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tf JulF X Xllf o.
In ordei to reduce our shoe i
Douglass $3.00 shoes in tan vici a
line of Craddock Terry & Co's $3
$2.25. Ladies misses and childrt
less of cost they must be sold at s<
shoes cheap.
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The Jail of Laurens Could
Not Hold Them.
Sheriff McCravey's Boarders
Quit Without Notice.
Special to The State.
. Laurens, June 9.?The six
prisoners, all colored, behind the
bars in the county jail for various
infractions of the law?none
serious, however?effected their
escape some time during last
night, presumably about 3 o'clock.
At this time none of them have
been recaptured, though every
effort on the part of the autkori*
ties is being made to recover
them.
.Inhn * I- ? ? ?'?
vwuu WIVUIIIU) IUO UJUTICI WOO
some time ago escaped from the
"county chaingang after overpowering
the guard and taking his
gun with which he (Coleman)
afterward very seriously wounded
a citizen who was pursuing the
convict with bloodhounds, is sup
posed to have led in Jthe scheme.
Two bars of the big iron cage
were sawed with a knife, or file
perhaps, and removed, making a
hole large enough for a man to
squeeze through. And then the
bars of a window were pryed
apart and from the window blankets
were suspended to the ground,
making escape rather perilous
but neverthMlMH bh/?a*?o#i?i i*
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wad a well-laid scheme end sue*,
cessfully carried out.
Hheriff McCravy offers a $25
reward for Coleman, who is de*
scribed as being of ginger cake
color, right eye out, face, arm
and body full of shot marks;
weighs 150 pounds ; age 25.
Linsay Milam, mulatto, slim
bnild, weighs 135 ; had on dark
blue pants.
John Friar is very black, round
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, | new itopi becnisr the weather A
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1 1 Then why stop taking I
: ; SCOTT'S SMUUUOM 9
Keep taking it H wilt heal your M
> longs, and make them strong lor I
' another winter. a
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nmmuwen nniwt
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ow where to find
urn to be served,
liants can't com
out. Cash bu
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BOE.BARGAINS.
stock. We otter the great W L
od ruasir calf at $2.50. The entire
.00 shoes in tan and black vicis at'
ins low cut ties and slippers regard-o
>me price. Now is tho time to buy V
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THE Gfl
I shouldered, low forehead, small,
ajie-looking boy with crippled
i knee.
Harrison Banks, tall ginger
color, bristly hair, about 31 years
old.
Will Milam, or Bud Zack,
tout, sfrort, black, age 21.
Wash Copeland. black, email,
186 pounds, 80 or 38 years old,
scattering mustache; reward $5.
k Blood; Fight.
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4,000 Boxers Surround 1,500 ,
Chinese Troops. PaoTingFu ,
Cut Off. i
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Tien Tsin, June 8?It is re- !
ported from Cbiness official j
sources that 4,000 1'boxers'' sur- ,
rounded 1,500 Chinese troops be- i
tween Loafa and Yong Tsun yes '
terday, and, according to the 1
latest news, tighting is still going j
on this morning. Officials say
that 500 'boxers" were killed, ,
but give no account of the Chinese
casualties. 1
Thirty of Gen Nieh's troops
encountered a hndv nf uhATaro" i
three miles from here on the Taku 1 .
road and killed 21 of them. t '
No news has been received from
Pao Ting Fu for three days, and
the situation there is believed to
be critical. It is reported that
the Chinese troops' have been de^
feated near there. The French
cruisers D'Entrecasteaux and Jean
Bart and the Kussian cruiser Russia
have arrived at Taku.
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BISM ARCK'N IRON
NERVE
Was the result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and
tremendous energy are not found
wh*ra stiiniaoli f i??" VI
t -w ?^wkM*vU| UlTVIj AkIUUCJB
and Bowels are out of order. If
you want thews qualities and the
success they bring, use Dr. King's
New Liie Pills. They develop
every power of brain and body.
