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?fae Xmmisfor Hedger. on;Mi WEEKLY LANCASTER, 8. 0, AUGUST 16 1*99 ""ESTABLISHED 1852 "** 1 MIUTDIil rvDncnr-r* tvrl inuiVItlAU U It LS Vj IV Vj 1 ' I THE KING CASE. -fury Stood 7 for Murder, 5 for Man-Slaughter?King Killed Ah? Brother-in-Law?The The Novel Defense. Special to The State. Greenwood, Aug 10.?The ?ovel case of the State vs. King 'bq^an on the 9th and continued ^rabroken up to today. ;Ber.roan E King wan on trial for killing T W Mabrj, his 'brother-in-law, at Hodges, S C, the 30th day of August, 1898. (The case attracted much attention ?evidenced by a full court '-luwtse all the time?on account of vtbeaerelty of the defense set up. Ht was contended that owing to .Aacta drawing in question the 'fidelity of his wife to him, the <4fafendant, King, came by con-efcacrt brooding over the matter to ? tVirmAmcnioo AS* mm UlUUVUiaUlRV V/U l/UU C1J IfJCV/tf aad was consequently Dot responaiU? tor bis terrible deed. To .wustain this plea the fact of the <rtsitendant's having been subject to fits while a child, and his con* -staat tendency to talk exclusively tofMs trovble for months before :the homicide, together with an Vsaauiuue of expert testimony relating thereto, were brought forward. Drs Cobb, Neill and Aocfchalier were examined as ex* apert witnesses. JlU the arguments were of an 'exceptionally high order, and -wean man (led the unbroken attention of the large audience. The jury went cut at 6 o'clock -1*4* evening, and this morning ^reported their inability to agree, -Whereupon Judge Gary ordered a am stria!. It is generally under -alwel that the jury stood seven iter-coviction of murder, and five far conviction of manslaughter. Mayer Woodward Refuses to Reeign and Council Will Make Official Investigation. Atlanta, Ga., Aug 10.?Mayor .Jasaes G Woodward has refused do purchi.se immunity from impeachment or punishment for -alleged past offences at a cost of <evea conditional resignation. The city couocil this afternoon passed the Thompson resolution providing tor an official investigation of the mayor's conduct by -* committee of five. William Powers shot and killed John ttichey in the yard of the Utter in the lower edge of Oconee conaty last Thursday. Powers fled 'bet was overtaken and lodged in jail. Kichey was 50 years old and Powers is 65. 1 4K.F-M ARKABLK KKNCUK Mrs Michael Curtain, Plainfield, III., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr King's New Dis -oovery for Consumption; she b?i$it a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first dote. She continued its use And after taking six-bottles, found feerself sound and well; now does Iter ?vd housework, and is as -wvll as she ever was.?Free trial 4>ott2ea of this Great Discovery at Oawford Bros' Drug Store. Only SO cents and $ 1.00, every bottle ^paan-anteed. nan ii s N?nkifi?? i%.miw r+i? PUK THOUSANDS KILLED IN THE HURRICANE. Later Reports Swell the Aggregate of Loss of Life. Two Thousand Perish Near Ponce. Terrible Condition of Affairs Exists. Ponce, Puerto Kico, Aug 12 ? The terrific wind which accompanied the recent storm destroyed the crops and demolished a number of houses and caused great loss of human life. A large number of cattle were killed. The storm was most severe in the central part of the island and | along the southern coast. Three hundred bodies have been buried in the city of Ponce, and it is estimated that 2,000 persons were drowned in the Ponce district. The number of people of the lower classes loss is not known, but it is certain that there were few fatalities among the people of the better class and none among | the Americars. The work of cleaning away the debris progresses slowly. Senor Luis Gautier has been ippoieted Alcade, the former incumbent of the office having been deposed on account of negligence. Considerable unrest has been manifested among the people and a cavalry patrol has been establish ed. The water supply has been restored. I During the progress of the storm the municipal hospital was wrecked and its patients were re moved to the military hospital. Yabucoa, Ad juntas and Huniacao were devastated and in some instances entire villages swept out of existence. One hundred persons are reported to have l>een killed on a coffee plantation. Everybody is ruined, pestilence threatens and money and work are needed, and a newspaper up~ peal has been made to the American people for relief. The calami ty, with the commercial depression, has produced a terrible condition of affairs. ! Both Americans and Puerto Eticans demand the adoption immediately of a definite, permsnent policy on the part of the government. San Juan de Puerto Rico, Aug 12.?According to an official report received here, the nort of m w V Areclbo was destroyed during the recent severe storm, the place being inundated by water from the ocean and river; 200 bodies are in the morgue there and hundreds of persons are missing. A number of wealthy citizens who lived on plantations in the suburbs were drowned. The command ing officer of the district has ordered that the bodies of the rictims of the disaster shall be buried where they are found. San Juan has l>een applied to for supplies. According to the latest report from Yabucoa, 80 bodies were bnried there Wednesday, while the remains of 200 victims have not been recovered. The church is the only building left standing. It is rumored that a number of American soldiers were killed at Mayaguez. 