Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tAUULOW B. OABTER. f === ? _ ?prro?Ain> Hhiao**. S A A'ew pa, r : For tiie JYomotion / Uw. Politic*!, Soctal, Agricultural am! Oommcrrmal Interest* J TEBKbTcI ~~T. ..1-'WEEKLY. 7 ^ ; . " ? * A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Ufl ATROCIOUS CRIME NEAR.' N^IM.KyTniTbUYAN. ithe 1.^1 I ,^Tk?...... I Dr II J Loo, Shot and Killoil hy ! His Son, Dr Maxoy Loo. ? Yo Special to Tho State. j 1 Darlington, Oct t??News has J Just reached Darlington of a fatal 1 ^ shooting which took place at Lydiaj yesterday afternoon. Dr Maxcy j Ltee shot his father, Dr H J Lee, j through the stomach with a 38- |? ^calihre pistol hall, as a result of a paternal ruhuko. Dr Loo died today. cr> The younger Dr Lee was in tor Darlington yesterday, and is said to have been somewhat under tho *'u tnfluonce of liquor when he left w,l town. " no1 The JLees are prominent and *en wealthy. The family to which cm they belong is one of the foremost in this county and is well known Wl1^ throughout tho State. I,ax the NOTICE TO DEBTORS. he ON account OF WRETCHKD health for the past few moi.tha I S,,H am com Del led to h? absent from lorn- me <switer for treatment for some weeka r I leave my hooka and accounts wit It Mr John Crawford at KHioit A Craw<l's stables He la duly authorized hm te collect for me. and I will be glad for all my friends who are indebted to ? , nae to t-all on him and settle at their 1 earliest convenience I will neceasari- spe ly need money in undergoing treats merit and I will appreciate your $?r<m?pt settlement. Very Reeper*tfully, lie? / W. M CRAWFORD. M D. fn| Hejrt 29. l?b? ? 6w. j ?? STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ura COUNTY OK I.ANCARTFR, tak Tn the Court of Probate. ? tey ('baa. D. Jones. Judge of Probate t \ whkkkah, George H. Urilliu hat* -made mi it. to me, to grant him Lette.n nl,i oc Admitiiatration >Mi the entate of and 10, of VVm H. Gilen, deceased. ^ei "TWRKK AKK TilKKKKOKE to Cite Mid jn | .admonish all and wingular the kindred and creditor* of the aaid Wm e deceased, tliat they be and ap- to i |?*wr ttefore me, In the t ourt of Pro wa| hate, to be held at Lane inter, (\ H , ?? October 6?h next, after pid? eD iemt?o? thereof, at It o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, If any they ton have, why the aaid Administration * should no; he granted. Given under my Hand and Seal this i 2M day of 'September, Anno Domini, loo ton u , OH AH. D JON KH, I1"*' Probate Judge. T Maggies Buggies; Buggies galore ? Buggies ipKxi, Buggies itetter, Bug - 1 alee Beat of , Haggles big, Buggies little, Buggies | on every story? e*T Maggies for comfort and Buggies to cep iaet' ton WiW]C\ WE HAVE ern LA BUGGIES of I I Pilli ALMOST WITH- <>??! UmJ oux DUMBER, whi Of tdl grades anil at prices rangirg from $30 for a good top hug- g ^ gy on up. In fact, just at this ^j0, sea*on we are making a specialty |ins of BUGGIES. Our largo week- on ly tiales is the secret of our hoing ^ o> -aide to sell a good BUGGY for H*(M SO LITTLE MONEY. o? | stat flflD CONTINUES TO GROW U U il IN POPULAR FAVOR, j Sot 11VI?RY 000 1 GENTlE Ll f Dill HORSES, den mm 8tymsh M? lODllllUIj TURNOUTS tioi AND CAREFUL DRIVERS Kin Ytenty of Wagons and Harnam, too. ?XC u i m&i < aM *ud ??e ua. 8LLI0TT & CRAWFORD. ^ inv ???' eru lt'ay yonr subscripiton to gUe Lbdoek! of < f # A f I DARLINGTON, | m Qng Woman Ravished by number of Black Savages. J lii veral Captured and Confess. L The Law Will Take Them | Speedily to the Callows. | . C< ecial to The State. i , ' Darlington, Oct 9?A hoiiMe Ni me was committed in Darling- gr i county, near Lamar, yester-j'e: / afternoon, for which at least pi ee negroes will pay the penalty ; co :h their lives. Two of them are an w in jail, and if there is 110 at jou apt to lynch them made before I M irt convenes two week- from to- an f, they will be convicted with-j a ; a doubt and hanged, for they . re confessed the commission oft?.