The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, March 08, 1902, Image 1

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teiMwtaAwa, | v K Ki,y +Ll>v, " 1 i. <IL. t . e.. '.' , VA tangling Burglars Work at vt. Mathews. Nitroglycerine*! Vault of the Shy ings Hunk ? But Inner Doors Jleld Fast. Slpncial to The State. St. Matthewa, Marcn 5.?During the night burglars eulered the hardware store of George W. Arthur and procured a few chisels aad otaar implimsnts which they thought they might need and pro oe**d t ? the St Matthews Savings bank and Mew open the huge safe Of that institution. The imer vault of the safe cannot he opeuod by thu officials this niorniag and it is not yot evident whether they got any money or not. The general store of Bates & Stnook was also burglarized and a few saits of eletbing procured. The dispensary was also entered and u liberal quantity of liquor taken. The burglars left the towa by stealing a inulc from Mr id. A. Ilaysor. No clue whatever is kiitwa as to who the burglars are 01* wheaee they came. Biforls are oeiog made tn proper dogs from Columbia. The opinion prevails hero that the burglars are still near here. A liberal quantity of whiskey was drunk at the dispensary and also oarried away. Later: Tko outer doors of the safe were blown open bat the vault containing the uu?n?y wue net opened. The burglars secured $28 in 1 cent pieces and $5 in geld for 1heir iroaVo. All money and papers nr?' MirV. The dispensary was robbed of about $7 worth of fine liquor uud "Utter Two xvhi?e tramps worn arrested rtt St M?#tte today and brought here by Constable J. E. Bujck and arc now undergoing aa examination, l| it ho far no damaging evidence has been secured against lUorn. &UKMBBLEMsamzBNmanamwHBBaatBMKjxvukxc*KJ ? ? Nature I Babies and children need | proper food, rarely ever mcdi-1 cine. If they do not thrive | I on their fcod something is 1 | wrong. They need a little | help to get their digestive | machinery working properly. COD a_BVfc.!HS: OB a. \WN MYPOPHOSPH/TZS or LIMES SODA ? I will generally' correct this difficulty. if you wiH put from ore- j fourth to half a tearpconfui j : in baby's bottle three or four 1 | times a day you wiil scon see 1 5 a marked improvement. For | j larger children, from haif to T I a fM<rvfiftnfii! arrruvllnrf In I J age, dissolved in. their rr.iik, J if you so desire, will very | soon show its great nourishj ing power. If the mother's ! rr.iik does not nourish the I baby, cho needs the emu-- ! * $ j sicn. It wtfi show an effect 1'v at once both upon mother and child. joc. an.l fi.ao, ?!l druggntl. Sf'.O'i T & DOWNii, ChcmUu, N.-w York. ii ii n ii ii n ? Tho will left to Mrs. Charlci Blond way Rouss, now dead, the house on fifth avenue and ?5,000 yearly. The buildiug in which bis business was conducted was left to bis two children, Mrs. Virginia Loe and Petor Winches 'or lions*. It wan stipulated that , Mrs. Lew was to get the Fifth avenue house if her mother died. She also gets Mr. Uou?h' farm in Virginia, Jefferson county. He i requested that his son Peter, continue the business on Broadway, under the old name. Wm. W. Books, a brother of the dead millionaire is made as executer and ho and another brother receive J 100,000 each. The residue of the estate is willed to Peter Winchester Rouss. A Serious Fire in Aiken. Aiken, March 5 ?Fire here early today destroyed nine build ings, comprising a block in tho centre of tho city. A gale was | blowing and the flames were fought under great difficulties. I There were no fatalities. Several J 1 people who were in the Sunnv.Vido sanitarium, which wan among the buildings destroyed,were injured. Their names have not been learned, but it is certain none were seriously hurt. In addition to the sauitariuin the following structures were burned: Lyceum hall, the Aiken Recorder, and the residences of Mrs. Quash, Miss Ford and ?J. 11. Lomas. A number of stables were destroyed. The financial loss is not large. (Jaunty Officials Salaries. The countv officers salary hill as passed l>y the hist legislature seems to he causing some confusion among the county official*. Assistant Attorney Genera! Gunter, at the request of the comptroller general, handed down an opinion) today on the subject that is of general interest. The bill as passed providcd that the auditors and treasurers receive about the same salary, and stated that the uuditors salaries went into effect i May 1, l')02. Mr. Giinter decided that. (!