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* " * . * ' V w i \ 1 -V ijs ' ' The Lancaster News ? LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 ; VOL. 3. iSv). 1. SEMI-WEEKLY. ' LANCASTER. S. C., OCTOBER 0. 1907 DDICP?civb row-re I Bride Eloped with Another Man?Arrested in Columbia. Columbia special in Charlotte Observer: The sensational elopement of a handsome you up married woman of Florence, Mrs. C W. Miller, just throe months the bride of a Coast Line telegraph operator at Florence, had its culmination in the arrest of Mrs. Miller here this morning af the Jerome Hotel, where she spent the night. The arrest was made by re quest of Mr. Miller, who in talking oyer the 'phone to the police sa d that he did not care to have the man in the case, an Atlantic Coast Line Pullman conductor, arrested, tha1 he just wanted his wife detained. Mrs. Miller told the police that she would not go back home and when her husband came she still resisted. Choi! Cathcart 'T)hl the husband he could hold her no longer, that he and she would have to settle their differences. North Carolina Girls Jailed in Richmond. Richmond special in Charlotte Observer: E-uelle Davis and Grace Brown, two young white girls whose appearance did not at all harmonize with the diugy appearance of the police court, charged with the larceny of two kimonas, a white silk dressing gown and a red silk gown from Emma Wallace, their landlady, were seijt to jail for 60 days this morning from police court. The girls, who stated they lived in North Carolina, begged for mercy; but they weretal^n weeping to the pen, whore they remained with negroes and drunken white men until taken to the city jail. The girls did not deny having taken the clothing, but sa!d they had bought it through the Wallace woman from Pauline Bendix, who keeps a clothing stoie in the lower part of tlie city The shopkeeper, however, declared th ?t this was not true as the Wallace woman Imd paid for the clothing when she bought it. After they had been placed in the pen, the girls stated that they were the dHush'era of respecta hie people in North Carolina and had run away from hotna -bout nix months ago Kills Wife and Suicides. Key West Kla., Oct ft.?Austin Griffin shot mid killed his wife this morning at the breakfast table, .then committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. Griffin had separated from her husband but he refused to leave the house, demanding half of the property. This morning the husband demanded an understanding and she refused to convene with him. He drew his re volyer and shot her in the back of thehead,causing instant death. He survived her one hour. I nwiMMfiliiaaiii it is i In i ill H i 1IIW?I wnilHii ii I Man Posing as Preacher Made to Leave Town. Easley special in the Green1 ville News : I)r. K V. Millard, ' who c?niH hero about, ten d?y6 ago posing hh a Baptist preacher, 1 has been run out/>f town. A letter was received yesterday Irom the Dorchester county au ' thorities telling of his record. It seems that he had deserted his wife and family out West a lew years ago and chiiio to Dorchester county where he again married. Lie was put in jail there but was released and had not been heard of since. lie came to Ea^lev about ten days ago and sought the call o the Second Baptist church here, i They were thinkim? <?i cnlliixr! o f? him, when this letter curie to Key I>. W. 11 itt telling him that Millard was an impostor.* Wife Shot to Death by Brutal Husband. Baltimore, Oof. (>.? With the 1 1 1-year-old dau. h er ol the couple as the witness Albert Fielder, a milk dealer, aged 45 years, today lired live bullets into the body of his wite, Ida, killing her instantly, and then shot himself in the head, dying in an ambulance in which he was being hurried to a hospital. The couple had been living apart for some lime and Mrs. Fielder finding the task of supporting her five small childmn too mueh for her, had asked the advice of a police magistrate. He told her to call upon her husband for $5 a week and in event of his refusing or failing to give it. to her to swear out a warrant tor his arrest. Fielder heard ol this and this afternoon^went to his wile's home and upbraided her. He, according to the account of his little daughter, declared