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. The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1378 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. NO. 86. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., AUGUST 7. 1907 PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. ? """ V JMLore Trouble for the {Southern?Its Right to Operate in Alabama Cancelled. Montgomery, Ala , Aug. 3.? Announcement was made today by Secretary of Sta'e Frank N. Julian that lie had revoked the franchise ot Southern Railway Company because it had removed a case from the State Circuit Court of Talladega County to the United States Circuit Court at Birmingham. This action of the Southern is alleged to be in violation ot the two Outlaw Acts passed by the State Legislature last winter, each of which provided that such removal should be punishable by a revocation ot the charter ot the roil __ ? * road. One of these lawp, the better known, was declared unconstitutional by United States Judge Thomas G. Jones, but the other has never been enjoined by the Federal Courts. Convict Attacks Guard and is shot. Co! urnbia Recor d: Hil ton Smith, a guard on the city chaingang, in defending himself from an attack with a shovel in the hands of Primus Blocker, a negro convict, shot and painfully wounded the latter yesterday afternoon. The bullet from the guard's pistol entered the negro's thigh, producing a wound that bled profusely, and by the time the patrol wagon arrived the convict wankweak from loss of blood. Mr. Smith was Rtruck oil the left arm by the convict, the force of the blow with the shovel break ing a hone, and it is said that had he not used his pistol quickly and effectively, he might have I been even more seriously injured, as it was the evident, purpose ot f the negro to land a blow on Mr.! Smith's head. 4 Gypsies Fooled Kind-Hearted Spartanburg People. Spartanburg special in the News and Courier : The Gypsies have struck camp. After thenarrest bv the police Thtnvrlav nil / * " " '' --- were released except four women, who were h$Jd on the charge ol swindling. rIhe evidence was against only one of these, however, and she was fined 125.? The Oypsies put up a poor mout hl and told hard luck stories, de elating that the most money they could raise am *ng them was fif teen dollars. Kind-hearted people made up the balance and paid the fine lor the fortune teller.? It developed that they had oodles ' <it money, lor the male members! * of the gang exchanged at a local bank more than $2,000 in currency for gold coin. ?Cedar Camp, W. O W., wi'l havo a meeting on Thursday nigh*,8th of Aug. A full attend- < Aiic6 is requested as business of importance is t> he disposed of. J. A. llyatt, Clerk. I*-.,/.;, Morris Missing?He is an Abbeville Man who went to Exposition. Anderson special in the News and Courier : About six weeks ano Mr. Charles Morris, a clerk in the treight depot of the Seahoard Air Line at Abbeville, left that city lor a trip to the Jamestown Exposition. His wife, who lived with her sister, Mrs. Young, at Honeapath, was to meet him at the exposition one week after he left the city. A few days after lie got to the Exposition Mr. Morris wrote to his wite and told her to meet him at Norfolk on a certain date. In the meantime she decided not to go to Jamestown because she had been uuwell. She wrote to her husband and since that time has not heard one word from him Atter waiting some time and not hearing from him Mrs. Morris began to take somesteps to locate him. The Seaboard au'horilies also started to search for him. This search lias proved to be fruitless and Mr. Morris has been given up as dead. It is thought that lie was drowned, as a captain 61 a steamer at Jamestown has written to Mrs. Morris that some of the passen tiers were lose on a trip and that Mr. Morris was probably one oi them. Georgia Tragedy?Parties Formerly of Columbia. A special to The Savannah News front Baxley says : Last night seven miles south of here N. A. Burnside was in stantly killed by Clarence Gillmore, his lite long friend, schoolmate and hoarder for many months. Both moved here from Columbia, S. C., a lew months ago an J had been engaged in the steam saw mill 1 u-ine9S. Gillmore came in last night, and surrendered to the alien ft', lie slated that aher retiring