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1M1E LEDGER. Th^rloiv S. Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. SATI RDAV, < >< "T. lS'.tS. W e wonder sometimes if the lunatics who howl for seizure hy tin* I'nited States of all the Phil- j lipines cvcf have a uflimmerinp of i an id a of what tliev are talking I ahe;:-. I: we i;:i lertake the Avol'k we will have to do olio of two i tiling hold a few eitie- and ports' :i!)< I b-'tvc the balance of tllC tci'l'l- 1 torv iii anarchy ami insurrection : ; or >uli]in_'ate tin- natives thoroughly. Has anybody stopped to count the c >-1 of suhjuiratim: million-. of people at the other end of the world and in a tropical connfry the cost in life by hat tie and disease tons; the cost m murder, iho cost in money ; The newspapers and orators who are clamorim: Ion lest for holding' the Philippines shriek nio-t uisnmllv and vehement'y when a man dies of typhoid fever or is denied all the comforts ?f home in a camp. If the democratic party had the brains and ci ura^e to attack this annexation and expansion folly and crime, leaving the currency issue alone, it would enlist the common sense and humanity of 1 lit? people and would not only control the next congress hut elect the next president. ? Green ville News. INDIAN FIGIIT. Ten Fnited States Soldiers Killed front A in hush in Minnesota. Walker. Minn., Oct. f>.?A tierce engagement between Indians and soldiers took place this morning at Boyd. \h-Wege, Shirk's l*oint. The Indians opened lire, killing ten soldiers. The Indians' loss is urknown. The buttle was terrific. General Bacon's Santiago voterans fought gallantly and made a ti list I charge that drove the Indians from their ambush. I I'wo Negroes Killed and Three Fatally Hurt in a Free Fight. Harmony (trove, Ga., Oct .*? ? Two negroes were killed outright :ind three fatally hurt :it a ne^ro jiolit!< :?! i/iithorinir last ni^ht at Milier > muid, in this count v. Dewey Will he Vivo Admiral. Washington. D C <)ct. r?. The trrade of Vice Admiral will he revived fur the henolit of Dewey I who will he tlitis elevated. I I tenth r.f Mrs V W MeMus'or. j I ( Vi!iinihin, Oct. f> ? Mrs F \\* Mc.Master, wife of Col F W Me- ' I .Master, died here this morning. Ilent 1 \Y (Vinson's new ad. It j speaks for itself. Two I^ives ami $.*>00,000 in propfit v were lost ::t Brunswick, (in., Itirniir th ' storm ofSundnv. A tidal wave drove a mass of water upon 1 lie eii; and all tin* business section was sr.'micrm d to the depth of 5 feet. ! ive vessels worts cast ashore in the linrhiir One Woman's Word ... "I consider Atf.r's Pilfs the best in the world." Mrs. A. C. WESTON. , 29 Pearl St., T.aconia, N. H. I All Women's WW l9IIUfff m m m irr 11#^* Nehvf Pr.altersrurc RTIF.FMA- i Tlt'M. WEAK HACKS. At rirtinclftte. only ?<?. PRIMARY ENJOINED. Supreme Court Forces Berkeley Candidates to (Jo to the General Election. Special to The Daily News. I Columbia,.S. C., Oct. 4.?Chief .Justice Mclver has enjoined the holding of a second primary election in Berkeley county. The State democratic executive coin-, nrttee, after hearing argument in the Morrison-Sanders contest, decided to order a second primary. Sanders, who won on the face of I the returns, applied for a writ of j I eertiori and the State executive j committee have been enjoined noli | to hold the second primary. The ease cannot he heard before the general election and both I ! candidates will likely go there. I 1 To have a primary stopped by ! the supreme court is unexpected and this coupled with the talk 1 about the injunction in the Charleston water works case causes some people to sav that the State court is going as far as the l,Ydoral courts in injunction-. IN PKVKN S E OF 111S M OT H K R I I 1 A 17- Year < )ld Boy Stabs a Tough in the Heart. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 4. ? Francis: P. O'Connor, 17 years of age, a moulder's apprentice, staobed dolin Kitchen to the heart in do- j fense of his mother's honor at their home this morning. Kitchen, | D ' I who died instantly, vas an oyster opener and an all round tough character, having served two years in the penitentiary. O'Con- ] nor surrendered to the police immediately after the killing. Public feeling is on his sido, and it is not expected that the law will hold him. ! MURDERER CAPTURED AFTER EIGHT LONG YEARS Flic Old Adago "Murder Will Out" Again Comes True ? (tood Work of Greenville Police. Special to The State. Greenville, Oct. 5. ? "Murder will out.