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JEWELS MELTED. 4 TREAT (JON FLACi RATION : N MASSAC .ill'SETTS Thtreo Thousand Skilled Workman Out of Employment -Over a Million Lost. .\tleehoro, Mass, May.lv?Tin? strophe that had heen feared far rears because of the crowded situation of jewelry factories of VOe.e.boro, representingpractically 1 helown's entire industrial wealth, at last came to a dread reality ' early this morning. The line three and four story jewelry factories on either side of Mil! street caught lire at 12o'clock and in rin incon iderahle short time were biUKcil to the "round with their entire contents of delicate machiacy. tools and tinished and unl'tv.shed jewe!r\. Very little ?f j roperly \vo?tho\cr n million >f dollars was saved. Th'-ce thousand skilled '.vork ihmv. are thrown out of eni|>lov uiettt, with littIt- hone of soon 1 i ?ht?ir.inix inciim of livelthooil for themselves an I families. Four 1 larjje fro* ories, several -in ill ones, I i <in .on or lift eon dwelling houses, ' tour or live liarns, marhle works. < arm liter shops ami several oilier dmildiie_'s were destroyed. KNli A< iKMF.N I" AT rlKNFl'K<;os. 'Spanish Loss Mueh Heavier Than First Supposed Three Hundred Killed?The Marhlehcad's Headlv Fire. Kcv West, M:iv lb. ?The Spanish loss during tlio recent en or.tljetMwit at Cienfuogos i> now knH-.vw to lnvvc been much heavier ran at first reported. Three mvlrcd Spaniards were killed ad several hundred wounded. *>tvrat Dam age was done along the cnftKl. Soon, after the engagement Site I'nitcd States cruiser Marblehead picked up several Cubans in an open boat somo miles down the coast, including Colonel Oriz, Lieutenant Oivarez .and three privates from an insurgent camp near Cienfuegos. They reported that the Spanish losses ami the damage wrought by the shells from the warships were very heavy. The hospitals at Cienfuegos, they said, were full ,-nf wounded, and fear prevailed everywhere that the American warships would return to complete the w rk of destruction. A Wonderfril Dlnrovfry. The last quarter of a century records Muy wonderful discoveries in medicine, -msv. none that have accomplished more for Avmanitv tlian tlint sterling old household svwncdy, Itrowns' Iron Hitters. It seems to savtain (In* very elements of good health, mil neither man, woman or child can take . ct without deriving the greatest iienefit. r - i- ?1.1 i? -ii ? J Oi CE-LANCASTER GRADED CHO DL. jT? ail whom it may concern: t X'ufce notice that pursuant to a pe? iiiien bigntd by ten voters Mini freersr?sideiit in Lancaster Hchool OI wriot, we the un lersigned, Trustee-* of said District, d<? hereby call a --.public meeting to he composed of all (.brsee voters who are resident in and return for luxation in said District real or personal property of the value of not ires than one hundred dollars, to aaseiui>iein the (Jourt House at. Len OMtrn , 8 C., on Friday the ?7th day ?f May 1898 at 4 o'clock p an., for the 4>u rpoee of effecting a chairman and secretary of said meeting, five trustee# of naid school District, and of determining what special tax, if any, not Xocjceeed five mills, shall he levied, as tfce Majority present shall decide, on mil real and personal property within mmifl rtc.bool District for the maintenance of the public schools of sahl Disdet. This May 10. 