The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, December 21, 1904, Image 1

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^> -s>i.w- . v..^,.^ ?4^ *^g^gt ?~ 52SS ?,i^.hu-SSU,, :.. ESKisr ^ .fcv..^^ ? i! i. ?^x.. ? ., u ... ijl- . -j -:.? ~ -^r? - - ? -^smtrnw awo^ : ; ii>vvEKi<.ljY LANCASTER, 6. C.. DECEMBER lM*T t':~ ! ' = i'ABL1BHEft!'ftM?** ^ TWSr fin Qrde JAf WE AB GREA1 DEPAB STORE i HERE J Men's |> Boy's II Glen's 6 P We ( ML "WVl /\T1 A?T d1 I Ja uiuiic y t t buY||] Be sui I) . I m r To Reduce St tUARY FIR IE OFFERING ? BARGAINS I LTMENTS OF ??- *e? **r r**w o* \ $5.00 Suits $3.' 7.00 " 4. 10. OO 7.1 Suits tor 5o cent .oo Overcoats 4.? ian certainly su mr m anything; yo> re and come to s< RESPECTED nrlf Rv '% uvn mjj ST 1 SOMj. ' , N ALL | OUR 8 IjH h rnm 2 00 || oo Jf 5o J H>. gjf we you want to J . be us. rj;V. *J| lib 1 _ Happenings in the State. As Chronicled by th<? Alort Cm-J respondents of Tbo Columbia State. 8IX PER CENT DIVIDEND. Luurens, Dec. 17?The semiannual meeting of the board of directors of the Laurens cotton mills was held in the offices of the mill company Thursday and tho usual six per cent, semi annual dividend, p&yutde Doc 131, was declared. H1AVT SNOW IN YORKVILLE. Yorkville, Dec 17?There was a heavy snowfall hero last night and this morning. For a while if nnn>? !" - - umvu in very large flukes. It measured four inches deep on a level and the young people had great sport sleighing, snow nulling and rolling each other in the how. It is clear tonight and t K1I.LBD A NEGRO GIRL. Beaufort, Dec 16. ? About ( | o'clock last evening George Mid(tyeton, aged 11 years, while play ing wit^a gun which contained f load of bird shot claims to have accidentally killed Roboccu Patter gn, aged sixteen. She stoot near the buy and the full lo u tore away the throat, causing a! most instant death. * NO ONE CLAIMS THE OAR . 1'he of wluskfy sriz"d ty I Division Chief Oihoru 'a men a Ciyce Friday night was b rough over to the city and delivered t? the State dispensary yesterday af ternoon. No one has so far ap peared to put in a claim for ownership. The names of the persons wh< opened tiro on the constables wen learned yesterday and they uro ul negroes. The parties to when the whiskey is thougbt to belong were in no way connected with tin ,r" suuuuug. ? ado otate. BIX BARMS AND A RESIDENCE BURN ED RECENTLY. Honea Path, Dec 17.?Saturday night a barn on Mr \Y M Shirley's farm, about four itiilcf from Honea Path, was destroyed by tire. In the last few weeks Col Hot Arnold's barn in Greenville coun ty, Dr Valentine's barn in Laurent county W R Mattison's barn ir. Abbeville county, W M Shirley % barn in Abbeville county, ,!oo M H Ashley's barn in Andersor 0 mnty and Ben Lipford's residet ?i in Abbeville county, all within 1C miles of Honea Path, have beer burned. Somo think tho burn iiigs have been done by incendiar ies. ivunm MAN ARHRSTK0ON A SERIOU! CHAKOE. Orangeburg, Dec 17. ? In re sponso to a complaint lot- cJ will tho U. S. Secret service authorities at Washington,Spec.. . on H E Thomas of Cha rloP? mi hero on Thursday an.I a ut Mr Ned Olivet on tho charge o: making counterfeit co n. Mr Oliver is a you g man born and roared at o?* near Tim mon8ville, hut vlQho has lived her< for tho past two years. At first he was engaged in tin photograph business, out v wards entered the brokerage A ucs>, handling grocc. s' sundries. A !.".(? \T? l! AN jl> i AT (11! M'K.it. | ^ (Jiioslor, Dec 1?>?\\ 'm .1 Hardin, colored, convicted at the Novouilti r court of the minder of ,, Henry Sanders, colored, was handed here today at 11.30 , o'clock in V ie preseuco of quite a company. After 11 minutes the attending pnysicians declared the body dead from strangulation. , the niurdci' was commuted on tho t 7th of September, n d was most atrocious. William Hardin v\as ^ a son-in-law of Henry Sanders, who protested nile Hard, a was em lly beato g his wifo. Enraged by tin- inlcrferi mo of the father, ( llardin seiz* d i is gun and fatally sh(.t his wife's father and then crushed his t kill I with the guu burrel. A COSILY MISTAKE I B'un rs if sometimes very i cx h.- hive ) dy life in tbo i pi If* of 11 > > 1 v on ! nevf 1 I ! 1; \ 1 t:i' o J )r iCinjI 's | 1 Now I jHis lor D speysia,l)i/.i no licaih.e; \ E;\ or or Bowel ; juuw 1. s. '! ; v a penile yet ; thor a h. . : .. ford Bros J J. . eke N. . , Euadcrd nlc 1'uk. aiai i Hcbter'a Weekl r Statement. ) N?w Orleans, Doc. 10.?See1 retury Hester's weekly cotton I 1 tli lenient, issued today, shows ; . for the id days of December an locrcuse ovor ia-j year of 19,000 and uii increase over tlio shiuo period year before last of 197,000. ^ i' jl the 107 ilaUof tli^ ;.