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. . 'W , The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 3. NO. 29. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., JANUARY 15. 1908 PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Rock Hill Lad, Son of a Former Lancastrian, Had Narrow Escape from Death. Rock Hill special in Mouday's News and Courier: Ro^s, the little seven-year-old son of Mr. J. C. Lindsay, of this city, had a very narrow escape from instant death Saturday afternoon. Ross and his older brother, Howard, were playiug soldier in the house during the rain and Howard picked up a shotgun, aimed it at Ross's heart and pul led the trigger. The stiffness ol the trigger saved the little fel low's life, for it caused Howard to pull the gun off sight and the load of shot tore a hole in the wall instead of through Ross's head. Mr. Lindsay had put a cartridge in the gun a night or twc ** before on hearing some disturbance in the yard. As a usual thing the gun was empty and Howard never thought of it being otherwise. One ot the shot struck the boy iu the neck, but did little injury. Shot at Husband and Killed Wife, Natchez, Miss., Jan. 12.?A young man who gave his namt as Hare has surrendered to tlx Vidalia, La., authorities and h being held, charged with tin killing of Mrs. H. V. Harris ~e .. i ??_ _i.. who ui a icvoo uuubiuuiur win was ehot and killed while walk ing with her husbaud near Bou gere, La., Thursday. So fur as can be ascertained the shooting resulted from a dis pute betweeu Harris and Han over 90 cents for work. As tin couple approached the landing * Hare opened fire on Harris bu the bullet missed its mark an< struck the woman, causing al most instant death. Harris wa struck by a second bu'let in hit right hand. Hare formerly resided ii Shreveport, La. "W" reck in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 12?1 Bristol, Tenn , dispatch says: "Vesiibuled train No.42, whicl left Chattanooga yesterday after noon bound for Washington am whiclnwas running five hours latt was wrecked iu a head-on col lision with a freight train nea Crockett station on the Norfol & Western, 64 miles east c here today. The passenger trai was running id miles an houi No one was killed and none c the pas engers was hurt. Children Trampled to Death Barnaley, England, Januar 11.?Sixteen children were tratr pled to death and forty otlieri several of whom cannot livt were injured in a mad rush fc better seats at an entertainmen given in the public hall hore thi afternoon. I Series of Important Resolu! tions Adopted by the Farmers' Union. -At the mass meeting of the Farmers' Educational and Co-oierative union held in Memphis, Tenn., a few days ago the following resolutions were adopted: ''That any man holding office in the Farmer' union, who desires to run for any political office, eith 42 1 -L >> u^vuuutjr, oiaieor uttiiuiiai, snail first resign his ofllce in the Farmers' union. That any mau now holding an office in the Farmers' union and at the same time holding a polit1 ical office, shall be asked tc i give up his political office or rei sign his office in the Farmers' union. "That we denounce and con deran lu<ure gambling in farm products. "That we believe in dealing 1 only in bona tide contracts. "That we ask the na'ional co:igress to enact such laws as will abolish and prohibit future . gambling in farm products." At the afternoon session a resolution providing for the establishment of two lactones, one e:ist and the other west of the I Mississippi river, tor the mamifucture ot cotton bagging, sacks and other wrapping material was endorsed. A committee composed of one > delegate Irom each State in the j cotton-growing sections will be instructed to canvass among the members of the union foj "funds 1 to push the work. It will be left to the discretion of the board ) of directors us to wbere the fac . tories will be located. The union went, on record to day an asking that the following legislation be enacted by congress : "The immediate abolition by - congress of the federal bureau 3 for distribution of seeds and the ? speedy enactment of laws subt ntantially excluding the present . alien influx by means ol^anin creased head tax, a money requirement, the illiteracy test s and other measures. i "That congress extend the parcels post, increasing the number l of pounds to be carried in the mails from four to 11 and also a reduction in postage from 1G cents to 12 cents per pound ; also the establishment of a parcels post system on tlio mail delivery i. routes. "The establishment of a postal n savings bank system." d A Marriage in Kershaw. S Kershaw special in the Char r lost,on Sunday News: Mr. Richk ard C. Bennett and Mies Ella '' Itnrtnn w?r? fiiiiotlw ? ? . - - J UiHIIIOV n Wednesday night at the Preaby* terian"manae, by the Rev. Jos. T, ^ Dendy. The bride is the eldest daughtei of Mr. Ransom Horton, of Kershaw. This marriage has been looked y forward to for some time, bul l" came as a snrprise at last, as th( parties gave no intimation that b is was to come off at any tim? ?r soon. it , _ 18 n ? J ?* ?J?Vf ywu iriirweu your HUU scription for 1908 ? i Death of Mrs. T. C. Hicks. She Succumbed to an Attack or Meningitis Monday Night. I This community was deeply shocked and grieved yesterday morning when the ead tact be icame known that Mrs. T. C. ; Hicks, one of Lancaster's most I estimable and greatly beloved ladies, had passed away. Her death occurred Monday night at 8.20 o'clock at the Ilicks home on Main street, alter a very brief illness. She was taken sick Sat urday afternoon, but her condition was not regarded as at all .serious, it being thought at the ;lime that. 6he was suffering from exhaustion, care aud worry incident to and re>ulting from nurgjing her very sick daughter, Kv| telle, who has been, and is still, desperately ill with pneumonia. ! Sunday however. Mrs. Hicks dej veloped symptoms of that much dreaded disease nc\ lingitis, which culminated ir her death as stated. The end came while surrounded by tier loved ones, husband, children, brothers and sisters. The sudden death of Mrs. Hicks is another reminder of the uucertainty of life and a striking exemplification of the mysterious dispensations of Providence. In the prime of her matured wo mahhood, happy in her domestic relations and in the enjoyment of perfect health, she had ever> promise of a long and useful lift before her. Mrs. Hicks was a lady of commanding and attractive personal ity, charming manners and lovable disposition. She possessed an exalted typo of christian char acter, and to know her was tc admire the many noble traits which were manifest in her dai ly walk and conversation. Sh( was fondly devoted to her husband and children and was evei solicitous for their welfare ani happiness. Naturally warm hearted and generous, she was indeed a friend to the sick, th< poor and the needy. Mrs. Hicks's maiden name wm Murgaret Elizabeth MacKorell was a native of Blacksiock, thii state, and was 42 years of age She was a daughter of Mr. J. C Mackoroll, now a resident o NVinnsboro. She was twice mir ried. Iler first husban w.-.s thi . late II. Y. Milting, to whom slu i was married Nov. 12, 1889, Mr I Milling being at the time sherd of Fairfield county. Mr. and Mrs . Milling moved to Lancaster ii 1895, the husband dying her< nome wine or ten vears a<rr? ? - In June, 1900, the subject of thi sketch was married to Capt. T C. Hicks, the well-known aiu t deservedly popular commercia ) traveler, who survives her.? ; Besides the broken hearted hu? 5 band, she leaves five childrec three daughters and one son b the first marriage, Misses Jessie . Francina and Eslelle Milling an ' Master Raymond Milling, and little son by the last marriage, \fbster T. O. Ilickn, Jr. Mrs. Hicks is also survived by tier aj:ed father, Mr. J. C. Mackorell, of Winnsboro, and the following * # brothers and sisters: Messrs. II. T orwl f e 11 -e i_ V u. i?uu u, u. uinvKureiif ui l ornville; Mr. J. B. Mackorell, of r Lancaster; Mrs. P. R. Barford, 1 of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Pet * Butler, of Yorkville. 8 The remains of Mrs. Hicks c were laid to rest in West Side k cemetery yesterday afternoon at s 3 o'clock, the funeral services be- 1 ing conducted by the Rev. Chal- * mors Eraser, pastor of the Pres- * byterlan church, of which she was a member, and Dr. J. H. 1 Boldridge, of the First Baptist ! church. The following n anted , gentlemen acted as pall-bearers: 6 Messrs. W. C. Thomson, W. T. | Gregory, J. T. Thomasson, W. P. 1 Bennett. W J Cunningham auu A. R. Banks. ( Lancaster's School Facilities Appreciated. York ville Enquirer: Master Jef- 1 fervs Parish of Yorkville left for Lancaster last Friday, his mother having sent him over to get the benefit of the school facilities of that place- Lie will live with hia brother, Mr. Berry Cauthi en. I i . ? . Removed to Rock Hill. i Kershaw special in the News ' aud Courier : Mrs. Anna Cauthen, relict of the late James T. 5 Cauthen, left here yesterday for Bock Hill, where she will make ' her home with her son. Mr. J. Claude Cauthen. Her daughter, " Mrs. Daisy Hasseltine, will foll low in a lew days. Two Killed from Ambush, j ? ^ Midden, La., Jan. 12.?Dennis Head ley and A'ec Thomas, r uegroes, while hauling logs near j AUentown, Bossier parish, yesT terday were Bhot and killed by persons concealed in the woods. ^ The assassins used both shotguns aud ritleH. Parish officers are ( working on several clues. 1 ? "Dry" Charlotte Damp? Abbeville Medium: Much has ' been publised ab>ut Charlotte Le - ing a "dry" town. It has been said ? that the law has been enforced. 5 There are no saloons in the city . but there a?e drug stores from 5 which whiskey can be bought on i. a physician's prescription. The a records show that since last July > 18,787 prescriptions for whiskey - i worn fiven out. The drnrr <?tnr#?n s> s get about $30,000 a year from . this source and the physicians i make about $18,000 a year for ,1 writing^prescriptions. The city - gets no revenue. \ The whiskey bought under i, prescriptions is not the full quauv tity consumed, for loads of all 5, kind3 of intoxicants are brought d i to the city by railways and by a wagons. News in Brief. I President Johnson, of Winhrop, has invited the Logislaure to vhit the college next Satirday. . . .The Huguenot cotton m.511 - / n ?! i - inn 01 weeuviue lias gone imo lie bauds of a receiver .. .O.K. larvin, of Mantling, has received i patent for a cotton picking mahine.. . . Hugh Ransom, col., of Stanley county, N. C., committed uicide by hanging himself with i grape vine. . . . Mr. William H. larrison was struck by a train md killed at Salisbury, N. O. . . . . W. E. Estes, a prominent ailroad man of Savannah, Ga., ,vas accidentally shot by his wife, vhile handing h'm a revolver 1o ihoot a supposed burglar in the louse.... John Treoten, sport ng editor of the Houston, Texas, Port, was accidentally killed Sunday in an auto race. . . . Between 30 and 75 persons were burned ;o dea h Monday night in an >pera house at Boyertown, Va. Acquitted of Murder, But Fined a Dollar for Carrying Concealed Weapon. Laurens special in Sunday's State: The jury in the case of the State against John C. Jerry, the young German farmer who was placed on trial here yesterday charged with the murder of his brother, to-day returned a verdict of not guilty as to murder, but guilty of carrying con cealed weapons. After taking an oath in open court that he, John C. Jerry, would never again carry on his person a concealed weapon for any purpose, a fi.ie of $1 was imposed and Jerry was released. The iucideut has been freely commented u^on as a very unusual proceeding. Jerry's plea on the murder charge was self defense, the claim being made that Frank Jerry, the deceased, was making at the defendant with a hoe when the fatal blow was struck. Conviction of Labor Solicitor Chester Lantern: One Charles Williams, colored, has been given a sentence of $20 or 40 davs for aelicitiny labor inOolnmbia for Catawba Falls. lie deuied the whole charge, saying that he had never been to Catawba Falls, but witnesses testified that he had offered them inducements to take joba there. Four Burned to Death. New York. Jan. 11.?Four ! firemen went to their deaths tonight when they responded to a 'fire that ruined the Parker build* inp, a 12-story business structure occupying the block between i /11* ?%th t? f li o nil - ur*?i ' *?vn 11 a11** in streets on Fourth avenue. The monetary Iosb was estimated tonight at $1,500,000. *