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' H The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. HO. 5. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., OCTOBER 20. 1906 PRICE?FIVE CENTS BFn rnnv Otis McMurray Dead. |J The Young Man was Fatal- g ly Injured by Train in Sa- 1 vannah. g w Mr. T. Walker McMurray, of R the tacksonhain section, received [ a telegram last Thursday stating H that his son, Mr. Otis McMurray, e had been injured by a train at a Savannah, Ga. Later in the day s another message came annoucing 11 the sad fact that the young man ^ had died from the ettect of his 8 injuries. No particulars of the ^ accident were given in either 1 telecram. Mr and Mrs McMurv ray left tor Sav. iinah Thursday night. c The untortunate young man was about 23 years o!cl. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Bessie Garvin, of Clinton, and two children. lie is also survived by j. one brother, Dr. (J. II. McMur t ray, of Abbeville. 11 is many h friends and acquaintances in d Lancaster will be shocked and t grieved to hear ot iiis untimely death. * m i Law and Order League to a Meet next Wednesday. g 9 As provided tor in its constitution the Sou'h Carolina Tern- ( neranee, Law and Order League ^ will meet in Columbia on Wed- t nesday of fair week for the pur- r pose of electing officers and trans- n acting otlier business. h This, the third annual convention of the league, will be \ held in the Main Street Methodist church at 8 o,clock p. m., r and each county league is urged to send delegates. All citizens who are in sympa- e thy with our efforts to have the ? g laws of our state obeyed are cor dially invited to attend. . J W. Hamel. 8 President, llowell Morrell, f Secretary-treasurer. e White Lad Kills Negro. o Rrookhaven, Miss., Oct. 18 ? 8 Because Lee Cubit, a negro boy of 15 years, calleil him a liar Wil >' liam Ibreal, a white boy, 14 years, shot and instantly killed him today. h Isreal was placed in jail. Both / boys were employed by the Mis sissippi Central Railroad and p were on the section near Melvine, where the killing occurred. Omitted the Names of Two of his Old Friends. it Mr. Editor: In the statement fi I tried to make ot the old people s of the county I missed two very I important ones, Capt. Amos Mc- ? Manus and Alexander Steele, s with whom I am well acquainted n and highly respect. Please pub- u lish this little card and oblige e yours, J. L. Tillman, Sr. fa round Snake in her Apron. Anderson special in Columbia tate: Miss Beulah McCory, the 2-year old daughter of Mr. and Irs. John McCory of this city, athered her apron full of stove food for her mother yesterday fternoon and a highland moccain was discovered in her apron, he girl was badly frightened nd dropped the wood and, of ourse, the snake, which was fterwards killed. Mrs. McOory's eldest daughter, ow Mrp. John Whitehead, was itten by a rattlesnake about even years ago while she was icking cotton. By quick medical id being administered her death fas prevented, although her life ras despaired of at the time. Bad Fate of a Cotton Mill Machinist in Monroe. M onroe Journal: Mr. J. C. lusbee, a machinist employed at he Monroe Cotton Mill, killed miself last/Saturday night by rinking wood alcohol. It is not bought that he intended to kill limself. He came here a short ime ago from Columbia to work n the mill. Last week he got on , spree, and running out of li[uor on Friday, began to drink uch things as he could get as ubstitutes. On Friday he drank amphor. On Saturday he went othe shop of the mill, got the lottle of wood alcohol that was :ept for mechanical purposes and ook it to his room at Mrs. Kerall's boarding house near the mil. He must have consumed a ttll pil?t OI II. A/ife Kills Husband to Save Her Own Life. Chicago.. Oct.. IS?In the presnce of her daughter and a party f children, Mrs. Sarah Alcopa, hot and killed her husband, ohn L. Alcopa, early today at er home. The shots were tired to ave her own life. Alcopa was chasing her around hejhome with a butcherkmfe and he ran into her bed room, took a evolver from the dresser and red two shots, one striking the nan in the left temple and the ther in tha lung. He died intantly. Alcopa was a cigar maker, 89 ears okl. His wife was 3t>, and here are two children. Jealousy of John Minerino, a oomer at the house, is said to ave caused the shooting. Mrs. Ucopa was arrested. Hemish Weavers Coming to South Carolina. Brussels, Oct. 18.?Two hunred and titty eight skilled Flemi)\ weavers, with their families, eft C * he ii t for Brem?n today pom whence they will sail on a teamer of the North German joyd Line direct for Charleston, >. C. They form the first intallment of a considerable imnigration movement arranged nder the auspices cf the govmment of Belgium and the uthorities of South Carolina. Another Hurricane Miami, Fla., Fartiall 'Wrecked?Fully 100 Hous< Blown Down. Fort Pierce, Fla., Oct. 18The conductor on train No. 9 just in from Miami, reports te rible destruction there by 0 hurricane today. Fully 100 houses were blow down and the city is in a d< moralized condition. The hant ^ome churches ot the Episcopi and Methodist denominatior were both blown down. T1 concrete jail was leaning: wit danger of tnrnine over nnd tl prisoners had to be removed. T1 car sheds are down and the to was blown off the Peninsular Occidental steamer sheds, 'wo-story brick building, orci pied as a saloon, complete! collapsed. Storm Crossed from Cuba t East Florida. St. Augustine, Kin., IS.?Fr quent messages have been lecei ed at the wireless telegraph s< tion here today giving the pr izress ot a severe hurricane whic swept from Cuba to the low least coast ot Florida, lvirly th morning the storm was report* in the vicinity ot Havana, coil, ?reat damage there, but detai ' ? are lacking. Later the stor reached Key West, blowing dow small houses and trees, beir particularly severe along the \v ter front. As (he clay wore c the