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I The Lancaster News \ LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 . ^ VOL. I. NO. 88. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S C? AUOUST II. 1906. PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. I ' Another Railroad for Lan=, caster. I Charter Granted for Road to be Built from Charlotte to this Point. Kaleigh special in yetterd.iy'Charlotte Observer: A (li-rt-r is granted 'ho Carolina Mim r.?l Kailway Company, to build am operate a line 40 mil?s in length Irom Charlotte 'o Lancaster, ?S. C.. through Mecklenburg and Union counties in this Slate, and , Lancaster in South Carolina, by wav ot the Colossus Cold Mining ( and Milling Co , in Union county. Thirty-live miles ol the road will he in North Carolina. Tincapital stock is $200,000, the principal stockholders being J. F. Keller and D. II Kulp, botl> of Pennsylvania. These are nam ed as directors as are also John A. Mipple, F. W. Haker, Israel G. Erb, S N. Iiootland, John N. Mussess, all of Pennsylvania and A. J. Moore, of Waxhaw.? The Colossus Company lias a A 1 i ? . 1 1 A r A/ A AAA cHj'iuii aim:K oi JfD,u<'U,UU<>. v ' * * 1 Peculiar Case?-Ingrowing Hair Causes Death. New Britain, Conn., special in J News and Courier: An ingrowing hair on the chin < f Krai! Jones, ol this city, resulted in his death at the St. Francis Hospital, Hertford, last night. The trouble began ten days ago, when Jones, ! discovering the.hair, irritated it until his chin began to pain him Then lie went to a doctor. The ph ysician treated it, hut Jones grew steadily worse, his head swelling terribly. Saturday he was taken to the hospital, where the cate was diagnosed as blood unison. Jones was a knile handh * finisher, and among his shop- < mates it is thought th.it the poi son c?mt> troni handling rose wood. Fatal Fight in Texas. i Cold Springs, Texas, August 5. ? In an election fight here to- , day E. B. Adams, Democratic nominee lor i??x assessor, was in < stantly killed. Sam Adams, lii" brother, was shot in the oead. V- and it is believed fatally wounded. W \ K<ib?ri on w.is ba?'lv wounded and ('. VV. Williamson 1 wounded, but not, dangerously Williamson, it is alleged, d <1 ' most of ihe shooting. Florida Sheriff Suspended. , i'allahassee, Fla., August 5.? * Governor Broward today bus- 1 pendod from ollico Shel l 11' George ..... .... . 1 i iv. v-arter, uitrua county, because1 ' yjv ho permitted without adequate j resistimeo two prisoners to be taken from his custody by inobs | ( who lynched them. Frank ,/or-1 f dan boin? lynched on May 1<* and ] James Davis on .June 7, thus I, bringing 'ho dicnily of the St-ite'i into disrepute. E. P. Graham is appointed to succeed Carter. The Lanahans Defend Gen. ] Wilie Jones. i , c : v Thursday's daily papers contains the following letter, which pxplains i'self: Qeu. Wilie Jones, Columbia, S. C.? My Dear sir: Your favor of tho 3d instant to hand ibis morning, together with t' e clipping from tie Stn'e ot Au S iiust 2' as to what (I >1. Jno. C. c Haskell raid concerning vim and ourselves. In answer to the s;ine we H" wired you to day as lollows: "llasko'l's statement as published in the State ot August 2 ? h about you and your house and ourselver, is ab-olutely false. All ather statements they have pub- t lished about us are likewise false." I don't know what more I can r say concerning this matter; we 11 I S never gave you a cent at. any I time for the impn vemenfs that ' were made on your house. It v looks to u* that the people el I your State are more than willing c to publish adverse reports con ^ ceruing us We never gave you ' a cent, at any time, for any pur- * pose, and will be glad to add to c this anything that might be sug- s gested or t bought of t'> emphasize out strong denial of this accusa- ' tion. The whole story is false 1 a* lalsecan be. Very respectfully ' yours, eet. 1 * Win. Ltuaban Ar Son. 8 I?.. 11: A ^ j Jii111mint?, .