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Bigott g~ a*r iii* ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,1903. VOLUMS XXXIX-NO. 7. TV *j\ r T nd Mow Gut SHOES I On our front counterwe have placed about two hundred j of 33.00 and $2.5.0 Trousers. These are the Trousers we ra been selling all the season at these prices. For quick Sance we have priced them $1.05. If you want a pair of j (users this is your chance. ?0-PISCE S???TS AT ?SAVINS OF ABOUT OHE-FOUBTE. ieir former prices they were considered excellent values* ie Cut Prices place on them they certainly are ex ional values, 17.50 " ? ? Mt 10.00 " " ? 7.50 LOW OUT SHOES REDUCED. $2.00 Low Cut Shoes now 11.65 2.50 " " ? " 1.95 3.00 " " " ? 2.35 BM " " " ? 2.75 gae cuts on the above Goods are deep, but they are gen ?reductions. No fake business here. " IGa?a Weet is Coming it I Hake your headcLuartors with us s when attending that great and en- > joyable event. Plenty of s : : > 1 PEOPLES FURBIlTilRE CO. ; . "jj y w w y f y f yyyfyv w ny HP- V 'V fj gp y > mdj^td^Wear jo ?^^^^^^^^? S^^n^^^^^^^( ^^j^^^j^^ 8H^^|^^ ' . wived ? ?sw and pretty y. S^eady-to-Wear - - ? > 1 ' Ott? price from rn; o STATE HEW?. - TUG board of trustees of the Co lumbia city schools bave raised the salaries of tho teachers to $45 a mouth. - Th? Southern railway is hauling 50 oars of melons daily through Co lumbia, and the Coast Lino pulls many through Floronoo. - - Leonard Evans, the negro who killed Mr. .-Philipa,.an old whits man, at Norway, baa been captured and is now in jail at Morion. - Assistant Chief Constable Howie, who formerly operated in' Charleston and later in Beaufort, bas resigned from tho constabulary force. - Two mad dogs were killed in the streets of Charleston on Thursday. The Post sayo "it ie not an uncommon thing for mad dogs to be killed in the streets now." I ^-The five beef privileges and four dispensaries in Columbia made a 5ro?t of $3,155.89 for the month of une-an increase of $945.69 over the same month kat year. - The premium list for tbs next State fair has been issued. It offers many attractive and valuable prises. Send to Scoretary A. W. Lore, at Chester, for a copy. I - Ada Brooks, colored, recovered a verdict, of $250 in Greenville against tho Western Union Tolegraph com pany for failing to deliver to her ? message announcing the death of her father. I! -Mrs. Hattie H. League., of Greenville recovered a judgment against Chas. D. Stredley, a merchant, on Thursday for $500 damages for fall ing through a trap door in his store and breaking her arm - Robbers on Friday night entered the room of Sullivan Sawyer, at Salley, Aiken county, and carried off his small safe, in which was ?75. They left the safe not far away, but broke it open and took tho mo noy. P&V- There was a head-on collision o! two-freight trains, Wednesday after noon at Westminister on the Southern railway. Three or more persons were seriously burt, but there were no fa talities. It required several hoars to clear the track. ?/.: - The town of Heath Springs, Lan caster county, was visited by a disas trous fire a few days agc. Which re sulted in . a loss of nearly $20,000. The principal business < houses and the depot platforms cf the' Southeffi railway were destroyed? - The Secretary of State has paid over to the State Treasurer $11,000 received so far this year from charter fees. This is a very material increase over last year, and Secretary Gantt estimates that the fees for the yeai will amount to about $20,000. - The management is working bard to make the 35th annual State Fair t record breaker in the way of exhibits, but it must bave the support, of al Citizens or tho fair will hot be What ii should. Give* your aid now and kee j giving it until the" fair is over, Oct. 27-S0th. Y ; - Gov. Hayward has r???ivcd thc official report of the military coro pan j thai was sent to Norway to quell th? race riot. The members of the oom pavy have been paid off, eaoh reoeiv mg $1.50. The trouble cost the Stab $216-126 for special train and $9( paid ?ho men. r- J. D. S tansell, operating a gov erasent distillery in Pickens county waa detected on Saturday in oarryinj two gallons of whiskey from the etil to his house and was prosecuted bc fore a magistrate for "transporting.' He pleaded guilty and was fined $100 whioh he paid. -Tho revenue o0iv,ers at Columbi seized a oar load of whiskey, believe) to be consigned to a dealer in contri band in that city. The oar contaiuei 165 kegs, eaoh keg contained four an seven-eights gallons, and at the ares age cost of $1.50 per gallon