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THE LEDGER. Thurlow * ? ari *t, \ EDITOR AND MANAGER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMHHK 25, 1903. Negro Frolic Near Fort Mill Ends ' in Homicide. i Fort Mill, 8. 0., Nov. 21. ?A fatal affray occurred on Mr. VV. J. Stewart's plantation near here < latt night as a result of which a ' negro known as "Buster" Mob- ' ley lost his life. Mobloy was 1 among the attendants at a frolic and during the courso of the eve ning became involved iu u row with Chas. Strait, who drew a revolver and shot him dead. Strait tied and has not been caught. Fighting in Philippines. Manila, Nov. 23.?Tbrec hundred Moros are known to have been killed and many others were carried off dead or wounded as a result of tive day's fighting in Jolo between tho American troops under Gen. Leonard Wood and tho insurgents. Maj. 11. L. Scott of the Fourteenth cavalry, and five American privates were wounded. Majority of Now England Cotton Mills Cut Wages 10 l'cr Cot t. Boston, Mass., Nov. .22.?A ..e a i. .. " uiujui ny in llJU eouon lllllIS Ol New England will ho operated tomorrow under a wage schedule approximately 10 per cent, less than has been in effect two years. In the city of Fall lliver alono 30,000 operatives will be affected and in the State of Rhode Island not less than 20,000. At other 1 1 I points in Massachusetts, Connect ticut and New Hampshire the aggregate of employes whose wages will be reduced will be several thousand. At other cotton mill j 1 centres a reduction will take effect a week later. i The York county grand jury is certainly consistent on the whiskey ^ question. It puts the state, as a lipuor seller, in the same cate I gory with violators of tho die- t porsary law. In its final report, ^ published to-day, it presents the j dispensary as a nuisance, and also presents as nuisances certain parties who are charged with comC i peting with it. That is uot only ^ consistent; but it seems fair.? ' \ Yorkville Enquirer. The prohibitionists and whiskey r men of Texas have reached a compromise. Under it the saloons in Texas will remain open until J January 1, then prohibition is to become effective throughout tho state. This marks the end of a bitter fight. In tho last few j months more than 200 counties have ''gone." anion*' thom county, which the antis selected to > make their test fight in. Ask you? doctor about "fewer gal- 1 ions; wears longer." Wreck On Southern. t Charlotte, N. C. Nov. 23.?In 1 a freight wreck on the western t North Carolina branch of the ; Southern railway, near Balsam, , due to wot and slippery track, ( Engineer D.C. Moore of Murphy, 1 N.C. and Brakeman Charles Porter 1 were killed and G. W. Killian, ' < brakeman ;J.M. Boono,conductor, and It. M. Fortune, fireman, injured. The It est Prescription for Mantra Chills and Fc /er is a bottle of j Grove's Tustelcst Chill Tonic. It is simply Iron and Quinino and j tasteless, No Cure No Pay. i ?Pay your Subscription 'o the , LdCDOEB and be happy. " I ^ "ai.l" ' Lynching in Cheslcrfiid L'iio r-unl Crime the Cause--Siicnt Horsemen Came in the Moonlight and Did Their Work. Special to The Stato. Chesterfield, Nov. 23. ? News reached here this morning of the lynching of Jim Nelson, a coal black negro, neiu Jefferson, this count)*, Saturday night. The news was received hero very tjuietly and elicited little comment on thestrects. ChostorfieM county has heretofore been clear of this kind of lynching and the il legjil hanging of Saturday night is t ie second execution to occur within her borders in almost a half century. Your correspondent went to the scene of the crime and is enabled to give the facts'of the whole matter. On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 1 T?, an attempt was made to out*rago the 7-year old daughter of Miles W. Porter, a prominent farmer of the upper part of Ches terlicld county, by Jim Nelson, a negro laborer employed on Mr. Porter's farm. The girl and some smaller chil dren were nhivirur nt n cr.rin? , j -"ri " "l" *"p "?'u the house when the attempt was made. They ran to the house and gavo tho alarm nud the purpose of the hi ute was not accompli-hed. Tho negro took to the woods and early Monday morning a posse was organized and for several days scoured tho woods anil nearby swamps in search of him, but without success. The father and brothers of tho child continued the hunt and Saturday afternoon Mr. Will Porter came up with the negro at Maynard's