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VOL. 4. NO. 22. SEMI-WEEKL The Seminole Insurance Mat- York ?Cfnol/Vinl/lArc Mrjnr) Ar 1^1 VJlUVIVilVAUVl O AfAVWt W?.v* Authorize an Investiga- ^ tion. ^1 Colunit'0 fecial in the Char- 'w0 lesion Su News: A meet 1 ^ ing of stc v .ders of the Semi- i ,o1 nole Securities Company wasj? er held here today, lasting several *s honrs, at the conclusion of which ot*ier the following sfatement was giv ' en out lor publication: Dick' tkIn yiew of the various rumors anot^ ? . and published statements in re- ,)U^' * gard to the deal made by the Sonfchern Securities Company au(* 1 with the Southern Life Iusur- Were ance Company, a meeting of the bush" stockholders, representing a large amount af stock, aud their at- w 4?. n?,r. .? A- rt t t l\rt nf M I* ftl l?UI UCJ 1 LIO\/ ab two uii&v<u u& & ( J. Y. Garlington, who was ex. me(^' arained as to the financial coudi t?h?ut tion of the company, and the ^ie sale and the transfer of the stock ratu'f of the Southern Life Insurance Company to the Seminole Secur- Neg ities Company. Mr. W. A. / Clark, one of the trustees, was also examined. 'Ihe examina- . Au 11 tion was exhaustive, and as a result thereof a committee, con- . berci sisting of the trustees, Messrs. tu^e] Clark, Jones aud Bryan, (who at 11 have withdrawn their resigns- 1U . . | , L lt/l'H tions as trustees) together with ^ a committee of the stockholders, , ot wl Dr. E. J. Ktheridge, ot Leesville; . Huger Sinkler, of Charleston, ^ assot and K. T. Caston, of Cheraw, ' . ' prev were appointed to examine into ^ COUg the sale and the condition of resei the company aud present their ^ report at a called meeting of the jjnit stockholders fixed for December <jj8Cl 29, in Columbia. The committee ' , . , , e?or was authorized to employ an ex * J sumi pert accountant to examine the books of the company and to get | all available data possible in or- Por W, der ito put the stockholders in Li '?a MAaaauoinn nl flick I upta i, 1U1I jJUoocngiv/u V7i uuv K?vvw> XVI Dow Plenty Room Now to ' Throw port Off On Rock Hill. the (Prom tho Ko< k Hill Record.) Hut The progressive editor of The aa , origi Lancaster News, brother Con- ! nore, is to be congratulated upon perf the marked evidence Of improve- wou ment noted iu the Saturday's is relal sue oi that paper, being enlarged Mrs. by an addition ot a column to and ?A<'h pas?, he has even put a or T new head on his paper. This T1 enlargement, however, we hope does not mean that he wants ^ more room to "throw off'' on (*au' r Rock Hill. The paper looks tine COUf now?almost as good as The I Record of?Rock Hill# O ' Evacuation of Cuba. coui Washington, Dec. 12.?At the 'e8? war department today the tirst Chri details regarding the withdrawal of m from Cuba of the American army estii of pacification, which has been ; the on duty there since the fall of |<}ve 1006, were made known. The HnCM movement of troops will begin , wjtJ] on January 1 and will be com- . pleted by April 15. K 8ion arrr Night-Riders' Trial Begun. expj Union City, Tenn , Dec. 14.? ren. With both the prosecution and ed il the defense announcing ready the i for trial, the latter, however, tree under protest, the concluding put K chapter in the prosecution on a and R* charge of murder of the night mow men held most responsible for ings the raids of the night-rider band sitti P of the Keel Foot lake region was ilv \ began this afternoon. . on t > Y. LANCASTE : County Negro Shot by Aged Woman Kn lother Because, it is Said, Down and Presui e Wouldn't Buy More Robbed, quor. Spartanburg spec al in t ck Mill Record: A negro lurobia St ite: Mi*1 Sdlie ' e name >1 John Blake was better known as "Auu1 S at Ogden yesterday by an- an aired ami :.?