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l'Hfc LhDGKK. Thnr^ow S. Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. c " WKDNKSDAY, APRIL 4, 1000. Cotton Mill at Kershaw. There is every reason to believe thflt the Kershaw nonnlo nr? r?r? inir to build u $150,000 cotton mill. Mr. ! K A she, of Yorkvilie, and J M Heath of Lancaster, arc both heavy subscribers. Citizens of Kershaw arc promis inir liberal support to the enterprise. It is expected that an application for a commission will be made within the next few days.? Yorkville Enquirer. Fin'cy's First Speech. Representative Finlev made his first speech in the house last Satlll'dav on the inioeticA r?f ftio Puerto Rionn tariff. He held that Puerto Rico is a part of the United Slates and is entitled to the same treatment as any other part. If, ns the republicans contend, Puerto Rico i? not a part of tho United Stales, then the United States lias no right whatever to levy any tax of any kind Mr. Finlev's remarks were limited to only about 2 1 2 minutes, the time having been yielded to him through trie courtesy of Mr. McRcii. ? Yorkville Enquirer. Fire in Hock Hill. Special to The State. Hock Hill, March 29.?There was a hig blaze yesterday evening about S o'clock which everybody thought was the Carolina hotel. It proved, however, to ho the stables and Warn of Ratteree Urns which stood almost behind the hotel It was burned to "the ground in a short time without out t-h i nur any of the adjoining buildings. All the horses were gotten out. Trie burn was ptetty wen stocked with feed stutT. hns?, about $1,650. Insured with Hutchinson & Cherry for *1,200. STRAIT FOR CONGRESS. It i> Thought That His Attack on MHjunrin W ill Help Him. Fort Mill Times. Dr. T J Strait, of Lancaster, sent wori to tho editor of this paper it few days ago that he will lie a candidate for tho Democratic nomination for congress in this district this year. As yet it cannot lie foretold with, any degree of certainty who will receite the nomination, but there are those who claim that on account of the doctor's arraignment of McLaurin two years ago ho lost a great many votes in the last congressional primary which he will he able to command this year, for ti e reason that McLaurin's recent anti-Democratic proc ivities have entirely vindicated every charge made by the doctor. Enpassan it might be observed that s looting stars is no more stupid employ ment than that of certain newspapers in this State which are making elFort to explain away the mistaken of our junior senator. Fort Mill is a representative South Carolina town of 1,S00 population, and there are not in th?a place a dozen electors who wil| ever again vote for "curly-haired Johnnie." COTTON I'LA.NTKRf who are interested in high prices for cotton next fall can hear of something to their advantage by sending a postal card at once to THE ADAMS COTTON CO., Charleston, S. C. / / HERMAN KING CONVICTED OF MURDERING MABRY. Result of a Fourth Trial of a cele hrated Case. Recommended to Mercy. Special to The State. Greenwood, March 31?The celebrated King case is at an end. I The jury was out only about three J hours and brought in a verdict of } "guilty, with recommendation to mercy." This was the fourth trial, and much interest wa? taken in the en** bv u>K??ln munity. On the 30th day of August, 1S9S, Herman E King shot and killed his brother in law, Taylor W Mabry, at Ilodges, because King alleged that Mabry ha 1 robbed him of his wife. At three subsequent trials the 5 jury failed to agree on a voidiet, j but at the fourth attempt the 1 above verdict was rendered. The . plea of monomania was set up by j the defense. There are signs sure and un failing that the farmers who raise cotton arc entering into the grant! business combination. It is not exactly a trust for farmers are the unrelenting enemies of trusts and they are lighting under the black flag. There is no surrender in them. One of the objects of this business combination is to se^ cure better prices for corn, wheat and bacon, and to keep cattle on the bull side of the market. They propose to accomplish this by raising about twelve an?l a half million hales of cotton this year and nothing hut some special act of Providence in the wav of a . - ^ ? ? climatic disaster will thwart them in their purpose. This organization has no grips, passwords and secret meetings but the work is going on all ovrjr the Southern States.?Carolina Spartan. M rs. Polly Vinson, relict of the iate Thomas Vinson, died at her home in Buford township last night. She is a sister or the late .1 K Irby. She was about seventytire years old and was a