The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, November 05, 1904, Image 2
THE LSDI
I La W i t-. '.'4 ? w
TBURLOW S. CARTER,
EDITDK AND MANAli KK.
IBBUED WEDNESDAY AN l> SAM K1?AY
SATUUDAY NOVKMItKK 5th, 1 'J04.
BUBKUUTPTTON f>0 PK?' YK A It
NATIONAL TICK 1ST
For President,
ALTON B. 1'A UK KB,
of New York.
For Vice President,
HEN BY (i. DAVIS,
of Wc.-t Virginia.
??? HI III W ?I ! W-. HEx~ r\ > V. ,T>.TWA
It. 11. Edmunds, the well
known clothing merchant in Co
lumhia, died in thut city Mouday
night.
Dr. . S. Moflatt, of Ci este r,
hat* been elected u member of the
faculty of Erskino College If he
accepts, he will be asked to teach
six or seven months in the year,
and devote the rest of his time to
travelling in the interest of the
College.
Clarence McDonald, the man
accused of murdering young Per
ey troves m voiiiinohi, 11:1s neon
refused !>:iiI by ,lud^o I'urdy.
The hearing was lieKi several
weeks ago in Camden, but the
decision wa> not made known till
recently.
Kcv. 1\ llickson lays down
the proposition that the prohibition
law is no more ditlieult of enforcement
thau is the dispensary law.
This proposition, we tliiuk. is
susceptible of proof.?Yorkville
Enquirer.
?Mr. Jacob Helms, of Unionville,
hud on exhibition hero a few
days aero "Siamese twin" pigs.
The pigs wore joined together and
had eight feet, two bodies and
a double head. The freik was
dead.?Monroe Enquirer.
? Kcv. W. C. Ewart returned
last week from the meeting of the
Associate Reformed synod, which
was held in Missouri. lie spent
several days at the World's Fair;
but says that one cannot sco the
great show properly inside of
several weeks. Mr. Fwnrt was
fortunate enough to see the
first flight of the wonderful airship
Arrow, about which so much his
been said during the past fewweeks.?Yorkvilie
Enquirer.
The lbggest Election l?el.
Silver City, N. M., Oct. 30.?
V Plnon t 11 r* Pi una A hoc
i v# x iuvu v* kamkj x uiu.i
Gold and Silver Mining Company
of Grunt County N. M., nnd
Charles M. Shannon, proprietor
of u newspaper in Silver City,
have mmle the largest hot lluis
far on the result of the Picsiden^
tial election. Mr. Place bet his
new gold mill and all the company'sjmines
and property, including
the mercantile house, valued
at ?(>00,000, on Roosevelt, against
the Hughes and Shannon mine
property, also valued at$G00,000,
on l'arker.
DISASTROUS WKPCKS
( 'lil'n1r>wVnr?uu i -J Il.li 4' ...
VWI^IVC.JIIVOO to i VOUUIIDHMU I'M
many u railway wreck ami the
same causes are making human
wrecks uf sulFcrers fr <m Throat
and Lung trouhlo. Hut since the
advent of Dr.Kind's Now Di-cov
ery for Consumption. Coughs an 1
Colds, even the worst cases can be
cured,and hople.-s resignation is no
longer necessary. Mr. Lois
Dragg of Dorchester, Mas, i.
ono of many whose life was saved
by Dr. King's New Discovery
This great remedy is guaranteed
by Crawford llros., .1. l'\ M ickey
cC Co. and i uiutf i burk INiur
marcy, Drnigist. l'rico 50c, and
tfc i n/i T.:?l c
fi.vv; iiiui uutuu iter.
I'iri .! is xow liooias)
Japanese Now Occupy Position
Which Place East SUlo f the
Town M I'li- ir M? re .
CliellM), NOV. 4.o0. II;.Port
Arthuj i> ?!. oineil. Tlx* e?
respoutlent of the Associate i Prohere
ha* received information. th
reliability of which is beyoti
<pie-tion , thai, the Japanese no
occupy poM'i ns which placed tl
ei-t side of the town at thel
mercy.
The Inst assault ha> gained f<
them positions which insures tiie
ability to enter the t lain east for
w hencvcj t In y ju v re idy
t he Japatie i calculate ti nt
the ilussnws do i) ; smrcudt
now thev will be cap. >!e of pr<
longing tin- lighting by inakii
their limit stand at Liaoti pi
monlory and t in rs Tail, for
month longer, with themcro lu>i
of continuing the struggle.
Long before the second l'acil
s<juadrou arrives in the lhicilic
the Japanese ilug,it is n believe
will wave oyer the wrccUcdcitadc
This will cn-l Viceroy Alcxoill
dream ot an uneoinpicraule eit;
The Japanese have not occopu
tin; main forts and highest poin
of the ea-t lull,hut ttioy occupy
ovei helming numbers posilioi
which will enable th'-m to drr
tlje Russian) hack whenever the
desire.
