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_ _ /O ? _ , /"? ^ 9he lancastct Eraser. ^ K8T AHL ih^imhS^ j BEADY FOB RSHB^BSSBJSB I have just received ; which I will sell at Prices tomers. I carry everythi class grocery is expeceted I also carry a full line SHOES. ttOTtO DRY GOODS SEWINI STOU: en am located South of Pot Strictly Cash business enabling m tomers. Give toe a trial and 1 ur price and quality. G. C C South I K- D. Bowers. W. G. Bower?j BOWERS' BROS. Builders and Contractors Lumber, all kinds, for sale. Dr*aalng and Matching at abort uotlce Turned work and -'croll work uttpec* iaity. i9~Give US your orders, BOWERS BROS. Near Depot. Pebj. 28.1904. Firman University, Greenville, S. C. Edwin Mo Neil Poteat, President. Courses leading to the degree of Bach lor of Arts (B A) aud Masi< r of Art* (M A) Library Reading Room Lab* oratories, large and comfortable dormitories, expenses reduced to a minimum Next session begins Hept 14. Foi rooms aoply to Prof H T Cook. Foi catalogue conformation, address,The Secretary of the Faculty. WOKFORD COLLEGE Spartanburg, S. C. Henry n. snyder, Litt. D., M. A., President. Four full College courses Favorable surroundings. Cleveland Science Ball, Gymnasium. Atliletio grouuds, Lecture course, Library facilities. 61st year begins Sept. 81st 1804. J A Gamewell, Secretary. WOfFORD COLLEflE IFITTING SCHOOL, SPARTANBUHG, S. C. RUgant new buildings Careful attention to Individual students. Board and tuition for year $110. All information given by A. M. DUPkr, Head Master. J. E. RUTLEDiE, Dentist, Lao caster, S. C. Working on credit doesn't pay, and my terms from this time henceforth arestiictly cash. Seasonable Prices. Gold Filling $1.50 Amalgam Filling 75 cts. Cement Filling 75 ct RUBBER PI.ATE, Fall apper set of teeth $12.00 Upper sad lower set $25.60 t39~These prices are strictly for cash. No work done except for cash or good security. J. E KUTLEDtiE Dentist Fanner saive She most * salinq ssiv* < * ? world. Foley's Honey Tar tar children,ssfr,sure. No opiate*. % i?jte'ji . . "4* BUSINESS I mmuia 1 nice line of GROCERIES ; that will please my Cus? ng in stock that a first to handle. of NS, , PANTS, 5 MACHINES, ES, CONS, ETC. it Office on Main Street, will do I e to nmke closer priee to my cus. a sure 1 can please you in bott :arnes. of Post Office. 11 Unlawful Shooting. Shooting of Bats and InsectEating Birps Not Allowed- Qenoral | Ignorance Of Law. Columbia Rebord. i It is not generally know tbat those ! who every afternoon shoot bats, martins and other insect^eatinp birds are violating the laws ol ' snhieci the rtate and are to a fioe of (10, one hall of which goes to the informer. Yesterday afternoon Solicitoi Thurmond and Judge Purdy, while in the suburbs noticed i > large number of young men shooting. The attention of others was called to the matter and a the practice is general all over th | state there was request that the act, which was passed in 1902, be 1 published so that those ignorant of the law might know the result of the violation. It is as fot< lows: "Section 564 It shall no be lawful for any person? in thii state to wantonly shoot or eutrap > for the purpose of killing or ii any other manner destroy an) bird wheiee princinal fond U in m m ~~~ ~ mmm sects or|to take or destroy eggs 01 yonng of any of the species 01 | varieties of birds who are protected by the provisions of this section, comprising all the speciei and varieties of birds representee I by the several families of bats whip-poor wills, flycatcherp threshers, warblers, finchers, larks, orioles, nuthatches, wood pockets, hamming birds, blut birds, and all other species anc varieties of land birds, whetbei great or small, of everv dcscrm. - - ? ??