( i blackest crime that has ever ;i? koned the fair name of Darling-1 tv% i. If the other party is caught ce will doubtless ho spated the mi pense of waiting two weeks to >)a et his doom. [u, rhe details of the crime are too di< rihle to ho published, hut they 'e tieen tol<f over and over ^h tin all over this county today. iU] is sufficient to say a highly re Lj, ctaole young lady of Lamar t<. i suffered at the hands of sev-l^,. I black brutes, and she now i in a dangerous condition fear-! ly mangled and bruised. Lt was later decided to move all prisoners from the jail to Col- HO bia, and they were secretly st, en off this evening. aI] IAFE IN TIIK rKNITKNTIAUY. tl )ne of the principals in the La- ev routrage affair--Kdward Luck- " and four negroes charged with ng accessories to the foul crime that they stood by and saw the In d committed and did not offer Ai interfere, are now within the lis of the South Carolina peni Hi tiary for safe keeping. The j r accessories are .Jim Washing , Daniel and Ed Mack and th cius Stuart ? an aggregation of ed y looking, sullen negroes, who Un k like Georgia turpentine Gti ghs. * pr all illman u Guest of McKinley. oe tir iVashington, D C, Oct?>?Many fa. the State executives who were p|, ected to attend the Dewey re tion did not come to Washing- ^ , though nearly all of the govors wore represented. Many those who were in Weshingtt n sp not attend the dinner at the 801 ito house, which was the cul . , , bo luting event of the great retion. Neither Governor Mc~ as eeney of South Carolina nor vernor Russell of North Caro i stopped over in Washington mi their way South from New m< rk, though it hud been under" inj >d that l???th of these governors lid he here. South Carolina, vevor, was represented at the j e dinner in honor of the adal by Senator Benjamin Tilla. With the exception of the ith Carolina senator, the Vir^ ia senators and Senator Lind- *? , of Kentucky, not a Southern C'8 aocrat was present at the presi- ha it's banquet in honor of the An nila hero, nor with the except i of Governor Tyler, of Vir- . ia, was a single Southern State ' 11 eutive in attendance, though ay of the senators and gov te< ors in the city, in fact all of ae< m, from the South, received fou itations. There was one Southrepresentative among the rata, Representative Livingston lieorgia. | Pa Cll! lent :iihI (ireet on the Same I to Platform !il Canton. Si Canton, 111., Oct. *?.?Col. in. .1 Bryan wit directly be- j for iid Provident McKinloy this uf 11 rnoon at Canton while the presi- prt lit delivered a brief address. A! of root fair is in progress here, and l?io >1. Bryan had been secured to Sp: liver a two hours' speech. The j?l( ebraskau was among the first tojthii oet President McKinloy as lie j hoi ft the train and ascended thejjun at form. When tho president He noluded his address ho turned ricl d heartily grasped Col. Bryan's it, it stretched hand. "Good bye, nan r. President," said Col. Bryan, ho <1 tho president responded with poo word of farewell. cep President McKinloy said: dor Jur glorious old Hag, tho svm- ate d of liberty, Mies today over fed I o hemispheres. During tho re- air< nt war we had exhibitions of coil ipreeodeiited patriotism on the ouu ,rt of tho people anil unmatched I rtostu on the part of our sol- old i?r> and sailors. ( Applause). olir "Our second grout triumph is Bol o triumph of prosperity. The of 1 isy mills, the active industries, the e general prosperity have scat* do* red plenty o'er u smiling conn wg v. Our third great triumph is and e triumph wo have had over sec* fcei" inalisin. We are no longer a vided people, ami who Btira up limosities between the north and uth is denied a hearing in bqtb etions. The hoys of tho south id tho hoys of the north fought iumphantly on land and sea in ^ erv engagement ouring our war. ca^ 'North ami south together dial brought, . her >\v the same electric thought, niei peace a common ting salute, pjcl nd with free and unresentful ri- mei valry to ( srvest the fields whereon they iint fought.' dri' "So I concluded hy saying that moi is nation has been greatly bless- '1 , and at this hour we are a Get lited and prosperous and patri- wer ic people. And may that divine the ovidenco who has guided us in nen our undertakings from the in- Cot ption of tho government con firs me ills gracious and assuring con vor to us forevermore." (Ap- pap mine). ind i Worshipped Idol Shattered. |)| "Hero worship" generally j oils the hero. It spoiled Iloh bee n. It has spoiled Dewey. Anydy else is at perfect liberty to irship before this naval idol 1 sevi much as he or sho pleases, but wer for us, our opinion of tho ad- imr iral has fallen below zero. For cou >nthn past u committee at Wash not H VV irton has been passing 'round i o hat. Di8 Hark, hark, the <loa:* hark, wa> The beggars are coming to toWii( firs Some in rag*, mine in tags, and Ami some in velvet gown*. S()|, The begguts have been coming Lni town, this time the velvet-gown Hal id Iteggars altogether. They ve lieen l>egging for a house j <1 lot in Washington for the toe( ro of Manila to spend his last ys .in. Yesterday Admiral i )wey went before this commit- jesH ? and said he not only would cept this house in Washington, mol t he wanted it quick, and he mted it in a .certain place, and a|w wanted enough left after it was p0|l id for to pay for th) bedsteads, rM, V..V VUIIE1 UUVi I ill urs which would be necessary ! make it habitable. Si Now the admiral is drawing j 3,000 annual salary, baa been j :i ing good wages all his life, and j 20 years has had nobody to R1 iport but Dewey, his son, we " isuiue, being able to t: ke care w himself. lie will soon receive | ?