saw mill near Catarrh. lie carried him to Jefferson and placed him in tho guard house in tho afternoon, and about 8:30 o'clock Saturday night Mr. Porter and Mr. P. (t. Ingram started with lie negro to Chesterfield to deiver him to the sheriff. When ibout three miles from Jefferson i couple of men appeared from nil of tho woods, presented revolvers and ordered the men in ho buggy to hold up their hands, vhieh command was nronmtlv a I J ibeyed. They wore then ordered o drive on for about 200 yards, where a good healthy limb of a argc blackjack hung invitingly iver the road and the negro was Iraggod from the buggy and Ingram and Porter wore ordered to urn about and drive for what thoy vcro worth. About 20 or 30 lien on horseback were congro* jatcd at this lonely spot and made plick work of their victim. A ope was placed around his neck ind he was swung up and left winging, while the knights of the :ord rode silently away into the lark noss. lead Tli is Tho Lancaster Cotton Mills Ma* diino Shop is fitted with modorn Jp to-date Tools and Machines ind has mechanics capable of dong first class work in it. They arc prepared to repair Engines, Boilers, Gins and Machinsry of all kinds. First-Class Work and Moderate ^Charges is lie "Motto". Can bore out Cylinders. Patch Boilers and give ill kinds of Machinery a thorough overhauling, and Guarantee it working satisfactorily after leavng tho shop. Apply to tho Surperintondent at the Machine Shop, at New Mill. ^ ? FOR SALE 1 365 acres at P7. per acre, on good terms. About 10 miles South of town adjoining A. H. Carter, 4 houses, 2 wells with pumps,-about 4-horsc farm open, good school, good icighborhood, well wooded. Also 105 acres near Carmel church. Apply to T. S. Carter, Agent. Market Fluctuations Rise In Price of Fertilizer unci Full in Seed. Grcenvdlo News. Ono of tho latest problems for solution by tho farmers is the fertilizer question. Cotton fertilizer has gone up $3 on tho ton while tho price for tho acids hare advanced #'2. Cotton seed meal is selling for $24 :i ton, having gono up $1 during tho past few .1 - - 1 !i t 1 mi} s uuu it imiy go nigner, In view of the amount of ferti lizer used, tho advance in the price[]me&ns an expenditure of many dollars by the farmers in addition to tho vast amount which goes for fertilizers when it is selling at anything like a reasonable price. With tho advance in the price of fertilizer conies n declino in the price of cotton seed, which is now bringing $12 per ton, and from present indications will go even lower. It is advisable for farmers to hold their soed. Many farmers throughout tho county have already sold their seed and i .1. ; _ 1 .ft i uy uuiug so ii'ivo realized oniy about Lalf their value. A proiuineot farmer of this county who keeps up with the various questions that interest planters said yesterday that after looking over the statistics of the amount of cotton raised per acre fuund that in 1S79 more cotton was made in proportion to tho acreage planted than any year since then. 'J'hat was before oil mills dotted the land and was when tho cotton feced was always returned to tho soil which shows that tho seed if used for fertilizer is of a much greater value than it can be sold for. If the dccliue.in tho price paid for seed by the oil mills will serve to make farmers use tho seed "for fertilizer and not dispose of them at unreasonably low prices it will do much towards building up tho land of tho country to a higher state of cultivation. It is said that there is plenty of seed in the country yet but at tho prices paid the farmers are not disposed to sell. Along about Christmas it is believed the oil mills intend to buy in seed which is held back now, as the majority of the farmers will sacrifice almost any crop for a littlo Christ mas cash. Still Burning School Houses. Special to Tho State. Greenwood, Nov 21.?Tho building owned by Mrs. M. E. Addy, which was being used by scvcu classes of tho city graded school pending the completion of the handsome new $25,000 school building on Byrd street, was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. It seems posiitive that it was tho work of an incendiary. In April of this year tho graded school building was burned and this fire was also attributed to an incendiary. There were no arrests and if there was any clue it has never been traced down. A POLICEMAN'S TKSTIMONY J. N. Patterson, night police man of Nashua, la., writes, "Last winter I had a had cold