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v " M . i VftURX*OW B. OiRTSSi ( A Nececoaocr For the JPrvmodom cftAe Political Social, AgrtruSUnvii * t-immcacial i**fcr rdA J TKBJ9H* 0U9 4 filft Kpitq* Are MAHXO?L | f ( rxzAxuu m Amrvm^u. ^ L A N 0 A S r E H, S. it) . i; N 10 3, 190^ KSl'A BL1SH KI) 1852 ~ W E T A J JUNI Goods in partmen W MUS ^ By Ju To Move Have R PR It is not woi PRICES here, your selection the price. We have a 1 Shoes, NEW ? are selling at l'riees. Come to see and we will m for you. lien EVEllYTHIF - Linitr % v E STOCK I 30fff. ve a Lot of each Deli that ;t . g o m ly First. ?< Them We EDUCED ICES. \Z IHII1B???? th whil?-to quote Come and make and wc will make ot of Men's fine :\riiAnr/ a I_ _ A 5AU^JV, IllUl W C Greatly Reduced us before you buy ake it interesting lember we Carry ^G. ^ Happenings In The State. As Chronicled by tho Alert C< rosp indents of The Colombia State. GIRL KILl.KI) BY LIGHTNING. Lumens, May 28.?Tne>dt afternoon Minnie McMorris, years old, colored, was mstanl killed by lightning at the homo her father, Lige McMorris, fo miles from this town. The g hud been in the garden and w > struck as sho was returing to t house. A younger sister w thrown to the ground by t shock, but was not seriously jured. m.lNl) MAN HKKAKS HIS NKCK. White Rock, May 28. ?T boiler to the mill of Mr. S. Riddle exploded lust week, i VVingard an old man standi near, was instantly killed. Henry Richardson, colore who has been blind for 13 yea I fell from window of his house 1 other day and broke his neck, j j lived on a Mr. Burr's place, lower Fork. " SUCCL'MHS TO Al'PKNDICITIIi. Chester, May 28. ? Dr. Richc 11. W oods died last night at o'clock in tho private sanitarii of Dr. S. W. Rryor. Tho i mediate cause of death was sep cuemia, brought on fiotn absor tion of poison from a ruptui appendix. Dr. Woods was tali desperately ami suddenly sick 1 Sunday jifternoon and Monc morning an operation for iippcm pitiss wns nni'fnpmftit n.. i>. ? , - ? J assisted by Dr. W. 13. Cox., 1 operation was considered a in successful one, and the two phy cians entertained hopo for the recovery of Iho sick tnan until o'clock yesterday, when sympto for the worse appeared and it v impossiblefor human skill to ov< come the rapid inroads of i deadly poison. SUDDENLY STRICKEN. t Chester, May 27.?.lust hours after operating on Dr. H. Woods for appendicitis, Dr. ' W. Pryor was called in hy Mr. Butler Woods, a cousin of 1 I Woods, to the bedside of daughter, Miss Evelyn fVoo who was suddenly stricken w tho same dreaded disease. M Evelyn had just returned fr Charlotte, N. C., where she I ' been attending school, and ji upon entering what would hi * been a pleasant vacation for h who was taken to the hospi I where Dr. Prior performed ano ^ er delicate and dangerous ope tion. KILLED 11Y A MULE. Iva, May 30.?A four-} car-* boy of Matthew Oliver, a ne< r tenant on Mr. S. YV. YV liar to place, was kicked by a mule I Sunday and died shortly aft > wards from the injuries 7 THIS WILL IN T E It EST M A N To quickly introduce It. B. /}, ( tanic Blood Balm), ttie turnout* Li purifier, Into new botn<s, we will s absolutely free 10,000 treatments. B. li quickly cures ol?l ulcers, sci ula, painful swellings, aches ; pains in bonesor joints, rheumati' catarrh, pimples, festering erupti. boils, eczema, itching skin or hi humors, eating, bleeding, fester ' sores and even deadly cancer B. B, at drug stores $1. K.?r free trc ment address Il'ood Zfaim Co., Ail ta, (?a. Medicine sent at once p Oil id. Describe InniM" on.l ica! advice given until cur# d. 3 3. h?-als every ?v>ie an.I maktfl I biood |>ure and ricii. Topeka Kansas, Flood. ai ,r. The F in:i leinl Loss Will A""rc? 4 VI pate Many Millions ? l'eople Arc Gathered on the Tops of Houses uul Will Meet Death ty Hither by Fire 10 or Drown,V i"K. (l of M ur Tope! a. Kans., May 30.? irl ^',u)(' '*lc today destroyed a 'as th?,,8Jln(l houses in TepeUa. When 1'|10 t'iie Kaw river left its hanks last 01 nirrtil if ll ..... 1 v- .1 >?? ' o'"- ?" uvnvvi wvfi .