last night his wife informed him that during the day Burnside had made improper proposals to her. Gillincre got out of be 1 and upon entering the room of Burnside u:? ? - . much mm, using a -notgun. A Home Made Automobile. Kansas City Times Henry Lacy, a negro who owns a bicycle repair s-hop en Kast Second street, has built a motor c?r that is run by a wood burning engine. The frame of the car was taker from an old motor car and the engine was purchased by the ne gro at a junk shop. This engine is an old "wood burner" and the smoke is carried away by a stove pipe erected on the Iront end o the car. The wheels were taker from a buggy and have solid rubber tires. The,engine's capacity is about 16 horse-power. It hai one speed?eight miles an hour Lacy has also made a motorcych from an old bicycle. Stockholders' Meetings. j ___ Annual Meetings of Lancas ter Cotton Mills, the Eure ka Mill and the Bank c Lancaster?Splendid Con dition of the Several Prop ! erties. Annual stockholders' meel ings of three large and llourisl ing corporations were held i: Lancaster Monday, all of whic have as their head our distingi ished financier and manufaclui er, Col. Lero.v Springs, in whos oflice the meetings were held. The stockholders of the Lar caster Cotton Mills met in th morning at 10 o'clock. Interest ing and highly satisfactory re ports were made by Presideu Springs and Secretary and Frea surer Thomson, showing th mills to be in good shape am doing a successtul business. Th following board of directors wa re-elected : Leroy Springs, W T. Gregory, T. Y. Williams, T S. Carter, Waddy C. Thomson of Lancaster; Stephen A. Jenkt of Pawtucket R. I. ; Arthur S Wattle", of Canton Junction Mass. Alter the adjournment of th meeting the directors met and re elected the company's officers a . follows: President,Leroy Springi Vice-president, W. T. Gretrorj Secretary and Treasurer, W. C Thomson. The directors a'sc d< ? clared an additional dividend < i per cent on the common stocl making the total dividend f< f the past year eight per cent. Th preferred stock dividend is lin ited to 7 seven percent, whic has been paid, and dividend o the common stock is limited t . 8 per cent during the life of th preferred i The next meeting held wf i that of the stockholders ol tl ? Eureka Mills, in Chester. 11 reports of the officers al-o shov ed the enterprise to be in fir: class condition. The tollowii i directors were elected: Lerc > Springs, C. B. Skipper, Samu ! E. White, W. C. Thomson, ( I Lancaster; John McGill, of l'l.i i a lelphia, The direct r subseqi ently met and re-elected oflice of the company as follows : l'r. ident, Leroy Springs; Vice-pree dent, O. B. Skipper; Secretar and Treasurer, \V. C. Thon 'son. In the afternoon at' 5 o'cloc !iho meeting of ihe stockholiei j of the Hank of Lancaster wji 'held. As usual, an exceptional! . fine showing wa? matte as to tli j condition and business of ill ' model financial institution, whio 1 ; for years tias b.oen paying Id pt ' cent dividend annually. The o! : board of director^ was re-elect* s i as follows: Ler?>y Springs, V 5 C. Thomson, I). A. Williams, V J. Cunningham, L. C. Payseu W. T. (iregory, M. I'. Craw fort Alter the stockholders' nice 1 j ing adjourned the directors m I and re eb cfetl otlicers of the b ti ?j as follows: President, Lerr 4 Springs ; Vice-presidents, D. a Williams and W. C. Thomsoi * Cashier, Oeo. W. Williams; A 3 sistant Cashier, W. K. Thomsoi Teller, John I'uag. Lightning's Queer Capers ir, Bamberg. Last Thursday nigh', dining Mile he-?vy electrical storm, the residence of Mr. A. S. E literling, on Railroad avenue, was struck by lightuing. The holt struck a tree very near the house, then it came in an upstairs win k* dow, splintering the window sill ' knocking the plastering oil", scat 11 teringsplinters all over the room " Mr. and Mrs. Easterling wert ' occupying the room, hi d theii bed was turned with the heat e toward the window. Their escape Irom death was a narrow one. A heavy piece ol the.win ? dow pill was found under tin bed. A post in the yard fenc< ' was also struck and splintered d A negro house near the colored l" graded school was struck. Th< e house was damaged and abureat d torn up. None of the inmatet e hurt, but they were badly fright8 ened.?Bamberg Herald. r Died Happy. i, S A lady who had