1398. R F MILDER, IRA B 'ONES, W T GREGORY. O T CONNORS. M PCRAWFORD, Trn stees of Lancaster School Dlsatct. I IHHHHUHHHHHEHHHMHHIHflHIi for Infants < The Kind You Hi BEARS THE ! Money lo Loan., J H A\ K M AI)K nrraiitfenieiits with i lookers in New York City through whom I am utile to place Iflaiix, se>-ur? | eil hy a lir*t mm tirade on improved \ cotton liirinn, for mix \ear.M lime, tmyu* !>le in'in-taluient-i at '.lie ra e of 7 per j vein nor annum. The hr->keriiue mp! : t lie charge tor alls' rael ami inspection ! -ill' small ami at the expense of the borrow, r. K K. WYI.IK, Atty. at Law. Nov.'Jt, 4tn. I J pr^ry-pmi 88 J HA -50 s J !!^ 2i? -50 - TBI I t5gT" By paying your suhscripti the above popular papers at prices m ARE TOt* IX ARREARS! If so, you can give us your note tn Iia (Inn Hnouniluir I uf nnvf #<n your indebtedness to date, and pay your subscription one year in advanco and get the benefit of at>ove prices. # Address all 01 < T. S. C l I v f and Children. ????^^-? ? iYe Always Bought 8 SIGNATURE OF * I A ?&C/U44 I WUWOY tTWICT. wiwyowh CITY. A Land For Sale. "' !l 7oi| Here* *?f^?-?????l html 3A miles North- jj] rust ?f toxvii for sale cheap. Dwelling with two rooms. Mhetl loom ami pia/./.-i. ., Sprinn of line water convenient. Al . einitit Inuise on the preni Two iior-e farm open. All cash or I art cash ami part on time. Apply to AI.I.ISON ?fc Caktkk, Heal Estate Agents I a H1W YM WC f Three Times Each Week. 1 \ > cents for one ye MKTa ram sixteen Pages Every Week ;ents for one j I B$ME MB m Vee for one year. > on to TH k Lkimiku one year ie ad vain \ we quote al>ove. Cheap Enough. The ledger (Semi weekly). The [ New York World (Tri-wee kly) and Home and I4 arm, all three pa- 8 pers, one year for $2.15. n The Ledger (Semi weekly), The c Atlanta Oonstitution (Weekly) and Home and Farm, all three pnpers one year for $2.25. The Ledger (Semi weekly) and Homo and Farm one year for $1.50 Or, all four papers one year for ?a 00 *ders and make r< ARTER, **nbL % . N > . ] n k# . * v 1 H '** ' County Auditor Win G Eason, f Charleston, committed suicide v shooting himself in the breast ist Wednesday morning. Pro>nged ill health is the supposed nuse for his rash act. .ANCASTER AND CHESTER RAILWAY. ETWEEX CHESTER AND LANCA8TEK. chedulein efFeet Daily exeept Sunday on and after May 11, 1898. WESTBOUND I EAST BOUND, o's. 14 and IS. j No's, ifi and 17. M. P M. A M. I* M 45 6 00 Ar Chester Lv 11 06 7 25 65 5 26 RIcll burg 1141 8 10 42 5 16 Basconibville 11 50 8 20 P M 20 6 00 Fort Lawn 12 05 8 4o 45 4 80 Ly Lancaster Arl2 35 0 20 Train No 10, Sunday Only. . M. P. M. 00 Lv. Lancaster -4r. 8 55 180 Fort Lhwii * 8 25 146 Bas nmvllle 8 10 155 Richhiirg 8 01 30 Ar. t 'heater Lv. 7 25 Connects at Cluster with Southern ot'Way, Seaooard Air Line and Carina and North-Wt stern Railway. Connects at aneusier with the Ohio iver it t harleston. croy Springs, Pres , Lancaster, S. C. M Heath. <1 P. A , ' H Hardin, V P and Aud., Chester. V NUUB, ) ar HTM, J ear. 11, ? jo we will send you any one o I j subscribe: snow; if you are not already a uuh cril?er to The Ledger nubscrilx iow and get the t>enefit of 0111 InKKinn ratal / fgEfiffi 4#" omittance* to edger, ancaxtor, W. C. eRR%w ' # / % <;'-9 .: <9 ?> -M Frank Card well, a yout 1 years old, was thrown fr bflggy i" Columbia Wedne afternoon and almost insti killed. Mrs Leidy, who riding with him was also I hurt remaining unconscious several hours. Clarence Long, the 10 yea boy who shot and killed brother in-law, Hen I'm sum Spartanburg county, two ; a no and who was Servian i n o sentence in the penitentiary been pardonc<l by the govei j There were 4,000 names t< petition for his pardon. 