>d negro named Sam Dickey, woman, living alone on s reported that Blake and an farm ot 12 acres, 'hree negro named Richardson southwest ot Oampobelh )ought some whiskey from struck in 'he head with i 9v, and that Dickey had Friday night and lett for d ler jug and wanted them to some party, who is suppi more. They refused and have robbed her of what 3y went and got. his gun. she had in the house, as Blake and Richardson Today a gramldaugli returning home Dickey am- "Aunt S illie" came to s 3d them and tilled Blake She found the hou*e clo bird shot trotn his head to and apparent/ no one at aist. Dr Stevens was call- On entering she found her id went down and rendered mother lying ou the bee cal attention. Blake is not unconscious conlition, ?ht to be seriously hurt, as io? in her own blood, shot were small. Dickey terrible gash in her head. * his pucanp was summoned and the < ? man came to herself suffi x-y xxr to tell how it happened xoes to Wage War ,, , H . . , . call the name of a win \gainst Consumption. . , ? who came to her house iskegee, Ala., Dec. 1*2.? night. She said that si iterestiug mature ol the tight $25 in greenbacks and : is being waged agaiusl tu- silver. ilosis will be the negro anti- m m rculoBis congress to be held Marrj of a Portner iskegee, December 14th to T . , .Lancastrian in the , under I he joint auspices iskegee Industrial institute lowers. Iiioh Booker T. Washington Editor 1 lie News : resident, and the national A marriage that will b nation for the study and ferest f? many ot your eution ot tuberculosis. Tiie Was solemnized here las ress will be attended by rep- Dec. Idth, the con1 itaiive negro nieu and wo- Par*ies being Mr. Oscar L from all sections of the man and Miss Maftie VI. ed States. The object is to daughter of Mr. and Mi isb means for checking the 1 er,T 01 Oxford, Hi mous mortality trora con- impressive ceremony w ption among the negro race. f?rm0d in the presence c intimate friends, by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Kingsle traits ot Grandparents ot stewman is ? l.,nca*ter ate Mrs. Leroy Springs. bov, but now a pennant )ck Hill Record: Miss Mattie prominent resident of hit d has just completed copies of ed home. The bride is raits of Mr. and Mrs. White, Sumter county's most grandparents of Mrs. D. P. aild charming young ladi chison, Miss Cordelia I Infer j0ju their host of friends Mrs. Josephine Durant. The , them a , h ? inals were painted bv Carl .. . . , . ...... . . * perous lite ot connubial t vn in 1855, and the copies are ectreproductions. Miss Dowd iere ,h 'ere ^e'' ,WO Id be glad to have any of the ter coun,v voua~ bacllel Elves and friends of Mr. and Madam Rumor sa1. - e White call at her resilience there'll be only one inspect the portraits Monday Ignori uesday at Charlotte. Oxford, Fla., Dec. Tl'l le work has been done for - mm Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, Lad Killed by Old P ., whose wife was a grand- # . shter of this distinguished Wilson,N.C.,special in day's Charlotte Observer ? terday afternoon, whilo . _ with a loaded pistol,Henr; rigin of Christmas Tree. ,, 10 ,, 13 Conner, 12 year-? old, son he News and Courier: Many resentative-elect George V itriea hate their popular ner and grandson ot A nds as to the origin of the Justice fl. (1. Conner, acc stmas tree, which, although \y 9j,ot himself in the a 0 historic value, are inter- with fatal resuhs. ig. One of the talon is to Young Conner and hi effect that one Christmas were playing Indian at h , traveling alone over the with an old pistol and at v covered country, the sky the trigger was pulled, I .f i;4. passing clear through his 1 its thousands of glittering 1 j, made such a deep impres- ' ^ on Martin Luther that after Georgia Sheriff Kills ying at home he tried to IP St* am it to his wife and child Waycross, <?a , l>ec Suddenly an idea suggest- Fleming Smith, a druggi teell to lum. Ilo *vani into shot and killed a' Jest garden, cut off a little fir to-night by Sherill Lye , dragged it into the nursery, son. The officer* snrren< some candles on its branches the coroner and wifl he lighted them One of the to Waycross Sunday on t popular of German engrav- Qf threatening cofditior represents Martin Luther 8up. ng in the bosom of his fam- ? ?? ? -"-V ,ith a lighted Ohriatmaa trea * he table before him. I Ur the "other fellow."/ i _ R, S. C., DECEMBER 16, 1908. ocked Cotton Left at Gin by Farm- Child Tiably ers Burned. Luxin^ on, N. U., special iii Atlai he Co- Oliarlolte Observer: Fire fhia While Oreen, afternoon broke out in a pile of and ^is allio," eotlon on a vac * tit lot adjoining ida ave white the gin of J. W. Karnhart, nine 14-inon i small bales having been damaged be- the in fa miles fore it was extinguished. There Mrs. \ a, was were something over sixty bales against in axe in I lie pile. mother eai bv The lire occurred between 1 and wa >sed to and 2 o'clock and it is supposed died o money to have started trotn the careless o'clock tossing ot a cigar or cigarette Litfcb ter of stub among the bales. It was the tim ee her. cotton that had been left at the seyen-y sed up gin by farmers who did not want and he home, to sell at the present low prices, while grand- and there wai no insurance ou across 1 in an >t. One ot the worst damaged bor. 1 welter- bales belonged to a poor farmer aware with a who lives a short distance from until t] Help Lexington, and it was the only work, aid wo- cotton he raised. Whe ciently against and to Crazy Man Shoots up Jersey |clot^es te man Town. to lier Friday , t0 put lie hud hdKewa,er- N" l)ec- 'l" withe, Saying that he was "John jlhe , r~ ' 111 Baptist, come to save the world," auj gf an aged insane man held tills j head t? town in terror for nearly an hour Y^oung afternoon. He rushed down "par Land main streets waving arevol- ; ver and shouting:, held up hall a dozen citizens, robbed the tills Rut e of in- of three business establishments. Mis* 1' readers stole a team of horses and ex daughl * even changed many shots with a ^ Intruding hastily lormed posse. His wild to be ?. . Stew- career was checked wheu lie was ^nK ? 1'erry, bowled over bv shots fired by wt)e^ 1 8. Juo. members ot the posse alter a hawk i. The chase ot more than a half a mile. her he as per- After Ids capture the man ran in ?f a few said his name is Arthur S. Pome bride's roy and that he came from Ne- return y. Mr. braska 0 county - ? h? mt and Garrison Goes to Pen. roee 11 i adopt- ftock Hill special in Columbia "eco,u i one of g(a|e . it wa8 learned here to- .I"!?1? popular ^av Upon nood authority that. ,J. es. We Henry Garrison, of Gray Court, ? in wish- Laure,is county, who was at the nd pros recout term of court in Laurens diss. convicted ot manslaughter with Lancas recommendation to the mercy of Wil ors, and cour^ a?d later sentenced to ^ec" ^ re long two vear^ m the penitentiary, er^'4lH * L- a moral has ?