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K ' * * * " * % t m , 'a < < ? v * * & OABTffli. I ^ F^mnHv Vrt Tor t&? JVwfjWlkm ?/ A* F'.Zttf o< M, ijji ImfTa 1?7 f?iwifnf 1 IBB-" T ** i * luim 4iii> MUUMUI I _ _v- ' ^ ) FT Awr ?% ^ . ii, \ . % , ? .N U A ti I' It m. <1. . < . ' f? U t K Y 4 1902 s M ' ? ' ' '> ? 1 ? ? ??? ?? 1 - S?L?] Our 3?igli ^laiuij of Oui Prices Lower Th v Notwithstanding the improv Lower Prices than evor before G CHEAP. Our buyer made a great Marvelous Values. Caught on the we have set the town ablaze at Thrt Dress G oods a V Beauty Lancaster has never conta n< Fabrics, Plain ? loth the Best Solloi Broad Cloth, Covert*, Venetions, Serges and Granitier in every dosir Skirtings at 5<?c a yard. Beautifi Dots as well hs the plain colors; & street and evening wear. Struck It Rich a Clet 13 pieces 45-incli all-wool si at fl for dress pattern of t> yard* LAN'CJ A Drunken Friendleas Man Dies in Obscurity. Special to Ths Stats. Sumter, Dec. 13.?Yesterday afternoon John Ryan, a white man, was found dead in a negro house near the depot. Ceroner Flowers, was uoti&ed, made an in1 t estimation and decided that an inquest was unnecessary. ' Ryan came to this city several months ago and secured employment, but being an habitual drunkard, aoon lost his job. Stop the - . BHght It is a sad thing to see fine f - trees spoiled by the blight, i can always tell Jhcm from t. .! rest. They never do well i rwards but stay small and , ?. ;klv. }i A.*,.' V. ' ' .. r. It. is worse to see a blight strike. :childrcn. Good health is the natural right of children. But of them don't get their rights. While the rest . I grow big and strong one stays small and weak. Scott's Emulsion can stop that blight. There is no! reason why such a child should j stay small. Scott's Emulsion j is a medicine with lots of strength in it?the kind oj strength that makes thing grow. Scott's Emulsion make children grow, makes them cat makes them sleep, makes thcr. play. Give the weak child ; chance. Scott's Emulsion wii I-"-""-' I make it catch up This picture represents the Trade Mask of Scott's ICmulsion and is on the wrapper of every bottle. Send for free Sample. SCOTT & BOW NIC, 409 Pearl St., New York. f1 -rgMHBfti s anu an oiuggisw. * / > JfDID ml of fc\ e!'.e I* GoodN VY i > ii * , Wo are n? lan j 'or Many Yea; ;. ed quality of our goods we <piote ,, oods bought CllKAl^ can bo sold bit this season; -cooped in some fly 6,000 yards IS ice lanbr ?i orio?o Cents a yard. ? T 1 - ! uiiuer 01 and Cheapness. ( ;d such a Choice (' Ih'c'i in < ' in.* \? ra. W? are allowing the F.d iine. t Melrose, Cuahin res, 11 <. i:: . : a , ;l able color. Some splendid 11 nvv -y ll Waist Flannels in Shi pes and c iilks in all the Nesv Weaves for 5 ,nd ' ined ud the Lot. Ik finidi Jaquaods, in nice styles, ^ i; 34 pioces all-wool <1 nible.-fold 1 1ST ER Blood Shed it a Watch Party in**M t'eopie Kiiivi nuii I'we, I Including a Wo i.an, Wounded. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 1.?Three psopls wars killsd and 2 wounded at Robinsons, b. C., in a fight which eccurrefi during n warty given at tha residence of Jesse Griffin. Tba pat ticipauts in tha fight wara whita people and wellknown in this part of tba county. Tha dead ara: Geo. Dun oar, Harry Dunbar, Fletcher Bonnslt. Tha woundad ara Mrs. Geo. Dunbar and Arthur Dunbar. A "watch party" was given at tha rasidanca of Jaasa Gritlin and during tha evening Wm. Cobb bacama involved* in a dispute. Cobb latar laft tha house. Aftar bis departure the quarrel was taken up by Fletcher Bennett and Dunbar drew bis pistol. Griffin, J the host, interfered, taking Dun- j bar's pistol from him. Fletcher. Bennett suddenly seized tha! weapon and that George Dim bar, j kiljing