on my I lungs and tried at least a half dozen advertised cough medicines and had treatment from two physicians without getting any benefit. A friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar and two thirds of a bottle cured me. J consider it tho greatest cough and lung medicine in tho world." Sold by T. Kugeno Funderburk. Mr. Loins Kohn, tho assistant of his brother, Mr. Augu t Kohn, tho Columbia correspondent of tho Charleston News and Courier,died in Columbia Sunday after an illness of three weeks of pneumonia. Very Ugly Affair Id Aiken County Youog White Man Engages io Negro Gumbling Game?No gro Dead; Anolhei W ound^ ed. Special to. The State. Aiken, -Nov. 22.? Last night about 11'o'clock a negro was shot and kijlod and another was shot through the shoulder, in a negro gambling den, in Coon's alley in Graniteville. The negro killed was Tobe Redd, living at Graniteville, and the negro wounded is Quitman Johnson ot Aiken. The detuils of tho affair are somewhat mysterious. It seems that about 25 negroes woro at tho house of a negro named Neel, which has long been considered a gumbliDg dive by the people of the neighborhood. A young white man of Aiken, John Seiglor, came to the house during tho night with a negro nutned John Gundy. It is said that some time afterwards a row was started between Seiglor and some of the negroes and Seigler I left the house. Shortly after the crowd in the house was fired upon and about 10 shots were fired I through tho window. This morning tho negro Redd was found dead near the house, and tho ne? gro Johnson was found at his home at Aiken with a' pistol ball in his shoulder. Dr. Turnbull of Aiken uttendod the wounded man hero and extracted from his shoulder a 32 calibre pistol ball, which Johnson says was fired into him by Seigler. It is charged that both Seigler and his man, Lundy, uiu iiiu suooung. mo story told by Johnson substantially corroborates this theory. Shortly after the shooting oc currud Seigler came to Aiken on the Augusta Aikm trolley, and took his horse and buggy fioin a stable here, where ho had loft it in the afternoon, and drove out of town. ^ Seigler is a son of one of Aiken pounty's most prominent farmers. He lives on bis father's plucejnear Aiken. He is a young mariied man, usually quiet, but has been a great drinker, which has caused him to ho connected with severul unfortunate escapades. ? i?i?n? j ? SHERIFF'S SAU STAtE OFSOUTH CAROLINA ' v. County or Lancaster, aCou-t of Common Pleas \ >' v iMary Jane Estridge, Jacob Faile, Alice Blsckmou. Fannie Hunter and (Sarah Faile, Plaintiff?, jo AGAINST Martha-Faile, Aizania New and JerI ome Catoe, Defendants. ! T^lJlt^tJANT to an Order made by ; I Judge James Aidrich, in tiie i above stated case October 25th, 1902, I will ell at Lancaster C. H., on the nrsi moiiuay in December, within (lie legal hours or sate, the following truots of land, to wit; First, One Tract of Seven (7) uteres, moreorlera in Lanc-isler f'ounty in said State 011 the waters of Fist ( reek and fe uuded North by theestate land-* of John O. Cutoe; East by land o Amos Mungo; South by lauds of said Amos JWungo and West by lands of i2ich Hioson Second, one tract of Twenty* three (23) Acres, more or ess and bounded Norl U by estate lands of John (J. < atoe; East by lands of Mary J Estridge; South aiud VVeBt by lands of El'zab oh /iinson The same iieing in l,ancarU-r County in said stute BfegrTernr.s of Sale CASH Pur cl aser to pay for papers. J. P. HUNTER, Sheriir Ij. C. R E. WY IE. Ally, for Plaintiffs We mean shoes. We >are polling more shoes this season by double than wo did last. Why? Because tlio people are fast find- , in?; oot where to get a good shoe at ft reasonable price. Coiuo Hnd see for yourself. Respectfully, Cherry & Co. _ " - ? Heath Bankings LANCAST 1SLA OUR SF DISPLj FALL AND | MILLIi ITHURSI I Octc j FRIDAY j Octol IOur Milliru Simpson spent in the Norther leeting our stoc styles of this s will be showi Beavers and ] 1 n i i ime 01 me ne\* I in all colors. I The latest w< I for Shirt Wais I Skirts will be c A WELCOME EXTEND A > w Heath Bankings lancast: 11 " 11 ; Mercantile Co. EK, S. C. a n 'FfTfll 1 JLJ V111JJ I I M OF WINTER N ERY, I SAY, . I ?foer, 1st, | 9 I t>er, 2nd. i 9 3r Miss Julia I three weeks 1 11 markets se-1 k, and correct I season's Hats I i in Velyets, I ?elts. A full I rest Suit Hats I I ?aves in ^oods I ts, Suits and I lisplayed. I : is I ED TO ALL 1 T I v J ; Mercantile Co. ER, S. C. i * .