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THETTNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?dy thi UNlOiN TIMES COMFAK Y m Second Flook Times Builimnq. ' -v ??" J SO. R. MAT HIS, Editor, J?. (J. Youno, Manager Registered at th? I' ntofllce in Union, 1 8. C.. .t.-i second-class .nail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year - -- -- -- $ 1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq ware, first insertion - - $1.00. Everv .ibsequent insertion c 50 cents. Con acts fyr three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at SJ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION. S. C. SEPTEMBER 5,1902 The Newberry Observer says if you want to get office move to Spartanburg, and it does look as if there is something in it. The Jate Jay Gould got his start by selling rat traps, from them ho probably learned he lesson to hold fast to what he got, until he got his load. There is going to be some of the warmest kind of work done between now and the second primary which takes place Tuesday, the 9th inst. R. Eber Brewton, auditor of Spartanburg county, committed suicide on Sunday morning by cutting his throat with a razor. Bad health is given as the cause. United States Senator John L. McLaurin was in Greenville last week looking at real estate with a view to locating in that city. Better take a look around Spartanburg, unless he has decided to give up politics. The new presidents for both Furmar and Clemsor. have been chosen. One of them is named Pell, the other Mell. We hope this does not mean that things will be run pell mell in these noble institutions of learning. Its going to be a tight race between Evans and Lattimer for the senate. Some think about as good plan as any in deciding is to shut your eyes and throw heads and tails for choice. Bat Evans is a Spartanburg man... Another disastrous eruption of? Mount Pelee occured last Saturday. One village was destroyed and another was swept by a tidal wave. Over 200 lives are reported to have been lost. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are fleeing in terror to the interior. A negro prophet who has foretold several things that came to pass says the democrats will win this time and that David B. Hill of Albany will be the nominee who will lead the party to victory. He say Bryan is booked by the fates to be elected president in 1812. We predict there will bo more interest taken in the second than in the first primary. The list of candidates is so much shorter, the voters have hud longer time to study the candidates and they can more readily keep their names in mind. Thy newspapers will endeavor to keep the public informed. Lattimer and Talbert have both dropped their candy. They were both congressman, but wanted to go higher. Talbert, however, made a good run and got in the second race. Has anyone got a self acting, double barreled kicking machine for sale? They could probably do some business should they call on some of the defeated candidates. Tt is astonishing to the average reader the number of votes that were caeb for James H. Tillman for governor. We think this can partially be accounted for by a groat number of voters in the rural districts who do npt take the papers and therefore don't keep posted, voting for him, becouse they thought it was Ben Till man running. The Wilmington Messenger says: ' *'From ten acres of land near Wilmington W. B. McClelland has marketed $2,.">0r> worth of Irish potatoes this season. Net result, $1,805. How is that for a money crop, i Irish potatoes grow well in this sec fclon, suppose some of you trv them for a money crop. The above bears cotton, and not as much work noces- < ary. 1 ? . PRIMARY ELECTION RETURNS. As heretofore The Times outstripped all records. The people were furnished with a correct tabulation of the vote with correct additions of snrre in our regular i?sn.-> 1 .* week. If some people could have seen our office crowded with anxious candidu'es wanting to know "how they stood" in the war of the bullot. they ( would have died with envy. One would come in and ask "have you 1 finished figuring yet. I know I will get the correct vote when you publish it." Another would say "every thing seems mixed across the way. I know they are in error. Please give me the correct figures in my race." After our correct tabulation was in type for the paper the job press was called into use for special copies aDd one prominent candidate oamo in smiling, saying that "he was satisfied The Times would have it right." It is a pity that some youthful journalist cannot understand that [statements that are not backed up by final returns do not set well on interested people to say the least and when the general public are to be reached they always depend on the paper that gives the news in a correct and not garbled form. The Times feels more than complimented when the executive commit, tee found it necessary to change its totals to conform to those of The Times. Our readers can depend on getting the correct returns from next Tuesday's election in their next paper. Several have asked our opinion on the best men to vote for but there is a trite saying attributed to our old friend, Jonas Smirk thjit "Everybody was voting to suit themseives." We have always followed that rule and depend on the good people to do the same. The state and county is safe ;n the hands of any of the gentlemen who are offering themselves for your suffrage. All we advise is pay very little attention to those smelling strongly of iquor and whispering some scandal that has been discovered at the eleventh hour on some good man. Consult your wife and vote as she sug gests and you will not go far wroDg. ROOSEVELT IN AN ACCIDENT. About 10 o'clock Wednesday morning while President Roosevelt and party were enroute in a landau from Pittsfield to Lenox, Mass., a serious