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i lie Lexington Dispatch LEXINGTON, 8. 0., SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months 60 Three Months 25 AT, VEKT1 SI N*3 RATES. Regular Adv?-ry. .firvt insertion, 75 cents per i?<ci ; ? a^rtion thereafter, 50 cents p?-r ?*t <; <:?? notices, 5 cents per line each its.-.) u ?n; no local accepted tor les.s tbun 26 cew.-s lor first insertion. Obituaries. Tributes of Respect In Memoriam, Resolntioos of Respects, Cards of Thanks, are charged for at the rate of one half cent a word for every word over 100. The cash must invariably accompany the copv. In sending copy count the words and send one-half a cent for each word over one hundred, 'i his rule will in no ca*e and under no circumfrom. ^WUVOO *'V VV notices inserted free and are solictecL Rates lor contract advertising will be cheerfully furnished on application. Anon\morss communications will receive no attention Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless accompanied by 8tamps for toe purpose. Changes of all reeular advertisements allowed once a month and all additional changes charge for extra. All changes and new advertisements must be in not later than SJondav afternoon. For any further information call on or addrees. G. M. HAEMAN, Editor and Publisher. Wednesday, October 7,1903. CoL Tillman on Trial. Oar report closed on the 3rd page of this issue with the reading of the editorials from The State. Mr. August Kobn, the Columbia correspondent of tbe News and Courier, bad given bis direct testimony, as aires ly stated. He was put tbrougb a rigid cross examination by Mr. Nelson wbo tried to bring out from tbe witness that his own knowledge "bad blood" had existed between Col. Tillman and Mr. Goczales prior to the day of the shooting. Mr. F. C. Witherp, of the business office of The State testified that after he went in the office, the door was opened for his; I met him at the door; I caogbt him by the arm and asked him where he was shot. I . assisted him behind the counter. Three or four gentlemen had gotten there by that time and we laid him down with a pile of old papers under his head and the several gentlemen preceded them Q What became of bis overcoat? It was taken off of him bnt by who I ( cannot say. I went to the telephone to call the doctor. Is that his coat [indicating coat] ? I could not say . positively. Did you have his coat that day ? I bad a bundle turned over to me which was marked his clothes was tnrned over to me and I delivered it to the sheriff. Mr. Lewis Wood tamed it over to me. From this witness the defense sought in hrinc nut that a oistol bad been o taken from the private desk of Mr. Gonzales after his death, but to this point the witness oould not testify 10 his own knowledge. Dr. J. W. Murray, sworn says his office is next door to the "State" office; was well acquainted with Mr. Gonzales; first saw him on the day of the shooting passing his drug store between two gentlemen; I left the office immediately and went over to his office to see if I could help him in any way; he was walking perfectly erect; he &&ked to be releived as he was suffocating; and I opened up his clothes, pulled off his gloves and did what I oould uutil a physician arrived; Did not see a pistol upon him. On being cross examined the witness testified that he did not go through the pookets of Mr. Gonzales. Dr. L. A. Griffith was recalled and testified that be saw no weapon upon the person of Mr. GoDzalee; he did ' Li- TT- L not go tbrougn ma pocaeu;. xie gui to The State office about fifteen minutes after he was shot. Lewis G. Wood, Jr., recalled: Did not pull off overcoat. It was on the floor under him; I put my hands in all the pockets to see if anything was in any of the pockets before wrapping it up; there was absolutely no weapons in the pockets; got there about 10 or 15 minutes, prob ably 12 minutes after the shooting. Mr. Wallace recalled: I pulled off the overcoat; there was no pistol or weapon of any sort that I saw. C. J. Terrell, Editor of the Johnston Monitor, says in substance that he heard Jas. H. Tillman on several different occasions in divers places make threats against the life of Mr. Gonzales. He bad frequently denounced Mr. Tillman. Dr. E. C. L. Adams, sworn for the pro8ecatioD: Knew Col. James