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... ^ ^ ujr* ' . > / "... 1 % ?w am)NCiJ**' ' ' -1'1 '""' 1 '"' * ' 'B. . - i w^-ggfflg?y 'i,"i it n l k? ?''Tmj 7'iTk \S?!ia^)w a. CARTEB. | - -,-- n II n rr r 1? njm m mi I waaa*?M**lKti* ^)rn??? uawcm i w " " i i m -**??'? ?y . . . . '.Hi., .n . ? 1 ... ' ' ' ' '?eaasa "nv ? _ . * .i.?vis?-.k;.y. lancaster. s. c.. j u l y 20, 1904 wot a mi ib? .lm ANNOUNCEMENTS. TOi ' ONGUE-8 1 am u candidate for Congress frouc tho Fifth (Jougre?8iniial District, aub? j ect to tlie reau t of the Democratic primary election. T. Y WILLIAMS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I announce myself a candidate for re*eiev.ttou totne House of RcpreseutativoH, subject to lite rubs of tlie Democratic primary. o w rorra I announce myself a candidate for tho House of Representatives, auljsct to tire rules of the Democratic party. J W H A M K i . I announce myself as a candidate for llie Legislature, subject to th^ rulos of the Democratic primary. J.IlARIiY FOSTER. I hereby announce myself a candle date for the House of Representatives subject to the rules governing the primary election. Being in the employ of the Gregory-Ferguson company I will be unab.e to m*ku a canvas* of the county, however, 1 will endeavor to be at all the county campaign meetings Very respectfully GEO W JONES FOR SHERIFF. We announce the uamuof John P. Hunter us a candidate for re election to the office of Sheriff, subject to the approval of the Democratic voters in the primary electiou. Mr. Huiiter needs 110 introduction at our hands, as his past recoru is eminently sufficient to convince any one that he is in every respect well fitted for the Sbei ill's of nee. a more loyal man to Die iriends ami country than John P. Hunter never lived He is ever ready and willing, under any circumstances, |to do his doty without fear or favor, and, at the same time, with kindness and uircrcs Sw?? FRIENDS FOR CLERK OF COURT. TIm many friends of L. M. CI.Y BURN announce liim jaw a candidate for Cletk <>f (J >urt We pledge him to u abide the result of the Democratic primary. . - . - Having been appointed to serve out the unexpired term of tbe late VV. W. Ij. Porter, as Clerk of Court, I hereby annnunc- myself a candidate for said otflo subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. J. F. GREGORY. FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, lo the Voters of Lancaster County. With many thanks for past honors and earnest solicitations for future support, I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Superintendent of Education subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. A. C. ROWEbfj. FOR AUDITOR. To the voters of Lancaster County Appreciating past favors I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection to the office of County Auditor, subject lo the rules of the Democratic primary. JOHN A.COOK. I hereby announce myself a candidate lor Auditor of Lancaster county* Mini pitfuge myseu io aouie me result of the Democratic primary. Respectfully, H. Ij.HORTON . T announce myself a otndidato for Auditor of Lancaster County, subject to the rules aod requirements of the Democratic primary. J WYLIE PORTER FOR TREASURER. I announce myself as a candidate for Trensurer, and pledge myself to abide tha result or the Depaocralic primal y. JNO D TAYLOR. Tlmiill linn II?q niwii\li> ,.f f - ...... - ..'P, ??V |.V'|MV VI IJdllU.lPtri county for their liberal support in the past. I hereby announce myself a candid .te for election to tlio office of Treasurer, subject to t'ae result of the Democratic primary. W G.UAUTHEN FOR ttUPFIlVISOK. IFith many thank* for nast favors, and at the solicitation of my frionda, I hereby announce myself a candidate for reseleclion to theofll e of County Bunerviwor. sut?loet to the phIpb of iim Democratic primary. L J PERKY We hereby announce Mr M C Gardner an candidate for county Ru? porvlsor, subiect to the rules of the Democratic primary. MANY VOTERS FOR MAGISTRATE. 1 announce myself as a candate for the olfleo of Magistrate at Lancaster C. H., Mibject to (lie result of the pri mar/ election. VVP0A3KEY Happenings in The State. 