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. - * t - n 'fiiV-a * '' Jr' . ^m m ^V' ? " ' a ? 'V .// .' 1 '? A<-'> * ' 4 . ' ' -V * , J?" . * - . * , 1 #y p f V . * * ' v i . * ' . . ' 4 s . I " 1 ' '*? " tUURLOW 8. CARTER, i A Family Newspaper . For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests. ' 5 TERMS: $1.50 A Yhab. Kditob amd Manaobk. S off > ) Patabiji in Advance. , ' ? m f * . StiVII-WH KLY toll ION. LANOASTttK. S. (J., NM'TEMBtK, 15. ti, rcbTTlHn) ,XV~ - ? OUR LEADERS. i 23 pounds li^ht brown sugar for $1 imi K pound* Aibu -kit's Coiree for 1 01) S> pounds good green cotlee for 1 on 1 pound fine Tobacco for 35 oeiit?. tk?r Tin Ware VEIIY CHEAP. WE KNOW how clone nionep mutters are with most people. We are prepared for close lui\ers. Values that two or j three years ago seemed almost ini- ' txissib.e are to-ilay an actual fact-*uearly cut in two. Many are s?r? ! prised at the hue of <??oeeries 1 olfer. Some even arc incredulous. A. <;i .ASS1-3H . Coal Strike OH'. Pittshnr?r. Sept 10.? The eoul miner.-' strike, so far as the Pitts-, hurg district is eoneerneil, is oil", an 1 '22,1)00 (lioocrs will resume work tomorrow at the ?."? cents rate. There were only four ilissenl ing voices when the resolution to jro to work at once whs voted upon. or n eh o?i human, mange on borst s dogs a .d al/ s'oeU, cured m HI miinio s bv Wool ford's sniiiiiiiAf i i>imil 'in.iu never fails Sold h> J K Jfuekey & Druggist. l.uuciiMer, S C. FRESH BEEF AT AM. iiin?Hn my tnaiket in tin* Davis 1 11 iI?1111 *_r My refrigerator keeps it almost iee-eold I will deliver i. in any part of town at any h-air de? sired You ciri purehase lieef when you wish, leave i? in the tefrigt tauir and I will send it l your home any i tune you may wsh it sent 'lids iu1* * miires vour h\?e: ! > Im" kepi |? !" ? t \ i .* fresl.." V. K YOf'NO July 20th, ISO"?3ni. Tlio I iSiiu'Mstet* T1IK NKXT Hcssion of the Lancaster (i railed School begins September iSlli, 18P7.?Tho building! has been enlarged recently and the teaching force augmented. W e are now prepared ^to J givejea- j ......:..i ..**??:? s- ? -? iidoiui iuiuiiiioii in |ii11)11s preparing for it eollogo course, or for special classes in a college course. Terms reasonable. For further information address A. M. RANKIN, Superintendent. Aug 17, 1897?lmo. Registration Books Open. IN ACCORDANCE with the Act of 1K96 providing for th? registration of electors, the hooks of the Supervisor* ! of Registration will he ojien at th** court house on the first Monday I, i each month for the registration ofeleo tors entitled lo registration and Mep open for three successive days in eacl j moruri until the general election 01 1S95J. W. G. a. Porter, It. M. Kirk, ii. J. Fiyi.u, Hoard of Registration. Nov IS. 18?6-tf. ACADKM1C, LITKRAUY ?AM) ?Classical School.? rpiiK FORMKK Presbyterian High X ^diool at Hock Kill, H (J . will' he re-opened HKl'TKM IlKK 1st, 1SW7. I under the control of Uaytdson Unllege. The location, buildings, equipment j au<l faculty are the very best, ami tlt<* < physical, social, moral ami religious | interest? of studonts receive the best! * attention. Royi Mild voting men aiv | thoroughly predated for College or! University, or for active life except! where a complete classical or prof?*<i aionul education is desired. Terms are mod -rate, ami amtillious young men with limited time ami means, of which they desire to make ; the best use, should hy all means look 1 into the claims, facilities ami oppor- ' tunics of this School. Addr **, A. It. HANKS, or | K I . It A UN i?;h, Kock Hill. SC. Children Crv for Pitcher's r??torlii I, * w%% * ^ *fi t \ ATTEMPTED SU1CID Young William Quirk Sends Bullet Crashing THROUGH HIS BR-A1 Ami Another Into I lis llroastNolc to His Sister S lows the Aet was Premeditated. Special to The State. Florence, Sept. l."