wou?d b worth about $1,300. -- Monday afternoon, While bathin, in Hunt's mill pond,Just below He guenot Mills, in Greenville, Dav! Cochran, the 14-yeer-cld son of Joh Cochran, a carpenter, was drowned The hey was unable to swim and whil standing on a rook in the middle c the pond, lost his balance sod fe] into the . water. Despite the effor? .cf his companions the youth wa Idrowned. - Last Thursday in Green viii Bob. Addiogs, a colored beckman dropped dead in tho city court whil standing at Mayor Jones' desk. Ad dings had been arraigned on the chara of violating tho hack ordinance b making an over charge to two patron of his hack. While explaining th case and just AB he bended the mayo a card -containing the names of th two patrons, Addiogs dropped to hi knees and died instantly. - Goaties* witnesses are not a lowed to testify in the Marlboro com ty ?cart? There was a ease in whio there were many witnesses from tb cotton mills. They o*yja*!s&?5?8hii sleeves. Judge Gage told " the% thi weald BO* ^e. Th?. r? feat* were mile at.-d a b*\t awa;, Ul their horns Bnt someho'y the ^ crowd *a?t?shf ene coat and it was ch*n$ed around < that the whole crowd ?wed it. - Daring a violent thunder utor atSpartanbwg, Tuesday evening, 28l ?lt., 8.30 o%1eck, Mr. TUlmaaP?! ?an was instantly killed by a ?tro! of lightning. Mr-Boocan wi?'at:a home in the western part of that cit He bad just finished eating sappi and had started to rise from the ubi when the lightning struck the wind? and he was buried to the floor. I waa dead whea tu waa r'-ached by Bi Leonard asd Cudd. Mr. Duncan mothcr.whoiwas aiVtC; ta nie With hil was terribly encoded, but CSCR?* ^ithout eeriot??? injury. GENERAL HEWS* --The people of Hawaii ate agita ting the question of independence. - Lightning lulled three and in* j tired over twenty at a Baptist associa tion near Lynchburg, Va. - Gen. A. P. Stuart, one of the surviving lieutenant generals of the Confederate army, is critically ill. - Michael Britohoff, a laborer, oat his wife's throat, killing her instant ly, in New Orleans., La., on Thurs day. - The negroes are leaving the south ern part of Indiana and ooming baok to thc South, it getting too hot for them. - In a row ata negro church at Camak. Ga., on Sunday two negroes were killed and six wounded, four of whom may die. The inhabitants of a village in Pennsylvania tried to lynoh a man be cause he found that they were a band of ch ie ve a. - A man at Fulton, Ky., being awakened by burglars at his window, shot and killed his wife and the bur glar escaped. ~ The ex-slave congress whioh met at Memphis advised the negroes to re turn to the South, where they would be treated better. - Two more New England cotton mills have shut down for an indefinite i period because of the acuity and nigh price of cotton; - A large number of cotton mills in Massachusetts has deeided to shat down, at least for a short time, be cause of the high prioe of cotton. - S. E. Tracy, - a native of Hous ton, Texas, was arrested in Washing ton charged . with a shortage of $20, 000 of the Houston school funds. - James J. Hill and E. H. Ham men are uniting in a big lumber deal in California and Oregon whereby they will control the lamber market of the ; world. - Lightning struck a tree whioh stood near a church in Appomattox county, Virginia, with the result that four person? were killed and many 'in jure d. - Despite', the reports ?of ihe gov ernment a revolution is threatened in Cuba? Armed men are marching through Santiago province urging tho people to rebel. ~~ Twenty clerks on the New York Central railroad have been arrested on tho oharge of robbing freight oars. The peculations amount to several thousand dollars. - A coroner's jury in Chicago on Sunday rendered a verdict that Miss Bella Ackerman came to her death as the r :ult of tor tight laoing, causing blooa poisoning. - Issano Ford, a negro, aooused of . criminal assault on a little girl in Grayson county, Tonas, committed suicide in jail by Langing himself. Blob violence was threatened. -- Farmers in some portions of Georgia are already selling their next cotton crop for future delivery at 10 cents to 12 cents per pound preferring this certain prioe to an uncertain great er ope. ---. Japan will not precipitate hos tilities with Russia, but the latter's coarse in Manohuria will bo carefull> watched. Japan will have the sui - port of the United States and Gret.t Britain. - B. B. Franklin, a white man in Alabama, was con vio ted of holding a negro in involuntary servitude and fined one thousand dollars, whioh ho promptly