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The Lancaster News
LEDGER 1852 REVIEW <878 ENTERPRISE 1891
VOL. I. NO. 73. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., JUNE 16. 1906. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPYH.
U7 A u;i?;?J M?^ r* ? 1 *
vtaui ui rar. n. a. iiiiuan
He was an Aged Citizen an<
Died at his Home nea
Oakhurst.
Mr. W. A. Milliard, one of Lan
easier county's old landmarks
died on the Oth instant, at hi
h< me in the Oakhurst section?
lie was 80 years of age last De
comber. Much of his life wa
spent in Georgia, to which stat
he moved in 1852. He returnee
to his old home in this county ii
1900. Mr. Milliard was twic
married. Ilis first wife was
Miss Lee, of Kershaw county
who died in Georgia in 189C
leaving seven children, who ar
now residents of oilier states.?
In December 1897 Mr. liilliar
was married to Mrs. Croxfon
widow of John Q. Croxton, an<
sister of Mr. Z. L. Robertson, c
Oakhurst, who survives her bus
band.
Mr. Hilliard was a man of stei
ling character and marked intel
ligeuce. He was a great reade
and was fully posted on past an*
current history. He made a for
tune by farming while a reeider.
of Georgia, but eventually loe
* practically all of his large estat
by a mercantile venture.
Mr. Milliard was a Confederal
veteran, and made a good recor<
as a soldier, lie was in the Wee
f tern army, in the artillery ser
vice. lie volunteered in 'G1 am
served until the end of the war
lie was a consistent member o
the Baptist church. Uis remain
were buried in the Kershaw ceni
etery, the Itev. Mr. Wallace, o
Heath Springs, conducting th
funeral services.
Watterson For Bryan.
Perhaps the most widely in
teregting newspaper announce
ment of the day is the outspokei
endorsement ot William Jen
nings Bryan as the Democratii
nominee for President, by Colo
nel Henry Watterson in tlx
Louisville-Cornier Journal. H<
formally pledges the Courier
Journal to Mr llrvan
diets the latter's nomination b}
the Democrats for the office ol
Prenident in 1908. lie says tin
Nebraskan is at the best of hit
powers, and that if the part}
N "not unite upon him it canno
aproe upon any one. Declaring
that the Republican party is t
mamnioth trust and the greatesi
of all syndicates, Bryan is pick
ed as the one man equal to the
task of leading the Democratic
hosts (ht of ihe wilderness ir
which Uiey have been groping
for ten 'ears.?Greenville News
BigFire in Baltimore.
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, r>aiiiu>rf, ma.mne Jo.?
The greiejBt fire since tlie conflagraliohot
1904, involving a
'*> property of about $ 1,000,00(
and the s^ifice of three lives,
occurred t%m early hour this
morning o?,ha water front.
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j nui Lit v>arounians, Alter -trying
Arkansas Two Years,
Move Back to Old Home.
i B
r Monroe Journal.
Mr. R. L. Belk of Jackson
township, wlu> moved to Arkansas
nearly two years ago, returned
last week to his former home
' in this county, not having sold ^
s his land when he went West. He
had very bad luck while away, cfi
having lost his oldest son, who ^
was twenty-five years of age. Ilis ^
v son in-law, Mr. J. l>. Little, also ^
' returned with him Mr. Little is
11 at present at the home of his -s
father, Rev. J. W. Little, at
a Sanford. '
Hi
Has Lancaste* a Peachtree a,
Street ? m
d aI
si
' Atlanta Journal.
Peachtree street is one of the s;
>i
finest thoroughfares in the whole Vr
country. 'Tis a Bireet that any jM
city ehould bo proud oi.
I And yet it presents a singular tu
contraet. With all of its other m
r ? .
excellences, it has probably the tii
ii.est miserable pavement of any jn
street that pretends to beauty in
the whole town, or in any other w
town. iti
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A pavement full of ruts, holes, m
cracks, chasms, humps, ridges, J(
j hummocks, splits and crevasses, p,
A regular lrow6j haired, snag e(]
gle-toothed, dirty-faced, bleary- ,jt
^ eyed, patched pants, out at el- s?
bows, red-nosed bum of a pavt- Ht
me lit..
A pavement that really would jj.
n't be admitted into anybody's f0
' i
drawing room.
A pavement thai dogs bark at |u
as if by instinct, that everybody rh
has cussed until it cusses itself;
a pavement that looks as if it got ir
its living by bumming hand-outs t h
at back doors, stealing chickens
and working the bullet free lunch ch
route. A pavement that looks
1 as it slept in the lumber yards in
the summer time and in the pc13
lice station in the winter.
