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v"1' ' " - ; .T"n *r? - . ?!- > f . A . , % WEEKLY - LANCASTER S. O. N O V E M n v. i? 1 Happenings Id The State. As Chronicled by tho Alert Correspondents of The Columbia State. A LIGHT. SENTENCE. Laurens, Oct. 28.?Jn the court of general Sessions today Walker Edwards was sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years, lie was convicted for killing his wife, but the jury recommended him to tho mercy of the court. A FLAGMAN KILLED. Spartanburg, Oct. 28.- This morning about -t o'clock, Mr. Lawrence Killiun, a flagman on the Spartanburg and Asbeville division of the Southern ruilway, met with a terrible accident at the Spartanburg Junction, and from the injuries of which ho died shortly after 6 o'clock this morn, ing. escaped from jail. Marion, Oct. 28.?Two young white men, Clarendon Miller aud Nep Horn, escaped from jail here last night. They dug a hole through the brick wall by some means. and made their descent from the second story on a rope made of blankets tied together. They were awaitiug trial on the charge of murderous assault on 1 Mr. A. W. Grantham, Sept. 13.,> Mr. Grantham was shot from ambush, being very severely woundk ed. Ho has been in a critical condition ever since aud bis recovery is extremely doubtful. Horn was generally supposed to be innocent. gheknville's Sunday murder. 1 Greenville, Oct. 28.?Another Sunday murder has to be recorded in the annals of this city, and as usual both parties are negroes Don't forget the old man with the fish on his back. For nearly thirty years he has been traveling around the world, and is still traveling, bringing health and comfort wherever he goes. To the consumptive he brings the strength and flesh he so much needs. To all weak and sickly children he gives rich and strengthening food. To thin and pale persons he gives new firm flesh and rich red blood. Children who first saw the old man with the fish are now ; grown up and have children of their own. He stands for Scott's Emulsion of pure cod liver oil?a 1 delightful food and a natural tonic for children, for old folks j and for all who need flesh and strength. fCOTT A BOWNE. Chemists. -415 Pearl Street, New York. ' >Oc. and &I.OO: all druggists. , t- M' ' ft " t&Z V-. % . ? u The story of the tragedy is very brief and devoid of any sensational features, as it is just a plain, i ordinary killing without any I seeming provocation. A negro \ named Campbell shot and killed Bluncho Dial, between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the restaurant of Jim Brown, colored, uear tlio Air Line depot. Blanche had sent Campbell with 50 cents to buy her some liquor, and he returned without the money- or j the liquor, when she began a quar- ? rel with him about it. Campbell told her if sho didn't hush he would shoot her, and her reply was, "shoot and be d?d," standing squarely in front of him as she made the defiant remark. He took the woman at her word, and with a 38 calibre pistol shot her through the left breast, producing ulmosl instant death. Campbell immediately left the restaurant and eudeavored to make his es-' cape. Officer McCnrrell was on duty at the depot and went at once in pursuit of Campbell, who ran across to Buncombe street and then came back into Pinckney, where the policeman overtook him and caused him to surrender. Ho was taken to jail afterwards. BLOODTHIRSTY BARBER KILLED IN CHESTER. Chester, Oct. 28.?Last night immediately after the performance of Peck's Bad Boy began, about a 8.30 o'clock, Policeman Bird Wright was called from the opera house by a party who hid heard ^ a row going on down near the IS. A. L. depot. Officer Wrighthur- ^ riod down Centre street, and just before reaching the trestle on , this road, oncounterod Ben Hen- H derson, the bai bor who had been raising a racket in that neighborhood. When ho saw the police, man he pulled his gun ami shot five times in the direction of Wright. As the policeman Beared him Ben flew into a perfect storm of temper and jumped at 1 Mr. Wright uftor the manner of a wild animal and knocked his pis- """ tol out of his hand. Luckily for Mr. Wright