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Time to Loosen the Purse Strings ?8?S?SS?S2S!8S^i! CIT HOD Y iii WIITIN iifjlGaS^S^S^S?SSSJS?? Our new and handsome stock has had a thinning out in many lines, which is noticeable, but lots of pretty and seasonable merchandise is being constantly received to take the place of that already sold, thus creating an ever-changing picture of beautiful merchandise in Dress Goods, Cloaks and Millinery. We cordially invite you, if not already a patron of ours, to call at our store and learn the secret why our several departments are daily thronged with enthusiastic customers- Prospective purchasers of Blankets, Carpets, Linens and warranted Footwear are being offered a golden opportunity just at this time? Who does not prefer fresh goods to those several seasons old in these especial lines ? Is there any common sense or not in the asking of this question ? Your Friends, l UT EH ?Kl <jOOD$ CO SUMTER, C LIFE WAS ? FAILURE FOB MBS. G. i SWITZER. Spartanburg County Lady Com? mits Suicide oa Sunday. . Special *o The State, f Spartan barg, Oct. 19.-Mrs. D. A. Switzer commited suicide this morn? ing at her home near Roebuck. Her tragic death is a shock to the entire neighborhood. She was apoarently in the best of health and spirits! this morning. She dressed her children and sent them to Sunday school. Her husband was lying on the bed in the' chamber asleep or reading the paper. She entered this room about 10 o'clock, left a note on'the bureau., and without Ms observing it, took a razor from the bureau drawer. Mrs. Switzer then/ went to a dilapidated dwelling near their new home, and severed a main artery of one leg with the razor. ? It was several hours after this before her lifeless body was found. Her hus? band aroused from bed and missed his wife. He could not find her, and sub? sequently found the note on the bureau. The contents of the note, according to one who read lt today were to this effect: '%rfe is a failure to me. Take my children, Dave and do the best you can of them. I will take my life to day." Mr. Switzer then searched every? where, and about noon found the j body of his wife lying in the old house. THREE TH0US?H0 KILLED. Venezuelan Insurgents Defeated in Seven Day's Battle. La Victoria, Venezuela, Oct. IS.-A messenger has arrived here from the scene of the engagement near this place between government troops and revolutionists, bringing news that af? ter seven days of terrible fighting 9,000 .rebels under Gen. Mendoza had abandoned the fields, having retired from their last position, sis miles from. La Victoria, Friday night retreating in the. direction of Villa de Cura. According to President Castro the killed and wounded number 3,000. * During the-last days of the fighting the temperature rose* to 116 degrees and a visitor to the scene of the en? gagement declares he never saw such a terrible spoc?tcle as was presented by the battlefield. . The victory of the government troops, which is said* to be due to the personal courage of President Castro, who twice with Mauser rifle in bis hand charged at the head of his soldiers, is considered a serious set back for the cause of the revolutionists. A courier from Valencia who arrived here today reports that up to yester? day that town was not in the hands of the revolutionists. Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Oct 19.-7-One of the leaders of the Matos revolution in Venezuela, who is at present in Curacao, has furnished the following details and explanation of the retreat of the revolutionary army from La Victoria. He says the rebels only abandoned the fight after being convinced that La Victoria was impregnable, and after President Castro had refused to come out and attack the revolutionists outside of La Victoria. Twice did the revolutionary general attempt to force President Cas? tro to take the offensive and twice the Kresident refused. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 19..-A special to Tfce Observer from Hamlet, N. C., says: Fire, which broke out at the cotton compress here about noon, destroyed property valued at $225,000 and caused the death of J. M. "Wilson, of Clarksville, Ga., bookkeeper for the compress company, And a nephew of Geo. E. Wilson of Charlotte. The compress was owned by the Seaboard Air Line company and was leased by E. E. Johnson of Raleigh. The Pee Dee ice plant, one of the largest in the State, 2,400 bales of cotton and a quantity of burlaps and bagging were also burned. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 19.-James Younger, one of the famous Younger brothers, compatriots of Jesse James, committed suicide today by shooting. Younger was recently paroled from the Stillwater penitentiary where he and his brother, Coleman, were serving life sentences for participation in the Northfield bank raid in 1876. James Younger was the youngest of three brothers, Robert, Coleman and James, who, between the years 1866 and 1873, gained great notriety through their association with Jesse f;nd Frank James. Sheriff Robt. E. Jenkins, of Beau? fort county died on Saturday. RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA. Slacks Fire on a Posse Killing Three Whites-Follows Assault of a White Women. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 19.