accident happened in which one of the party, secret service officer Craig, lost his life and the president was slightly bruised, and very narrowly escaped losing hit life. Secretary Cortelyou and Congressman Qeorge Lawrence, of Massachusetts injured; Secretary Cortelyou was rendered unconscious. The landouwas struck by a trolley car on the tracks of the Pittsfield Street Railway Company. It was overturned, throwing all the six occupants heavily to the ground. Officer Craig was caught under the wheels and his life crushed out. Immediately after the accident President Roosevelt realilizing that the story might be exaggerated hastened a messenger to Lenox with the news. The president's injuri^ consist of a light cut on the head and a few bruises of an insignificant nature. Governor Crane, who was in the landau, was uninjured. The officer who was killed was on the box with the driver. One of the four horses was also killed. The laudau was only a mile from Pittsfield when struck by the trolley car going at a high rate of speed, fully itt) miles an hour. Driver Pratt was knocked senseless and taken to a hospital for treatment. The six occupants were thrown in every direction. The president ob tained a now conveyance and continued on his journey. The conductor and motorman of the trolley car have been arrested, charged with manslaughter. Motorman Madden was released on a $5,000 bond and conductor Kelley was released on $2,500 bond. The motorman was warned by Governor Crane and others, but the warning came toe late. The motorman was ringing his gong and the crowd was cheering the president. HOW THE COLLISION OCCURRED. I Just at the foot of Howard's hill i the road bends a little and teams are compelled to cross the street railway trac>w8 to the east sldsr. The railroad then continues at one side of the j street instead of in the centre. Just I at this point the up grade of the hill j begins, ami but a short distance be- , yond the crossing there is a narrow bridge spanning a small brook. The trollpy car approached the road * crossing under a good head of speed j with gong olanglng just as the driver | x * of the President's carriage turned his leaders to cross the tracks. On each tide of the Chief Executive's carriage rode two mounted troopers of the local cavalry company, and the horsemen on the left of the landau had turned on the track with the trolley car immediately behind them,though some yards distant. THE ?U1>I*KN WKBUK. Alarmed by the Hanging- gong, they hoih turned in tin r -adlea sod wa"wl vigorously to the nm ermau to stop his car. Almost at the same instant Governor Ciane, who q .??-%- ly perceived tho danger, rose to hia tret and likewise uiotioi ed to the moterman. The latter pi great excitement deeneratelv tried tn stop bis cer, but it was too late. It crashed into the carriage just as a loud moan went up from the frenzied onlookers who thronged the roadside and who bvt a moment before were clieering the President. The horsemen managed to get the frightened animals out ofe the way just in tinre ?vd the car struok '.be rear wheel of the carriage on thu V.t side and plough* d through the frup'u wheel of ihe vehicle, which reoeivtd ihe full force of tlie blow. The carriage was upset in the twinkling of an eye and one horse fell ?kad on the tracks. The oth? r three powerful grays attached to the veil cle staroed to run. and d agged by them and puslitd by the force of the car the wrecked oarrlage was me ved thirty or forty feet. Agent Craig 'ell from his seat immediately in front of the car and it passed completely over his body. Driver Pratt in falling struck the dead horse immediately in front of him and rolled oft dear of the car, thus escaping a similar fate. Presideht Roosevelt, Governor Crane andSecretary Cortelyou were thrown together in the bottom of the carriage. The President's lip was cut and blood was flowing from the wound. Secretary Cortelyou had a severe wound in the baclc of the head, from which blood was flowing freely. T1IK MOTERMAN'8 8UORY Euclid Madden, the motorman, in telling his story, says that the car was No 29, which had motors of sixty-horse power. The car is not fitted with air brakes. On account of the Presidential exercises he says that the running scludule on all lines of the eorapany's btieets were disturbed. As he passed over the railroad bridge, about 350 or 400 feet from the scene of the accident, he says lie shut off the power and put on t lie brakes, the car thftn hnintr nn q rlnwin 1 wug wu n uunu (Cinur, HH Pi' J O there were teams on both sides of the track and he was exercising every care to avoid an accident. In his opinion the car was not running over eight miles an hour; he received no warning to stop aud did not see the mounted men or Governor Crane waving their hands till it was at a standstill. According to Maddcu's story there wa* plenty of room fori he President's carriage to have fiste d <?n the west side of the trol'ev track and bf would have had plenty of time *'? hp e passed the President's carriage be tore the turn was made to the east side of the road. He said that the leading holies were turned short across the track. Ho could net tell just how the car sin.ck the carriage, but he says he reversed U e power and went for the brake just as quickly as possible when he saw the horses tufn on the track. He says it was dusty and with difficult he 8 tvs what was going en. We have received a lengthy reply to Hey Denver's article in last week's Times. It does not appear in this issue, first because it was opened after onr first page, or page devoted to correspondence had gone through the press, second, that while the party is entitled to a reply as the original letter to which exception was taken was written by Hey Denver, we very much recrrefc that thin wrangle has arisen. It has been oar aim to try and avoid