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THE LEDGER. Thurlow 3. Garter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. 8ATURDAT, NOVEMBER 21, 1903* Wild Cat Insarance. Comptroller General After Companies Again?Letter Written to North Carolina Company By Mr. Jones. Columbia Record. Comptroller General Jones is after the wild cat insurance companies again as the following lot-* ter will show: Mr. E. A. Taylor, Kaloigh,N.C. Dear Sir: In reply to yours of the 9th inst., in which you state "that you and the attorney general of the state are advising the farmers not to pay their premiums to us, duo upon insurance policies which we issued to them in the past sea^ son, etc." Your company, "The Tobacco Planters Mutual Hail and Fire Insurance company," have nn*nr pnmnlio^ mill* ~ v wuj|/uvu n ivu tuo ninui UUUU laws of this stato and any business done in this stato has boon done in violation of our statute law. You cannot, therefore, expect our officers or courts to acquiesce in contracts made in violation of law. Yours truly, A. f\\ Jones, i Comptroller General. The State's Claim. South Carolina's claim against the United States governmant in regard to the taxing of the dis j pensarios by the revenue depait- { meut was argued in the court of j claims in Washington, but no de ( cision has been rendered vet The J r case in u most interesting one and ^ involves about $28,000 already fl paid over and the future payment ot about $3,000 a year. The question of law is whether the dispensary law exempts a payment of an internal revenue tax of $25 for each retail dispensary ( to the government. The matter was first taken up by Mr. Franklin H. Mackey, a South Carolina lawyer now in Washington and the agreement was made that should he be successful in the case one half of the amount recovered should be given him as a fee and that he was to receive nothing should the case be decided against the state. Mr. Mackey keeps the attorney general fully posted on the case and a favorab'o decision is oxpected. The government i ? A was represented at the hearing j yesterday by Assistant Attorney , General Walker.?Columbia Re- c oord. Ask your grocer about "Fewer gal* g Ions; wears longer." Two Kill at a Negro Frolic. v e At a negro frolic on Mr. Bish- p op Moore's plantation in Bethesda f township Monday night, the usual row and goneral shooting scrape ii figured as a principle feature of h the occasion. Alex Garvin was G shot and instantly killed, Boliver w Neely got four bullets stuck in-his 2 body and died two days later, h John Guthrie and Sam Parlor or a ! ? ?. m rwmmmm VM& VVI Ml XJ VI charged with the shooting and it both of them have boen arrested jS and lodged in the Yorkville .jail. t< ?Rock llill* Journal. S A POLICEMAN'S TESTIMONY, n J. N. Patterson, night police- p man of Nashua, la., writes, "Last b winter I had a bad cold on my o lungs and tried at least a half 2 dozen advertised cough medicines ii and had treatment from two phy- tl sicians without getting any bene- tl fit. A friend recommended h Foley's Honey and Tar and two IS thirds of a bottle cured me. J d Consider it the greatest cough and * lung medicine in the world." g< Sold by T. Eugene Fuuderburk. ti . Happenings In The State. As Chronicled by the Alert Cor- VVI respondent of The Columbia State. A NEGRO CONVICTED OF MURDER. tor Yorkville, Nov. 18.?The case of Will Hampton, colored, was 1?!' commenced yesterday and finish- die ed this morning, the charge being toci murder. A verdict of guilty, agl with a recommendation to the the mercy of the court was rendered, to Notice was given of a motion for fi<* a new trial. ov< ? for TWO MURDER CA8ES REPORTED. (Jer Dillon, Nov. 18.?At an early cal hour this morning the dead body doc or Berry Carmichael, a negro 20 no yea s of age, iu the employ of tho lts Dillon Oil company, was found upon me sidewalk of the street *'h leading out towaids Little Kock, wh with an ugly knife stab over the for heart. Upon investigation^ was cae brought to light that an alterca- the tiou ensued between three negroes diti and a negro woman, the result bo- dol ing that Carmiehael had been stab bee bed by the negro woman. Capt. Ha A. T. Harllee reports a brutal moi murderjust across the North Car - grc olina line, four miles from his of I home. A negro well known in tral that neighborhood, and until this pro year living on this side of the line, will brained his wife, using his rifle as biai a club, horribly mutilating the ball body. The ? you ROOSEVELT P?.APPr?INTS WTT.SON. . x i ' U1 I THE NEGRO POSTilASTEU AT j FLORENCE. me| Washington, Nov. 