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4M fini mi nm i ?mt PLANTER'S LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, . Augusta, Ga., VOL. 71. ?in 11 mi mi mn PATS INTEREST * 1 OS DEPOSITS* ACCOUNTS^ > ? SOLICITED L. C. HAYNE, . PBKSrD2NT. Chas. C. Howard, CASHIER. tME NATIONAL BANK-? i AUGUSTA, GA. L. C. HAYNE, President. FRANK G. FORD, Cashier. -? CAPITAL.$250,000 Surplus and Profits. 150,000 J7.?s?Su5? Vjetwed to liav? y.m open an account ' ?ni th Chi? Bani;. Customers mid eOiYMiaMHtMttl as- i sured of eTery courtesy and accommodation post 1 ble under conservative, modern Bankin; methods. 4-1 i 11 li ! 11111 ? 111 e 111111111? EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, *906. NO. 17. Wm. Schwelgert. Prest. A. S. Morris, Vice-Pr?st. Thos. S. Gray, Css^., ? Un ion Savings Bank, Augustus, Qa?? -with resources of over Eight (Hundred Thousand dollars and a Boardof Directors chosen from Ihe most successful business men in the community, invites you to become a depositor, prom ising you every courtesy. FOUR^PER CENT INTEREST paid on Savings accounts. Correspondence invited. F. H. BARRETT, J P. DOUGHTY, JR. W. K. KITCHEN. Special BARRETT & DOUGHTY, C OTT Om FACTOR'S. Liberal Advances Made on Prospective Crops and Consignments. I FERTILIZERS Jpff"Personal attention given all details. Correspondence solicited," 744 Revnold Street Augusta, Ga. Aetna ) " Phenii, j rire? Mutual Benefit, Life? Fidelity & Casualty Co)# Title Guaranty & Trust Co., American Live Stock Insurance Com ? pony, The Insurance JVgeiicv of If C. A. GRIFFIN &CO. Will protect you against loss by Fire, Death, Accidents. Sickness and Wind Storms. It will be a pleasure to serve you at all times and your business will be heartily appreciated. We have now on hand 75 head of choice Horses and Mules. Now is the time to make your purchaes. Our prices are as low as can be made, quality considered. B. L. JONES & SON. ?Atables in Rear ofCourt House. PATAPSCO MASTODON GEORGIA CHEMICAL* W?RKS AUGUSTA, GA. Everything in fertilizers, plant foods and agri cultural chemicals. Blood and Bone goods, Fish goods and Cotton Seed Meal Mixtures. These reliable fertilizers have been tried by the trade for over a third of a century, and their increas ing popularity attests their merit. Using them is therefore no experiment. . Factories Augusta, Ga., Pon Pon, S. C. Sold exclusively at Edgefield by the EDGEFIELD MERCANTILE COMPANY. $3FCall on them for further information. 1,219 Lives Snuffed Out By a Terriffic Explosion ALL FRANCE IN DEEP MOURNING Terrible Explosion in Great Coal Pits Near' Belgian Frontier Floods the Shafts and Gallieries With Poison ous Vapors, While it Also Disables the Cages and Ladders, Making Only Limited Rescue Work Possible -Gas Still Pouring Into One Pit. . Paris, By Cable.-A dispatch from Lens timed 1:20 o 'clock Sunday morn ing, says that the number of entomb ed men is now given as 1,219 and that the crowd around the pits totals 25,000. A mining catastrophe of incalelable horror and magnitude bas .stricken thc great coal center of Northern France. An explosion of tire-damp at 7 o'clock Saturday morning carried death and destruction throughout the net work of coal mines centered at Courrieres, and lire followed thc explosion, mak ing rescue difficult, and almost im possible. Thc intense excitement and confusion in thc vicinity prevented early estimates of thc exact Joss of life, hut a dispatch received herc ?t 4:30 p. m., gave 1,404 miners entomb ed and probably lost. At 8:43 o'clock in the evening a brief dispatch from Lille announced thc total of 1,193 dead. SHOCK TO ALL FRANGIO. All France has been profoundly shocked by thc magnitude of thc dis aster, which is said to bc the greatest in the history of continental mining. President Fallieres sent his secre tary, accompanied by Minister of Pub lic Wortes Gautier and Minister of thc Interior Dublier, on a special train to the scene of the disaster. * The ministerial crisis was tcmporo rarily forgotten. Senators and Depu ties joining in Hie universal manifes tations of sorrow. SCENE OF THE CATASTROFE The scene of the castrophe is the mountainous mining region near Lens, in, the department of Pas-de-?ali?s. Here are huddled small hamlets of the mine workers, who operate the most productive coal mines in France. The subterranean chambers from a scries of tunnels. Six of thc outlets arc near Lens, and o thea's arc at Courrieres, ' Vardun, and