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v. . . . : . / ^ A \ f * ? * ' ? I & fbmAlt? wg&aim:ffrten Dwtctf^?^<to Wf(ln4 4jW*w^^#Q?| ^ TjSSStf KfitCLY Ij A N U A 8 T E Li. S. P.. FEBRUARY, 22, 1905 ESrA^LlsSEmSl^^ Hannftnintfs in ihp ftiatA Aeooooino viiiaa wk? r?? j?. ?.^r|#vu?uQV All IUV UIUIV# Ah Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of Die Columbia Stato. DIED FROM BURNS. Chester, Feb. 17. ? A six-yearold child of Mrs Mollie Smith, an ' operative in the ftpringstem cot ion nun or this place, was bo badly burned Wednesday afternoon by its clothing taking fire that the child died in a few hours. john wat.drop appeals. Greenville, Feb. 17.?John Waldrop convicted at the las term of general sessions court of the murder of Sam Maddox^and sentenced to life imprisonment, hra appealed to the suproino court for a new trial. white man found dead. Holly Hill, Feb. 16. ?On Saturday an old negro ho had crossed Four Hole swamp reported having seen a horse and buggy about midway of the Hwamp andi no one near to whom it could bo- ! long. Immediately a searching party went out and found the torse and b'ggy, the back of the buggy being broken. Further search resulted in finding the body of Oliver Canty sitting in shallow wuter near the roadside vith his arm around a small tree, as if for support, his head above water, dead. The body was taken to his home, where the coroner's inqneat Was held, tho vordict being that d*ath was from natural causes, no bruises being found on tho body. Take Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tai and, slop coughing. 25. for large bottle, "lour druggist or Murray Drug Co., Columbia S. C. Barn burned. Camden, Feb. 16. ? Mr. H. G. Currieon sustained a heavy loss last night by fire, Hi& barn at the Hermitage place, just below Camden, was totally destroyed, to gether with about 1,000 bushels ot corn. Throe of his mules vtero also badly singed by the fire. Although Mr. Curnson is an exceedingly prudent man, it is reported that ho hud do insurance on this place of properly. Ho was not ??t his otllc? thin moaning,no it could not ho ascertained whither this was correct or not. Winter coughs are apt to result iu consumption if neglected. They can he soon brokeu up by psing Foley's Honey and Tvr. 8(?ld by Fonderburk Pharmacy. Murder in Wilson N. C. Kaloigh N. C , Fab 1G -U O 1' c'inrd, Hiiperntendent of the U'll.cn M,li? orn ? ' I neiMi VWIIUU ill uin, II |i? Ml, in. C , w;is yh-?t i>nd killed thin afternoon at 5 o'clock in tho spinning room at the mill. Hs leaves ft wife and son. Wiley House, a workman in a Cfti lUge factory, is under arrest, ohargod with the crime. He and Charles Norton, both having been drinking, ?*ent to tho mills and were ordered out. Norton is said to have told House to shoot, and House, pulling out a pistol, it is alleged, did so. Pickard walked to his oftjee and fell dead. The meo escaped, but were later caught near town. \ noouooiuo lYIItCU i III) Ul'l Duke. Sergius Mown Into Pulp by nnmito Point) at Moscow. Murderers Arrested. Moscow, Fob 17.?W Grand Duke Sergius was dr'n today from Nicholas place thro the San at o quarter, his carri was followed by two cutis. Law Court a sleigh in which tl were two men, one of whom dressed as a workman, w quickly ahead of the GrandDu carriage. The sleigh slowed di to lot the carriage pass,and at moment a bomb was thrown neath tho enrrage. Thg force of the cxplo broko all the windows of 1 Courts and tho report was h< outside tho city. Tho carriage was blown pieces, nothing but four wb remaining. The horses wero hurt and bolted. Tho Grandd was instantly killed. His head blown off, actually separated f bin Unit i 1 :i-1 ? ? " w if uiv<ii *vng uui I I'HJ |] gled. The coachman was also 1 ed, hoing so frightfully hurnec the explosivo with which the Im wrh charged that he died whi I ing taken to the hospital. On the arrest of the murdc neither of whom wus known the police, one of thein c< said. 4'I don't care, I have dono job." An immenso crowd gntherec the spot and made a dcmonsl lion against a number of studi who commenced scattering r olutiouary proclamations. Within a few minutes after explosion, which occurod a o'clock this afternoon, were soon gathering up pieces wood and clothing as raemeni of the tragedy. PUBLIC AROUSED The public is aroused to a kn ledgo of the curativo merits that great medical tonic, E!ec