paid and thaeked the jury for their, jost verdict. - Fenner B. Baker was convicted st'Oxford, Miss., on Thursday of offer ing Fourth Assistant Postmaster Bris tow $300 for an appointment as post master. He Was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to six months in jail. - Charles Hughes, superintendent bf the free delivery in the postoffioe department at Washington, was dis charged on Wednesday on the charge of falsifying his diary and lending hts traveling commission to several per sons. - At tho recent meeting in Denver of representatives of all ;he political parties tho "United People's Party" was launched, and a meeting of the national executive committee has b$en called, to be hold in St. Louis Febru ary 22,1904. - Kansas City, Mo., ie suffering from an epidemic of typhoid fever. There are 800 oases in tho city, 79 bf them being in hospitals, and there have been 20 deaths. The epidemio is attributed to the effects of the re sent floods itt the city. - The life of aohild one year old was saved at Baleigh, N. C., recently by a piece of beef- The thitd was on thetjoinfc cf swallowing this ^henit hil into a tub of water and was faond there with ita head and oody in tho watet ?ad wes palled out. The piece BI beef prevented any water from en tering ita throat. '" ~? Lightning street the chimney of 3. & Wallet's saw mil!, 4 milos north ?(Grand Bay, Ala., Monday after noon and ca aced the boiler to explode. William Carter, Alfred Washing! > v sad I^wis Johnson, all negroes, were killed. Cf?v?n Fort, white, waa bad ly scalded atti will die. Two o .?r imite men were more or less seriously - Five members of the house of iolegatea-city council-of 8t. Lou's, Mrt., were sentenced on Monday for bribery in connection with street rail way and city lighting francises. One ?ot four years. thrAA get firs sad o ac ?u t sis. All appealed and were released under 310,000 bonde. Moffattsville Kiews, Refreshing showers have fallen daily. W. F. McGee ia in Wilmigton, wTc., on a ebert visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Morrow, of Lown-> desville, and Misa Marie Hall, of Mose loy? are visitera at the home of J. M, Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Jep Wilson, of Ander son? worshipped at G?neros tee last Sabbath and viaited among relatives and friends. Hon; J. B. Leverette and wife? of Storr, wert) welcome visitors in oar community this week. Hr. and Mw. T. M. Vandiver, of Anderson, spent several daya with the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brown. Miss Annie Brown also spent Sabbath at home, Mise Bettie Stevenson baa returned to Anderson after a pleasant week's visit among relatives. Miss Iva Cook, formerly of this sec tion, bat now of Woodron; S. C., is en joying a vacation here among her many friends and kindred. Mr. and Mrs. Luke McCarley, of Townville, are visiting at the home of Mr. Robert Bowie. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Alford, of Hart well, Ga., have been on a visit to the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Teasley. R. C. Ligon, Jr., of Newberry, has been in our community for the past few days. . Mack Beatty is visiting home folkB and incidentally calling on his numer ous friends. A number of oar people expect to spend several daya in Anderson taking in tho Gala Week, and from there go to Icv.,r;a more of farming at the Insti tute at Clemson. . Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Leverette, of Moseley, were among oar visitors last Sabbath. Mra.O. H. Reid attended the meet ing held at the Presbyterian Church at Lowndeaville last Sabbath. Dr. Lowry Wilson begins a protract ed meeting at Good Hope next Thurs ?. J. Baskin and Miss Sallie Sherard visited at Lowndeaville this week. Rev. A. L. Patterson, of Mount Car mel, begins his meeting at The Grove A. R. PT Church next Saturday. The summer meeting at Generostee Church closed Tuesday night. Rev. C. M. Boyd, of Prosperity, 8. C., did all the preaching and did it well. O ur ?ieople were all delighted with his orcible way of presenting the truth, and the pointed illustrations were in deed "the windows of thought." His excellent sermons in the pulpit and his {deasant and sociable qualities oat of t, endeared him to us all. We will certainly be o lad to hear and see him again. Nemo. Piedmont News. The mach needed and long looked for rain came at last. We had n fine rain here yesterday, and crops general ly look very mach improved. The Wesleyan Camp Meeting is now on in f nil fores andie bein? largely attended. May they do lots of