?.?Todi about o clock tin; sharp rcpo of a pistol which went reverbcr ting through every room and co ridor of the Central Hotel start!* tlu- inmates of that hostelry, rush was made for room i? whence the sound had emanate* and here a hoi i i >le sight met tl gn/.e of those who entercii. M Win Quirk was lying in a |>ool his own blood w ith one ghast wound in his head and am thcr his left breast. I Mood was gus ing from his wounds and he w gasping for breath. l'hysieians were hastily sur moned, and an examination sho> ed that one ball had entered tl left temple, had crashed throng the brain, and, coming out on t! other side; of his head, had lodgi in the wall,. The ether l??ilI. w11i< entered the left breast, lodged the body. When asked why lie shot hii sy]^*, Mr. Quirk answered ineoh rently. At first he said it was a eidontal and then lie said he wan ed to see the hammer go down. The fragments of a note whii were found in a spittoonwrro ta en up and put together l?y se\e al gentlemen present. The no was direeted to his sister and in lie said: "When you get this I will I gone for good. 1 hope you w not think of inc. It is nil for tl liest. IMoaso do not weur ai mourning. Your brother, Willie.'' Mr Quirk is a baggage mast on the Atlantic Coast Line ai has Ijcen spending his ho liday Florence. For the past few da his frientls have noticed a ehan< in his demeanor. He seemi gloomy and desjwuidont, as something were preying on li mind, and what it was no 01 knows. Corpses Identified. Denver, Col., Sept Id.?Tl woman killed and partly creniati in the Newcastle railroad wrei who had a watch inscribed "Mai ma to Mamie" has been identitii as Miss Mary K Johnston, Pomona, Cal. It is believed th the corpse clasped in her arn was that of her friend, Nell Davis, of Pomona. The charred remains of sevt unidentified victims of the act dent arrived in Denver today ai will be buried here. Sufitel/illifj to Know, r? ...... i. . .. .. i -..i.I? i. - I ' UJjl - II .1 ? M I I "V ? III ?- . I I IV I ?? N n? that tti*' very b?-? nr ii< In?* for rosin in# tlu* lire.I out nervous s',.h iii health an I v'tftrl* U'eetrl liit riil* medicine i* purely vegetali! a-*!* 1?v ((Ivlrigt'iiio'oilir nerve owner 111 tUp stomach, emit y mti mutate* (1 Liver an I KM i > m, ?u I tthl* ttios-j n Hutii lu throwing ofl'irn purl tie* in tl Mood. K ootrl.1 Milteri lmpmv> s tl appetite, aid* di '- tum. uii<l in pr nouiic nl *>y Iho ? who have tr.eil it tbe v: ry best blond puriil* r ami iter tonic. Tiy i>% Hold for M? or $1 per b ittlo at Chaw ford liroa' l>n rttore. -iw ' -v* % E lli STATii OF PANIC H a Yellow Fever Breaks Out in Vei Jackson, Miss. N BUSINESS SUSPENDED 1 A Newspapers Discontinue 1'uMieu- I>r: tion and an Exodus is in I 1 *ro?;ress.?Spreading in the State. \ iv lackson. Miss., Sent 15. Tin* hart Slut*- capital depopulated; it-> Im- the a- siness houses closed: its newspa- ill: r pcrs suspended; seven ca?cs of lyn d yellow fever oliiciully announced foil A at its very doors, with many sau 1, suspected coses at various points; in-.;' d, an embargo on the railroads of 1 le the State and ?irave apprehensions hee r. that the dread disease has obtained Tin of foothold in numerous parts of the pan !v State; wild alarm evcrvwhere; of 1 in such is the condition existing in'ami h-1 the middle. ?ve>tcrn and norlhern the as port ions of t he State today. taU The worst fears of the medical, in 1 n- fraternity and the public have to .? v- neen realized and the prevailing Kei I... Lliuo.x.. nl V I... U. 1 ? - - ' V ... ii.in.llU7. Mil."