Policeman Darby appeared on the scene about that time and handed him another pistol. In the meantime Henderson had hurried to his house just beyond the railroad and supplied himself with another pistol and Winchester rifle. He came out of his door into bis yard and defied I the officers to approach him. Mr. ( Darby commanded him to surrender, and with only a stick in his hand went up to him. Henderson at once dealt him a blow with tho butt end of his rifle, the forco ' of which landed on Mr. Darby's collur bone and knocked him Q down. Mr. Wright then approncbod him from tho other side and he too received a lick over tho head, but not quite so severe, i Henderson then leveled his rifle' at Mr. Wright and as ho did so the policeman shot him through r? the heart killing him almost instantly. LUCK IN*TI1IKTUKN By sending 13 miles Wm. Spiroy, of Walton Furnace, Vt., J[ got a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that wholly cured a horrible Fever Sore on his log. Nolh- \ ing else coir Id. Pf??itiv?iw ( . vij cm vn B.uises, Felons, Ulcers, Eruptions, Boils, Burns, Coins and Piles. Only 25c Guarunlod by ,1. F. iViackoy & Co. & Cruwford m Bros', druggist. ? Pay your Subscription to the Ledger and be happy. j J - . ? ? ?' n 1, ? V\J ? ? j DUR MILLINERY -AND' IRESS GOODS DISPLAY WAS A GRAND SUCCESS. The Ladies all said WE had the PRET TIEST and most complete lines they had ever SEEN HERE. They Marveled that a Lancaser Store should have such nice hings and at PRICES they Lever dreamed of. Eyery day [>oks like THEY ARE ALL SCRAMBLING FOR THESF PRETTY GOODS. 11 11 J. i i ii i ? IN MEN'S WEAR--Clothing, )vercoats, Hats, Shoes, Underrear, etc., we are hard to down. ?e've got the best. The best ,ssortment--The best PRICES. In FURNITURE, Hardware, >toves, Paints and Groceries we re HEADQUARTERS. Come and look before you buy. t don't cost YOU anything. It rill make YOU MONEY. iarelff Irani (*. ] The Molinenx Trial. f""*have I History of the Noted Murder Case . n kt t , IT tion w Now on Its becond Hearing ? lo SCI in New York. tl 4 the t< . c, expert Baltimore Sun. , , .. hazard On December 29, 1898, Mrs. Katherine J. Adams an aged CURE woman in New York/ died from TAIt the effects of a dose of deadly B I) poison administered to her for cures , medicine. Tho poison had been cases b sent in a broino seltzer bottle to a blood ? young man named Cornish, who lived with Mrs. Adams and her giauds daughter and son. On the morn- king, s iug of that day Mrs. Adams had a p1.3 headache and Cornish gave her a Druyg| dose of the modicine. In a short sent a time the woman died and the phy- wiiUnj sicians pronounced that she had a(lv been poisoned with cyanide of puti n< mercury, a rare and very potent mikci poison. The bromo-seltzer bottle nourisl pains. which contained this poison had been sent to Cornish anonymous- I ly through the mail and it was contained in u silver bottle-hoklor. Spa iSoon after the death of Mrs. Last t j Adams, Roland B. Moliueux was ,John< ! charged with having caused her was n death, tried and convicted. He where appoaled from some rulings of a load the Judges who sat on the cave by thi and the cuse has been in the horse' courts ever since. It is an illus- his pe traticn of the theory about New which York justice that a conclusion the pc can scarcely ever bo reached so up oc< long as one of the parties in- in- the r terebt has the money and the in- After clination to oontinue litigation. proce< Unless justice is speedy it ulmost ton m ceuses to bo justice and is apt to be Sparti rauk injustice. If at last M'din lice ol eux is convicted of this crime and not be executed for it, the retribution Georp will have lost its impressiveness. Melvi If it is finally determined that ho Cantn is innocent, then ho has been the robbe: victim of the grossest wrong aud and ui persecution. To bo practically dently under sentence of death for sev- Cantr erai years is a punishment almost men, as had as death itself, and the to giv state nas no right to inflict it up- their j on an innocent person. It is this ^S| delay iu dealing with cases, and ,, A .1 ... . . Hre especially criminal cases, which