Wiien the Japam e occupy li
eastern ridge forts they will cot
plelely dominate the oilier Kit
-inn forts with tiien urtilkwy.
An Appalin^; Accident.
VvilKesbarro, Pa., Nov. 2.One
cf the most appalling mil
accidents in the history of tl
Wyoming v. -ley for mauy yea
past occurred at No. 1 Auchi
class shaft, operated by the Dc
aware, Lick wanna and \Y. stoi
Coal company at Nanticoice,
au early hour this morning 1
which ten men were buried
instant death and three serious
injured. The men were mo.it
all upon the mine carriage to I
lowered to the worKiugs b
low.
Tho signal was given to ti
engineer, who began lowerit
the men. Tho carriage had goi
but a low feet jvhen tho engine
lost control of his engine, owii
to tho reverse lovers failing
worK, and the carriage, with i
i load of human freight, ton in a
i
; was dashed beyond tho R)
I vein, landiug nearly 1,100 i'o
b low tho surface itvl from the
| theS* wore precipitated 000 fe
further into a su;r::>
Th?)fio who may not have bet
Killed outright wore withoi
doubt (1 .j vtied in the sum
which 19 fully 50 Joet deep wil
water.
I'p to 8 o'cIock tonight i
huir uu aid could reach thorn ai
every man on the ill-fated ca
ringe has boon given up by tl
mine ollieials as lost,
i The victims, whowero mine
and laborers, all leaidod in Nai
ttcoKo and most of them lea^
' f imilies. Thoy wore Polos <
I Slaws with the exception of oi
| numo 1 ?ohu Kornper.
... ?. ? ?
<?'< are selling a great man
good- regardless of cost. Con
and sec before you buy.
Lancaster Mercantile Co.
V l'olieein in's Testtnioiiy,
I. N. 1* tlcraon, nbdit polici
man of Ni-liin, la., writes
"Last winter I had a cold on m
lungs and tried at least half a do:
en adverti.-eu c nigh medicines an
had treatment from two phys
, cians without getting any benetil
:A friend reeommended Fol iy
1 Iloncv and'I'm and two thirds (
1 a bottle cured me. 1 consider
liic ^i^ u.i \ '.u_li iii.I Imcii
ci no-i ii I ho world."' Sold l?y Km
Imrk l'liiumticy.
. r-f rr- - iirainat "*
#
i kcport oi Cotton (iinnoiJ.
s i ;i Ccm-is Oilic.) U4iiom a BuSi
lit. *. y Counties and Slates.
:
U'ud.mgl.m, Oct. 31. ?It
census ollico today Issued a bulb- j
, tits showing that up to Oct. i . !
u
') 0,770,505 running bales ( !
(> ' cotton have been ginned in C
. counties located in the varioi
111 ;
... cotton producing States as agair
,,.3.155,<)s- running bales repnrli
r ; to the same (lutein 1903. (Junta ?:
ing round hales as half bales,' the
(1. ' rntining Males for 1901 is reduced
to 5,70-1,570, and for 1903 to 3,
L 345,702.
i 'the number of counties n
, Stat s from which ginning is i ,
!j oit> (". and the number ofruunii ;
i hales from each State is as fc
)- ] 1
. , : lows:
1 g i . J
Aiab.;ma, 55 counties, 001,1M' ,
o ' '
, ; bales: Arkansas, 0 I counties, 210,- J
; !57 hales: Florida, 19 counties.
! 10,4Mi bale-; (ieorgia, 1*24 conn j
. 'tu's, 1.05*2,818 bales; Louisiana. |
I 12 counties, ?305, 1.13 bales; Mis-1
j si>sip|?i, (?s counties, 548<,9G'.11
j ! bales; Missouri, 8 counties, 10,-f.
| 5'11 bale-; North Curolinu, 67 i
, ! counties, 151", 154. bales; South j
f* I _
,, j Can linn (complete), 643,57" j
, . ! bales; Tennessee, 35 comities, 72, '
ts | > i
j 11?1S bales; IVxus, 139 counties,,
ls 1,968,874 1 > il*. ^; Virginia, 9coun.
, : tic s. 5,1 I 5 bales.
m i '
j I he number of counties report- !
i inix pn >i* to Oct. Is*, 19051 was
0 S112. The number of round bales
n_ reported thi-year is 143,989, us
j compared with *218,760 last year.
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! Ue-orvoir Gave Way Causing
Los- of Nino Lives.
Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 2.?A
~ ' reservoir of the muuicipal water10
I works, located near the centre of
)0 | Winston, N. C, broke at 5 o'clock
' ' tbis morniug, causing the death of
n' nine persons and the injury of
1 four or Ii\ o others.
