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I , % % * ' 9 iitm S^N i^Sf?t-'f? ' :# iSS| iWr c -V* ? ^ t*Ti?gr^~ ?t-t7--v_"j- iJSL.L-.i~r~- : :? :-.L.,:r.j.?.ji; T'.'rr .v.:rr; . rr,--''>"g.^,^J: ^zzzzzzzzzzzz - - -'^,U>W?W>tv. t ^^3RtOW 8. CAIJTEB. J &.JZrxatht iftimi iMT: Hrr^Jte r>rm?ajs r.ftStc JWUkrA Ot?4 ^%P??tC3?wg*??fr SH?w i il.iC .1ii li atfE J *2UUii 4 t,'^a ^>rrm ajto kj^aoks, j _ c r^^-rroi :ir riK^rr^ 1 f-; ; ? ,V irTKLYT- "" " " LANOA 8 I i^ K B."'P.. -! 1 V 9, 1904 EST A BMSUEI) MM * VVi.inan'a imperfection* ar? known only to *h- ir dressmakers Umhrollas and friends are sel. doni around in tho hour of neod. ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR CO INGRESS T am a candidate for CVmgrei-a fron the Fifth Congressional District, sub jeet to the result of the Democrat! primary elc-ctiou. T. Y WILLIAMS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I a <nounce myself n oaudldate fc re-election totue House of Represent ativea, subject to the ruhs of th Democratic primary. () W POTTS Iannounce ray pel fa candidate fo the House of Representative, subjec to the rules of the Democratic party. J, \V. HAMEL I announce myself ftH j\ candidal for the Legislature, subject to <1? ruleswf the Democratic primary. J.HARRY FOSTER. I heeby announce myself a cundi date for tlie House of Representative subject to the rules gov* ruing th primary election, Being in the em ploy of the Gregory-Ferguson ( cm party I will he unab e to make a can vass of the county, howsver, I wil endeavor to be at all the county cam paiga meetings Very resp"etfully i GEO W JONES FOR HHERIFK. We announce the name of John I H tniter as a candidate for re electio to the office of Hheriil, subject to th approval of the Democrat ic voters i the primary election. Mr. Haute needs no introduction at our bauds, t hispist record is eminently suffloiei to convince any oue that h** is in ever respect well fitted for the SSheiiir's 01 fice. A more loyui man to his fri*<n< uud country than John P. Hunu never lived lie is ever ready an willing, under any circumstances, {l do his duty without fear or favor, am ul the mine time, with Kindness an di> cre;iv?ii FIUEND8 ~ in i i i i 11ni n u0 i >i > ii ~ f FOR CLERK OF COURT. Tho many friends of Ii. M.t'LA BURN announce him tas a ?v?n lid.ti for < "lerk of U"Urt. We pledge him t abide the result of tHo Democratic pr mary. Having been appointor to serve 01 the unexpired term of the Into VV. t L. Porter, km Clerk of ('ourt i liereb announce myself a. candidate for sai offltf- subject to the rules govern in the Democratic primary. J. F. GREGORY. FOR COUNTY 8UPERIXTE* DENT OF EDUCATION. To the Voters of Lancaster County. With many thanks for | ast liono t.ixl earnest eolicitutIcj.hh for futui support, I hereby announce myself C uidldate for re-election to the ottb of County Hupeiiutendent of Educi lion subject to the rules governing tl Democratic primary. A. C. UOWELL y FOR AUDITOR. To the voters of Lancaster County* Appreciating past favors I liereb announce myself a candidate for r< election to the olllce of County And tor, sut.jeut to the rules of tlio Detut ciatic primary, .JOHN A.COOK I heiehy announce myself u cand date tor Auditor of Lancaster count; und pledge myself to abide Hie resu oi inn Lreuiocraue prin???v. Respectfully, H. 11.11OKTON. I announce myself a candidate f< A nditor of Lancaster t'ounty, subje to ihe rules and requirements of tl Dt luocrailc primary. J WYLIE PORTER FOR TREASURER. I announce myself as a Candida for Treasurer, ami pledge myself i abide I ha result of the Democrat primaiy. JNO D TAYLOR. TliunkiiiK the people ??f Laucash county for their liberal support in tl past, I hereby announce mvself Candid ?te for election to the oiliec Treasurer, subject to t'le result of tl Democratic prim ?rv w c. oa urn en FOIl SUPERVISOR. iPith n.any thank* for past fayor anil ut the solh nation of niy friend I hereby announce myself ? Candida for re?