good. H. ?. Parker leaves today ?or a week or ten daya1 visit to Hartwell, Tocoa and other-points in Georgia. Tom Wigington, Coney Cole and Jesse Boiter, of Anderson, were visit ing hereabouts Sunday. We are al ways glad to have the boys come baok to Piedmont. <L lite a number of Piedmont people WILL visit Anderson this week. mise Grace. McDaniel, of Pickens, visited relatives here last week. Henry Ashmore, of the Manufactur en*-Outiet,.Greenville, is spending his vacation in Piedmont. Piedmont was defeated in a very pretty game of .baseball by tho Tu ca pan team in Spartanburg Saturday afternoon. The score was 5 to 2 in in favor of Tncapan and the game waa called in the Oth inning on account of darkacsa. X. 4.uguf)t8. Her Body In a Well. Charlotte, N. C., July 31.-A special dispatch to the Evening Ghroniole from Ststesville tonight says: /'The body of Mrs. Dolph Beaver was found dead in the well at her home in Cool Spring township last night and foul play is expected. The body was . taken out after midnight. She was bruised about the neck, sup 5ose?* to be the result of being choked, he lever was on the well and the bueket on top of it. Mr. Beaver and his only son came to Statesville and when they returned home late in the afternoon and missed Mrs. Beaver search revealed her body in the well. The coroner went out today to hold an inquest. An empty pistol j some to bacco and a small amount of money was missed. -If she was murdered the perpetrator of the crime is not known. Mrs. Beaver was about 40 years old." Bead Maa Returns te Wife. Chioago, UL, July 27.-Believed by Sis wife and family to be dead and buried in the family lot, with his life insurance paid and his estate settled, Tohn C. Ludwig created consternation tooday by appearing in Chioago, bronz ed and healthy. Ludwig was sent to an insane asylum? mt he managed to escape. A year tgo a man was killed in a railroad freck on whose body some papers were fon&d . containing; Ludwig's name. His wife and family held funeral ser rices over the remains and buried the )odyin the family lot. Then they >roeeeded to collect the life insurance. v _ . _ - There are In New York City to lay 1,320 millionaires against 294 .wenty years ego and 25 in 1853. Chere were no millionaires 100 years igo. The first pereou to reach that listinotion was John Jacob Astor, rho became a millionaire abont the rear 1820. - The sure way never to get fevers lone is to do them for others. While other sections of the country tave been visited by fire, flood and i?rl, we Of this immediate vicinity lave seemingly baen under the pro wise provienes. YES, The Biggest Spring Trade of our Lives. s S?tisfiedleustomers is the secret of it. Hore than the worth of your dollar or your dollar back. We are making a specialty of Ladies7 Black Dress Goods This Spring, and my ! the quantities we are selling. WHY I Because we are fixed on them. Selling pri?e given at the Store and not in the papers, as it would take too much time and space to list them all. COME ONE, COME ? LL, ; And see how much CHEAPER we are than others. To look at our BLACK GOODS means you will buy. Watch this space. Good things to tell you from time to time. X Yours to please, i Give your daughter a thorough Christian education; Si and. before deciding where, inauire Into thc peculiar Q Stic-rits of : : x x x x x x x : a THE WBLLI?W18TON FEMALE COLLEGE. 9 Before sending, inquire whether there is room for her. U . For a catalogue, giving full particulars, address j t n BSV. 0. UNDBB. Prceldens, H j . _ ; ._ WlUlamaton,Bj O? f\ We extend a cordial-welcome to all who may visit our city during : : : : : : : : : Gala Week, August 4-7, And request that you call at our Repository and inspect our stock of :::::::: : Carriages, Phaetons, Surreys, Buggies, Stanhopes, Wagons, Harness, &c, Of which we will have a large display. Terms and PRICES RIGHT. ?See our Buggies at $35 to $45. : : : : : > ? V i JOS. J. FBETWEIil* A&bkissox, o. c. Notice to Creditors* ALL? persons having demanda aral nat tba Batate of Florence Scott Russell, de ceased, are hereby notified to present thom, properly proven, to tho under signed, within the tims proaorlbod by law, and those Indebted to make pay* mont. J. D. McBLROY, Executor. .; Joly 29,1900 0 8? Notice to Creditors. ALTJ persons having demands or claims against the Estate cf Mr, P. B. Mitchell deceased, are hereby notified to present thom, properly prov en, to the undersigned within the timo proscribed by law. and those indebted are notified to make payment. MRS. K. R. M ITC HE [?Li, ?dmtrx. July 7.2, 1903. 5 3