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^ T-TTrTtTT AL T A mn orriAxi ! ANDERSON. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 18. FOR o Some of you think it's too late to buy Summer Clothes, but you forget what ? hot month September usually is. It'll bo a good long time before you'll feel the need of Winter Clothes, and right now, we have some exceptional Bargains to offer you in LOW CUT SHOES, ODD TROUSERS, STRAW HATS and TWO-PIECE SUITS. Prices on the shove are reduced from one-quarter to one third. You'll find some values here, so come in this week ?nd get them. Boys' School Suits. We have just received our first shipments of Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Good Suits, well-made Suits-Suits that'll stand hard knocks-made for growing boys. In this department we'll show for Fall a larger and better assortment than we have ever shown. Bring your boy here and you'll find what you want, Puits from $1.50 to $6.00. Boy s' Knee Pants at 50o, 75c and $1.00. ?ges 4 to 17 years. ANDERSON, S. C. 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TS : > ?..s. to .. , . . . *2 ? . ? : :? :5 : :s : : ? | : : |S?|l??rfl||l??flr? ^.to* ?-? ? ? % 5 H? H5 is? rt H < ft? -? -s* STATE NEWS. - A young man in Yorkville with mind unbalanced as a result of exces sive oigarette smoking, attempted sui cidc by taking strychnine tablets. - The caterpillar has invaded the cotton all over Orangeburg County, and unlcBS they are killed out they will do material damage to the crop. - At Hook Hill last Saturday night safe oraokers ble?? open the safe of McFadden's meat market .nd scoured $'300. Other establishments were also entered. - Mrs. Geo. Hodges, member of a well known Sparenburg family, fell backwards down a flight of steps at her father's home and was seriously injured. - W. II. Out ss, who has held thc office of Sheriff of Edgefield County for more than twenty years, has been renominated ia the reoent primary for another term. - The Paoolet Manufacturing Co's. 1 No. 3 mill, at Pacolet, destroyed by flood last year, is again in oondition for operation aud will at onoe begin manufaeturing. - South Carolina masons of the highest rank are interested in and are preparing for the meeting of the Mystic Shriners which will he held at White ?tooe Springs on September 28th. - The State House scandal threat ens to assumes large proportions. It is going into oourt with the oharge of conspiracy against the architect and contractors, and a demand for $200, 000 damages. - Charlie Brundriok. a young far mer residing near Little Mountain, Newberry County, committed suioide by drinking the contento of a vial of laudanum. No oause can be ascribed to his rash aot. He left a wife. - The statement is made that a majority of the qualified voters of Cherokee County have signed a peti tion calling for an eleotion to vote the dispensaries out of that county. There are dispensaries at Blaoksburg and Gaffney. - The State of South Carolina has been Bued for $192 50 by an Abbeville man for constabulary seizures. No tice was reocived by the attorney gen eral Tuesday morning of the filing of tho suit, which is for the return of two mules, a wagon and two sets of harness. - A young man of St. Matthews, Orangeburg County, named Walter Hildebrand, aged about twenty, shot himself with suicidal intent on Fri day because the girl he was in love with did not seem to return his affec tions. Doctors were called and think he may recover. - The next Legislature will elect a successor to Judge D. A. Townsend as presiding judge of the seventh judi cial cirouit. Judge Townsend will stand for re-election. He is now serving hiB third term. Spartanburg has two candidates for the bench both members of the general assembly, Senator D. E. Hydriok and Hon. C. P. Sanders. - The eleventh annual meeting of the United Daughters of the Confed eracy, whioh meets in St. Louis on Ootober 4-8, is attracting .interest among the South Carolina members of the order, and the indications point to a large representation from this State, as delegates and onlookers at the at the great gathering. -. George Burton, a drayman, was killed in Greenwood the other night by an engine on the 0. & W. C. road. Burton was drunk and lying down on the track when an engine going to the tank after water passed over him. His right leg waa cutoff in two plaoes and his left leg crashed. Burton was about 30 years