1 'm Men will refrain from speaking when their totlow refra!ti from evil hearing. Tidied pain. 1 can l<? the samt o Herts result trout my pleas-mi uc-?. am! ..iLi..l':n I've tl v.-rii'tic:', th <loinu'm 11 branches ot scie I ?. Sp -rial :it lent ion Work. N i charge lor I 3r ..lia LAN) A' $5,C 'S' ^ This paper announces, Constitutution, a new o! <?si^_SEND IN THE COTTON GR< CONTEST BEGAN Jtt TO ENTER THIS CONTEST TO irr JIOT IN COI L_jEJ] ATTMIi EXT A. LOW PRK In connection with thia ( guess with the subscriptio - _ OIVE YOU A CHANCE AN EXTRAORDINARY Hare ll la, rrad II all very ear Firm AwarAi To the uierri- Hrrai ber or ?utj?enber? naming iha acrltM riMt namhrr ar araraal la lha atari a a at War of ImIm in ,hc Ibo cotton crop of IW! M w* will (Wo If | (It* if lb* aMImatr a ranlvol $2,500 ?S8r U11^"Aprt'-.... 2,000 ,f?8W If During Mayor < EAA If burl Jan*. IMn. I (DUU June If During July or , nnn If burl August. IMC I ,UUU Augu SO, THAT THE FIRST THRE Note Specially. THE EXACT figures. Somebod Constitution by any means. Those ceiri proportionately the highest |irii pires and because the number of ball can be known exactly, leaving shorte In all three of the cases suhmitti one correct or equally correct estima eamed will be divided equally amonf There is no "missing word" in this, f correct answer, but this is brain ver ures versus figures. Every man is i varies the price and the price of col prosperity, a ?m On Such a Viti THE CONTES' The estimate is to be made upor crop that has already been gathered I will show it from Sept. I, 1897, to S< this spring, because the figuies there the crop already in and marketed, of j As a guide for making your estimate The conditions under which this la r meats for you to compute from and The figure* given by I^tham, A throughout the South as official, and "Bolton Movement and Fluctuation Season Acres planted Bales ir 1887 88 . . . 18,961,897 7,041 188889. . . 19.36a.071 6,93 1889 90. . . to, 171,896 7,31 1890-91 . , . 20,809,053 8,(65 18919a . . . ao.714.937 9.03 Tbair flftirsa sell Their Ettimate of the Acreage for ttx Ftltowlng Art tM CtndHlons EXACT seCUaate iyo? lh? nantar of la ma estimate, bail If U< Brat pnrre (ormtip ika atari figures, Ian Ik* m?n IklM artesa far IKa Iklrl aeareet Mlaal*. An. am a- If aomeane akaiM aubn.lt taweoae aboaM hi4 a eerreot aatlaaata la taaai lb* second prlMt. bariaaaa the Si aaaoaat norrartl r la tba former parted. Tut en?Tba aoadlUaa proorde lit tee Hanb maat be aroem panted by a raar i paper publishing this adeartlaamaal la ao will ba farwardad. Tbta muat ba seal la 1 >ia*si ilpMnii Yaa eaanot snbeertbe isa 1 M aaS bp a. a ideal a* aihsi aba. at bat ke? raaaao atl annua aas la aaad aa abaili a* MS a! alt. ta aaad tag yaar aaltasate be as aaea in termardlag rear retiaaate. bail tba eertelatr af tba farteaedlag W tba ? II ba asKiM ta a abate of tba prtt?-f and aaat Parsaaa aaap taker tba eoateet aa state sat a Mae reset ea a prist sltb aae( Poem?la Making pane tea mi. f adl. ba . " Make poar flgniat stnnt tanpemt tba taliMtiit .an htea Ma tea paureelf aepane Mania trill aallOa ft A DP* WWW I LB] LA^ ,h 14 The rainy season in Cuba boom a fii'is in M'iy or dune and ends in isduy November. The most rain falls intlv *n September an-' Oetober. The was ayernge number of rainy days in rndly ? year is 10'2. * ^ot Havana harbor, one of tae tin! est in the world, is entorod from r old tiU5 northwest by a channel which '''s is narrow for three eights of u '* 1,1 mile and then opens into a mag>e:us niticicnt bay. i life ,ms ^SUBSCRIBE ' ! , TO THE rnor- LEDGE ro ) the _ n .V? Cin e?A o Jfuu I'll ' ?? mi v-i,' ill IruK'^iHtH we (>vj| UUilVKil'S T.