many other points. The output of'these mines is particularly combustible and is largely used in the manufacture of gas and in smelting. About 2,000 miners work in the group of mines and, with their 'families, make a population of from 6,000 to S,000 souls. The catastrophe took place shortly after 1,79S men had descended into the mine; There was a deafening ex plosion, which was followed by the cages and mining apparatue being hurled from thc mouth of the Courri eres Mine. Mon and bourses near by outside the mi .ie were cither stunned or killed. Thc roof of the mine office was torn off. Immideiately following the explo sion flames burst from the mouth of the pit, driving back those without who sought to enter and dooming these within. Latest Georgia Homicide. Millen, Ga., Special.-A shooting affray occurred Saturday afternoon al 3 o'clock at Scarboro, seven miles be low here, in which two men were kill ed. John Burke and Ecd Aycock, both white, quarreled over a mule and Hie quarrel ended in a row, each killing the other with a pistol. Thc naen were prominent in that section and the tragedy is deplored. News Items. The filling of thc Bishopric of Porto Rico is expected to settle the question as to which congregation at Rome has supervision of that island. The New York county grand jury has asked for instruction as to what it shall do relative to campaign con tributions by thc insurance companies. The foreign agents of the Mutual Life Insurance Company arc in revolt against thc Peabody regime. Charles M. Schwab left Los Angeles Cal., in what is said lo be a serious condition of health. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl vania^ Vetoed the resolution providing for an investigation of the coal rail roads, on thc ground that thc special session of the Legislature had not been called for such a purpose. "Judge" Andrew Hamilton, thc head of thc legislative bureau main tained by the Mutual Life lusurance Company and other big corporations, returned from 'Europe "to face thc music' German Radical Dead. Berlin, By coble-Eugene Richter, radical leader in the Reichstag since its foundation. Bismark's old Oppon ent and a long time editor of Thc Fre isinnige Zeitung, died at 4 o'clock Saturday morning. Near iii.? close of 1904 Kciehlcr suddenly retired from Thc Freisinnige Zictiiug, which Jib had founded, find ai the sam? time ceased to appear at thc Reichst as . He was then in feble' health and threcKued with thc l.i*s of Iiis eyc-j-i'Jir. Bad Blood Between the Whi and Blacks the Cause TURPENTINE CAMP FUS1LADED Perioi of Muttering Against Whites: Emis in Night Attack on Village^ of Wilmer, and Though Shooting! wau General on Both Sidefe, an Old! White Man Was Only Person! Wounded. M . Mobile, Ala., Special-Shcrii? P6w~$ ers and four deputies left Sundayjj morni.ug for the scene of race troubles^ at Kilmer, 20 miles west of Mobile, o\i:'i the Mobile, Jacksonville & Kansas| City Railroad, and relurnod at 7~ o'clock a.t night with four negroes,^ who are charged with being implicat-:| ed in the attack by the negroes on the| white residentsof Kilmer. The shoot-'?? ing was begun by Cole Daniels, a:; negro cx-eonvict and at once bccameH; general. The white men, who were?' armed, participated. The negro mo]?? had followed R E. Pringle,.and a'neM *ro, Sam McPaston, whom Pringle';? had shot'and was bringing to Wilmer^ for surgical attention, a distance ~o? six miles. A J. Ellis, an old while" man, aged GO years, emptied bib revol- i ver at the negroes, and just as lie fired : the last shot a negro shot him from hind, a load of buckshot taking effect! in his back and left shoulder, andi when the sherifTs posse left Wilmer..": Ellis was in a dying condition. (Dhe? of Ellises' bullets struck the negro: Cole Daniels in the head, but he made| his escape, j hough a citizens' posse is| lying in wait for him. A determined attempt was made? early Sunday morning to lynch ./the - negro McPaston, but cooler cornice! ;1 prevailed. When the sheriff reached Wilmer-somc 200 white men were as sembled there, gathered from sur rounding country. It is said.that there bas been muter ings among the negroes in thc turpen tine camps against the whites for the past eight months. Everything was quiet when Sheriff Powers and his deputies left the scene, though it is possible that fresh trouble may break. out again. In thal event, the. whites'! are better able to take care of fhemr selves. Big Mill Advances Wages. Lawrence, Mass., Special.