storm reached Jupiter, wliei it is stated the wind Mew 1 miles ail hour Big Fire in Seneca--Fine Building Block in the Tow Destroyed. Seneca special in Thursday News and Courier: Fire short after midnight last night destro ed nearly $75,000 worth of pr perry here, and the insurant on the burned property will m amount to more than $30,001 The Hames swept the finest bin ness block in town, including tl two hotels in the place and large boarding house and foil stores. It was by far the wor tire in the history of Seneca an the loss falls very heavy on town of this size, with less tha 2,000 population. At one tin it was feared that the tire won .? .i? i? < njnenu IU timiuifi UlOC'v or 1U1K ings, but the lire lighters had tl excellent forethought to blow i one small frame structure wil dynamite, which had the desire rssult and enabled them to chec the llameB. The fire started in the coal ce lar of the Ocone Inn, a modei * hotel owned and occupied by < H. Ellison. Its origin in utiknow and there in no accounting for i The consensus of opinion is thi it was purely accidental. Do you take The News? I ~ I An Unfortunate Woman and Child in Columbia, Said to be from Lancasy ter. is From Columbia State, Oct. ISth. ' Pete" Medlin, a woman who ? keeps a house of vice in this city, S, was arrested tor vagrancy yesr terday as a means to force her le to give up to the Salvation Army an infant of five weeks, whose n mother had been lying despere ately ill in that house. 1- The mother of the little one is *1 said to have come from Lancasis ter, andjhas every appearance of ie having been reared in respect h able surroundings. She has been ie dangerously ill, but would not ie give the police her real name, p The women of the Salvation tfc Army have been doing a good A t * * * worn anions tlie laden women in ] n- this city and in tlieir prayers] Iv with this woman she nave them her real name. After praying with her all night, the women oft lie Salva. O . , , , . tion Army succeeded in getting the consent of the woman to be moved from the place where?she e. was to the Door of Hope. The v- Mtdlin woman then took pos a- session of the child, but tlie poo lice have forced her to give i* :h up. er is Bagging Factory for Rock Hi Hill. ig Is m Rock Hill Herald: Rock llill M) will soon have a now industry in lir operation, the only one of the a kind in tiie State?a bagging fai'lnvu Tim * JU Ii.v V1,I . 1 lit ^IWlUUiCI'H il'tJ l\VO I p of Iioch Ilill's enterprising citi 0 zens, Messrs T. L Johnston and J. B >yd freight on. They have -ectited the large brick store building at tlie Highland Park ^ Mill, have bought all the necesn sary machinery and expect to nave the lactory in operation not l.Ver than December 1st and * probablv sooner, e 1 jv A charter has been applied for. y. The plant will have a capacity ot n 1,000,000 yards annually. The ;*e concern will contract with all ot the mills of this section for their 0 bagging and the greater part of 1 the output the lactory will be le manufactured Iroui this second ft band bagging. It will be run Ir through pickers, the libre workst ed over and manufactured into (1 new bagging. in Nine Lives Lost in Storm. ie. Id | Lj New Orleans, Oct. 18?Nine ie I lives were lost in the hurricane 'P which swept the eastern coast of " Nicaragua last Saturday, accord!<* ing to advices received here to^ day. The loss of life was in the village of Pearl Lagoon, which is reported to have been entirely "n destroyed. The full extent of the damage is not yet 'known, The n hurricane covered an area of ^ several hundred square miles, it . ? . M lss Louise Williams, of Hardeveille, is visiting Mies Nannie McCardell. Court Proceedings Important Cases Disposed of?Motion Refused for Change of Venue in Morrison Case. Some two or three'iraportant and lengthy cases have taken up pretty much all the time of the court here this week. As indicated in Wednesday's News, the Fraser Allen case resulted in a mistrial. The suit of L. P. Bell anaiost tlie Southern for damages on account of the loss of his child that was crushed to death by a freight train of the defendant company. which ca^e was being tried when The News went to press Tuesday evening, resulted in a verdict lor the plaintiff Iorf4,000. | The nlnintiif was represented bv * . | Me'srs Williams A Williams and the defendant, by Mr. (Jhas. D. i Jones and Alm?y A Thompson, of C dumbia. The court was engaged all day Thursday in hearing the motion lor a change of venue in the famous Morrison damage case against Lancaster county. The county was represented by Messrs Moore A Hough and the plaintiff by Mr. Newbold of Chester and Mr. Wilburn of York. Judge l'rince rendered his decision yesterday morning, retusing to grant plaintiff's motion to transfer the case tor trial to another county. The case will not be tried this term. The case of Mrs Albert Hlakenev against the Seaboard Air Line, tor damages for personal injury sustained on defendant company's road, was not brought t A t rial tL-x * - - vv, ....... u.c panics agreeing upon a compromise, whereby the railroad company is to pay plaintiir $2,000. The plaintifl'Jwas represented by Mr. 1) Reece Williams, and the defendant by its local counsel, Col. T. Y. Williams. The court was engaged yesI terday in the trial of a land case, that of Hasty llouze against ' Maggie Ho'ize?proceedings lor the partition of lands of Ilenry ; llouze, a colored citizen who died i a year or so ago. The case of Thompson Bros, of Vanwyck, against the Piedmont Insurance company, c'aim for loss by fire, comes up this morning. President Smith, of Cotton Association, to be Married. Spartanburg special in News and Courier: E. 1). Smith, of Magnolia, president of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Aasociaton, and Mihs I Annie Brunson Farley, formerly of thin city, hut now of Florence, will be married Wednesday evening, October 31, at the Presbyterian Church at Florence. Read The News.