faithful member of the Methodist church. Funeral services will be hold at Pleasant (xioro church to-morrow at 11 o'clock. ? Monroe Enquirer. B O*Dell Duncan Dead. Charleston, April 2.?Ex-Consul B O'Dell Duncan died Kuddenly la?t night at his home in N?wl>erry, S C. He was a mom J>er of the reconstruction convention of this State, and was afterwards appointed hy Grant as ( consul to Naples, where lie served j 11 years. In 1880 he was trans- ' ferrcd to Smyrna an<l two years | later to Naples again, and retired in 1884, having since lived quietly ut Newberry. Burned to Death. Special to The State. Ninety Six, March 26 ? Miss' Finma Cheatham, a young lady ' living near this nlace. while in a convulsion, fell into the tire and was fatally burned on the 27th. | CASTOR IA 1 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hate Always Bought Bear. th. /^ . J Signature of /-CicCA^ rn % a u w * ? i nroo men Killed in a boiler Explosion. Atlanta, Ga., April 2?An 80borse power boiler, weighing aeveral tona, exploded thin after, noon at the G O Williams Lum- j ber company's brick yard, killing three white men and Qinjuring several others. Wkst KeermleUr J"? Mikw' Pain Pllte. tt THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HENRY H. BRUNSON. Was Judge of Probate and Master for Orangeburg Connty. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS SHORT In Official Funds But Amount he is Behind not Kn >\vn. Whs Popular and Liberal. Special to The State. Orangeburg, April 2.?The sensation?and one regretted by hundreds of this county?of tho city for the last two or three days is the unaccountable absence of Henry II Brnns n, judge of pro- I bate and master. Without, it seems, giving the slightest intimation to his family and friends of his purpose to <lo so, he left the city on last Sunday morning j on the Atlantic Coabt Line train ; at about 6 o'clock a m, going south, and was not heard from for a day or two, when, it appears, some member of his family received a letter from him postmarked at a point in a different direction, in which he said that ho would probably never return to Orangeburg. This is rumor, but it is true hat hi* family knows little, if anything, alwmt his ac- j tions after his departure Sunday morning. It ??." first thought that he had gone to an uncle in the lower pari of Barnwell county, but this is no longerfifieheved. 'I'he clerk of court is now in charge of the office, and under the law will probably perform the duties till an election is held b\ order of the governor. Mr Brunson has held the office for about five years and six months, and the present term 1 - ?- - win expire in l'JUH ; therefore, the Governor cannot till the vacaney, the unexpired term being more than a year. The bondsmen employed attorneys who hare made an investigation, which shows about $5,000 shortage on account of official funds. It may, however, tuke an official and lengthy investigation to determine accurate ly the amount Mr Rruneon is bo hind. Mr Rrunton became prominent and influential in public affairs in the county during the revolution of 1800 02, and besides at once getting what appeared to he a paying clientage aa a lawyer, was elected to the office of judge of probate, to which were attached the duties of master in equity, the combined fees making it a very desirable position. This sudden elevation to political influence and official importanze his friends fear had something, if not all, to do with his unfortunate fall. NO KI CHIT TO (JGIJNKSS The woman who is lovely in face, ( form and temper will always have friends, tint one who would ho attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will tie nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Klectric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach,liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will iniilco * frnrwl - Irwilr inrr nK?fi? r* ing woman of a run-down invalid. Only 50 cent* at Crawford Bros' Drug Store. A gentleman informs tie that a hen in Chesterfield county, S C, laid 3fBi in 3#5 days. That hen did some wonderful laying or some one some wonderful lying. The hen is dead. Her last lay killed her.?Monroe Enquirer. WOFFORD STUDENT IN- 1 JURED. Mr Jacob Golightly Fell Off / Uhurch Stepy. and Broke Both Legs. Special to The State. | ^ Spartanburg, April 2.?The stti'lont body was grieved last ii night at the sad news that u pain- 11 ful and serious accident had bo- < fallen Mr due "?b (iolightly, of the!