old and leaves two children, his wife having died several years ago. - The railroad commission will in a few days take up an important mat ter in regard to the telephope servioe in this State. Since tho general as sembly has placed these concerns under the commission's jurisdiction there have been several important questions to be settled and the com mission is moving slowly in settling these, ss their d?cisions will boused as precedents. -- In the oourt of common pleas at Charleston, alimony proceedings have 'been begun by Mrs. Elisa Cooley against her husband, asking also for an order of separation, alleging that her husband has ill treated her. Judge Dantzler has referred the case ta Master Mitchell to take the testi mony. The couple were married in 1892 and tho alleged cruel treatment did not begin uo$lf 1901. The deferr dant is alleged to bo worth $20,000. - A very egrious-looking and strangely formed pig ?as brought to the Mayes drug store this week. The pig was small bat perfeotly formed with the exception of its eyes. In stead of being possessed of the two usual optioal organs there was one single eye placed squarely in the mid dle of tho forehead. The head was of ordinary shape, and the skin on .the ha'id was well formed, bat there was only the one ?ye underneath a i single eyebrow.-Newberry Herald News. - In a fieros hand-to-hand fight in Richardson's beer dispensary at .Greenville Lam Ward landed with his teeth on the nose of John Collins, laos. ' The men were arrested , and released soon siter under bonds of gt&fer ?later appearance in oourt. r. Bramiett dressed Collina' nose and stitched it back in place. The nose was hanging by a thread as the cartilage-had been bitten in two. Dr. B ramie? t, after putting the nose baok in position said it might uniite and heal, but that the chances, are slim. To Sec the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, cjme to ^4m> tmtJ?L??b *?t?*A* Jk* ??k ^k. A A Ai ?rk ti?ti A ??^. A. -ffr- <^^J^AM^J& The Racket Store. i_,_,_? Oar Bayer has j ait returned from the Northern markets? and values in Ooods are arriving daily that provo to tho most fastidious dressers the result of ca* eful selections.1 Seo our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONEY. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else** where. We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our St?res, inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is true. ?BASS CO., Successor to Horn-Bass Co., 110,116,120, East Benson St., - - - - * Anderson, 5. C. ARE READY To show you an entire New Line of Fall and Winter Goods ! Everything you should desire can be had at our Store. In making your selections for the coming season we ask that you visit our place and inspect thoroughly our line. You'll find that in every particular it will meet with your approval. New Remnants in Outings? Flannelettes, Eic. Pull line of Ultra & Brockport Shoes For Women just received. Moore, Acker & Co RUBBER STAMPS ARE MY LONG SUIT. i ' i I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a name, Stamp and indellible pad for marking linen for 40c. I have some other good things. OT. WILS03ST GIBBES, Typewriters, Office Supplies, Etc., 1334 Main Streetf . - . - Columbia, S. 0. .......j^^-L-._itLi_? ' - ? ' ' ? GENERAL SEWS. - Seven hundred metal and tin workers are on a protraoted strike in Philadelphia. -- The white people of Alabama are indignant ov >r the appointment of the Enfanla negro, Murphy, as deputy United States marshal. - A negro was lynched near Brans son, Fla., for murdering a white wo man. He was turned over to the mob by two of his own race. . - The bureau of entomology says that the boll weevils io Texas have advanced twenty miles' northward since the 19th of July. - In a street fight in Kissimmee, Fla., Gordon Lawson shot and killed his brother-in-law Frank Langdon and was badly ont by Langdon. - Judge Edgar M. Gullen, of Brook lyn, has been appointed to suooeed Alton B. Parker as chief judge of the New York Court of appeals. - Henry 0. Finoh, who has a re cord of having killed at least four peo ple in his career of crime, was hanged at Clearfield, Pa., on Friday. - Two men were killed, three seriously injured and 35 oars demolish ed in the wreok of a freight train near Akoona, Pa., on Wednesday night. - A British schooner was. wrecked ; os Mcsdsy 5S?r Polos Pedro, on the California coast. Several lives and