>s : prize money for sinking the j ar inish ships at Manila?perhaps | ty )0,000. And yet he grabs et nc -gift of $50,000 which has si. n begged for him, like a dog j in ips at a bone thrown to hina. i th says if it was a gift of the ! nt j people alone he wouldn't take N but hi nee there are over 40,000 ps en on the lint of contributor# considers it a gift from the 'pie of the Union, and will ac- te t it. Well, the names of the lo iors that have been published pa those of the Goulds and Rock-led ersundthe rest of the million- l'l ;s. A great part of tlie money ics from them, and the admiral j o ;ht to be ashamed to take it. '"or our part, commend us to; Wade Hampton, of South Car j Tl la, and Gordon, of Georgia. | | h tnese whitehaire<l veterans he Lost Cause recently, after ir houses had been burned Tl ?n, refused to accept new builds oirerod by their old comrades otl admirers. ? Charlotte Ob C< vcr. an . . m LUNTEERED TO FIGHT. Btl in charged .Tennessee Soldiers ^ Lick the Insurgents. Wl Vashington, Oct. 7.- Otis les from Manila that the In- *? na was sent south in Septemto collect the Tennessee regiit at Iloilo and Cebu. She m ked up a portion of the regi- '>r it at I loilo and then proceeded Jebu whero tho regiment volcored its service to assist in re i ting the insurgents from the untains near that city. .'ho service was accepted by ? leral Snyder. The insurgents o overwhelmingly defeated, Tennessee boys taking a promi- aD t part. They re-embarked at cu iu, reaching this harbor on the t in?tant, being detained to iplete tho necessary discharge j era. They will sail on the iana for home tomorrow. SCOVEKEI) BY A WO>1 A \ Another great discovery has n made, and that too, by a K" y in this country. "Disease on ened its clutches upon her and T| seven years she withstood its ^ erest tests, but her vital organs e urtdermined and death seemed ninent. For three months she ghed incessantly, and conld th sleep. She finally discovered ar ay to recovery, by purchasing 18 a Dottle ot Dr Kind's New covery for Consumption, and i so much relieved on taking m t dose, that she slept all night; 01 with two bottles, has been abitely cured. Her name is Mrs thor Lutz. 'Thus writes W C 1 mnick A Co., of Shelby, N C. al bottles free at Crawford Bra' h< ig Store. Regular size 50c *1 .00. Kverv bottle guaran1. w ['here is undoubtedly more or tii i politics mixed up with the p< icnsary scandal, but a deal ec re of corruption and raacality. w ; great moral institution baa () ays been a corrupt mixture of w itics, mean liquor and official " cality.?Sumter Item. T | /V ^ i .MLlil'iS ? LUbT. Kiain Encounters a Typhoon ami Valuable Animals Drowned. ;Gi Washington, Oct. 6.?A cable-! am from General Otis says: Manila?The steamship Siam, W hich left San Francisco on Aug I n it 19th with forty-five horses mi id (528 mules, encountered a in phoon on the first instant, of! a p U'thern Luzon, in which all hut ?te xteen mules were lost. The an- hei mis were killed by pitching of j Ch e vessel and lack of air from the icessary closing of tno hatches, tio o casualties occurred among the giz isseugers. Ph (Signed) "Otis." wo It is stated at the quartermas |ou1 4l 1 1 ' i o iic|'iutiiioui mill UIO mu I CM c111 at on the Siam were trained mo ick mules, which wore consider- cor 1 the most valuable sent to the . cur lilippines. | co(: LJTZS IS PLACED AMONG j dm THE OUTS. hot fro ic citato Board Makes His Sus- Tin pension Permanent?Two Lo- |?r< cftl Dispensers Bounced. and 4 ic State, 8th inst. out The State hoard of control has wh< ticially chopped off the heads of *uc mimissioner's Bookkeeper Ouzts in t id Dispensers Lynch and Book fire an of this citv, and has left J imding the order for the revok- ?rn fi of all the heer privileges in nor e State ou Nov. 1. The head of t-*ai ispenser Stelling