Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We w 1 ON OU tVe believe we havi we are anxious for the p 3 1-2 cents per yard np. u" sure ana asK in w Remember we Laneasl e? to A: m m ^ jS*r*s. ^ -ON IY MARC Ind to Ii T QriTTTC JUllJL/lUiJ E AND SEE II edge, our mill hile and spar a nice up-t< ill also make 4 Special Di R DRY C s the NICEST STOCK tl ublic to see our goods t le prices when yon are will not be undersold. % 1 DP ]\/I/vr ITltyl nnounce in r\ d\ -t - iii iimn % :H 24TH ivite TO [UR GOODS v mm liner, stayed in N( ed no pains or < >-date stock oi M splay iOODS SIDE AAA HWI iat has ever been in Lancaster We have them ranging fi looking around. cantile C( Happenings in The State, j * ' | Ah Chronicled by the Alert Cor- i respondents of The Columbia j State. NKOBO CIIlI.DiKILLKD. . Greenville, June 14 ?AtSimp?1 sjnville yesterday afternoon Jim g Thompson, a G-yeai'oold uegro 11 hoy, while playing with a pistol shot and instantly killed a G month* old infant in tho arms of hisi yJung**Uter. Tho ball entered tho infant'* im.i l 1 nuu IDS . breast of the young ucgro holding the child. HOT SUTl'RK KILLING. Walterboro, June 14.-Last night at a hot supper and dance given by the colored people Gus Green, becoming jealous of William Haynes, deliberately pulled his pistol and shot him dead. Green was captured and lodged in jail at 2 o'clock this morning and this fact enabled the officials to discover ao early that. Adams and Stephens had escaped. A DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORM. Besoettsville. June 14.?Friday evening one of the severest hail uthoms Hoen in many years passed through the upper part v)f this 1 county. It began at Eastorling's mill and extended through the Chavis and Odoni settlements up to (?bio, N. C., u uiuluuco (<? afcjout 12 miles, and was about a mile vtido. Thousands of acres of cotton was completely dest'o^ed. After the storm passed great fields, which an hour before were green with gro^ ingplai.ts, looked as clean and dosolutc as in midim, wioterSome of the farmers are plant** v ing cotl*iii again. Others say that if is too late for cotton plant el now to mature and they are planting the cotton fields in corn and peas. Corn, oats and whout wero also beaten into the ground and ruined. .Iflnfltip.se HavA Wan o n. AIM T V M UU a UC= cisive Victory. It is Said Czar's Troops Lost Ono| Thousand Men and Left tho Field in Disorder. I London, June 16. ? A dispatch to The Daily Express from Toltio dated June 15 says newt has boon received there but has not yet been ofliciallv published of a great Japanese victory near Fu Chow on the railway, 70 miles north of Fort Arthur. The Russians, it is 30(1 added, were overwhelmed, lost 1,000 men, left all their guns on TO!!! the field and retreated in disorder. The Daily Chroniclo's correspondent at Tokio cables tho aamo news, adding that the Russians to the numbor of 7,000 mon are now in full flight towards tho Shi Chaiao and Kai Chou. St.Petersburg, dune 14. ?Tho following official statement of Russian losses in the war has been is sued: Navy ? Forty four officers and 920 men killed; 13 officers and 220 men wounded. Army ?Thirty-six officers and 980 men killed; mo ?1 , .w WIII\;UI<1 ttlltl 8,080 men wounded. ) Taken prisoners-Thirty officers ^ and 620 men. oawne'r salve the most dealing salvo In tho world4 Sentenced to Death R. A. Adams Escapes. | Wu'.terboro Murderer, A'ith Another Prisoner, Breaks J till. An Appeal lla<l Been Denied. Special to The State. Wallerboro, June 14. ? Quito a sensation was caused in town this morning when it was known that R. A. Adartis had oscnped from jail. Adams was convicted for the murder of Henry Jnipios and hontenced last .Juno to he hanged. His sentence was stayed ponding an appoal to the supromo court, which appeal was dismissed. Adams was to have been resentenced at the next term of court, which meets the first Monday in Auirust n At 2 o'clock this morning when Uus Green was brought to jail by Policeman Johnson a rope of blankets was discovered banging from the window above the portico on the sido of the jail. Upon investigation it was found that Adams and a negro. Jasper Steph- : ens, incarcerated for larceny, had J filed through one of the iron bars and escaped. Deputy Sheriff Henderson immediately started in pursuit, but so fur no trace of the escaped prisoners has been found. Adams is about 5 feet 10 inches 1 igb, v.oighs about 145 pounds, dark skiu, dark hair and eyes, willi very heavy law and large neck; fast talking and winks, eyes rapidly whilo talking, nervous and quick movement. Howard of $500. (:11 ?i t '? 