thousands of dollars worth of valuable cargo were lost. ' - Bibles'in nearly every human language le the World are shown in the exhihit of the American Bible Society tn th? Palace of Liberal Arts at the^orW'jF?ir^ - The musicians union at Wash ington has declared s strike of the players in the orchestras ali over the city, and it is said that thc theatres will be seriously incommoded. - Several prominent Lcnisb educa tors and members of tbs. parliament oftbat country, are visiting in New York for the parp?se of studying American methods of teaching. - The Armenian in sargen ts recent ly made n valiant stand against the Turkish troops in Asia 'sentto dis perse them, and maintained their ground although outnumbered. rr Early Wednesday morning the pestoffloe at Greenfield, Tenn., was entered and the ssff blown open with dynamite. The robbers, got $150 in money and $550 in postage stamps. , - An English farmer has bad sev eral cate killed, stuffed and placed in threatening attitudes among the branches of his fr nit trees. Not a bird will come anywhere near the or chard. . . - A United States flag made en tirely'-of corn husks, the work of the High School girls of Atkinson Coun ty. Kansas, floats. over tbs? State's exhibit in the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fsir. > - Mrs. Henry Warliek's 15 room house in No. 8 township. Cleveland County, N. C., was struck by light ning during ?n electrical storm and is almost a total wreok, and the house , hold furniture was toro to pieoes. The occupants of the house were cot kill ed, but'severely shocked. The house was insured. - Smith Brooks will be hanged September 19tb, at Forsyth, Ga., for the killing of Mr. John Maddox. This will be the first hanging in that coun ty since 1847. when a white man by the name of Hudgins was hanged. - Dr. B. G. Lightle.was convicted at Searcy, Ark., on Saturday of vio lating a grave-digging up a dead man and having it palmed off as himself in otder to get his own insuranoe-and was fined $2,000 and six months in jail- . - The state department at Wash ington was officially notified on Wed nesday, of the death of Dr. Herran, the American representative at Co lombia. Dr. Herran was a prominent figure at the time of the government troubled with Colombia over the Pana ma canal project. - The Grenadier Guards Band, England's foremost band, is now play ing an extended engagement at the World's Fair. The band is one of the oldest in the world, and visited America in 1872 at the time of the peaoe jubilee in Boston. ' - At Mobile, Ala., last Wednes day George Mosley and his 7-year-old son were drowned. The hoy was handing the father a bunch of fish when he fell overboard. His father jumped in to save his son. Neither I came to the surface again. When the bodies were recovered- they were clasp ed in each other's arms. - Two thousand cattle entries for the World's Fair Live Stock Show have heen reoeived. They include representatives from the herds of all tho prominent breeders of different types of oattlo la the United States and Canada* A number of breeders from England have also entered the competition. - Ooo hundred and one Filipino students have been assigned to twen ty American schools and oollegee to Sin an education. It is a part of the ?ular government system to send th eso Filipinos to the United States to bo educated and then to return them to ?he islands to enter the oivil government servioe. - In Chicago the action of the executive boara of the United Botch ers' union last Thursday night order ing the members back to the work was followed next morning by tho strike committee of other trades involved taking similar aotion, thus ending the strike in which the men were beaten from the start. They will receive less than; they were getting when they first walked ont and much less than first given'them in the agreement which terminated the original strike which began. Joly 12th. - Tho body of the woman supposed to be Mand Allen j whiehhaa remained in tho nonna io Colombia for tho past several weeks, waa buried on ?attrday afternoon. Despite tho ! faot that Pinkerton detectives have been employed on the case*, ibero baa np CO thia time been no light thrown on the mystery. . i " . ? if? > ?? ? ' - A girl has act idea, that tho rea son moro men don11 propose to her ia because they aro afraid she might re fuie them. - There ?re a good many ioioles hanging from domesticity.