-ciectl.n lo theofflee of Couni Supervisor, subject to the rules of tl Demooiatlu primary. L .1 PERKY FOR MAGISTRATE. 1 announce my??lf as a candute f the office of Magistrate at Lancust C H? mbjoot to the result of the pi mnry election. W P CA8KEY ' Aaron Williams Saved from .! a Mob. B Kershaw Negro Taken to the Penitentiary Under Guard.? The Militia A'as ()rdercd Out. a - Tho State, 6th inst. To avoid mot) violence, the negro Auron Williams, was I brought yesterday from Camden ? to Columbia and lodged in the ~ State penitentiary. The prison or was escorted by Sheriff J. S. Trantham of Kershaw and ('apt. r S. C. Zcmp of the lverahaw Guards 1 with 24 of ids men. The negro was uriostod last Thursday by Shcrili Trantham and ? placed :n tbo Camden jail for safe keeping, the preliminary hearing being set for Tuesday. A number I , of people from Sumter and Ker * shaw came to Camden yesterday - and a largo crowd from the Boy|M i? kin neighborhood, the scene of the crime, was also in town. In a short while it was generally _ circulated that the prisoner would bo lynched. Later some men b came in from Lancaster and shorto 1 y it was rumored that a crowd "r was coming over from that section ih on the locul freight and that the it % y uegro would he lynched during [* 'the night. Is # ir A'hen the shc-iff investigated *' these rumors and tvas satisfied b danger wns imminout, ho seut t! e following telogrhm to Gov. Uey ward: "Flense wiro Capt. Zemp, Ktrr sbaw Guards, to protect prisoner. ie Capt. It by of Gen. Jones' stall is " here Answer at once. important." !t In the absence of the governor tho telegram was turned over to y # u Adjt. Gen. Frost. lie at once K telegraphed Capt. S. 0. Zemp to report to sheriff Trantham with "" 24 men. Within half an boutafter tho bugle sounded the prisoner, protected by tho military ih escort, was on b >ard a local freight r? for Columbia, which arrived at 7.45 in the afternoon and tho ,e prisoner was escorted safely to the penitentiary und turned over to - Superintendent Griffith. i no story or ibe wbolo affair, us told by tho sheriff, is that ho ? was telephoned last Thursday morning by Capt. G. L. Irby, a tanner living at Boykins, eight miles below Camden, and near is Mr. John Latigley's place. Capt \[ Ii'by, ho said, stated that a crowd in tho ueigborhood was about to lynch Aaron Williams, a nogro who had assaulted Mrs. John ^ Langloy; that he had boon able to ?*? doter thorn from their purpose temporarily, and to come at onco - to stop a lynching. When he arrived at Boykins ho found Capt to ,in<* kangley awaiting him. to The negro, bo was told, was at tho time working in a field near Langley's house. Lator Williams wns 1 ^arrested in Iho Held without any ie J a resistance or effort to escape and 01 was taken to Camden that afterie noon. The sheriff said that Langlt'V told hini the assault occurred on H Saturday, June 26, but that, Mrs. H? Langley did not toll her husband to , Ly until the following Monday. The u neighborhood knew of the affair, it is said, by Tuesday or Wodnosu..i ?u~ ..i :?* i > - I<id>, "in, luu nuui iu iiiici iiov noon I notified until Thursday nftorn >on, "J! whenCapt. Irby telephoned him. ' The negro was a tiold hand employed by Langloy, lived in a cabin in Langlcy's yard and \vi trustod by Langloy. When h rested tho negro to'd Shcri , n I rani hum that it was all Mr: Langloy *s scheme to got posse sion of his money lie said { had some money, Imt had circi latcd a repor*. some tiino ago tbi ho plowed up a big .bundle < tnonoy and hud it hid. The pn oner declared to the sbcrilT, if 1 would goto his cabin and lift plank which had a knot hole in i a largo amount of money wou : bo found. | The sheriff immediately sent j spceitl deputy, Mr. Vornan Keel