The north side of tho reservoir,
a' which h 30 l'cet high, tuuih^edi
over, falling upon the homo and
t0 harn of Martin V. Peoples. There
^ : was about 800,000 gallons c-f
1 v . .
J water in tho reservoir, and th *
I mud stream rushed northeast t
10.
the Southern railway cut and
thence toCelos pond, adistnnci of
10 i ,
a half mile. Four tenement
l r
r' houses were washod several hun10
died yards.
There were several miraculous
* escapes. A colored man and his
wife, named Davis, after thei.
18
linnsn wns 1iirtif.fl <ivf? (1,I
il, i r 1
in.on (ho stream of water on their
ss
bed to the railroad junction, a
distance >f 500 yards 11o lodged
re
^ upon a heap of rubbish and walkoil
out without a scratch.
?n Explosion Of Dynamite Shook
ut Mount Vernon, N. Y.
p,
th Mount Vernon N. Y., Nov. 2
?The explosion of over a ton of
o dynamite under the Bond street
id bridge here at 1 o'clock today
i'- shook the city and the surrounding
io country within a radius of five
niilos, probatdy killing at least one
rs person and injuring nearly 4 0
i?- others, two of whom may die.
'o The explosion toro a hole in tho
^r ground 80 feet deep that is now
full of water from a hidden spring !
Many houses ware shifted from
their foundations, walls were
iy
!C dripped <'f plaster and furniture
wus splintered .
<CJ ^ ?3 TOlt x ~r\..
tJ.,0 Kil^n''lla,c "'lv,r^
r\ I i UN XT r ~17Ti: Y C LIS.
'?
y .. Terminated with an ugly cut on
the le</ of ?l. H. Orner, Franklin
d drove, III. it dovolopod a slut)
i- horn ulcer unyielding to doctors
I- and remedies for four years.
'^ . . n.. 11 k n .
- I IJUCKICII S ^Vl IUC!ir> ll VO Climl
f Ii'h just hh good for llurns, Scalds,
it Skin Hi upliorK and I'iK-s. 25c,
- ai \ iii'a 1 ird lii is., ,J. K. Alack
' ey ^v. 0?>. umi Fundurbai k l'hnrmucy,
Drug Store.
*><#* S \ P
w-** a " a.tj
EVER OFF
Our Mr. Heat]
North, where he
ir; dress goods a
inerous to menti
BBfl
Being the preya
in those two slni
ed Cheviots and
shades. Our 110
sght up to the i
v. ish in that line
Packets and Ca|
1 kink the prettii
lliis market. A
oreciated and w
We are still hi
clothing; inannfi
more. Also A.
lemnirg- Co.,
terns in browns
call for. All w
wo do. not dross
isficd for any of
We arc still has
DOUGLAS, <,
Shoos, which ar
lis.es Haul are an
i'j over, have do
our Lawns, Piqi
and snake a pur
nnlikA I
r94J>IBIIt; llUVv'
A
Furs, which ar<
for I lie rail Mill
in 'October, r>tl
dialiy invited. 1
tliat will salisiy
past patronage
we are.
Lan
?2M
iwDlfjiM
5 PUBLIC.
*ncd from the
startling values
argains too liu%
ESS
u n J i ?
iuIM tl I
V (jOO!)
'KKKD TO THlIt
has just retui
' scooped in some
nd lots of other l)
on.
iWNS AID GRE
I
iling colors, we
ides in Mohair, (
Whipcords. Br
tio?] department
notch, and anyt
i we have it. Tail
tes. A tremendc
3st and cheapest
n inspection of si
ill insure us a sal
CLOTHING
nulling the celel
ictnred by Stroifls
B. Kirschbaum <
and other lines.
, grays and any<
e ask is to <rivo n
you up, we will
'our competitorsi
idling the
rODMAN, and I)
e ihree of die he
anuliicliu ed. IVol
elded to sacrifice
lies and Voils, j o
chase for surely
list received a
3 very cheap. U
Sinery Opening, (i
i day. API tlie
(Jiocei-ies of all 1
(lie susier man. 'I
mil iiojiiog foe m<
Your" t<
CASTER S.
oougnt Heavily
Iravinetts, Mixoadelotlis
in all
is complete and
hing you may
lor made Skirts,
ius line, and we
ever shown on
line will be apie.
irated high art
le & Bro., BaltiSl
Co.. mid Snpl.
Beautiful pat- *
iolor you may
is a look, and if
he perfectly satto
have the sale.
HEW SELBY
Ht and strongest
' wishing to carllie
price on all
come at once
they will go at
beautiful line of
8e sure to watch
rst Wednesday
ladies are coriinds
and such
Thanking all for
>re in the future,
> serve.
n
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