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T ii s ledger. Thar low Garter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. WKDNKSDAY, Al'KlI., 22, 190.?.. [ For The Ledger. The Veterans' Unity Suturdny ? The Dinner hy the 1 i'uu^uici Pursuant to tho call of the commander, tho Dixio Camp of Con. federate Veterans met at the courthouse Saturday, April 18th. It was one of tlie largest and most enthusiastic meetings within the Camp's history. Fifty-six Veterans enlisted at tho meeting under Dixio banner. Ninety one applications for crosses of honot, which are to ho presented by tho Daughters of the Confederacy, wore made out and signed. And about fifty blanks wore supplied to other veterans. In addition to the members of tins camp, n num bor of other veterans were present as visitors. Altogether, there were about ono hundred and fifty old soldiers on hand. The following delegates were n o elected to the State reunion to be held in Columbia next month:! W. G. A. Porter, J. N. Kstridgo, i \V. B. Bruce; alternates: \V. A. ! Marshall, W. Q. Caskey, <). K. I Howell. The following delegates were elected to the reunion of United i Confederate Veterans to be held in New Orleans: \V. Li. Bruce, J. N. Estridgc, S. C. Gardner. i lie lollowing veterans expressed tlioir intention to attend the State re-union: J. McGuirt, F. ' M. Ellis, .J. J. Reeves, A. Adams, ; Charlie Wilson, \V. M. Knight, AI. N. Johnson, J. W. A. Porter, 1 B. A. Gainer, W. T. Vanlanding-, ham, W. B. Steele, L. S. Caskey, ; E. K. Plyler, C. S. Starnos, J. ! H. Caskey, J. L. Barton, L. II. Bowell, Jos. M. Caskcv, W. R. Robinson, W. J. Hunter, B. F. Haile, W. T. Sistare and J. Mur? / 1 1 i V M VUU111V1U. A leading and attractive feature of the day was a magnificent and bountiful picnic dinner served to the Veterans on tho courthouse square by the ironerous. patriotic Daughters of the Confederacy of Lancaster. It was indeed a su- . perb treat to the old soldiers, and \ their gratitude to the Daughters , know no bounds. Resolution's were unanimously adopted by the ' Veterans expressing their most profound thanks and heartfelt up-; preciation of their royal enter-, tainment by the Daughters. At the request of the Daugh.! ters, the Veterans formed in ranks, marched a r o u n d the grounds and gave the famous "Rebel Yell." W. (i. A. Port Kit, Commander, i GKO. W. Jonks, Adjutant. To Cure A Cchl In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. ( virove' ssignature is on each box 25c. CERES BLOOb POISON.-TREATh I MhNT FREE. ( Rlood Poison is the worst disease on earth yet the easiest to cure when B. R. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is used. ! Many have pimples. spots on the akin, ulcers, mucous patches, falling hair, itching skin, hone pains, rheumatism, catarrh, eating, bleer.ing, festering sores, scrofula, scabs and seal- s, cancer, and don't know it is blood poison. Oet Botanic Blood Ralm (B. R. B ) 51. A few Bottles guarantted to cure he worst Cases. Hold at drug stores. Treatment of B. R. B. sent free and prepaid by writing to Jtlood Ralm Co., Atlanta (hi. I)es?. cnnc iroume anu rree medical advice given until cured. It. It It. thorough* ly tested for 30 year*. Cures when all else fails. It. It.lt. makes the Mood pureandri-h heals every sore, and stops all aches and pains. It- it. li. Improves the digestion. Who Murdered Mrs. Matthews? j Negro Was Lynched For The i Brutal Crime, yet Another is Accused. New Oi lcans, April 15 ?It has developed that those poisons at Shreveport who sought to wreak revenge for the brutal murder of Mrs. Matthews and tho mortal wounding cf her little daughter ' have shot und burned tho wrong in in in slaying El waul Porter. Tho real name of tho negro is Albert Washington, and lie lived at tho plantation of Vance and Stinson, near Vaneevillo, an 1 was innocent. He lef4; there at nine o'clock Saturday morning (after toe murder was committed) on a freight train for Shreveport, for the purpose of looking for his wife with whom ho bad a disagreement, causing separation. The blood stains on his clothing aro explained by the fact that he carried freshly slaughtered beef for a butcher in the suhuibs of Shreveport. WHITE MAN TI1K MUKDHttKU. Another sensation quickly foU lowed the contirmation of having burned the wrong man, when Mrs. Philips, a while woman of high stundiug, who boarded in the rear of the Matthews residence, stated to the police that about three o'clock on tho morning of Saturday, which was about the hour Mrs. Matthews was judge to have been killed, she was up on account of illuess. She heard groans in tho direction of the Matthews house; went In 11 vvin/l.itw o??