- *r lion, regarded as harmless ii 1 their habits, and where flesh is ui fit for food, including the turke) buzzard, but excluding the jack daw, crow, eagle, hawk and owl which pray upon other birds.1' The fine is $10 on conviction, one-hnlf of which goes to the in< 1 former. Used For Pneumonia. Dr. C. P. Bishop of Agnew, Mich., says, "have used Foley'i Honey and Tur in three very severe cases of pneumonia witt good results iu every case." Re fuse substitutes. Sold by Fundei burk Pharmacy. ?Subscribe to The Ledger. ' - - jTRAIN DASHED THROUGH BRIDGE. t e ; Terrible Wreck on Seaboard [ at Catawba River. t * t Ten Minutes Later Another Engine 1 Plunged Into tne Struggling * Mass of Wounded and Dead -Four Killed and Thirty Five Injured. a Shortly after 1 o'clock Friday i ^ morning Train No. 41 on the Sea- t board Air Line Railroad, consist- < ing of an express car, a mail car, < I two day coaches and a pullumn 1 v sleeper, was derailed at a trestle 1 ? just south of the Catawba river, * i followed by the wreck of a light ^ engine and caboose, tesul'ing ' in the death of four persons and ' the iniuring of thirty-tire others. I The killed are: Engineer E. Y. * Barksdale, Abbeville, S. C. ;Fire- ' man Ed Roberts, colored, Atlanta, 1 Ga; Mrs. Black; Mrs. T. S. Mc- ? Manus, Wilmington, N. C. The injured are: Mrs. James y Clay, Oakland, Tenn, fractured I r jaw;T. C. Jerome, Atlanta, shoul- ' der and head injured; Dr. Edward 1 Banks, Athens, Ga., back injured; Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Maitland, ( Fla, foot amputated, may die; Mrs. Jerome Siivey, Atianta, ' i bruised; G. W. Hinson, Leac.x, ' , Ga, jaw injured; Tom Mitchell, ? r | colored, brakeman, Abbeville. S. * I C., bead and sboul lers injured; | ! Pink Carpenter, Monroe, N. C., I porter, bead and body injured. I Tbe following were slightly 1 't hurt: V. 8. Elerby, Atlanta, col * ored, Pullman porter; G. H. ' ' Mears, Monroe, N. C., engineer; * J. G. Turner, Atlanta, Pulltnnn j1 conductor; J. Duncan, AWhevil'", ' brakeman; H. H. Chapman, Ah* 1 beville, conductor; G. H. Davis, < Atlanta, express mossenger; W. ' Fairman, Atlanta, mail clerk; R. ' ) T West, Monroo, N. C., con- * ductor; B. F. Meader, address un- ( known; F. C. Topleman, Address unknown; T. C. Horton, address ' unkoown; Mr. Black, address un- 1 kno*n; Robert Siegler, unknown, 1 and Mollie Griffin, address uo-l known. A number of colored laborers ho were slightly hurt. , Immediately after the receipt < nf |Ka name r\4 tka ? ? -uv.ucut ? .|iec- 1 ial train with wrecking outfit and < doctors started from Monroe to \ the scene of the wreck. The1 ( j dead and injured were brought! i oack to Monroe. i ' AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUB. } Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 9.?The I wrecked ti ain was running about 1 ! forty miles an hour when the tresI tie, which is about 300 feet long, r spanning a meadow near the Catawba river ga-*o way. The enj gine and cars passed over, but . were drawn back into th? - J00 ' and upon the other cars, a light 1 engine and caboose, piling in on I top of the train of wreckage before it could be flagged. Qaston Mea's, the engineer of [ the passenger train, escaped with some bruises and a painful scalp wound. How he escaped death is beyond his or any one else's , comprehension. He said he was 1 driving at the rate of forty miles - an hour a9 be crossed. Just be- 1 1 fore the engine had swept entirely clear of the structure he felt it t_! - - * am King, out too impetus carried i the engine and all the care across t except the first-class passenger ar and the Pullman, clear of the awning gulf which was left when in! ft bo bridge collapsed, but the ngine and cars were swerved roiu their course to tho right, earing the rail loose from iti astcnings and hurling the entin rain upside down over an embank uent to the meadow, about thirty eet below. * TIIE FIRST TRAIN GOES DOWN. A scene horrible beyond do icription ensued. Tho accounti >f the survivors are terrible When the train went crashing ove ,he ombnnkmoDt every light wen >ut, passengers were thrown heat iver heels agaiost the coaches cruised and bleeding. A Datura janic took them; some were rendired unconscious for a moment Mrs. Black, sitting with her hug sand, gave a short cry and whei 10 managed to strike a match am ind her body, he discovered tha ibo was dead, her neck havinj jeon broken. She was the onl; lasscnger killed, or even hur lariously. As the scrambling and shoutio| went on in the darkness, abov he noises a brakeman, with hi \cad half way out a window, wa leard to shout: "My God, the freight train, i joming upon us." In less than a minute th< -eight, which had left Motirui lfteen minutes behind th? pas longer came whizzing -tl^ng tin iracks, struck ihe opeu sp?c< where the bridge had fallen an( plunged ita way through thi passenger cars. The womai whose identity could uot b< liscovered then met her death >he freight engine having crush ?d through the side of that pas ien<T r cat in which she was in I crushing her body into i ihapeless mass. The engines )f the freight train must hav net death instantly. He wa found in the cab of the over earned engine with his hea< 5ru9hed, but few braises upoi tiis body. When hi9 body wa iug out of the debris this more ing his watch was still runnin( in time His fireman escapee with a few minor injuries. PLUCKY TELEGRAPHER BLACK. The wreck developed at leae one hero. Mr. Black, whoa wife wa9 killed beside him, wa the last man to leave the coach as, and what he did the very fire thing was to walk, in his bruit ed condition, to Catawba junc Lion, two miles away, get int cue teiegragn omce and send t Monroe for help. He is a tele graph operator in the service c the Norfolk and Western Ral road, and was going to Atlant with his wife to testify there i in a railroad suit. He hardly realizes the blow b has sustained and sat all day o the bank nearby, with mournfi eyes and muttering to himsell "M? God, what an ordeal for man to bear." HEAPED AND CRUSHED TOOETHEI The mass of wreckage of tt two trains is like a huge heap < junk. Railroad men , said tods that they had never seen such coi plete demolition of engines an coaches. They are lying heaps and crushed together. Lookin at the conglomeration, peopl wonder that any one escaped. Th wrecking crew from the Seaboar ahops at Abbeville, 8. C , arrive about 10 o'clock this morning an began to clear away the debris. i "dirty work had been done." 1 George Fitzwatr, Ch'ef deteo 1 tive of the Seaboard Air Lino ur1 rivod, on the scene early ?n the ? morning, and took charge of the * situation until organized help ar^ 3 rived. He said this afterrojn ' that ho hod found some spikes f and bolls, and two angle bars, which had been removed from the track with claw bats, and he said ho was confident that dirty work had been done. Mr. Fitzwater sont a tolcgram to sup' erintendent E.Berkely, at Atlanta t telling him that he had diseovj ercd evidence of malice in this work and oxpressod his bcliof j that someone hal disconnected tho joints in tho lower half of the bridge The stretch of track in that a vicinity is a clear, straight and apj parently well built one. The timbers appear to have been wrenched from their fastonings y " and those that are tplintered are ^ of solid wood. There was nothing to suggest that the foundations of the'structure was undermined y 1 by a washout, although the ground : was somewhat mat shy yesterday. | H The dead bodies were all ta- j ken from t.ho i?pa.<t oKnni l>?" I 8 past 10 o'clock. The woman who was so bailly mutilated wore 3 a simple gold riog, with the in'"ription, "From Tom to Anna, October 20, 1885," inside. She was probably 32 years old, medB ium sized, with dark auburn I hair. She had a purse containB ing $2.45, a return trip tficket j from Wilmington, N. C., to Atianca, ana a baggage check, No. 603,598. C. S. Coleman, of Bon Air, Va, said he was the only man in tho smoking car when the train was a burled over the embankment and r he heard lots of shouting from the e other roaches. lu a very few B minutes he said the freight train crashed into them and then silence I settled over the scene for several Q minutes, when the groans of the B wounded as they began to regain !. con8cioti8ne88 pierced the night y air. 1 IT WAS MRS. T. S. MCM AN US. Wilmingtou, N. 0., Sept. 9.? Special to News and Courier:? ,1 Mrs. T. S. McManua, wife of the 6 manager of the Wilmington Exg change of the Bell Telephone w Company, was among those killed in the Seaboard Air Line wreck at Catawba River this .. morning. 