1-jT" Fay your subscripiton to Lbdoxr! Of. MtWMnjS*0ir?vurti(?w) to i sIM?S 'Tfow ?* * imm?' ENEMY SURPRISED R BY THE AMERICANS, T Majority of Them Were Asleep When Artillery Opened Fire. a< ANGELES FIHEI) BY THE ti REBELS. Tl tl ? Recruits in New Regiments Be* w have Well ? Filipinos' Causalty tl List Heavy. P P .... C Manila, Aug 11.?Gen Mac~ .( Arthur's troops remained last ^ night at C alumet. The rebels had n evidently fled far beyond rifle a range, for the American outpost were not disturbed and not a shot '' was fired during the night. At daybreak this morning a recon ^ noitering party, consisting of a / battalion of the Seventeenth in* tl / t _:tk ?.u ?- f iauii jr, nru line UQIU [UOtO, started up the railroad track to- * ward Angela, four miles north, jj The party approauhed within 1,? t 200 yards of the town and opened fire with the field gun. The ? Americans were received with a ? badly directed rifle tire which the ( battalion of the Seventeenth re- j turned with a few volleys. ? The strength of the insurgents c at Angeles not being known, the * situation was reported to Gen c MacArthur who did not desire Ic j send reenforcements and directed | the reconnoitering party to re- \ turn unless the rebels abandoned 1 the town. Soon after the receipt 1 of these orders, it became evident j that the rebels had set fire to the j town and fled, leaving the place j to be occupied by the Americans. 1 A battalion of the Twelfth in- ( fantry was also sent on a recon- 1 noiterng ^expediition toward the j west, but up to noon no firing had ( been heard in their direction and \ no word has been rcccired from!1 them at Gen MacArthur1# head- * quarters and it is believed they encountered nothing. Everything indicates that all the rebels have scattered for miles in j every direction around Calumet. It is believed that a hundred were killed and three or four hundred wounded. The Iowa regiment killed 30 in one place ( and one company of the Seven- , teenth suddenly encountered a , party of rebels in a trench and , killed 12. The American loss was five , killed and 31 wounded, including three officers. The attack was a complete | surprise to the insurgents who bad no idea that a movement was intended until the armored cat opened a deadly fire with two Gatlings, a revolving cannon and a six-pounder. The heavy artillery opened on both flanks a moment later. A majority of the Fili pinos were asleep when the attack was made. Men with large bells were heard running among the shocks arousing the soldiers. The Americans maintained almost a perfect line four miles long, through canebrakes where they could see nothing ahead. The uiuu iu jiibvos was mee neep in the rice fields and jungles and through the ditches flowed small rivers several feet deep. Several buildings were struck by lightning during an electric storm at Florence last Thursday afternoon. The gin house of W M Gregg was burned; loss, $500 ?no insurance. iOUNDLAP COTTON BALES. 0 Sutibfy tbo Demand the Entire Crop Will Eventually be so Baled. ? For once the cotton planter has n ally among the great corpora,ons. For years the cotton tie ing, the bagging combine and le compress people have all lived ff the cotton grower. There ras no way to tight them and so hey grew rich on their enormous rofits, which the farmers had to ay. Now the American Cotton lompany with its Roundlap bale 1 in the field and it is so revolu~ ionizing the cotton handling busi ess that many of the old expenses re necessarily wiped out. The armers must inevitably get a irge share of this saving, but the Id compress people and the bag ing and tie trust are raising a ;reet commotion against the Lroerican Cotton Comnaav as bough they had always been the t riends of the farmer. Unfor- i unately for them they never ( ilayed the friendly act before and iow the farmers doubt theainceriy of their repentance. 1 The Houndlap bale is the trade < nark name given by the Araeri- j *n Cotton Company to its round ?ale to distinguish it from all ther bales. The cotton mills of ' Sew England and of Europe are 1 pager buyers of this hale be sause as compared with all other | Miles it has many advantages , sovered by broad patents, which rreatly lessen the cost of manufacture to the mill. This Roundap bale eliminates two or three i processes in manufacturing and as ;he cotton mills of the world are prilling to pay more for this cotton than any other, it naturallv follows that to secure the highest prices all southern cotton must in ,ime be put up in this Roandlap form. Mr Wm C Lovering, one >f the most distinguished cotton nill men of New England says:? "I do not hesitate to say that he time is coming when the coton manufacturers all over the world will insist that their cotton thall be delivered to them in the form of a Roundlap bale.1' NEGROES A NUISANCE. Ln Pennsylvania They Are Con sidered Detrimental to Public Health. Wilkeabarre, Pa., Aug 11.? Contractor George S Post of this sitv, who brought 60 negroes from the south here to work on sewers, was arrested this evening charged with aiding a nuisance. When the