/l l?... .. ....... ? .. ........ ? o?>* II Willie III 1111 come out of the rear of Matthew's house, button his coat, turn up his collar and then runout of the hack way of the alley. She said she thought she recognized in the llluii Porter Mai thews, Mrs. Matthew's brother-in-law. MAKES A CLEAN SWEEP There's nothing like doing u thing thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever heard of, Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the best. It oV? CCpo uVi uj' uuvi Cui Co iitll uSj Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boils, Ulcers, Skin Hi options and Piles. It's only 25c, and guaranted to give satisfaction by Crawford Bros'., and .J. F. Mackey & Co., Druggists. The Constable (lot Drunk. 1.111st Monday a negro with hand culTs on his wrists walked lip to the county chain gang camp and asked if that was the chain gang. On P J? being answered in the ufiirtnativo he said that ll<? h-i.l nnmo ..w V/V/I?iv> X. \J >V ui IV and explained that a white man had .started to hiing him in a buggy, but got drunk on the way, upset the buggy and was unable to go any further, "and 1 jis lit out and walked the bal nice of tho way,1' said the negro. The negro turned r"> out to be I'lliI 15ailoy,who was arrested in Kbenezcr township by State Constable Thomason some time ago for transporting contraband liquor, but escaped just after he was arrested and was rccapturby Chief .lenkens in Kock Hill Saturday night and taken before Magistrate Anderson, who gave him a job on the gang and started him r-ll t<? that institution in charge of hi * constable, who took on too much tea with the result stated above. ? Rock Hill Herald. PWEU?JL 0n I A. 13 ROBBED I OF ITS TERRORS | by Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the racking cough and heals and strengthens the lungs. If taken in time it will prevent an attack of pneumonia. Refuse substitutes. T. Eugene Fonderburk, druggist. ^ <V? // V5V /V X^v\, .'his signature is on every '-o of tho genuine Laxative Bromo-Qiiinine Tablet* I he ramr'y that rurew it eolil In oi?? ?l?y Happenings In ""he State. As Chronicled hy thu Alert Cor<? resp indents of The Columbia State. OFF TO THE l'RISON. Charleston, April IS. - United States marshals left hero this morning for Atlanta with Willium McKinley, Edward Dngau, Charles Howard and Thomas NoIan, who were convicted of rob lung the postotlices at several towns up the Stute and sentenced to serve five years in prison and pay a line of $500 each. Four men were also taken to Greenville?.1 tunes Long, Chas. i llodgors, II. B. NViison and Walter Wood?charged with robbing the postollice at Greers and being members of the same gang. They will bo tried on April 2S before Judge Bruwley, as circuit judge. The Greenville term of the circuit and district court will open on Tuesday. A CAlti'KNTElt KII.I.F.D. Charleston, April 18.? William C. Mosiman, a carpenter, was killed this morning by being crushed under a heavy brick pillar at the old Washington race track. Mosunan was superintend ing tbe removal of the gate posts which did service at the famous ante-bellum track to Belmont's new truck at SStuten Island, when the pillar, which weighed eight tons, foil and crushed him. The gale posts arc to servo as relics at the track which the wealthy New Yorker is building at a cost of several million dollars. SHOT I>oWN 11V HIS OWN BOY. Branch ville, April 10. ? L. \V. Kinscy, a fanner living six miles from hero in Bamberg county, was shot am! painfully if not soriously wounded this afternoon. It appears that a dispute arose between Kinsey and one of his sons. The former started for his gun; the latter drew his pistol; there was a genoral mix up. The pis tol went oil with the above result. HARDY DIES OF HIS INJURIES. Spartanburg, April 19.?Martin Hardy, the colored blacksmith J f who was stabbed in tho head by George Blanchard, white, of this city on tho afternoon of April 9, in front of the former's blackunith shop, died this morning from the effects of his wounds. l'LAYED WITH A CAliTKIIX!E. Spartanburg, April 18.?Y'es- ] terday afternoon three negro chil- ( dren iu tho West End section of the city picked up a pistol car- 1 tridge in their home and began < playing with the explosive. They \ throw it in the tire, but the cur- t