that his wife should never live to cause his arrest and immediately commenced tiring. The child was leaning agains her mother with the latter's arm about her at the lime. Another Mill for Rock Hill. i Rock Ilill Kpocial iti yes'erdav's State: A new cotton mill i- to be built in Rock Hill. W. \V. Moore and J. B. Johnson lefi for New York ih t afternoon carrying with them I lie biggest local subscription to stocic which has ever been raised here. The mill will be capitalized at $150,000 and Mr. Moore is to be the. president. They go to buy machinery and to obtain signatures for stock already subscribed. They will be absent about ten days. i __ ?John Strain's mule ran away with his buggy a few days a*9> in thf New Cut section. He] and a woman riding with him escaped serious injury, but the vehicle was "smtshed up." News in Brief. During a Republican rally in Waterbury, Conn., Saturday night the 11 >or ot the building collapsed, precipitating 150 men into the cellar, and the explosion of a lamp set th<* house on lire. A number o( prominent leaders were bddly hurt, one fatally.... A passenger train was wrecked Saturday near Lockhart, by a pile of s'c -1 rails that had been placed i*?>hs the hack. No lives were t> *t. hur the engineer and the fir* mm were I adly nurt. ...As n< \iy us 03 i Is were killed ami over 60 it jined Saturday by ait explosion in ;i Japanese factory, wtiile sorting condemne'l shell-. and cartridges .... President Fiuley denies tlie report I ha the Southern is to go into 'he hands of u receiver.. . . The Federal court which was t<> have convened in Greenville Oc'. 22, lias been po-tponed .... The trial in R?leigh, N C., ol Dr. and Mrs. Rowland for the murder of the latter'? former husband, Strange, resulted in a verdict of acquittal.... Four men were killed and twenty or more fatally injured .Sunday night by the explosion ol a metal po'< in a steel plant at Butler. Penu....A negro named Wal lace Gardner, was stabbed to death Saturday night in an Asheville, N. C. saloon. Two negroes?Vaughan and Thompson?are held as be ng implicated.... William Burns, a iTegro, who had killed a policeman, was kicked and shot to death by angry c ttzens in Cumberland, Md., Sunday morning. . . . President Roosevelt is hiding and hunting in Louisiana canebrakes this week. . . .A box car containing 40 bah s oi cotton was burned at Alcolu, this state, Saturday .... Four Italians were hanged Friday in Lancaster, Pa.. . .The wile of Dfl. J. II Hamilton, of Union, S. C., is dead....The postmasters of South Carolina have been granted leave of ab sence, not exceeding live days, to enable them to attend the Post masters' convention to be held in Columbia Oct. SO and 31 ... . Three miners w< re killed Friday by the explosion of g:ts in a c< al mine near Prat', Term The big ginnery in Anderson, S. C., of the Peonle's f> 1 Mill been destroyed by lire....M. W Goodlett, a Greenville merchant died suddenly Saturday ....A feature ot President Roosevelt's re.eeption iu Mem phis, Tenn., Friday was a regiment of Confederate veterans a 'tine as his body guard. . . . Rev. W. II. Cooper, a Baptist minister, dropped dead on the streets of Bailey, this state, la9t Friday ....Lee and Clifford Fallow, brothers, charged with the murder of Geo. VV. Mabus in Aiken ,county, have been tried and acquitted. . . . Rev. Geo, B T ?ylor, who was Stonewall Jackson's chaplain, is dead .... A wreck occurred on Coast Line near South Rocky Mount, N. C., Saturday nisrht, in which the engineer was killed and the fireman seriously hurt. r--~r. Bethel Items. M rs. Olias. M. Brown, of Salisbury N. C., who has been visiting her cousins, Messrs. 