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l0i PMb js&wmmw <5> -?j *&jy Jlif'ihtinJu^' 1 A Family Ncwtpniicr i l\r the IVonioiiun of Uit Political, Swial, Agrieuilural and Cummer rial Intermit. J 'i bltMS: $1.50 a Yj:a_x Ki>rro;i 4ni> iu^aubu. > ~ ^ PataufjK in Advajkgt?. Sfc*H-^"?"iti.? ctirjlJi'i. LANZAS'/AH, JS. J?, FfjiH U,1IV \\ >; *% fcSTAtt t.: Hi ?: IS C.'J ~ GENERAL ASSEMBLY |? ; HAS YET MUCH TO DO.: In! ? I pub .Looks as if Session Will Continue at Least a Fortnight. i?? <lo v FEATURE OF WEEK'S WORK hilb . ' i tion An Examination of the House '"'I Calendar and the Showmg ered Made?Status of tho ('obi Litpior Measure. w,'l torn Monday's State. 1 Hy< Tho past week has boon rather i ] an interesting one in the house of '(,n representatives. There have been several warm debates and full dis. eussions, but tho body made very | s'^'' good headway with its work. , A llotli the appropriation and supply vil! bills have been gotten out of tin? dtsp way at last, but the legislative ap- si"M propriation bill has not yet been A sent in. weel Tho house ended the week with ,("rr 15b house bills, exclusive of a whi< great many claims, and l.'l special cot' orders on its calendar. In addi. j T tion to this'thero are some (10 or up ? more senate bills, among them davi being senator Henderson's count \ horn government measure, awaiting on 1 consideration. tiou Amonjj tho 13 s|>ceial orders 000, may l>e noted the two remainders claii of the last session Mr Burns, sup| privilege tax hill and Mr E 1) ti^h' Smith's hill relating to tuition in furn all State colleges- Mr MeCul-! whi lough's hill relating to negotiable i Wh instruments,, wlueh has hoen par- bill tially discussed; Dr Wyche'sadul- pro teration foofl, medicine atYd lh^uot y i;ui hill, which has hoen fully discussed , a 3C the substitute hill for Mr (iuijo's clea county government firopasition, the which has likewise been discussed; the and the prohibition hill,' which the the house has gone ou record astStat refusing to kith I'nder the head 1 tiou of unfinished business is the direct , chiii tax bill of Mr Gams. In the upo long list of second reading bills * .\ are measures of various kinds, * last many of which if they' are ever ollic called up Hill excite lively debate. Mr So much for the work ahead. It lege need oji]ytbo said Umt^bcre is.U'ii much of.Jt yet.to bl> done. aeir Ah to'-tho time*of' adjournment pas* sine die,/that ih a <|iien'ion of the bill greateai naoertatniy jtiet' at thin gebc particular time. ? The house hast^'F enough work ahead of it to keep has it busy lor some weeks yet if it tpid insists on considering all tbat is ctis< ?. ?. . ? " ' i i...# :* " > ? * - iK iuio *>y uuru worn an aa- '1 journment inside of 10 days seems1 pd 1 unlikely. The Hennte tin-s adopted k'ilh a resolution to adjourn on ?ho lfith ton' inst. That will ho'one week from l dint Wednesday next. When this looui resolution came ovor tho' Hotfsc a sh nOontod a concurrent r/agplution | iscc referring it to ft joint committee. ^ to investigate and uscerttiin the kilh earliest possible day upon which the the general assembly con hi adjourn ofht sine die without detriment to the f??n< public interest. Thin committeo j coul has l?cen appointed, hut it will bill doubtless wait until tho legislative on 1 appropriation bill reaches the T \ senate before making its rojmrt. hill The houHO early in tho week j Her shut off tho introduction of bills! hilt except through chairmen of com T mittaos, and it in not thought that houi any more other than tho necessary Mr measures will Ikj presented. taxn The feature of the past week's | whi work in tho houso was tho vote j law on the motion to strike out the the enacting words of the prohibition pas* bill. The result of that vote was T nrprlao t>. ( -.oryb o Iv. M Ids