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Three Men Instantly Killed In Spartanburg. Run Over by Fast Train While Watching Passing Freight?Horribly Mutilated. Spartanburg, Dec. 26.? ZSl.-vo~.o1 -LI- " . . Vwp v?i K?? v?"iuinuii* rvecora. j In the twinkling of an evo three men were instantly killed near the Brawley street crossing ol the Southern lailroad in the city limits this morning at 8 o'clock, being run down by passenger train No. 3G from Atlanta. The dead men are M. 1.). Hill and Richard R >gers, operatives in the cotton mill, and J. E. Stone, m;i?l carrier at Knoree. A fourth mau with the party escapod injury. The four men were standing on the. east track watching a passing freight and with lightning dash the second train bore down upon them trom around the curve a short distance south. The bodies ol the men were horribly mutdaied, Hill's remains being crushed bevond reO cognition, parts being distribut ed along the track for fifty yards. The faial train was in charge of Conductor Gordon and Engineer Fogus. Hill had on his person tux receipts from Pelzer, and it is thought that he had been in the mills there prior to coming to Spartanburg. Rogers is a son of Rev. Rogers, formerly pastor at Whitney. He was a young man 18 years of age and worked at the Saxon mills. How a Sumter Farmer Made Big Crop Corn this Year. J. M. Woodloy in Sumter Dai'y Item : Early in the year I broke up my c??rn land deep with twohorse ploughs, laid it oH in live iun3 auu uouaea it out aoout the middle of March. I planted a seed that I had been improving lor a good many years?bred it up from the big gourd seed variety crossed with flint corn. It lias an extra large cob, well filled with long grains ; and I have selected sixty ears of ( tins corn that shelled out a bushel. Planted the latter part of March n.n<t c?m n ?*/>?<! _ but crows and birds broke the stand so badly that I planted | the whole crop over in the last ' week in April, and got a perfect ] stand, eighteen to twenty.four i inches apart, in the drill. My fertilizer was 100 pounds j kainit, 200 pounds cotton seed meal and 100 pounds nitrate of ] soda, making 400 pounds in all ] per acre. I put down 100 pounds < V kainit and meal mixed at time j t of planting; 200 pounds more i of same mixture a t second ' ploughing, and 100 pounds soda < at fourth and last ploughing; cultivated crop altogether with 11 HA'nnna noi n? I 1 *' " ' w v^j-oj uoi>>^ lwiiiu'i iur lirst, 2 18-inch lor second and 24 inch < for I wo last ploughinys. Did < not put Dixie or turn ploughs in ( it after I rolled the middles in i the spring. i We had entirely too much rain i all through July for cotton, but s tho continuous rains struck the corn exactly at the right time, ho much 8'? that it did not suffer an hour for rain from the time it was up until it was fully matured. The yield of corn averaged a fraction over 50 bushels per acre on 150 acres that I worked with contract labor, but I had 25 acres more worked by share croppers that did not do nearly so well, it being a well known fact that negroes cannot grow corn successfully. 1 will make more net prolit per acre this year on corn than I will on 12-cent cotton, i have putjaway plenty of corn to supply a twenty-horse farm another year, and raise my own meat, and have tour thousand (4,1)00) bushels of corn and forty thousand '40,000) pounds of good, sound fodder for sale. Double Lynching. Two Neexoes T J 111 , Barnwell for Killing a "White Man. Columbia Record, Dec. 27th. Two negroes were lynched in Barnwell county last Friday and the first news ol the crime has ju6t been received in Columbia i today when Governor Ileyward received the official report of the sheriff. From the report it is evident that the lynching was one of the most unprovoked crimes recently committed, and Governor Hey ward will order a thorough investigation of the whole alFair and endeavor to plaee the responsibility where it belongs. According to the report by Sheriff Creech, two negroes, Frank DeLoacli and his son John approached the home of IJayne S. Graddock, a white man, to collect a debt. Some words passed and Craddock was killed The two negroes were arrested, and, while waiting until they could be taken to Barnwell, were confined in a shed. Here a mob of wliite men took thetn out and riddled their bodies with hollo's. Afierwards W. II. Hunter, a , wliite man, who appears to have had the prisoners in charge, wired Sheriff Creech that tlie prisoners had escaped. The Chicken Fight in Vicinity of Rock Hill. Rock Hill, December 26.? Special to News and Courier : There was quite a lot of speculation as to the outcome of the petition sent to the Governor in regard to suppressing tbe cocking main at U. F. Thotnasson's pit, three and three quarter miles east, of Rock Ilill. This petition was circulated by resi ients of that neighborhood and in addition was signed by a , number of citizens of Rock Hill who atfi inlorool?/l ? ' 1 .. ...v. ....U'onvcu 111 lilW (111(1 nrder. The Governor ordered Slier'fF 1 Brown to go the scene and an. at *ny one wlio violated the law, ' jiting that section of the codo vhich bore upon maintaining ' :hastity, morality and decency n the community and also that which forbids cock fighting with- ^ n three mdeo of a chartered in , ditution of learning. i After taking legal advice, the | SEED TIME 735e experienced farmer has learned that some grains require far differ-j ent soil than others; some crops need differenthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer abou* ? mistake made in .... r-ing. Decide before the seed is planted. best time to remedy wasting conditions in the human body is before the evil is too deep rooted. At the first evidence of loss of flesh Scott's Emulsion should be taken imme uiaieiy. i nere is notning that will repair wasted tissue more quickly or replace lost flesh more abundantly than Scott's Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when ordinary foods absolutely fail. We "tvlll send you a sample free. ^ Be sure that this O (V picture in the form Vw*l& of a label is on the tf-tV wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion SCOTT C& KByl/f B O W N E gS&llCl?lr CHEM1ST3 1 y .1 I 409 Pearl Street NEW YORK MONEY TO LOAN I am prepared, as usual, to neKOtiate loans, on improved cotton farms, in sums of #?)u 0< and upwards for tlv years. Interest at 7 per cent, on sums of 11,000.00 and over Undo' #1,000.00. 