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f \ v \ ' ZHH~ .~latp'r:;:^zr" z ~ I ^ Bamily Newrpaper .For <A? /Vw;w^m qf Poiiticcd, SOc**l, Agricultural amd Clmmmereial Jnter**U. j ^..i-VVEKKLY L A N O A S I' E K, 8. oXA U li'u ? T 23 1899 ESI'ABLIKHK\) i*f>2 ** . J Will ENTER ^IlITC I PUICE OP MVAT tm nn r'i? ??-? U11JU JUI11UU uU 1 1 JI Action to be Taken in the , Penitentiary Matter. I p The Attorney General Directed to Proceed in the Manner Ho I Thinks Best?Resolutions j Adopted. | at v i Columbia Record. The penitentiary directors with ^ the attorney general met in the j governor's office today, and after a session lasting about an hour, I gave out the followit g resolutions I ^ as the result of the meeting: |0 "Resolved, That the attorney I C general ho and hereby is cmpowered and directed to collect j , the amounts due by tho various I . I rt parties as set forth in the report ^ of the investigating committee to, . c< tae governor, and in connection j ^ therewith to britijjr such suits as b C( ho deems proper ami defend such ^ as lie may advise may be brought ^ against tho penitentiary authorities, and, in general, to take control' . from a legal standpoint of all matters in connection with this ro P' port. u The attorney general has not yet deioded when he will act or <c exactly what course ho will pur- j ^ sue, but ho will give the matter j c( immediate attention. ^ Colonel Neal was not present, I j. nor was any representative of his I ^ in the city. So fur as could bo j learned, no settlement of the * shortage was offered. ^ 01 Mr Cunningham, a member of ^ ' ui tho board, will resign. He cj lus been appointed a district ^ supervisor of tho consus, and ( w * under tho stale law cannot hold ^ two offices at the same time. , I pi HORRIBLE DEEDS. | ti m r Cut Otr 11 Child's Ears and Then g, Roasted The Infant to Death. ul ; , h, Tallahassee, Fla., Atif,' 17.? : si Parties from Leon county tell of the horrible deeds of Carrie Simp ei son, on the plantation of Lucius p 11 Rainey. Carrie was nursing a t< baby hoy for her aunt. Recently A she sawed otr his ears with a dull n knife and otherwise mutilated por? it tions of the body. When <jues- ti tinned about the matter she said ai that dogs had found the child I si asleep and chewed otr its ears and ! o one dog was killed for multilation ir of the child. j< Only a few days since she do- c< liberate!y covered the child with a -ashes, left in the tire place, which s< were mixed with li"o coals, and took a seat on the doorstep, where she could hoar the screams of the roasting child, and when they ceased she ran screaming to a n nearby field and told the mother c< that the neighbor's bov had1 o burned the child to death. No IT legal steps have been taken to j U a L ... unvo uie nurse punislic<l. ^1 THAT THROBBING " II K A l)ACH K Would quickly leave you, if ^ you used Dr King's New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit P for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. East to take. Try them. Only ^ 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Crawford Bros' Druggist. J Pay your subscripiton to h JLeookk! j ? - ?. ?-< < 1 A A V / JV/ I X". I /ostei n Who! snlcrs Combine in tin Effort to Increase their lie- I speetive Revenues. hiltulelphia Times. As hns been intimated, the rice of meats of various kinds is j unit to increase. In fact, an 1 lvanco over the amount pro* iously bns already takeu place, j he housekeepers of Philadelphia j sel this. They do not under* j and the cause thereof. Here is I io explanation: Four western wholesale meat ' filers namely, Armour Co., wift <Sc Co., Nelson, Morris 1 o., and the Culiahy Packing i c.npany, have combined in an M fort to increase their respective, \ * jvonues. Thus far they have r?en snrcnucfiil A .> .? ?