negroes arrived here they refused to work, claiming they had been promised $1.50 a day. Then they became a public charge and lived in filth and squalor. The health officers said the health of> the community was endangered. Gen Wheeler Entertained at Honolulu. Honolulu, Aug 3, ria Victoria, B C, Aug 11.?The transport Tartar, with General Wheeler aboard arrived here August 1st and sailed August 3d. General Wheeler was handsomely entertained during his stay here. Will McLure, col., 18 years old, was lynched near Clem, Ga., last Friday morning for an attempted assault on Mrs George Moore. A severe storm visited Union last Friday. Trees were uprooted, telegraph and telephone poles were blown down, and several stores and a number of dwellings were I unroofed. | For The Ledger. VAN WYCK ITEMS. Van Wyck has been visited by ;ood rains and crops are doing rell, but are not up to an average. )ur farmers are wearing happy aces and most of thorn are through vith their work and are taking a ittle recreation, in hunting, lish ng and visiting. Van VVyck post office has beer nade a money order office. Oui )ostmaster has all the blanki eady for business. This will b< k great convenience to the comuunity for sending small amounti lafely through the mails at ? wall cost to the sender. Mr J W Bates has been appointee ipecial clerk for the money ordei business. The trustees of Van Wycl 1V.UUUI UOTC VJITTVtCVi Hi I u UC V-/vlll jors, of Lancaster, teacher, an< ichool will begin next Monday. There will be preaching a Beulah Presbyterian church Satur iay and Sunday by Her W M Ratchford. Rev R E Mood haa been con iucting a protracted meeting a Belair church this week. An old colored woman, Susai Stinson, died last Saturday 01 the Robertson piace, at the ad vanced age of 103 years. Sh was the mother of John Stinso and the late Kit Stinson. Joh Stinson is an old man abou seventy and he was the youngei child of Susan Stinson. Old aut Susan said she was sixty-fiv years old when the war broke 01 in South Carolina. Her memor seemed to be clouded and sh could not tell much of the even! before the war. She was a goo christian and her whole thought seemed to be on heaven. Sh did not care to talk of any thin else and patiently waited to t called home. Improvements are still goin on around Van Wyck. The latei is a street car line constructed b the Juniors. They hare not co* pleted the line but have invite visitors to take a ride on th portion completed. Those wh have accepted invitations, ai well pleased with the courtes and pleasant ride given them h this juvenile company. The committee on arrangemen and grounds for the Woodmi pic*nic on Aug 16th have select< the grove at Mr Claud Beckham at Cureton's mineral spring. Th t is a tine selection?good shade plenty fresh water, and groun< | easily approached. Cedar Cau extends a cordial invitation to i friends to join it in a good o time basket pic nic. There w be several prominent speakers ( hand to make addresses, who w be escorted by the Woodmen on horseback procession from tl train at Springdell to the pic r grounds. Mrs J F Clyburn and childr of Winnsboro, are visiting H Clyburn's mother, Mrs M Crenshaw and other relatives. The sick of the neighbor ho are all improving. J M Yo<l is still confined to his room wi ruvuuinuMii. PVThe Enterprise has a new V Wyck correspondent. Its c ones?"Bill Doolittle,1' "Go mentor" and "Old Hickor; seemed to have passed out of c istence, without a funeral. ^ do not know who this new one as he did not give his name, t we presume he is a young Hickoi and wish him abundant success a dotter. May he grow up unyielding as the "Old Hickor of our own historic land. Optimus. #. HAIL RUINS YV11K AT. 300,000 Acres Destroyed, a Loss of Moro Than $2,500,000. St Paul, Aug 11. ? Reports to Great Northern railroad officials ( place the destruction by yesterk day's hail storm in'North Dakota and Minnesota at 300,000 acres. If the wheat should average not over 12 bushels to the acre this means a loss of 3,000,000 bushels. In some places the wheat will average 15 bushels to tho acre. Three and a half bushels is considered a fair estimate of what remains undestroyed. At 70 I cents per bushel, this moans a j loss of over $2 500,000. WILL SIMS A MONSTKK. i * | His Child Dies From Effects of 1 Hie inhuman Treatment. t Special to The State. Rock Hill, Aug 13.?Yester^ day, before Magistrate Beckham, the preliminary trial of Will Sims, ' the inhuman beater of hia own * baby child, was held. The evidence was revolting and he was n shown to be a monster. Sims is 0 a mere boy himself. He is a mulatto with nothing unusual in ? his appearance other than eyes so D large and prominent that he is n known as "Big-eyed Will." Magistrate Beckham sent him up to jail at Yorkville to await trial under the warrant for "assault ? and battery with intent to kill." ^ This morning at 3 o'clock the y child died. The acting coroner ie held an inquest and the verdict was in accordance with the above ^ facts and the finding murder. He ' will therefore be indicted for that ,e crime. K * Dr J C Maxwell, founder of the Connie Maxwell orphanago e and a leading spirit in every good woi c, died at his home at Greeny wood last Saturday evening. 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