-Noti were posted in all departments of extensive-Pacific Cotton .Mills-hcre* nouncing that on Monday,' March an advance in wages will bc gi Thc Pacific Mills, among the lar in the world, employ neaxdy 6 operatives. Thc rate of the propq increase is not stated in the noti The advance will bc greater in s? departments than in others, but ? expected that it will average ne-a) 10 per cent. AVhen the new sehen gones into effect, the number of ? operatives in Lawrence who have! their pay raised this vear will r 17,000. Shooting in South Carolina. il! Columbia, S. C., Special.-Jolag Marion Ashley, a white farmer SMI Honea Path was shot and probably fatally wounded by Policeman Whitj?g who was endeavoring to arrest Asii?| Icy. Thc wounded man's relatives? and friends soon gathered and threads cued to do violence to the officer. Fear~j! ing serious trouble, Governor Hey-| ward was notified and requested to hurry troops to the scene. Accord ingly thc Auder company, under com mand of Lieutenant P. K. MeCully, Jr., was despatched to Honea Path by a special train. Warts Town Topics Excluded From Mails. Washington, Special.-Representa tive Bourke Cockran, of New York, in troduced a resolution requiring the Postmaster General to report to the House whether Town Topics is admit ted to thc mails and whether the gov ernment assists the publication in ''its said occupation of extorting money | bv blackmail.' Jamestown Exposition Commissioner. < Spartauburg, S. C., Special.-Gover nor D. C. Heyward has named Super intendent Frank Evans, of this city schools, as a member of the State commission qf the Jamestown Expo sition, to succeed J. Wright Nash, who declined the place because he felt that be was not adapted to the work. The appointment of Prof. Evans will meet with general approval, for he is emin ently qualified for the task. He was largely instrumental in getting up the Sparlanburg county exhibit at . the ^Charleston Exposition, which won the first prize of $1,000. Don"t:Buy ox* Iron A Until you have thoroughly ( We can save you on[each implement. That's worth FREE Our New of I he best Seed for the South. -Wit or more uf seed wc f?ive ?BEE one EB N JIU KA LIST-thc beet farm an Catalog: tells all-about it, When i and we will give you a packet of our f-wrcte*t jon have ever had a chance jftflTMYrite al. once or call at, oti iVIexiRiidei . ?ll BROAD S'iREl icuit?nt?s of Interest From M Over South Carolina JANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS ir- ._ m - Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ty ing a Wide Range-What ia Going >n in Oar State. Charlotte Cotton Market. a?pw middling, . .... ,. <. .... . .fl 7-S .Strict low middling.... ; < ; < > .10l?3-S fiddling.10 -VS ^rriet middling.10 :i-4 .j^ood middling.10 7-S New York Futures. .i(.10..")(i ... . 10.6*2 .. -,.'.10.70 .10.80 ,.10.S7 fgtugust.'10.8.1 September. .... ...... 3 0.40 October..10.30 l?Toveniber.HUS december. ...... 10.34 january.,. ., 10.3S feppt/,.10 3-4 Mr. Evans' Condition. 5{i Marion. Special.-31 r. -Iimius II. ?Ey?ns, who was seriously injured last ^Friday evening by a fall from tli cMc "Mil??n building on Main sirco!, is bet rM?j/.: though the improvement in his y^naition is very slight. At Hrst il thought that thc injury would -prove immediately fatal, but now. al Yhc is paralyzed, in the lower t'I?al? of his body, sonic hope ol' bis rc '.-^yery is entertained, lie bas been r^onscions almost continuously, not withstanding the intense physical suf tferihg he bas undergone. He is at ; tended by Drs. Mslntyre and Smith of wiis town, and his uncle. Dr. James . Evans of Florence. His brother. Mr. Walker W. Evans of Clio, has been with him since the injury. Y k: - ' "Lum." Ward Badly Wounded. ^Greenville, Special.-C. Lum Ward, < ^w.ell known horse trader and fanner, living three miles south of the city on tba Laurens road, was shot and mor rnky "wounded by George Douglass, member; of the firm of Briscoe &? L:Dotiglass. Ward was carried to the g^jgj&n house, where Dr. W. C. Black ledicaf attentiou. The shot eirt-' the left breast and was not locate ^s;;S?on: as the physician had ad iie?'?'Q^iest?ietics to-th*-wounded ?he told Ward that he had better ire his will, if he wanted one, as round was mortal. The will was ired and executed. His death is to occur at any lime. A Blind Tiger Carriage. [eenville, Special.