*' Henry Griffin, colored, ! has been arrested for killing an- ! other negro, Tite Carson, on the . railroad below Greenwood on March *2bth, 1.500. Last night Griffin and some! negro women while drunk raised a disturbance in a negro settlement and (iiitlin was arrested for disorderly conduct by Policemen Hatcher and MoCarrcll. Chief Kennedy and his men' suspected that ho was the slayer of Carson and this morning SherritT Nance of Abbeville county was communicated with. ' . i Deputy Nance came here and took i Griffin to Abbeville this afternoon. When the crime was committed the scene was in Abbeville coon " t\\ but is now in the new (ireen-l wooil county, and the case will bo transferred. After Deputy Nance arrived i Uriflin confessed, saying that I Carson was making for h'm with1 a big knife when he shot Carson's , hrnins out with a double-barreled shotgun. 1 l or live years the negro has|j lived on I'ineknoy McBee's place with has family and this year has a good crop. l'rcvioiislv he worked with Joe I>. ('hallos and has not been farther than this from Abboville. The Greenville police ran upon I his catch hy keeping their eyes open and if there is a reward standing llatcher and McCarrell are tho lucky men. J. H. , No-To-B?c far Fifty Cewt*. Guaranteed tohaceo uablt enre, mikfi weak men strong, blood pure. Me V. All druggist* f ' ' *(l .M ; o. T i> Coin poli! THE PEOPLE JHEY ARE SH W| ARE 5 ALL oi 1 There is su> lis ing a quiet talk * them; the> iire t WHY, We have Ktl'm the Slate oruhnrlti ?snfl ibiI di JMVW G3SBU fTCS Old Yoo ever he We are the "M is the praise de fanners of old L; tion (lien by brin, a bale without l\f will in a !i minute to call hij? own. \\ c are wo time. tun mi\ slop 1 1 BRINC US n t %/ v//^ but yt Ami, above all. of the farmer. fhe bij;fret>t prohibition election ever held, took place in .the Dominion of Canada last Thursday. It included the whole Dominion, and the question was on the prohibition of the mamifact- v ure, importation or sale of intoxi- , e eating lupior in all that vast terri- 1 b tory. And prohibition won by a 1 ' majority that is now estimated at . between 20,000 and 30,000. The J provinces of Quebec and Ontario J voted against prohibition; but a Nova Scotia, New Rrunswick, 't Drince Ivlwurd Island, Manitoba t and Ihitidi Columbia were over- J M whclminglv for it. There in I |i nothing actually hit ding about j H I he election; but it will have a V powerful influence on the government and the Prohibitionists believe that their principles will soon be made law. Ileanty la Illood Deep. Clean t)lood menna a clean skin. No n vauty without it. C'ascareltt Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean, by s itirring up the lazy liver and driving all im Hiriti<>? frnm lhi> Kmlv Upoi n In.ilnu fn S >nm?hi pimulen, boil*, bUtckiea, k I and that *iekly bflioUB comulexioQ by takiflK * Cawnretft?brautjr for Unteitn. Air dcwggints, satuiaction giiaranl*^ IVft 26ft 50cft 1 t ' , i ' ' ;.*! ; ' Wo should not allow our faith r In the good apd the true to ** 8 shaken hy the evil conduct of 8 wicked men and devils. c Hon Pa m with us owing nieiss i e of taking llse I) ^i31? Iticii). Yoi ^oing to sni|>s>oi-{ got the BEST G h Who mi s let do you supp we it before 1 lilk in the Cnnr * m man w vv w sm ie. We sirs i liicnslcr. Sliovi ?iii? us jour Coi 'tin (J us see it. "j mm si rkin</ night and day. \\ o arc for TH1:Y *oco<rn i/e YOUR COT >UR GOODS , remember we ; aSSfe .'U7s, -issgsa IF !. ERASBT'S JEWELRY ST?M lid not enjoy great advantages ; iimity and experience together | vith a splendid ieputation, we ould not carry the largest stock, ell the best yoods for so little. noncy, and do business in 4 i oni ties. 4UK GOODS SF.LL THEM* SELVES. The exclusive designs, low pi ices il l hi|_di irrade makes our store! he place for von to trade. The Biggest Liar Wins nmeiimes, but we La\e a ttulliftiI re* iie*entative customer In every see-, ion of tie 4 counties to testify to our bsoiote reliabi ity. Invesliitioo thoroughly ami you v111 sew wisilom in trading with R BRANDT, The Jeweler, Clie&tcr, S, C. "What time is it, my lad?"! sked an American traveler of a mall Irish hoy, who was driving , couple of cows home from he fields. "About 12 o'clock ir," replied the boy. "1 thought t was more." "It's never no nore here," returned the lad in urprise. "It just begins at one gain" _ >r. Miles'Jhain Ptllm trr guaranteed tomtom iMMbMke In20 minute#. "Oaa cent a doaa/' i raiized! i oil* and liav* :i can't change tlreij own cause. iotton maro ? Why, evoss csused it 1 > &fp ? mh}i i' ' * r t'V l;8Wj k ^ TO KR$ ?! T? ns? ;ja;ju6t a w yd fighting for the your appreciation. Do sell vol' SOMK PRICKS that wil eves (if our competitors. Hut at very man in the store is so lnisy 11 the trade that lie lias not not i the people, lirst, last and all the us as their friends. TIIKY AKt their tiirht as well as ours. TON. ; FROM us are (lie friends s siu gSjL \ Senator McLaurin's success it securing the location of Yolunteei csimps at ('oltimhia, Spartnnburj and (Jrconville, will bring ou from some of tin* papers the taun of 4 4 ltcpiihl Senilism.'' Had hi not succeeded, he would havi hcen called a "lightweight.'' 