made &i) able ; ?'oar utntiu m viiv.xs on thu subject. Tli lie uware ? i' what transpire r I he vot i ami since that <l:ii are now anxiously watehin oe what the house is <?oing t villi the bill. I'lio other liqut i are on the way to considers this week. Mr Pollock' as to o p stores has boon of I as an a muniment to the pn tion hili, and by virtue of tin come up for cousiderntio orrow at the day session. M Irick's liquor measure has com II the conunitteo with a mi ty favorable report.. It wi htloss occasion considerubl ite when it comes up for cor ration. , s things lo<?K at present thoi bo no changes made in tli ensary law at the present sei notiier notable liiflit of lli k, and one that a jjroat man ird as unfortunate, was tin li led t-> the death of Mr I?: impartial historv nil I. iie upjrropri ition l>il! wa- take luring the week, and in tw % it was disposed of hy til <o. i h usual li^ht was mad ho South ('an.lina appropri.i and it was cut down to s?'20, , a figure which ;1 - fri'te n is tot illy inadeiju sle for ii port. There was al-o a livel t against the general oxpem I of tiie State lioard of healtl eh was fftmlly plaeeil at at the senate will do with ?1 remains to bo scon. The bi rides tor u .Vmjll lvvy * tlf l\ btit Ibi^ is conditic?nc< 1 up< )'lI?v. session. This fact w; * rly stated by the chuirmnn < \v;rvs and means committee i admirable statement he ?ra\ house as to the finances ->f il ,e. The State fair approprit was cut ofT.. The Mucke il survived the t mad 11 it. inonj* the new lulls present? week was that to abolish tl: e of phosphate eommissionei Kfinl's bill to divide the privi i tax between Clemson an ithrop iceasioned (piite a livel ate, but the tiirht ended in tl; hige^'of tbe bill: Mr Ashley to ^ivc this fax to the comino he Tf>ole salftry reduction bi been unfavorably report? WilKdoabtlctfn h?tfe little di; iu?n iy amount to anything, ho seduction law hill wan pas: by the house, hut the senu1 n<! It,*as it has done Mr l*a a pavement hill and the n rjcting hill. The Pec Dc nty matter still has a ghost c ow, so far iuj another elcctin mcerned. s was expected, the house hu *1 Mr Hodgors' hill to requir railroads to transport eertai inls free of charge. He tic led it, h it even hisearnestne* Id not prevail. Mr Jlderton' on the same Hiihject still stand the calendar. he sinking fund commiHsio has reached the senate and th iderson county governmcn the house. he principal bill passed by th ho the past week was that ti Livingston relating to th ition of certain corporation; eh simply puts the NicholT in effect in this Stato. It i most far reaching mcasur ie<l at the present session, ho killing of the Sturkio bii r i ; 11ir:to jilllii^i for murder >n and the passage ? ;' the (.'aughnmn ic separuli coach bill were the feud lures of the last (lav's session of : tlio week, g The senate does not meet again .<> untii tomorrow. H i It is diflicult to predict what t- will l?e the results of the coining s | week in the lower hranch of the F-: general assembly. Speaker Gary )- | is away on leave of absence and it will not preside at the day session n, today. The house meets at 10 Ir o'clock this morning. i- Aiken's Tourist Hotel Laid in II | Ashes. le i- Augusta Ga, Fel> t!. ? Highland Park Hotel, which for more than (> a score of years has been tilled cvie cry winter with northern people 4-, and which has made Aiken, S. C. one of the best known resorts in ie the whole south, was burned to v the ground tliis morning and onlv it half a dozen or so tall cuimneys i- remain standing as grim monuments over I ho funeral pyre of ,, what was last 11 iiflit tli*; centre of (l lif" and bustle mill ?^ni?