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THE LEDGER. Thurlow 8. Garter, " ) EDITOR AND MANAGER. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1908. The Engineer Was Dead. Knozrille, Tenn., Jan. 11.? Passengers on an incoming Knox ille and Ohio railroad train rode several miles this evening with the hand of a corpse at the throt tie of the engine. The train left Buekeye, Tenn., on time and ran through to Careysville, the next station. When the train ran a. i ?- * 1 i i? - ri. lurouga me iauer town riroman ilattlock discovered something was wroDg and stepped te the en? gineer's side of the engine. He found Engineer A. G. Young dead, and immediately stopped the train. There is a wound on the left side of the engineer's head and the supposition is that a piece fell from the side of a high cat threugh the mountains and killed him instantly. The train ran perhaps eight miles after Young was killed. Attempted Suicide. Andersen, Jan. 11.?Mrs. Wash Etidcs, a rospeoted lady living at tho Anderson cotton mills, attempted suicide yester* day by taking laudanum. She took a very large dose of the poi? son, which produced nausea and vomiting ensued. To this is due the fact that her attempt proved unsuccessful. It is said that Mrs Eades has not been living happily with her husband for some time, and that this was the cause of her attempt to take her life. Sheriff Reese Murdered. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 13?A report reached here today of the assassination of Sheriff Reese of Bibb county. The crime occurred at Brierfield late last night. Reese and one of bis deputies had arrested two negroes at that place and were taking them to the depot to board a train for Centreville. One of the negroes, who was walking behind suddenly pulled a pi ia\ and shot the sheriff I down. Both prisoners escaped. The sheriff died almost instantly. Search parties are scouring the woods in every direction. A report from Brierfield late tonight says a mob has been formed and is chasing the two negroes. Preparations are being made for a Tragedy in Policeman's Home. Meridian, Miss., Jan. 9.?At a late hour last night a blaze was discovered in the home of W. D. Boyd, a city policeman, by persons passing, and an entry was made. In the dining room the body of Mrs. Boyd was found upright in a chair, the clothing en tirely burned away and the body severely scorched. In another room the husband was found asleep on a bed. Mrs. Boyd had been in ill health for 6ome time. An inquest will be held. A few hours before the discovery of the body, Mrs. Boyd entrusted her 10-year-old daugh isr 10 a iriena wiin instructions for its bringing up, should any* thing happen to her, (Mrs. Boyd) during the night. Smallpox Situation Improving in Rock Hill. There is some smallpox, six or seven cases among the colored population, in Rock Hill, but the situation is not at all so serious as some people would have outsiders believe. There is a less numbor of cases thau a week or more ago and the council and health board are working carefully to prevent the infection spreading further.? Roek Hill Journal. fAe Beat Prescription for Matara Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply Iron and Quinine and tasteless, No Cure No Pay. Treasorer's Yiei [ Of State Finances. Fnre Mill Lery, 11 Says, Is Not Sufficient. Makes Some Suggestions to the General As^ seinbly. In the annual report of the r State Treasurer of South Carolina, c to the general assembly. Trees- ] urer Jennings, in his introductory c remarks, thus summarizes the ti- , nancial condition of the State: , i4I have the honor t? submit j my annual roport of the trans- c actions of the treasury department ' of the State government for the j fiscal year beginning January 31st 1902. I call attention to the fact * that the appropriations made by < the general assembly for the fiscal t year just ended wore in excess of 1 the taxes raised by the levy of five mills by largely more than one , hundred thousand dollars, conso- \ quently the governor and treasur- \ er have been forced to borrow on ' the credit of the State tho full \ amount of three hundred thousand , dollars to meet current expenses j and pay the July, 1902, and the ( January, 1903, interest on tho i public debt. The interost on this ( borrowed money will reach about . seven thousand dollars, at tho most reasonable rates we were able to secure. It is a physical im- I possibility