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JOHN G. WHAM ACQUITTED. Verdict Was Rendered Friday Morning. Case Tried With Eleven Jurors. The Laurens jury in the case of the State vs. John G. Wham, charged with the murder of L. W. Ramage, in Laurens county. last July, after being out all Thursday night, on Friday morning returned a verdict of "not guilty." Ten of the jury were for acquit tal, but one held out for several hours against acquittal. Owing to the illness of one of the jurors the case was tried with eleven men. Wham killed L. W. Ramage last July, who had called upon him to settle, peacefully if possible, certain conduct of Wham towards a niece of the deceased. XWham promised to do so and Ramage insisted that lie go to the house of the young woman at once. This defendant declined to do and went into his house. Raiage entered the yard and went to the rear of the house of the defendant. Wham ordered Raiage and his companion, Blake ly, to leave. The latter did so, and immediately as he did Wham fired from an upstairs window, with a target rifle, killing Ramage. Wham left immediately, but later gave himself up. 10,000 THROWN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. Reduction in Pay Rolls of Copper Mines in Montana Will Amount to One Mil lion Dollars a Week. Butte, Mont., October 24. --By the general shut-down by the Amalga mated Copper Company properties Thursday night from 13,000 to 15, ooo men are directly thrown out of employment, and others will be in directly affected within a week, so that the grand total will reach 20, ooo. The Great Noitthern will lay off a large portion of the freight crews lieretofore haulingr ore from Butte to the Boston and Montana smelter at Great Falls. The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway will lay off freight crews between Butte and Anacouda. In addition to these numerous other enterprises, large and small, which relied upon the Amalgamated as their chief customer, will be obliged to curtail. In Montana alone approximately one million dollars a week is cut off the pay rolls. Butte streets were filled yester day with 7,000 miners thrown out last night. Boarding house keepers, store keepers, etc., whom the miners owe, besieged the Justice courts seeking garnishment orders. The conista b)les cannot serve the papers fast enough and the justice clerks are working overtime filling them out. 1F. Augustus Heinze. of the Mon tana Ore Purchasing Company, to day published a statement giving his side of the shut-down. HeI said it was a move on the part of the Wall street speculators (among them H-. H. Rogers, president of the Amalgamated Copper Co'?a pany,) to control stock manipula tion, and was not directly caused by the injunction issued yesterdlay by Judge Clancey. HeI also said that Judge Clancey's decision yes terday was in line with the North ernt securities decision. Mr. Scallon, of the Anaconda Copper Company, said that there was nto truth in the statemnentt that Mr. Rogers p)residen-lt of the A mail gamltatedl Comnpan y, ordlered the shint-dlown to a ffect the stock mar ket. Many Mothers of a Like Opion. Mr's. Pilmer, of Cordova, Iowa, says: ''One of mt/ children was subhject to croup~ of ai severe type, andI the giv ing of Chranbherlain 's Cough R~emedy~ mothers in this neighborhood thbink h b)ertry, S. C., and Prosperity Drmug Co. THE FISHING CRBEK DISASTER. Eight Suits Against the Southern Railway For Damages Aggregating $205,000. A special from Yorkvil!e says that eight complaints have been lodged with the sheriff of York county, allclaiming damagesagainst the Southern Railway in amounts ranging from $5,ooo to $5o,ooo for the breaking of bones, injury to health and the destruction of life by reason of the Fishing Creek disas ter on September 3, 1903 In. at least one case N. M. Stokes, the section master of. the section embracing the trestle that gave way, is made co-defendant with the Southern railway, and in all cases the complaints attribute the wreck to gross carelessness, recklessness, etc.. of the rail road people and to the rotten condition of the structure. The plaintiffs in the various ac tions, together with the amounts sued for and their attorneys are as follows: F. Sadler Love, administrator of the estate of Richard Wagener Mil ler, colored, deceased. wants $20, ooo. Miller was killed in the wreck. The plaintiff is represented by Major James F. Hart, of York ville, and Wilson & Wilson, of Rock Hill. J. B. Johnson, as guardian ad litem for Julian Boyd Johnson, wants $50,ooo oin account of inju ries. The piaintiff is represented by Wilson & Wilson. Mrs. Eliza F. Buist wants $30, ooo on account of injuries sustained. She is represented by Mr. W. B. McCaw, of Yorkville. W. T. Slaughter places his claim at $20,000 on account of injur'es. lie is represented1 by Messrs. Lewis & McDow, of Yorkville. J. XV. Rhyne, as administrator of the estate of Frederick L Rh yne, the fireman killed in the wreck, is asking for $4Io,ooo. lie is repre sented by C. T. Ladson, of Atlanta, Ga. Isaac F. Greener, as administra tor of the estate of Charles Johnson Smith, colored, the dead postal clerk, wants $20,ooo. He is repre sented by Mitchell & Smith, of Charleston. Edward Turner, the conductor of the train, wants $20,000 for in juries. He is represented by C. T. Ladson, of Atlanta, Ga. James L. Moss, guardian ad litem for Tobe Burris. colu?. d, wants $5,000 for inj uries sustained by his ward. HeI is rep)resented by Mr. J. S. Brice, of YTorkvi lle. A sp'ecial term of court for York county, with Mr. J. E. McDonald, of the Winnsboro Bar, as presiding judge, has b)eenl ordiered to convene after the adjourment of the regu lar fall term, which will consume the latter part of November, and it is exp)ected that the special term will be in session for three or four weeks during December, and it is possible that somne of the suits against the Southern may be heard during the special term. Get the Best! Subscribe to The 30w1arry Hc,rald alli NowS and Th 00llll-WaekJ NeWv alli 00olIwio, The best county newspaper The best general and State newspaper All the telegraph, State and genera newvs you can recad. K(eep up with the news of the worldl the nation, the State andl your counIIty Get the two for- a song only Two D)ol lar-s for a year's subscription to botl and You know all about The H eraldl an' News. Tlhe Semi-Weekly Ne ws and Cour Dier, publ)1ished at Charl'eston, S. C.X, is t weekly you can get. 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Our parsonage was bunrned Autg. 26, 9go01 andl miy3 peni along and issue receipts for -ithi it. I can say with all good same, whic mo~ ~-~Tcn science Ithat after ten years of SRme WhE MO(y.Ca Icontanlt use, myi pen wrot- just as be o bt.i nedwell the niighit it b1urned as the day beobaiedonit was bought . Inin myi rmancial emnbaraassmenit. (one of the first WT r ' ttg I replaced was anot her peu I U EWBERRY tIe same mai:ke which I am niow using. \'ery t ruly,