* freshmun class. s Mr (volightly 1ms always been n compelled to use crutches on nc- y ci unt of a deformed limit. Last ,( night ho attnndcd services at the e Baptist church ainl was in the act I 0 of leaving the building. II? t , I came to the top of the steps lead** I I ing from the building, but was t unaware of the fact and stepped t otr into space. lie received a' o very severe fall ami sustained n ' # i three fractures of the lower limbs, h lie is now at the home of his r parents, near the campus. | v *. ^ | k Died in Court. I n j Specinl to The State. Greenville, March 30?I'ink ' [ # ' | Sizemore, white, aged 40, died I ? suddenly* in Magistrate MauMin's , t office this afternoon. He and Tom ' Singleton had heen arrested tor j stealings watch from Mrs. Eliza. Sizemore, at Doe mill. While 1 j the examination was progressing ' ' Sizemore fell and dir.I in four i minutes. Dr. Svvandulc pronoune led the cause to ho dropsy <>f the I heart. J Sizemore hud a family. ltoia j wan badly atliictrd with dropsy and drank heavily. 1 here whr no undue excitement in his arrest, j ' i Til E KEMAKKABLK (JASIC OF 1 P1NCKNFY SIZKMOKK. i | Accused, Unjustly, of Stealing a Watch He Fell Dead. Burial 1 I Postponed Because of Doubts 1 of Death. ! Special to The State. 1 Greenville, April ti?The sudden deuth of Pink Sizcinorc on ( Friday afternoon in the oflico of Magistrate Muuldin was unusually 'sensational in itself, hut after it I 4 ! was known beyond question that j . be was dead ami the coroner's! jury had rendered a "crdiet in ac'cordance with the facts, a still : i greater sensation was the outcome of a report that Pink Sizemore i was yet alive and in the llesh, al- . though the spark was very feeble and imperceptible. It ?e?ms tlmt the arrangements hud heen per j fected for the funeral yesterday! afternoon, when from some cause it was decided to postpone the in-; tcrment, and after this was decided upon Dr W J Bramlett re-1 ported to the cit* authorities last I night that there was cause for, e serious doubt whether Sizemore i was actually dead. He had 1 examined the alleged corpse, and I while there were many of the I usual tokens of death, his joints i wore supple, his Mesh was war n, I and a mirror placed over his I mouth revealed slight minntnr# < ? n ^ * " ? if he had breathed upon it. Thin | discovery of Or Bramlett set j things awry so far as the burial , of Sizemore was concerned, unti 1 . tlie evidences of his death were j indisputable, and Greenville was , on the verge of the biggest senna tion in its history, but the whole thing vanished into thin air this t frosty morning when it was rcn- i dered certain that the coroner's , inquest had made no mistake, and that the unfortunate Si/.emore was cold and stiff in death beyond ' the shadow of a doubt. The family wus convinced that there was not a sign of life, and the , preparations for the funeral were completed early this morning, the body being taken on the ' Columbia and Greenville train to 1 Pelzer, where the burial took I place this afternoon. 1 :he profits of cotton MILLS. * i t Mill in 1 he Piedmont Region i lias Made One Hundred Per 1 Cent. This Season. * i Ipartanburg Free Lance. < To give a tangible idea of what 1 s being made by the cotton mills 1 n this Piedmont region of South Carolina, we submit some facts, irhich wo are prepared to subtantiate, as,to a certain cotton nill ia this section At the be-j [inning of the last cotton season I about October 1st, 1899) this olton mill had on hand about 3, 100 bales of old cotton, bought ho previous season at the I (In uices then prevailing Believing hat the cotton crop was short his company bought 13,000 bales f the now crop just as rapidly as noney could get it into its waremuses. The cost of this cotton irhen stored, all charges included, vus less than cents a pound, sin co lhc time of the purchase of hese 13,000 bales cotton has neatly advanced in price, and if his mill should now sell its coton and not spin n pound of it the rofitsfrom the sale of the raw otton would enable the comnnnv I I V o decluro :i dividend of 33? per cut. on its entire capital stick, lilt I?y converting this cotton into loth nnd selling the cloth at >re?ent prices this cotton mill ompuny will realize a net earning if loo per cent. To make the natter perfectly plain: Suppose hat tlieso 1??,000 hales cost on an verage of cents per pound, nd that tho cost of manufacturing he raw cotton into cloth will he t.A cents per pound, making a total o*t of 101 cents per pound. Mom this cloth when sold the *otnpan> will rculi/.e 25 cents for ivery pound of cotton used. I)eluct from this the cost of the raw ot\.?n '(tlj cents) and the expenses ?f ii :inuf:.( luring same (3$ cents) iiaking a total of 10^ cents, und ,|>(I Will ll:i vi> u n?