\orin lopeua 11 jie which has a population of 0,000; h all but 1,500 were rescued. Those 'i left bellied aro on roof tops and trees. They call for help, but ^ small row boats cannot live in the >' ^ie rushing waters. Strong swim* h ^' niers today rescued more than a h ^ hundred women and children. A 0 p? large lumber yard in the suhmegcd district caught tire from lime ^ burning the lumber which floated 1 s' through the town setting lire to e i 3 O "lo straps of dwellings and stores. P lie 'pwo si(ilid business blocks were i( in burned. Fireman and police were e powerless to stop the conflagra- a lion. The number of drowned ird is estimated all the way from a 11 dozen to a hundred Hundreds of \ iro houses were washed away by tho j m* strong current. The churches a ti- aud Dublic halls nr<? full "f , "? "uvu :i p sufferers being cared for by the ^ ed city authorities. The south side ? ten of the city is suffering, strange , ast to say, from lack of water. The \ lay Kck .water from the Kaw put I \ di- the furnace fires in the water j or, plant. Twelve suburban towns ? 'he are also submerged and the in- | ost habitants are in danger. Rescue ? si parties have been sent with rafts. | re- The village of Kiro has been t 12|swept a a ay. Communications ms west of the Kaw valley are shut c vas off and it is feared that the loss t 3t- of life is terrible. Traffic on the > tlie railroads in the Kaw valley has t hoen suspendod for three days, i The governor tonight culled out 5 two companies of the National s U Guard to aid in the rescue. ? y Lexington, May 30. ?The Mis- v r|i Isouri river hero i? within four v feet of the highest point on rehi, cord. Thousands of acres of land (js are covered water and people are u j^h heing moved out in boats. Crops \ jss are ruined and the river is still ( oro lisin?- 1: has TUK LATEST l'KO.M TOl'EKA. C ist l'opcka, Kans., May 30.?10 s ive p. in.?There are perhaps 7,500 J or, people homeless hero tonight. The ' ital current i rapidly growing stron- f tli- ger and is sweeping across the city 1 ra* from the north. People are 1 dropping from the tops of houses 1 and trees having become exhaust^.1 U? A I - ' I J ' , , v?.t uy meir eiguicen nours )mold . ' " ^ prisonment find are being swept away. Several people are known . to have been burned to death. A ast telephone message from Valencia, twenty miles west says that a wall of water struck tho town this uf> ternoon carrying five houses down Y.l . . the Kaw river. Ilill city has no<l been on an island since Tuesday. ?nd The stock of provisions is getting J* very low and people nro suffering and greatly. r s,n- THE FLOOD IN IOWA. >IIH, _ 1 : line M ..?? OA f I muiiitr, in ij uv.?uuvcr | ing nor Cummings to lay authorized f 11 the throwing open of the State C t|j Capitol to the Hood refugees. Cots 1 re. wore placed in the buildings and t,<'" food prepared. Four feet of ' water is coursing through tho the n ft I business district of Fast Dos Initios. Six thousand persons iv homeless anil the thermome)r is close to feezing' point, early 2,O0O buildings arc subieiged and several hundred thou* md dollars worth of machinery mulcr wiitcr. The Dos Moines vcr has flooded the lower porous of tho city driving scores of uuilics from their homes. II.I,IONS MK.VM'KK I .OSS AT 1>ES MOINKS. ac Dos Moines, la., Mav 31.? h< light authenticated fatalities have ;t1 ecu red in anil uhout this city ;l, 'mil the flood and the property jss will amount into tho mil- u, ons. st Kansas City, Mo., May 30.? A 10 o'clock tonight tho Kansas f, iver was rising at the rate of four ^ iches an hour. Sivifl's packing ()1 ouse has already sustained a loss stimated at $1,000,000. n, The damage to Cudahy's and ({, chwartz Childs and Sulshurger's (j( :ill he nearly $500,000, about u| qually divided between the two 0 lants. It is estimated that the t| >ss in Armourdalo to date will } (j xceed $1,000,000. |n T LEAST FIFTEEN I'KOI'LE KNOWN ! C< To HAVE HE EN LOST. tl Kansas City, Mo., May 31.? 