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THE LEDGER. Tliurlow S. Ca.rt.or, EDITOR AND MANAGER. WEDNESDAY, AI'Kll. 2"), H>00. | For The Ledger. Majji'.l Items. I Mk. Himtou: We hud a very' heavy rain yesterday (Wednesd \ t which washed up the lands very badly. Misses. Carrie Biggart and j Florence Boll have i)eeu spendinga few days with the family of Mr. j and Mrs. L 10 Caelhcn, near Ker- j sliaw. Born to Mr. and M.s. R F Boyd April 1 7. 1 '.ton ? a son. We learn that Mr. S C Powers and Mi>s Blaneh Hammond of Ru->el ldaee, will be married soon. We widi them a happy and prosperous life. Tom. Magid, .\pril lb, ltbjO. TilF 11F.ROIO niCFD OF A (HiLLNVlLLF LAD. Jumps From a IFblroad l>rid<*e Into tlu; Water to Save a Little (iirl. Special to The Slate. (1 rcenville, April ?Yesterday afternoon a party of children were on the Southern railway trestle over a meadow which was Hooded by the much swollen lieedy river, when some of them cried that the train was coming. Aland Hammond, the ?i year old daughter of Mr Frank Hammond, president of the People's Itank, was frightened and she lost her balance and fell oil' the trestio into six feet of water. Charlie (iower, who was the eldest of the party, promptly jumped in the water and succeeded in getting hold of the little girl as she was about to go under for the third time. lie seems to have acted with great presence of mind, as his was a ditlicult ta-k under terrifying circumstances. He clung to the timbers, holding the almost drowned girl until help came. Charlie (Jower is the son of Mr A (' (lower and is an activ, athletic boy of It. Naturally he is the hero of the town, but he was in his class and well up in the catechism at the First Presbyterian church to<l;ty. The little ?rirl is very little worse for her almost fatll experience. J. A. H. (iot ^v5ou,000 and llunj* Himself. New York Di-patch, 15th. .Julius Roster, a brick layer of \V?*st Fifl V Si'cnnd 4ifvn.it n il'. recently inliei ited *-'>00,000 from Ins brother's estate in (Jermany, was found dead today, swinging from n rope in an empty water tank on the roof of his house. Koster had only recently recovered from u long spell of sickness. I Ie caught one of his lingers in a hook <while iishing about ill year ago and blood poisoning re- j sultorl. He was still weak in mind and body when his brother in, v (r< rmanv died, leaving him a for-I ' ' r> ? j tunc. The sudden change from 1 poverty to riches left his mind ' permanently affected. ( V ~ 7 . ! Col .1 Harvey Smith, one r?f < the most wealthy and "nfluential citizens of ( hester "died rather i suddenly at his home Monday. t I The Atlantic Cotton Oil Co, of , Sunder, will build a cotton seed t oil mill in Charleston. This ' company already has four mills " * i in operation in the State. It has also purchased the Mutual Oi1 ( Kefinery in Charleston. ? JIM CKO W A CT IC F FI OCT I V K. No Partition Hut Separate Coaches for White atnl Hlack ami Hoth Fares 'A Cents? The 25 Cent Charge No More. Special to (Ireenville News. Columbia, S C, April 2<C ? The new Jim Crow ear act went into effect today. It requires! that there shall he two first class' coaches, one for whites and one for negroes. There is to he only1 one fare and that is .*> cents a mile, there hcinji no second class fare. I'lie railroad commission today issued an order doin<* away with the charge of 2."> cents to l)ss*en?;er failinuf to huy tickets r.t the stations. Passengers under this rule may pay the conductor the regular / fare without excess for not havim* tickets afu^encir*. A .Merchant Pisappears. Correspondent (ireenville News. Anderson, S (April 21.?d \Y Howard, i? merclnint at Dean. disappeared troin there on last Sunday, under suspicious eireutn stanees. lie was in luisincss Willi 1{ XV I'lilitt, although tile ledixel' containing an aeeount of the linn's business cannot !>? found and is believed to have been destroyed by Howard. \fter taking stork Mr l'ruiti thinks there is a shortage of about SKddf). Howard i wrote a letter from Augusta say | ing he was going to Cuba. His politeness and courtesy had won for bun many friends who still hope that it will be all right. A Young Murderer Acquitted. Charleston, S C, April 20.? Several weeks ago at Kock Hill, I this State, Hud Jenkins slabbed Sylvestei .lones to death, both of them being about 12 years old. I J'-nos charged Jenkins with ''gossiping about him" to a nogro girl of their own age. They went to her house an 1 there the! fatal uliarrel ensued ! ' of Jmurder against .Jenkins was complete, t>tit tin? jury this week acquitted him because of Ins ''infancy.' ' Mysterious Mortality Amonj* * Horses. IVoolc living in tin* vicinity of (iuthriesville have lost some valuaIde stock lately in a manner that is entirely unaccountable. With-, in a short while of each other, three ?