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# v- 1 j*. - .: ~ ^?- ~?; t,* ^ vgrr'' 'JJ" r ~~ - " ? 1 ? _ ? ? - A^^^b.jjabteb. I ^ffnr,,Tn rur-v- - r ? --Iitji- IT -nr-- - j?1iS5K~??Yllfe ' ! T*"r*T"^'.. "m ' * * "' ''** '" '1 ' '< " " "" " ' Mag^i , .'1 14 ,... i..-..- ' 1 't'f T. ' '- . mT -' ? -r-, 1"? -' " ??>'-? -?'i>*rn?r A(. ii.Wlflh.KLY. LANCASTER S. O. OCTOBER 8, 1904 J?8T aBL18HEdTSSt ^ ,4F" Nk. y*r ^ Vk ^ ?- - ?- ?? ? - I" WE B Y X ?d A*?nc y 0OUR ANN1 8 - OPEI 5 F/LL AN J A V 1/1 iv III K 1NI1XII X WEDNESDAY X WEDNE I UrK 5 WeResj | invite al yl ?lU CU111C Q OUR GC ? LANCASTE] X ^>w J^V ^ READY FOB mMiasaai I have just received a which I will sell at Prices tomers. I carry everythii class grocery is expecetwd t I also carry a full line SHOES* NOT JO: DRY GOODS, SEWING STOV1 am located South of Post Strictly Cash business enabling me tonieru. Giro me a trial anil 1 am price and quality. G. C C South J. E. RUTLEDGE, Dentist, Lancaster, S. C. Working on credit doesn't pay, and my terms from this time henceforth are strictly cash. Reasonable Prices. Gold Filling $1.50 Amalgam Filling 75 cts. Cement F'lling 75 ct DlTDUVn ??* An%wm uuiiuc.n 1 i?/\i ! Full uppor sot of teeth $12.00 ' Upper and lower set $25.60 I t3T rheso prices are strictly , for cash. No work done except for cash or pood security. J. F? RUTLEDGE. Dentist. : EG TO j iunce No ^ X UAL FALL % SING 3= ^ i WIMTES r! *JERy, P? 5( AND SO AY NIGHT* K, 1501. \ V lectively ? 1 Ladies > and see )ODS. * i MER. CO. ? BUSINESS! Baaagafflsa nice line of GROCERIES that will please my Cus= ig in stock that a first o handle, of ns, , pants, i machines, is, guns, etc. ; Office on Main Street, will do i to make closer price to my cue. euro 1 can please yon in botl ARNES. of Post Office. I II n MHIV mn I n i *t MUM I l'U LUAiV I lmve made arrangement wit lenders of money in Ney York L'lty witli whom I am able to negotiate loam secured by first mortgage on improvet cottou farms, at 7 per cent, interestrepayable in annual installments o five >ears No brokerage or commia sion charged Only a reasonabli charge for abstract of title. II E WYLIE, Aug 31?6m, Attorney at Lay Go to the LANCASTER MARBLE \NI> : GRANITE WORKS, | For Good Work and Low Prices a H \ A A. J. :CW!nCn, LANCASTER, S. C. ' Happenings in The State. ij As Chronicled by the Alert Cor- ' respondents of the Columbia State. ] i COTTON PICKING RKCOttDS DllOKKN. ' Anderson, Oct. 4.?Tt<e dry . weather continues unbroken and t rain is badly needed. Cotton iu J many places is about all open, but | the farmers are not aide to ptck i it us faat us it opens. It is easy to pick und many remurkablo records arc roported. A few days ago Miss Lizzie Fear man of Honeu j Path picked 600 pounds in o.io day, her record for four days be- . I n nnn i 1U^ 2,2UV |H>UUU8. ( YOUNG ENGINEER Ml T DEATH AT ULACKSBURQ. I Hlacksburg, Oct. 4. ? Mr. I. 11 < Grigg, a young man who recently t came here from Camden and an < employe of the Southern road, i whs run over in the yards at this | place by an engine lust night about ( 10 30 o'clock. One leg was en- i tirely cut off and the other badly niuiiiated. Ho died from the offfrTu of the injuries this morning at 5.30 o'clock. Ho was acting , as "hostler" in the yard and In ( crossing in front of the engine ' his foot caught on a crosstie and before the engine could stop the , ponderous machine did its deadly work. LEGALITY of beku privileges -vo, HE TESTED. , Spartanburg, Oct. 4.-Attoruoy i C. P. Sims of the city is deter- 1 mined to test the legality of the I operation of the beer privilege j ' institutions, which are a kind of Branch or annex of the liquor dispensary. To this end ho hue irdicted Mr. J. W. Husemttnn on t the grounds of violation of the , ? I j dispensary law and will prosecute j the case. Mr. Sims staled to a ( ' correspondent that he bad no ill j ^ will toward Mr. lluseman, but that he had decided to make a ( test case of the matter. The rc- ^ suit will bo awaited with interest, j Mr. Husemann'a beer dispensary is me oldest one in Spartanburg. < KNCCKEI) FROM TRAIN AND KILLED Spartanburg, Oct. 4 ?E. M. Froeland a flagman of the Southern road, aged about 20years, met I a tragic death yesterday afternoon 4 while he was riding on a box car of a section of through freight No , 71, northbound, at Arcadia mills 1 ' i His head was struck by the mail hanger of the device used to I hang mail pouches on for the postal clerk* to grab and gather in the carr.hileu train is in motion. This hunger is an iron crane protruding from the post. He wan ' knocked from hia perch on the car andthrown a considerable distance. He lived for a few hours after, wards. 