-t \. L'hnre l(. wore aliout 130 quests in the help tel ilri'd the house was full, in the i. very midst of its season. Boston, New York, Bhiludel|s phia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Toronp. ttj and several towns in Connect! N cut Hiii 1 New Hampshire furnish. ed the majority of tho quests. , The lire broke out nliout 5:30 )4 this morning in u little brick build ing in the rear of one of the wings H of the hotel, where the engine, <h naiuo, laundry and dressing in room for the waiters was situated. 'Pill a I?* I,. I? lo.lLlIi*.- *"* ls ...... ? i/iivrv i pi 11 ill l hi; ivhm ,f joined to the main hotel, a big ,, three-story frame building of 185 .(. rooms, bv a small narrow strucK. tore which the guests say might j. have been ehopj?ed away with y axes and entirely cut oil' the fire \v from the hotel if there had been any intelligent direction of the 1(j efforts that wero made to save the hoteI. The company is capitalized at [. i $150,000. Tho building was in,j sured for $70,000; furniture $25,y 000; engine, boiler and dynamo 10 $.'{,500 and from live to ten thous>s!and dollars was carried in policies n on tlie personal property of different guests. The losses are divided 11 among all the hauling insurance ;<| companies of the country, no poli4. ey being for more than $5,000 and most of them for only $2,500. n. Many of the quests, unable to fC secure accommodations in Aiken, ^ are now at the Hon Air, Arlin^3. \ ton and lMantets' hotels in this o j city)f ; " ? ' n A Valuab'e Preacrlptlon. i Kditor Morrison of Worthington, s Ind . "Sun," writ'*: "You have n valuable preset iptfon in Klectrlc Hit c "era un?l I rin cheerful'y recommend n it for Oonatipatlon and Sink H?*adacl.e. j. | olid as a ifcn *ral system tonic it has no equal" Mrs Annie Stehle, 2626 t'ot* kS 1 1 tatte (Hove We,, I'hienKO, wan all ru s down, could not eat nor diireat food |h i had a hachache which never left hei -?nd felt tired a' d weary, hut six hottics of Klectrlc Hitters restored her " health and renewed her utreRKth, C Price* fit! centa and $1 no. (let a hotl t ? uttJnwfor l Hro*' Drug ntoie. ,?fj Land For Sale. (5 7 )} acres ofHood land JtA .. V] ....K-r ?n*t of towii for sale cheap Dw-Ulna ' ' wlih two mom*, Mlinl romn anil pia/r ?. s nprlnn of fine water eon venleut. Alii ?o*uia!l tenani hoiine oil the premise* (> Two or-e faim open. All ca?li or l>ort cmhIi and part on lime. Apply to AI.ijson A CAKTKK, II Ueai K-tate Agents jAtTORNEY LYLE3 |.' HAS WON HIS CAS1 The U. S. Court of Appeal ' Hands Down Its Decision. I , AGKICCLTPRAL HALL CAS The Question of Possession lit Been Determined?Commissioner Vance's Petition Acted I'pon Finally. The State, 5th inst. It seems that the famous Airr cultural Hall case involving tl possession of the hall is at last s an end. The State has played i1 last high trump ami has lost. /, least that is how the matter pri sents itself at this time. The d< cision oi' the I nited States circu court <>f appeals was handed dow last Toes lav and it sustains tl decision of Jud??o Simonton i whic!) he refused llio petition < j Commissioner Vance. The di crec of the court was written I .ludire (iotr, and Mr \Y II I,vie attorney for the respondent in tl case, saw it while in Kichinor last Thursday. As yet In? h: friilpfl t:? ir/>t > !??? .1 : , .v?/ * ''j'> wi iiiv- urn>u hut "expects its arrival in a fe 1 days. I II will lie aemembered that tli ! I nitcd States supreme court rci ;dored a decision in the case la | May and decided in favor of \ Lylo'.s client. The marshal : ! Charleston was sent for to tal possession of the building whe |1. ?.?.Abiys were put a st< I to uf Co#S W N ance tiling petition sotting out the fact th ho was commissioner, a Sta oflieor, and the judgment was m binding on him; and that at an rate execution should be suspendc I The petition was referred 1 Judge Simonton and he refuse to grant it. From this decisioi Commissioner Vance appealed an gave as security a bond of $S,00( | signed by Gov FJIerbo and Trei surer Timmermnn. The case on appeal 'was argin before the court of appeals i Itichmond, Justices (iotT, Furnc ami Brawley sitting, and, as state* , a decision was handed down Tuc ,dny, .Ju*lge Brawley took no pa in the decision of the court. Mr Lyles will wait until tl ; mandate reaches him before I ' I . 