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Happenings In The State.
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As Chronicled by tho Alort (Jori
respondents of The Columbia
State.
DIED OF LOCKJAW
Whitmire, Oct. 20.?Mr. Wm.
M. Nance, of this place, died of
lockjaw Sunday morning at half
pust 1 o'clock. Mr. Nance stuck
a rust)' nail in his foot about ten
days ago, which wound was supposed
to have caused tho disease.
He leaves his wife and six small
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children to mourn his death. This
community deeply sympathizes
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HANDY HAM CONVICTED.
Florence, Oct. 20. ?The second
week of the court of general sessions
opened this morning. The
case of Handy Ham, charged with
murder, resulted in a verdict of
guilty of manslaughter and Ham
was sentenced to imprisonment at
hard labor for a term of tive
years.
SUICIDE IN ORANOEBURO.
Orangeburg, Oct. 21.- Mr.
Austin Livingston, a prominent
farmer of the North section, committed
suicide by shooting himself
with a gun at his home early
yesterday morning. Deceased
soon after eating breakfast went
to his room and committed the
deed. He was about 55 years of
age and stood well with all who
knew him.
TRIALS IN CHESTERFIELD.
Chester field, Oct. 20.?The
jury in the case of the State
against W. Hampton Oliver,
charged with the murder of James
M. Davis has returned a verdict
of not guilty.
Hugh Nicholson was found
guilty of manslaughter for killing
Emanuel Sutton. The attorneys
for the defendant presented a petition
from the jury recommending
him to the mercy of the court.
The sentence was for three years.
HENRY LOYD SHOT HIM DEAD.
Hock Hill, Oct. 21.?Cisely
Rodman was accounted by his
color and the police as about the
worst negro in these parts. Last
flight he boarded, at Charlotte,
an emntv car on the freiaht train
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which reaches here at 1 o'clock.
He was put off several times eo
snfnScii
Shylock was the man who
wanted a pound of human
flesh. There are many
Shylocks now, the convalescent,
the consumptive, the
sickly child, the pale young
woman, all want human flesh
and they can get it?take
Scott's Emulsion.
Scott's Emulsion is flesh
and blood, bone and muscle.
It feeds the nerves, strengthens
the digestive organs and they
feed the whole body.
M a -
ror nearly thirty years
Scott's Emulsion has been the
great giver of human flesh. #
We will send you a couple of
ounces free.
SCOTT * BOWNB. Chemists.
400-415 Pearl 8tr/st, New York.
jk. ud #1.00 i ill drujgi?u.
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route, hut managed to get hack j
somehow. Some time between
Fort Mill and this place ho was
Keen again hut was left alone until
the train reached lloCk Hill.
When they got to the yards the
crow went to the car to eject him.
At that time there were two" other
beats in the car and Cisoly had
made his threat that he would
"ride that train to Chester"? ho
was going to the circus ? "or kill
the whole damn crew."
When Conductor Trapier called
him out he had som<9 trouble to
get him to obey and when ho did
bit tbo ground he was drawing his
gun. Mr. Henry Loyd, one of
the trainmen, saw the action and
was too quick for the negro.
Loyd shot bim under the arm
while it was raised to shoot the
Conductor. He died instantly.
LADY KILLED IN A RUNAWAY.
Cheater, Oct. 18.?A fearful
accident occured at the junction
of York and Pino streets yoster.
day afternoon which resulted today
in the death of Mrs. W. R.
VVix. She and her daughter,
Mrs. Lawrence Bigham, were
driving down Y'ork street, and
just as they reached the corner of
Pine street they met Mr. Hal
Murphy, who was driving a
young spirited horse, ai d who
lost control of him just at this
point. The animal shyod and
reared up and jumped across the
street, colliding with Mrs. Wix's
horse. Both horses became tangled
up and began to kick. Mrs.
Wix was severely and painfully
kicked about the breast at>d head,
and as she jumped from the buggy
a heavy lick was dealt her right
over the heart. Mrs. Bigham
was bruised about the left arm
and face^and Mr. Murphy Escaped
uninjured. Mrs. Wix. though
iu an almost unconscious condi
tion summoned strength enough
to walk from the street into Mrs.
Eliza Hood's residence. She
was taken home und medical attention
was given her at once.
She lingered, apparently without
pain, for three or four hours, and
just as tho doctor and her family
thought she was falling asleep for
tho night her spirit took its flight
to the other world peacefully and
without a struggle.
YOUNG MAN SHOT DOWN AT A
DISREPUTABLE HOUSE
Greenville, Oct. 20. ?Samuel
Big by, who lives near Honea
Path, was shot Saturday night at
a disreputable house in this city,
and is now at the sanitarium of
Dr. Black without any hope of
recovery. Bigby came to Greenviiic
in search of work on Saturday
afternoon and was invited to
take a walk by a man with whom
be fell in comnanv. whr? hoa
been identified. They wept to a
house near the river in the west
end, and while seeking to gain
admission there was a disturbance
on the outside, in which Belton
Powell, a noted white gambler,
was the chief aggressor. Ho was
trying to find another man, and
seeing Bigby and bis companion
Powell drew his pistol and.Hred
the fatal shot just as Bigby had
turned to leave the premises. The
hall enterod the back 011 the left
side, ranging very near the heart,
and was cut out on the right
breast.
A PRISONER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
FOUR TIMES.
Anderson, Oct. 21.?D. W.
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OUR MILLINERY
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GOODS DISPLAY
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WAS A GRAND SDCCESS.
The Ladies all said
WE had the PRETTIEST
and most com!
plete lines they had
I ever SEEN HERE, i
They Marveled that a Lancaster
Store should have such nice
things and at PRICES they
never dreamed of. Every daylooks
like
"nir hi ran is.