* IICCII | llll- tT*'l ;li nounccd yellow fever. 'l'ho State :i<_r< lie board of health has laid a general in i d embargo on travel except out of er : [ h the State, by means of an order Tin in promulgated this afternoon and ing uddressed to all lines of transpor- lot n tat ion. Travel from infested eor cplaces is absolutely barred. Th/ 'J e- blight side of the situation is that ' ing it the disease is of a very mild type, ten The exodus from this caty, which led [ It began in a small way several days inn !c ago, has attained unprecedented dm T- proportions. While the St:ite grt to board ml vises :i 11 who enn to lenve snn it the railroads say they enn handle tha the largest crowds. The most: a h he rigid quarantine prevails here. wa> ill Yazoo City, Miss., has issued j hot lie orders for a shotgun quarantine can iv to he enforced. No trains are al- sull lowed to stop except to exchange win mails at the quarantine stations. tru< er No passengers are allowed to leave niei the train ard all mail and express j,v jn I must lie fumigated, (iuardsarm 0|>j .,s: ed to the teeth are placed along woi ft,: the county houndaries. sail ,,(j At Touro there are some 200 sick I |>eople and the utmost caution is wh< being displayed in order to pre- fro vent my possi ble spread of the a h | disease. tun The stormy weather since Satur- txxday has had the effect of inereas ' ( i ing the number of cases at Ocean int< iie | Springs. ; c|in t|j Biloxi now has 40 cases of sick Jtm ^ ness. Of these 10 aro yellow for ^ fever, six are suspicious and a 0f >(j diagnosis as to l.'J is reserved, jail There have been 110 deaths at tha llt Bi!?xi. and lls KUMIOATION OK MAII-S. lib lie Washington, Sept 15.?The ' postoflii-e department has directed wai n the railway mail superintendents w'l< ri- to fumigate malls from the infect- '',e id ed districts. "V OKOUOl \ gl AK\NTINKs. Atlanta, (in.. Sept 15. ? Stir geon Oenoral Walter Wy'nian has', I AV w taken steps to establish a strict r- ,, , 1 . (,n I yello a lever quarantine all along " | Bnfl ? the west -rn boundary of (Jeorgm tiei from 1' lorniii to 'I ennes-.<jr. \-- . el to Florida is already quarantined . >? elm this erects a humor to travel from . . . the m the infected di-trict? all the win eru ,0ifroin the gulf lo the leiiueHHOc w?> ' line. ??* : nor v' i ? ? ?- |the "" | I Send 25 cents and get the am ' \ LkDokk two month*. I VB MBit LYNCH!! ngenee Wrecked on Robb in Versailles. 'HE DEAD AND J.L1V1 jr^'d Out <>t" lull am 1 Sin *l> Together by Their In diana Fellow Citizens. i ersailles. 11);I.. Sept K>. T heen the most exciting day history of this c ity. The > of live men, who h:i<l In fhe'l ?1111-i II ?_r hist night. W !i< 1 hanging together to le t ree near 1 ne jail t his mo 'tir years southern Indiana n nlllictcd witii lawless gun railways and express en lies hroke up the depredate lliese cranes alone their li I latterly they have preyed ii| citizens. I he citizens ii; en the law into their own hai his locality before, hut ne >urh an extent as today. 'I io brothers were lynched her at Seymour, Ind., ye i, ami the Meyer gang, tli lumber, were struin.' ui> toe-c it Shoals, I ml., 1 if years a re have I iff ii numerous lyn s of one lit :i time. 1 ?i11 tlif " of live today breaks tin* <1. I'hat an eniisual state of f existed is shown l?y the initiation of the molt, w I it to tIn? ferocity of lirst l> three men in tlie jail and t L'iriniv the living and dead her and huntrini? them to io troe. It is notable, t t no outrage that usitnll\ roii noli's vcn^'iico, no moid ? charged against tlio viotii their death was decreed so of long and exaspcrat faring from robbery, some ioh were aooonipaniod by t 0 of the victims. The cxe nt