-Four gallons |ockadc liquor, two negro women, rro Lackman and a horse and ear were captured by officers in the of the city. All means hereto [ devised for transporta lb ig liquor ie hacks at night have been nil led by the o 111 ce rs. A negro hack had been working a new one. he wished tu transport liquor lie lld get one or more negro women is hack and drive through the >ts. Officers got on to this game ibovc arrests resulted. Palmetto Briefs. Heyward has announced the ^pointmcnt of Mr. Lee G. Holleman "of Anderson to the position of State bank examiner. The recommendation had been made thc governor by the /executive committee of I he Stale as sociation of bankers. Mj\ L. M. Gasquc has received his commission and qualified as a mem ber of the fish and oyster commission. Mr. Gasquc bas been a member ol' Mic legislature from Marion county for several years and is one of I bc most successful businessmen in that county He is well- qualified to represent tl ic interests of thc people along thc Pee Dee river who for several years have, been wanting some kind ol' legisla tion. Supt. W. H. Hand of Chester has been elected tu a chair in the South Carolina university, the board of trus tees thus adding another strong and virile intellect to the teaching force. Supt. Hand will be connected with the department of padagogy, presided over by Prof. Patterson Warillaw. lt is the manifest policy of the board to elect young men to lhe faculty. The secretary of State issued a charter to Hie Soul bern Stales Trust Company, a Columbia concern, capi talized at $4,500. The ollteers are: C. S. B?rnette, president and general manager, and E. A. Washington, sec reaiy. Planet, J" x\ .gre DF^x-rri m Tools ;xainiued our Jarpe stock. i from $1. to $5, thinking about! Come to see us. Catalog FREE li every order for one dollar's worth \ oar's .subscription to tlie SOUTli ri garden paper in the South, nakina inquiry mention lilia paper new Melon, The Watson. Bestand ! to grew. ir.slore when in town. r Seed Co., IT AUGUSTA, GA. Active fighting Again on Our Island Possessions -. OFFICIAL REPORT CIVEN OUT A Disasterous Engagement is Report ed to Have Occurred on the Island of Jolo Between Natives and Ameri cans-Six Hundred of the Latter Said to Have Been Slain. Washington, Special.-Advices re ceived by thc? War Department from Major General Wood, commanding thc Philippine division, state that there has been a severe engagement in the Island of Jolo, between the Amer ican military and the naval forces, and thc Muros. Fifteen American soldiers were killed. A serious engagement between American forces and hostile Moros has taken place Jicar Julo. Eighteen enlisted men, including fifteen regu lars and three uf thc constabulary force, were killed. The total number ! wounded, including troops, constabu lary and naval contingent, is ?32. The engagement opened on the afternoon of March (5 and concluded Thursday morning, lt involved thc capture of Mount Davo, near Jolo. The steep lava cone, rising to a height of 2,100 feet up the mountain was strongly fortified and defended by an invisi ble force of Moros. All defenders of thc stronghold was killed and 600 bodies were found on the field. The American forces were directed by Col. Joseph W. Duncan, of the Sixth In fantry. The action resulted in thc extinction of a band of outlaws who bad been making the condition of af fairs because of their defiance of American authority. Dr. Matthews Gets 20 Years. Greensboro, N. C. Special-"Guilty of murder in the second degree,'' was the verdict rendered Friday morning at 0:?0 o'clock by thc jury in the case against Dr. J. B. Matthews, whose trial for wife murder started in Guil ford Superior Court a week ago last Wednesday. The sentence of the judge was that he bc imprisoned in the State penitentiary at hard laboi for 20 years. FORMAL NOT [CE OF APPEAL. Maj. Guthrie-then gave formal no tice of appeal, 30 days being allowed -^for perfecting it and 30 days more TOT the State to prepare its case. The appeal bond was fixed at $50. Pend ,-ing rtherappeal; bail w,as fixed at $5,t '^uWjtisf?fi? not give and -was reminded to jail.' Insurance Co. at Lynchburg. Lynchburg, Special.-The American National Life Insurance Company of Lynchburg has been formally organ ized in the company's offices under the charter granted some months ago. Thc officers elected are: President W. A. Taylor; vice-president and treasure]*, B. F. Bopes: secretary, A. M. Campbell; Senator John W. Dan iel, second vice-president and gene ral counsel; Fred Harper, associate counsel: C. Davega Cohen, third vice president and general manager; S. W. Davidson, of New York, actuary and assistant secretary. Killed Wife and Suicided. Augusta, Ga., Special.