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- - - : ? ? * The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. NO. 14. SEIWdlEEKlY. LANCASTER. S. C., NOVEMBER 24, 1906 PRICE?FIVE CENTS PFD rnov ? v ? Fighting at the Falls?Shooting and Cutting Scrapes. Great Falls special in Columbia Slate : A negro whose name cannot be learned at present whs shot twice here at 2 o'clock today by Phillip Ldggii, :< colored employee of the Sou hern Power company fit iluir worksmi the Catawba river a his place. Liggin has no made attempt to escape and no arrest has so far been made Bad women are said to be the cause of the shooting. Jim Glenu, also colored, was frightfully cut about the head and neck and beaten with sticks by two colored women, Lizzie I'almer and another woman known as "Little Bit," litre this afternoon about 4:30 o'clock. The three were purchasing whiskey and when Glenn pulled ou' bis money to pay for his portion "Little Bit" seized a wallet oi $23 and ran. In the fracas Lizzie Palmer was struck in the head with a rock, her skull being crushed. Her condition is extremely critical and very uncertain. No arrests have been made. Further Particulars of the Death of Mr Gaston Marion, Brother of Mrs. R. B. Allison. The Chester Lantern gives the following particulars of the death ot Mr. Gaston Marion, brother of Mrs. R. B. Allison of Lancaster, an account of whose sudden death in Virginia was published in the last issue ol The News : Mr. Gaston Marion, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Marion, of Rich burg, died at 4 o'clock Saturday morning, after an illness of only five hours. Mr. Marion was a telegraph operator at Welch, Va. Friday evening he, with a friend, , went to attend a quartette practice and were returning to their boarding place about 11 o'clock. Alter Mr. Marion had stum- ' bled several times the friend noticed there was something seriously wrong and carried him to his boarding place and sum- i moned medical aid. After reach- ' ing his boarding place he tried 1 to tell something but the only 1 thing that could be understood was the name of his brother Lu ] cius, who was at Roanoke, Va., I then he lapsed into unconscious- j I nessand died al 4 o'clock Saturday morning. The body wa* expected here Sabbath on No 33 but on account of being taken to Asheville did not reach here until Sabbath night on No. 29 and was taken to Richburg Monday morning ( ??.? I .kr n . - t? i = i vr.i v??c w v>. limn iur uuniii i in the cemetery at Union church. The funeral services were in the Presbyterian church, conducted \ by Revs. J. J. Brown and W. A. ' Fairy. The body was accompanied J from Virginia by a delegation of | three young men of s'me rail l A*. road order and was met here bv Mr. E. B. Walker, the operator and t cket agent at Richburg, | who accompanied tlieni from j1 here. The pallbearers were the three young men from Virginia and Messrs. E. B. Walker, Claud Atkinson and John Mize, of Rich burg. He was 19 \ ears old la5t July and :s survived by his parents, three brothers, Rev. J. P.Marion, Jr.,ot Sumter, Mr. Lucius Marion, or Raauake, Va., and Mr. Edgar Marion, of Fort Mill, and three sisters, Miss Mary Marion, who lives with her brother, Rev. J. P. Mor.on, Mrs. R. B. Allison, of Lancaster, and Mrs. Drennan, of Richburg, all of whom were present to attend lie funeral. News in Brief. Chicago negroes have Di'ilion rd the raavor no' to allow Senator Tillman to 6peak in that city Seven trackmen 1 were killed by landslide in West Virginia Wednesday 1 $15,000. in gold were found Thursday .hidden under an old carpet in Detroit, Mich. The , carpet had just been sold at auction as it lay on the lloor 1 The American Sugar Refining Company has been convicted of accepting rebates and fined $10S, 000 Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an aged widow, was brutal- i ly murdered and several hundred ' dollars taken from her person, near Gaffney, one day this week A white man named Tom Hnr ris has been arrested on suspi cion A. Bullard, a mer chant of Kibbe,Ga.,\vas murder- 1 ed in his store Wednesday night, ' by an unknown person < Bishop J. d.Tibert, of 'he Meth- ' odist chureli, died Wednesday. < from the effect of a chicken bone \ lodging just below* his tonsils. | Lad Accidentally Shoots and Kills his Little Brother. Lockhart cor. Chester Lantern : A very sad accident happened Saturday evening opposite this place. Clarence and Wade, sons of Mr. Wm Moore, aged respectively 9 and 7 years, went to drive up the cows, the eldest taking a gun with him. When a short distance from the house he Baw a bird in some low bushes and concluded he would shoot it. Wade went around behind some brambles between him and the bird. When the gun fired his brother received the contents in the lower part of the neck, kill ing him. llis father heard Olar snce's cries and came as quickly is he could run, but when he got there he was dead. He gathered tip his dead son and bore the body to his house. The family t is prostrated with grief, and it is *aid theories of the boy when he found he had shot his brother s ivere heart-rending. 