fitters, for sick stomach, 1 and kidney. Mary II. Walt of 547 St. Cluir Ave., Coltitnl O., writes. "For several mon 1 was given up to dto. I had er and ague, my nerves were wi cd; I could not sleep, and stomach wab bo weak, from use doctors' drugs, that I could eat. Soon after begining to t Electric Hitters, I obtained rel and in a short time I was entii cured." Guaranteed at Craw 1 Bros., .1. F. Mackoy & ( Fundeibnik Pharmacy, ti stores; price 50c * Wise is tho man who first ae tains what kind of advico friends want ?and then gives i them. Fortune seldom knocks inur's door tho pocond time i is too lazy to get up and ope tho first time. A TOUCHING^ I OR Y is the saving from death, of baby girl of Goo. A. Eyles, C berlnnd, Md IJo writes: ( the ago of 11 months, our I girl was in declining health, \ serious Throat Trouble, and physicians gave her up. Wo v almost in despair, when wo re: ved tr? trv Dp Kinor'u 1 ? ? -- ' ??- -r> " *' ^ " J covory for Consumption, Cov and Colds. The first bottle j, relicf;aftor taking four bottles was cured, Mud is now in per health." Never fails to r<?l and euro u cough or co d. Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackc Co., and Funderburk Pharmi ina i-fain or sorgius May Lead to Peace. | i Dy- Pear Communications of Russian ? Army Arc Threatened by Jap- j anesc and Chinese Bandits. I < hile St. Petersburg, Feb. 18, 1,30 fing p. m. ? In diplomatic circles the ^ ngh opinion is tjuito generally express- ^ at?*" cd thnt yesterday's tragedy may ^ At bo followed by the decision of the j ^ lere government to conclude peace. ! was For some time, despite tho official i < 'ent ;-;iitr.do maintained by tho govern- ^ ko's ment, there has been a growing apt own prociation of tii i difficulties of thnt prosecuting t! u war, in the midst bo- or' increasing complications at homo, and as announced by tho si on Associated Press yesterday, the ti?w mat lor was actually the subject of 2ard 'or 111111 consideration by tho em <or?r ai.l hministers Febto runi'V 16th. Strong influences, eels which it is understood, in spite of not dvniuls, are headed by M.. Witte. uko president of the commit toe of was ministers, have been working rom quiotlv in this direction. Gen. nan- Gri pen berg's revelations, followkilt od by the murder of Grand Duke 1 by Sergius, in the opinion of some of aiiib the ablest disploirats, are not une bo likely to lead the omporor definitely to decide upon peace. In this rers connection the war office is conlo >*idornbly alarmed by the new >oly danger threatening the Mancburian army from the systematic at- . my tempts making by Japanese and Chinese bandits to cut the lino of 1 on communications back of the army'. Ira- According to reports, about 10,imts 0()() men, split up into bands of ev- several hundred each, are operating from Mongolia und are strik the ing railroad. A Russian detach- 1 t 3 uient following up tho Japanese ' jpleI band which cut the roud below ' of Harbin fell into an nmhush of two toos regularly organized Japanese regiments and was almost cut to pieces, 1 losing half its men and one gun. The fear is that if the hands move 1 ow. north or west t hoy might interrupt 1 of communications to such an extent 1 ttric as to make it impossible to supply 1 iver army. This dangor has al- ' ready compelled the triple reen. jjig' forcomcnt of tho railroad guards I fev- below Harbin. ' my A Nigltt Alarm 1 !'es* Woibo than an ahum of lire at * . night is the brassy cough of croup, which sounds like the children's 1 ?. \ death knell and it means death un- | - ess snmethi is d?mo quickly. f Foley's Honey and Tar never fails i'?'' to give instant relief and quickly 1 111^ i curo*> the worst forms of croup. ' ! Mi-a i? i '1?1:? ' ?' .u>j. i u v/cniiui, ui manning, ICy , writes: My threo year eld 1 icer- girl had a scvoro ease of croup. ( b',h tho doctor tsuid she could not live. II 1 got a bottle of Foley's Honey and j Tar, and the first dose gave quick 1 ? I relief and saved her life '' Re- < a j fuse substitutes. Sold l>y Funder- i f ho burk Pharmacy. ?? n >t -? , Pointed Par.igrans. I When some men loso money th thoy employ a lawyer and lose urn- aor.io more, * ^ 'At; Many u shrewd man has purch ''*'c i aso 1 a cold t>rick in tho form of vith; . I I oxnenonco. lwo been son ally a girl insists on ? vera J ? soj_ church wedding becauso she roaDia* lizoH it may bo her last chance