-M. L. Cohen a young Hebrew, at an early hour Friday morning, after retiring with his wife at a house on Market street secured a gun. shot his wife and then himself. He died instantly. Thc wo man never regained consciousness, and died a short while after, being found several hours later. They came from Savannah a few days ago. They were married here six weeks ago. Increases its Capital Stock. Petersburg, Special.-In the office of the clerk of thc court herc was ad mitted to record a certificate, for thc amendment of Hie charter of thc Lan caster Automatic Railway Crossing Company, incorporated. Thc certifi cate increases the maximum of thc capital stock from $100,000 lo $-300,- j 000. Thc minimum is $75.000. A Tax Dodger. Cincinnalti, O., Special-Checks for $700,000 were written but never taken from the office of thc Union Central Life Insurance.Company, as a means of a anding taxes, according to the testimony of Jesse ii. Clark, treasurer of the company, in the suit of thc com ty treasurer- to recover $170,000 in uupaid taxes. Clark said that when tax time approached thc bad in bank much cash which was taxabe. but that as much money as possible was transferred into untax able mortgage loans. News Notes. Representative Griggs, of Georgia, was unanimously chosen chairman ol' thc Democratic Congressional Com mittee. China regards the talk of military preparations in the United Slates as an act of unfriendliness. Groat Britain has opened communi cation with this country, seeking fa vorable tariff treatment. Editor Shoots Down Editor. Shreveport, La., Special-L. Stuc key, editor of Thc People's Demands, was sbol and Killed at Gufax, La., by A. M. Goodwin, editor of Thc Hali fax Chronicle. The cause of the trag edy was thc publication of an arti cle by Stucky which, il: is alleged, was a reflection on thc character of Good win. The shooting occurred on thc depot platform. Goodwin fired three shots, all of which took affect, killing .' Stucky almost inFtnntly. I MONEY SAVED Is IVIoiie^r Oained. Consult vour own interest. Open Buggy including Harnessand Um brella for *$fiO 00, or Top Buggy corapJete for 40.00. Keinemberyl Sell Goods Lower than any oilier house in the Soulb. Chase's Fine Plush robe.-, from $7. up. These are now b-ingsold nt a sacrifice of 40%, the moot beauti ful line ever sold in Augusta. 1 am alfo facriilciug Ti tinks, Satchels, Suit Cases, etc., lo make room for other ilnes. Solo agent for the fa mous Babcock vehicles and the best faim vagoi s on the maket, H H. GOSKER Yt The Carriage and Hardware Man of Ga., 749 and 751 Broad Streu^ AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. W. J. Rutherford & Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Il I ll AND DEALER IN Cement, Plaster, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Ready Roofing and other Material., Write Us For Prices. Corner Reynolds and Washington Streets, Augusta, Georgia^ Wagons Buggies irURJNriTTJRE. Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies just received. Our stock of furniture and house furnishing* is complete. A Large stock. COFFINS and CASKETS. always on hand. All calls for our Hearse prompt ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar gin of profit. Call to see me, I will save you money. GEORCOBB Johnston, South Carolina. THIS SPACE IS TAKEN BY The Leading Grocers of Augusta Ga,f ARRINGTON BROS. COMPANY, 839 Broad JPflp-W. F. SAMPLE of Saluda County and H. H. SCOTT, JR., of Edgefield County are with us and want to sec you. For Fire and Life !G0 TO SEE: CAUGHMAN & HARLIN BEFORE INSURING ELSEWHERE. We r ?_nt the best Old Line Companies. ^AUGHMAN O - ? ?ABLING * GENTS. ^AUGHMAN ?fe, H ABLING /AGENTS. NEW SHOP Hy Carriage and Repair Shop at the Gray Stables is now well equipped. I invite you to in spect it. Large force of competent workmen-Full supply of the best material always on liai il. Can luild you a new wagon or repair your old one cn short notice. Tire Setting and Horse Shoeing done in the best po? si ble mn 11 uer. ?^*Salisiaction Guaranteed, (jive me a call. -/-VJ: Dealers in Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. Also the Ceoi lian Piano Player. SATISFACTI ON G ?ABANTEED. Call on or write us for prices and' terms. NINETY SIX, S. O,