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TMJE lgD6EB, IHCItLOW S. CARTER, KDITOU AND MAN AG KK. (CgUKD WKDN K8I>A Y A Nl? SA 111 It DA Y SUBSCRIPTION liooPEI* Vl'Mt - - 1 Lancaster, S C., May 1st, 1905. Thfc Fhico at Lancaster. That was a remarkable fiasco in the preliminary hearing at Lancaster in the case brought against al'egeil lynchers of .John Mm risen Wo confess to an inability to understand the full inwardness of tho judici: I investigation It is quite conceivable that tho solicitor should have unwittingly employed disreputable agents to secure evidence against the lynchers of Morrison. That the s > 1 ic ? itor should dcsiio to bring lynchers to justice, regardless of their personnel, is most commendable; and a8 long as the guilt of any man or body of men were truly established the manner of securing the evidence was of secondary consideration in the eyes of the law. The most astonishing pai t of the proceedings is that a man as unknown to Solicitor Henry ? s Howie appears to have been ? and one who would not have improved on acquaintance?should have been entrusted with the executive part of such an important case. It is incomprehensible that the arrest of a batch of citizens on mi serious a charge should have been mado without evidence against t hem. Wo lack explanation as to why Howie and tlio alleged State's witnesses were absent from ti hear ing adverti sed far in advance. Hut when the solicitor arrived ho was prepared to admit having ^ made a blunder; ho appears to have then realized that he had been victimized. In justice to the*accused, the charges should have been immediately withdrawn in acknowledgment of the ubsence of foundation for the prosecution. ?The State, 1st inst. TlIK WAR. The world is still waiting for the promised battle between the fleets of the Admirals Rojestvensky and Togo, but is now more in the dark regarding their positions than a week ago. All that is positively known is that the Russian vessels have disappeared from Kamranh Ray, about which they apparently hovered for some days after, getting outside the three-mile limit, and it is believed in some quarters that they will enter the Pacific and endeavor to reach Vladivostock. Admiral Rojestvensky is apparently delaying his movements to allow the squadron under Admiral Niebogatoff to join him before Togo makes his attack. Where the Japanese vessels arc at this time is apparently a complete mystery. They are doubtless not far from the Russians, but where is unknown. The news from Manchuria continues to chronicle insignificant clashes of a more or less severe character, but the land forces are apparently still waiting fcr the battle of the ironclads of Togo and Rojcstvensky.?Charlotte Observer. President's Party ?Kill Four lions in One Day. Glenwood Springs, Colo., April 28.?Secretary Loeb today re- , ceived a telephone message from a ranch house two miles from the uiiuuiii n Willi j*. 11113 uiunDn^v was dictated by the president. It aid: "We got f<jur bears yesterday. We aro all well." I'USII LANCASTER. To Sell Court House. Sumter, April A matter I that is exciting considerable interest in this county now i3 the proposed sale of the Court House and Court House square and the erection of a new Court House. The Court House square is situated on the west side of North Main street in the centre of the business district and contains one acre. The Court House itself is antiquated and there has been complaint for years that the noise from the street interfered with the dispatch of the business of the Court. For these reasons it is desired to erect a large and modern Court House in a more quiet locality. W'ithin tlw* tricf - ,v-" "V-v.r.T county board of commissioners has leceivcd an offer of $60,000 for the Court House square, and public sentiment is strongly in favor of the acceptance of the offer, inasmuch as another lot can be purchased and the new Court House erected for the price received for the old lot. The grand jury, in its presentment yesterday afternoon, recommended the sale. I Texas Rivers and Streams Greatly Swollen By Rains. Houston, Tex., April 30.?The reports which come tonight are to the effect that the Brazos river approaches the danger point at Waco, the Little Brazos and Bosque are out of their banks; the Guadalupe is slowly rising at Victoria and below with the small streams backing out over the low lands. The Colorado is tearing down from the mountains and is already greatly swollen along the lower'courses. The Trinity is carrying more water than for the past several years and the farmers along its course arc getting cattle and hogs out of the bottoms. Wasp, Tex. k April 30.?At ijl o'clockUonight the Brazos river Er 30 