to 1 ighs show ol? in good clothes. she J ?Le'ter hcuds, bill heads, en 1 yelopOH, visiting cards, n?d all lr'^ kinds of job work, dono in neatt ' ,y ^ est style, at prices to suit, icy. Koy Strait^ ' ] , % ; 4 ^ Parr Has Confessed v \dmits tho Killing of Claren Shoal y? Confession Made Friday Afternoon?Tho Confession. Columbia Record, 17th. Munon Parr confessed ye te lay afternoon. The confess? was made to RevVernon l'Anso who is pastor of tho Soutbsi Baptist church, felt an interest tho young man and know h [juito well. There was very lit hesitancy shown by Parr after I l1 Anson hud prayed with h and aftorwards tho statement v written out by Mr 1'Anson a Bubmitted to Parr's attorney a iiivcn to tho press: ' Mr I'Anson, I haven't f long to live and 1 want to ready to meet my God in peat and what 1 am going to tell y is tho truth. I did kill Clarer Shealey. .Vhiskoy was the cai of it all. Oh, if I had stayed Chiuleston! I know I was a go hoy and I tiied to behave my& in Charleston, hut whiskey is t cause of all my troublo. "1 went down there that mc ing and saw the boy, he was i friend; 1 thought a good deal him. Lie said ho had a bottle wbiskoy. lie hold the hottle c to me and said, ''Coire, old fell and tako a drink with me." took the bottlo and look a 1 drink. Clarence said to n "Well, now you will bo a de man in two hours. That's wha have done for you; that whisk is full of (loudly poison; it will k you sure.' At that tiuio 1 w not mad. But the whiskey 9cal od my throat and burned u stomach and 1 took the long si of a carpenter's square and si to him, 'If you have killed i with tho whiskey, you have got iio too; two of us nous* go befc God for this.' 1 struck hi actoss tho face with that squn and then on tho head. They sh in the court that 1 killed him wi a hoe. That is false. 1 kill iira with the long side of a squat They suid in court that 1 took t jjun. dust what 1 have said frc ihe first is true; that gun w Drought to me by a negro, to r aouse, who nsked me to cut it < for him. "After hitting Sbealoy he h lored ho that 1 could have bea aim for half a mile. Cusbm and Smith were in a boat in t river and they are bound to ha heard the boy holler. "I then went homo. Tt whiskey burned mo all day; ilidn't take a drink of wuter i 10 hours. 1 just felt that 1 v voing to die and 1 went to U and confessed my sins to him a asked him to have mercy upon n After praying aud repenting i sins 1 confessed to my wife tha killed him. "About 9 or 10 o'clock tl lay I went down to wheie t body was and with the bo; blood all over my light arm a felt horrible. What there was Lhe whiskey that made mo feel I don't know."Mr I'Anson said to him, CiMi ion, don't you feel that we oug to make some effort to try to jure a commutation of your tence ? tlNo, I feel that what I wc to do now is to prepare to mc ny God. God has forgiven i ind 1 feci prepared to meet hi] [ feel that I ought to die/' Price Ridicules Cotton Farmers c0 Issues Kesolutious in Dorisiou of ? Convcnlion Wall Street Shark CoUon Growers Worst Enemy. Y orkville N cw Et a. ir Theodore Price, the Wall i cn street sharp, has sent out a cotn? ton statmont recently in which (^? is incorported a set of resolutions 111 ridiculing the cotton growers of lm tho south and holding up especiall> to the derison of tho public the work of tho recent convention 1,11 in Now Orleans. Pi ice is one of tho worst enomies with which tho cotton farmor has to contond, unil ho hat pro totypcs in all tho towns of the south, in "smull potato1' variety *)e however. Even Yorkville doubtce' less has a fow of those littlo woaz011 en-souled cotton weevils who are ICf> ever ready to disparage tho farm'f6 ermefloit# to hotter his condiin tion. They will niako fun of his conventions and otherwiso try to belittle and browbeat on occasions bo like tho present. Let tho farmer shun the Prices?from big Theo* irn ... dore in Wall stroot with his mis11 y leading cotton statements down to all tho littlo "grasshopper." Prices who invest evory village in nt the cotton belt. Tumadeuf ear to their crop estimates and predic* tions. And go ahead with your )1{* organization. a(J A few of Price's lesolutions ^ j follow: Resolved, That the laws of ill gravitation be, and are hereby sub ,aH ponded until cotton shall sell for |(j_ ten cents a pound. Qy Resolved, That "two and two ( (|e mako four" is au exploded mathematical