<\.iigusi o. ? Shooting Across State Line ?Van Plyler Seriously , Wounded by Jack Stewart. g Monroe sppcial in Charlotte c Observer: Van Plyler, eon of ' Ransom Plyler of Buford town ^ ship, was shot in the let; near the ' s hip by .lack Stewart last night, i the weapon used being a shotgun J v The news did not reach Monroe t until this afternoon, when Or Aschcraft was called to attend the wounded man. The doctor : says the wound is a verv serious y one, the whole load with the wad* ding having lodged near the bone. * It is said that the affair was the result of a quarrel I'M ween the!' two men, in which hard c:l*r'li cut a considerable figure. ; v ? ^ . I S fA Big Fish Story. Rock Mill Herald : Mr. .1. H Sut |t ion, or rort Mill, was in the city t Monday and stated to the report sr that Mr. Abernathv, who runa a * H fishery at the Jones Mill, on Catawba Kiver, caught a Sturgeon . in one of liif. traps a few days ago j1 that weighed seventy-eight ar.d '' >ne half pounds. Mr Ab-rnathy took the monster li*h to Fort, v M1 i Monday and -.old it for -Y'J.Oh a to Mr. Lee Hall, who p.it it on ex- n tiibition. Mr. Abernathy was a- a fraid to tackle the fish alive and j lid not attempt to remove it:t from the trap until lie had shot it . . I a leveral times. I Ins is perhaps the| largest fish of any kind ever j caught in this section of the date. Do you take The News? j'l rhai Whipped White Woman Spartanburg Authorities are Anxious to Find Her?She is Thought to be Still in Lancaster County. The publ'cation in The News ome da; s iro that the white foman whij ped in Spartanburg eunty had passed through Lanasler county has caused the ipartaid urg authorities lo in-tiute a search lor the unfortunate reature. Deputy Slier tV While, f Spartanburg, was recently here ooking for the woman, as will >e seen from the following Sparanburg special in the Columbia Rate: Deputy Sheriff \V. .1 White eturned to the city this nrornnir alter a several <1 >ys trip in earch of Mrs. Harriet Coburn, Ilohurn). the woman who was shipped on Linder Carrier's dace iii the lower part ol the ountv several weeks ago. Mr. Vhite did not succeed in fin dim: he woman, although he tracked ler through several 'owns, but xpects to locate her within a hort time. Reports having come to the itliee ?)i Sheriff Nichols several lays ago that fhe woman was in 1,^ .1.1.^.-1. 1 ~e i uv u< liunwi HIM (i Di uaiicasier, Jeputy Whi'e was sen' out in eareh ot lier. The worn ?n was iot didicult to trail, lor the reaon that she is traveling with two hildren and a white ? og. She loes i ot deny In r identity and ias told her story to many whom he met on the road. Upon Mr. White going to Lun aster he found that she had left hat place, saying that, she was ;oing to Camden. Mr. White t.ir'ed toward Camden, making nquiries all along the road. The nun hi passed through IClgin, on he Three C's road, hut did not ;o (I ?wn f?s tar as lv-rshaw. The vomaii lid not show herself in hat place. Mr. While, however, rent down to Camden and earched the cotton nulls there. >ut found no trace ot the wo nan. The supposition is that she ias stopped on the real -oinerhere between Klgin and Ivor h ?w and obtained work in the i -Id--. The Lit-: definite inform tion received by the officer* of he woman's whereanouts is hat slip w.is a! Klfiin ??n July 25. The Spartanburg i.tlicers are nuking a very determined effort o locate the woman. She is tellng the story ot her mistreatneut alomr the road and lias ta'ed seven! times that she /as willimr ' g > to tint place lul testily against the men who in .treated her, l?ut that she was draid she would suffer for it. lie Spartanburg officers state hat the woman will tie afforded mpie protection and are very Jixious to locate the woman, o that the case can he prober! to he bottom. ake The News. Convicted of Stealing am Cutting up Harness. Monroe Journal : Last week': term <>f court adjourned I'Tid afternoon. The most interestins ca-e disposed <?f alter tl e repor in last week's paper, was that o James Aniett of New Salon township, the whi'e man wh< admitted stealing and cutting ui two or three pairs ot harms- am throwing them in the creek. H< was taxed with the costs am made to give a jus died bond o $5,000 for his appearance at even August term ot the court for t period of five years and sliov ! good behavior. ! Proceedings of the Republican State Convention. Columbia, S. C., Aug 8.?Tin Republican State convention me here today for the purpose o electing a State chairman am reorganizing the executive coin inittee. The only contest ot the J convention was the selection of i chairman. The facliou led b\ John G. Capers supported Ed mund II. Deas, who was eiectet by a vote ol i>8 to 2b o\*er Johl K. Tulbert, supported by anothe faction headed by District Attor ney Ernest F. Cochran. Capers and his friends dominated am were in complete cnlrol ot tit convention. Resolutions were ad<>ple< congratulating; the country on it continued prosperity, commend iiig i In? work ot both houses o congress and the ' patriot" 1'res ident ot the United Slates. 