Only 25c at Crawford Bros' drug
store. \
The Egyptian Cotton Crop.
Cairo, June 8.?It is estimated i
thst the year's cotton crop will be
equivalent to 1,000,000 Atneri*
' oan bales.
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ONG Oil
1 bargains. Oui
Our prices lii
pete with us an
yers naturally
>OIM k TREM
ROES CLOTI
Our clothing sales have nev
f those great bargains left. (Jom<
Ve still have some of that job lot i
euts on the dollar.
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Dun's Trade Review.
The Conditions Which Point to a
Greater Activity.
New York, June 8. ? Dun's review
of trade will tomorrow say:
Failures may prove larger than
expected a week ago. The adjournment
of congress, the peace
progress in South Africa and the
rapid adjustment of prices here to
a more natural level, all tend to
brine nearer tha nf
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activity. The price of iron has
not declined The miner metals
and coke are weaker. Petroleum
introduced. Silk and hemp are
lower. Wool is weak with small
demand. Cotton has fallen.
Hides have declined. Prices in
hoots and shoes are low. Ship*
ments are poor. There is no
shrinkage in the volume of business.
The railway returns show
an increase. The grain movement
is increasing. Railway
stocks are growing stronger.
Exports are not materially
changed. The failures in the
United States and Canada are in*
creasing.
STORY OF A Sl.AVK
To be bound hand and foot for
years by the chains of disease is
the worst form of slavery. Geo.
D Williams, of Manchester, Mich,
tells how such a slave was made
free. lie says: "My wife haB
been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn over in
bed alone. After using two bot
ties of Electric Bitters, she is
wonderfully improved and able
to do her own work." This supreme
remedy for female diseases
quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness,
malancholy, headache,
backache, faintingand dizzy spells.
This miracle working medicine is
ft gousena to weak, . sickly, run
down people. Eve?*y bottle guaranteed.
Only 50 cents. Sold- by
Crawford* Bros' Druggist.
The Port Royal people are fill
ing the daily newspapers outside
of Charleston with attacks against
Senator Tillman for bis part in
removing the navy yard from
Port Royal. They make it a
pretty clear case that the natural
advantages of Port Royal are fai
superior to those of Charleston ;
but Charleston has the advantage
in society and voting population.
?'Y or k ville Enquirer.
RST0R1
sales people kec
ave litterally pai
d it hasn't taken
go where they
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IING BUSINESS.
er hoen ho lariro yet wo have some
e quick before they are all gone. 8
>f pants slightly imperfect at 50 ti
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ours for Real Ba
CASH
I Life is Very Cheap in South
Carolina.
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James W Roper, Trying to Keep
One Broiher from Killing Another,
in Himself Shot Dead.
Special to The State.
Greenyille, June 9?A deplorab'e
tragedy took place last night
in Brushy Creek township, Anderson
county, seven or eight
miles from this city, which re^
suited in the instant death of
James W Roper at the hands of
John H McTindall, and the weapon
used was a double-barreled
shotgun, the contents of one barrel
entering the chest of Roper
and sending him quickly into eter?
, nitv. The killing had its origin
(in ft family feud, and Roper was
only incidentally connected with
it. Two brothers, John H and
W m H McTindall, were at enmity
with each other, and had not
spoken for four or fire years.
W m H McTindall and his family
were removing to their old neighborhood
from the Poe mill in this
city, and Roper came after them
in a wagon. Will McTindall intended
to occupy a house on his
mother's place in Brushy Creek
township, and when the wagon
wan in gunshot distance of John
McTindall's store, a negro man
met the party with a message that
1 tbey must not go to the house, as
^ John bad nailed it up and forbade
: their occupying it. No attention
was paid to the message and when
the wagon came opposite to the
store, John McTindall came out
i with bis gun and declared his intention
to shoot unless they went
in another direction. He drew
the gun upon bis brother, and
Roper caught hold of it. A struggle
ensued between the two men,
and they went some distance down
' the road when the gun fired and
Roper was killed.