H. Tillman quite well; was in bis regiment; had some conversation with him relative to some of the articles written by Mr. Gonzales and reference to the race for Governor; told him that if he wished to be Governor of South Carolina he would have to Mr. Gonzales; that the men wfiO weie supporting him expected turn to defend himself. Q. Wbatdidhe make answer to that ? He said, "That woD't do, because I am Lieut. Governor and will be impeached, but you boys need not worry, for by God, I will snuff his light with this." [indicating. | G. E. Lafaye, architectural draughtsman exhibited plat of (ji-ervais and Main street and explained it to the jury giving lengths and dimensions. Senator G. W. Brown, sworn: When we got to Main street where the stores were, I was on the right, Gov. Tillman on the left and Senator Talbird was in the middle. Just as we got to the corner of the transfer station, my impression is between the transfer station and the door, something, I can not now say what, attracted my attention and I turned and looked behind and recognized Mrs. Melton, a very close personal friend of mine?I may say, may it please your honor, that we were school children together, and as I had no engagement with these gentlemen. I did not say anything about her age or mine?and I did not ask these gentlemen to excuse me, even?but bad turned around and bad perhaps taken one step towards ber with a view of speaking to her and joining her, when this explosion took place I bad not seen Mr. Gonzales at all when the explosion took place and there was a reverberating sound against the wall which I think kept me from locating the exact spot it came from and Mrs. Melton threw up her hands and screamed end began to run out to the middle of the street and I went right after her, and beckoned to htr to come to me. I did not know what had happened but I saw her alarm and her fright en- ' grossed me entirely. I did not look back until I got up with her, which was, perhaps, in the middle of the street I took her by the arm and led her out next the opera house and then looked back. I saw two gentlemen, one on each side of Mr. Gon\ zales and he was about a foot, perhaps two feet, around Gervais street. I saw one gentleman on either side and then, of course, I had some id' i Lb' ?i?l i?a 1.1?. ..i...... n tmj Ui wuati iiitu itt&DU jjiauc. vg x/ju you bear any remark from any of the parties present except for the screaming ybu described? No, 6ir, nothing except this, it is not perfectly clear in my mind, but my impression is that when I looked around after I had gotten across the street that I beard Gov. Tillman say something, but I could not tell whafrit was. He was crossing the street at the time. My attention was entirely engrossed with Mrs. Melton after I turned around and saw her fright Q Now, eenator, you stated that you suspected what had happened after you saw the position of Mr. GoDzales. Well, of course, I had some idea about what bad happened. I did not know. Perhaps I ought not to have made that remark. I never heard Gov. Tillman mention Mr. Gonzales' name in my life, nor did I ever hear Mr. Gonzales mention his. Senator Talbird of Beaufort, sworn for the State, says: He knew Jim Tillman by reputation for a long time, but became acquainted with him personally when he was, first elected Lieut. Governoi; remembered the day of the shooting of Mr. GonzaleE; saw Mr. Gonzales comiDg down the Btreet; he had his overcoat buttoned up, and had both hands in the pockets of his overcoat as he came. Q How far was he from you when you first noticed him? I suppose about 10 or 15 feet and as he came up when he got within five or six feet from us Gov. Tillman said, "How are *?? SNM ((^L/SA/4 mAnniM/v " An nSNOT*r% JTUU, VI \AWV UiUiUlU^, U1 BULUC* thing like that;" "How are you, Mr. Gonzales," or "Good morning, Mr. Gonzales/' Then Mr. GonzaleB turned towards his left, towards the inside, towards the transfer Btation, as if to pasB us on the inside, and I paid no attention to him as he got out of my line of vision; I was looking up the street and about the time that I supposed be would get on a line with us I beaid the remark: "I received jour message." I then looked to my right and saw a glimpse of a pistol in Gov.Tillman'e hand, and just then it went cff J. F. Sime: He knew Tillman