gome brings the law into discredit and sleepi makes the courts a mockery Funch It is conceded by the State that I1'8 Molineux did not intend to murder Mrs. Adams. He did not Q0n8l] know her. It was shown in the tectio first trial that there was enmity andLi between Molineux and Cornish, and a and tho theory is that the inten- doctoi tion was to poison Cornish. Un? ^?P8 i .L , the 1 der the common law, if a person an(j n attempts to murder one person to sat and the attempt results in the Co, ai death of another the crime is the 50c ai same as if tho purpose of tho at- n tempt had neon accomplished. Count Therefore, it is only necessary for cor(j8 the State to prove that Molineux ej by attempted to poison Cornish and ve8te( tho death of Mrs. Adams resulted, bushe It was shown that the bottle-hol- Gf ftt>( der was purchased in Newark, 12 a, and some connection or acquain- work< tanee was shown between the poi- (jounl goner and an employe of the hrm j qqq that Hold it. One of the main t features of the evidenae for the enoUg prosecution was the testimony of aruj writing experts, who undertook C(U1H0 to show that the handwriting of ()U^|ftj the address on tho bottlo was that ?1Vng of tho prisoner. This, taken in duced connection with tho handwriting yorj<, in certain letters, with tho alleged motive for the crime and with * certain proof and theories about e(^ tho purchase of the poison, was Thur? the principal evidence for tho Thanl EST A BLSHIED 1862 All the evidence seems to been circumsluntial. Nothtl c nature of direct connecitb the crime- wus shown, itence a man to death upon estimony of a handwriting would soom to be a most lous proceeding. 8 RHEUMATISM OR CARH IN A DAY?TREATMENT FREE. B* (Botanic Blood Balm) he worat and moat stubborn y draining thv poison out of the iml honea, and building up the down constitution, Aches and 11 the bones or joints, swollen , droppings in the throat, hawipitjiug or bad breath, etc., all ear promptly and permanently, 3. curts wbere all else falls. Ists, $1. Treatment of B. B. B. bsolutely free anil prepaid by i to B.ood Balm Co , Atlanta lesctibi (rouble and free medlice given untilcurod. B. U. Be ;w color In your akin, and llie b.o>i redder and mor liiug, stopping all aches and Over 3000 cures by B B. B. lighwaymen Get $200. irtanburg, S. C., Oct. 24.? light at about 12 o'clock, as Jantrell, a young white man, ^turning home from the city i during the day he had sold t of cotton, he was held up ree men, who seized hit s bridle. The man had on rson $200, every cent ef the highwaymen took at >int of a pistol. The holder red at a lonely spot in oad six miles from town, the robbery Mr. Gantrell ided to the Fingerville Cotills, where he telephoned to inburg, notifying the po* : the affair. The money did dnnir lr? flftntrpll hnf o " i """ *v ;e Brnueom, who lives at lie Hill, N. C., for wkom A\ had sold the cotton. The is were throo in number odisguised, but were evi' strangers to these parts. b11 recognized them as white but beyond this is unable e further facts concerning identity. KEl? AMID FLAMES aking into a blazing home, fireman lately dragged the ng inmates from death, ed security, and death near, rat way when you neglect s and colds. Don't do it. ling's New Discovery for imption gives perfect pron against all Throat, Chest ung Trou bles. Keep it near, void suffering, death, and it's bills. A teaspoonful a late cough, persistent use nost stubborn. Harmless ice tasting, it's guaranteed isfy by J. F. Mackey and nd Crawford Bros'. Price nd $1.00. Trial bottles PL _ -.1-1 J * ? luu cum yiuiu iroin 106 by Home farm breaks all reThe crop that was workthe chaiogang has been har 1, and it amounts to 987 Is. This amount comes off jut 25 or 30 acres including ores of upland. The crop jd by Mr. Gaulden, for the ,y Home, will yield about bushels. It is calculated ho entire crop will be nearly '* ;h for both the county home io chaingang next year. Beof this corn cron. the cash * ? r (in account of the chainnext year ought to be resomething like $1,000.? ville Enquirer. 'resident Roosevelt has lssu> proclamation designating iday, Nov. 27, as a day of ssgiving.