>'* treasurers s.ilurici went into effect. .I >n?iary 1. I'joj ?Columbia Hue iid. . . The State is I he I -user. j A gentlemen from i iiieinnaii, i who i> entcicsiod in a *10u,oom cotton factory in one of flu* i N. i them Slates. was if' !( !< IIill Saturd iv c inferring wi !i Mr. R. I". Kewi'U relative to its r?uioval to this city. Recent!v i nolit ic ?l >eciu ri'tuT'N 1 " ~' I Soil I !l ( Ilia ?.flic-i:ils Invt- luol ill 1>?<I effort ami iii8\ ]>:ohnlil\ .!? tout tin.' j r<?|?i?ition t? bring 'li.t big pliint to this State. Hnwrvci1 the mutter i-t v.l! under advisement. Book 11 ill Iieiald. The Biiiish have suffered another defeat at the hands of the Boors; J he British loss was i men. imagL^L,.in A Amiiy Ntrwtrp* *xwr? ?v . Mr. Rooss' fill. reior vrineiieHter to Continue the 1 ltasinyssi on Broadway Under I Iho Old Name, New York, Marck 4.?The will of Charles Broadway Honss was tiled for probate in Iho surrogate's otlice today. 1 he will wh? executed March 17, 18U8. It made! no charitable bequest. V Iwms wper : Fbrthe Prmnatkm ?fUke Political, a *c a s t~e h.> s. <; lili.i.Csi i i \ i: c i ONI -WE MENTION ( All shades of 11 eents per yard. Ready made cost. Ready-made E worth 87., now 8 27-inch Cashnic 2 and 5 cents. 75 cents Shirt1 cents. Percal Wrappei now 75 cents. ,,, >, -.A .'it - JL* DRESS C at Y our Owi lindtr SILKS, 01 CII n FvT7 ontiUEj A GREAT EMBRO: a one cent j)er We need i for Sprii ' A 1 n . Ss m \ j Pl > s ting a 1 Caper w i N i Sbe-kU, ^jluwfrw mtam9 <3b?wmtol A MAHOH 8 1 9 0 '2 rT * " iMot HNS !" auiii.. . . Hire j lodi w a U'?o INLT A 1-fcW ??????? j 11 Qui ear a ibboii at 2 1-2 ^ will houi had 11 nderwear at bari com Hack Skirts ,i ' /I true '"** mill ire, all colors 9 : (lue> j a s i ; arm Waists now 40 kno gr? s, worth $1.25 J?i' wel \ - ? * oth< _ win rOODS ;;:,a " 7 ' A Hea i Price. eigl sen ; ii (apes I m I, | ntri E CVEDVC I l_i T Lit 1 AT r SACRICE. i ?<?o IDERY : yard and ?s(? jr.m law *oom -r< '! ; i r& trx* f2L .r't /rl e* i?-r LJLr2* ,,v I K 0 i 1:1 is cut* : errible tJ \ i s- ;;; ?? ti.- = i Rnle C ?-? utipieuie Id Towd of Norfolk,! Proni'sc of Strike, nipatbizortt Coing the Fight i?P*. A Pugilistic Woman of Merit. j 1 forfolk, Vu.j March $,?Aj > of 5,000 strike sy ttipilthlbtb'* \ >nged the streets of Norfolk iV on which the main line of Norfolk Railway ami Light pany runs fttid the polico were ' Ho to cope with it. From 1 a until after dark when the i which were guarded by doiinents of militia, had run i difficulty all day, were , ge<l in the barns. Tho mob things its own way in the In ihe county where the is are the military was in ,rol of the situation. Caret o repeatedly derailed, wagon ^ Is of rocks were piled ou the ks and free lights between tho ? i tary guards and the crowd tried during the day at front intervals. In one of those ' ergeant ran a bayonet into the 1 of R. Harmunsef, a barber. ' i. tlarmausef was standing by husband at the time. She eked ? ?"?- uwtgvaut lUU and with both fists and discol i the face of Lieut. E. R. 0, who was near her, with a I directod blow. Several li?M wore bit by bricks -and sr missiles thrown through the dows of the curs. A number nests havo tieun made both tl.o police and military. l conference was hold l?v Mayor man, Police Chief Yoltines, Higgins, commanding the enty first Virginia regiment, it companies of which are in 'ice, relative to plucing the under martial law. The co force ??f 100 men lias been July for 4S bouts and is un; to meet the emergency. It ossible that the four addition ouipanies of the regiment and ittery of artillery wili he called in tho morning to take charge ho city. 