1 i ?The Thorn well school open* ( *d Monday, Miss Mary B. Green ] 8 the teacher. . ?There will be a basket supper of the Tradesville school house next Wednesday night, f beginning at? o'clock. Proceeds f lo be applied to school building. f Lancaster at the Unveiling of l)< Hampton Monument. Lancaster w?a well represented at t lie unvriling *?f theHamp- ? ton monument in Columbia ,e Tuesday. Amonir those present were Mayor II E. Wyiie, Col.1 0f and Mrs. A. R Banks, Capt J. re C. Foster, Capt. W. H. Rives. s Mr. and Mrs Hasel \Vdherspoon .Vt and the latter's sis'er, MissShurlev Montgomery, Mr. Orin ? iol'. Blackmon, Mr. J. S. Wilson,. ch Mrp.Everett The following school at children accompanied the party: M Eliza Wylie. Beth Brown, Mary ^ Everett, Leon Cauthen, I. W. ^ Moore, B. Y. Gettys. Heath Springs and Pleasant Hill were u, represented by Messrs VV. B. J{ Bruce, W. A. Marshall and E. C. Williams, Miss Alma *11 Duncan and perhaps others. Col L. (J. Ilough and Editor Hamel, of Kershaw, were also present. fr . ~ . w The New Cement Sidewalk 0] The total cost of the cement sidewalk in front ol the Springs ** Block is $306.90. The distance or length of the pavement ii30o teet,soit will be seen that the Ql cost per lineal or running foot is ( but a fraction over a dollar?a :n cheap job, certa.nly. We doubt if similar work has ever been ^ done in the state for as little ye money. First class material was ^ used and good workmanship go" employed. '1 he Council deserves j ^reat credit tor this improvement and the economical and careful manner of its execution. m especial praise is due Alderman a? 1'. S. Carter, who personally mpervi9ed the work. | m an Apples and Salt. of Eat fresh apples and salt af- ^ ter every meal, advises a physi- ^ 3ian who has made a specialty ^ 3f 6tomach and in'esiinal trou b' bles. They aid dig?stion more affectively than many drujrs, ami w< people who make them a part ol ^ Lhe daily diet rarely have indi- jyj( zes?ion. hv "Take apples, cooked or fr?sh, with salt while dining or imme If liatelv alter and eat them between times when hungry, he lavs. Cultivate the apple habit. PI ind iosteal of ea'inp bonbons (la rod pastry serve them in some kn orm for li^ht lunches in the of norning. Eat them in the sum- J Tier even more than during the hi winter months, for nothing is tin Detter or more nourishing for ^ ,he entire system than this fruit, "?i 'specially as it is not heating. " The skin, if Droperlv masticated. s not injurious, Cut the best f??s dan is to cut it off, lor it is usuilly tough, as is the outer coat )f most fruits. Apples are an ] ltd to digestion despite the crust J hat is ordinarily considered hard an o assimulate. The best time to iat apples is after meals, when 1 f ft I dl the fluids necessarily have <ie, >een taken in'o the stomach; tor ref a c .i milk, coffee, or water are <>f Irunk after taking this fruit they essen its powers to help diges- (:h ion.?Exchange. ? Bu There will be a basket supper 1 it Fork Hill school house Thanksgiving uight, for the benefit of he school. Public is invited. nth of Mrs. Virginia Green, ^ IVitlow of Frank />. Green. Mrs. Virginia Green, widow, the late F. L). Gn ei>< ?i e>l y?-.s-1 rdav morning, at her home in e Douglass section. Heart ilure was the immediate cause! her death, though she had not rovered from the effects ot a t> roke of p iralysi* sustained a j fi( ar ago. Mrs Green a-as a, ughter '{ tHe late Thomas | ireton and was about 65 years j 1 d. She leaves the lollowing u iluren : Messrs Thomas C. tl id .1 oiln T. Green, ot this place; u rs II. E. White, of Rock Uill; p r. M.J Green and Miss Janie . reen, who resided with their other. She is also survived by ^ br ther and a bister, Mr. i>am tl ?1 Cureton, of Florida, and Mrs. d lines Green, of Lee county. Mrs. Green was a highly cul- a red, christian lady and her ?ath will not only bedeeply felt f iter immediate family and re- a Uvea, but by a large circle of p iends and acquaintances as 1] ell. The burial will be at Camp p reek today. s eath of Mrs. IV. ?