of Charleston *?n as also about to fall in the has- tha ?t yesterday when it was decided nnt allow a hearing in his case. As st no successor has been elected Phi fill Mr. Doutint's place us com ?d. issioner. The hoard reached n ?Qi eathing point in the sensational wh sek's work about 4 o'clock yes rday afternoon and then took a wm cess until next Wednesday night Fil 8 o'clock, when the commission- Ad will probably be elected and pre her developments will follow, to 08terday the important steps nia ken were on the double-quick, hel id there was no extended dm- SHil ission. It seems cortain that del e heer privileges are gone he- iQ ' >nd recall. The opportunity for oar reconsideration was presented the isterday? hut no one took ad- tall ntago of it. his to j Atlanta (lets Dewey. Washington, Oct. 7. ? A deleition of Atlanta citizens called ^(M i Admiral Dewey today and in- a ^ ted him to become the guest of ut city. co? Dewey promised he would go an( Atlanta at some time not later tr( an November 1, the date to be i ranged lator. Dr. Griffith, of Columbia, for-j44i, er assistant surgeon of the Sec | has nl South Carolina regiment, has wh sen given the same position in in? ie Forty second regiment, U. S. ?(1 / , ' fa< ., and left Friday afternoon, xind for Manila. p?c Mr D A G Ouzts hae commenced pr ork on the prepaiation of his th< icument, and in a day or two the tlx rat chapter of^the book of dis*. *-et snsary revelations, second series, *n Iite<l by the deposed bookkeeper, ^>(j ill lie iasue<l to the public. Mr uzts intimates that the document So ill be exhaustive and will make Gi I mighty interesting reading."? he State, 10th iost. ^ v c'onsrl w ii-dman b.v k from tin; fa sr. ves His Views About Value <>f Philippine 1 -lands. New York, Oct. 7.?Kdwin ihtman, ex-vice coun>ul <>t the litecl States at 11 < n?_r Kon<_r who s stationed there when the lithe Philippines was begun, was assenger on the Ameriean line amship St. Louis which reached * dock from Southhampton and erhoug today. Mr Wildman spoke on eondinn in the Philippines and eulo;ed Admiral Dewey. "The ilippines," he said, "are well rth the strugg'e. The country t there is magnificent and the uate is good. There are seven nths of good weather and tle-n lies the ritinv m"mui w I.? . i <lo nothing. Hut tli?*i< in I'vci y intry here is the h:i(i time of year. The sooner we get Mi to governing the island* tlie ter. They tire "'ortli much tn a commercial standpoint. b whole country is rich at d iductive. (ien Otis is too old I not aggressive enough. 4Ile tries to do the whole thing there and like every other man [) tries to do all does nothing cesstully. The great need out .he islands is a young and ag* issive man. 4Ah to the question of self gov* ment 1 am led to believe that le of the native people are table of that in the highest se of the word. The only way t the natives could govern is lor American supervision. *1 believe that the Hag in the ilippines should never !>c lowerWe have got to conquer or lihilate them. The question is ich will our war do. i4i want to say now at no time s Aguinaldo or any of the ipinos promised independence, miral Dewey made them no anises. We brought Aguinaldo Manila the same as any other n was brought over there, to p. At no time was anything 1 about giving them their inlendence. You will i otice that tiis manifestos Aguinaldo is eful not to say directly that ro were promises made. That k always comes from some of followers who have something gain by his success.'1 i'ho world's richest man is said ho .John Bight, of Kimherly, ith Africa, who started out a# utcher ami is now rated atf>l,* 3,000,000. Li Hung Chang lies next with $500,000,000, 1 our noor 1 i 111 ? RorUfwllAr tw behind with $250,000,000. GLOKIOUS NKWS Comes from I)r I) B Cargile, Washita, 1 T. Ho writes: 'our bottles of Klectrlc Bitters 3 cured Mrs Brewer of scrofula, lich had caused her great sufferI for years. Terrible sores mid break out on her head and :e, and the best doctors could ,fe no help; but her cure is collide ami her health is excellent." is shows what thousands have nod,?that Klcctiic Bitters is s best blood purifier known. It's 3 supreme remedy for eczema, ta, salt rheum, ulcers, hoila d running sores. It stimulate* er, kidneys and bowels, expel a isons, helps digestion builds up 9 strength. Only 50 cents. Id by Crawford Bros' Druggist, laranteed. T? Car* O*aitip?tioa Porarar. \k? Oil?rata Ou4; Cathartic lOe w H C. O. G. taU M vara, trftiM iwfuaa atatf