feet-deep, two feet below the high water point reached in the great flood. It is out of its bank at low | places and negro tenants have been driven out. The Bosque is out of its banks for many miles and a great deal of corn and cotton land has been overflowed. A big rise is reported coming down. The Moon This Month. New moon occurs at n a m on the 4th, first quarter at 2 am on the 12th, full moon at 5 p m on the 18th, and last quarter at 10 p m on the 20th. The moon is nearest us on the 16th, and fartherest away on the 1st and 29th. She is in conjunction with Mercury and Venus on the third, Jupiter on the 4th, Mars on the 17th, Saturn on? the 24th, and Venus again on the 30th. The conjunction with Satnrn is quite close; Two J.ads Drown While Bathing Near Cheraw. (Jhertiw, S C., May 1.? May 4 ... & 1 1 1 rv ti 1 :\riuur iuki .1 ij nooKH, nrotners, aged 11 and 8 years, were dro^n t'd Dear hero while bathing with a party of ooys. The younger boy got over his depth i nd his brother noticing it, went to his res-cue, and both wore drowned. The bodies were recovered and taken to Wadesooro, N. C., for burial. OASTORZai.. Bean th# s9Kind You Hare Always Bouy T* Charleston was visited by a severe wind, hail and rain Thursday night. The wind reached a velocity of 4(> miles an hour and I many window panes wore broken ' by the hail. mmamt Chicago Strike Worse. Employer* Huy 1,000 Rifles? Strikers Make More Frequent and Vicious Attacks on Non-Union Men. Chicago, May i.?Conditions in the teamsters' strike were worse today than at any preceding time. The strikers were in uglier mood, the rioting was more open and vicious, and the attacks, on nonunion men were more frequent and daring than at any time since the beginning of the strike. The chref cause for the increased belligerency on the part of the strikers and their friends is the fact that the Employers' Teaming Association today brought 1,500 men into Chicago to take the places of strikers, and 500 more are said to be now on the way and will arrive within twelve hours. These men will receive the full pay of union men, and it has been guaranteed to them that their positions will be permanent. Among the strike-breakers arc 200 farmer boys. To-morrow, whenever a wagon of the Employers' Teaming. Association goes through the streets a rifle will be carried on each wagon in open view. Dnring the last week there has been much complaint on the part of the strike sympathizers of the readiness with which non-union men, particularly negroes, have used revolvers. A number of strike-breakers were arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, and today the attorneys for the Employer' Teaming Association called on Chief of Police O'Neill and asked if their men had not the right to carry weapons, provided they were held in open view. Chief of Police O'Neill replied that there was no law against it, and arrangements were promptly made by the em^s'^^rs to place riflc^jg^n every one of their wagons. Over 1,000 rifles were purchased today, and during the latter part of the afternoon a number of wagons went through the streets with a rifle lying across the knees of the driver and his assistant. When Mayor Dunne was informed of the fact that rifles would be carried by non-union men he was visibly disturbed, and he declared that the police would not be permitted to authorize the carrying of arms by any one, whether in the employment of the Employers' Teaming Association or affiliated with the strikers. There was a report late this afternoon that Mayor Dunne was about to force an adjustment of the trouble, but this, he declared tonight, was incorrect. Five men were seriously hurt during the fights today, and many outers were nurt. Sentenced to Death. Sumter, April 29.?John Henderson, a young negro of perhaps 20 years, was today sentenced by Judge Klugh to be haaged on Friday, June 2. The crime for which he will pay the death pen alty was the brutal murder of hi* wife, Marj Heyderaon, on .Vashington street, this city on the night of December 7. Henderson used a butcherkuife and the woman was horribly mutilated Henderson admitted his guiltwhen captuied in Leu County more than two months after the murder, and made no excuse, except to say thai ho did not think he had hurl her enough to kill. Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiutes, and will not constipate liko nearly all other cough medicines. Refuse Substitutes Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy. BJtWWER S A L V k. His most hosting salvo In tl?? wort*' Jordan Confident Farmer* Arc Heing Unjustly Criticised Average Has Keen Red need. Atlanta, Ga., May i:?The farmers of tire South are now and have been for several months unjustly criticised by a class of people who are engaged in other lines of business. In December the business and speculatvie world said the cotton growers would not hold their cotton in the face of an enormous overproduction of the staple and a rapidly declining market. Yet the facts show that the spot market was absolutely tied up for several months and the price of the downward tendency of the staple checked and advanced back fully two cents per pound, netting from twentyfive to thirty million dollars on the amount of cotton unsold up to December 3, I904. The heavy sales made during the past 60 days would never have taken place if proper storage facilities had been provided to keep the staple in sound condition. The farmers whipped that fight, which cannot be denied. It is now reported that the cotton acreage reduction will not mate riali/.e and that an increased amount of guano has been sold. Farmers all over the cotton belt testify that the cotton acreage has been materially reduced and it is now an undeniable fact that the actual sales of guano have fallen short from 20 to 40 per cent less than last year. The fertilizer people themselves do not deny this. I am convinced that the farmers are honest and have lived up to their pledges and know that the facts will substantiate this statement. The general public is not giving them credit for either honesty or ability to stand by their pledges or promises. It is unfair and unjlist to discredit Southern farmers in the eyes of the business world when they heve during the past few months proven themselves so capable of doing great things, and when they have by their co-opcrtion and persistence saved the whole South from financial depression and ruin. The truth must live, but the present bearish literature that is being published and sent out broadcast that tbe farmers have failed to reduce their cotton acreage and use of guano will have a speedy death in the near future. Ilarvie Jordan, Pres. Southern Cotton A^so. 100 Shot Down At Wnr>(nv. Warsaw, May 1.?Nearly one hundred persons were killed or wounded in disturbances in various quarters of Warsaw today. The troops apparently were oncon Irollable, and violated all orders to act with moderation They fired into crowds of demonstrators, and workmen, in retaliation, rosor'ed to the use of firearms und bombs Many women and children are among the dead and dying Whet approaches uteign of teror exist# tonight; tho city present a most gl??omy aspect and tho temper of the entire community augurs ill. ?John Sims, col., a trustee and cook for the guards of the Orangeburg chuin-gang attempted to poison thom last Thursday by putting some kin<l of poison in the (.l inking water. One of the guards, Mr ICd Hoover, drank of the water and called attention to its peculiar taste which kept the ? tbers from drinking. He soon becamo very ill an 1 dospitn all physicians could do came near dying. iSims escaped and has not boon captured. Pen ".ion ninn.lcM and Fraud* ? . V .* Tlit State pension board wilj i meet some time t ext week for the purpose ?>| filing over the appli ' J cations which veto returned to |1 jthe respective counties for eonec- J tion i<r revision. l he uumoei of j | mistakes made |>y the county j hoards 'his ye n were ni sch larger i J than tistial. In Richland, for instance. the entire batch of anpli , I " cations had to he sent hack he- , cause the countv hoard had en dorscd them all in the wrong ; ( 'place. In addition to mistakes [ like these, which are technical, it j ' ; was shown that there was a great ; | deal of carelessness in some of the ' | counties in passing and recom-j j mending pensions to persons who j ' i were not entitled to them. The j 1 - , . ! {State board tries as much as it j. can to stop these fraudulent pen- ! sions, for they are so known in j law, but all of them cannot be ! J caught and there are no doubt 1 many receiving pcns:otis w ho are j not entitled to them.?Columbia i. Cor News and Courier. i - rvs# Transferred to the Pen. ! i The county board of commission crs has decided to transfer Belle and Teeter, the bigamists, to the penitentiary. Lt develops that 1 Bells has friends on the outside ( who may attempt his release if he remains on the chaingang, and in view of the fact that this contin : J gcncy might call for extra guards ' , it is thought best to just send both | to the penitentiary.?Yorkville j, Knquirer. Dr Kcnyon Y Millard Not Yet I Out of Jail. t Oangcburg, April 27.?The ( preliminary hearing set for today : in the case of Dr Kcnyon V Mil- I lard, who is confined in the county j.iil here on the charge of bigamy, was postponed by Magistrate Hrunson at the request of the attorneys for the prosecution until next Thursday, May 4 ( t Lotior to J. J. Owen. i Lunaistcr, ,S L O vir Sir : Hero's something ] every psint.