (icn Kock, wounded and captured, since died; Gen Rock's son, killed: Colonel Schiel, a German officer commanding the artillery, wounded and a prisoner. Several Boer standards were capt.ired. THE IlItlTIMI LOSSES. The official list of the British casualties at the same hattle shows: Colonel Scott Chisholm, killed, and one colonel, one major, oiulit captains and eleven lieutenants, 1 wounded; thirty-seven non-commissioned offces and privates kill led and 130 wounded. I BIG TRESTLE BURNED. j Over Broad River on Air Line Road. Take Week to Rebuild. Special to The State. Blackshurg, Oct 31.?The j bridge of the Southern railway across Broad river, three tniies south of this place, was burned last night The entire trestle work of the east end ami all of the wood work on the bridge was entirely consumed, but the bridge itself, which is of iron, is lelt intact. The bridge proper, besides the trestles, was four spans, or j 592 feet long, The trestle will soon bo rebuilt, and it is thought that trains will be running over it in one week. In the meantime Southern trains will pass over the j South Carolina and Georgia Extension road from this place to Gaffney. Dewey Cannot Fill llis Engagements. Washington, Oct 21 ? Admiral Dewey, on the advice of his physician, has cancelled the dates for his visits to Philadelphia and Atlanta and will accept no more (invitations of this sort before next spring. i Funston Ottered Commission as General. i Kansas City, Oct 24. ? A Star j special from San Francisco says: Gen Fred Funston today received a telegram from the war department offering him a brigadier's command if he would return to the Philippine islands after his former regiment, the Twentieth Kansas, is mustered out. (.Jen Funston accepted the offer. I To Car* Cooat Ipatlon fonter. , I Taka C***ar*ta Gaudy Cathartic. 10c or *. JhCaaMlM iw, ?r*c?lM* r*fu*4 MO*** I