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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW JS7 <$ENTERPRISE 189 J VOL. I\J. 6 SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., OCTOBER 26. 1907 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Happenings in Georgia. Fatal Gin Accidents?Atlanta's Big Fair-Much Expected from Prohibition? Lancaster'sChampion Cotton Pickers?Other Matters of Interest. Ed. Lancaster News : A f ew days ago, t\v<> very sad deaths occurred almost within the same | hour, on the same day near this city. In one instance. Mr. Turner, who was working with a public gin, was caught in the machinery .4 i.:_ i 3 i - i i t i 2iii<i ins uuuy so noino y mangieu thai he lived only about an hour. Almost at the same time, Mr. T H. Jones, who was working at a gin on-the other side of to*u, was caught in about the same maimer and killed instan'ly. As the ginning s^a-n n advances, we always hear of these accident*, and we hf pe some remedy will come in vogue, as ir. seems that someth'tm m iretlian the precaution to be careful is necessary to check these occurrences. Atlanta is in the midst of her big fair and they are having ? grand time. Thousands of people are nocking to this coming metropolis, "the New York of the South," and taking in the many sights which arc to be seen in Atlanta and those that are special features of the big fair. As we write this, they are making big preparations lor tlie coming ot W. J. Bryan, the next probable Democratic candidate for president. They will give him an ovation that will fill him with pride and he will go away feeling good over the great demonstration, notwithstanding the fact that he has been so much admired and received so much applause Irom one end ol the Unit ed States to the other. The salo ?n men are making arrangements to leave the city first of next year, a great many ot them, as no other business looks as good to them as the whiskey business. Some of them will remain here and go into some other busmen, aw I hoy have other interesis h>'re anil prefer not to leay. It doos seem "killiu" to s<'ino of them to have to go out of 'he liquor business for Mrcon is such a good location for s doons. They all seem to d< a thriving business and when the eighty or more saloons clo83 their doors on the coming in ot the new vo r many a family in Macon will hegin to get better food and mort of it, better clothing and more ol it,and ioslea 1 of the saloon men in the city being 90 thrifty we expect to bee the people whc have bupported them so lonf thrive some. Lancaster county has some in dustrious youngsters when il comes to picking cotton, there's no getting around that fact. Some of the farmers with whonr we have talked recently wouh be very much "overjoyed" i some of these trifling Oeorgit negro bucks and ''buckesses" ai Rev. Sum Jone9 called them, were imbued with the same kind of energy aa some o! theae young champions of the cotton " patch. In 6ome sections there ino complaint of the scarcity of labor. hut in other Rertintw there is a fearful luck of suffi cieiM; otton picker". It is certainly time for Mr. 1 jjno. W. Twitty of Valdostato give us a communication from < that part ot the world. We shall expect to hear froin him 1 through The News real soon and hope lie won't disappoint us. Dr. It. A. Truesdell, formerly of Kershaw bu< for the past, live years located at Wliitmire, is in the city and has about decided to locate in Macon as 30011 as lie can tind a suitable office. Mr. Clarence Hobbs, who used to be telegraph operator at Kershaw, is now musing nic heme here, having accepted a position w'th the M. D. ?St S Rv. Former Lancastrian. Macon, (ia. Old Lady Found Dead on Hearthstone. Mount Gilead, N. C., in Charlotte Observer: News of the death ol Miss Alary Aon liarper, an aged maiden lady whose home whs six miles east of this place, reached hero today, and it ithought by some that she was murdered. So lar no reliable information has been obtained. The report, however, is to the effect that a neighboring gentleman went to her home on business early Monday morning and, not finding her and seeing her door partly open, he went into the house. To his surprise he found the old lady lying in front of the firepl?ce, dead. On investigation indications