1 seems to us that if ability to se euro for his constituents a fai share of what is going, is si tes of si good representative, Senate McLaurin stands about as high a any man South Carolina has hai in Washington for quite a while ? Yorkvillo Enquirer. "iniifti rcil tlif tortures of tlio iIhiiiiii c with proLrudlng pilw l>rou?.i>' ffk by cowslip* tion with which I was aflllrtrrt for twentj VCiirs I ran across vour CASCARKTS In On town of Newell, Ia.. :?inl never found nn\ thini to pijiiiil them To-day 1 am entirely free fron piles and feel like a new man ' C. H. Kkitz. till Jones St . Sioux City. Ia. CATHARTIC ^ iKtoOCI?l45?h n?ADt mask Raoiargeto Pleaaant. ValataMeTrotent, Taste Good f> Good, Never Nlokia. Weaken, or Gripe. MV?. tic. 'Jx ... OURS CONSTIPATION. ... M.rtt.| i..?.'t. CMtage, lMlrt.1, Mm Terk. SI1 Mil Tfl DIP Sold and guaranteed by all drag RU' I U"D A v flats to CTRCTohaeeo Habit. No morphine or opium In Dr. Miles' Pax PitX*. Ock? All Pafn "One cent a d jee.'^ Local Matters; **f 1 t --Dr. G. W Poovoy in putting; si new roof on liis residence. ?The town council is putting: in tiling at the crossing of Cenic tery and Meeting Streets. ? Mr .1 II Iluoy lost a mult this week which ho says was .'14 years old and had done valuah t set* vice. ? A number of very prominent lawyers are attending court here this week. Among them is Geo N Trenholm of Charleston. \V !) Trantham of Caaidon, I> A Covington of Monroe. T F McDow of Yorkvillc, and .1 L Glenn of Chester. ?There will he preaching at (Jills Creek A K 1' church tomor. row at 11 a in., and at Huford at 2 30 p. m., hv the pastor, 1 (ev J> L Oates. ?The registration hooks arc c* % closed until after the general olee tion. The hoard will now proeeed to post up tin* hooks preparatory to turning them ovci to the managers of election for the several precincts. ?Mr. .1 S Stephenson of thicounty, has a chicken hen which* he has had now for thirteen years.. I This is the tirst year she lias fail 1 ed to lay any eggs and to hatch a brood of chickens, hut she has raised a brood which another her* f deserted. ? Magistnate Secrest turne<f ovei '^20. to the Treasurer, tines collected for the last quarter: ? Don't forget that the annual.' I meeting of the Lancaster Pible* t Society will he held in the A. K . P. church tomorrow night, liev J. E. Carlisle will deliver ihe address. Everybody is expected.. ?Mr. John (>. Mobley ot < Pleasant Hill left hero Tuesday morning on the 7 o'clock train* | with his lovely little daughter.. | Hennie, for Cedar Springs, S.C., where he will leave little Hennie* as a pupil of the South Carolina Institution. We wish for the* bright little girl every success. Mr. John S. McCain oi" i *.. : -- *t ' * * - i ii inn i-yuuiy, v ., was in kiwi one day this week. So confident , is he that North Carolina will he * freod from negro domination after the coming election, that hevows that he will never spit on. American soil again until the rule of the white man is restored even, in New Hanover county, where, he says, all the otlicials are no. grocs. The State is organized., into red shirt clubs as was Soutlk Carolina in 1^7?l and our tar heel. r brothers are determined. ' Railroad Engineer Testifies to Benefits Recoivpd From r* j Dr. Miles' Remedies. m4 r?n r.Hr, is no more responsible positlm.-, I R on earth than that of a railroad engin cor. On hi9 steady nerves, clear hrain, ' bright eye and perfect self command, ae? nend the safety of the train and the live* n of its passengers. Dr. Miles' Nervine and other remedies are especially adapted to. keeping the ucrves steady, the brain olenr and the mental faculties unimpaired* Engineer F. W. McCoy, formerly oMV Itroad way, Council RlnfTs, but now residing k at 3411 Humboldtht., lienver, writes that he "wll ITrmri r^~ _ ....... .v,. ,?!!. irtim cgnnup'.ilon, t'au* f ing sick, nerrous and bilious hoadacbse and * was fully restored to health by Dr. Miles* Nefre ft Lieer I?Hls. I heartily recommend Dr. Ml)**' Itemed its." MPMHHK. Dr. Miles' Itemrdlea^Hff* fv, o are sold by all drug-MR,* gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle|Hm||dlite8 benefits or money ra-E; Rsstos^B ' funded. Book oa dis-BL, eases of the heart and aerree free- Address. " DM, MALBB MEDICAL 00.. kCkhart, (ML