1 uuiciuui no) ihu i nas oiierni a reward of $500 for the captuie of It. A. Adams the prisoner who escaped from the Colleton jail Tuesday where ho was con lined under sentence of death. Ten Years in lied It. A. Gray, .J. P., Oakville, ind., writes: "For ten years 1 was confined to my bed with disease of my kidneys. It was so severe that I could not move part of the time. 1 consulted tlie very best medical skill available, but could get no relief until Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended to mo. It has been a Godsend to me." Sold by Fnderburk Pharmacy. Voluntarily A'ithdruws. Congresman Scarborough has created something of a sensation in his district by announcing his purpose not to be a candidate for reelection. There is but little ) opposition not nourly enough to muko his re-election even doubtful ;bnt instead of running he is going back to devote himself to truck farming. The Stato House Suit. I Senator Robert Aldnch of Barnwell, who was hero yesterday, stated that Messrs. Mitchell tfe Smith of Charleston had been cm. ployed by the commission to bring suit against tho architect and contractor who had charge of the completion of tee 9tate house. Senator Aldrich and Hon T. Yancey Williams are tho members of the legislative committee.? Columbia Record. Rev. I. II. Tbornwell linn rb>? elined tho presidency of Clinton Presbyterian college, at Clinton S C., sayiii^ ho did not euro to give up hi? pastorate of Fort Mill Ebeiezer churchy. Steamer on Fire. Six Hundred Lives Were Lost. Many Jumped Overboard and Were Drowned ?Experience of Some of the Rescued. New York, .I tine 15.?The excursion steamboat General Sloeinn was destroyed by tire about 10 o'clock this morning, oil' North Brothers Maud. A telephone message from the Island says many persons lost their live*. The vessel took lire in the upper works and the flames spread rapidly. The pilot steered for the shore, but before ibn tw.o? i /wai LUU III ho benched she was a muss of flames from stem to stern. The Slooum carried an excursion party numbering nearly sixteen hundred, of whom more than half were children. Many jumped over board and wero drowned while others wero burnedj '*? deatli on the boat. The telephone opeialor at North Brothers Island says the water near die island was full of floating bodies. Quite a number was saved, and they are being cared fot at the island. The Slo cum was an immense triple decker. The latest reports received by tho police indicates at least three hundred were lost. The police recovered a number of bodies, mostly those of women and children. A musician on board of the ill fated steamer says he, with his wife and three children were on board. Suddenly the blaze sprang up front the luwcv deck. A panic followed. lie was thrown over hoard with one child. He says everything was tho wildest excitcmen'. on tho boat which had women ??nd children of St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday school, Easi Sixth street aboard. l-'lM.L SIX HLNDUKI) MET DEATH. New York, June 1(5. ? Six hundred persona, men, women and children, at a conservative estimate, mot death yesterday by the burning, beaching and sinking of the big three-decked cxcurson steamer Gen Sloeum, which took tiro in the East river near the en. trance to Long Island sound whilo on her way to a sound resort with more than a thousand excursion iste, tho Sunday school pupils of Mark's Gorman Luther.inn church, their relatives and friends. At 1 flVlnpt tllie - ? ? - - ? VUIO UIUIUIU^) cording to a statement issued by Coroner O'Goraann, 48o bodies had been recovered from the de atroyed vessel, burned to death or drowned, and found on the shores to which thoy had been washed, or picked up in the river to which they had jumped or fallen from tho burning vessel. I 'l ogs are arriving hourly with bodies from North Brothei Island. Coroner O'Gorman said that more bodies had been sighted and that they would ho brought in during the night. THAT THROBBING HEADACHE Would quickly Icavo you, if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands of sulTorcrs have proved their matchless merit ..?.i v- " > u>vn ci11vi 11UI VIJUS 11611(11101 ICS. They mako pure lilood and build upyour health. Only 25c, money buck if not cured. Sold by ('raw. ford Bros., ?J. F. Mackey &Co., and Funderburk Pharmacy, drug; cists. A fi^ht with pistols in the streets of Bryantsville,In I., resulted in the death of throe men and tho wounding; of t wo others.