1 was decided not to put out State ticket. j Japanese t^oacners Shot. New York, Aug. 8? Furthe details ol the killing ol tlie liv i n .Japanese poachers in the Pribi 1 off Islands are contained in tin a special to The Herald dat a Dutch Ilarb >r, Alaska. July 2G winch says; Five Japanese wen shot and killed on the island o St. Paul, of the Pribiloff group by order of the agent ol the De partment of commerceand La ho July 17. as a result of a raid Iv four Japanese schoonrrs on tin seal rookeiies. The revenue cutler McOullocl I reached here to-day frotn St. Pau Willi 12 prisoners, two seriously wounded, who were turned ovei to Deputy Marshall Harmon, He Isn't Coming Back. "A woman rushed into the tele graph ollice the other day," say: an exchange, "'and informed tin | operator that her I usbatul ha< | gone to New ^ <>rk to get a bauue for the Stirul;i\.-ch< "!. but sh< Iliad forgotten i; tell htm the iti ncriptinn and how largo the ban i nor w 11 a to he. She then wrote i telegram containing the ncedei information and handed it to tin operator. It read : k'My l)ea Frank, Savoy Hotel. New Vori City ' llnto us a child is horn eight feet long and two feel wide". The huaband ia htill in tin city, and it is rumored he isn' coming back.? Weekly Bulletin ' Pixie's Day. I 3 The Immense Gatl >ulg, nj ; thai Hospitable CommiifM? ty Thursday, on the Occ^-c sion of the Confederals f ( Veterans' Reunion and the , Junior Order Rally. , i i a The county reunion ol Cooi federate veteran? and the Junior I Order rally ,*t Dixie Thursday . was one ot the largest and moc$ Y x thorough \ enjoyable gathvrinjjvi . ever held in old Lancaster county. The joint meeting of Veterans and Juniors and their friend* was, undoubtedly, a preeminent success from start to finish^ It is conservatively estimated ' that lully two thousand per-oni were present. The best of order 1 prevailed and not a single inchi dent occurred to mar the pleasure! - of the day. Exercises by the Veterans vvert 1 held iu the morning and I hoe!* by the Juniors iti the afternoon*. Mr. W.G.A.Por'er delivered a* ^ < xcellent address of welcome to 1 all. lie presided at the Veteran#1 uuicinifA .111 i IIIUUIIUI'I'U 111 .'i " propaiate words the Veterans* 3 orator, Col. .lames Armstrong^ ' of Charleston, who delivered on?; e ot liis elaracteiistically able^ 'Irqiient a"d entertaining ?d^ * dresses. He dwelt principality s upon the war and the principle! " involved in that great condicu. 11 Ilis remarks were inter9persec. '' with numerous witty anecdotes.. 1 As was to be expected of tiH? gallant Colonel, he paid a beau? tiiul tribute to the ladies. The orator of the Junior*., State Councilor Z P. Sinit^ r of North Carolina, was intrude? <d in a few well chosen wor6s-. - hy State Secretary J. ,S. Wilsoa, i of Lancaster. .Mr. Sniith, who ir. ! a gentleman of commanding up i. pearance and looks not unlifcf) p Bryan, made a masterly speech completely captivating his largr* aud'.ence by his scholarly period*' and eloquent diction. The aimr i and purposes of the Junior 0.?der, its views with reterence u? imm gr it ion. edue.V; n ,the Bibln .n tne schools and other subjects 1 of .ntere-t were forcefully pre> s. 11 tea Dy lue speui.tr. P The picnic dinner, served ^ midday, whs, of course, a lending leafore of the d ?y*s enji.ymenU. I Not withstanding tlie immense j crowd, there w;e an abundance o'.r good thing- to a' 1 v everybody. The day will long ; ei-anti/' j remembered by a'. ; psent. Miss WiUic I'oovey ot way, is visiting her brother, l)r? a (i. W. I'oovey, and family at th ?: j i place. p Mr. and Mrs. W. T. WiHum? r j leave today lor Norfork, Va. cj Williams will visit New Yen: ' I before be returns. t j B Mi-sct) Nannie ad Carrier t Hough, of Camden, are viailij:^ . Mrs. Ada Hough aud dau&hteri*,