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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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da\ h year before last 1,249,000.
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. 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
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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.
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f We ftill have on hand a few shoe
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iiceci onocs. uon I i;)i>s tlioso bur<
t*vt'uty days. YOl
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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
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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.