1 As Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of Tho Columbia k Stat$. mccoll's new enterprise. McColl, July 15.?The McColl knitting mill has been completed, and tho plant is about ready for ' operation. Your correspondent ^ is informed that 200 operatives? mostly adults?will be required to operate tho now mill. I kin mvinwrx ' VJ t iL/fiil I/. i v Anderson, Jn]y 15.?The directors of the Townvillo OU mill | recently met nml declared a divi- , dend of 25 per cent. This mill is i situated about 16 miles from the | city und the railroad, but since it j was built a year or two ago has i enjoyed a wonderful degree of (| prosperity. ! , FIRE AT ROCK I1ILL. ? Rock Hill, July 15.?Fire this morning in the store of G. W 1 ] Jordan, neard,ho Victoria Cotton mills, caused considerable oxciteraent, as it was generally thought that the mills were burning. Mr. ( Jordan's loss is quite heavy. The < building was badly damaged, the ] oof boing burned away and its , contents injured. The fire started | from the outside. Mr. Jordan's insurance is said to have been j about $600. j | 1 D. a. LAW TWICE SnOT. , Bolhune, July 15.?A personal I difiiculty occurred on Tuesday i afternoon last between Messrs. L). ] G. Law and Thomas Barnes, who i live a few miles below here, dur- i iog which Law was shot twice, 1 once with a parlor rifle and once i with a shot gun. The wounds, while not necessarily fatal, are very painful.? Tho trouble originated concerning a horse and buggy belonging to Law. DISArrKAIlBD AT TIIK ltlVEK. Holly Hill, .July 15. ?On Mon day last a colored man was arrest ed in Eutawvillo. a few miles 1 ' < abovo Holly Hill, for cursing a k wbite tnan on the atroets. He was ' fined $5 and being unable to pay \ the tine he was lockod up in the j guardhouse. Tuesday morning the place was found empty, the lock being * broken, anl two buggy tracks * leading to the river were found. ' Search for the missing man, who 1 is a rosidant. nf Ti!nlom\illo V?oo 1 ? - * J * ?v j UHO continued but without result. The 1 trail disappeared at the river and 1 many have been fishing for him< * there since Tuesday. MAYOR MAHON ORDERS 4 'HOLINESS ^ MEETIOo" STOPPED. ^ Greenville, July 15. ? Mayor t Mahon issued an order tonight ! directing Chief Becknell to stop 1 the holliness meeting which has j beon in progress for three weeks ( in a tent on llivcr street. < Tho mayor's order was issued 1 at tho request of the physicians f who have patients in the neighbor- j hood. It is claimed that tho screaming and shrieking endangered the patient's lives. The police had no trouhlo in closing tho meeting. r During the meetings girls and < women have been falling in tranc- i es, one woman having been in an ( unconscious condition, called lioli- < iiohh sloep, for 24 hours. i 0 PROMINENT NKWBKKKY COUNTY MAN MORTALLY WOUNDED. Newberry, July 15.?Mr. P. C Smith was shot through the right preast this morning by Mr. T. J. Davenport at about 9 o'clock. Both men are prominent and rejected citizens of this county. The affair occurred near Independence and was the outcome of i dispute over u road which had jeon closed by Mr. Davenport igainst the wishes of Mr. Smith. Messrs. Smith and Davenport wore on horse back, accompanied ly Mr. li. T. Workman, when the diooting occurred. It is stated that Mr. Davenport fired pointblank at Mr. Smith with a 38-calibce revolver, the ball taking effect in the right breast above the nipple. Several pbyeiciaus are in attendance upon Mr. Smith and it is not yet possible to state whether or not the wound will prove fatal. Mr. Smith is a member of Gov. Hey ward's staff. HOY FELL SEVENTY FEET AND FAT- J ALLY HURT. Greenville, July 16,-Gayle VVaU :len a young boy of 12,fell from a lar on the trestle of Reedy river dear the Air Line station this afternoon and died in less than an hour from internal injuries. Young Waldcn had swung a car in the yard nearby and fell at the uiguest point or the trestlo, 70 feet. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to cht> homo of his parents, Mr [ and Mrs. YV. A. YValden, where 1 lie died without regaining con-, scioaisnoss. No bones wero broken. His father is in charge of the Southern nailway machine ' shops nere. OAOTOni A. Bears the *4lha K'ncl You Hav8 Bought Parker Enthusiasm. The State. ' In a letter written to a relative ,n this city, Mr. 13. Cleveland Sloan, who is nleasantlv ramnm. 1 ft J iered hy numbers of poople in Columbia and who is now a prom- 1 nent citizen of Schenectady, N. f., says: 44I am delightod that the South Jarolina delegation voted for Judge Parker. I firmly holieve ae will be our next president. He 1 s a most magnotic and remarkable nan, and the wave of enthuiasm 1 which is now swooping over the 1 State for him is something won ' lerful." 1 m ___ m i >f.> F O latins . I The proprietors of Foley's 1 Flonoy and Tar do not advertise ' ,his as a "sure cure for consump- i ion." They do not claim that it , will cnro this dread complaint in : idvanced cases, but do positively issert that it will cure in the earl- 1 er stages and never fails to give jomfort and relief in the worst i ;ases. Foley's Iloney and Tar is i without doubt the greatest throat ind lung remedy. Rofuse sub- f ititutes. Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy. 1 Wilmington Stirred. I Wilmington,N. C., July 15.Wil | nington is stirred form centre to I jircumforcnce over an impending 1 nunicipal campaign on the liquor- i piestion in which the question i )f establishing a dispensary is a i ending issue. < I He Was Lynched for a > Harmless Threat. Eutawville Negro Hail Said Ho Would Paddle Young Man. Mutilated Body Found in liiver. The State, ISth in^t. Gov. Hey ward has a new lynching to investigate, and according to tho official report which catnc to him yesterday about tho affair, it is tho most inexcusable that has occurred since ho was inaugurated. Because he threatened to paddle a young white man, a mob took Kitt Bockard, a negro, from the Eutawville calaboose, in Berkeley county, where ho was serving a a sontecco of 15 days for the offonce, and after killing him and mutilating his body throw tho PAriiun inf/* ? ? * ? * * -v. |/ou mtu mo oaiiiuu riVUT Willi a 50-pound iron weight tied to it. Although the crime occurred last Monnay night, the official report of the affair did not reach the governor until yesterday, Magistrate Wiggins' letter being written on Saturday. Gov. Hey ward yosterday wiied Solicitor Hildehrand at Orangeburg to attend the inquest next Wednesday, and ho says ho will do all in his power to assist the magistrate and solicitor to lind and prosecute the members of the mob. Gov. Hey ward has made ??u uppointment with Solicitor Wilson iu moot uim nero tomorrow for tho purpose of outlining a plan of mtion wilh reforence to the Scranton lynching. It is likely that if the governor's plans are carried out with refcronCO to these lynchings that interesting re-nits will follow within the next month or sor Tho only statement that has been published about tho Hutuwville lynching was that contained in a spcciiil to Tho State of Saturday to the effect that tho nogro was missing from the town guardhouse and that it was supposed that he hnd been lynched, the body not having been recovered at that time. Magistrate Wiggins' letter 1o tho governor follows: EutawviHe, S. C., July 1G, 1004. lion. D. C. H evwftrd linoArnnv I Columbia, S. C. Mr Dear Sir: On Monday night, the 11th of July, a prisoner under sontonce for assault and riotous conduct by my court was taken from the town guardhouse of this town by unknown parties and his body was found floating in the San tee river near Ferguson yesterday, with his hands tied with a rope and an iron weight weighing 50 pounds or more tied to him, his body being evidently mutilated before depositing it in the water. I had a coronor's jury empanoled, viewed the body, and the same was identified as that of Kitt Bookard, tho prisoner. The action of the mob is entirely unwarranted, as the negro only had a little quarrel with a young white man, curaod him and threatened to paddlo him, to which charge he pleaded guilty. I im posed a tine of $5 or 15 days on Iho county chftingnng. Ho didn't have tho money to pny tho tine and 1 turned him ovor to my constable with ft commitment with instructions to collect tho tino or commit him. On Tuesday morning about day> light my constable reported to mo that he found the guardhouse , h llfnlrnn nnnn nn.l tlin I w. V/|IVU IIUU lliu |>l lauiiui gone. The hearing of lnijuost is set for Wednesday, tho 20th. I have done my duty so far to tho best of * my ability by aiding tho searching party, by appointing special con- v stables to direct and control tho 1 search until the body was found, 1 and 1 intend to fully investigate u the crime without fear or favor ' and hope to avoid trouble. If I anything happens I will wire you. * I am r Your obedient servant, fJetT D. Wiggins, Magistrate. Melon Train Wrecked and Flag- c man Killed. > ii Tho State, 18th inst. t Tho third section of the South- J ern's through fruit train from c Florida to New York jumped the I track yesterday morning at 7.30 1 o'clock near Edmons on Columbia N and Savannah line, telescoping ten * cars containing watermelons, can :1 teloUDQS- nfilinhfls nnd rtunra nn-1 I I?? I ? ") ??"