8 per cent, interest. No brokoiavt. or commission charged?only a reasonable fee for abstract of title. It. E. WYMB, Attorney At-Law. sheriff came and went down with a deputy to the pit, bu although ho saw the fighting 1:0 ing on lie was not able to mak? an arrest lor the reason ilia' he saw no money changing hands, nor did he hear any hets made. It. F. Thnmasson, who con ducts the pit, and who has done so for Vfinva ij " ?4 ^ wi.. .J, ?1 UIIUC1 rmilflll/'f pronounced at the recent Court to leave the State for two years. Christmas Tragedy. Special Police Officer Killed in Tampa?Son Avenges Father's Death. Tampa. Fla., Dec. 25.? A negro man, while on a Christmas drunk at St. Petersburg, Fla., this afternoon fatally cut Captain J. J. Mitchell, a special police officer, who died in a few minutes from the injuries The negro was placed in jail, but in 80 minutes a mob congregated and one of the crowd shot through tlie window | of the jail, killing the negro. The Rtory told by an eyewitness to the alFair is that the negro was boisterous through the streets, defying the officers and loudly proclaimed that no white man sir uld arrest him. When Mitch ell approached to take him into custody the negro whipped out a knife and cut gashea in the ofli cer's neck, death soon ensuing. A crowd of enraged citizens soon gathered and going tojthe jail, a ton of the officer who was killed, it is alleged, dispatched the negro through the jail window. Hreen peas with a ferti high percentage ol to get the healthies "Truck Farming are two practical b< which we mail free ligation to those v They contain val truck-gardening as ; Address, OEKMi Wow iOrli?03 Nassau Btroet, or i I i x M AS t? Xmas for everybody at M iflD" t.O Mnnt-r?v<al1'o fr ? ? 0 J.VJ. ^ eating line. Make up your $for you can get anything y( want from a 1 cent Doli Bal China, Crockery, Glassvv $ painted China of all kinds, 1 and anything you want. ^ Works to burn. Y I J. B. 1 t ? J HUYLER'S Ci 1 Southern *HE jSOUfH^ G! Unexcelled din in rough Tullm on all through 1 ient schedules o Winter tourist effeet to all Flo full informatic routes, etc., cor ern Railway T DDOni/O iv/mnr> am a r unuurxo iviunu/AIN, A.U.f Atlanta, Ga. Xotice to till t'ersons /ndcbted to the Lancaster Mercantile Co. As you well know, we made some business changes the lirst of last year, and it is absolutely necessary that we must collect all past due notes and accounts in order to settle with the late members of our concern ; therefore, we now ask our friends, l whom we have been so liberal with, to now make arrangements at once to pay us. All past due notes and accounts not settled promptly will be placed in the hands of our lawyer for collection. Yours truly, fci Lancaster Mercantile Co. Notice. I will let the contract to build the hutments to the bridge near .las. K. Biackmon's, to the lowest responsible bidder, on Friday, the 5th day of January, 19(H>, at 11 o'clock a. in. Reserving the right to reject any or all bids. M. C. Gardner, Co. Supervisor. Dec. 16, 1905, IAH WArlr of a11 kinds (ione UUU II UlA. at The News office. ? should be treated lizer containing a F Potash, in order st, fullest pods. " and "Plant Food" :>oks for the farmer, of any cost or ob/ho write for them, luable facts about * profitable business. lN.KALI works. Atlanta. Qa.?23*4 Bo. Broad Street. ejc-.. ViS. MB SBrntMM W TIDINGS f ackorell's. Everybody com- ^ ^ ' Xmas Presents and in the W mind to come to Mackorell & ni want and everything you ? ay on up. 'are, Imported China, hand W L?amps, Toilet Sets, Tea Sets, ^ \ Come on everybody. Fire ^ ours truly, ^ 0 Mackorell J * '? Z tNDY TO EAT Hailuxiu IZATESX SYSTEM ling car service. | ian sleeping cars trains. Convenn all local trains rates are now in rida points. For >n as to rates, f isult any Southicket Agent, or ),A., R. W. HUNT,G,P.A., Charleston, S. C. Notice to Taxpayers. Taxes will be due and payable without penalty from October 15 to December 31. 1905. 1111* iax levy lor IState purposes is mills, for ordinary county purposes 4!2 mills, special county purposes (L. & C. R, R. bonds) 2 nulls, constitutional tax for school purposes 8 ! mills, making a total levy of 15 mills on all taxable property of the county. In School Districts Nos. 5,80, 82 and 46. there is a spi-cial levy of 2 mills additional for school purposes; in District No. 24. 8 mills; I)ist riots Nos. 12, 17 and 80, 4 mills; District. No. 38, 5 mills; No. 14, 6 mills, and No. 40, 7 mills. In Cane Creek Township there is a special local levy of mills for railroad purposes; Gill* ('reek, 5 mills, and Pleasant Hill, 3 mills. There is also a tax of one dollar on each male citizen between the ajfes of twenty-ore and sixty years, except ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors. ?>r muse wno are so disabled that they cannot earn a support hy manual labor. J. E. BLACKMON, Treasurer T.ancaster County. Notice of Discharge. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned as administrator of the estate of L. S. PORTER, deceased, will, on January the 21st, 1906, make his tlnai return as such administrator, and apply to the Probate Court for Lancaster county, lor a final discharge. W. R. PORTER, Administrator of Estate of L. S. PORTER. Dec. 20, 1905.