tridge did not explode. One of i tho children then raked it from I tho ashes, and the explosion fol- u lowed. As a result, a portion of I the shell flew into one of ?ho eyes c of Hoi ace James, one i t the chil- ti 1 men. ino others escaped uninjured. This morning Drs. Black and Sexton, assisted t?y Dr. ithodos, removed the injured e\ e | of James h ? \ TIIK Si; It' 11 > 10 or MKS. JUtKAZKAI-K. ( Anderson, A|?r11 17.?News * reached here today of the suicide " of Mrs. Martha Bronzualc, wife v of Prof. W. K. Bronzcalo of Hot- ' gets e<dlcge, N. .1. She jumped jv overl>oard from a steamer in Long |1 Island sound last Monday night j s while en route from her home in 1 v Brunswick, N. ?!., to Now York j1 city. Iler hody has not heen!u round. Prof. Breuzculo is a native ??f, Anderson county and was for *ev j1 eral years professor of matheina- j ^ tics in Wintbrop college. :c No cause is known for Mrs.' < wgrai 01 i Wednesd Our deser MILLINER, M turned from the lected with grea COMPLETE up Milli Ever brought to busily engaged, tants, in prepari WEDNESDAY Wednesd The public visit us 011 that i will find OUR a creation of An NESS. The lad j, 1 ? l i uieir neaagear 11 matchless Bonne Heath B Hreazealo's suicide, except luelan- 1 ;holy following ill health. She attempted suicide while the 'umily liyed ut VVinthrop by sovuing an artery in her wrist, hut ,vas discovered by her husband in ime to save her life. Before do ! ng so she left u note for her busHind declaring her love for him ind saying that she would take ior life bccanso she feared she ' I :ould not live to rem her children is she would like. i WOULD KK KKSCUKR DHOWNKD. I Beaufort Ap il 15.? A negro j lelongiug to the levcnue cutter j tationed in the Savannah, river i 'i si ted friends on the steamer Jlifton, which was a'oout to re j urn hero Monday evening with : . Ill l-AUIIIHIIIII [Iliri.J. >\ 11110 110 v.is busy till k iii<^ the Cli ft* ?n uoved out from the dock. Not vishing to conic here ho insisted ipon jumping overboard and iwunniing ashoro One of tlio Jlifton'8 deck huuds ondeuvoro I 0 dissuade him from this d?*sper?. itc. attempt. This resulted in a on file between the two men near 1 gangway and both fell into tho iver. A small boat noarhy res. :ued the revenue eutter man, but he deck hand sunk and was Irowned before he could bo roachid. 9? ND MiLLIM ) V K\ T AT i jj n i i> \ -- OF ay, April ] wsBssers^asanx^^Lcn i iim vedly popular a ISS JULIA SL> Northern marke t care the LAKG -to-date STOCK nery G this market. A aided by an able ng for our forma . Don't forget t ay, April ] ' is CORD] ALL day. We guara MILLINERY I tistie BEAUTY ies are cautione intil they see MI its and Hats. ANKING & I THE SIGN OF B V . GOOD TAILORING M | Here is the great Oak- ^ Easel now on display at our store. It contains the < line of beautiful new spring * ) tailoring samples sent us by i , STRAUSS BROS., Chicago ] | Good Tailors for 2b Years The Oak-Easel is the ( I connecting link between the ' tailor and the faultlessly fini ished garments which give you so much pleasure to ' If wear. It's really a lesson J jj in good clothes buying t o ^ see this great collection ' 5 of tailoring novelties. ' ! V Prices low and sevtHfsc- 1 j s, (ton ivbsolutely fvi?r. ' > a i\ t ood. C o. 11 soon. . ihihdkhhiihk iiml I ?Our Air. J. M. Hood is til-! ways in th<j market to purchnso mules and cuttle. Ai.d don't you forgot it. udiiwiiatui moruHUiue ; [ERY-JW Gr I Lst, 1903. nd exoerienoed 1PSON, has rets, where she serEST and most of oods nd she is now corps of assisil opening next he day, Lst, 1903. Y INVITED to litec that YOU >EPARTMENT and LOVELId not to select SS SIMPSON'S Mer. Co. i" yonsumpiion % The only kind of consumption to fear is " neglected consumption." People arc learning that consumption is a curable disease. It is neglected consumption that is so often incurable. .At the faintest suspicion of consumption get a bottle (f Scott's Emulsion and begin regular doses. The use of Scott's Emulsion at once, has, in thousands of cases, turned the balance in favor of health. Neglected consumption does not exist where Scott's Emulsion is Prompt use of Scott's Pmulsit*i checks the disease while it can be checked. Send C<>r free sample. SCOTT & IIOWNE, ChemUu, 409-413 Pearl Street, New York. $*. and fi .no; all druggist*. MMMMaMaUMMMBBMnwUMi JJEARRY FOSTER, Attorney ftI Lair, LANCASTER, S. C. VaT r oller'tlom u sp. cUlty. ?Pay your Subscription to t-ho Lkdqkk and bo happy. J r- i