(>ne to < olumbia and surcoast nnus. rendered to the prison authori- bo l, 190S. t-0S Ior (iie purpose of serving ture(j his sentence. on istol. - - ? . . Alix y yester- Man and Wife Mail Carriers Uotwi ; Yes- Tittsboro, N. C., Record: Mr. the V playing George H. Beavers, of Matth^wB made . , ... . yvfroves lownatiip. i" 'ne man carrier ior ot liep- the star route between Siler City hostili /. Con and I'ittaboro, and his wile is the fiteam saociate mail carrier on the rural free deidental livery route No. 3 from Siler ^ bdomeu City. We wonder if there is for{K ( another ?uch instance in the h cousin United States of a man and his as|,ort lis home wife both be Hi 2 mail carriers? marin imehow Sunday is the only day they the ball spend at home. ,. i * 1 Alix i i body. - ? * - - ... . ^ with I Kid Robs Store -j,he Drug- Spartanburg special in Char- a^con lotte Observer : Minus Patter- Hfr^iATt 12.? son, an S-y< ar-old white boy, three a ... n Ia^/ua.1 4*% ?n?1 rv n I U <> /iU tKoUO LHl, WHS was i^ugo'i in j?n uii uic viidr^o 1 ?? in. <ia. of burglary- entering the store ^trrttl IH H! ?ns hip! ot the Knoree Manufacturing war c lered to Company on the night ot Decern- might brought her 8th. The youth made conaccount feasion.it i- said, when taken i r ii'Uti is at Je- before a magistrate for investi- nyroai gation. President Coffin does ; not want the bov sent to the rhf> \*,?vs 1 bird I peniteutiary, but to the refor- i Fonrtb U . I '2't y?Dl matory. laofab wl , 1 PRICE "D i ri tu A o : JLJUIUCU IU JL-/CcU.l 1 III /"* OCIl Atlanta. tanb uta .Journal, l.)ec. 12: T>ou playing \v:tli her brother Spar 'or a their home oo Klor- day's (J nuo.in Edgewood, little has bet thv-oUl Eunice Williams, tanbur? ml daughtt r ol Mr. and since la Villiam S. Williams, fell county the open grate in hor ' cide, or 's bed room oil Thursday stabbin ,s so badly burned that she prove t t her injuries about 4 in Lai] in the atterno n. the Sp b Eunice was playing at b^en or ie of the accident with her (ieor ear-old brother, Herman, man, v r sister, Agnes, aged tive, Green j Mrs. Williams had gone at her the street to visit a neigh- Qi the ( Mrs. Williams whr not and th< i Un .,?. u l ? ui i no ' en i Uic autivjcui. M r r oS? <*I lie lire hud done its deadly by Con and lo< n Eunice accidentally lell Mintz the flaming grate and her admitfi i caught fire. Herman came on bjs rescue and tried valiantly home, out the flames that ran con fedt ruel swiftness through the serious lothing of the little child peeled >on enveloped her from Satu > foot. way to ?? - Dorroli Heel Girl Who Can Leake, Shoot Straight. mi lea t herfordton, N O., Sun : ^een ^ hnma Elliott, the popular 80rae ' ierof Mr. J. W Elliott, ofH I roh r; No. 3. has proven herself ^jea'<e \t ( juite an artist in the handf firearms. One day this a die discovered a chicken sesera sitting on the fence near u"ier y ime, and she immediately e?'caPe to the house and secured a e(^ 011 * lith & Wesson pistol, and ling tired at the hawk sit- 80me e n the fence. She missed ^ n wever, and as the hawk f-?re w md sailed away she fired a kparki i i i not fh. t Lime ana as a resuir sne ht down the hawk, having enh 10 it on tlie wing with a pie- not Mrs m ladv o h Seized Venezuelan a I,6J5r c. . Satun Ship. tier n lemstad, Island of Curacao, . 3.?The Dutch cruiser Geld eon i * .u- . . was oi 1 came into this port this ng towing the Venezuelan guard ship, the Dutch crew ard. The Uelderland cap- Spa the Ahx oil' Puerto Cabello Charh iturday. At that time the Meekf van lying close inshore, and First < thstanding the threat which princi enezuelan government had Schoo. to tire upon any of the charg? i warships committing a der fa e act, the Oelderland was s\ ed at full speed towards the l'i 1 _ L_ 1 * rmm L ^ ^ larusnip ana sent an oiiicer wm? ? uard in a launch to seize from 1 No shots came from