> ^ x o <1 iU^llll 1111! insumern of the custom section 3 f tho country, including, of i mrse, Philadelphiaus, are paying i loro for their meats than has 1 een charged them for niativ ( cars past. Tho increase amounts > about 20 per cent. i The western meat dealers and , ackers announce that tho rise in , leir prices is tho result of a eculiurly limited supply of per- L >ct beef. They add that tho ex- ; art trade to England is daily ineasing. These two conditions, ley say, havo been tho cause of le marked advance which has son so seriously felt by Philadeltiians and New Yorkers alike. According to Oscar A Fow, I le of tho best known wholesale' lout dealers of this city tho uise of the rise in the price of , oef lies in the fact that tho four cstorn concerns referred to havo i irmed a combination for tho exlicit purpose of increasing their jceipts. It is further stated by lis gentleman that the supply of , erfect beef was never more! onerous that at present. He I so adds that the English trade us not been increased in the , ightcst degree. It was stated yesterday that the' specially largo increase in the' rice of hum and hucon was due ? a condonation between Messrs .rmoiir and Swift. Tlieso gentlelen, it is charged, have entered ito an agreement by which the; rat shall sell the latter edible! n-J tho latter shall deal excluively in the lirst. A combination 1 f this kind means that each tins 1 its respective branch shall only the exclusive production of a runmodity which it is at present ttempting to make a specialty of filling. Railroad Force Here. Tho railroud force with 114 nilcs and other necessary nv?' iMitrements arrived in Camden n Wednesday night to comlenee work on tho Seaboard Air dno. This for?o has the con* ract for grading the first six dies from the Wateree river jwaid Cheraw. Chief Contractor Condon, a Looxvillc man, is under a $50,00 bond to have tho road com Icted by tho 2?th of December. -Camden Chroniclo. Claude E Sawyer of this State as been appointed a Captain in ie now volunteer regiment. S McCaughrin, Fred Mobley, icwis A Griffith and C S Nettles, ave been made 1st Lieutenants. n?t stop* Neuralgia? f w. MUm' Pal* PI I la. SICKENING MURDER OF A YOUNG MOTHE V/ S Reep Committed to J< for Killing His Wife. ASLEEP WITH IL\BY IN HF ARMS. A Fiendish Woman May Ha Committed the Crime While the Husband Looked on anil \pprored. Special to The State. Fort Lawn, Aug 19. ? Chargi with the blood of a wife ai mother, S W Reep tonight loo from behind prison bars throu< which fall the soft moonbeam To si man human ami with a hen it all this would lie a reproac for he must remember that th Mime mellow light keeps vigil t (light over si little mound of els 'neath the cedars of a lone cemetery The tragic death Thursds morning of a Christian ? ife ai mother of which I gave The Sta n short notice, has excited t sympathy and interest of th community and each succeedii hour ami day brings to light th which promises to he one of t blackest crimes in the history this part of the county. On Thursday morning at hi past three o'clock Mrs lteep w shot through the brain *wk asleep ni her own home, and wh it is hard to believe that any hn Imnd could he guilty of such a co1 urdly act, yet everything poir to hi? guilt; so much so that was lodged in the county jui' tl morning to answer for the shoe ing charges against him. And is believed when tried ho will called upon to answer a righteo jndire for the blood of his wife At the coroner's inquest tl verdict was that she came to h loath by a rill shot in utikuox hands. So unexpected and tru* was this murder that every o was paralyzed to act, and wh the coroner's court was ov naturally all thought that t mysterious affair would he buri with its victim. Hut not > Murder will out, and justice ca forth from the sepuleher of t dead; the cry of the mothcrli infant haunts the atmosphere ai calls for vengeance. As to wh protected by the black of nigl stole upon the sleeping moth and moved from her bosom li helpless child in order to fe crashing through the mothci o ~ brain a ritie ball, wo know n< hut having tried to poison I wife it is reasonable to holier even from his own evidence, tl he must pay the penalty. T prisoner claims that it was silicic but this no one can believe for moment. Kvcrything points murder, cold blooded and cowai ly, and the husband cither < the deed with his own hands stood by while one who disgnu the name of her sex ended t career of this young wife a mother. It is safe to say that if it h not l>een for older and wise hen last night the one or ones w did this awful deed would lid sickened the rising sun with th ghastly faces suspended betwe earth and sky. The circumstances connect with this affair are such that t press would blush to present it | tOO'eyes of the people, ami our community tonight feels the [{, | enormity of u erime unparalelled in