him instantly. The letter's sen Harry came to tha de* fease, hut was also killed by Bennatt. Arthur Dunbar, enother son, joined in tha fight and shot Bennitt. Ths shooting bacama general and Bennett received a second abet which killed him and Arthur Dun bar rncnirad a1 wound which may prove fatal. ' Mrs. Dunbar was also sbat, but it1 in believed she will recover. Arthur Dunbar is fatally woundad. j i A LATER AND FULLER ACCOUNT OF THRHORRIBLR AFFAIR Barnwell, Jan. 2.?Informa- J tion was received here yesterday | of one ef the mest shocking tragedies that has ever darkened the' | history of the county. At the horna af Mr. J. 0. Griffin near j Rabbins station, a Naw Year's danca was givaa. During tba danca, ana flobbs trad upon tha foot, or in soma way fall against Bay ward Dunbar, Hobbs apologizad, but young Dunbar was not I aatisfiad and want to his fathar j and told him ha had baan insultad. j Mr. Dunbar at once draw his pistol and adrancad towards tha I I ^ . s O] I '\a*! Iinppi)ri .. r >?? to am I.in A Showing a Si irocodins, beautiful colors, at t5 ecu 00 pieces yard-wido dross Plaids; iiu' (! .11 tho bargain counter at 10 . ar and-a-half wide, tho $1 kind, a ;nins i a lot of tlocco-linod Flannelet lipniii" th. in in at 5 cents to clinch a - s o ' iandard Calicoes at a low pr ; Soft Snaps i Rlnnl 10 1 Grav cotton Blan'ic is, th toikI ay'*wool mixed, the ^2 00 kit 1:i BlfttiVotk the $3- .">0 [kind :i ? >) i (1 ,V?r v:>? 00. Comforta ,i S? ml O. 2."?. A IV\v real down iVholn alo House closing*out, we sco lol-.'oii 1> U spreads at a big discount lu? benefit. Omno quick bofott- tluvv Clothing Better 'J 1*1*1008 Lov Our guaranteed $5 Suits ard t hip. They make our customers ghv uivc neve r scon anything to equal th MERC, rOftn where Hohhs was. A/ he jj nai in the set of shooting, a bystander struck the pistol up sad the bullet going wide of its intend t)d mark struck Mr. Fletcher Ben., I nett one of.the mauy guests in the room wed who was in no nected with the disturbance^ Falling to the floor, Bennett drew 1 bis pistol and returned the fire, shooting Mr. George Dunbar, who n fell dead with a bullet ia his a heart. Keating on his el how Bennett continued firing and killed a Mr. Dunbar's son, Ilarry, a 16 ^ year old boy, and perhaps niorta- y lly wounded another son, Author. Mrs. Dunbar, the wife and mother j was strack in the abdomen by a r stray hull, which rebounded from her corset, thereby probably Baying her life. George Dunbar ^ Kirkland, a nephew of the de ceased, now rushed upon the 4 * t scene and drew his pistel upon the weunded Bennett, who . wus ( lying on the floor supported by ^ the arm of his brother. The 1 brother entreated Kirkland not to * oliA.it Knl "iHU .? ? ?4' '-1A ^ vuvw uui} TTIbll (IB VftlU, UiO IftliVI' oruered him to move and threatened to kill him also. Without any further effort 10 sure hie unfortunate brother, he sprang aside, leaving him to bis fate. Kirklaud put two bullets into the forehead of the prostrated man, whe died instantjy. The coroner and ' sheriff wero at once summoned and an inquest held. Kirkland is in the county jail, having surren- 1 dered to the sheriff. Over Forty Thousand. j Chief Clerk Gantt of the office < of the secretary of state yeeter day said that the annual report of that office was' almost complete. He said that it would show that under the new charter laws the inceme ef the nfTip? frai.i aid" commission fans would ho i oror $4?,000 this year. The in como from this seurco has horotoforo uovor gone oror $s.0#0 a yoar.?Tho State. The Georgia Populists bavo decided to put a state ticket in tho fi Id at tho ooxt election. F NEW I ' \ k 1 Mi. Ml-1 .1 -i' II i d I'lie Stjle a e Formerly Far rock of Goods ! ts for dross pattern of 8 