19.?In deXKE lance of public sentiment at Florinco the president has decided to eappoint Joshua E Wilson, the ^ iolored postmaster. Senator Till- tar3 uau on arriving here will proba ^ur >ly oppose the confirmation of the at ? ippoiniment. the ? pro CLOSE CALL FOR IIAMP. JAMES. the Marion, Nov. 19.?Hamp 'anies, the negro under sentence ^eci o be hanged tomorrow, will not lie on the gallows. Sheriff Mulins has at last been officially noifiod of the fact that Gov. Hey- Thi vard has commuted the sentence t< o life imprisonment. There seems to have been a nisunderstanding in the matter ^ vhich might have resulted fatally ono or the negro, for no official no- ' ice of the commutation was re- bet1 ieived here until this morning, w?l ind this came in response to a roa' elegram of inquiry sent by mot Sheriff Mullins to Gov. Heyward. ^6 < ^ast Sunday's State contained a ^r01 ocal notice saying that Gov. Hey- ^eet vard had ooinmuted the sentence kod if ''Hamp Jones" and it was jenerally understood here to have *wl1 neant Hamp James. The date 8*0< et by Judge Gary for the exeeu- ^ lon was the third Friday of No- *rac ember, tomorrow, but the gov- cut> roor's office was under the im- ^or ression that it was the fourth ^av' Friday. *ng Sheriff Mullins had heard nothig from the executive office, so awa ite yesterday ho telegraphed amc rov. Hey ward stating that James real ras sentenced to be hanged Nov. ^ Oth and asking if the sentence lnJu ad been commuted. In reply to wor iiis telegram he today received a on?] >tter from Private Secretary forment telling him that the sen* 0(* 1 Mice had teen commuted last ^ a aturday and an order to that ef- 1D8 set had been sent to Mr. Man* untl ing, who presented the petition ot^e rayiog for executive clemency, ut that in the petition the date ^er f execution was given as Nov. 7th, which was no doubt the date tliat 1 Mr. Mr. Manning's mind, and mile aat probably that gentleman t^e aought there was no necessary . urry about the matter. Mr. exP [orruent, however, enclosed a an(* uplicate of the official order, rhioh is the sheriff \ authority for ^ jndiug James to tho peuiten- P?P' iary. Tar ? ??mmmmmmm Terms of Canal Treat; hat Unitod States Will Do for Republic of Panama. Washington, Nov. 17.?The ms of the canal treaty "with nama and the situation on the hrnus were the only subjects cussed at the cabinet meeting lay. The Colombian protest linst the position assumed by. i United States, which was sent Senator Frye, the presidihjg'of ' >r of the senate, who turned ) it sr to Secretary Hay, was jnmally submitted to tbe preeiit who discussed it with the ?inet. No answer to it was ;idcd on and it is possible that attention will be paid to it or receipt formally acknowledged. The canal treaty with Panama icli is now beinrr onri ? ?^ "UVI ich has beenlpractically finished several days, provides for the h payment of $10,250,000 to young republic,which is an adiou of a quarter of a million lars to tho amount that has m paid Colombia under the y-Herran treaty. This paynt alone will give Panama ator wealth per capita than any Lhe other and much older Cenl American republics. It ia hablo that part of the money , 1 find its way into the Colom* ( a treasury in tho guise of slight tn of the loss of the isthmus, i ) United States is urging tho ng republic to assume a part he Colombia a debt and apply proportion from tho cash payo it for the canal. ATY WIT1I PANAMA IS RI38HED AND SIGNED. Vashington, Nov. 18.?Soerer Hay and M. Philippe 3uuuu> ilia, minister from Panama, .40 o'clock this evening, signed Hay^Bunau-V&rilla treaty ?? - viuiug iui iuo con air action of Panama canal by the Unitgd tea. The ceremony occured in retary Hay'a study. Ful Collision On the Big Fonr rty-Ono Men Killed and Fif-', aen Badly Injured.?Wreck- j age Piled up Thirty Feet. t , 'eoria, 111., Nov. 19.?Thirtymen were killed and at least < injured in a head-on collision , ween a freight train and a k train on the Big Four raild between Mackinaw and Treit this afternoon. Bodies of of the victims have been taken 11 the wreck which is piled 30 , high on the tracks. ' Five ics yet remain buried -utider huge pile of broken timber, ,i?.i -i j? * * sioii auu uisioriea iron and >1. )n a bank at tho side of the ;k lie the bodies of the victims, bruised and mangled in a rible manner. So far 12 only e been identified, the remain* being unrecognizable, even by ie who knew them and are re of the fact that they are >ng the dead. The victims are dents of neighboring towns. .11 tho dead and most of the red were members of thei k train, (he crews on both ines