it" history, which hears us ( I ' dj * down with a ennui blacker than hades itself. W. L. A. . { A Shocking Tragedy. < ;r * , I Speeial to The State. I i YVilliston, Aug 20.?The town ' ve of \Viliston is shocked beyond * j measure by a fearful tragedy oc^ ' curing here last night about 9| [o'clock. !i I Lewis Smith, the 17-year old j | son of Dr .1 M Smith, in trying to | ( B<* j remove a pistol from his pocket i i dropped the weapon which was c discharged, mortally wounding j ?" | hia uiothor, who died about 11 u IS- j o'clock. A more atTectionate son < rt I and mother it would l ave been t h? ! difficult tri foul I <?iviv it? i< v .... .. " 10 to ^ M 18 J whelmed with grief, and has the f ?* | sympathy of the entire community, i ill - ?? 1 ^ $19,000 lias Been Collected. ' f D Washington, Aug. 19 ? Among ' the contributions for the Puerto ' '^e Rico storm sufferers received at k the war department today were ' 118 those from President McKinley, 1 ^8 $250 ; Vice-President Ho hart, ' $26<) ; Secretary Root, $250 ; '10 Wni Barbour, of New York,$250; 1 ul and August Belmont of New York $500. A letter has been received from the Merchants' Association ttK of Now York, saying that $10,000 had l?een collected for the Puerto '1? Rguns. kV" Atlanta Dentist Dies of Wounds j Indicted by Himself, he . ,'S| Atlanta, (la., Aug. 19. ? Dr. k" 1 das A Thornton, a dentist, died ^ this morning, after an attempt to I commit suicide yesterday after1,8 noon. He swallowed sixty grains 'of morphine and stabbed himself j '10 twice in the region of the heart. er He sent a note to bis wife, which vu led to the discovery of his condi- | >lr tion in a room of the Kimball ne house, where he had registered. er. A \ A ItUO \V KS^ATK he Thankful words written by1 ed Mrs Ada K Hart, Clroton, 8 D. 10. 1 4'Was taken with a bad cold |i which settled on my lungs; cough i set in and finally terminated in II Consumption. Four Doctors gave i8S: mo up, saying I could live but a ad short time. 1 gave myself up to (>i my Savior, determined if 1 could not stavxjwith my friends on earth, i I would meet my absent ones III 1 above. My husband was advised 101 'to get Dr King's New Discovery "11 for Consumption, Coughs and j IfVM- I I | v?i<n. M. 'I, ii LI nil, LOOK. Ill >t all eight bottles. It has cured mo, ajid thank God, I am saved; and now a well and healthy woire' nian." Trial bottles free at 1Jd Crawford Bro's Drug Store, ho Rogular sizo 50c. and f 1.00. Guaranteed or price refunded. I to A Member of the Mob Confesses, j Gainsvillo, Ga., Aug 17.?Taylor Hamilton, ono of the mob or which took Si Smith from the jail 'es in this county and lynched him a 'u' few weeks ago, made a full eon-j n<* j fession before the grand jury of Hall county yesterday. In his ^ a(' i confession Hamilton implicated a l<*8 number of prominent merchants n? of this county, tve , m The Clinton Oil Mill and Manufacturing company was chartered Wednesday. The capital stock ? is f20,000. he m _ t0 S?isuxJttu&'sssrztra It Is Said the ACL Has Nought i V the O R C Hail road. C Charleston L'ost, 19th. The latest news in Kuilroad cir- | des is that the Atlantic Coast, Line has bought the Ohio River i & Charleston Railroad. There is , 0 low being constructed between ^ t? Sumter and Camden the North j w Eastern road by the Atlantic 11< Coast Line, which it is said will is >e used as a connecting link. ^ w The Sunder Freeman publish. C1 ng tho report of the deal says : P "It is further stated that the A Jxv C L and the Southern are pulling " n double harness and that when- * ;ver there is a constitutional ob- j ection to one acquiring a road the . ither gels it and they work it to- ca jether. This is to be tho case in n( ho matter of the Ohio River 1,1 Charleston, and it remains to be j ...K. e ?mi H icon n iiciuui ouuiitT win renji iny material benefit from the Sum 111 er and Wateree, since that road las changed ownership. There is, nf iltto a report abroad to the effect hat the southern contemplates pull 111 ng up the Camden branch and the n* Sumter and Wateree because their 0f business over these branches will not be sufficient to justify them in keeping up the expensive trestle .in work?six milesover the Wateree i" swamp. The report, however, so | far as it refers to the Sumter and Wateree, can hardly be true, as 01 we are told hy Mr. Baumgartner ? that