-Three white men and eight negroes are re? ported to have been killed in a race riot at Littleton, Ala.? a small town 25 miles southeast of this city tonight. The number of wounded has not yet been ascertained. fl A special train carrying Sheriff An? drew W. Bergen and ten deputies left for the scene of the riot at 10 o'clock tonight _ The riot is said to have been caused by a crowd of negroes attacking a white woman who was passing over a railroad bridge en route home from a visit to a neighbor. As soon as the white citizens of the town learned of the attack they im? mediately began ?;heir search for the woman's assailants. The negroes re-. j fosed to deliver the woman's assailants ! and armed themselves to protect their j leaders.. When the posse arrived the ( I negroes opened fire, killing three of the officers. The deputies returned the fire, killing eight negroes. Owing io the large number of negroes, who outnumbered the whites [ ten to one,- the posse was forced to re- \ treat The negroes are reported to be ; in complete possession of the town and have , entrenched "themeslves. The negroes have captured a powder mag? azine, the property of a coal company f and are strongly fortified.' The Alabama Race Riot. " Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 20.-News} from Littleton, Ala., the scene of the j riot last night between negroes and I white men, developed \ the facts tb at everything is quiet there now, the neroes having goae to their homes and no further trouble is apprehended. Ira Creel, the white man who was re? ported to have been killed, appeared in Littleton safe and sound today, hav? ing spent the-night in the woods, but Joe Thompson (white) who was seri? ously wounded, died while being brought to this city. - Joe Baer, one of the wounded negroes, is doing well , and is expected to re? cover but Will Tolbert, the other negro who was shot and was the originator of the fight, is missing and is known to be seriously wounded. Kingston, Jamaica, October 18.-Tho steamer Orinoco, from Colon, Colom? bia, which reached here today, brings a report that yellow fever and smallpox have broken out among the forces of the 'Colombian Government at Colon, and that there are ten deaths daily from the disease among the soldiers there. ^Beaumont, Texas, October 19.- Fire broke out in the oil field this morning about 4 o'clock, destroying half a dozen derricks and a settling tank. The tank exploded, inflicting such injuries on a workman named Febru? ary that he died in a short time. The monetary loss was not heavy. Williamston, Oct 17.-A very unusual railway accident occurred a half mile west of Pelzer station last night It appears that when nearing that point the porter of train No. 6, south bound, came through the first class coach, as is the custom and called out the sta tion when Miss Minnie Hollingsworth, a young lady passenger, deliberately arose from her seat, walked to the platform of the coach and stepped off to the ground while the train was dashing along at the rate of perhaps 30 miles an hour. It so happened that one of the train crew saw the lady as she stepped off and Conductor Beattie was immediately notified, who backed the train in search of the lady, fully expecting to ^find her lifeless body by the roadside,- but the strangest part of the story is that she picked herself up after the fall and walked some distance to her home in Pelzer, with only a few slight bruises about her person. Rome, October M.-The Tribuna to? day publishes a communication from M. Michailowsky, addressed to the Powers, and inviting their interven? tion in behalf of the Macedonians against Turkish vengeance. M. Michailowsky declares that in several districts Turkish troops are masacre ing women and children. Clemson College football team de? feated the Georgia School of Tech? nology in Atlanta Saturday, score 44 to 5. Furman Univeristy was defeat? ed by the University of Georgia at Athens, score ll to 0. Senator W. B. Gruber, of Colleton, is announced as a candidate to succeed Chief Ju?tice Mciver. There are sev? eral other candidates already in the field, although iTndge Mciver has not resigned. _ ^2 _ MINERS CONVENTION TAKES NO ACTION. But One Obstacle in Way of Calling Of Strike. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct 20.-The anxiously awaited convention of the 145,000 striking miners met today but did not reach a vote on the proposed plan of settlement. It is expected to do so tomorrow. There were 662 delegates present in the Nesbitt theatre, where the conven? tion was held, and they were empower? ed by their local unions to cast 876 votesfor or againstPresidentRoosevelts' proposed plan of arbitration. The great majbrty of $he delegates were uninstructed, the few who were being engineers, firemen and pumpmen who fear that the 5,000 strikers of those classes may not get back their ' places now held by non-union men. This question of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen proved th6 only stumbling block in the way of almost immediate adoption of the .president's plan which carries with it declaring the strike off, and a general resumption of* work through the 175 mile strip of the hard coal mining region. At one time today it seemed certain that the convention was about to adopt the recommendation of'President Mit? chell to end the strike, but the steam men's plea was too earnest and the final vote went over until tomorrow, when it is next to certain the vote to declare