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Ah Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents
of Die Columbia
Stato.
DIED FROM BURNS.
Chester, Feb. 17. ? A six-yearold
child of Mrs Mollie Smith, an '
operative in the ftpringstem cot
ion nun or this place, was bo badly
burned Wednesday afternoon
by its clothing taking fire that the
child died in a few hours.
john wat.drop appeals.
Greenville, Feb. 17.?John
Waldrop convicted at the las term
of general sessions court of the
murder of Sam Maddox^and sentenced
to life imprisonment, hra
appealed to the suproino court for
a new trial.
white man found dead.
Holly Hill, Feb. 16. ?On Saturday
an old negro ho had crossed
Four Hole swamp reported
having seen a horse and buggy
about midway of the Hwamp andi
no one near to whom it could bo- !
long. Immediately a searching
party went out and found the
torse and b'ggy, the back of the
buggy being broken.
Further search resulted in finding
the body of Oliver Canty sitting
in shallow wuter near the
roadside vith his arm around a
small tree, as if for support, his
head above water, dead. The
body was taken to his home,
where the coroner's inqneat Was
held, tho vordict being that d*ath
was from natural causes, no
bruises being found on tho body.
Take Murray's Horehound,
Mullein and Tai
and, slop coughing. 25. for
large bottle, "lour druggist
or Murray Drug Co.,
Columbia S. C.
Barn burned.
Camden, Feb. 16. ? Mr. H. G.
Currieon sustained a heavy loss
last night by fire, Hi& barn at
the Hermitage place, just below
Camden, was totally destroyed, to
gether with about 1,000 bushels
ot corn. Throe of his mules vtero
also badly singed by the fire. Although
Mr. Curnson is an exceedingly
prudent man, it is reported
that ho hud do insurance on this
place of properly. Ho was not ??t
his otllc? thin moaning,no it could
not ho ascertained whither this
was correct or not.
Winter coughs are apt to result
iu consumption if neglected.
They can he soon brokeu up by
psing Foley's Honey and Tvr.
8(?ld by Fonderburk Pharmacy.
Murder in Wilson N. C.
Kaloigh N. C , Fab 1G -U O
1' c'inrd, Hiiperntendent of the
U'll.cn M,li? orn ? '
I neiMi VWIIUU ill uin, II |i? Ml, in.
C , w;is yh-?t i>nd killed thin afternoon
at 5 o'clock in tho spinning
room at the mill. Hs leaves ft
wife and son.
Wiley House, a workman in a
Cfti lUge factory, is under arrest,
ohargod with the crime. He and
Charles Norton, both having been
drinking, ?*ent to tho mills and
were ordered out. Norton is said
to have told House to shoot, and
House, pulling out a pistol, it is
alleged, did so. Pickard walked
to his oftjee and fell dead. The
meo escaped, but were later
caught near town.
\
noouooiuo lYIItCU i III) Ul'l
Duke.
Sergius Mown Into Pulp by
nnmito Point) at Moscow.
Murderers Arrested.
Moscow, Fob 17.?W
Grand Duke Sergius was dr'n
today from Nicholas place thro
the San at o quarter, his carri
was followed by two cutis.
Law Court a sleigh in which tl
were two men, one of whom
dressed as a workman, w
quickly ahead of the GrandDu
carriage. The sleigh slowed di
to lot the carriage pass,and at
moment a bomb was thrown
neath tho enrrage.
Thg force of the cxplo
broko all the windows of 1
Courts and tho report was h<
outside tho city.
Tho carriage was blown
pieces, nothing but four wb
remaining. The horses wero
hurt and bolted. Tho Grandd
was instantly killed. His head
blown off, actually separated f
bin Unit i 1 :i-1 ? ?
" w if uiv<ii *vng uui I I'HJ |]
gled. The coachman was also 1
ed, hoing so frightfully hurnec
the explosivo with which the Im
wrh charged that he died whi I
ing taken to the hospital.
On the arrest of the murdc
neither of whom wus known
the police, one of thein c<
said.
4'I don't care, I have dono
job."
An immenso crowd gntherec
the spot and made a dcmonsl
lion against a number of studi
who commenced scattering r
olutiouary proclamations.
Within a few minutes after
explosion, which occurod a
o'clock this afternoon,
were soon gathering up pieces
wood and clothing as raemeni
of the tragedy.