the on Prc )ii land. other crew of the Alix was put ~ i and the Dutch officer and arn es remained on board, the Spa rland finally taking the Thorn n tow ami steaming away who ii ler prize. an int seizure of the Alix was in of his lance with the plans of the over tl nd government when in- > , . i . .. ed to ions were issued to the Dutch warships now in ,, . Coughs waters to make a demon ing cou on off the coast of Venezue irotu i id to capture any ship of ir guard vessels that they aVi 11 * it" : find. roforoi, , , M , rho t< heating ties, the new Candy Cold Cure; Hhoop': ?, are hhk! l?y druggists to have torn cities, specific advantages over all other calm tl: en for u cold. First -They contain soothe, nine, nothing harsh or sickening, chial : 1 l'hey give almost instant relief, safety'i pleusant to the tasto, like candy, fchoop' i A large box 48 Preventics at given t is. Also tine for feverish children, once y< y Fnnderburk Pharmacy. w burk I' v X 1 ' ' ' 2L. 1 5 CENTS PER COPY Cb U1 V^IUXICJ. Ill OJJcll urg and L.aurens nties. bnnburg special in yegterharlotte Observer: There ?ri much crime in Spar; and adjoining counties .st Friday night. In this there h?6 been one hoini le murderous assault, and g, both of which may atal, two robberies; while trens county, just across artanburg line, there has le homicide. ge Mintz, a young white /ho knocked Mrs. Sallie in the head with an axe home in the upper section jounty, robbed her of $77 in made his escape, was d in Piedmont yesterday lutahlo 14 a v AQ nf v.;0 ,-itv 1,?J V??/I V ? VO w a VUAO V??J lg? J in jail thin morning; > . m-.de partial confession, J \ ing that the money he h ?d / 1 person came from Green's though he said he had a irate. M rs. Green is in a / & 'condition and is not exto live- nJI rday night, while on their a colored frolic, Charlie i shot and killed Jess near Switzer, seven rom this place. Both had rinking and tell out over nyial matter, when Dor- . *| used his gun and shot through the breast. Jowpens yesterday mornwhite man was stabbed 1 times in the breast by an \ vhite man, who made >$5?^ A Both men wereemployJaro)ina,Cliuchtield<& Ohio \ They disagreed about ;rade work. egro by the name ot Kilas shot and killed by Griff s on Walter Gray's place r lrom Woodruff, in Laur uiity- x iin particulars are 10WU. . Thomas, an aged white f this city, was held up by <> man on Spring street lay night, and robbed of loney. Mrs. Thomas had (hopping in the city and 1 her way home. Minister Arrested. rtanburg special in the itte Observer: Kev. S. T. ?, pastor of Meeks' Temple Congregational church and pal of Hamburg High I, was arrested today on the ? of obtaining money unIse pretenses. The warrant vorn out by W. G. Lee, of edniont Grocery Company, lieges Meeks Recured $40 nm and gave a mortgage perty on which there were papers. ier's Singular Death. rtanbiirg Journal: Luther paon, a young white farmer, ves near lnman, while in oxicated condition, fell out buggy and hi* neck hung fie dashboard and he etrangldeath. that are tight, or diNtreHning tickle gits, get quick and certain help h. Shoop'H Cough itemed jr. On count druggists everywhere arg Dr. Shoop's Cough Kemetly. is entirely tree front Opinio, Chloor any other stupefying druginter leaven of a harm lose lung. mennUinnni: uh*nK m?.. ? n? r Cough Remedy it* curative propThotte leaves have the power to le moHt distressing Coo^'h, and to and heal the inont sensitive brooineiuhrane. Mothers should, lor * sake alone, always deseand Dr. a. It can wilh perfect freedom he ? even the youngest tabes. Test it luisolf, and see' bold by Fonder- > harniacy. W 4 ?