11 Vith the waters of tho Kaw and u lissouri rivers nearly four feet hove the disastrous level of 1S*1 h nd f lin i i' 1 4 *.?? ..U ! c II mv.li omnitii H'lun 1 UilL'lll11LX iver 12 square miles of tlie city >' ,nd its suburbs, Kansas City to- c light is in the worst Hood of its o listory. In the valley of the s vaw or Kansas rivt between \ i- o '* his city and Kansas City, Ivans., t i report has it that a number of t ives have been lost. One report t ays 14 and another 50. Twelve t >odies were counted as they float- ' id past during the day. * The financial loss has been in* h irensing all day and bids fair to ' lontinuo. The heaviest loss is at t Vrmoiirdalo, whore the losses to c ho packing industry and others s s placed conservatively at ?2,- d >00,000. Argentine, another r uburb, has suffered losses estim- d ted ut $500,000. Other losses vhich cannot now be estimated nil increase tho total very mutcridly. i Armourdale, with a population if 10,000 people, is deserted und ts site marked only by the tops if buildings and a number of ires. Seven tires, believed to lie ^ hictly boxcars burning, <ould be een from the bl nil's tonight, i, I'lieie is some danger that tho ,, y lames will spread to the partially j iubmerged buildings adding greaty to the already heavy loss. The ire started from]the (lowing of he Hood into a lime house. t STARTLING DVIDHMOE , Fresh testimony in great quan- c ty is constantly coining in, declar- s ng I)r. King's Now Discovery ^ ror i^onsuinpuon uougns ami [JoIds to bo unequuled. A recent 11 expression from T. J. McFurland I lientorville, Va. serves as ex- g imple. lie writes: "J had Bronchitis for three years and doctored ill the time without being benolit3d. Then 1 began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and a few ' settles wholly cured me. ''Equal- H y effective in curing all Lung and N rhroat troubles. Consumption, ' L'enumonia and (irio. Guaranteed * >y Fundcrlnuk Pharmacy, Cmvv- 1 'or*I Pros., an*I ,1. F. Mackey Si H J ). Druggists. Trial bottle free, ' cgular sizes ?0c, and ?1.00 ' ( ' "" \ & T* TLTZ. X _/V . Bonrathfi /} tte K'lid Yoa Have Always Bough! I! Botched State House. o Question About Inferior Quality Of Work?Sanitary Committee Condemns New Work as Well as Old. Columbia, S. C May -10.? bo committee appointed by ov Ileyward to investigate the initary condition of the state )uso made a report this morn ig. They explored every nook id corner of the building, whore lc trouble might possibly lie, ill the report fully sustains the ateuients of Sccretay Oantt as > conditions, and in fact goes irthcr and condemns the satiiiry arrangement altogether. Not nly the old closets were shown > bo in a bad condition, but the ew ones eo/no in for equal conemulation. The report goes into utuiis ami it clearly shows that II this work will have to bo dono ver again. It may be recalled lat when the work was going on ol. Marshall insisted that it was ot being done properly, and his ontenlion is fully sustained by nese gentlemen, who arc experts nd totally disinterested, it is nderstood that Architect Hunt, ,ho was brougt thereby the state ouse commissi! n, has made the anie report as to the sanitary arangenients as well as litiding rrors with a great deal of the it her work on the building. The tate house commission was aplointed especially to look into !iis matter and make a report to lie next legislature. It is likely hat their icport will show that housands of dollars will have to >e spent to put the building in hapo, notwithstanding thousands invo ill road v lu'i-n snnnl Tim inilding having boon accepted by lie commission, it may lie the ontractor cannot be held responible, but the fact that the work one heretofore has been in many espects of the very poorest qualty is too evident. Winter Cantey Hung. 'ays Penalty For Murder Of Eliza Kershaw?Dead in Eight Minutes. Columbia, May 29. ? Winter lantey was hanged this morning < til o'clock for the murder of Iliza Kershaw in October last car. Tho trap was sprung at 0.44 and at 11.12 ho was prolounced dead by tho physicians irosont and rut down. Tho arangements worked perfectly and ^ ?V.~ :?i ?- ? w iiiu uiai winivy ruumiuuu mm, equiring little assistance to nount the scutTold. Before the up was adjusted ho made a short peech, very disconnected and ofcrod a sort of prayer, which was i half chant, after which ho said ic was icady and the trap was prung. was wasting away. The following letter from Robert Watts, of Salem, Mo., is intructive. "I have boon troubled vith kidney disease for the last ivo years. 1 lost lledi and novor elt well and doctored with leading diysicinns and tried all remedies uigjjestod without relief. Finally tried Foley's Kidney Cure and ess than two bottles completely mred me and I am now sound and veil.." T. Kugcne Fundorburk. Foley's Honey and Tar zures colds, prevents pneumonia.