by reputation; Tillman was on the outside of the pavement, between the corner of Gervais street and the transfer statior; he held his pistol in position on Mr. GoDzales and he backed off and I did not eee him after he got cff ihe pavement. Wyatt Aiken; was walking up Main street with Mr. Dcminick, met Clnnn linn onrttu fn It 1 m Tt 11 f ho nil. YJIUU cpuac lU uirn uuu mv did cot recognize me; he was looking arouDd. As the shot fired we stopped; both of us stopped and looked around- I think Mr. Dominick looked around probably a little bit quicker than I did. The first thing I saw that attracted my attention was Senator Brown assisting this lady obliquely across Main street; to the right ot the Confederate mounment. He seemed to have her arm or his arm on her back or elbow; seemed to be assisting her, walking rapidly across towards snd to the right of the Confederate monument. J. B. Allen testified as to the above; the streets shut out most of the scenes of the tragedy from his view. Arladge Lyles; Was inside the transfer station looking at the north end of the building; they were putting nn wires inside of the buildine: the _r c., gunshot attracted my attention; come to the dooi; when I turned and saw Mr. Tillman with the pistol in his hand; it was after the shooting that I saw him. Tillman was pointing the pistol at Gonzales. Gonzales went around the corner and came back. Tillman said something but could not tell what it was. Gonzales had his right hand in his overcoat pocket with bis thumbs sticking out. Game well LaMotte, an architect, says: He was about 27 yards up Main street., from the scene of the shooting. His attention was first attracted by a sharpe report; saw the pistol in Tillman's hand; knew of the unpleasantness between the two men and paid close attention to them Mr. Sims and I each took an arm and assisted him to The State office; he did not examine the pockets carefully but thought if Mr. Gonzales had a weapon he would have felt it. G. M. Lide and the messenger boy Soherdemann corroborated the above testimony in its essentials. Mrs. P. L. Melton says: She was right behind Messrs Tillman, Talbird and Brown. She was very close behind them and could almost have touched the men. She was behind Tillman and his companions, and was looking towards Gonzales, trying to catch his eye. Just at this time, as she was looking at Mr. Gonzales, she heard a pistol fired. She thought it an explosion, probably under the sidewalk and she instantly glanced down to see what had happened, and she saw nothing wrong with the sidewalk and realized what had happened; she did not notice whether Mr. Gonzales' hands were in his pocket or not, but they were pressed close to his side. On cross examination she admitted that she was excited after the Bhooting. At 11.32 Saturday, Solicitor Thurmond announced that he thought that was the State's case, though the State might want to put up several more witnesses, however, not taking up very much of the time of the i. court. A WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE, Mr. Nelson announced that the defense did not like to object, but they had in Lexington a lady from New York, MisB Roper, who came at the earnest wish of Senator Tiliman to testify in this case, and she must get back to New York on Monday, in order not to lose a position there, For this reason the defense desired to start the case today. The lady is out of the jurisdiction of this Slate, moreover, and here under no bond. Mr. Thurmond said that the State bad several essential witnesses who could not possibly reach Lexington before Monday or. Tuesday, and it could not cloBe its case now. Mr. Croft suggested that the prosecution should not close its case, but allow the defense to put Miss Roper on the stand today, take her testmony and let her go home. > Judge Gary ruled that the court should go on and the defense put up its first witness. Miss Mary Julia Roper testified that she was a trained nurse. She was at Spartanburg during the year 1902 and while there bad charge of an infirmary carried on by Drs. Black and Jeffries. She knew Capt. Ralph Elliott, who was at the hospital, and nursed him a short whilt; was there and assisted to nurse him. She met N. G Gonzales at that time and knew that Capt. Elliott was an uncle of N G. Gonzales. She