/. Mrffuirt, the ^ Mother of Mrs. IV. K. I'arilue 11 of Lancaster. i: Mrs. Margaret McGuirt, wife ^ Mr. W. J. McGuirt, ot Union v unty, N. C., died on the 191li o stant, after an illness of over ^ ro months. She was a native of ^ incaster counly and was 53 iars of age. Her father was .1. Nisbet, a brave Confederate a ldier who was kil.ed in battle t] irin^ the war. t] Mrs. McGuirt was a most es- j{ liable lady, was a consistent ember of the Bap'ist church, id was beloved by all who lew her. Besides her husband V e haves thirteen children, \ none them Mrs. W. E. Pardue 'j1 Lancaster. She is also surviv- r 1 by two brothers, Mr. Preston i.-bet, of Sandtord, N. C., and r. T. B. Nisbet. of Waxhaw. . C., Jthe latter being a half- c other. t< The remains of Mrs. McGuirt n ?re buried at Tirzdi Tuesday, d ter luneral terviees conducter s< the home by the Rev. Md clnstree, ot Waxhaw, assisted ^ ' the Rev. W. W. Ratchford. g i Memory of Daniel Curtis p Plyler, who Departed this a Life Oct. 20,1906. I'he death of little Daniel Curtis y ler east a gln-un over Bethel Sun- . y school, where he was so well own and liked. Curtis was for four years a member s) Bethel Sunday school up till his ath, Oct. 20. L The following resolutions of respect ve b*en submitted by us: Whereas, Almighty God, in His inite wisdom and justice, has seen tit remove from us, in the beginning a] a life of promise and usefulness, r most loyal and esteemed associate ' ,niel Curtis Plyler; be it | ej Resolved, That we, th * members of thel Sunday school, with whom he A >ored faithfully, do hereby nianiit our grief at the loss of our de-I w rted member whose life among us ! rp is a constant example of peisever-l ce, unselti-hness and upright child- i p mi and ho if f"eth,?e [i-solved, That, whi!e wh deeply ^ >urn his loss, we wish to express oj r appreciation of his sympathetic d helpful influence, the memory of ? licit will long remain with is; and it further N [tesolved, That we extend to the * nily of our deceased ass< ciate our epest sy in pat hy ; t hat a copy of t hese lolutiui* be sent to h a family ; that iopy be entered upon the records Q| our Sunday school, and that a copy e( published in the next issue of The Sl noaster News and the Southern w ristian Advocate. at death is common comforts not The heart with grief borne down, it 'tis a comfort that his lot Will be to wear a crown. Eunice Sapp> fl Maie Ilays, Virgie Happ, Committee. jC Veteran who Carries Eleven Bullets in hisBody?Fought in Three Wars. 'olumbia Record. Carrying in his body eleven ullets, received 111 honorable erviee during three wars, there 'as am" ni: tlie veterans who ung breathless* and electrified pon General Butler's words at lie unveiling of the Hampton aonument today, probably the Idest citizen of the state, who i hale and hearty and can yet all of the days way back in the hirties when there were still lu;ans right here at home to fight. Mr. James Powell, who lives, ertd uinet.v fiw Sn~*?- ? 0 j ~ , k; uuuii'Ci aim Vheot ptreet, this city was bom t Marion court house, of Irish >arentage his father and mother laving been in the United States ess than three months. He saw ervice with the regular troops luring the war against the Sernilole Indians in Florida, receivng several minor wounds. He ought throughout the Mexican ?ar, and was wounded severely n several occasions. In t lie Jivil war he was with the Seventh outli Carolina infantry, under leneral "Stonewall" Jackson, nd was wounded repeatedly. Of lie eleven balls now in his body, liree were acquired in the Mex:an war, four in the War lieween the States. Mr. Powell has a brother, Mr. William Powell, sti 11 living at 1 1 1 O ? 1 ? ....., ?iiuus.il ni ^cars oi ape. he two are the last of their ace. Mr. Robert Ricand, of Lanaster, 8. C., was in town yesJrday evening to see Paul Gillore, in kJAt Yale." at the Acaemy of Music.?Charlotte Oberver. ?A son was born to Dr. and Irs. J. A. Rut ledge, of Ileal h prings, Wednesday, 21st inst. ?The banks, stores and other laces of business will be closed s usual on Thanksgiving Day -next Thursday. ?Attention is called to adversement elsewhere of L Kirstein ; Co., of Portsmouth, Va. The ore here is sn charge ot Mr. H. . Kirstein, of Baltimore. ?There was a highly enjoyi>le dime social at the Jones ouse last evening, for the benit of the Methodist Aid Society, well selected musical program as successfully carried out. no program was to have been ublished in Wednesday's News, ut had to be omitted for lack f space. otice to Debtors & Creditors. All persons indebted to the estate r I-. I*. Rotldey de eased,are request1 to settle same at once and all per>ns to whom said estate is indebted ill present their claims, duly at sted, to the undersigned . Sallye H. Koddey, 4 weeks Administratrix. NfiWC Does ,Tob Printing Lilv llunO for others. Why an't we do yours? ??????