to raise an appropriation of about one million, one ( hundred and fifty thousand dol? lars on a 5 mill levy at the present yaluation of taxable property. The levy is the same now as it WAS wKnn Ihfl innrnrifjotinno .. .. mwm www iabivuo were only $800,000. The baneful effect of a large appropriation upon the basin of a small levy will i be seen when the facts are pre- ] sented. It is a fact that if the < same levy and the same appro- i priations are made for tHe year ] as for the last, instead of providing a loan of $300,000 as hereto- I fore, the legislature will have to i provide tor a loan of seven hnn- i dred thousand dollars te pay cur- < rent expenses and meet her inter- 1 est debt, and the borrowing pro cess will have to begin early in < tbe year. I am well aware that i a higher levy is not popular, but ; I submit the proposition whether it is not better busines management to raise the levy say a half mill for a few years, till the State can get on a cash basis again, than to continue borrowing more and more every year and paying more and more interest. It all comes out of the taxpayers at last, both principal and interest. < Another great mistake, it seems to me, is the extension of time, for the payment of taxes, except in cases of emergency. The average taxpayer is not benefited by an extension, only the capitalist and the corporations that can uso their money to advantage; the farmer as a general thing can pay his taxes easier before Christmas than after, and even the railroad j oompanies, which pay such a large ] proportion of the taxes, have the < last two years nearly all paid up j during the month of December ( upon a polite request of the treas- , urer, thus lending a helping hand ( in our time of need. If the gov- ( erner and comptroller general had extended the time this season, as | was done in 1901 about the last , of Docember. we would not hav? . had funds to pay the January in* terest, while not a dollar would hare been available for payment 1 of our notes or their renewal, 1 whereas by withholding such extension we have been able to pro- | vide for the payment of the interest; and have good hope of meeting our notes for loans at maturity, unless the general as- 1 sembly extends the time: if it < does, however, the prospect is 1 that it will also have to provide I for a loan for that purpose. If i the 15th of December could be i adopted a? the time for closing the < ax books, and the law were trictly observed, all the anxiety md suspense as to where the nonty is to come from to pay he January iaterest and meet :urrent expenses would be avert * id, and time would also be had to nake the treasurer's report in deail more fully. As it is we have >een compelled, for want of time, o curtail in some measure. I ;ive the asual statements below, >f this office, except extended re)orts of the sinking fund for re* luction of Brown 4 1-2 per cents., ind the State permanent school !und, which we have hitheito volunteered. All the cash transitions relating to these two ac;ounts, however are fully set 'orth in detail in our statements >f receipts and expenditures, al,hough not in classified form. "The act of February, 1896,' provides that after its approval ao lou pon bond of the State, payable ,o bearer, nor any coupon thereof shall be consolidated, converted, Funded or paid by the State treasurer after the expiration of twenty rears from dale of maturity; at:ention is ealled to the fart that B125,000 ot the State capitol sonds, which matured in 1871 ind 1881, held by the United States for the Indian trust fund, would now be included in the limitation of the act of 1896,referred ;o, and that the effect of such limtation upon the settlement of the ilaitns of the State against the United States now pending, should be considered." Big Had B; Memphis Police.1 Set Burlington Tram Bobbers. They Catch Three Men Who Had Nitro-Glycerine in Their Posessions and Two of Whom Are Identified. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 9.?It 1 now looks as if the Memphis po- ' iice made an important capture, 1 when, on Wednesday last, they 1 arrested Thomas Clark, George Rogers and John F. Estelle, i When taken into costody the men j LJOU UU1V/ |^I J V/Cl iUT3 IU lUUtl lession. Estello has since been 1 identified by the engineer aa one ?f the participants in the Burling- : ton hold-up near Marcus, 111., I To-day Mrs. A Delap, of Wisconsin, positively identified Clark as a man who had bought a skiff from her two days before the Burlington robbery. The robbers escaped in a skiff, which was found overturned. B. C. Snaderson, a brakeman on the Frisco system, has identified Rogers as one of the prime movers in the hold-up on the Frisco j at Jenesboro, Ark., several months ago. Estello, Wednss day night, was taken to Savannah, j 111., in charge of an officer. Is Consumption Curable ? Mr. Phipps Gives $300,000 to Aid Search for a Remedy. Philadelphia, Jan. 9. ? Dr. L. F. Flick, president of the Free Hospital for Poor Consumptives here, tonight announced that Henry Phipps, of New York, formerly a partner of Andrew Carneg:e, had contributed $300,000 for the establishment of an institution in this city for the treatment and study of consumption. The institution is to bo known as "The Henry Phipps institute, for the study, and the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis." It will he so endowed as to derive an insome of about $30,000 to $40,000 innually. Dr. Flick will be di<? rector general of the institution. He has already selected several mnm Kara t\9 uto ff Af ?* PK??\ir\<? uivmwio iai( JL Ul|/|/0 tod Dr. Flick recently returned from Europe where they spent a | lime in investigating the methods r>f treating consumption. Dr. Flick said tonight he would introduce the Finsen treatment now in operation at Copenhagen which is a new method of treating disease by sunlight and electric light. The Northvest In Grasp Of Bliixard i Extending Throughout Nebraska, Icwa andDakota. The Coldest Of The Winter. Detroit Mich., Jan. 11. ?Lower Michigan has been in the grasp os a snow-storm Ltoday that has assumed proportions of a blizzard. Lake- Michigan^is tonight flashed by a forty mile wind into a condition that'mado it impossible for any of the boats to leave their ports for Chicago. At Benton Harbor the street car'service is stalled tonight and Sunday trains on the M. B. H. and C. railway had to^be abandoned. Three Rivers and Niles report a blizzard, the temperature very low and trains delayed by the snow. At Grand Rapids the storm is the worst, of the season and the temperature has fallen 40 degrees since noon. At 9 o'clock it was ten above zero with. the wind blowing a gale. In Detroit five jinches of snow fell. Trains from the west were from one to two hours late. Burlington, la., Jan. 11.? With tho temperature five degrees below zero snow is drifting before a heavy wind. FROZEN TO DEATH. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 11.?William D. Beckett, a prominent lawyer of this city was found on the roadside five miles west of ?.j.. ??i ? ? ' - vuu vitj om i j iuuay xru^uu IU death. Beckett had been ill fer ereral days and he is believed to have wandered into the country and to have fallen exhausted where he was found today by a a dairyman. 5 i ' ; Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 11.? The lowest temperature of the present cold weather was four de? . grees abeve zero early this morning. A'sharp wind made today the most uncomfortable of the | Winter. There'js mueh^su tiering amonsr tho noor. owinc tn th? c-? a 1 n -" high price of coal, but there is no scarcity of coal. In many towns of Kansas and western Missouri, however, fuel of any kinds cannot be purchased. Chicago, Jan. 11.?Two hundred thousand persons in Chicago are suffering from ailments directly due to cold and exposure resulting from the coal famine according to the weekly bulletin of the health department issued today. Serious results are already seen in a heavy death rate and the health department brands the men responsible for the situation i as "guilty or constructive homi cide." The death rate last week for children under 5 years of age was 19.2 per cent, greater than in the corresponding week of last year, and among persons over 60 years of age it was 36.7 per cent, greater. The Blalock Property Bought by Bondholders, i """""" Special to The State. Prosperity, Jan. 12.?Todoy at 12 o'clock Special Master (J. C. Featherstone, pursuant to a de? cretal order from the United Ui.l . 