the strike off will show a big majority for it. The leaders of the strikers, except Mr. Mitchell, were hardly heard at all in the convention today, the anxious engineers being allowed to give full expression to their feelings. But tomorrow, it is predict? ed, the leaders will be heard, and one of them, a high district officer, said today there would not be more than 15 votes recorded against the plan which the president of the United States has proposed to them and which all the highest of all the mine work? ers "in this region earenstly have re? commended. There were two sessions, forenoon and afternoon, today and the net result as regards the progress of the convention toward its great object was a permanent organization with Mr. Mitchell in the chair, his speech laying the president's plan before the dele? gates, his eloquent impromptu speech advocating its adoption, and the ap? pointment of a committee on resolu? tions. This committee, as Mr. Mit? chell said to the delegates, would pre? pare a formal statement to the public, teling fully and carefully why the con? vention decided to continue the strike, if it should so decide; and why the strike was declared off if that was the outcome of their deliberations. Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific. According to the Railway Age, oil as fuel continues to prove successful on all the lines of the Southern Pacific, and it is understood that general or? ders have recently been issued for the conversion of all the engines into oil burners as soon as possible. Coal will be abandoned absolutely,fand within a year the Southern Pacific system will be on an oil basis solely, the order affecting ail the divisions of the com? pany. The "western" dvision of the road now has sixty-three oil-burning engines and eighty-three coal burners. It is estimated that within eight months all of the engines will have been converted and the use of coal on this division permanently abandoned. During the month of September the oil burners on that district traveled a distance of approximately 200,000 miles. The coal-burning engines passed over 306,752 miles bf track. It requires on an average 1,000 gallons, or about twenty-four barrels, of oil for every 100 miles, as compared to five tons of coal, the saving on every 100 miies by using oil ranging from $16 to $20. The total saving for the 200,000 miles traveled by oil-burning engines re? presents from $36,000 to $40,000 per month. John Cudahy is believed to have changed from a bear to a bull in the corn market. In three days he has purchased over 5,000,000 bushels of December corn. It is said that J. Ogden Armour aims at 75 cents for the conclusion of the deal. Special Train on Southern. The Southern Railway will ' run a special passenger trian tomorrow after? noon for the accommodation of these who attend the circus. The train will leave the depot at 5.30 o'clock p.m.,and will run through to Sumter Junction. This train will be a great convenience to those who live on the line fo the Southern, as it will enable them to return home after the circus, and the efforts of the Southern to accom? modate its patrons will be appreciated. SAVAGERY IN ARKANSAS. Negro Charged With Terrible Crime Taken From Jail and Burned at the Stake. IForestCity, Ark., Oct.*20.-Charles Young, the negro charged with as? saulting and afterwards murdering Mrs. Ed. Lewis, white, was burned here tonight by a mob of infuriated citizens of this county. Sheriff W. E. Willis of this county used every effort against this measure and had telephoned Judge Hutton of this dis? trict who promised to come tomorrow j and give immediate trial to the negro. In view of which the leaders of the mob, it is said, had given the sheriff positive pledges that they would await ' trial and take no violent meas? ures. Later, however, more violent counsel prevailed and about 8.30 o'clock tonight the mob marched to the county jail. After having been refused the keys by Deputy Sheriff Murphy, until Sheriff Williams could ! be acquainted with their demands, the mob, not waiting for Sheriff Wlliams' arrival, forcibly took the call keys from Murphy* and breaking into the jail door with sledge hammers, took/, the prisoner from his cell against the protests and pleadings of Sheriff Williams who had arrived in the meantime. The mob took the negro to a point about a half mile east of town, bound him, piled wood around him, and set fire to it.Thehegro begged piteously for his life but the mob ?urned deaf ears to his pleadings. In a short time the flames reached him and he expired in (the presence of the several hundred men composing the mob. After Young had been put to death the mob started in quest of an? other negro alleged to have been im? plicated in the killing of Mrs. Lewis At midnight he has not teen found. THE INDIAN COTTON CROP. Estimates of the Area Planted For the Season of I902-?903. Washington, October 17.