proposition, and that in , ne estimating the cotton crop they only mako two and a half or at lf0 most threo. irn Resolved, That we will hide our ^ ire heads in tho sand and our cotton iid in out of tho way places in hope j th that the world will forgst that wo j ed e\er lost tho first or ever had tho | 0. second. \ h? Resolved, That progress in 1 im agricultuo is a mistake, and that as instead of trying to 6eo how well u7 and how cheap wo can raise cot- i ton our chief endeavor shall ho to grow as little dor acre, and at as high a cost as possible. To this ' r(* end we recommend that planters i un use no fertilizers and that thoy 'ie sow woods broadcast with tho ve cotton seed. ! Resolved, That any farmer who lat shall violate tho provisions if those ( ; * resolutions shall bo ostracised by or society for the first offense, and if ' ,as after due warning ho persists, 0(' he shall be run out of the cotton Stato. le. Resolved, That any negro I j found hoeing cotton shall bo condemned to penal servitude. Resolved, That all tho surplus . U..11 x> 1 |jg INUIC3 niiiii i?<J nuid hi Ullieilt itUU y?8 Japan at any old price to get rid nd o( themin Resolved, That it is better for 80 the farmer to borrow 5 cents a pound on his cotton at the hanks, ftr. paying 6 per cent for thojnouoy, and bearing all of tho'^oxponsos of so- warehousmg and insurance, etc., )n_ with n good chance'ofpolling it at less than 5 cents next year, int rather than'to sell ii tit 0 cents tojet day. no __ .. Foley's Money and Tar tor children,safe,sure. No opiate*. Make r/cur druggist give foil Murray's Jlorehontid, Mill le and Tr Oi'>* '/our cough. (J5c a bottle Hester's Weekly Statement. New Orloaus, Feb 1(5. ? Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statemont issuod today shows for the 17 days of February a declino under last year of 1GG.000 and a decrease under tho same por'.od yon." beforo last of 220,000. For tho 170 days of tho season thai bare elapsed tho aggregate is ahead of tho tamo days of last year 803,000 and ahead of tho sumo days your before lust of 708000. The amount brought into sight during the past weekwas 113,399 hales,against 108,200 for tho same seven days last year and 235,848 year baforo last. Tho movement sinco Sept. 1st shows receipts at all U. S. ports to ho 0,878,729 against 0,311,314 last year. Overland across tho Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Cana da 603,558, against 722,538 last year; Interior stocks in excess of thoso held at tho close of the commercial year, 522,162, against 324,010 last your; southern mills takings, 1,227,000, against 1,140713 last year. Tho total movement since Sep. tembor 1st is_9,301,439 . Poriogn exports for . tho week have been 85,835 against 99,014 last year, making the total thus far this season 5,463,5G0, against 4,815,791 last year. The total takings ot American mills, north, south and Canada thus far for the season have been 2,693,406 igainst 2,792,501 last yoar. Stocks at tho seaboard and tho 29 leading southern interior centers havo decroased during tho week 40,955 bales against a de:reuso during tho corresponding period last season of G0,G24. Including stocks loft over at ports and interior towns from tho .ho last crop and tho number of jales brought into sight thus far from tho now supply to date is 9,? 103,406, against 8,606,374. For Coughs?cot your drug Ti O*/ o /~n s~l i ??/!/i/ jioio i// j rut to JT? O/ITHilf Dryg Co., Columbia, S. C.? Murray's llorclioundMul lei 11 and Tar. 25c for large si size bottle. Tho way to remove paint is to set clown on it suddenly and then Hot up again. Mothors can safely givo Foley'a Honey andTur to their children for coughs and colds, for it contains no opiates or other poisons. Sold by Fanderbur* Pharmacy. It's a fortunate thing for wives that husbands seldom practico what they preach. OASVOnZA. Boars the 1 h0 Kind You Have Always Bougjit Some men stay away from church because they aro not interested in milinery displays. Murray's I lor eh on ml Mullein and Tar willcnre your cough large hot tic for Me. The Ledger, The Atlanta Journal, Semi weekly, and The Southern Cultivator, all three ono year for $2., but must bo paid for in advunee. Foley's Honey and Tar is best for croup and whooping cough, contains no opiates,and cures quickly Careful mothers keop it in tho house. Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy.