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; - \ The Lancaster News LEDGER 18bz REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 4. NO. 13. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., NOVEMBER 14, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY The Fever at Winthrop-? State Health Board Failed to Locate Cause. Rock Hill special in Woduesday's Charlotte Observer: Dr. J. P. Kinard, acting president of Winthrop College, has given out the following report of the fever condition at Winthrop, authoriz d by the gentlemen mentioned in the statement: "Alter a minute and thorough investigation by the State health officer, assisted by the college physicians and the local health officers, to locate the seat of in feet ion of the typhoid cases at the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College nothing conclusively has been found pointing to auy specific source. The health officer reported the findings to the chairman of the State board ol health, who called a meeting of the board ol trustees on November i)th at Wintlirop College lor the purpose ol studying the situation and advising the authorities what policy to pursue under existing conditions. The board, accompanied by Dr. J. R. Miller, a representative of the local board; the college physicians, Dr. Boyd and Dr. Crawford; Dr. J. W. Babcock, of the State Hospital for the Insane, and the State health officer, made a sanitary survey ol the water supply, a thorough investigation ot the dairy, college buildings and grounds. After this investigation the board in session with the gentlemen mentioned discussed the phases of the situation and made the follnuri tiff of ufamanf "After a study and discussion ot the evidence collected from the investigation made this body does not feel that the situation is alarming. While no specific source of infection can be definitely decided upon, it is the opinion of this body that since the inauguration ot the precautionary measures which are now being rigidly enforced the epidemic will die out as soon as the period of incubation has passed. There are eight cases of pronounced typhoid and eight sus pectfcd cases. Two suspected cases dismissed." How Electors Vote for President. New York Times: Electoral college, we have all fallen in the habit of saying, but each State has its own college. The colleges never have a joint meeting. The whole body of electors never comes together. Hy the provisions of the constitution the electors of several States meet at the Stale capitals on a specified (h?y and vote byjsupposedly secret ballot tor candidates for president, ot the United Sta'es and vice president, only one of whom may be a citizen of the same State as the electors. A list is made of the votes cast and this, niter it has been signed by every elector and duly certified, is sealed in an envelooe and sent, to the r^rea i * *" r ident of tho United States senate. It is one of the constitutional duties of this officer to open these envelopes, on a specified day, in the presence of the senate and house ot representatives in joint session. The electoral votes are then connted. If there is no choice, the house of representativcs elects a president. The law specifies the second Monday in Jauuaiy after their appointment as the (lay lot the meeting of the electoral colleges. Congress counts the electoral vote the 6ooond Wednesday in February. Special Train Coming to Lancaster Rocked Rock Hill Herald: Friday night as the special train bearing Dr. W. W. Fennell to the bedside of the two-year-old child of Mayor R. E. Wylie, of Lancaster, who was dangerously ill ot diphtheria, had passed Leslie station a short distance, some miscreant threw a rock through the car window. Bob Hope, I brother of Mr. W . II. Hope, ot | this city, was sitting near the window and was cut by the flying glass, the rock narrowly missing his head. The train was stopped, but no trace of the person could be found. No cause for the cowardly act can be found. unless it was simply to engage' in lawlessness. The perpetrator of such an act should be apprehended and severely dealt wit h. Story of a Country Boy and a Town Boy. Anderson Mail : Tweuty-five years ago or more a little country boy went to town, oue day. He drove a lean, raw-boned mule, hitched to a rickety old buggy. His clothes were coarse, of the kind that country bovs ol that day and time wore. As he wa* going along the street he met a town boy who was driving a fat horse hitched to a new and shiny buggy. The town boy broke into laughter. "What an ugly old mule!" he exclaimed, And what a disgraceful old buggy. And did anybody ever see such outlandish clothes as that country boy wears?" The town boy was thoughtless, and he meant no real harm, perhaps, but his words and his laughter hurt the country boy very much. In all his life nothing ever hurt him quite so much. That was a long time ago, and the town boy and the country hoy are men now. The country boy is now one of the leading business men of his section. He has many men in his employ. Not very long ago he employed the man who was a town boy and who had jeered at him that day, long ag>, to fill a minor position at a small salary. The man who has the minor position, and who, by the way, was very glad to get it, has no doubt forgotten all about laughing at the country boy, but his employer has not forgotten it, although he never speaks o! i?. Did this happen in Anderson? you ask Perhaps it did. We should lie verv nmeh anr. prised it it did not, for it has happened, with perhaps some slight change as to detail, >n every town. And it will happen again. It. is the wav of the world. Mysterious Attempt at Robbery. Greenville special in the New-* and Courier: About 11:30 o'clock tonight fire was discovered in the office of William Goldsmith, Jr., real estate agent in the Pal metto building on Main Street. As the firemen entered the room a man was found lying on the floor with his head wrapped, lie was hastily removed, and it was found that he was Mr. T. E. Mc Cullough, Mr. Goldsmith's bookkeener He auvn oj Vi*? an. tered the office Irom a closet about 11 o'clock, Home one threw a ran over hiH head and that was the last he knew until he came to in the police Hta'ion. The ran was chloroformed and it is very plain that the work was that of robbers. The flames were extinguished w?th little damage. OUR COLUMBIA LETTER. I State Fair and Election Aftermath---The Colored Fair This Week--Other Newsy Items. BS"u Claire, Columbia, Nov. 10.? After another '"recess" the scribe is once again .sending The News some tiling from the capital city. i'hp fair is over, thai is the "'white folks' " fair. It was a ffieat success but it rained Wednesday and was not very ffood weather Thursday and these are the biff days, so the financial end and the crowds hardly came up to expectations. We will not give a full description of the fair now but will ask where was Lancaster's exhibit? We heard of none except a boff by Mr Jaines M. Cautheii. Get ready for 19UU. A plan is now on foot to have county exhibits after this year. If this is done Lancaster will be represented. The usual attractions such as arena events, foot ball, races, midway, etc., etc , were there for the visitors to patronize, and the air ship was also there, but it had some disadvauthffes because of the weather, but it did mifrbty well when il could do anytninir at all. To Lancastrians, we invite you all down in ltO# to the Greater Fair Put this i u vitat ion on tile. The fair is over?and the election is over "Biff Bill" Tat'i rubbed it on "WliraoWn RilP> K??* * ..... uui rt <- ii v v* luiis lar survived the shock and we hope to see better things in 191*2 This week the negro State Fair is on. They are having big times. This is the first fair and was started by Kev. Richard Carroll, who is president. Columbia is still moving onward, and so is "Lancaster. Remember our motto. The news of the tragedy in which Kx-Senator K W. Carmack of'lennessee was killed is much deplored in Columbia. Mr. earmark was known ill Columbia, having addressed the graduating class of the 1'Diversity of South Carolina in 1907. Richland has a progressive County Teachers' Association. What about Lancaster? They held their second monthly meeting last Saturday. Among other features were excellent addresses by Dr. K. S. Jnjnes, on "The Alphabet", and bv Assistant. Secretary of the State William Ranks l'UTH . A uother year is nearly gone. Just about a month and a half now To us it lias been a short year: to children who are looking forward to blanta Claus and Christmas it ha^ possibly been long f'ome again, "Former Lancastrian." We enjoyed your last letter very much, as we do Mr. Twitty, "Rich Hillian,*'"Old Man in Dry Creek," etc., etc., who frequent The News' columus with interesting matter Columbia's Main street is badly torn up. It is being worked on Columbia had quite a large tire Monday night. Columbia's excellent fire department doesn't allow many, if any, tires to "get 'em" if they can only control the tires. The fever situation at Winihrop is distressing. We haven't heard from the action* of the hoard taken today, TuesdayNo matter which Kill will preside over the affairs of this grand old country of ours, we can push Colutn bia and push Lancaster. J.M. B. Thirty Years for Attempted j Assault. Spartanburg special in Thursday's Charlotte Observer: John Irby, colored, was convicted a' the special term of court here today, Special Judge (). L. Schumpert presiding, on a cha- ge ot attempting io t*u11 iYiiss Lillie Detnpsey on the morning ot October lOib, and was sentenced to serve 30 >ear^ at, hard 1h bor. There was no demonstration when the verdict was rend"red. 3 The Big Farmers' Convention in New Orelans?President Barrett's Speech. New Orleans, La.. Nov. 11.? That it is within ihe power of I ihe planters ot t lie South to bring I the price of cotton back to last year's levels, was the declaration of President C. S. Barrett when | lie formally ripened the convention ot ihe Farmers' Ktucaiional i and Cooperative Union here t ?day. "And wbeu we succeed hi restoring the price of cotton to the figures that ruled last year, we will oe richer by $150,000,* ObO," said Mr. Barrett, amid the app au-e of a thousand or more j delegates gathered in New | urieans co isoum. He said that meddlesome newspapers and busybodies had sought to connect the farmers' union with the night-riders It was illogical and unjust to accuse members of the union wiih the depredations of the nightriders. He said ihe union was in existence