\-TIH.K-S ? HILL iiiNIi i n rim >iiii.ii Mhinita. It i men >ini|iia> ir i*tuni im< i<i n la?ini'i-n form i'ii'.I.i iv i* a.iuiln prefer it to ..to -ii ii.oiiiii h 1'rirt*. 6i-c A .. . ?' " * 1 atise 1 extracted his tooth without d for you. Neither pain nor after extracting. Mv methods suggest L'tion instead. o "know "now" *1111! faeiluvs for nulie dentistry at'the least cost, given to Gold Crown and llridge examination.- ami estimates. :tlsdg&, Oentisl, 'AS 1 Kit. >. t: * - Jmfml m. I . "'X'. Cash Offer! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ in connection with The Atlanta Weekly tier in which everyone nuy have a chance. AN ESTIMATE, 0N.^^> OP SEASON OF 1897-98 MGA1-E.NDS SE?PT. 1/98. U MUST SUBSCRIBE FOR . NNECTION WITH "PQ "RTF? :HEb^-LY $2.00 Clubbing Rate, we will, II you send your n price, forward all for you and thus IT THE SPLEMPID CASH MtttS OFFERTOWSU BC RIBERS! fally and be aara yaa lUtnuU tk( Itran <1 A ward I To lb? iub- Third Award i Ta th? tabir or ?ubocri(j,r? ntmini ecrtber aaaalag U>? aaeaad I aril aearaat ?' will aaxt aaaraat wa will glvi IT llir ailuaU I* raorlrad Um MUmtU a raotlad "r : S1,600 tStf T*, % 1,000 Apr"' ... 1,250 ,riiSlrtl,.*.Apr,l.L 760 VnX".?Z 1,000 600 ingJulror TEA If Duties July er OCA itl, IM IDU AKVU. IM *011 e prizes mourn TO >6,OOP III cash. if EXACT figure* ire not given daring this conthe money will be paid out to the NEAREST TO y will get the money, it doe* not go back to the The who solve the problem at the longett range will reel, a* you notice the figure* grow leas as the time eies received up to certain date*, as the tine advances, r time and probabilities to figure against, rd it is distinctly understood that, should more than >ie be filed in the contest, the amount of the prises so ! the correct answers. The prise* are offered in cash, no probability for some one to know absolutely the sus brain, skill versus skill, pencil versus pencil, fignterested in the cotton crop, the amount of the crop iton in our territory is the barometer of the people's nl Problem You Ought to Hake Figures. r CLOSES SEPT*- 1st i the total United Stales Cotton Crop for 1897-98, tho and is now in the country a* official figures of receipts rpt. 1, 1898 This is not the crop that is to be planted on will not be obtainable until Sept, I, 1899. It is for facial figures of which will bo announced in September. ; we give omctai figures lor tub of I be last tea crops. ?t crop was grown sad its probable output are elewitl aid in the correctness of your preseat est ha ale lciandrr 8 Co.. of New Yore, are generally received I we given an exact copy boa their latest edition ef s" as follows: i crop Season Acres planted Bales la crop 6.833 >893-93 . . . 18.067.934 6.700.365 8,190 1893-94 . . . 19.684.00* 7,349,817 1.33a 1894 95 . . *1.454.OOP 9.901,351 *.597 1895-69. . 18.883.aop 7.157.34* 5.379 1896-97 . . . as.341,OOP 8.757.964 1 bo used In deciding this eoatast. 1 Crap of th? Snwi af1897-98 la 23,320,000 Asm. ot tin count: iW, IM prltea offered aaOov lee sraaaS ereeeeHiee wtil n le ere (trvn for the N RAP RRT ?tluiSi, ae ?M heeta| * ?? 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