PUBLIC AROUSED
The public is aroused to a kn
ledgo of the curativo merits
that great medical tonic, E!ec
fitters, for sick stomach, 1
and kidney. Mary II. Walt
of 547 St. Cluir Ave., Coltitnl
O., writes. "For several mon
1 was given up to dto. I had
er and ague, my nerves were wi
cd; I could not sleep, and
stomach wab bo weak, from use
doctors' drugs, that I could
eat. Soon after begining to t
Electric Hitters, I obtained rel
and in a short time I was entii
cured." Guaranteed at Craw 1
Bros., .1. F. Mackoy & (
Fundeibnik Pharmacy, ti
stores; price 50c
*
Wise is tho man who first ae
tains what kind of advico
friends want ?and then gives i
them.
Fortune seldom knocks
inur's door tho pocond time i
is too lazy to get up and ope
tho first time.
A TOUCHING^ I OR Y
is the saving from death, of
baby girl of Goo. A. Eyles, C
berlnnd, Md IJo writes: (
the ago of 11 months, our I
girl was in declining health, \
serious Throat Trouble, and
physicians gave her up. Wo v
almost in despair, when wo re:
ved tr? trv Dp Kinor'u 1
? ? -- ' ??- -r> " *' ^ " J
covory for Consumption, Cov
and Colds. The first bottle j,
relicf;aftor taking four bottles
was cured, Mud is now in per
health." Never fails to r<?l
and euro u cough or co d.
Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackc
Co., and Funderburk Pharmi
ina i-fain or sorgius May Lead to
Peace.
| i
Dy- Pear Communications of Russian
? Army Arc Threatened by Jap- j
anesc and Chinese Bandits.
I
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hile St. Petersburg, Feb. 18, 1,30
fing p. m. ? In diplomatic circles the ^
ngh opinion is tjuito generally express- ^
at?*" cd thnt yesterday's tragedy may ^
At bo followed by the decision of the j ^
lere government to conclude peace. !
was For some time, despite tho official i
<
'ent ;-;iitr.do maintained by tho govern- ^
ko's ment, there has been a growing apt
own prociation of tii i difficulties of
thnt prosecuting t! u war, in the midst
bo- or' increasing complications at
homo, and as announced by tho
si on Associated Press yesterday, the
ti?w mat lor was actually the subject of
2ard 'or 111111 consideration by tho em
<or?r ai.l hministers Febto
runi'V 16th. Strong influences,
eels which it is understood, in spite of
not dvniuls, are headed by M.. Witte.
uko president of the commit toe of
was ministers, have been working
rom quiotlv in this direction. Gen.
nan- Gri pen berg's revelations, followkilt
od by the murder of Grand Duke
1 by Sergius, in the opinion of some of
aiiib the ablest disploirats, are not une
bo likely to lead the omporor definitely
to decide upon peace. In this
rers connection the war office is conlo
>*idornbly alarmed by the new
>oly danger threatening the Mancburian
army from the systematic at- .
my tempts making by Japanese and
Chinese bandits to cut the lino of
1 on communications back of the army'.
Ira- According to reports, about 10,imts
0()() men, split up into bands of
ev- several hundred each, are operating
from Mongolia und are strik
the ing railroad. A Russian detach- 1
t 3 uient following up tho Japanese '
jpleI band which cut the roud below '
of Harbin fell into an nmhush of two
toos regularly organized Japanese regiments
and was almost cut to pieces, 1
losing half its men and one gun.
The fear is that if the hands move 1
ow. north or west t hoy might interrupt 1
of communications to such an extent 1
ttric as to make it impossible to supply 1
iver army. This dangor has al- '
ready compelled the triple reen.
jjig' forcomcnt of tho railroad guards I
fev- below Harbin. '
my A Nigltt Alarm 1
!'es* Woibo than an ahum of lire at *
. night is the brassy cough of croup,
which sounds like the children's 1
?. \ death knell and it means death un- |
- ess snmethi is d?mo quickly. f
Foley's Honey and Tar never fails
i'?'' to give instant relief and quickly 1
111^ i curo*> the worst forms of croup. '
! Mi-a i? i '1?1:? ' ?'
.u>j. i u v/cniiui, ui manning,
ICy , writes: My threo year eld 1
icer- girl had a scvoro ease of croup. (
b',h tho doctor tsuid she could not live.
II 1 got a bottle of Foley's Honey and
j Tar, and the first dose gave quick 1
? I relief and saved her life '' Re- <
a j fuse substitutes. Sold l>y Funder- i
f ho burk Pharmacy. ??
n >t -? ,
Pointed Par.igrans. I
When some men loso money
th thoy employ a lawyer and lose
urn- aor.io more, * ^
'At; Many u shrewd man has purch
''*'c i aso 1 a cold t>rick in tho form of
vith; . I
I oxnenonco.
lwo been son ally a girl insists on ?
vera J ?
soj_ church wedding becauso she roaDia*
lizoH it may bo her last chance to 1
ighs show ol? in good clothes.
she J ?Le'ter hcuds, bill heads, en 1
yelopOH, visiting cards, n?d all
lr'^ kinds of job work, dono in neatt '
,y ^ est style, at prices to suit,
icy. Koy Strait^ ' ]
, % ; 4 ^
Parr Has Confessed
v
\dmits tho Killing of Claren
Shoal y? Confession Made Friday
Afternoon?Tho Confession.