these discussions through the columns of The Times. It can never do any good and is calculated to do much harm in any community in which they originate, both sides always have their friends, and the longer the controversy is carried on the more bitter the feeling becomes. With the hope that some mutual friends of the parties concerned will see the parties and get them to consent to let the matter rest at what it is, we hold the communications back this week. The thing is not worth guarreling over any way. However If the parties insist on Its appearanee, we will publish it in our next Issue, but wish to announce most emphatically that it can go no further. We will not allow The Times to bo a medium through which personal quarrels, charges and oounter charges are to be vestilated. While such things might interest a dozen readers directly concerned there are hundreds of readers who possibly know nothing about tho parties to the discussion, know little about the matter under discussion and care less about the whole business. They pay for a newspaper to get the news, and we cannot afford to force personal controversies upon them. With a few moments reflection any reasonable man will see that our position is correct. The Department of Agricnltnre has just issued a circular calling the attention of the public to the vigorous ittempt which is,being made to eninforce the state and federal game aws of the country and particularly he Inw of May 2T>, J90I. While the irovislot.s uf this law are reasonably veil known, the inevitability of ywu E XT R 5c n A VAPn *1 irrnu - ^ AT T Everytliiiig e>: at prices tnat ? W? tali? stools order to 'clean summer stniri tli? remnants ? ... H A L New Tot ladies' elbow silk mitts, al New lot ladies' novelty belts, the * New lot ladies' turn down Collars, Featl erbone Stock collars, the idea Extra heavy "Buffalo" Sheeting, y One lot nice figured muslins, 3 to ! quick" we have made the price . New lot pretty val. laces and insei BUYING sS5 111 out* Buffalo ?to Grooeriew, Crockei Shoes. Trunks. Clot IxOOD In "COME TO T MUTUAL II R. P. HARRY, Mgi t r ishment for violation does not seem to be appreciated. The maximum penalty for an infraction of the law is $200 and costs, the latter often amounting to $100 and over. Prosecution may begin at any time within two years and it is not infrequent for a hunter to Ship game, receive word from the express company that it has been "lost" and forget it, only to be confronted by a United States Marshall and summoned to appear before a federal judge perhaps a year afterwards. With that irrevocability for which the Department of Justice is noted, no case is permitted to go by default and the man who violates any provision of the federal law does so at his peril A digest of the federal and state cram? Una ?1 ll ka fn?ni?ka/l free by the department of agriculture to all applicants." The above is from our Washington correspondent's letter and it might be well for some of our hunters to heed <his warning, especially If you have been trespassing upon 8omeone<el8e's land while hunting. Wasn't that vote for Hey ward for governor an eye opener? He not only made a fine run In every county, but at his own home out of ' 2891 votes cast he got 2258, only losing 185 votes. We doub? if there Js another man in this state who could poll 95 per cent of the entire vote of his county. Heyward is to be our next governor unless all signs fail. Uncle Josh Ashley had best have let well enough alone, he could prob- , ably have easily won back his seat in k the house, but when he reached hi^'h- m or, he heard something drop, and jhe was the something. Reminds us oi" 1 the dog on the bridge with the bone ^ in his mouth, and seeing the reflection in the water which looked like a larger bone, dropped his bone to get | the other, and that which he had was i gbne. ' \ Notice to Debtors and Creditors. All persons holding claims against, the , estate of William Smith, deceased, will present same duly attested to the undersigned for payment, and those owing the aid (State will come forward at once and make settlement. Dr. W. A. Smith, Admr., 84-31. Glendale, S. U. v? JoA brai.i.fie? th ' hair. ^ ' nonaM * Inorlanl growth. A HEA RILL HF MUTtJAI Lse in Summer ?ti ire surely trade T" l - In ^usust, tlier< . up all sliort lex two liave marked x it about F PRIC 1 the rage, get a pair before they are all g< Ping Pong' and other pretty styles 25c ar all sizes and heights, only 1 summer collar, all sizes, price ard wide, value 6to at a. 20 yard lengths, real value 5 to 7 ic "to cl tions to match, prices 4c, 5c, 6ic, 8c, 10c $e quantities as we do for our two large st i Buffalo, we are able tn make the lowest n< 3t lines of goods to be found. re will t*e found a fall line y, Tinware, Dry f^ood hing, Hats, Furniture, E >8 AND LOWEST PE every department. HE BABOAIN CEN IT 600DS COM *** Oppoait I HONEY IN YOUR 1 Is always at the mercy of thi Your life might be at stake t Since we opened up this CI A TTTKT/-1 ? t tJJCX. V XXN VXD I \ Where depositors receive intere year on their money, wise folks ing not to keep their money stu< away in their trunks, but bring it of safety where they can call and j time. One of our little books tel of the story. THE PEOPLES B. F.ARTHUR, Fres A | Walk-Ov MHR x?P$3.50 anc %^4 fall W^3 * STYL ! REAL JNION SHOE Watohing Yauv Shoe In AIM STRUT, ? i l V Y - ' " - <+- 1 5c * A YARD iff solnc % crlnners. J < 3for? in lgrtlis in nany ol E Km m m % * :>ne, price 50c id 50c 10c 20c 5c ean up the lot 4c and 15c ^ ores, one at Union ossible pricesand to 5 of" the best Is, Notions, :to. tlCES TEH," [PANT. -3 *?i Jk . e Hotel Union. v- -v TRUNK. 1 f even, OO. "5 BANK ; I 1 , st twice a are learnjk hidden to a place get it any ' # Is the rest . < RANIf wmiiif ident. 'er Shoe /OMEN. \ I $4.00. 3C t ES >Y. # CO., itersst. UNION, S. C. , ;