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; 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
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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.
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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.
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?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.
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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.
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| 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
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$66,679.09
Ii v.i 11 be Keen !hftt*ihe i?x.s
t'> be paid this year are lhan
those of last \ e?r by "$ 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.
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