Its big toes are sticking out of
p its snoes, its trousers are hitched
up with a piece of barbed wire,
5 it combe its whiskers with a beer qj
* bottle, and it isn't washed beft
c
- hind the ears.
. te<
sh
f Soldier Marcus, who Murderso
ed his Wife, to be Hanged h
1 in Charleston. gjc
. CharlesU>n, S. C., June 14.? ce
, William A. Marcus, a former ar
member of the ('oast Aitillery, thi
t stationed at Sullivan's Island, sij
was convicted of murder in tbe su
, Court of Sessions to-day and an
, sentenced to be banged, August all
i 3. His crime was brutal and
r caused considerable indignation, fri
Getting an interview on April of
14 with the wife whom he had in
deserted, Marcus led her to a pr
quiet spot on the he ich and bh
stabbed her to de ?th -ith an ice I,.
pick, inflicting forty wounds. H<
i | The evidence tended to show that pa
) the woman refused to sell prop- ori
, erty she owned and give hirn the K\
i money. Insanity was urged by on
his attorney. wl
Outbreak in Russia.
earful Massacre of Jews
by Christians Hundreds
Slaughtered and Homes
and Shops Demolished.
I
Bialystok, Russia, June 14.?
Jewish anarchist threw a bomb
nong the Corpus Christi pro
ission which was in progress
ire to day and killed or woundt
many persons Inconsequence,
io Christ ains attacked and
assecred the Jews and demollied
their shops. Hundreds of
?rsone were killed or wounded.
The bomb was thrown from
10 balcony of a house in Alexldrov
street. A Russian clergv?c
>
umucu rewioron was
nong those killed by the explonn.
Immediately after the exploon
Jews began to fire with re)lvers
from the windows of the
)use into the crowd. Soldiers
irrounded the house and fired
70 volleys into the windows
eauwhile the enraged Christina
attacked the Jewish stores
Alexandroy and Suran streets,
imolishing the fixtures and
indows and throwing the goods
to the gutters and beating and
ordering the Jews. A crowd of
)wb fled to the iailro*d station,
lruii/irl k.? 1 *1%
..owou I,y i ur- II1UU, WlllCn Kill
I many of them there. Three
>\vs were thrown Ironi second
orv windows of the railroad
atinn building.
The Jews are fleeing from
iiilystok fo the neighboring
rests and mobs are pursuing
eni Detachments of dragoons
ive been sent out to protect
e Jews.
Jews arriving here on railway
ains have been dragged out of
e cars and many of them have
en murdered. Troops have
?ared the railway station.
ispensary Selling Certain
Brands at Less than Cost,
says Douthit.
Columbia special in Charlotte
iserver: At the afternoon ses*
>n of the investigating commit
9 former commissioner Douthit
owed that the dispensary was
lling some of its goods at le?s
an cost. He drew theconclu>n
that, this was done to pu^h
rtain brands of goods which
e allowed to be sold for less
another goods of the same!
se. The prices quoted indicated
oh a performance for Lanahan
d,the Richland Distillery actuy
cost the State dispensary.
An affidavit *s sub.
>m Mr. Miller, a former ollicer
the Carolina Glass Company,
which he stated that it was
oposed at the outset to give a
>ck ol the company's stock to
J. Williams and II. II. Evans.
5 states that he quit the com '
ny and does not know if the
iginal plan ol giving stock to
rans and Williams was carried
t. The company denies the)
lole story.
f
A Postmaster and the Funds;
in his Office Disappear at
Same Time.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 14.
Postal authorities here were notified
today that James F. Chancy,
postmaster at Saffold, Manatee
County, had left for parts
unknown and all the funds of
the office are missing. The mat- c
ter was reported by J. D. Saf- *
fold and P. 11. Snipes, who are s
Chancy's bondsmen. Postoflice
Inspector Lake Jones left at once 1
for Saffold to make investigation. 1
He will designate one of the '
bondsmen as acting postmaster a
until a new postmaster is ap- 1
pointed A description of Chancy ?
lias been telegraphed to postof '
fice inspectors in several States 8
and every effort will be made to
apprehend him. 5
?u
Army Officers Murdered in 1
Philippines. i
t
Manila, June 14.?News has *
i
been received today of the mur
dor ot Lieut. Edward C.Bolton, l
17th infautry, acting governor ol 1
Davao island of the Mindauan 1
group. Chief Mungalayon and J
two brothers are accused of the j
crime. An American named -
Christian, manager of the plan t
tat ion near Da van, was killed at s
the same time. The murder wa* most
treacherous, as the victims J
had spent the previous night athe
guests at Alungalayon's
house.