to return to the house and scan for the money. Keels, he sail reported to him that when he in rived at Williams' cabin ho font Mrs. Lungloy, upon whom tl assault was ulioged to have be< made, and another white womi whom ho did not know, inside tl cabin, and upon asking what tin wore doing in thero Mis. Lauijh replied that thoy woi e looking f Williams' money. Mr. Keels r i ported that ho lifted the plat ' designated but no money w found. i This" happened on the day Williams arrest, Thursday, Jul 30, and on Sunday morning, thr days later, * Langloy w found dead behind his barn with ; bullet ho hi in his head, huvii killed bitnself. j * S a*v- ~ BRU 1'A LLY TOUTURED ; ^ A. case came to light that f persistent nnd unmerciful tortn has perhaps novcr been equal'1 Joe Golobrick of Colusa, Ca writes. uEor I." years 1 ctulur insufferable pain from Khcumutk and nothing relieved me thougl tried everything: known. 1 car across Electric Bitters and it - I greatest medicine on earth for tl trouble. A few bottles of it coi pletely relieved and cured ni" Just uh good for Diver and Ki noy troubles and general debilit Only 50c. Satisfaction guara teed by Crawford Bros., J. Mackoy & Co., and Fundcrbu l'barniacy, Druggist. lie Careful for Whom You Vol Why send a man to the logisl turo in South Carolina that k misrepresent you on tho liqu question i It a senator or logis tor is too large to leave this qu< tion to tho people, if ho in too L to trust the poople to say wheth or n(?t they want a dispensary their town or county ho had hell he left at home. If ho is r willing to allow tho people to v. out a dispensary wbon they bocoi tired of its torriblo work witkr putting upon them a tax for dni so ho should not ho allowed to toColumhia as their represenlati Let us get rid of these men w play fast and loose with tho wh key business. If they stand 1 whitilrAv lot lliom i ..u.iinvj tv/v VUWIII UWt OiriUU 1UI I This is the season when we shoi keep our eyes open and thero no use to apeak harshly of t legislature next wintor if we i car el088 ahout tho men we j into otliro this summer. ? A. Presbyterian. j WORKING PAYaNLT NIG 11 The busiest and mightiest lit thing that was ever made is L Kind's Now f.lfn Pilla 'ru, O pills change weakness into strong I iistlessness into energy, brain-f j into mental power. They i wonilerful in huikling up t health. Only 25o per box C'rawfortl BrnH., .J. K. Aluokciy do., anil Funcierbnrk l'haimiu Boiler try anq fail than to 1 to try. I 1!i Lynched The Nfigro For it The lisiia! Crime. 3, _ s. John Taylor Attempted, Two J0 Outrageous OlTenflas?FarmciShot Him To - Douth. of 8Special to The State. 10 Cheraw,.Jnly5.-Another trageil) ^ has occurcd in Clieeterliold county 1.1 ag the result of the barbaric. in atinet of a beastly negro." This is the second lynching to take place in Chesterlield county with "t in one year, the only cases of illo (j gul execution to occur within hoi landers. r John Taylor, a ID-year-old lie , . ltd of a dark brown color nnc : iC *r* n darker, meaner countenance, wai U1 shot to death at Middendorf Je station on the Seaboard Air Lim 20 miles south of here, for bav / * ingattempted a criminal assaul upon a 9-year-old white child am o a white woman yesterday. ^ The story of the negroe's crime ag ure as follows: John Taylor, ; negro laborer employed on a Sea ol: board Air Line work train now a 110 Middendorf, left the train hand Monday morning, stating that In GO - ^ as WUd hshing. At 10 o'clocl a he called at the house of Mr. Noc )(y C. Johnson, a good, respectable fanner living two miles from t!. Middendorf station, and asked th way to tne railroad, sayir ? to M ;)r l^son that he was lost. 11 vc passed on. A little later, as Mrs d. Johnson wns on her way to spring to water her .;o\v, the tie C!l gro sprang from behind a tro .tund ernbbed her Sho screame ,1(,! and hf r