0 She left here yesterday after0 noon and was on her way to Atlanta to visit friends. Mrs. McManus was in the sleeper and |. it is believed that she was killed a when the second train plunged n on top of them. Mr. McManus left here toe night for Monroe aud will bring ? bis wife's remains home tomorn row. She was about 35 years of age, and was an estimable wo' man. a WHAT IS LIFE ' lu the last analysis nobody 16 knows, but we do know that it is )f under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Ir? ^ regular living means derangement " of the organ*, resulting in constid pation, Headache or Liver trouble d Dr. Kings new life pills quickly g re adjusts this. It's gentle, yet e thorough. Only 25c at Crawford e Bros. J. F. Mackey & Co , and j Funderburk Pharmacy. A OABVOniJL. J l?nU? >?Tln Kif Y(W Hn> tiwiya Bought Happenings in The State. An Chronicled t?y I ho Alert Correspondent!* of the Columbia State. BKNNKTTSV1T.I.K HOY KILLED HY ACCIDENT. Bennettsville, Sept. 'J ? llai?y Wright, th 10-year-old son of Sirnon P. NT right, was shot and instantly killed about f> o'clock this afternoon by Edgar McCoy, colored, at the residence of Thos 1. Kogers, Esq. The main facts brought out a\, the coroner's inquest tonight nro the three little boys, Harry vv rigni, uicksou Wright and Henry Rogers had been playing together most of the afternoon and were at the Rogers resi dence. Mrs. Rogers went to a closet to get some kerosene for some workmen and noticed two guns at closet door. She told McCoy a boy emp'oyed about the house, to carry the guns to her room. tlenry Rogers was on the front steps and told McCoy to bring him one of the guns. He brought it and Henry told him to take the shell out. He tried but failed. In closing the gun it went off, the load striking Harry Wright squarely in the face toaring oat both eyes, the upper part of tbe nose and part of the brains. oi juvi Anoi/uu SIHJOTS HIMSELF ^KAI) Spartan burgf Sept. 9. ? 1. Van Smith, aged' about 55 years, committed suicide at his homo, 226 College street, this morning at 11.30 o'clock by placing the muzzle of a 32-calibro Remington rille to his left braest and pulling the trigger. The bullet went through his heart ami passing through the body lodged in the wall near by. The deceased had been in wretched health for six months past and in a tit of mental and physical despondency decided to end his life. TWO CANDIDATES IN HACK AGAINST JUDGE TOWNSENI). Spartanburg, Sept. 9.?The next legislature will elect asuccessor to Judge D. A. Townsend as presiding Judge of the seventh Judicial circuit. Judge Townsend will stand for reeloction. He is now serving his third term. CJ A I I i. V 1 i oyjurwiuuurg nas two canmunies for the bench ?both members of the general assembly ? Senator D. E. H yd rick and Hon. C. i\ Sanders. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. : The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars tho /^, Signature of i FEARFUL ODDS AGAINST HIM. Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such, lu brief was the condition of an old soldier by name of J. J. Havens, Versailles, O. For years he was troubled with Kidney dis^ ease and neither doctors nor medicine gave him relief. At length be tried Electric Bitters. It put him on his feet in short order and / now ho tostitios, "I am on tho I road to complete recovery." Best f on earth for Liver and Kidney troubles and all forms of Stomach and Bowel Complaints. Only 50c GuAtanteed by Crawford Bros., F. Mackey & Co. ( and Funder bur k harmacy. v / /