'here is no settlement of tho ko ih sight, hoth sides uding to their first positions. n Who Whipped Wertz in .fail and Can't Give Bond. loiul to The State. TrcenwooiJ, March 3. ? II. U. Iliamson, the man who whipI Wort/, at Dysons sonic time >, was rearrested Saturday on 2w warrant and is now in jail o uoablo to givo the required h bond of $2,GOO. 'lie ueavy rams have caused at damage here on ail i'he; d-. < >n the railroads the trains; e l?een running irregularly foi er-.il da\s. The Sealn ar; ? eial!\ unfortunate. I'he !'. rutetwav l?o\ - from \ < w-re !<.? ale.I a' W hit mires means of t'.<- notice l their apnde in I'he Stale. Thev re ; t u; ih Jo their par* til * ; IHMUN . II . !i. W li iilc ?\ ? ! Sij- ! I hi i ii;jc Ami:. I <Ot':41 * . Mill I'll I A in Hnni.?mnl), ()r:i'.i.Mi River lonv, Miys that Hoer |>ri>oi.? i > iort ilint (ieneral DoWet was it, in 1 lio :u in ?lui iiiir the recent enipt to break through the icUliouse line, licM I?v the Now alaiiileiin the vicinitv nf irrisniith ami Van Uooiien. i 7*^ 0' | TUJMU* fn.fll a *>/#\ _ i t , ^y.'T.^L 1 iiT^^ Fnnston od Filipinos. Whv They Should Not < 0 Shown No War at Present New York, March o.? lirig. Gen. Funstou, who is in this city on route to Washington where ho Snc? to l?kiii If h*> i-j t? return to the Philippines when his furlough expires in April, had a talk tonight with u Herald reporter and will ho (plutcd tomorrow as saying: "Thore has he on ?<> tight ing in any of the Philippine provinces for nearly six months. It has been said that I have opposed tho reduction of our forces in tho east. That is a mistake. In my opinion, one half of our troops might bo brought home now and at the and of a year one-half of those remaining might ho letnrrved. ''At the same time, too much latitude should not ho given to tho natives of thePhilip ines. They 110 not ready for self-government, Mid they belong to that cmss of people who look upon kindness is a show of weakness. If wo ire to maintain peace in the islands we must deal fairly, hut somewhut sternly with most of the nativos for a good muny years They bavo been so long accustomed to tho Snunish methods of treachery that it will ho long before they will uecept our promisee aq we rneaq the* " . n . V ? * V'#*:*. Army Philippines. A Washington disj atch says: Secretary Root in conformity with assurances recently made to various committees of congress, has arranged for the gradual reduction of the military force in the Philippines to shout 32,000 men. Orders have hoen sent to Gen.Cliaf ice, commanding the division of the Philippines to arrange to send home all the regiments under his command there that were sent to the Philippines in 1881). A1 ?out Pi,000 troops are afTccicd hy these orders. The movement will be made very slowly, a regiment at a time, in the order in which tbev arrived in the Philip pines arid in each case only when tho regiment can ho spwred without embarrassment and without impairing the military control of the situation. Not a Candidate. Mr. J. IS. McDonald of Winnsiioro was in the city yestcrdav. When asked about the rumor thai lie is a candidate for Congress, Hi'. McDonald denied ihe report. !ii county, Knirfiehl, has always ho*:) with Voile, Lancaster. ("liestor. etc., in a judicial circuit and tor years, Mr. McDonald was the fearless and successful solicitor of thai district. But Fairfield him jii't this year heen taken from (ii.-onville and Spartanburg anil joined to Y?rk ami Lancaster in llieir congressional district, and he i .links that it would he pre. ?r.| tion for a Fuirlii'hl man to oti'or to represent the district just .it is time The State. Knghuul calls for L70,00h,000 for war > xpoinos in South Africu. Keep Your Bowels Strong. , Constipation or diarrhoea when 1 your bowels arc out of order. Ca*?i carets Candy Cathartic will make then) art naturally, (lenuinc tablcto | stamped C. C. C. Never sold iu | bulk. All druggists, 10c.