11 ' oimua uiainci coun, som wie property of Mr. J. S. Blalock, situste in the town of Goldville, consisting of 1,484 acres of land, cotton mill, oil mill, ginnery, etc. The cotton and oil mill, ginnery, located on tract No. 2, containing 119 acres, was hid in by Mr. W. G. Miller of Charleston for the bondholder at $49,000. Tract No. 1, containing 1,365 acres of land, known as the James place, was bought by Mrs. M. E. Brown ing, daughter of J. S. Blalock, at $13,500. It is understood that the new owners of the mill propsrly will reorganize and continue the operation of the enterprise. W. L. T. titopa the Cough and 1 forks off I thr Cold. I Laxative Bromo Quiuiue Tab lets cure a cold in one day. No | Cure, No Pay. Price, 25c. E ZEMA, ITCHING HUMOR'S ! PIMPLES. TREATMKN i' I RKE , Does your Skin Itch m.?l Buri.? ' Distressing Eruptions on the ?k n so you feel ashamed to be ? -*-it mi cm- { i>auy? Do &jabs and Hc*ie? f??r?n on 1 the Skin, Hair or Scalp? Have you Eczema? Skin Bore and Cracked? Rash form on the Hkin? Prickly Pain In the Skin? Swollen Joint*? , Palling Hair? All Run Down? Skin Pale? Old Sons? Rating Sotes? Ulcers? To cure to stay cured taka B, B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) which makes the blood pure and rich, then the sores will heul ar.d the Itching of eczema stop forever, the skin become clear and the blood jure B. B. B. sold at drug store* $1. TiUI treatment sent free aud piepaid by willing to 2FLOOD BALM CO ^ Atlanta, Oa Describe your trouble and frea medical , advice given. Over 30U0 testimonials of cures by B. B. B. MONET J LOAN. On a recent visit to New Yotk f,lty, I made arrangements by which I can I negotiate loans of $300 00 and upwards I ou first mortgages on improved cotton farms at 7 per cent Interest on snuis of $1,000 00 and over, and 8 per cent In* terest on sums oi less than $1,000. No commission charged, ouly a reasonable fee for abstract of title. R. B. WYLIE, Hept. 1, 1902?6m. Atty at I,aw. A. R. SIMPSON, ? Builder and Contractor ? - Lancaster, S. C. Hollcltsa bid on Carpenter work of any kind jou may wish done. Dec 1, 1902.?3m. Go to the LANCASTER^ MARBLE Ai^l 1J GRANITE WORKS, For Good Work and Low Pri?*?. A. J. McNinch, LANCASTER, 8. . We now hai OTin mill AARfin MUV* H1II VVUilU complete Hoe of burial CASKETS, all sizes and qualities, COFFIN up to Handsor CALL and see us or send us fortunate as to have a death Within the RI -Lancaster! LANCASTER, 8. 0., Cfr ' ' CRACK GOES THE V IN COME THE ORE 1) TheVirpiatakBii SELLS THE VERY BEST Git FERTILIZERS AT THE VERY LOWEST < It pays to fertilize your lands THE VIRQINIA-CAROLINi CHFLMICAI- CftSDiNV^ 1 PRODUCTS. SOU) XVKRTWHXR] The Virglnla-CamUM* Ch*mic*l Oo. CHARLESTON, 8. C. y**" ~ 1 I II Ml T Notice of Discharge. . Notice is hereby given ' that on ihe 7t"h (lay of February, A. D. 1903, the undersigned as administrntor of the estate of H. A. M. Steele, deceased, will file his final return and settlement and make application to the Probate Court for the County of Lancaster, S. (J., for a final discharge as such administrator. John H. 8tkelb, Administrator. Lancaster, S. C., Jan. 6, 1903. AN ORDINANCE # PROVIDING FOR AN ANNUAL TAX ON ALL DOGS FOUND WITHIN THE LIMITS OF . THE TOWN OF LANOA8TER. Be it ordained by tbe Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Lancaster, in council assembled and by the authority of same. ? r Sec. 1 That an annual tax of One Dollar is hereby assessed and levied against tbe owner of each dog or bitch kept within tbe cor- : porato limits of Baid town to be , paid on or before Jany. 1st 1903, and on or before January 1st of each and every year thereafter/' That upon payment of said tax, the owner of any dog or bitch, shall be furnished by the Chief of Police with a tag which shall be immediately placed upon said dog or bitch by being attached to a collar. Sec. 2. That any dog or bitch found running at large without the tag prescribed in Section 1 of this ordinance, shall be seized and impounded by the officers of the town and unless the said tax of One Dollar, together with an additional amount of twenty-five cents for the taking up of said dog or bitch, is paid within thirty-six hours from time of seizure, then said dog or bitch shall forthwith be killed. Ratified by the Mayor and At dermeo in council assembled this 26th day of July, 1902. R. E. Wylie, >, Attest: Mayor. it n i C/ D. Jones, ^ L*. r Clerk. .. i _ . r (Bin o o o o o o M, COFFINS. re in .stock, tue to keep, COFFINS and Our stock embraces from the plain, cheap ne METALLIC cases, a your order when so nnin your family. PRICES 3ACH of ALL. mnlilc In - U1 VIAUVIIf liVI Oct. 15, 1902.?tf. . a. V /hip f ifcalGo, VDESOF r rp tii iinniHinun ?~^iihisil IIHFilT ?""""" 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