recently mov* i. ed to the suburbs was very font i, ol her first brood of chickens.? Going out one afternoon, she left e the household in charge ot liei 5- eight-year-old boy. Belore hei is return a thunder storm came up s; The youngster forgot the chicki r; during the storm and was dis mayed, after it passed, to fint s that half of them had been drown )t ed. Though fearing the wratl t? to come he thought best to mak< )r a clean breast of the calamity e rather than leave it to be discov l- ered. h "Mamma," he said, contritely n when his mother had returned ? o "Mamma, six of the chickens ar< le dead " ' Dead!" cried his mo'her.? is <kSix! How did they die?" ie The b<?y saw his chance. ie "I think ? I think they die* 7- happy," he said.-Harper's Week st ly. ,g . ? >y Frogs with Horns. el [>f Chester Lantern : Mr. It. h !- Brown, formerly of Ros&villc 11 who has been in Texas nin rs years, is visiting friemis in th s county. He brought two of th i- Texas horned tro^s with him.? y They have horns on the tops o i- their heads but do not hook, he in<t entirely harmless, like ou hop toads. They do not hop however, but run like a lizard N I'hey are about as wide as on ip toads but ll <t, have a tail a'?( is | their legs stand out like a liz 'I ?rd'?s- (lue <,f rtn.??. ? - . . .. umv in Dndl UBU 1 M town. Whether ii will start j colony or not is yet to be seen. /. ?~ Fatal Boiler Explosion. M . t_ Urb ma, O , Ann. 5.?Engitiee et h. \V. Chamberlain, Fireman 1 >k F. NVelsner and Brukt m in C. / >v Stewart, were instantly killoii t( day a' Urbana on a IVnnsylvani s' freight train. The boiler ot til i - engine blew up, killing the thre ' men and upsetting several cars. I i News in Brief. The Rev. John II (i uch, pas 'or of the LNptist church at, Johnston, lied at a hosnital in Augusta Saturday, where he had . been operated ou tor app ndici; tis.... Claude Ogle, 16 years ; old, was accidentally shot and , killed at Clifton Saturday by another lad, Wiley Johnson, who , was tampering with a pi^'ol.... The postofiioe at Lamar was , broken into and rrbbed Saturday ) night of some money. . . On last I Saturday enraged larruers mob1 bed a party ot autoists whose - car had accidentally run over a r boy near Deerfield, 111. The . oar was burned. The accident 3 19 said to have been unavoidable ? . . .An alderman in Pennsylva. ilia, after hearing the evidence I against a husband charged with i wife-beating, took the wretch i out into the street and publicly i flogged him with a belt. . . .The - mysterious epidemic of assaults on girls in New York continues unabated, an assault occurring almost daily. More than a dozen r.ttacks on young women and children have occurred recently, 1 the victims in some instances be ing choked to death and their l bodies horribly mutilated. The r police aie puzzled to find the r fiend or fiends. . . .James Gari. ty and son, of Ueiu0j Ala., lost i their lives Sunday while clean ing out their well, being over1 come by gases. . . . A big fertili zer plant at Jacksonville Fla., i was struck by lightning Sunday 3 and destroyed by fire....The , boll weevil is doing much dam age to cotton in Mexico....A train on a French railroad plung, ed into a river Sunday, drowning - 41 persons. 0 " - Greenville Man Drowned. Greenville ^p^cial 111 yesterday's Charlotte Ooservor: News ^ has just reached here of the drowning today of Clarence Cannon, salesman in the store of J. T. Arnold Company, of this city, while on a fishing excursion several miles we t ot Fountain Inn , on the Reedy river. Canhon had " gone home a* Fountain Inn to ' spend his vaca'i ?n and went e with a party on a fisiiiim tup tins e morning. - Government's Cotton Report. if Washington, D. C., August 2. r ?The crop reporting board of (j the Bureau ot Siatistics of the I. Depar moot ot Agriculture finds r Irom the reports of the corresponfl! dents and tgenis of the Bureau that the average condition of cotn I ton on July 2f> was 75.0 as com :i' p ?red with 72.0 on Juno 25, 1907; 82.9 on July 25, 1900; 74.9-in I July 25, 1905, and a ten-year ; average of 82.6 Girls Drowned, r \ Chica.o. Auir. 5.?Two gir's, i. (> :ga llul, IT years oil, and > Edith Snhwar'/., 1 years younger, a were drowned in 'he Calumet e river today. The girls were hathe ing and were unable to make t^eir way back to shore.