yards;i|$5 the 20 cents kiud, have been: wt cents; 14 pieces fltie Broadcloth,! yo 00 cents; one of our best bar-jest tes, always 10 cents, but wo are a j trade. Picked up a couple of;|ve ice and they will go at 4 cents. in ^ tots and Quilts, oi< i' ?1 00 kind at 50 cents a pair j Fi id at $1 00 a pair. 25 pair tine / it $2 50. Extra fine all wool, l?l"s for everybody. Full sizes comforts at bargain prices. Big oped in a great line of white and Our customers, as usual, get 1 arc all gone. Liian Ever, |A' rcr Than EverIj? narvels in quality and workman- ,Q il and our competitors sad We pi em. The history of these famous g< UNTIL Indid His Lift | fitb tbe Hei Ytar. t ie oaid to His Daughter "God Blew You All." Thin Hi Want to Hie Last Sleep. * , ?. C lie State, 1st inet. ( Mr. Jehn Stanton, an English- j nan and a soldier of the federal T rmy during the Civil War, is o lead at his boaae on Green street, I nd all the evidences indicate that ti te took his own life. Ue had 1 >een drinking for several days, tl nd while under the influence of fi iquor took an overdose of lauda- o lura. u Thedi Ug was purchased Monlay night. When he went home te took a drink of something out Q if a glass. As he was falling off (J o sleep, he turned to his eldest, q laughter and jutid "God bless ^ rou all.11 When he could not he t iroused yesterday morning, his a amily thought the circussstances t 'ather strange. When Stanton ^ tad taken the fatal draught the ^ light before, it was thought that ^ le was taking a drink of whiskey f ind the family paid no attention ,o it. Yesterday morning some ^ ;ime after his wife had gotten up, ihs found ths glass where it ap- r geared to havs bssn hidden. It ^ lid not small of whiskey and bei . tuspicious became aroused. In the yard she found a bottle n wbieh had been laudanum. Mr. Stanton was in a heary sleep aed it was then apparent that be had j tried te destroy his twi life, j Physicians worked unsucessfully 1 for hours, and at 1 o'clock yes- 1 terday be died. Postoflice Ruling. ! The recent ruling of the postoffice officials at Washington, that any subscription te a periodical must be discontinued as soon as the time is out is causing a mighty j kick to come from those lewsna psrs having extensive circulations. , As s result the natienal publishers ' bureau of Charleston will present, a mam met h petition to congress protesting against such a ruling. j fALL GO ml Quality ri^<l in I his "*econ<l lo iXoiie suits in very simple. Wo struck a . i osppcncd to have it. 48 odd coatf ur choice for &2 50. Two lots all w an I reliable at ?4 00 a suit. In ki jjreat line. Our vest suits for little rv cheap. Jew Style Jacket Jackets are he popular garmen igant line in correct lengths. We a irs ever brought to this market. 1* )ur Millinery I) nient Ruslic The succe-s of our opening is a'o milliners cant keep uj? with them body delighted at the very reas nab gh class millinery this season. Bar t?out 400 pairs Ladies fine shoes rat \ 50 will he closed out at 75 cents an dies line shoes to select from "the uali'y at $2 00, #2 50 $3 oo. Just int* at uu cunts on the dollar. U u >ods. Conic to us for the bust of ov ECOMJ Amos Oven Gherrj Tree Co. 