4 . I ?* - I ' UlDBt'CIIS IU UIIVU H1U I Ullt States marshal put him in posse sion of the building. By tl : terms of the decree, Mr Lyle .client has judgment for the rei f <?f the building since it was take charge of by the dispensur; which will amount to a large sun The three bonds which have bo< given us security are signed I Messrs B R Tillman, .1 E Tind and W D Mayfield; B It Tillma ; governor; J E Tindal, seer eta i of State, and Wiley Jones; ar W II Kllerbe, governor, and W : Tinimerman, treasurer ? 4 ? ? Six Men Killed at a Boston Fir Boston, Feb. 5.?Six tiremc including a district chief, a capta and a lieutenant, were killed at fire here this morning, which bur I ed out the interior of a 5-stoi i miihiing <>n Merrimoc Mtreet ikic |?io<l by (i W llent & (Jo., man fucturers of beds, bedding, etc. OtfMr** f>% ?o ?"tefcr-n rctsfm-i UjCKKll FREAK OF A Ml U. , HERE It. Escaped from .Jail, Wont to Sw |(j His Mother and Sister, Then Telephoned the Sheriff That lie Was Coming Buck. E Fort Scott, Kan., Fell. 4.?A is murderer under sentence to he {hanged, who had escaped to a point 100 miles from his nearest I pursuer, voluntarily surrendered to the authorities here today, after notifying them of his intention by j_ long-distance telephone. The conm viet is George W Finch, of Kan it sas City, who fohowed young Is Frank Swofford here from Paula. it; Kan., and murdered him for u 2- few dollars, hiding hi* body in 2- the hushes. it To-day Finch called up Sheriff n ?V heeler hy telephone from LaK' lnont. Mo., and said he would he in hereon the evening train to help if mend the jail liars he had broken. * Finch escaped from the combined iv Federal and State prison here on s, Tuesday last, in company with ie several other prisoners. He says id he rode from here to Kansas City is on a fast freight train: that lie' in lodged near police heathpiarfevs w there on Tuesday niifht, and that tlu? next ?1:4v lie went to \ Lit ?ri^' 10 mother and si>ier near lamtont. i- Ktoin the time, of his arrest he st' said his one ambition wus U? see Ir'them again. After staying over :it flight with thent. ho wont to L ive mont and asked a constable to ml accompany hint hack to prison. ?p It was then that ho called up a .Sheriff Wheeler ard gave notice at of his coming. Wheeler thought to Finch was bantering, and wired nt! the ofiicer at Lamont to hold him. iv However, when the Memphis id train came in tonight from Lamont to the sheriff ami 300 citizens were ;d | there to receive the convict, t, ' While they were waiting the d j murderer arrived over another ), road, and, smoking a cigar, tvalkii-1 cd with his escort, the Lamont constable, leisurely tip the street si; to the prison door. II A MI LL THK MFRDKRKR. i. ; Throws His Rider, Then Kicksrt j Him to I>eath. ?e | Special to The State. ir Darlington, Feh <1.?On Sun* ,(' day morning last a young wnite s" man named Charles Anderson Dew 10 left his home in the Lydin section 8 of this county, riding a mule. The mule came home later, hut 11 the young man was not heard of ' until Thursday, when ho was 11 found dead. The coroner held a ,fl preliminary on Friday and decided that the man catno to his death by being kicked by the mule. n' This was the opinion of the phyN I sician who was acting with the ,(^ | coroner. It is supposed that the " mule threw his man and then kickj cd or stamped him. e. iVo Cure?