sou in u m oar by Held hoar he j her and ea led to hie father and th tat) negro was frightened away. \l at unit i~ o' click tiie ncgr . called at the homo of Mr. J. F LU ,. Doneyhew and enquired the wa h tf? the railroad, .stating agtii F. ! that bo was lost. Mr. Donoyhc l'k i directed the negro tc# the railroa | and ho departed in that, direct in t tc J Half an hour later as Mr Doney how and his brother in-law wet (l leaving his house they passed tl; ill negro partially dressed. Afti ()I. the men passod the negro ho wen lrt hack to Doneyhcw's house an tiruli riiv r??i a r* * l? a U ^ Iiuwiii^ uw uuu 111 IIIU I1UI19U IJllL jCT 9-year-old daughter, ho rushod i; or grabbed her and struck her or or two licks. Sho be^an cry it! Ill n J ^ anil told tho negro that her uioth< was in the yard. He ran to t! jtG door and looked, then rushod bat and threw her down and won] (ul have accomplished his damnah purpose had not the mother of th child stepped in. ,ve The negro disappeared throng I tho woods and made his way bac I to the station and his train. ?or Early this morning as tho d?i was gently breaking 25 Steerpe (j(j township farmers, armed wil shotcuns. ut tho Muldm ig D , ?g't %MW I dorf station whero the vvork-trni wa* side tracked and quietly sui rounded tho train. Capt. M. b Farrel, conductor, was informo by ono of the mon that a negi guilty of criminal assault was o V his tram and John Taylor w tie marched out as tho guilty mai Ho was indontifiod by Mrs. J oh !H0 son and tho father of tho chih A rope was placed around his ne< ami marched off down the ti me I u l,e When about half a milo from ll at station Taylor broke and ran f ^ a marby swamp, almost malun good his escape. He was ptirsui lil by the armed party and just as 1 wu^ entering a dense swamp he f< I . riddled with shot. His head was i |>j torn up badly and his back cover- ' ed with shot. Mrs. Johnson was net hurt but badly frightened but i the childwas in no good condition. St Von correspondent was on the scone of the killing two hours af ter it was completed and found things quiet. The body of the a negro is lying face downward in d the swamp. The negro, before qi he was shot, refused to deny his pi guilt. J. T. M. lo Five Thousand Hoard Latimer". llt * t I Fiulev and Williams. ' in Galfney, July 5.?The "(ilor j ious Fourth'" was celebrated hero ! today in grand un? becoming | j style. There was a lutge crowd in town for the occasion, fullv o. 000 people. At 0 o'clock a parude was formed which paraded lC [3 i through town to the park at Limestone Spring where the exercises | were held. c> There wore three speakers, in Senator Latimer, Congressman ll 3 f Finloy and Hon. T. V. Williams. i J 10j Senator Lal tnor made his usual! I 1 f j argument on good roads ?his! ^ address was purely political. . l) iic was followed by Mr. Fin- 11 B \ ley and ho by Mi. Williams. 1 I llach of these gentiomen inode 1 patriotic uddre-ses suitable for the '5 occasion. y i i. it e ~ ^ r It is an old lesson, it has been % m 0 often repeated, but the occurrences of the last few days seem to cnll for another iteration of it. w cl Lyncning does not deter crime 0 among negroes. The apologias (j for lynching claim that it dees: j they assort that it is expedient and n ( helpful to "make an example" w of a black brute who is charged i? 0 with tho nam* lens crime or wlioj'4 j has killed a white man. This as- J1 y sumption displays a fundamental ignorance of negro character, and ^ w j it has been repeatedly demonstrate ? (i j ed to be unsound. A lynching of a negro is almost always followed p by an epidemic of assaults and ^ homicides by negroes, as has been () the case in South Carolina the last ^ ,r ton days.?The Stale. B t V d Tho little fish in tho South Car h }l olina delegation at the Democratic t n convontion did not create a sonsa- v jg tion when thoy reached