'iv* Arrest* Mad* by United W States Marshal on Chart:* *f Fraudulent Us* of th* Mails. Tl ip*ciaf to Th* Slat*. Charlott*, N C., D*c. 31. ? M. Hi /. Padgett, *f Forest City, G*o. w 'adpett, (ilandisen Ramsey, A I- Tl in Riggerstaff and Drurv Hill th f Ellensbor*, wer* arrested by a ci Jnited States marshal in cunneo in ion with the Amos Owen Chorry hi 're* compaay and bound over to Si h* Charlott* federal court. The th rat named in $1,000 and th* at thers $500. Th* charge i* fraud- w lent us* of the mails. J. C. A. The Associated Press dispatches f Tuesday told of wide spread ^ isaster by high waters in North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor- Tl ;ia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kenuckj, Pennsylvania, and other #< tates. All Iho railroads in the ^ erritories referred to suffered ? leavily by washouts and otherrise. A numbor of lives are re- ^ >orted to have been lost and ser- ? sral large dams, including those *' A Portman Shoals, in Anderson ^ :ounty, S. C., and at Tallapoosa, * lla., have been washed away. & rhe property loss throughout the * looded territory easily foots up nto tens of millions of dollars. e TRESPASS NOTICE! ' t All I \.. _.l aii |i?i?uun nit? ucicuy vvai uou 3ot to trespass by walking, riding, hunting, cutting wood or trespassing in anyway on the lands of the * undersigned, two miles West ef town, known as the "Jasper Cunningham" and "Cbafee" places, bounded by the public road, lands of D. A. Williams, J. S. Fundeihurk, Lerey Springs, W.J. Cunningham and ethers. Also on my place known as the J. 1*. Hunter lands, two miles South of town, bounded by J. L. Tillman, W. A. Howell, the public road, and ethers. mi i *11 i f ii f -.1 me law win oe rigidiy emorcea against any and all persons disre? garding this notice. 1 W. B. PLYLEK. Not. 21, 1901. _ , Our* Cold In Head. Kermott'a Chocolate* t,a native Quinine, easy take u4 mick to cure cold in head and aore kroaa. OB... ket in itu- . 5 ?? Jew tliat ne< <!( <! the mom v : I i worth from M? i?> % > 'ool hard tii.it- . 1 me pants nuii.? .? > ? ; v> 1 r men arc beam a - n . I s, Cape : , is lliis scas< n < o n re showug tli nir 'ine <>f ices range from 1 opart 'd wit shown by the < hT. * 1 i 11 ??. workinti da\ an ni.. !i; 1.. ule prices at whh i. w? . gain shoe sale lug..a tlr.s v.*.- *. iging in pi in s f.? in 0 1 t?? id ?1 <10. Two great lii of Imperial Shoe" aid il ? h uci 11 picked op s 111 pit* l.?i 1 i.'s are headquarters ldr i.iM el: -^s ervthing. => A N 7 h. J*. -Mk. JKL. * J/L. M Fairfield I'-n:; . O hat Mr. Mobh \ S:,y- of Condition ?1 IV'?ol?\ 4> be ^k ta. W' 'obn S. M- *iKm of Fair% ?lcTx 4 tha citv yestardav and as alued by a rupiomntati\ of !) Stuta as ta thn condition af agricultural poop! > in (b it lint y. Fin atat-d dial climatic fineness and thn boll worm* that id affectad the crops through thn late, had cut tbnui abort in Fur. ?Id alao; but that the agricultural id marcantilu iatarsst* nara no orsa thara than iu many otbar ictinna. Said Mr. Mobley: "Fairfield ona of tha furv best Bounties ia ta Statn, and tha land there re lands generously to propar cult iition but tha heavy ruins in the >riog and aarly summer, follow, 1 by a sharp drought, has mada ia past year tha worst that tha ii i e i i ? Ki?hi urnarv cun roceneci. 4 'The proponed issue of bond* as been votod down. Tho pr#p ition originatnd from public piritedmen who are tho largo reperty holders end who were ctuated by a sincere desire to ire employment to those who ranted work and to improve the lio public roads. Their patriotic fforts, however, has created a rrong impression, as the people here are as well prepared to tight he conditions that confront them s anywhere tu the State." jOTICK. Having closed our business run >y Elliott & Crawford, all parties ndebted to them will tind their letes and accounts at our office. A'e have moved all their buggies, wagons, etc., to our stables. Re nember the-celebrated Columbia ftuggy and Mitchell Wagon This jusineus is now closed up and all Parties indebted to them must ?ttle, as we cannot carry them. Lancaster Mercantile Company. A Qcompanv of Cnited States treops had a band to hand fight with insurgents at Sin Joae, Fa tangas, P. I., Dec. 23. Twenty twe innurgents warn killed and two American*! wounded. .