*ood horses died on Mr. .1 lv L'ndsay's place, all with more j or less suddenness and general I y durimr the ni?*ht. Mr W-ut.. it liicklin lost a lino mule it few. nights ai.ro in tlie same manner, ami a telephone message of Tlmrs-! day reported that Mr. Robert W'itherspoon had two very stick i mules on his band. The stomach of one of 111 - dead animals was analyzed by I>r. Ilanalian on the theory that it may have been poisoned: but the doctor was nn-| able to tin<I anything that seemed to coi rohoratc the theory. ?York- | ville kntpiirer r<oi;nui> tsi k *;k \ vn A startling incident, of which .Mr. .John Oliyer of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by hi") as follows: '%I was in ji most dreadful condition. My skin was. almost vellow, eves sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite? gradually growing weaker <I,A l>y day. Three physicians had^iven me up. Kortunntely, a friend advised try ing Electric Hitters; and to my *reat joy and surprise, the first u tile made a decided improve-, liont. I continued their use for ,hree weeks, and am now a well nan. I know they saved my life, md rohhed the grave of another dctim." No one should fail to ry them. f)nly 50 cts., guaraneed, at Crawford Bro's Drug Store. HOLT/CLAW'S HON!) GOOD. The Bond Company Most Pay the Shortage of the I dispenser. Special to Greenville News. Columbia, St' April 21.?The j supreme court has reversed the circuit court in the case of G Lawrence Walker, treasurer of Green ville countv, vs Iloltzelaw, ot al. The circuit court sustained the demurrer of tiie sureties on Iloltzclaw's bond as count y dispenser to an action for funds not paid to the State authorities for liquor sold on the ground that the hond was not such as is required by the statute. This decision sends the case back to the circc.it court where the Act ion will he prosecuted and payment on the bond enforced The bond was for S:'Nr>oo, the surety betn^ the American Bond ino and Trust Company of Baltimore. which employed (.'apt .! A Mooney to as-.Lt Shuman Dean in the lefenee of Ilolt/.claw Later the State brought action mrainst the surety company and .Indue Towiisend sustained the demurrer tlcit llicrn ? <?! <> i?.o f. - - - ... . V ?.. " x ? ? "MFl I??l 1-1 sutliciont to constitute a cause of action. Mordccai (iadson, /?f Charleston, and Captain Mooney, of this city, defended the company and Solicitor Ansel represented the county treasurer, 111 whose name the suit was brought. I DAVE SANDEKS TKAGIC DEATH. Accidentally Shot by His Fi iend Walter Hopkins Near Easlcy. 15y Telegraph to Greenville News. Seneca, S C, April 10.?A sad affair occurred yesteiday after., noon in tlie Return neighborhood, ft few miles from town, when Dave Sanders was killed 1?v ft pistol shot from the hands of Walter Hopkins. Several young men of the neighborhood congregated and in going from one neighbor's to another's they were handling pistols when that ?>f Walter Hopkins accidentally discharged, the load striking young Sanders in the back and penetrating the heart, causing immediate death. THAT Til It Oil it I.NOlll*: A I > % < IIK Would i p lick I v leave yon. if von used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved ti.eir matchless merit for Siek and Nervous Headaches. They make pure; Mood and strong nerves and build up your health. IvisV to take. Try them. Oulv go cents. Money back if not cured Sold hv Crawford Bros, druggist. IN MLN'S CLOITIINTJ. Wofnen Found Among the Boer' Prisoners at CapcToUn. London, April gl ?A letter from a nurse in a hospital at Cape ' Town corroborates no unpleasant featuro of the war. The writer says the medical otliccrs, for sanitary reasons, forced a number of ' 4 . I Boor prisoners to bathe in the river behind the hospital. Two of them absolutely refused to strip find when forced to do so it was found they were women in men's clothing. The writer adds: "Quite a number of the dead on battlefields , have been found to be similai'v disguised and, worse than all, it lias often been those women who have been guilty of ustrocitscs, such as killing the wounded." The most cruel suggestion yet made about the half cent coin it is proposed to introduce, is that it is intended to enable Philadelphia people to subscribe to the republican national convention fund ? (xreenville News. 4 r^TT* ' * - ? T? T? I ??? ST1\()N(? PKMANI) IS MADE ON THE Sl'LTAN. State Department's Position is Polite I?ut Positive. Turkey Must Keep Iler Promises. Washington, April, 20 ? Seere- ( turv Hay returned t*> Washington today from Now Y rk. It is sip- j parent that, though determined upon positive netion in ttie* online- ' tion of its just claims against the Turki-h government, the State department is proceeding decorously and