jumping in time to savto r lives The collision occur a .deep cut at the beginning, sharp curve, neither train by- < visible to the crew of theothdr 1 they were in 50 feet of eaojbjf >r. The engineers set the ces, sounded thy whistles and i leaped from their cabs, the trains striking with such force tho sound was heard for is. A second after the collision boi'er of the work train engine oded, throwing heavy iron i splinters of wood 200 feet. J here is no coujjh medicine so alar as Foley's Honey and % Crouch Kills His Snake. He Finds Scriptural Warrant for Decapitating the Reptile That Bit Him. Still wearing on his fingers the bandages that concealed wounds made by rattlesnake bites, L. C. Crouch, of Winston, walked into The Observer office last night and dropped on the city editor's desk a package, saying: 'There it is. Them's the tnor tal remains of the varmint." The package, opened, disclosed the head of a large rattlesnake, still bloody and dangerous-looking. Close to the head was a four-inhand cravat that had been made from the skin of the snake. Crouch picked up the cravat and fitted it around his neck. In future he will wear the tie as a companion piece to the snake skin that he uses as a hat band. "I killed him this afternoon," said Crouch. "He is the devil that bit mo. He had been a friond to me and my family and 1 looked on him almost as a brother till he bit and nearly killod me. Although 1 knew I could never be entirely well until th9 snake was dead, still I hesitated about killing him. He had worked so hard for mo and had helped to support my wife and seven children. 1 seemed to be looking for a warrant to kill the snake, but I never got it i.. 11 il uii iq'8 morning, wbon, in reading my Bible, 1 found this passage: (< iWhat is man that Thou art mindful of him: for Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou mad'st him to have dominion over the works of Tby hand; Thou hast put ail things under his feet.' 4'And just as soon as I saw that passage," continued Crouch, 4'I knew it was right to kill the snake. X waited till 20 minutes past 4 o'clock-?the very minute that the snake hit me?and then I chopped his blessed head off with a hatchet. Bat I shall never see such a snake again," said Crouch, holding the bloody head in his hand, while his eyes filled with tears. 4'Such a friend he was to me and mine? such a dear, good friend he was." ?Charlotte Observer. Ask youT rtootor about "Few.er gallons; wears longer " SHERIFF'S SAU STATE Of SOUTH CAROLINA County of Lancaster, Court of Common Pleas. m* - innry jane .ustrldge, ,/acob Faile, Alice Blackmon, Fannie Hunter and Sarah Faile, PlaintifTt, aoainst Martha Faile, Aizenia New and Jerome Catoe, Defendant*. PURSUANT to an Order made by Judge James Aidrich, in the above stated case October 25th, 19!)2, I will'ell at Lancaster O. H., on the first Monday in December, within the legal hours of sine, the following tracts of land, to wit; First, One Tract of Seven (7) uteres, more or lees, in Lancaster County In said State on the waters of Flat Creek and b uuded North by the estate lands of John C. Catoe; East by land o Amos Mungo; South by lands of said Amos J/ungo and West by lands of .Rich flinson Second, one tract of Twenty* three (23) Acres, more or lees, and bounded North by estate lands of John C. Catoe; East by lands of Mary J Estrldge; South and West by lands of Elizabeth Hinson The same being in Lancaster County in said Ktate mkd iwrmH 01 raie CASH. Pur chaser to pay for papers. J. P. hunter, Kherltl' L. C. r e. vvy ( ie, Atty. for Plaintiffs 1 ?iu mm ui??MiiMM??? We mean shoes. We ?are selling more shoes this season by double than we did lust. Why ? Because tho people are fust find- < ing ont where to get a good shoe it a reasonable price. Oocae and see for yourself. Respectfully, fill H~r ?1 0 Heath Banking & LANCASTE | our sp; DISPLfl F4LLJND_ VII IjLI Is I THURSO. f Octol | FRIDAY, | Octob< I Our Milliner I Simpson spent 1 1 in the Northern I lectin g our stock I styles of this se 1 will be shown I Beavers and Fe 1 line of the uewe I in all colors. ? ? ? -w w ' o The latest wea for Shirt Waists * Skirts will be dk A WELCOME I EXTENDEI * t oa a t L ~ Heath Banking s A LANCASTEl '? FKK A N N V V mammmmmmmmmmmmrngmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ? Mercantile Co. :r, S. C. ecial] S OF WINTER JERY, AY, I ber, 1st, M er, Slid* | t' *s? j'fij Miss Julia I three weeks I markets se-1 , and correct I ason's Hats I in Velvets, I dts. A full I st Suit Hats I *> I ves in goods I i, Suits and I splayed. I O TO ALL I u lercantile Co. s. c* ' # ?