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PRICE OF ONE. *
X This ptp?r and tha Atlanta
1 Twl?a-a-W?aH Jawrnal far
tn ""k t
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SJEVER1
;p on the run. A
rylized competiti
tliem long to fii
can do best.
FSiRB STOCK 03
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We are nearly sold out in thii
apply this week, then we will he abl
ind it pays to sell millinery at barga
argest millinery business ever done i
trgains,
STORE
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I Preacher Arrested for Criminal;
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His Victim Was a Small Colored
Girl, Acknowledged Crime and
Negroes Wanted to Lynch
Him.
Special to The State.
Sumter, June 11?Edd Ocantey,
colored, of Elliott, this county,
ravished a lO-year-old negro girl
on Saturday, and attempted to
rape another very young girl.
His victim was a child of Hea
rietta McDonald. He acknowledged
committing the crime after
I it was proven on him. Edd is a
preacher who has recently gotten
a license. He is a son of Judy
Ocantey, who has been sent to the
asylum three times _and is now
there. j
The negroes ofJClliott became 1
very much enraged over the out*,
rage, and a great crowd made the
arrest and kept Edd until the constable
came for him. It was
thought by some that they would
lynch him. He was taken to
Bishopville, where a preliminary
trial was held today, and he was
brought here and* ^committed to
jail this afternoon. II G O.
Prisoners Mutinied.
| San Juan, Puerto Rico, June
11?Five hundred inmates of the
penitentiary mutinied today, refusing
to take breakfast or to
work. They asserted that the
food was not fit to eat, and the
leader struck the warden in the
face. The penitentiary is guarded
by a detachment of 20 members
of the Puerto Rican regiment.
The prisoners attempted to rush
the troops who fired three volleys
ri inn wan or in me air. Tbree
of the inmates wera injured by
splinters, though not seriously.
The military authorities then
called out a company of regulars,
but the native company quelled
the disturbance before the regulars
arrived.
The Greenville grand jury reports
that a murder occurs in
Greenville county, on an average
of one every two weeks.
ism*
ir day.
Iany customers
on. Time
id it
f MILLINGS
TIIS WEEK.
i department but will get a fresh
e to supply the demand. We
in prices. We are doing the
in Lancaster.
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The Boers Have Waked up.
LONDON GETS NEWS WHICH
JARS HER SEVERELYENTIRE
BATTALION
Killed, Wounded or Taken
Prisoners.
London, June 11. ? Lieut Gen
Forestier Walker in command of
the .lines of communication in
South Africa reports that in the
disaster to the British troops on
June 7 where the Boers cut Roberts
line of communication, the
fourth ha (alios of the Derbyshire
regiment were all killed,
wounded or made prisoners except
six enlisted men and two of*
ficers and that fifteen men were
Irlll?l 1 .I.Li 1-1
mien auu dijjih TTuuuuod, many
of them severely. The Boers returned
the wounded to the British.
It is inferred that the Boers
captured over 500 men and as
late as June 10 held the positions
cutting off the British forces
north of Kroonstadt from reinforcements.
Rain in India.
Falls in Section of Famine Dis.
trict. 5,802,000 People
Being Fed.
London, June 11.?The viceroy
of India ha* cabled to the
secretary of State for India, announcing
that good rain has fallen
in southern India; there have
been scattered showers elsewhere
and that the meteorological reporter
forecasts a good but late
monsoon.
The hot weather, however,
still prevails and the famine ie-.
lief situation has not altered.
There are now about 8,802,000
peraons receiving relief.
Rev. Riddick Convicted.
Richmond, Va, June 11.?At
Lawrenceville the jury in the
case of Kev J E E Riddick, who
killed Dr fV H Temple, brought
in a verdict of manslaughter, and
fixed the punishment at three
years in the penitentiary. While
this verdict was in the nature of
a compromise, it has not been determined
whether the defense wilt
accept it. The public are greatly
dissatisfied with it.
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