to gain its euds, but did not need and will not invoke lawless methods. The unioa had no sympathy with 'ie night riders and would taive the initiative to rid the country of them, lie said that during tins convention there lfcould come into the counsels of the union for the tiret time, business men and representatives of the South's commercial interests and all would be welcomed, the union viewing their willingness to co-operate in this campaign lor better priced cotton as evidence of good faith. It is expected that by the opening ot to-morrow morning's session there will be present at least 1,500 delegates. Fearful Railroad Accident in in Louisiana New Orleans, Nov. 11.?It was a heavy price in human flesh and blood that paid for the ; i 1 1 cuuid in itmruiia employes wuen ft Greit Northern express crashed into the rear of a New Orleans & Northwestern local passenger train shortly before 9 o'clock this morning at Little Woods, ?? pm ill station on Lake Pont chartr&in, twelve miles north of ti)ie city. Eleven dead and many more injured, some of them fatal Iv is Urn record ol the wreck, whi 'h was attended by unusually cruesome scenes in the fogbound piwam[?8 To add to the horror of the sit nation, the wreck c?ut-M)i lire an<l only the heroic, work ?>t the pissengers prevented the cremation of tho*e pinned down in the debri*. In Loving Memory of Little "J. F." (in Oct. 27th. I'.lns. the death angel enteied the home of Mr. and Mrs J Foster VVeaner, of the Heath Springeection, and claimed as its prey Little .1. F., their only and beloved little aon arid the treasure of their hearts. He was only sick one week and which wan severe suffering for t lie little one, but it bore it with ease. All the kindness and fond cares of its dear mother and father, the aid of phvsiciun and warm friends could not save the little one. God had cad. d it to a better home above where there is no sickness, no pain or death, hut all is love. God sent the precious little bud down here to show how sweet it would bloom in Paradise It was too rich in promise to bloom on earth below. They had a little treasure one, He was their joy and pride, They loved him, oh perhaps too well. For soon he slept and died. All is dark wiihin their dwelling. Lonely are their hearts today. For the one they luvt d so dearly Has forever passed away, and now bereaved parents, j oil liaye the pleasure of being the happy paients ?>f three little sa?n s ow on high and one precious darling on earth blooming lor h better home above. Aunt Florence. Man Wanted in Chesterfield on Murder Charge Located in Texas (yoluinhiaspf'i' rtl in rnursday's (Jlnrlohe ObsHiyr: R. ParKer Modie. wante I in Chesterfield f-?r the murder -?f another win e man t\ven!v years a^o. has been located and arretted in Texas and will be brought back hern lor trial. Governor Ansel to day wired tbe Texas Governor to hold Moore f"r rooniaitifsn an i got a reply that this was being done. Sheriff Douglass, of Cnestertield, in whose lather's term us sheriff Moore t wice broke jail, will go after Moore. Jim Tillman Says He's Not Dying. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 11.?For mer Lieutenant Governor Jamo* H. Til Imam, of South Carolina, registered at a local hotel her? this morning and is walking about the city. Lie says that while his health is bad, the report that he is in a dying condition is erroneous, no mr as 1m knows. One ot Lancaster County's Model Farmers Kershaw Era: Mr. VV. C. Adams, who lives near Kershaw, has just gathered his cabbage I crop. The largest head, he said, weighs about lifteen pounds. By the wav, he abo has a copy ot a New York paper published the next morning after Lincoln's assassination Last week Mr. Adams had to go out, with a wagon to haul in twin calyes, which one ot his cows had given birth to. We must not omit to mention that Mr. Adams liven at home and boards at the same place, lie does not have to gather his corn and meat from Western store houses as many farmers have to Jo who th;ok that it pays best to raise all cufton and buy everything else j need out of what you get tor cotton. Preacher Wants Patterson's Seat in Congress. Columbia,Nov. 11.?State anil federal election commissions and managers of Aiken countv, in the second congressional district, met yesterday to t?bulate the re'urns of last Tuesday's election. l'he total number of votes east for congressman vera 1,971 of which Patterson, the democratic incumbent, received 1,951, while Key. Isaac Movers, his ! republican opponent received 20. All of Meyers' votes were thrown out as illegal to size and printing. Counsel tor Movers pro'este t I against Patterson's vote bcing counted, claiming that a sufficient number of republican votes to change the result were rejected Sensational Shooting in Atlanta. Atlanta, CJa., 12.? Flunking j that Ida Hailey had alienated the affection ot her husband, Mrs. Delia Dixon, ot 50 Milliard strep'. I Tuesday, fired at her in an e<lort to kill her. She was wuhin ten feet of her intended victim when he sho' wa^ fired, a i I but for t tin f?r?l (lm? vv ? . - - - v?-c?v ?v . 1 UUlIl iS l)ix?n, hmband ot lh?? ladv \vl?o did the fiiiiur, suddenly jerked Ida Bailey aeide, whe would have been killed. A it w,v, the bullet grazed t'u ri-'jt side of her jlace.