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THEY ABE ALL SCRAMBLING
FDR THESE PRETTY GOODS.
IN MEN'S WEAR-Clothing,
Overcoats, Hats, Shoes, Underwear,
etc., we are hard to down.
We've got the best. The best
assortment?The best PRICES. !
In FURNITURE, Hardware,
Stoves, Paints and Groceries we
are HEADQUARTERS.
Como and look hpforo vnil Kn *r I
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it don't cost YOU anything. It
will make YOU MONE Y.
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Hopkins, u white man, made several
attempts at suicide in a cell
in tho station house last night. He
was arrested yesterday afternoon
foi drunkenness. Shortly after
dark he took off his suspenders
and tied them around his neck and
then tied them to an iron bar
across tho top of his cell, only a
foot or so above his head, and allowed
bis feet to drag tho floor.
He was strangling when some negroes
in an adjoining cell noticed
him. They gave tho alarm and
Street Overseer Lee, who was
near, ran in and cut him down,
lie was soon revived aod Mr. Loo
left the premises. Twice more
ho swung himself up by his underclothing,
but was cut down. Then
he tried to butt his brains out
against the sides of tho cell, but
gave it up after one or two attempts.
Finally the police got some
opiate and gave him and then he
quieted down and went to sleep.
He was all right this morning.
A FATAL ACCIDENT IN AN AUOU8TA
MILL.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 20.?One
man dead and four injured is the
result of a terrible accident in the
slasher room of the- Sibley cotton
mill, which occurred at about 7.30
o'clock this morning.
Tho dead man was a native of
Bath, S. C., and the others residents
of Augusta.
The slashor in the mill is a machine
which is used for dyeing the
cloth. It is u cylindrical affair
in which steaui at ? high pressure
is forced. There was no warning,
no premonition that the machine
was working badly, when with a
deafening noise the cylinder bead
blow out.
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The Law is Floated
By Texas Mobs.
Convicted Ravisliera Taken From
The Court House and Hanged
to Telephone Pole in
Public Square.
Hempstead, Tex. Uct. 21.?
After being tried with legal form
and procedure for criminal assault
and murder and given the
death penalty in each case, ?Jim
Wesley and lleddick Barton, negroes,
were late this afternoon
taken from the authorities and
lynched in the public square by
an infuriated mob.
The district judge asked the
governor for troops to accompany
the negroes here from the jail at
Houston whore they were safe.
At the request of a largo number
oi citizens or Hempstead who
signed a written promiso to aid
the authorities in preventing any
mob law it is said Judge Thompson
countermanded his request and
the tioops did not accompany the
negroes.
Barton was first tried. Me
plead guilty to criminal assault
and then to the minder of Mrs.
Susan Lewis, aped 03, Sunday,
October 12. The juries in each
case on wdich woio sovoral negroes
promptly returned verdicts
of the dea'h penalty.
Neither of them had been sentenced
and District Judge Thompson
had positively refused to permit
them to waive the thirty days
of grace allowed them by law. It
was the general desire that they
die quickly.
They are hanging tonight to the
lirm (if a tfllonhnnn nnln iiiKrt..
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only lust month a negro murderer
had been strung up by a mob.
OUT OF DEATH'S JAWS"When
death seemed very near
from a severe stomach and livor
trouble, that 1 had suffered with
for years," writes P. Muse, Durham,
N. C., "Dr, King's New
Life Pills saved my life and gave
perfect health." l^est pills on
earth and only 25c at Crawford
Bros., and J. F. Mackoy & Co's.
drug store.
Officers Impotent
In Face of the Mob.
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Negro Charged With Horrible
Crime Taken From Jail and
Burned at the Stake.
Forest City, Ark., Oct. 20.?
Charlos Young, the negro charged
with assaulting and afterwards
murdering Mrs Ed Lewis, white,
was burned here tonight by a mob
of infuriated citizens of this county.
Sheriff W E Williams of this
county used every effort against
this measure and had telephoned
judge Hutton of this district who
promised to come tomorrow and
give immediate trial to the negro.
In view of which the leaders of
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sheriff positive pledges that they
would await trial and take no violent
measures. Later, however,
more violent council prevailed and
about 8:30 o'clock tonight the
mob marched to tho county jail.
After having been refused the
keys by Deputy Sheriff Murphy,
until Sheriff Williams conld be
acquainted with their demands,
tho mob, not wailing for Sheriff
Williams' arrival, forcibly took
the call keys from Murphy and
breaking into the jail door with
sledge hammers, took the prisoner
from his cell against the protests
and pleadings of Sheriff Williams
who had arrived in tho meantime.
The mob took the nsgro to a point
about a half mile cast of town,
bound him, piled wood around
him, and set fire to it. Tho negro
begged piteously for his life bnt
iuv muu mi new uuai tui? IU U1M
pleadings. In a short time the
flumes reached him and ho expired
in the presence of the several hundred
men composing the mob.
After Young hud been put to
death the mob started in quest of
another negro alleged to have
been implicated in the killing of
Mrs Lewis. At midnight he had
not been found.
HIS UFKIN k'BRILr
"I just seemed to have gone all
to pieces," writes Alfred Bee, of
Welfare, Tex., "biliousness and
a lame back had made life a burden.
1 couldn't eat or sleep and
felt almost too worn out to work
when 1 began to use Electric Bitters,
but they worked wonders.
Now 1 sleep like a top, can eat
anything, have gained in strength
and enjoy hard work." Tbey
give vigorous health and new life
to weak, sickly, run down people.
Try them. Only 50c at Crawford
Bros., and J. F. Mackey &
Co's. drug store.