1 __ 1 * ] J YORK HAD TWO KILLINGS IN FORTY~{ EIGHT HOURS. s Yorkville, Oct. 4.? York has j two homicides to her credit iu a , r little over 48 hours. On Satur1 day night a negro numed Dock Simpson killed another named ( Paul Sanders at Mc(Jonnell8ville ( A crowd of negroes then got after 1 Simpson, trying to kill him, and 1 he had to get out of the way and ' hide until Mouday mornimr. wh<<n ' rw ( he came to Yotkville and gavo f himself np to the sheriff. I Early Monday morning a negro i named Thompson went to the 1 dace of Mr. \V. T. Sninrr in Bui- II ock's Crock township, near Broad iver, ami killed another negro, mined Jeter, using a double bareled shotgun and tiring both loads \i nlo his victim. Jeter was pickng cotton in the field at the time. The trouble arose over the wife of Jeter After the killing Tbonip- s ?on got in his buggy and came to Sharon, had a talk with some p [nifties there and then left for j, parts unknown. 8PEKDY JUPflOK. 11 union, uct 5.?Un Sunday " morning, September 25th, one Lawreneo Sartor, colored, shot uid instantly killed his brother-inaw, Ilenry Brooker, near Santnc, unl in less than two weeks was ^ convicted of manslaughter. Hl On Saturday night before the It tilling Booker had whipped his urifo, who left the houso and went M o the home of her brother sevjral miles away. On Sunday e( morning both the wamon and Sarlor returned to the house of the *( leceased A quarrel was the re- ft' suit in which Booker was killed. (^' : C( i w CRIME OF WIIITR HHUTE. ! Conway, Oct 5.?What appears n< to have been tho revolting crime B Df a white brute occured at Mt. ^ Tabor just across the North Carow Una line, one day lust week and r\\ t'jp particulars have juet bi.eu learned. It is stated that a wh'. iho.n by j,Lb, u.ipiie of Charlie 1 .unarm i:0mJrleVl'rf a criminal assault on a line-year-old white gbl. Keeling 'an high and lbe:o was talk of j,yncbing but tho oflicers succeeded g( n getting .Johns ii to Wliitevillo ail, whrra he now is ' j FELL FROM HOUSETOP. Newberry, Oct. 5* ? Mr Barn- o1 ;tt Hayes fell from the top of the w )ou8e of Rlr. George Lester near C lliggins ferry, this county, yes- di erday ami was badly injured. Mr b? Hayes was putting a ligiuning ei rod on the roof when he slipped b *nd tell hand fareinost to tho ci ground 24 feet below. Mis arm b ind nose were broken and his face tl severely cut and bruised. o ? ai CAUGHT IN MACHINERY AN I) KILLED Spartanburg, Oct. 5. ? M Clyde liriggs, a machinist employed by the Pocolot Manufacturing company, met with a tragic death ^ this afternoon. Mo was pulling the repe on tbo big driving wheel, 11 which operates tho machinery of n mill No. 3, when he became a caught in the rope and was knock* ? sd violently against tho wheel. 1 His head and shoulders wero ? mashed up considerably and he c was killed outright. b VOUTIIFUL NEUHO KITXK1) I. NCLE W WITH TOCKKT KNIFE. P Lamar, Oct 5.?On Mr. VV. M. Freeman's place, about one mile from town, yosterday at 0 p. m., ^ Frank Jones aged 13 years, kill- 8, ..i u:_ 1- ?? ? ? :u uis uuuiu, uoi) .jonis, iu years c Did, by stabbing or cutting hire to ?* his heart with a pocket knife. 8 rhe parties are colored. j;J About an hour after tbo killing pi Mr. i'lutnmer, Magistrate Boy- ts Kin's constable, had Fiark in his li custody. The boy claims that ho n Killed his uaclo in self-dc- g Pence; lint he was fixing his II suspenders at the time his uncle f< ushed upon him and struck him a several severe blows on his head, 5 ind that ho staobed him with the <nife because lie thought his incle would either kill him or do > lira great bodily barm. $ /like Mail Ended His Life In Prison T Lutlinm Committed Suicide in Camden jail.? Was Awaiting To He Sentenced. pecial to the State. Cuiudeu, Oct. 4. ? William T. lathum, who has been conlined i the county jail for several weeks waiting this term of court, conilitted suicide this afternoon at hout 5.30 o'clock by drinking AO ounces of lysol, a poisonou isinieciam wmcn imui been given iin to 080 on bis wound. When found bo was in tho lard iroos and niado no statement to r?y ouo. Some niontbs ago bo met a Mr. edmond on tbe streets and tired jveral shots at him, one of thevi .liking Kedmond but was deflect I by a button. Tho matter was ropped on condition thai bo leave >wn, but returning a short while be wus incarcerated Yesteray bis case was called and hewn** mvicted of assault and battery itb intent to kill. Sentence bad jt been passed on bim. He wus a son ef tbe late Mr. S. . Latham and a brother of Mr /ado 11. Latham, who died la t eek. Tbe deceased was 313 years id last month, tic leaves a wife ul three children. ,ngino rTUhK f''7 '^usefar Killing Tbrso Men. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 5 ? reiglit Conductor YViso of the rmtbern railway, whose home it iid to lie in Savannah, ard Jack odhuul, a negro switchman, and 'alter Zeiglor were ki'led on tho itskirts of this city about JO clock tonight, the train, which tic unnfltl^'Min/1 V.% /\?? 4t.~ U.I m/illilU./Mi nt iVI |?# UU lliu harlotte, Columbia uud Augusta ivision of the Southern, was cing pushed by a swi'.eh igiuo when suddenly ill 1 the rakes becaiuo set and the engine ashed into the rear of the caooso. Conductor Wiso was in 10 rear of the cabooso and the tber men betwoon the caboose act engine. One Killed and Right Injured. Washington, (ia., Oct. 5. ? A assenger train on tho Augusta outhern railroad ran into a burnig trestle near Mitcbel, Ua., GO liles from Augusta, early today nd one man was killed and eight thers injured. The CO foot treelo was entirely destroyed by thu ro and the tender, compartment ar and two coaches also were urned. The injured were taken o Mitchell where physicians wort raiting. All of the baggage, ex rosa and mail were saved. CONFESSIONS OF A PRIEST. llov. J no. S. Cox, of Wake, irk., writes, 4'For 12 years I adored from Yellow Jaundice. 1 (insulted a number of physicians nd tried all sorts of medicine, but ot no relief. Then I began iio uso of Electric Bitters and jel that I am now cured of a dis nso that had mo in its wasp for volvo years. If you want a ro> able medicine for Liver and Kid. ey trouble, stomach disorder or enoral debility, get Electric litters. Its guaranteed by Craw* ml Bros., .1. F Mackoy *fe Co., nd Fnnderbnrk Pharmacy. Only <>c. ?Subscribe toTho Lodger find lew York World, both for onlv 1.15. Bank Robbers Couvictcd. And (liven Fifteen Years i Frank Duncan Punied over ?? Alabama Authorities -Hi* Wife Hedged 11 iin t<? Commit Suicide. Tiivurus, Flu , Oct 5. ?Frank Duncan and his painter "Kid Stafford were convicted in the cir cuit court today of blowing the jsafe of the ijccbburg bank, and 1 were sentenced to the penitentiary mr iincen yours?tlio lull limit for tlio otlenso, {Sentence on Dunenn wus suspended and he was I nrncil over to Alabunui authorities to he taken to Birmingham where he wus c >n\ictod of the murder of two policemen and sentenced to hang. When captured tie prisoners v\ere well armed and a bottle of nitroglycerin? was found in their possession. They claimed that the bottle contained medicine, but Detectives Allan ant! Budiker this morning pal cod some of its contents under a stump and blew it to atoms, startling the town with the explosion. When the prisoners were taken hack to jail and they, with the Sheriff and detectives, were standing in the corridor, Duncan drew from his pocket a bottle of nitroglycerine, raised it aloft and with i srivt. 1 ,.n . ? - I urn us oom loose, or we will all go lo hell together." Detect ivo Allan leveled his pistol at Stafford, who sank to his knees ami hogged him not to shoot. Duncan gave up the b ttlo out ot consideration far Stafford. Duncan's w ife came from Tampa yesterday and advised him to kill himself. It is thought she smuggled the hottlo of nitroglycerine to him. She left last night and did not attend the trial. Shot and Killed His Son-in-law Dawnson, Ga., Oct. G.?.Jesse Wall shot and killed Ilill Oxforq his soil-in law last night in t)xi ford's yard. The coroner s jury today decided the killing was unjustifiable andWalhwas brought to wawson tonight in custody of the sheriff. Willi's statement at the inquest was to the efleet that he . was reprimanding Oxford for neg lecting his wife when Oxford our sod him and advanced with an open Unifo and taut he tired to save his ov\n life. A Unifo was found by Oxford's , side unopened and this with the fact that ho was shot in the back , and testimony of eyo witncsscslod i to the verdict rendered. Both , parties were well known white men of Terrell county. Convicted of Murder. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 4. ? Bon Clark, the negro who killed Chief of Bolu'o B. K. Warn rick of Shelby and wounded two other officers in tho jail there some weeks ago, was today convicted of murder in tho tirst degree and sentenced to bo hanged Oct. "J*. Tho negro was badly wounded by another officer after he shot 11 am rick. The inn was out but ten minutes. "Watrli tlio Kidneys" 'When they affected, life is in danger," shvs Dr. Aherncthy, the greatest English physician. Foley's Kidney Cure makes sound kidnoys. Sold l?y Funderhurk ' Pharmacy.