material is arriving here fori" the eredtion of nice brick depots " ior thai road, and the Southern)0 would hardly go to that expense 0 unless it meant business." , " 1 v I si A Misstatement Concerning the Waxhaw Officers Corrected. To the Kditor of The Observer: , , In your paper of August 15th, I notice two articles written about the negro who was shot on the |., . . ^ 13th inst., just outside of the incorporate limits of our town, j but died inside of the town limits. ^ One of these was written by your Waxhaw correspondent and the 1 other by your Monroe coiro-P spondent. stating that the body of the negro after death was de-1 livered cyer to l)r \V R MeClain, i'' ... i 1 hy the town authorities. Now, in behalf of the officers of our town, I say this is false. The j negro had only been dead about eleven hours and our town au- 1 thorities had taken no action j whatever in the matter, and, j furthermore, we had no right to * do so in so short a time. Dr Mc* |" ' c Cain told the writer that ho hud i | bought the body of the negro from one Mcllwain, his cousin 1 and that ho expected to take, ' charge of it. II W Williams, Mayor. Waxhaw, N C, Aug 1G, 1800. i I 1 Allie K Chnppell Killed. L Special to The State. I Florence. Aug 20.- Late Sat- i ] urday afternoon Allio K Chappel, bookkeeper for tho lumber firm of VV L Rankin & lh o., was run | over and killed by the engine attached Ux,a log train. Tho accideut occurred at Rankin's saw mill a few miles cast of Florence. i " 1 " 1 14 men of Piney Point, N (J., all married, with large families, were drownod during the storm last week on Swan Island, where i they were encamping on a sum* mer outing. 1 V111 TEC A 1*1*10US AUKESTEI>. Md Mum ,!uke Richardson Tells u Story of Horrible Crime by tbe Whites. A special to The State from Ireenwood last Friday gives a deliled account of the meeting of bite citizens at Phoenix that day > take steps to ascertain and pun b the parties who have been hitecapping negroes in that vU nity. There were 200 whites esent and some of the negroes ho had been whipped were ronght forward and asked to tell leir experience and give the unes of any parties they may we recognized among the whileippers. They feared to tell on count of the threats to kill them ease they did. By a rising vote icy were assured protection and icn very reluctantly gave the imes of Joe .Jones. R ,J MeCass n, Jesse Corley and Win Wilson s in the mobs that whipped them, bese men were arrested and put ader bond for their appearance n preliminary hearing. They ich claim they can prove an alibi. Later the men waived a preliminary hearing and gave bond i the sum of $1,000 each for icir appearance at court. The tales of the negroes were arrowing in the extreme, espeally is this true of old man .lake ichardson, as he told how they ragged him from a sick bed, bent im, then ravished his wife. No no who looked in his face doubtd the truth of his statement, but nfortunutely he would not diulgc the names of any of his as lilants. POOR JOHN PHILLIPS. Whiskey was 11 is Weakness and Caused His Dentil. pecial to The State. Greenville, Aug 10. John 'hillips, of the Taylor's neigh orhood, was found dead on the oadsidc two miles from his home esterdav morning. He had eviently been killed by the overtiming of a wagon. Phillipad been to a distillery in the >aris mountain section and was ;oing home with a two horse load f slops. He had taken a neighlorhood road which made his onto shorter tnan that of the uiblic road. He left the still muse about dark and the suppoition is that he was intoxicated, is it was his misfortune to gel Irunk almost everytime ho loft mine. It seems from the tracks hat the mules were going us the\ der.scd ami run one side of the ivagon into u gully. The hoily of Pbillips was found under the ivagon body. The discovery wa> made by n negro about duvlight. Phillips was a good citizen except for his drinking habits, and was well-known in ihis city, lie wnibou* forty years of age and leaves a large family. Puerto Rico's Many Dead. Ponce, 1* R., Aug 21 -It is now estimated that the bodies of 2,500 victims of the recent hurricane have been buried; that 1,000 jiersons were injured during the storm and that 2,000 people are still missing. In a difficulty Saturday night at VValhallaSam White was struck with a rock by Sam hlkins and killed.