Columbia Record, 17th.
Munon Parr confessed ye te
lay afternoon. The confess?
was made to RevVernon l'Anso
who is pastor of tho Soutbsi
Baptist church, felt an interest
tho young man and know h
[juito well. There was very lit
hesitancy shown by Parr after I
l1 Anson hud prayed with h
and aftorwards tho statement v
written out by Mr 1'Anson a
Bubmitted to Parr's attorney a
iiivcn to tho press:
' Mr I'Anson, I haven't f
long to live and 1 want to
ready to meet my God in peat
and what 1 am going to tell y
is tho truth. I did kill Clarer
Shealey. .Vhiskoy was the cai
of it all. Oh, if I had stayed
Chiuleston! I know I was a go
hoy and I tiied to behave my&
in Charleston, hut whiskey is t
cause of all my troublo.
"1 went down there that mc
ing and saw the boy, he was i
friend; 1 thought a good deal
him. Lie said ho had a bottle
wbiskoy. lie hold the hottle c
to me and said, ''Coire, old fell
and tako a drink with me."
took the bottlo and look a 1
drink. Clarence said to n
"Well, now you will bo a de
man in two hours. That's wha
have done for you; that whisk
is full of (loudly poison; it will k
you sure.' At that tiuio 1 w
not mad. But the whiskey 9cal
od my throat and burned u
stomach and 1 took the long si
of a carpenter's square and si
to him, 'If you have killed i
with tho whiskey, you have got
iio too; two of us nous* go befc
God for this.' 1 struck hi
actoss tho face with that squn
and then on tho head. They sh
in the court that 1 killed him wi
a hoe. That is false. 1 kill
iira with the long side of a squat
They suid in court that 1 took t
jjun. dust what 1 have said frc
ihe first is true; that gun w
Drought to me by a negro, to r
aouse, who nsked me to cut it <
for him.
"After hitting Sbealoy he h
lored ho that 1 could have bea
aim for half a mile. Cusbm
and Smith were in a boat in t
river and they are bound to ha
heard the boy holler.
"I then went homo. Tt
whiskey burned mo all day;
ilidn't take a drink of wuter i
10 hours. 1 just felt that 1 v
voing to die and 1 went to U
and confessed my sins to him a
asked him to have mercy upon n
After praying aud repenting i
sins 1 confessed to my wife tha
killed him.
"About 9 or 10 o'clock tl
lay I went down to wheie t
body was and with the bo;
blood all over my light arm a
felt horrible. What there was
Lhe whiskey that made mo feel
I don't know."Mr
I'Anson said to him, CiMi
ion, don't you feel that we oug
to make some effort to try to
jure a commutation of your
tence ?
tlNo, I feel that what I wc
to do now is to prepare to mc
ny God. God has forgiven i
ind 1 feci prepared to meet hi]
[ feel that I ought to die/'
Price Ridicules Cotton Farmers
c0 Issues Kesolutious in Dorisiou of ?
Convcnlion Wall Street Shark
CoUon Growers Worst Enemy.
Y orkville N cw Et a.
ir Theodore Price, the Wall i
cn street sharp, has sent out a cotn?
ton statmont recently in which
(^? is incorported a set of resolutions
111 ridiculing the cotton growers of
lm tho south and holding up especiall>
to the derison of tho public
the work of tho recent convention
1,11 in Now Orleans.
Pi ice is one of tho worst enomies
with which tho cotton farmor
has to contond, unil ho hat pro
totypcs in all tho towns of the
south, in "smull potato1' variety
*)e however. Even Yorkville doubtce'
less has a fow of those littlo woaz011
en-souled cotton weevils who are
ICf> ever ready to disparage tho farm'f6
ermefloit# to hotter his condiin
tion. They will niako fun of his
conventions and otherwiso try to
belittle and browbeat on occasions
bo
like tho present. Let tho farmer
shun the Prices?from big Theo*
irn ...
dore in Wall stroot with his mis11
y leading cotton statements down to
all tho littlo "grasshopper."
Prices who invest evory village in
nt the cotton belt. Tumadeuf ear
to their crop estimates and predic*
tions. And go ahead with your
)1{* organization.
a(J A few of Price's lesolutions
^ j follow:
Resolved, That the laws of
ill gravitation be, and are hereby sub
,aH ponded until cotton shall sell for
|(j_ ten cents a pound.