*? killing Flagman J. A. McLean. c The flagman was instantly killed 11 but the rest of the crow were uaiu- I jured except Ilenry Purcell, extra 1 fireman, who sustained bruises ^ on the ieur. k The wreck occurred on Sandy f mountain grade in Lexington ' county, one rnile from Edmunds, v and 12 miles from Columbia. e '1 Two Bottles Cured Him. ] "I was troubled with kidney t complaint for about two years;" c writes AMI. Davis, of Alt. Stcrling. la., "but two bottlos of Fo- ,j ley's Kidney Cure effected u permanent cure. Sold by Funder- ^ burk Pharmacy. ?? ? n An Expression of Thanks. i] f To tho Editor of The State. ( Please allow me through The 1 State to thank my friends who ii worked so faithfully for mv elec- n ti-jn, and gave me such a hand- t some rote. 1 sincerely appreciate a every vote given me. Thanks to r Tho State for the privilege of he- ( ing voted for. c The mother of eight children, ,J loading tho "strenuous" lifo of a c farmer's wifo, will certainly ap- y preciate the outing. Again thank- ? ing my friends, I am, sinceroly. fc M rs. F. M. Hicklin, i Bascomville, duly 15. t This mattor of whether or not we t snau nave biennial sessions of the j legislature is an important subject ( for discussion in the approaching y campaign. It will bo woll for , candidates for the legislature to j present the subject to the people | in such n.unnor as will enablo them to vote intelligently on the | constitutional amendment that is ( to be passed upon at the next * general eloction. While we do t not propose to quarrel with any- i body for differing with us < wo shall take occasion to say that wo think a session of tne logisla- t ture once every two yoars is a- f bout as often as is necessary.? s ' i %.r i mi t-. i orKviuo unqmrer. Senator Tillman states that J there was no truth in tho story ( that ho ami Senator Bailey had l hoen thrown from an automobile J in St. Lpuis, that ho was not in St. Louis at tho timo the incident ' is alleged to havo occurred. BAM wTR TALV E the moat kaaling salvo in tho worirt 11 l'i L/ .7 f-i 11 dt A Beautiful Somersault. 'rout the Hatred of Cleveland to Support of ICovoland's Friend. ^aurons Advertiser. Folly six months ago The adortiser advised the Democrats >f Laurens that Senator Hon Tillnan wonld become to all intents' nd purpose u "crood gohl bug" efore the year was over. We jointed out that he would abandon *ry in and warned them that their loisy free silver champion would i;et on 1 he hand wagon regardless >f all his past profession. Wo :onfess, however that we did not i.xpcct the redoubtable Benjamin vould repudiate his past to the istonishing extent to which ho actually did repudiate it last week. ?\>r the Senator, in St. Louis dodared himself for George Gray of Delaware for the Democratic nom nation,the same GeorgeGray who rotod for Palmer and Bucktior, vho bolted in 1S9<? and who was i gold bug of goldbugs and a eader of the "assistant liopublians.'" When Judge Gray was \ United States senator he was irobably ofall men the closest and uost consistent political friend of irover Cleveland. Evon when his itato convention endorsed nim ui uiu pi ei lucucy I WO WOBK8 HgOi ic declared emphatically that he vas not a candidate and thai Grovir Cleveland was his tirst choice, rhis man Senator Tillman now ihrases as a true Democrat, who las been 4'faithful to the Demoiraey of tho fathers handed town to him'1 and him Senator L'illman publicly urged tho South Carolina delegates to support. Thus does Senator Tillman, tho rchenemy of Wall street,tho wieller of the pitchfork aud tho aposlo of 441G to 1 or bust" in South Carolina, aftor eight years pull in ike a little man and take his place n tho ranks of those who nomilated Palmer and liucknor. In he convention at Indianapolis, . number of delegates desired to lominato Judge Gray rather than Jen. Palmer. Senator Tillman is nly eight years behind them, fudge Gray, moreover, was ono >f those Paris commissioners who roted for the Philipine treaty ind yet in 1000 at Kansas City senator Tillman's ''paramount ssuo" was denunciation of this roaty and its inevitable results. So far as Tho Advertiser is con :erned, it endorses tho senator's irosent attitude. It is glad to wel:omo him into the ranks of those vho bolievo in Democrats of the jeorgo Gray stamp?which is ireominontly the Urovor Cloveand brand. The Advertiser and the "gold jugs'' have always belioved in iray, and Tillman, the repontant jinner, is wolcomo to a place imong the shouters. vken it is coupled with laudation if George Gray. The Advertiser has no reason o doubt the genuineness of the icnator's change of heart. Tho lenator is a man of sense. Ho tl :~Ui _J 1- 1 ins liiuuwi uu inu iigm suio?and n the band wngon. Let us hope 4 hat his devoted followers have lot lost confidence in his wisdom ind that they will join him in his inckturning on tho follies of Bry? inism. Of coarse endorsement of Cray s endorsement of Cleveland for in politics they are on^ \nd tho same. Tho senator's con . tinned vituperation and abuse o# Cleveland is meaningless jargon