-The agri? cultural department has received a statement issued by the Government of India on the 1902-03 crop of cotton of India. The report, which was sent here by mail, says there is no reason for anticipating anything less than a satisfactory yield generally on an area at least equal to the average. The area sown was substantially in excess of the average in the United and Cen? tral provinces, and elsewhere was either not below the average or a little in excess of it. In the Punjaub the total area in cotton at the end of July was estimated at 965,900 acres, against 1,021,100 acres finally determiend last year, and the condition of the crop is reported satisfactory. In the North? west frontier province the area sown is estimated at 16,285 acres, a decrease in Peshawar and Kohat as compared with last year. The crop prospects there are fairly good. The area sown in the united pro? vinces of Agra and Oudn is 15 per cent in* excess of the average and the pros? pects are very favorable. In the Cen? tral provinces the area sown, 990,000 acres, is generally larger than last year and very much above the average. The crop prospects are good. In Berar the crop wis thriving and the* area sown, estimated at 1,634,000 acres, is less than last year, but little in excess of the average. In Bombay, in the dis? tricts of the Deccan, where the early crop is grown, there is no anxiety over the crops and the area sown is about 900,000, or 5 per cent less than last year's area, but in excess of the aver? age. The crop is in fair condition in Madras, with a normal area of 51,300, and a favorable crop is reported from Burma, with an area sown of 138,000 acres, against 131,000 last year. - - i i-mnmm?m* A Bad Negro Killed. Columbia, Oct. 20.-Joe Thomas, a negro desperado, was shot and kill? ed late this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff W. C. Cathcart. Mr. Cath? cart was endeavoring to arrest Thomas, who was clubbing a woman on the head with a piece o* scantling. When pursued the negro seized an axe and endeavored to kill the officer, who was forced to shoot him twice. He died soon afterwards. The inquest will be held tomorrow morning. The wo? man, who was seriously wounded, will recover. It is said that an Austrian surgeon will get $7."),000 for setting the hip joints of one of the Armour children which was born with the hip joints out of place. That same operation is to be performed on the child of a laboring man in Chicago for nothing. . LUHHUBE OF THE BOERS. "Kitchen Dutch/' Ecclesiastical Dutch," and "High Dutch." It seems a strange thing to say, but there are three Dutch languages in South Africa. The earliest Dutch settlers at the Cape were largely Dutch sailors and others, belonging to the lower orders of Amsterdam, Rotter? dam, and other Dutch seaports. Their language was a Low Dutch dialect to begin with, and although the sprink? ling of Dutch officials at the Cape did their best to preserve the language of the Netherlands, .they could ? not pre? vent the dialect of the settlers from still further degenerating into a mere colloquial patois. Its degeneration was doubtless largely brought about by domestic serrants and slaves-Hot tentots, Malays, and Mozambique Kaffirs-who spoke it very imperfect? ly, and introduced into it many strange , words and idioms. This, then, is the I genesis of what is variously known as I "Cape Dutch," "Kitchen Dutch," "Patriot Dutch," "Afrikaans," and the "Afrikander Taal." Its "basis is Dutch, but the nouns have lost their declensions and the verbs their conju? gations, white grammatical gender and syntax generally have gone by the board. ^ To th % educated Hollander of today it is a literary atrocity, and he cannot away with it ; but to the Afri? kander it is his mother tongue, the lan? guage of his home and his childhood, the exponent of all that he know ofs humor and pathos. It is full of ex? pressive idioms, pithy proverbs, and pawky expressions, like those so dear to the Lowland Scot : and yet, it is not a language, for it has no litera? ture. The Bev. S. J. Du Toit, ex-Superin? tendent of Education in the Trans? vaal, freebooter, , and speculator, told his friends at the Paarl about twelve years ago, when he was in the heyday of his fortune, that he had vowed that- if God gave him great wealth he would devote it to the translation and publication of the whole Bible in "Afrikaans" as a thank-offering. He was then on his way to London to float some more companies, and to set about the per? formance cf his vow ; but, alas ! a slump followed the boom, as it usually does, and Mr. Du Toit's fortune, which was all in scrip, melted away like snow in June, and so it comes about that*there is no Bible in the Afrikander "Taal," although it is spoken by more than a quarter of a million people. Such a Bible will never be published, for the Dutch predikants have always set their faces like flint against the proposal, and the ordinary Boer feels that he re? quires a language more dignified wherein to conduct his devotions. The second of the three Dutch lan? guages referred to might be called "ecclesiastical Dutch," or if you like, African Dutch. It is the language of Holland as that language was written about 200 years ago. It is the lang? uage of the Dutch Bible, and very much resembles our own authorized version in its simplicity and directness of style. It is the .language of the Dutch Psalm and Gesang books, and of the devotional works of old Dutch divines, which make up the balance of the Dutch farmers' litera? ture. In it are also written many tracts and a few devotional works by living ministers of the Dutch Re? formed Church. To the Boer wher? ever you find him, it is the language of his church, and of his religion, and, according to the teaching of Mr. Bos man, inseparably bound up with them. Thia is the Dutch language which the