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THE LEDGER. THURLOW S. CARTER, EDITOR AND MANAGER. 1S8UKD WEDNESDAY AND SAT1TKDAY BUBBORIPTION *. 60 PEI' YE\H WEDNE9DAY, AUCUST 10, 1004. Conorfttulfttions to thft Wat?r. loo Press and Standard, it says: ((Of all tho disgusting animal* that inhabit the glot>e, the little fellow who goes from caudidate tc candidate with the plea Memrne have a quaiter till uext week' ant promising his support and in fiuence on election day surpassei them all. To hear him tell it, hii support and influence is absolutely necessary to enable tho candidate to win, and the most surprising part is he finds so many candidatei Soft enough to be taken in. 1 AL I A* ^ inose wno are running lor omci would stop this horrible practice they would suvo themselves agooi many dollars and make tho campaign much more pleasant." S( Richland and Aiken counties an not the only places infested these vultures ?nor the only placei where the buzzards find support But Richland is the only county ii which a stand has been madi against them. If our priuiariei are not to degenerateinloelection! as corrupt as those held in th< day6 of the carpet bagger, th< honest element in tho State musl fight and stamp out this rapidly spreading disease in the bodj politic.?The State. Dr. M. J. Walker has made i microscopic examination of some of the "scalded" cotton loaves, about which there is so much complaint, and tinds them coverered with thousands of insects invisible to the naked eye. He thinks these insects are doing the damage complained of; but ot course cannot say certainly. He is sending specimens of tiie scalded leaves to Clemson, with a view to learning what the professors there think of the trouble.? A VtUTIIIU XJUtjUUCl * Body Found in Cistern. Charleston, Aug. 8.?The body of Jacob Kind, the keeper of an alleged illicit liquor shop, who has been missing since lost Thursday, was f jund floating in the cistern on his premises on King street this morning. There was a great gash in his throat, several stabs in the breast and the body was in n frightful state of decomposition. His clerk, Edward Kennedy, alias Grant, who has been conducting the alleged ''blind tiger" since Kind's disappearance, left Charleston last night, it is said, with considerable money, and every effort is being made to locate him as circumstances demand his presence in connection with the investigation of the crime. Roosevelt Lets Negro Hang. Washington, Aug. 8. ? President Roosevelt declined to interfere in the case of John Burley, a negro confined in tho jail of the District of Columbia under sen terce of death for tho crime of criminal assault, the victim being a litPe 4^-year-old girl. ? Capt. T. S. Clarkson, who baa been a cooductor on the South ern Railroad between Charlotte and Augusta for the past 32 y*ars, died at his homo in Charlotte Mon day after an illness of two weeks. He put his arm about her waist, And the eclor left her cheek; But on the shoulder of the coat ^ It shown up for a week. Stoessel Suicides? 1 Startling Iieport Published By London Newspaper. ? Port Arthur In Panic. Loudon Aug. 1). ? According to the correspondent of The Morn ing Post at Shanghai it is repotted there that there are 10,000 ( and sick wounded persons at Port Arthur and that the Russians are negotiating with tho .Japanese to ( send tho hospital ship Mongolia 1 away full of sick. It is reported, the correspondent says that Lieut. Gen. j Stoessel has committed suicide snd panic prevails at Port Arthur. Marquis Oyama has proceded north and expects to attack Liaa Yang Aug 20th. , Stoessel Confirms Japanese 9 Losses, f London, Aug. 8.?The Times 3 correspondent at Tokio under date 3 of Aug. 7 says that there aro an3 official reports there that the _ Japanese hasve captured comman, diner nnBifinnj nnfth or>,1 nn.fUnuf t |/V???ivuv ui/t VU ft 11VI lll'l lUVUOt 3 ofPort Arthur at adistauce of 2,/ 750 yards from the main line of 8 Russian defense. 1 St. Petersburg, Aug. 7. ? Lieut 3 Gen. Stoesael commanding the s Russian military forces at Port 3 Arthur, in an undated dispatch 3 to the emperor, says3 "I am happy to report that the I t roops repulsed all the Japanese ' attacks of July 26,27 and 28, ' enormous losses. "The garrison's enthusiasm was extraordinary, i "The fleet assisted in the de> fence bombarding the Japanese flank. i 4'Our losses during the three days wero about 1,500 men and . 50 officers hilled or wounded, i "According to statements of i Chinese and prisoners the Japank i ! ead lost as many as 10,000. "Their losses wore so great that the enemy has not had time 10 remove tbe dead and wounded" Shipments From Cheraw to Dis tant Points. 1 On July 13th, the Cheraw Door and Sash Company shipped to York, Pa., for Mr. J. M. Brasington, of Bennettsville, over fiteen thousand pieces of pine lumber, cut to dimensions, i to bo used in making the Star Pea i Hulier, and on Wedneeday of | this week, the same concern I forwarded another lot of over I twenty-two thousand pieces, to ] Chattanooga, Tenn., where Mr. 1 Brasington has a part of his pro- i duct marketed. < rri - - x nese machines are shipped i from York and Chattanooga all i over the United States, and to \ eighteen foreign countries. This i is the second year the Door aod i Sash Company have handled this 1 work for Mr. Brasington, and , t uany cars are promised them i each year, 'l'his speaks well for jg our pioneer manufacturing enter- c prise.? Carolina Citizen. < MR. DAVID P. VERNER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. ! f Greenville, Aug. 4.?At 6 j ,.i i. .i ? - - w ciuu- una mornrng ut ins coun* c try residence near this city D. F. fi Verier, master in equity of 1 (ireenville county, killed himself * instantly by shooting himself in J the head with a double barrel ^ shotgun, as the supposed result of ^ temporary aberration oh account of ill health. j 1'ho tiagedy occurred in hia bedroom while Mr. Verner was in ^ the room alone. When found af- n ter the report of the gun the body J was across the bed with the left side of the hcud blown almost en- ? tirely off. i rhrough Trestle Train Plunges. Jne hundred Persons Meet Awful Death on Missouri Flyer f Pueblo, Col., Aug.8.?Traiu I No. 11, the Missouri Pacific flyer | crashed through a bridge over the Arroyo, near Eden, on the Den<> ver Rio Grande railroad, about igbt miles from Pueblo, at 8 o'clock last night. J A special train was sent from f Pueblo, bearing the avaiTkbfe I surgeons and railroad officials, j At 11 o'clock the second tram returned at 2 this morning, bring | ing those who escaped with their lives, numbering about 17. Dry I Creek, a mile north of ofEden is < 50 feet wide andl3feet deep, with teepbanks. The waier was flowirg 1 over loo iresne as me train star* t ted across. The engine got al- * most over, but slipped back. ] The baggage car and smoker chair car plunged into the stream. The engine fell on its right side. The j chair car was carried a half a mile down the creek. The dining J and sloeping cars keep the track. < The baggage and smoker were tbrowu into the stream and have ( not yet been found. ' Dry Creek empties into Foun^ tain Creek about a half a mile below t-e wreck. Two hours after the accident there was no water in Dry Creek. The bodies of two women and a girl of 15 years ^ were found a milo down the creek covered with mud. They, were not identified. Twenty-five po^ lice and 200 others are searching for bodies. It is now thought' that ISO lives were lost. The Chair car was found a mile from ?he scene of the accident, { half filled with sand, under which * a number of bodies were buried ] TKn nvni'ncc r roao .J Auv va|/i voo v/u>i n no 1UUUU UUUI ^ the scene of the wreck, the safe * open and the contents gone. "j At daylight the wreckage wftf? j visible in all directions. Dead bodies are seen here and there, in J piles of debris from cars, drift- 1 wood and mud. Many bodies were carried down fountain Creek by a wall of water. Incendiary Detected In Attempt i To Burn. ^ Florence, Aug. 7.?blorence would have suffered another serious incendiary tobacco fire last night had not the plans of a ne?ro been frustrated by deputy Sheriff F. C. Rarrell, an attempt ^ laying been made to burn tb? 1 Dixie warehouse. Officer Harrell laving gotten wind that such an ] ittempt wan going to be made bad ^ concealed himself in the 'building to foil the would-be incendiarj in ] the act. The negro entered and -1 pas about to apply the tonch phen the officer halted him and ( ired. The negro calling Mr. Harrell by name said he wou|d ^ lurrender, but the two men being ? n close proximity then,the negro -m grabbed hold to tbo officer gun and -I iscaped in the darkness. Anoth- ^ >r shot was tired but with no ef? !ect. ( The officer knows the negro as ar as his identity is concerned and > hinks be will pi:k him up sooner- 1 >r later. His arrest may be the j olutioa of the city's numerous oceodiary tobacco fires, Although 'oliceman S. J. Eist is now * in ail, on the charge of .having set ire to the Pee Dee warehouse ast April. Notice to Road Overseejrs. All overseers are hereby notified to work be public roads Overseers are requested to remove the imlergrowth from the bridges, as it shades hem and prevents the evaporation of waer, thns causing them to rot If there is any section of road without un iverseer, the vacancy will be filled n|>on npilication to the Board. L. J. PEUllY, Supervisor. A. WORD *r A K Is what we art sti itors and our aim interest of every < giving him or her money. No quoti approve ol such, ? tive advertisemen and at l-2the val nonsensical talk will say that we enough to live on. and it will be baci that we will makt of our competitors which can not be Remember our of shoes, which ai THE BES Every pair guar solid leather couii pair prove to the a new pair. Tiie] the Douglas line, bald-headed eagle be soars. Our sh board, like some 1 SPECIL DRIVE m For the cash w< we want to make line arrives, so fr reduced prices be written guar antes Bros Clothing, gi Everybody knows dothing, and the will come and ins jee that we haye arge majority. I iverything you no >f all kinds and p: Thanking all ic 'bftY will nvflil tli ' ?? - ww aaa M. J ire offering. -Ilnalli Rani IMUII lfltBBI Lanc TO THE I NOCKOU riving for, to dou is to help and to customer that pai the lowest price* ition? or prices, t is we have seen s< ts; pricing you so lue they claim, to the intelligei have to have s , but bear in mint ked bj honesty 5 you you prices 1 5 and what we : controverted. Godman and Dr re two of I UNfS ON j anteed to be soli iter and double tif contrary we will: re is liardlv any i for every body h s takes tne the c oes are cow leath< icre who pretend I WINTER WE'G e will sell any su a clean sweep 1 iends take advar fore they are sold e with every suit uaranteed to fad 3 that we are fact we freely adi ipect our stock, th had the clothiu ^ otion departmen lay desire we ha\ rices to meet the >r their patronag lemselves of the 1 *" ? r Your?1 to i it r ia yii! k lira 1ASTER S. # MJBIiIC. ii all compelpromote the Ionizes us, by J # llA l/incit liri IIIC CrtJ5l or we do not ? much decepnnicli the yard We don't utter it people, but i little prpfit? i this one fact, ami Integrity, ower than any <ay are facts, ew-Selby line F A AVII tAHIH d leather sole, > toe and if any freely give you ise to mention nows the old ake wherever 3r and no paste . to sell shoes. HT CLOTHING lit at cost, as efore the fall itage of these I. \Ve give a 01 otrouse & ie nor shrink, irerstocked on tnit, but if they ley will readily ig" trade by a t complete and e. Groceries lowest buYer. e and hoping ow prices we ? , . 9 * . * "T (iww serve, ililekc.