of the day was not lessei the suppressed hints that m ects of the people's wr lid lie made to sutTer in io way. t was I o'clock this morn L*n horsemen seemed to or m all quarters and dismount illside near Versailles. Li e was lost, for the details n prearranged. Quietly ahout 4oo men marc ;> the town. The jail was rge of William Kenan, Sht shing's brother-in-law, mer being at home on acoo his injury. In front of projier is the residence am t were Acting Jailer Ke 1 Robert Harriett. Will ?k and Len Wen/.el, depot diorly before 2 o'clock tli * a knock at the door, en Kenan and others opcnc< v were presented with nis three masked men and as turn over the keys. This t and then the nioh filed i jail. Three of the prisom ri, Jenkins and Shelter, w the lower tloor, while < i or I Andrew - were in 1 lie ii|i Levi, Jenkins and S >wrd tight and the former t through the hrcust, w skulls of the. two latter m shed with a stool. lie re in readiness, and adjust it >MO aronnd the neck of e: ir feet and hands were pinio I thon the march began. 1'liey were not carried, hut v D I several men at the end of end rope, the live prisoners were drag gcd a distance of 2<>0 feet to ai CFS i ?ln* tree, where their bodies wen suspended. It is said Levi, .len | kins and Shuler were dead befon i they reached the place. 1 )i?nt 1 j? resulted from strangulation in tin case of (iordon and Andrews I Justice of the Peace Charles Los r> well held an impiest over the tiv< Itodies this morning. # -49+~ , . CONDITION OF 11 IK CHOPS his in . Drouth 1 nfavorahv Affects Al liii. t Sections Ka-t of the Rockies. eon ere , Washington, Sept. II. Tin the , ~ weeklv crop hulletm I?\" the agri ru- ' 1 cultural department today t'<>r tin week ended at s a. in. sept. I ". nas 1 says : The week has been excessive!) nilhot and for the most part dr\ ii mis ... nearlv all districts east of tlx IICS Kockv Mountains. >uM \\ ith suliicicnt moisture, tin live . eoiulitions would have been mis nds favorable to corn, but in most o ver ..| the important eoi n states the crop more particularly the late planted tohas sulTereu -eriouslv from droutl ars ... . , and is being prematurely ruieneu reo ' h M ucli of tin* crop is now froa fron frost and cutting has begun in tin go. i i ' . more northerly sections. In No i"h- ' . . Iiraska recent rains have iuuirov lob 1 ..,1 I..* I - oi ? - . ..IV ..... ...Ill .III' I >11111 I II \ ? ? I" I bio conditions in Iowa durin,r tin . noxt two weeks sniui' of tho lat< col oorn will make fair viold, the oar (?o- . ' . , lv crop havinjr boon rapidly ripo.n Poll . od under the excessive boat of tin ''1 , , , past two weeks with some dotri niont to uualitv. In Kansas inos to- , 1 , of tlso earlv corn has been cut,am the the late 'plant d is .siitl'erinjj I'roii no, < I rout h. SuliMMiurnt went her eon ditioiis will have hut little etFcel upon the ? rop in Missouri, when , it has hem seriously and penna he- . . . nentlv injured. l!l<r ^ j Cotton has generally sutierec further injury during the pasi I week and its general condition 1: ite-1 , j I less favorable than reported in tin ! preceding bulletin. Marked de terioration is reported from tin jCarolinas, Georgia, Tennessee Arkansas and Oklahoma. Ilea and drought over the greater pari 1 M over the greater part of the cot ! ton belt have stopped growth am ' ?n caused much premature openin< and shedding, while rains in Flor 1 ida have retarded picking. Scat I tered heavy rains have also inter j fered with picking in portions o .In Texas and caused slight daniug* l>y washing out open cotton ii places, but improved the cro] ,IM* where still growing. In portion of southern and central Texas 1,1 1 late cotton and the "top crop' jm 'over northern Texas will not ma \Mn ture unless frost is unusually lati1 " s* Cotton has opened freely through ltI( out the cotton belt ; picking lui made rapid progress and will ger ' orullv be completed earlier tha usual. In Arkan as the crop wi (< be gathered at one picking, he v 1 1 CONDITION OF CKOI's IN TIIKSJ \TI into, ,,r< t'olumliin, Sept. I t. Favorr .(>n> hie weather prevailed llic pa* wyek for harvcstingnnd gnth'M'in jlotin* ripened crops, such as having fice harvest, picking cotton, ninl mis 'r,r *yrup and liar vesting corn an bile but pa lures, gnrtbn rore Into coin, turnips nnil general I ,j-k*s i nil crops not fully matured stan ?,t a in urgent need of rain, over tl '6 1 i icli, n0(j Tho rcjHirts on cotton would ii | dicate a further defdino in cond vitliition due to tlie dry weather whit ' j We Undersell All Others In I Groceries. 0 i, d s r i<: n : 1 IS pounds tr r?? i > 111 at * ? 1 Su^nr for !m uu -< pounds lijilr lirnwn Suu.-ir I on I iv" \\'o h:ivi? tIn* clieaj>est lino of l'hewin?; and Smoking Tobacco in town. * Also wo curry a nine lino ,, ??f Notions, such as handkerchiefs. Ladies' and (ients* Hose, etc., etc. i 1 C . S. < di irr^' I I ~~ caused youn^ hoi! to shed freely over the western counties, until recently, the plant had continued to fruit, and where il is yet in ' places put l ine on fruit sparingly hut not generally, There are re ' ports of a small 'Mop crop'* over tlit* extreme northwestern counties hut over the larger portion of the " State those holis and squares that > usually form the "top crop" all shed oil during and following the A utrust rains. Over the eastern counties tren t erally and over a lartre portion <d' 1 the western counties cotton is . opening rapidly, in places prcmu . turely, and in Berkeley, Marion. i ()ran?;ohurir, Iiambertr and con1 titruous counties from half to ' three fourths, or more, of the ' holls are open. In one locality in Berkeley 7" - per cent is already trathered. In the eastern counties the plant * is apparently dead, earned hy rust ' which developed over lat'tje areas .l...? ?i... i ? ' ...... I- uiv liiurr |iari 01 .\UlfUsl. M;iii\ fields look as it' seared liy '' fl'Ost. Sea Island cotton has not shar ' t'd in the deterioration, on the , contrary, improved in condition 1 ; during tlie wee!;. The dry weather injured late ' corn to some extent. HAD FOP (). P's. ' j Separate Bottles in Straw Can't Be Shipped Say the Southern and the ('oast I due. Columbia, Sept. 14.? The dispensary authorities are in high ' glee because the Southern and the Coast Line roads will refuse shipments of original packages packed ^ loose in straw. i The Southern's circular rends : ' "Counsel J having decided that 1 spirituous and mnlt liquors in boti ties when not packed in cases or J casks aro not packed in shipping | condition and that the usual form i of release will not relieve the com 1 pany from liability in case of dain' age bv wreckage, notice is hereby given that on and after September ' lfith, 1SD7, shipments of spiritu ous or malt liquors in glass loose, not packed in cases, kegs or casks 1 will not be accepted by this company for transportation. Issued Sept. 0, 1 s?.?7, by 11 IS^iriith irottornl fcoinrlil tfwv?r?4 n itV"' \ 1 \Yashington, I >. ('. KtTective Sept. ] '?, 1 s!>7, Ap proved hv ' M < 'nip. traffic man " ager, Washington, I>. ('. The Coast Lino circular reads : Lienors in bottle* packed in sepu r' rate eases will not be received so ' > packed. l* 'I he tratlie managers of the road* ' had an interview with (iovornor * ' Kllerhe two weeks ago. This docs y not prevent other r< ad - from ha.nling or shipments being made in . K> separate cases. OASTOniA. ; & M itt J