1) F. and D. R. Stipp of Sapp Cross Koads, for the past few days, was accompanied to Lancaster Fiiday by Miss Maud Sapp'and Mrs. Dallas Sapp. Mrs. Brown and Mrs and Miss Sapp spent tlie day with Mr. and Mrs. Cha3. Fur.derburk, and Mrs. Brown left on the afternoon train for her home. She was very much pleased with her short vi-i' to the ri y. Mr. I) F. Sapp made a business trip to Charlotte one da} last week. Mr. and and Mrs. Milieu Piyler spent Sunday at Mr. R P. Plyler's Messrs. Boswell Plyler and Minor Clyburn visited at, Mr. I). F. Sapp's Sunday. Old aunt Rue Plyler, probably the oldest lady m Lancaster Co., who is 90 years old, ia very sick at her home at Mr. R P. Piyler's. Mr. D. R. Sapp had a line mule to die one day last week. Mr. C. N. Sapp, who lias been visiting Jamestown, Baltimore, New York and Washington, for t l\n noaf Ion /lone /vv ' viav |/un|/ ? vii J O) I" A j ) U C U U home in a lew days. Mr. George Lathen and Miss Grace Belt of Prospect N. C. was married by Mr. K. H. Sapp, Sunday, Oct. 6. M. S. Cotton Fire in Chester. Chester special in yesterday 's State : Fire broke out yes'erday morning at 2 o'clock on the cotton platform ol the Seaboard Air Line railway. The new hose wagon was brought promptly in to action and the ll unes were quickly suppressed. About 20 bales were injured ; insurance covers the ioss. V Disease. A motif/ Cotes?J I'rescri/tliotf. Mr. J. A. Oauthen, of Dry Creek, had another fine cow to die last week, making several that he has lost recently. Out ol a h^rd of some 35 or 40 head, Mr. Cuuthen has had quite a number to become sick, but all that he treated recovered. He doesn't know what was the matter with them, but, a> stated, every ailing animal that ^u* doc lored not well, lie pave them all the a un<* medicine, which is as follows: 1 lb. ol aa!?, 1 tea spoon full of tn pentme and i teaspoon ot sulphur. We publish the prescription for the benefit of others who may have sick cattle. Yon never have any trouble to get children to take Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. They like it because it tastes nearly like maple sugar. Kennedy's Laxative Cough ayiup in h safu, Hiire and prompt remedy for fioaghe, colds and it ghod tor every inemberof the family* .Sold by irawford | Bros Does your back ache? Do von feel tiredaud drowsy and lacking in ambition? If ho, there is something wrong with your kidne> s. DeWitt's Kidney aud Bladder Pills relievo backache, weak kidneys, and in! danimntion of the bhulder. A week's , tieatuieut 2o cents Sold by Crawford Bros. . . ? m i VI.I1 J KCK WHT. I | The Oiltl Felltnrn Vonventfon?Jihf S/teeehen ami li?u ifanqnet. The Odd Fellows' District Convention was held here last Saturday night, in the hall of the lo:cal Lodge. The attendance was good, a large number ot Lodges in other towns being represented. Mr. W. P. Caskey,ol Lancus ter, presided over the delibera tions of I he convention. Several excellent addresses were made Among the speakers were the Hon. Cole L. Blease, of Newber- 1 rv; Mr. .1. A. Summerset, of Columbia; Hon. (Jeo. W. Jones, Iiev. C. P. Car'er and Mr. W. C. Thomson. A nplendid banquet was served* during the evening, which was one of the most enjoyable features ol the occasion. The editor was honored wiih an invitation to bn present, but was pre vented from being on hand by ciicumatances ^evo ul his con <rol. Taxable. i'ropert 1/ in Lancaster Count y~.Taxes this Year and Last County Auditor 11 >rto:vh.?s finished making up his books for the present year and has turned them over to Treasurer MiU len, to collect the taxes as charged thereon. The Auditor has kindly furnished us, at our request, with a I. - e - 11 me iaiiowmg statement, showing 'lie assessed value of all taxable property, both real and personal, and the total taxes in the county for the fiscal ' yearB 190G and 1907, both years being given for the purpose of comparison: PI8CAL YKAR 1900. Total assessment. $3,328,060.00 Total tax on property, $66,939.20 Polla 3,5S5.00 Dogs' 9S6.00 * $71,510.20 FISCAL YKAR 1907. Assessment, $3,371,385.00 * Total tax on prop erty $62,475 59 Polls 3,346.00 Dogs ? S57.50 s 4*^ _ $66,679.09 Ii v.i 11 be Keen !hftt*ihe i?x.s t'> be paid this year are lhan those of last \ e?r by "$ 4,S31.11; and that the assessment of 1907 shows an increase oyr that ot 1906 of $43,325. I)eleyaten to U. #>. C, Conventions i The Lancaster Chapter ot the i Daughters of the Confederacy h ?s elected the following delegates to the national and slate conventions: National, which meets in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 13?Miss Annie Witherepoon and Mrs. M. E. Cauthen ; alternates?Mrs. M. R. McCardell and Mrs. W. P. Bennett. State convention, which meets this month in Chester?Mrs. A. R. Banks and Mrs. vV. E. Taylor; alternates?Mrs. T. C. flicks and Mrs. Harry Hines. 1 Do you take The News? t - ii?flfHtan rrifir ?? i