\o I'ufj. ! That is the ?vav h 11 (Iruirirlftts ?? ) n. iHROVEii'ri TAhTELKMH Tuil.l, i TONKJ for Chtllti an i Malaria. It i Cmpiy I ron Quinine in a tuMteleeh form a !?!.. ?i? love it A<IiiItM prefer it to iaittor iiHtiH?>at niKtoiiicH. Price. fiOc. nry * m ~ " ninfaao of tbr Blood and Jfrrrrt. "* No one need suffer with neuralgia. Thia >1 ? imiM is quickly and permanently cured l>y ItrownV Iron Itittera. Every disease of tlio blood, nerve* and atomnch, chronic or otherwise, *tieciirnhn to lirownn' Iron Hi Iters.' Known and used for nearly a luarter of a centnry, It stand* to-day foreI ipoat among our most valued remedies. f I , in'Iron Hitters is *<dd hy all dealer*, a ?v On'lrli op <V? \> ^?*tnria W? \\] fchm Tn II J O lUU'.OOil l\. I . i.il Groceries. i a 2 r*? ' I"" k '* I%* r is pr.ui <! ? muttniiitcii sagai r<?r 1 oo 2o pounds Ugh* mown Su^jir 1 00 We have llie cheapest lino of Chewinjjr and Smoking Tobacco ; in town. Also wo carry a nice line of Notions, such as handkerchiefs, Ladies' and (rents' Hose, etc., etc If. !<. (^horry ?V I 5i*o? After an Office. A yearning for public ollice is nothing new. Nor, unhappily, is it anything new for men to proclaim that vearnintr upon the housetop. The Kev 11 W l'iorson, many years :uro. found in the southwestern part of the country a lariro class of perennial ollico seekers. ()nce lie heard a speech from a man who had heen a candidate for the same ollice for 1 years in succession. Kve:y year he had canvassed the count v. mak% in;* speeches in every neighborhood. I >oetor Lie I son prints a pari ol Ilii' speech whieli lie him self Ileard. 'I ask you to vote for me as an ! encouragement to the poor hoys of the county, that I may lie an example to them; thai they may point to me and say, 'There is a ' man who was once as poor as any of us, who has heen honored with a seat in the legislature of his native state.1 ^ 'I have taught school a good j many winters, and the hovs that 1 huvo?f;?uglit like mo. They will give nie their votes. I have some times thought I should have to teach school over the country tin til 1 have taught hovs enough to ' elect mo. The end of the speech was as follows: 4My follow citizen", when I look hack over the 12 years since I became a candidate for this office, I feel encouraged. When I look back and think of the very few that for years gave inc any i encouragement, and compare them with the numbers that now promise mo their votes, I am proud 'of my success. %? * 1 begin to feel that mv hopes are about to be realized; that a .ritv of my fellow citizens will UA..L ? ?t .1 ' .? ?n>i?oj iiiu wiiu meir suit rages, :'aft4'th&.ts.l.<*hall pro?vlly -go up to tho capitol and take my seat among I the-legislators of the state. Hut, fellow citizens, if, unfortunately i I should fail in .this election, I i take the , preset .ppporfcunity to announce myself as a.candidatc in the next race.'1 . ?:r: <>. if Not that year, hut soipe, years afterward, his long dream was ' realized. Sftrwtfiinff t ? /> p ;ri O. Mr Jumps J men. of the <lru.r firm of I Join;* A Son. Cowdeti, I I., in speak, ing <>f Dr Kitty's New I>iscovery. says | tlmt !wst winter hi* wife was attacked 'with I .a Oi ippe, and her case grew so serious that physicians at Cowden and /'unr could do nothing f>>r her. It seemed to develop into Hwtv ('onsumption Having I)r King's New ' Discovery in sore, and selling lota of I it, tie took a bottle li >mc, and to the surprise of nil she began to get better from lira! dive, and half dozen dollar bottle* cured her sound and well. I)r , King's New Discovery ( r Consutrcp* i lion, < ough*ami folds is uuaranteed I to do this g<?>d work Try it. Free trial bottles at Crawford Bros' Drug I More j.?"8r* i oe? ? ine-ice ? water dui.ng sleep sopped immediately l?y Dk K Dktchon'h ? n i i Diukkhc Cures c'll'd n a I a lilts ali ve -Price, f I in d h?- J F 'o Druggist Lancaster. rt