with duo precautions against being led into the assumption of anv position which it can not maintain. It may lie stated by authority that tho State department is entirely satisfied of tne accuracy of Minister Straus* statement relative to the promises made to him by the* Porte, notwithstanding tic* attempted explanation eid elforts to becloud the issue by declaration that the sultan's promises were conditional. The minister's dispatches, sent while he was in Constantinople, are couched in exact terms; his written statement- arc fully continned by hi- oral explanations to the department upon his return to thel'nited State--, and, moreover, the pledges lie ?eeured were similar to those made to the t\o preceding I'nited States ministers to Turkey. In the opinion of tlio State departinont ollicials, it is inconccivable that throe I'nited States ministers should ho suecossivolv deceived in the terms of a promise or ?houl<l have reached similar misunderstandings. The approval which the State department's latest action seems to have received in Kurope was anticipated, it being realized here that several of the continental poyers having claims similar to our own against Turkey, tiring themselves prevented from initiating any forcible demand upon the Turkish government by reason of the jealously of their neighbors, are entirely willing that the I'nited States government shall act as a pioneer in tins mailer and clear the way for a prosecution of their own just claims. It al.-o is believed here that mo r,uropean powers are hopeful that tDe attitude assumed hy the I'nited States in the present in stance mav indireetly serve to deter the Turkish government from the proposed arbitrary increase | of 3 per cent, in custom dues' which it seems to make in defiance of the joint protest of the Kuropean powers. It appears that 1 our government is lending its 1 moral support to this protest, for, while not joining \\ itli tho others in the coinhinc'd note, our charge, Mr. (iriscom, lias heen instructed to make representation'1 on our I own account in opposition to the I increase of duties. Ali Ferrouh IVy, the Turkish j minister, said today that he probably would hear from his governnient in a short time concerning tho American claims, lie insists; that an amicable settlement can lie arranged and repeats his .state* mont already published that, in view of the hie! i esteem in which he was held by the sultan, and the f iot < f his acting in a diplomatic < macitv. Minister Si runs w?i* i.ni justified in making tlu- assertion that the sultan hud broken his promise in regard to the settle- ' niont of the claims. For a Shorter Freed. Washington, April 20.?The Presbyterian ministers have 113 1 ctcne interested in the agitation for a shorter church erred. \ special meeting of the Washington city Presbytery has been called for May 7th for the purpose of preparing an overturo on the subject to bo presented to the general assembly. i BLOODY WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES THE INSURGENTSLOSTCNEi THOUSAND IN IIAl l'LK. American Loss was Very Linlit ? Natives Continue to Display Activity Despite Peaceful Reports of Ot is Out iinism. Manila, April 22, 10:30 am.? I Last weok has been one of the) bloodiest of the war since the first day's lighting around Manila. Authentic reports, mostly official, show a total of 37^ Filipinos killed, 12 offices and 2 11 men captured and manv more wounded. The J number wounded is hardly guessa- | ble. Considering that the Filipinos entirely lack hospital faeili ties, a great majority of the wounded will die. Probably the week's work finished l,0U0 insurgents. The Americans total loss was P killed and lb wounded. Two sergeants ami one private were killed in ambush while escorting provision trains. Twenty Filipinos in the province of llatangas at tacked Lieut. Wen de, who, with eight men, was scouting near San dose. The lieutenant and five men were wounded and one private was I.- it !<><! Sergt. Lendoius of the Thirtyfifth infantry was Imdlv wounded in nn ninho>h near Italiuag. Lieut. Balch of the Thirty-seventh in funtry, with To men, had n five hours' tight with !<><> insurgents in the I'uevn C'aoeriis district. Twentv of the insurgents were killed. j (\?l. Smith of the Seventeenth infantry, who captured (ieneinl Montengrn and brought him to Mnnihi, is in the isolation hoard-| till swtTering from smallpox, pie I snnmbly caught from the Filipinos. Col. Smith's command cuptured ls<> ollicers nn ! men with Monte negro. The ollicers were brought to Manila Montenegro, who I wns tormcrly mm of the most dapper oflicers in the Filipino urmv, looks worn and hajvoard. Ho savs he !::ss4 It".! a !< ? ? !