of murder i 1 1 - > were iwuuii, wnereupon ine coroner whs no'ified. An inquest whs held today but the result has not been learned. The lady was a harmless person, living alone some little distance from her nearest neighbor, and was thought by some to possess m noy. 1 Death Results from Children Playing on R. R. Track. Lincolnton, N. U? special in yesterday's Char'o'te Observer: Bear!, the 12-year-old uangbi or ol Mr. Gray Bynum, who i live- one mile west of Iron Stai lion, whose injury by tbe ea-d, bound train on the Seaboard Air - Line was recorded in 1 he Obser vor today, died about 3 o'clock s this morning. It seems that the i c:?i'd was vying with a playma'e ' as to which one would stay on > the track the longer in tbe lace : of tbe on-coining train, and tarried too lonn on the tracK. In her at temp1 to recrohs the track t. alter her companion had lefr if i the little girl fell. Realizing her danger, she attempted to roll i from under the wheels of the 1 engine, which was almost upon I her, but the leit leg was caught i and crushed below the knee, and 3 the right elbow mangled. Rev. L. A. Phillips. 1 Another Account of the Death in Tennessee of a "Well-Known Former Citizen of Lancaster County. The following acc ?uiit of the 1 life and death of the Rev. Albert 1 Phillips, a former citizen of this county who died H bis adopted I home in Monroe coun'v, Tenn., the 25th oi last moi-th, as published in The N w oi 2:d i isi nut, is taken fr< ni d 'lVm e^ee piper: it is wit h s;! e r?> s iti 11 s* that we have b?en cdle<l to record the death or Rev. L A. Ph.Hips, of Raftor, Tenn. lie tell a>l> ep in his seventy-seventh year, and lelt even clnl htn to monru Ins ilea 111. The father f* 11 a*le'*p at the ?lar?N hours of midnight, and no one was present except his do t' *i e when his spirit took i'tfl'ght to its eternal heme?Heaven. His sudden dea'h was a sa<) blow to the wife, who was compelled to go at urdnight to the homo ot her son, a distance onehalf mile, to tell the sad news, l'he news of his death was a! o a shock to his many friends in the community. The deceased had worked hard all 'he day before his dea'h. After iuneral set vices w ere held, the mortal remains wore laid to rest in the Macadonin cemetery in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing kindred and triends. How true it is thai death loves a shining mark. The deceased was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and tor more than 20 years he had been an ordain ed minister and was a member of Ebenez *r church. lie was a loving and obedient father and his heart overtl iweo with tender affections towmd his beloved companion, sons and daughters, and every on* who knew Rev. L A Phillips held him in high esteem and respect ed him for his many good deeds Now, bereaved and sorrowing1 [son-tatid daugh'ers, '"it is well'' wil ll Blllll* lafll;!!* ll i o J > 4r> *" beyond tte reach ot temptations. Weep ?;ot for the father. I>ur rather for those of your loved ones and Iriend- aid children who are \et exposed to the snares and rim* us vices ot this evil world. V ur dead lather cannot come hack to you all, but, thank God, yon can go to him. D. M. Veal, P. M. The Wake Forest Hazing. Wake Forest special in the Observer: The recent trouble over the suspension of five men for thirty days, for making a f yp .V* rv* ?n /I ? nno unrl f < W'AI?b.M?? \*KMVU^ (Villi V/ 1 CI n Illl/ll many of the students, becoming wrought up, naked for admission to the I'niversiiy, has at last been settled and the students re-instated. Do you take The News ? More than One Model Farmer in Upper Part of County?Mr. E. S. Howie's Success. Mr. Editor : Please ahow mo space in your valuable paper lo ^tate that tliere is n ore than one scientific and progressive farmer io the upper par' of the nood old couniy ??i Laucas'er. 1 noticed in y? ur issue ol Oct the 19 the progress of Mr. T W. Secies', and I wish to state that there are more people than Mr. Sec re st. that can and do make two and three crops on the same piece of land in a year. My fnhermadea fine crop ot oats on his 2 acre bottom and then gathered ? nice lo! of pei'.s. Ho also cut and cured a nice lot of fine peayne ha\ off the same land. Also another instance ol good farming : Ho planted and worked a nice piece of cane, < ff of winch lie picked t he mos' rank part, and m ide sixty-three gallons ot got d m dasses, and then gathered a lot ot good green ieed. Now today he has a lot ot good < _ 1 J? U ~ -..4. 1 ! icru irtiuy in tut auu CUicu j for winter hay. It Mr. Poorest wants to see what (arming is all he has to do I is to net in his buggy and ride up to the lurm ol Mr. K. S. Ilowie, who will be glad to take him over a farm and dhow him what farming is. Well, I hope no one will think that 1 am in any way boasting o! Mr. E. S. Howie's farm, but I want people to know that he is not dead yet With much re shards to the Editor and al! the readers of The Lancaster News, 1 remain a farmer's son, H. Oceola, S. O Oct. 23, 1907. Murdered in Hotel. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 23.?Alston LL Berry, who retiistered j Irom Rome, Oa , was found mur jdered toniuht in a room at the ! Fairfax Hotel, ile had been dead several da.\s While there is no question in the mind ol the police th it Her ry was murdered theie is ahso lutely no clue to ihe perpetrator of the deed. One shot went in the back of the head, which was deemed sufficient to cause dea'h and in the opinion of physicians il r*r??i!d not Iiuvp l\oon ..oil in flieted. Mysterious Disappearance. Oherryville, N. O., special in The Ooserv r : Mr. E. T. Oonder, formerly a resident of this place, who went to Augusta, (la., during the telegraphers' strike tc taken position with the Postal Company, left that city on the 12th of October in response to t message saving that his wift here was sick. He has not ar. rived here yet and nothing what ever has been heard relative t< his whereabouts. Mr. Conder was a merrber o the Pythian ami Masonic orders of this place. I he Panic in New York. Crisis Safely Passed?Morgan Empties Millions into Stock Exchange and Thereby Restores Confidence. New York, Oci. 24.?As a result of today's developments in the fiinncia1 world there is every indication ih it <ho crisis in the banking and trust company situation lias been safely passed. The Trust Oorop my of Ameiioa all through the day's banking hours paid, out money to depositors as rapidly as possible and closed the day with aU demands having been met A v^ry tavorahle feature ot t lie situation r specting ihis company was that it was able to make its payments with very little assistance and another was that the company received over its counter in the morning hours in ordinary depovitp mote than $1,000,000. ny iar the most notable, even diamatin episode of ti e day was -I..* v? 9_.ii:. -c vl. oil sp ciiipbj taif; ui iimim ii*t ill ill Oilley into the stock exchange through a pool headed by J. P. Morgan and other financiers in order to avert a ruthless selling out of stocks held by brokers which was threatened because of their inability to obtain renewals of loans on which these stocks had been carried. mi * ' - ? * * ine eneci 01 tnis relief measure was instantaneous and the rate on call money dropped from 100 per cent to 10 per cent. Stocks advanced more rapioly than they had declined and it was only a lew minutes until Union l'acific, the market leader, was te'ling at 105. Other stocks ! were similarly affected and the ?rally was complete. The aggregate amount of money which had been contributed in order to weather the storm and restore confidence assumes truly colossal proportions. Roughly estimated it includes $25,000,000 which Secretary Cortelyou deposited in the Ne.v York banks, $25,000,000 which the Morgan r.rw.1 t.r. w * ' 'k .. (1 ~ ^ u- 111 HI liiu ilLI '1 , 'T i'*;' 000,000 which J hn D. R okofellor deposited with the Union Trust as a means of stemming the tide at f' e Tru-t CorapHuy of America and fi i??llv another $50,000,000 which it is understood Mr. Rockefeller sto d ready tn advance to meet any further stress of conditions?in i 11 considerably excess of $100,000 i 000. 11 ? I A Nevada Bank Fails. > Reno, Nev., Oct. 23.?The 1 State Bank & Trust Company, i with headquarters at Carson and ? branches at Gold field, Tonopah, * Manhattan and Blair, closed its - doors this morning. The State - bank examiner is in charge. The > difficulty was due to inabilty to realize on stocks placed as sef curity for a $400,000 loan, made J '.he Sullivan Trust Company last year.