St. Louis. (1 rr Senator Tillman having received t ar oil the attention. Yot is not that r )e the most natural thing in the t { world? .lust how the Senator was ) id applauded is best stated in a St. |e Louis dispatch to the New York c 10 Times: 4'Senator Tillman got the i biggest ovation that anybody has t h yot received when ho arrived to- 1 k day. At the Jefferson hotel ho a made a triumphal progress down s _. t !?n d'ltli n/lnn t*npj \wr i I. a ' Ly uiu *wu*i j j ivttu <?vt in 11 a ci u y 11m 1 ;n hundreds crowding around hint to n th shako his hand. For several t hours it. was impossible .for tho t n Senator to move in any direction is across the lobby in loss than 20 I. minutes." What is more, Sena> d tor Tillman has proved that he is o j a greater Democrat than 901110 of j n his enemies might be. willing to j us admit by refusing to take any part n. in the Bryan program and by j n- standing out for a bettor platform! 1, than tho dead ones adopted by ;k former conventions.?Greenville k. News. ?? ?=-? - ? I Votcil Out Saloons. I jnr S. C., Jul', G --In the! P"* * j Qtj prohibition election nt, Nowbcin, bo tn isv mrloon" wore v >tc?t o?;t t.v ' 3l 509 to 117 rohibitiosi Carried Char* lotle. iloon and Dispensary Mroposi11 o 11 &->th Madly Beaton. Charlotte, N. C., July 0.?My majority of over 400 votes, liar lotto today went dry. Three lestions were submitted, viz.: ruhibitmn, dispensary an<l saons. Loss than 50 votes were M for the dispensary. The cloc:n was quiet. There are now saloons in Charlotte ouch payg ?1,000 city tux annually. ?li,500 Fire At Cheater. penal to The Observer. Chester. S. C.. July 5.?The lice und storo-rooir. of the Chosr Heating and Plumbing Commy, on valley street, was burned I'lay at o'oclock. The loss is itunated at $5,500, with $1,700 isurance. The tire was caused y the explosion of a gaasolino irnace, and the building being f woo<l and very dry, took (iro tan instant and was almost comletely consumed before the fire jinpuuy could reach the sceoe: Ir. Campbell, a member of the nn, who was in the room at the me of tho explosion, was onvelped in flames, but quicklv made is escape to the street, and only tstuined sjight injuries. The ijoitiing buildings of Dr. S. W. 'ryor caught'several times, but rcro extinguished with but little autuge. Two Hot ties Cured llim. "1 was troubled with kidney Dtnplaint for about two years," -rites A. li. Davis, of Mt. Storlig. la., "but two bottles of Fo>y1s Kidney Cure elTeeted a pertinent cure. Sold by Funderurk l'harmaey. l True Estimate of Cleveland. Mr. Ellis G. Graydon, a disinguished lawyer of Greenwood Jounty, and a long-time friend f the lato Sanator lrby, of South Carolina, told a vory interesting tory in The News and Courier -esterday about an interview ho lad with Mr. lrby after hia reircmont from the Senate, in vhich Mr. lrby, oxprossod tlio tpinton that GrovorClevoland" is ho hrainost, bravest and purest nan that has heen in public lifo in he United Statos in the last lift, ears." Mr 11by regarded tbo much liscussod course of Mr Cleveland n the so-called Piorpon Morgan >ond doalM as tho greatest thing 10 ever did in hia "life," and he idded: "lie stood in tho 4'breach ingle-handed and alono, and ought the wholeliopublican party md all tho hoboes in theDomoeatic party, of whom I was ono at hat time. By that act ho presored he honor of tho I'nitedStatos and ts financial system, and I beliovo ... 1! i KA ? it; mi limit v i uu * i sj \ ui iimuu t tsolf from disruption." The estimate placed upon Mr. Jlovoland hy Sarmtor Irhy is the jailmate which must ho accepted finally hy tho honest public sentiment of the country.?News and Courier. Sound kidneys aro safeguard if life. Make the kidneys healthy with Koley'- Kidney Cure. Sold hy Funderbnrk Fhannncy. When honest n.on divide at tho polls tho exploiters consolidate at the spoils.