* !? life for months, and lie has offered to rot urn to* tint north with Col Smith to endeavor to persuade his former comrades of the naelessnoss of oppo ino the Americans. One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners from the province of Tayahas, South Luzon, have ar* rived fit Manila. I lie insurgents have -I<>0 more Spaniards in that district. Recently the Filipinos destroyed several rods of the railway line near l'anione in >" miwm.l 1 '* ? attempt to wreck a train. 1'?:M0 a in ?The insurgents have hern aimressivo in almost every province of Luzon. Gen GRANDMA liAD CONSUMPTION and I am afraid I have inherited it. I do not feel we'l; T have a cough ; my lungs are sore; am losing ilesh. What shall I do? Your doctor says take care of yourself and take plain cod-liver oil, but you can't take it. Only the strong, healthy person can take it, and they can't take it long. It is so rich it upsets the stomach. But you can take soqtt'S EMULSION It is very palatable and easily digested. If you will take plenty of fresh air, and exercise, and SCOTT'S EMULSION steadilv. / w there is very little doubt about your recovery. There are hypophosphites in it; they give strength and tone up the nervous system while the cod-liver oil feeds and nourishes. r. and $1.09, all druggists. BOWNt, N?w York. n 1 I i I V n 11 4^ u " 1 * \ Pio del Pilnr's bund, numbering 1300, which was out of sight for three months, tho leader being reported killed, has reappeared in its old field about San Miguel. Pilar is supposed to bo again in command. IIo nave the American garrison at San Miguel, con sisting of tlireo companies of tlio Thirty fifth infantry, with a < * titling, a throe hours' light during a night attack. Tlfo loss of the insurgents in this engagement is not included in t he foregoing tot al, as t'icy removed their dead and ~ wounded, hut presumably it was considerable. LYNCH INC IN WLST Y1R(i INI A. This Negro's Rodv Kiddle 1 as he was Pragged to he Hung. niuelield, tX Ya., April 20? : News has reached here that on Wednesday at Tazewell, this State, John Peter's, colored, as~ saulted Katie Richie, a white girl 1 ?> years old, after brutally beut| ing her, and escaped. Cloud | hounds were used and he was cap' itlirid !IM(1 lil'ttllirlll O, i ? I 1 Shortly after midnipht masked men stormed the juil with axes. The ne?jro confessed hut he<rUjod for his life. A rope was i laeod around his neck and be was drnjified 200 yards down the railroad track toward the woods. The infuriated tnoo eould not | wait until a tree on which to luin<r him could he reached hut fired i liuXU-t a'ter hullct into his hody ! while lie wits hein<r dragged, and before the woods were reached lie 1 was dead. The rope was then thrown over a tree and he was ! drawn up. iMKMHHMMMLU ? [ K'?r The !jtjtlyer. IN' LOVING UftMKM URANi K OF J M BAUTON lioNK m 1- Mt i KoK<?<> i'TKJ*. _ | , j ' IMs hard to hreak tUe tender Cord vv hen love has bound the heart, I 'Tin hard -o hard to sneak the words? We mu*t forevei part. Deadest loved one we must lay thee Injthe peaceful grave's emhraee, lint thy memory will he cheii-died, Ti i we see ihv liea\enly fare. [ Wrewell dear father hut not forever. There will he a glorious dawn. We snail meet to part ? no 11 'Ver, <)n the i esti rivet ion morn i mui^ii iii.v oariing form lies .sleeping In thi' cold ami silent tornh I Ix'ii shall liuve a glorious waking When the hlt-sseil IjokI <loth come. A preeiiuis one from lis lias gone, 1 A voice we loveii is mi i 11c?> 1, A |> lie- ii? vacant in our lnnni* YVh'eh never can 1? iDlerf, liinl in Ills wisilom lias recalled The hoon liis love hail wiven Ami though ilie t? .ily slumbers here The sou is safe in heaven Dearest Ka'ln-r than hast lcrt in. A ml our los? we ?h only feel* Milt t;s (i ill that has herefl us lie can all our son ?w- heal Yet ??i*ui i we hope to in-et thee, j \Y hell t lie ii iy of life is li.nl. ' Whni iii lieivrii wiiii joy ' ureet iliee. t WIhtc no farewell tear ^o Hlie.i . Peaceful lie iliy silent sHriilier, . IVaeeful in tli\ itruve ho low, j I'hou no inorr will join our unrulier. Thou no more our sorrow know. s ? I)A roiITKKH. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. Mules for tin- mom^y ? Mule* lor good naper? Mule- any way y <u want VmMule* to work or limits tucuptr. W ft WF. NOW H WK IN W hi our a'aloes every conI at VC J ceivahle kind of a mule ? From the ipiiet and docile to the fesiivc and fr.wky?from the donuiitlc ; plu< to tlie uiperl? ynunjr Western I mule Another car l< ad of the latter 1 kind received last week. Jlcmeinher. we sell cither f??r I or kooiI paper. Our present stock of ilonfn cannot be ' eat. Some number one saddlers hiuI harness animals. fall and see our stork of all kinds. ItVII also show you some of the best and cheapest Itoptfles and Wagons you ever saw. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD.