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THELEDGEF;. TIIDHLOW S. CARTER, EDITOR AND MANACiER. IHSYKD WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY BU BSORIPTION $. 00 FKH YE A1 SATI KDAY, SE1TKMHKK,3, 11*04 . i. NATIONAL TICKET For President, ALTON H. PAltKKK, of New York. For V ico-President, HENRY (i. DAVIS, < 1 West Virginia. Senator Latimer Sanguine. Special to News and Courier. New York, Aug. 31. Senate Latimer arrived hero today afte u trip through Connecticut, wher ho went after his conference a fov days ago with the Democratic Presidential candidate at Esopus The South Carolina Senator i confident of Democratic success ii Connecticut, and believes Urn l'arker will poll the largest Dcm ocrntic vote in the history of th nutmeg State. "Not only air satisfied that Connecticut will g Democratic " said Senator Lati mer, "hut 1 am confident, froti what 1 have learned in New Yorl that the Empire State will roll u| a phenomenal majority for th Democratic candidate." Lynched in A Texas .Jail. Chicago, August 31.?A dis patch to tho Inter-Ocean fron Weimer, Texas, says: "Whil< : 4.1 ... ' :i f\ i _ . liicnrcwi men in jtut v/.scai i^et Tucker, a seventeen-year-old negro, under arrest for attemptec rape, was mysteriously lynched The oiflcals are unable to deter iniae just when or how the act wn: committed. The cage had noi been broken into, but Tucker had a 40 foot rope around his neck and his head was drawn up to u hole in the cell about eight inches in width and not over four feet from the floor, used to pass food through to the prisoners. His feet was ti.'d close to his body with cords. There is no clue to perpetrators. Converse College Students Get $700 on Account of Train Rolling otf and Leaving Them. Spartanburg Ht-rald. A year ago last summer two students of Converse college, Misses Mary Moore and Bertha Hooper of Mississippi, failed to board the south-bouud train on the Southern railway at this city, when they were on their way home for the summer vacation. They were at the Southern depot, but the train pulled nut. m t Iihp u-.. r<< t-'tlrinrr Im?va of their friends and they wore left standing with their baggage. Suit was at once entered by Mr. J. II. Marshall, of Mississippi, uuclo of Miss Moore, against the Southern railway and Evans & Finley were the plaiotillV attorneys. Shortly after the suit was entered the Southern railway offered $1,000 damages to end the litigation. This was refused. A few months ago Miss Moore married a man in the far away northern section of Virginia and she cared not to come back and t ? M A/Ml ? ^ L! A I ll A A.l A A WUSlllj i Li DUUlt. iJU l II n UV.nO was compromised by her and Miss Bertha Hooper for $700 00 through Evans tfc Fiuley. Notice to School Children and Parents. I have a complete line of school books and supplies of nil kinds. Prices right. B. 0. Hough. Frightful Carnage. 'tl Thousands Head as Result of the ii Rattle. Hussiuns are Retreat h , ?"*? h Rome, Sept. 1 ?The Liuo Yang ^ c rrospondeut of the newspaper }) Italia Militaire wires that the lius- ^ sums have already lost 15,000 in ^ killed, wounded and prisoners in the lighting uhout Liao Vang. . o P5 n d They also had thirty live cannon ( destioyed, sixteen cannon, 40,000 rilles ami 200 wagons captured, as well as 200 wagons destroyed. The ' ?# correspondent estimates tbe losses ut 12,000 on the Japanese side. RIS9IAN8 IN RETREAT. Tokio, Sept. 1. ?News reached 1 ? hero this evening that the Russian right and contro defending Liao Yang is retreating. The Japanese are in pursuit. 1 r Til K FL'Klors FIG MTINO HAS r SCARCELY PARALLEL. e v St. Petersburg, Sept. 1. 