leaders of the Dutch Afrik? ander party are determined to preserve. It is never spoken by Afrikanders among themselves, however, and it is never written grammatically by them. in their correspondence. The Boer has no fear that his "Huis-taal," Cape Dutch, will die out, but he fears that his children will forget or neglect to learn the language of his church and of his forefathers. The third Dutch language might be called modern literary, or "High Dutch"-that is, the language written and spoken by educated Hollanders of today. It is florid, involved in con? struction, and very artificial in style, as compared with the language of the Dutch Bible. Its pronunciation has also changed considerably, in the in? terval, and even an educated Dutch speaking Afrikander listening to a voluble Hollander can hardly make head or tail of what he is saying. It is nevertheless the language which Dr. Leyds, Dr. Jorison, Dr. Mausveit, and the whole Hollander faction in the Transvaal had been forcing upon the burghers as their "Landstaal" for the last twenty years. Their over? bearing policy and the contempt tnat they never concealed for the simple Dutch of the Cape Afrikander alienat? ed the sympathy and support that they might have obtained from the minis? ters of the Dutch Reformed Church, and?somehow or ether they utterly fail? ed to evoke among young Afrikanders any enthusiasm or liking for modern Dutch literature. The?educated Afri? kander had been taught English, and there he found all the literature that he wanted. This fact accounts for the fierce determination with which Dr. Mausvelt and his clique strove tc keep Afrikander teachers out of Transvaal schools, and filled every vacancy as it occurred by an imported pedagogue if possible. This ostracism provoked the wrath of the young Afrikander party. ' -(Transvaal Letter in the Scotsman. OUTRAGEOUS LYNGHHIB IN TEXAS. Convicted Ravisher Taken From the Court House Before Eyes of the Judge and Hanged to a Telephone Pole in Public Square. Hempstead, Tex., Oct. 21.-After being tried wth legal for and procedure for criminal assault and murder and given the death penalty in each case, Jim Wesley and Redick Barton,-ne? groes were late this afternoon ,taken from the authorities and lynched in the public square by an infuriated mob. 1 The district judge asked )he gover? nor for troops to accompany the ne? groes here from the jail at Houston where they were safe. At the request of a large number of citizens of -Hemp stead who signed a written promise to aid the authorities in preventing any mob law it is said Judge Thompson countermanded his request and the troops did not accompany the nergoes. Barton was first tried. He plead guilty to criminal assault and then to the murder of Mrs. Susan, Lewis aged 63, Sunday, October, 12. The juries in each case on which were, several nergoes promptly returned ver? dict of the death penalty. .During, the afternoon Wesley was put ern trial. He plead guilty to assault1 and'then to the murder charge, but while-th? second trial was going on a .mob .broke into the conrt room and attempted. to take him, having learned that.' the sheriff had finally asked for troops.. The mob was dispersed and the trial proceeded, the State putting through its testimony hurriedly in coroboration of the plea of guilty. Both juries as? sessed the death penalty. The officers of the court sat about the room awaiting the coming of troops when there was a sudden move? ment on the part of several men in the room. The sheriff was overpowered and Wesely was taken possession of by the mofo and hurried away. Another portion of the mob attacked the jail and Barton was surrendred to them without a struggle. The'two prisoners were bustled to tbe public scuare and there executed by handing. I Neither of them had been sentenced and District Judge Thompson bad positively refused to permit them to waive tHe thirtfy days of grace allowed them by law. " It was the general desire that they die quickly. They are hanging tonight to the arm of a telephone pole, where only last month a - negro murderer had been strung up by a mob. t?ark Twain's Order. Washington, Oct. 21.-The follow? ing letter was received at the treasury department today : New York, October 3. To the Honorable, the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. Sir : Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an alti? tude which puts them out of the reach, of literary persons in straightened circumstances, I desire to place with you the following order : Forty-five tons best old dry govern? ment bonds, suitable for furnace, gold \ 7 per cent. 1864, preferred. Twelve tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking. Eight barrels seasoned 25 and 5C<. cent postal currency, vintage of 1S66% eligible for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient dispatch at my honse at Riverdale at lowest rates for spot cash and send bill to Your obedient servant, Mark Twain. Who will be very grateful and. vote, right. Daughters of the Confederacy. The annual state convetnion of the Daughters of the Confederacy of South Carolina is to be held this year at Anderson. The convention will be called to order at 10.20 o'clock on Tuesday morning November 25. The invitations or notices are now being sent out by Mrs. Thomas E. Walton, secretary of the joint committee of arrangements of the two Anderson chapters. gfy_