&iuoii j tbttl ll VI' -ii if. aggregate U ( ahouu oi .a: ts:ui. ) d.ijs iavi > uui 1,100,000 and ahead of the mma > ' da\ h year before last 1,249,000. . I . he amount brought into sight during the past week has been -1G4,433 holes against 100,153 for the } eatec 8jve:i da\a hut year and 340,218 year be.ere lust. 1 REVOLUTION IMMINENT, i Ai-urcoi n of np-,-vouching . ovull ; and rium trouble in our sya3 te n is nervousness, or stomach upsets Electric Bitters will quicidy dismember the troublesome cans.s. It never fails to * tone the ' untich, rogaluto the Liver, an i-iarify the blood, ltan down --y stems bcnclit purticulnry nhd all th > usual attending aches ^ vanish nude its searching anu ? t heron j'u cfl'ectivcne. > Electi ic 1 Bitters i; only 50c a ... that is ' rerurned if it don't j.'ve period ' satisfaction. Cluaia: ?<ed by Craw ' fftiul Bros .1 I? Mnotm A On I - - ' J x " ? j FunderhurU Phar racy dm _:st ' !: CBTTON STil ' To moat this docliaie wo arc goim our goods. ) For tho next Twenty days wo an , lie move _ ods for tho money tlmn 1 tsr. We are offering d $' 5.00 . s ' $7.50 su $12.50 1 {''15.00 suits it 5-tJ.O'^ ai 1 up to ' 1 "> ones. IV.i () ifl'i.50, woi F. C> <?.?. ileavios guaranteed, si Ik- yu a tlusi receive ' esse . y .lr for 76c. Only L0 yards to t ^ cent undershirts at o8e. Two for and 85 cent vests for l'Jo per gnrnu left ait 25 oents. t f We ftill have on hand a few shoe 1 1 LI *"v ? - iiceci onocs. uon I i;)i>s tlioso bur< t*vt'uty days. YOl > ; JT I.I.a fi*JAy t I 3 i "^b P .?' " ^ i' >?. i ., o fctawii ."%( \ . * O.iii; l) The Popular Vote. simihor Received by the Two Presidential Candidates in 1904 To the Editor of Tho State. Will you please givo me the otal popular vote for president in 1904 election. Isaac A Keels. Kiugstree, S C, L)cc 15, 1904. I According to a cnuvnss made >y tho New York Times, complete r..ept u* to ot>o county in TenBes ?i and four counties in Michigan, ne total popular vote in tho late dection was 13,533,820. Of this, Parker roceived 5,094,091, while Roosevelt polled 7,040,561. tho largest popular vote ever given to a candidate for president of the r T.. : i,.i Lu-i- ?? uiniun outioa. lioosovelt's plUlalty wai 2,540,470. The remainder of the popular vote was scattered among the several minor rrandnlatoa. In the eleotoral colic.; I'atker will recoivo 140 votes; Roosevelt, 380.?Editor The Stale.] t<AY "MURK\ Y'S" \VI ? > \on'vi'jrot a lia?l cough just s s i V ' M U litR \ Y'S" If a druggist t \ i? y 'i nythingbut Murray's Hore 1.uio.d A'uiUiu and Tar you're not getting lii h.'st and surest cough rono idy. i\laUo him give you Murray's " oh; quicker siud you get a 50c sir.e hot lie for 25c. Every uiugg'st has it Cotton Fanners Combine. M neon, C?a Decernhor 17.? Specials to the Telegraph from many coustic'J of the State tell of meetings, hehl bv farmers in mi i :V >11 lo further the movement rceootly inaugurated to hold cotton for a juice of ton cents. In most of the counties strong resolutions w re adopted, setting forth the fact th.al the farmers should hold '.1 their cotton possible and appealing to local bunks for aid. ? CL> ?3T> 4 'illMil FIOH T WILL BE BITTER. Those who persist in closing tneic ears against the continual i ecouimendation of Dr. King's New Discovory for Consumption, * 'ill have a long and bittor fight \ ith their troubles, if not ended irlier by fatal termination. ?ad what T. li. 11 call of lloall, .'Jus. has to say: "Last fall my wife had every symptom of con.'.Ulilltioll Shfl I nnl' P.f h inm'o I - ? N'mv Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement " mo at onco and four hottles ent-iely cured her." Guaranteed by fiawford Bros, J. F. Mackey & Po., and Kundorhurk Pharmacy. I SECLININ6 Z to Knife deoper the prices ?n e going to offer the trading pubthcy over saw before in Lancastiring this time its at $5,OS; ?10.00 suits at ?7.50 slid ?10.00, ?5.00 Overcoats th from 50c per pair, worth 75c, t weight yd wide Sheeting, weight Bleacn !.? go during this sale 10 he cast mm r. 50 dozen mens1 50 75 cents. 20 dozen Ladies' 25 int. A few of those 50c Shirts ?s. Price them, yoh'll buy if jo rains. They only hold good fo IRS FOR TRADE, >urk Co. Ini-hino Oil oc. 10 ball* Bewiag to timorous to mention.