3,25 , p in.? The battle at Liao Yang yesterday >>as of the most despors ate character. It raged continously [( from dawn until midnight and ^ the slaughter must have been immense. At eight in the even- * intr lifter holdinw his outer nnsi- ? c; r> r> i" ? j tions nil day in the face of most e 0 desperate charges, Gen. Ivuropat- 1 . kin gave the order to retire upon v tl the main works about the city. v ^ The Japanese assaults during tne p day had been directed principally e against the Russian centre, a little east or Maiotnnjr hill, near the r o ' I railroad and.three miles southr west of Lino Yang. , Nothing approaching the sever- ^ ) ity of the infantry and artillery ^ lire had been heretofore experien-> ^ 3 ced in this war. Gen. Kondaat- j vidth's division bore the brunt y j and suffered the most. Beyonent charges succeeded each other ia rapid succession, while the artills ery duel never ceased for a nio1 uiunt. No attempt was made in n I the oflical advices to estimate the [ number of guns the Japanese us, ed except that they bad many n hundreds. Each gun carries e 150 charges and these must have i? been expended many times, as se- ? i veral hundred thousand shots y were tired between sunrise and t< , sunset. e Gen. Kuropatkin's order to A fall back on the fortifications 81 was probably due to the roceipt of 0 information that the Japanese a had succeeded in crossing til* n in crossing the Tuites rivar, north a Oiiul nf I ia.i Vnni* olfliniKith Uonu I V \/l. A ft* I lUWK^U \JI VtlCi KcunenkumptTs and MandaritefTs K divisions had been especially plac- e cd in position in this diection to checkmate such a move. The n Japanese crossed at a point called Kakkankinwantun, 20 miles east and some above Liao Yang, anil ^ marched in forco directly west, ward with the evident object of ^ cutting the liussian line of com- ^ niunication with Mukden. Their exact strength was not ea- w oiblished but a division was made y out. g, Cien. Sakharog in reporting the battle says the .Japanese suf . ^ fered enormous losses, muck rj . <1 I'tVCtl* t Imn t N . .*n r* f i h n l?n>joinna tut i man iimiov; ui luo ivuoouiucj 0, who also lost heavily. _ L- g Wh(?lo Gun Crew Killed on The Russian Side. Liao Vang, August 31.?A a| Russian correspondent says: ^ The Japanese all day yeater- e( day carried on the tight with an tr energy approuching despcratioa, 0 but the Russians weie buoyed up in the belief that n point had been (j reached where there would bo y no more retreating and tbo Jap- ]? aneso attacks were met with ^ shouts and hurrahs from the trenches and the rifle pits. > ? , ...? j i< ivc limes iho Japanese hurled |? themselves against the line, bnt acl. mo thoy wero repaired at io point of the Imyooet. Fboro were about 1,000 gnus i action un each sido, but we avu more gnus omplacud than ave iho Japanese. The losses cannot yet be comluted, but they have been great very where, especially among the .rtillorvmen. For instunce, in he first artillery brigade,every of icer was either killed or wounded ind some of the guns were silenc al absolutely owing to the death >f all the gun crew. The spirits at iho highest at all mints. . Happenings in The State. ks Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of the Columbia Stato. >V ALTER .1. MOORE KILLED HY TRAIN NEAR ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, Sept. 1. ? Walter .J. Monro was struck and instantly tilled by the northbound Southirn passenger train near this city ibout G o'clock this evening. He ivcd about throe miles south of own und was walking home alonp he track. He was warned of the ipproach of the train and remark d that he would leave the track n time but failed to do so. He vas aoout 45 years of age and u vi lower. ELECTED ANI) THEN DIED. Anderson, Sep*. 1. ? Coroner lanistor, who was nominated for election in the primary on Tueslay, died this morning. He had teen ill with consumption for sevral months. The county execuive eomniittee today issued an orler for another election to Mil the acancy on the ticket, to be held n the same day as the second riroary for other officers. OY SAOT HIMSELF AND ALL FOR LOVE Swansea, Sept. 1. ? A serious latter occurred about 14 miles ast of Swansea yesterday even ig. It is said that Mr. "Pluck" lildebrand, who is IS or 20 earsold,asked a young lady to go 3 church with him and 6he refued or bad a previous engagement Ir. Hildehrand afterwards, it is aid saw her in company with anther young man. This so ex* speratcd him or unblanced his liod that he went to his room nd shot himself with a pistol, 'he ball took effect over the roion of the hcait and no hopes are ntertained for his recovery. AN SHOT CUT THE KYE OF HIS ENEMY'S WIFE Spartanburg, Sopt. 1.?Tom !heek and will Hrown, farmers of io Enoreo section quarreled >es jrday afternoon returning from <aurens in a wagon. Later while^Brown and his wife 'ere un'oading tho wa^on in their ard Cheek fired on them with a botgun. Brown escaped with u ight wound but several shot hit Ira. Brown, one penetrating her ight eye, making necessary ita xtraction. Ilor condition ia re. arded as critical. Bail For An Actress. New York, Sept. 1.?In the bsence of any opposition from 10 district attorney, Justice Am J, in the supremo court this lorning granted the application f counsel for admission to bail of ian Patterson, who is under in ictment for the murder of Caesar oung, the bookmaker in u cab ust June. The amoutof buil was xed a. $10,000. CASTOHIA. ara tbe S9 K'nd You Havt Alwa/S B0U?fo A WORD ? AKI Is what we art sti iters and our aim interest of every < giving liim or her money. No quota approve of such, a tive advertisement and at t -2tlie val ' nonsensical talk will say that we enough to live on, i and it will he had that we will make ' of our competitors which can not he < Remember our < of slmes. whieh ar ' ? rw - ^ rvy y WW JB JL V/ JL J*. -X <vhbif> nrrtTHE dcs Every pair guars solid leather eouii pair prove to the < a new pair. Thei the Douglas line, bald-headed eagle he soars. Our sh< board, like some li SPECIL DRIVE ON For the cash re we want to m.ike line arrives, so fri reduced prices bet written irgrantee Bros Clothing, gr Everybody knows clothing, and the i win cuine aiiu nisj see that we have large majority. IN everything you 111 of al l kinds and pi Thanking all fo: the Y will avail th are offering. -Mi M Lanc m TO THE I NOCK OU' iving for, fo ?l?? s is fo Strip iiiul to R? tSk?lf Bk^tf Die lowest prices itioiivi or prices, IV ,s we have seen so Is; pricing you so i tie they claim- \ to the intelligen have to have a hut hear in mind ted bj honesty j you you prices hi i and what we s controverted. /'N 1 1 uoilman and lire e t wo of I LINES ON E mteed to be1 solit tor and double tip contrary we will f e is hardly any u for every body ki takes tlie the ca [?es are cow leathe tere who pretend I WINTER WEiBI will soil any sui a clean sweep b< ends take advani ore they are sold, i with every suit laranteed to fad< . that we are ov fact we freely adn [>ect our stock, tin had the clothing lotion department ay desire we havt ices to meet the 1 r their patronage emselves of the lc Youi,,b to h U m ci irrru ASTER S. < 'UBLIC. r -m. I it 11 com petoromote the onizes us, by tor the least >r we flo not much deoepiimcli the yard * * a A _ ? e tioni uuer t people, but little profit-tbis one fact, liid integrity, over than any ay are facts, iw- Selby line flBTH 1 leather sole, toe and it any reely give you se to mention . lows the old * ike wherever r and no paste to sell shoes. IT CLOTHING / it at cost, as 3fore the fall tage of these We give a t rn A oi strouse & 3 nor shrink, erstocked on lit, but if they 3v will readily * trade by a complete and i. Groceries lowest buYer. i and hoping >w prices we erve, I? (l.c.