The American planters ii j
Mindanao are concentrating lor
common safety as they tear Moro?
are planning a religious war. .
Southern Georgia Hard Hit ,
by Storms. [
t
c
Savannah, Ga? June 14?Re ?
ports from several points in *
southern Georgia indicate that ^
[heavy damage to growing crop^ H
was done by wind storms la>t (
night. The chief damage was in c
the path of the cyclone that
[traversed Ware county, its track ^
terminating soon after it struck j
Tifton. Crops are reported as
practically destroyed in the path c
of this cyclone. '
From Americus come reports F
that the peaches on the trees in ^
that vicinity were Mown to the
ground and ruined. The fruit ?
was ready tor shipment.
Farmers in the vicinity ot
Arlington pronounce the storm
the most severe in their momorv
for this seas n. Damage to cot- ^
ton is placed at 20 to 25 per 1
cent. Much pine timber was dos- ^
troyed.
Following THc Flag.
When onr soldiers went to Cuba and t
the Philippines, health was the most iin- ?
poitaot consideration Wil is T. Morgan,
retired Commissary .Sergeant 1 S \, ot jj
Hur.tl Koute 1, Concord, N. II., sajs: "I !
was two years in Cubaanri two years in th? a
Philippines, and being subject to colds, I i
took Dr. King's Now Discovory for Cousumption,
wbich kept me in perfect health, r
And now, in New Hampshire, we find it
the best medicine in the world tor eonghs. C
colds, bronchial troubles and all lung diseases
(iitar n tee ' at Fuoderbnrk Pharmacy,
Crawford Bros., and J F. Macfcey v
Co druggists. Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial
liottle free. I
Dr. J. A. Clifton Dead
rhe Popular and Greatly Btr~?
- loved Minister Dies Sui?
denly at his Home in Marr*
ion.
Dr. Jesse A. Cliff on, brofcbuc
>1 Mrs. Jane Edwards and Mr*..
Sva Hough of Lancaster, diwii
u ldenly, of lieart failure, Thxm?
lay afternoon, at his house 4V.
Jarion, where he was pastor -at*
he Methodist church. Dr. OfifS*>n
was one of the best knows.:
nd most popular members of
he South Carolina Confere?***
ind the news of his untimrfcy
leath will carry sorrow to tho*><
inds of homes in the state
A special from Mariou * .
resterday's Columbia Star*
:ives the following sketca slrt
Jr. Clifton's life:
Jesse Alexander Clifton
lie son of Capt. Jesse C. Ciitooa
ind Mary H. Clifton and he
>orn Sept. 20, 1845. After tiw
isual training and advantages
i common school, he entered
ibenezer Classical school/
le was thoroughly tra/ineL.
?rora here he went to fifflfc;
University of Virginia, wh??'
le received the instruction in th#i
liglier branches. Intending
niter the practice of law, he lo?rk.
he course in law at the Unive*litv
r>( Vircitiia Ktif K.at.'?fc
j ... . iu tiio u'.iiiiBiia'
oung mind that had been ftiua
rained and developed wa? to br
urned into other channels '.f!
isefulness and aei vicelie
was converted under tin;
preaching of the late Rev. Jacwn
Li. Shufoid, joining the churei
El Bethel in Chester courvjr
1808. His conversion, which w?i
n July of that year, at home ht.
?is room alone at. the h<>iir
nidnigl>t was said to be a mwt
lowerful manifestation ol tfc*
livine presence. In September?
>1 that year lm felt that lie * <#,
:alled to preach Hie gospel.
Jeccniber, 1S69, Mr. Clifton wwk
eceived on trial into the Soutiti
Carolina conference at the g%?>ion
held at church, he .tali
Jeorge T. Harmon forming oi*>
:lass received.
I)r. Clifton wis married, Ko\m
!4, 1868, to Miss Mary E. Rtoto~
in, daughter of Dr. W. J. Ilick-.
in of Chester.
No man in the South Carolina
onterence had more wigm.
riends than Dr. Clifton. AtP^i
>reacher he pppessed unu*u:?
owers.
Serious Shooting Scrape
vaiawud,
A murderous row occurred
'atawbft Junction Tuesday mon#
ng when John Brown was sftlft
y JenkH Johnson and John Dk-is,
all negroes. Johnson dhoc;
hown in the lower part of tho
>ack, making an ugly wound,,
he intestines being pierced ir.
wo places. Davis shot the ro.3t
u the 'eg. The victim was
ted on by l>r. Fennell, asek**i'
>y Drs. Hill, Stevens and Tir
on. The man is in a crifccV..
ondition, though it is too t?: F
ret to say much abou' his pr< v.
> cts for recovery.?Bock UiU
lecord.