-r and builder ought , to know. 1 Mr. J. J. Mall, Shedidd, Pa., ] painted two butt- s. f> years ago, ( lead .Ifid <:;i ; ? ? ?fc 40 gallons. L ist ) ear, hh painted Devon ; i bought 40 gallju - ; li id 10 lrft. ] 1111 is one of thousand*. The knowledge 1 ; getting about < pretty g uer lie, that D v ;e , goes !urt.ier ? h j'. any? tug else. 1: ll'ivi?yuu lound it. out in \uur!j o w 11 < x 1 ' i i'Mieu ? i 'I s muoU ft* .ion ? 8tl ppOSv a jo' 1 Iff "51 n s m 10,- ; ' 000 m|UjWm fn ! ; li.?-.v milC.ll loss '* D- von eoul1 you bu\ ? Is if. as raw to p-.int? Dots, it com aii) tu we or ler,s to put oti 1' by the gallon than anything j else? ho .% luin.ti? If it eo<ts no tnore to put-on Devon by ihrgai! o i t 1 s l^gq by the fool, \uu r. n-i . ; (or the j' gallon dot * tnoiat feet. How j much titj yt,u find it, for w ages ? 1 Last. s>l\ , twice as l-ofg ; tilfc is tin- owner's gain : but perhaps you reckon it jours; some do. The titim, when that convp-in, is w on! lie gives out t i" next job. \V ir? g**fs it ? Yours truly, 58 F. \V Dkvok ife Co. Lane-ft' r Mercantile Co. sell our paint. Wo S? li. vo ilmt if u!l tho states do !is well a* North Carolina in the reduction of tli oo'ioo acreago iu proportion to the mm- imt t wised n grout deul will he aeeon , pli.shed this your for the benefit of the fanner, hut tho indications 1 now ute thut our people will had i in keeping the agreement made, i Unless there is substantia! reduction eviywheio throughout tho cotton belt we will e- live cent cotton next fall. It hehooqcs tho ' small farmer therefore to tli versify.?Raleigh Post. r I -"^8 gj ' O ' . " K. J ?' & * v i ' - ' ^ ?i &' >>A-JV ?V? <(l?ldMMI ? Bom, tc? Mi and Mrs 1 M Inches, April 27, 1 905. ? daughcr. ?lJio-l, 0:1 Friday, April 21, 100;. Beanie, ll1.'- infant son of Mr .mil Mrs J T McMurray, aged l^j IU?l!lIlS. -?Aboili $25 was realized from lie "sock party" at the A R P larsonagc last Friday evening. ? I will exchange a good plug mile f r a mule or horse colt. C L McManas, ;t Lancaster, R F 13 No 2. ?Miss Mary Mobicy of Coltim>ia, and Miss Sue McCrorey of xichburg, visited Mrs J 1* King lie past week. ?Magistrate W P Caskey spent Monday in Columbia. ? An infant child of Mr Sam iSurns died last Saturday at this dace, aged about two months. ?20 Bushels genuiuc Spanish v.-ed Peanuts for sale at Lem inonds Fruit Stand. ? Dr Chajimun I b ath, of Ilichiiond. Ivy , visited hi* brother, \lr A W 1 lentil, hero lust week. ? A'nxhitw Knterprtso. ? R-v I*11111 Frej-slei will assist a- pi*tor in ? meeting nt flick r\ Grove this week. ? K'-v S N WutM>n of llortth springs pi"iiehed the commenceneiit s<nnon nt the ceuimoncenent of the \V jugate school last Sunday* Mr W .1 Roil ley of Rock mil run contracted 'or 11 o o reckon of n $18 000 reniilr uco in that jily. ?Jersey cow, with young calf, for sill.'. Apply to .1 K Craig, Lancaster R F O No 1. ?Miss Minnie Caskcy, (laugher of Mr J II Caskey. left Mon3ay for Columbia where she en:ered the training school to prepare to become a trained nurse. ?The Lancaster Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy will neet at 5 p. in.*, tomorrow in the lew library rooms up-stairs in Masonic building. Full attendance iesired. ?MLs Julia Simpson of Rock llill, who was formerly with the Heath?Jones Co., has accepted a josition with the Williams?I Iughcs Zo., where she will be glad to <crvc her friends and customers n the line of millinery or dress joods. ? Mrs Addiu Fmilkn-r, of the lacksonham section f Lnncnslor snuniy, spent. Friday night at Mrs M .1 Mev'u li's and went to [Hail;ton Saturday to be present it the closing excreises of tho ?chooi thero, of which her son, Frof \V A Dunn, is principal ? Waxh iw Enterprise A meeting at the Methodist church was begun last Sunday and will continue at least through this week. Services daily at 4 p. m., and 8 p. in. sharp. Rev Mr Watson, who was to assist, failed to get here 011 account of sickness in his family, but Rev Mr Turnipseed will have help. ? Mrs (* W Jordan mid her little babe left the city Thursday fur Wcstville, whore they will spend a fow days with Mrs Jordan's father, Mr 'n M Tiuo.*del. Sin1 expects id return to Kershaw where she will conduct a boarding house after her vi*it t'? her father ? Rock Hill Herald. ?The meeting in progress at the Baptist church for tlie past two weeks closed Friday night and ])i Adams of Charlotte, who preached such instructive sermons during the meeting, returned to his home Saturday. Sunday night 1)r Bbldridge received twentv nine into the church by baptism. Our community has been greatly benefitted by this meeting. . ? ' ' 4 S'