Qy Resolved, That "two and two (
(|e mako four" is au exploded mathematical
proposition, and that in ,
ne estimating the cotton crop they
only mako two and a half or at
lf0 most threo.
irn Resolved, That we will hide our ^
ire heads in tho sand and our cotton
iid in out of tho way places in hope j
th that the world will forgst that wo j
ed e\er lost tho first or ever had tho |
0. second. \
h? Resolved, That progress in 1
im agricultuo is a mistake, and that
as instead of trying to 6eo how well
u7 and how cheap wo can raise cot- i
ton our chief endeavor shall ho to grow
as little dor acre, and at as
high a cost as possible. To this '
r(* end we recommend that planters i
un use no fertilizers and that thoy
'ie sow woods broadcast with tho
ve cotton seed. !
Resolved, That any farmer who
lat shall violate tho provisions if those (
; * resolutions shall bo ostracised by
or society for the first offense, and if '
,as after due warning ho persists,
0(' he shall be run out of
the cotton Stato.
le.
Resolved, That any negro
I j found hoeing cotton shall bo condemned
to penal servitude.
Resolved, That all tho surplus
. U..11 x> 1
|jg INUIC3 niiiii i?<J nuid hi Ullieilt itUU
y?8 Japan at any old price to get rid
nd o( themin
Resolved, That it is better for
80 the farmer to borrow 5 cents a
pound on his cotton at the hanks,
ftr. paying 6 per cent for thojnouoy,
and bearing all of tho'^oxponsos of
so- warehousmg and insurance, etc.,
)n_ with n good chance'ofpolling it
at less than 5 cents next year,
int rather than'to sell ii tit 0 cents tojet
day.
no __ ..
Foley's Money and Tar
tor children,safe,sure. No opiate*.
Make r/cur druggist give
foil Murray's Jlorehontid,
Mill le and Tr Oi'>*
'/our cough. (J5c a bottle
Hester's Weekly Statement.
New Orloaus, Feb 1(5. ? Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton
statemont issuod today shows for
the 17 days of February a declino
under last year of 1GG.000 and a
decrease under tho same por'.od
yon." beforo last of 220,000.
For tho 170 days of tho season
thai bare elapsed tho aggregate is
ahead of tho tamo days of last
year 803,000 and ahead of tho
sumo days your before lust of 708000.
The amount brought into sight
during the past weekwas 113,399
hales,against 108,200 for tho same
seven days last year and 235,848
year baforo last.
Tho movement sinco Sept. 1st
shows receipts at all U. S. ports
to ho 0,878,729 against 0,311,314
last year. Overland across tho
Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac
rivers to Northern mills and Cana
da 603,558, against 722,538 last
year; Interior stocks in excess of
thoso held at tho close of the commercial
year, 522,162, against
324,010 last your; southern mills
takings, 1,227,000, against 1,140713
last year.
Tho total movement since Sep.
tembor 1st is_9,301,439 .
Poriogn exports for . tho week
have been 85,835 against 99,014
last year, making the total thus
far this season 5,463,5G0, against
4,815,791 last year. The total
takings ot American mills, north,
south and Canada thus far for the
season have been 2,693,406
igainst 2,792,501 last yoar.
Stocks at tho seaboard and tho
29 leading southern interior centers
havo decroased during tho
week 40,955 bales against a de:reuso
during tho corresponding
period last season of G0,G24.
Including stocks loft over at
ports and interior towns from tho
.ho last crop and tho number of
jales brought into sight thus far
from tho now supply to date is 9,?
103,406, against 8,606,374.
For Coughs?cot your drug
Ti O*/ o /~n s~l i ??/!/i/
jioio i// j rut to JT? O/ITHilf
Dryg Co., Columbia, S. C.?
Murray's llorclioundMul
lei 11 and Tar. 25c for
large si size bottle.
Tho way to remove paint is to
set clown on it suddenly and then
Hot up again.
Mothors can safely givo Foley'a
Honey andTur to their children for
coughs and colds, for it contains
no opiates or other poisons. Sold
by Fanderbur* Pharmacy.
It's a fortunate thing for wives
that husbands seldom practico
what they preach.
OASVOnZA.
Boars the 1 h0 Kind You Have Always Bougjit
Some men stay away from
church because they aro not interested
in milinery displays.
Murray's I lor eh on ml
Mullein and Tar willcnre
your cough large hot tic for
Me.
The Ledger, The Atlanta
Journal, Semi weekly, and The
Southern Cultivator, all three
ono year for $2., but must bo
paid for in advunee.
Foley's Honey and Tar is best
for croup and whooping cough,
contains no opiates,and cures
quickly Careful mothers keop it in
tho house. Sold by Funderburk
Pharmacy.