>t (" I-? I .... . w ? v> i | / t vrtlt 1 \f IIJU nil I of 14/ cents per pound. I'hese ld.oOO bales, at 500 pounds i> the halo, would aggregate 8, M> ?,000 pounds, which at 14/ lent* per pound would net the ?nmpany if 1,180,000. You can Induct from this the cost of hand* ing, insurance, repairs, etc., and itill the uet profits will be more ban n million dollars; und we would add that this mill's capital dot k is not a million dollars. If there is any other industry paying 100 per cent, on the invest uent we would be glad for some f our renders to call it to our attention. A TUUST OUTWITTED. An interesting account of how the farmers and the retail dealers if Iowa circumvented a scheme by which the cordage trust expected to fleece them lust year is given by the Iowa State Capital. The trust advanced the prices of binding twine heavily on the ground that as the Philippine |K>rts had been cloned the price of jute would go up. The fanners and retail dealers n binding twine knew that this was a mere pretext and instead of paying the trust's advanced prices .hey organized to save themselves from the plotted extortion. The dealers in Iowa induced .no^e 01 trie other western states :o join them in an agreement not to buy their stock at the usual time in the early fall, hut to hold >nt for reasonable price*. This combination worked so vve'l that the cordage trust was compelled to keep its warehouses itocked at great expense for several months, while no galea were nade, and they seemed likely to lose their market altogether. Finally, when the need of rash became great, they took advan* tage of the excuse that the Philipphie porta had been opened and reduced prices. When ?thoy fell to a reasonable figure the implement men began to buy, and swamped tho wholesale: a with orders. In this way the retailers ami farmers saved 2 centa a pound and the trust lost an expected profit. Millions of dollars were thus saved to the farmers of tho wes t which the cordage trust expected to wobble on hv its trirL -" r* ?I' ? This is one of tho most notable victories over a trust which has yet been achieved, and we hope thnt the farmers and their friends, the retail dealers, will repeat it whenever the occassion may require. ? Atlanta .Journal. S. C MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The Semi-centennial Meeting of the South Carolina Medical Association will beheld in Charleston April IS, 1000. It is proposed to make this event the occasion for a general reunion of all tha physicians in the State. Invitations will therefore ho Bent to every doctor in the State, requesting him to he prevent. A public reception will lie tendered to the physicians by tho Mayor and Al~ dermen of the City of Charleston: Excursions to Isle of Palms and other entertainments will he offered by the local profession. Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, of Phila delpkia, Pa, will deliver the An? nual Address. Board in the city can be obtained at $1 and upwards at the hotels. Redt ced rates of faro will be on sale on all roads leading into the citv. W P PORCH KB, President. T P \V HA LEY, Secretary. 1111-8. - j\9M9 I ' ' ? ' T. W. SECREST, SURVEYOR, OSY'EOLa. W. F* fully equipi-ed, and qualified, and nolicita \ our xurveyiRv CHESTER MACHINE AND LUMBER COMPANY. CHESTER, S. C. o The <'heater Machine ?'o. and B. M. Hpratt & i q . have consolidated the two punts, and now iea?iy to furniah anything 'ii tl'r mhi'lniif hihI I,uml>er hue-, with a well equipped Foundry ntitl Machine shop, and Door, Hash and Blind Fac'ory tur facilities are un> quailed in thin pari of the State. REAPERS MOWERS. TURESfiKHs, GINS. ENGINES HA W MILLS, HaY a N It poi i rkxi dupjupq ..... .... U V. \y k/Ai I n M3E<0| HARROWS. ( ASiINGS. K'C ALSO SECOND HAND MACHINERY. hatr HHIm complete for I)wr|lli>p. "<l'?re Rooms, etc. Heml us list of your wants, and we will answer by return mail Respectfully, CHESTER MACHINE * LUMBER COMPANY. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. I Mules for the money? Millet* for good paper? Mule* any way y ju want 'em ? Mules to work or mule* to caper. mwrc NOW HAVE IN our s'ahles every cooJ eeivahle kind of a mule ? From the ?|uiet and doolie to the feetlvc ami frisky?from the domestic pluti to the Hiperb young Western mule Another car load of the latter kind received leal Hememl?er, we sell either for the cash or good paper. Our present stock of Horses cannot he beat. Home number one saddlers and harness animals. Call and see our stock of all kinds. HVI1 also show you some of the best and cheapest Boggle* and Wagons you ever saw. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. e I #