nursed Capt. Elliott about the first of July. Didjou ever hear Mr. Gonzales refer to Gov Tillman anv while in that hospital? ft/ J. Yes. Do you remember in this con veisatioQ of ever hearing him refer to or mention Gov. Tillman. Yes, sir. What did he say? "He was not in favor of Mr. Tillman being a candidate for Governor." What did he call him, if anything? I remember he called him a coward, a villian, a gambler. Did he say anything else about Col. Tillman? He asked me if I considered Col. Tillman a brave man. I told him I certainly did. He said be did not; that he had made Mr. Tillman show the white feather fcwicf; that Col. Tillman had challenged him to two duels, which he did not acknowledge, and that CjI. Tillman had no more resentment then to come in the hotel lobby and cffer him a cigar, which he declined. Was it one or more or several occasions that you heard him speak of Mr. Till man in this derogatory manner? On several occasions, the few days he was in the hospital. After Miss Roper's testimony the court adjourned until Tuesday morning 10 a. m. Court was called at this hour yesterday but was adjourned until 10 oclock this morning, on account of the illness of Juror Milton Sbarpe, who is under treatment of Dr. Jas J. Wingard, has recovered sufficiently to resume his place on the jury. The trial is now in progress and the witnesses for the defense are being examined. It iB probable that the case will consume this and a portion of next week. The jurors for the 3rd and Mth week of court have been discharged and at the conclusion of the Tillman trial only equity cases will be heard by the court. Here we rest. TAX NOTICE. T WILL ATTEND THE FOLLOWING i tnonfinnfld r?l*cps for the T)urDose of receiving taxes lor the fiscal year 1903: Lexington C. H., from 15th of October to 7ih of November, 1903. Josh Shealy's, Monday evening, Nov. 9. Chepin, Tuesday morning. November 10. Cross Roads, Tuesday evening, Nov. 10. Peak, Wednesday morning. Nov. 11. Spring Hill, Wednesday evening, Nov. 11 Hilton. Thursday morning. Nov. 12. White Rock, Thursday evening, Nov. 12 Mis. Busby's, Friday morning, Nov. 13 Ballentine, Friday evening, Nov. 13 Irmo, Saturday morning. Nov. 14. Edmnnd, Monday morning. Nov. 16. Gastou, Monday evening, Nov 16 Joe Reeder's. Tu -day morning, Nov 17. J J Mack. Tuesday evening, Nov. 17. Swansea, Wednesday all day, Nov. 18 Red Store, Thursday all day, Nov. 19 W. N. Martin. Friday morning, Nov. 20. Brookland, Satuiday all day, Nov. 21. Pelion. Monday all day, Nov 23 Jacoo Williams, Tuesday morn'g. Nov. 24. Steadman, Tuesday evening. Nov. 24. Wm Westmoreland, Wed. m'g, Nov. 25. Batesbnrg Thursday all day. Nov. 26. Leesville, Friday morniDg, Nov. 27. Summit, Friday evening. Nov. 27. Lewiedale, Saturday morning, Nov. 23. Croat's Store, Tuesday evening, Dec, 1. E. H. Addy. Wednesday morn'g, Dec. 2. G. F. Kei8ler, Wednesday even'g, Dec. 2. Red Bank. Saturday evening, Dec. 5 The balance of the time at Lexington Court House until December 31st, 1903. after which time the following penalties will be added by the County Auditor and collected by the County Treasurei: On January 1st, 1904, 1 per cent, penalty will be added to those who bare not paid. On February 1st. 1904, an additional 1 per cent, will be added to those who have not paid, mating 2 per cent, for February. Still an additional 5 per cent penalty will be added on March 1st, making 7 per cent penalty to be paid bv those who have not paid by M?r^h 1st, 1904. Tax books will close March 15th, 1904. The hours for closing the tax booa will positively be at 11 o'clock J or the morning and 4 o'clock for the afternoon appointments. LEVY. For State Purposes 5 Mills. For Ordinary County Purposes.. .31 Mills. For Special County Purposes A Mills. For Constitutional School Tax 3 Mills. Total 12 Mills. Special School Levy District No. 18 -3 Mills Special School Levy District No, 37-2 Mills Poll Tax $1.00. Commutation Road Tax $1.00. payable from October 15th to March Is , 1904. Parties owning property in more than one township must so state to the Treasurer. When writing for information concerning taxes always give name in full. FRANK W. SHCALY, Trea urer Lexington County. The man who complains that life isn't worth living is always the first to make an effort to save himse'f when danger threatens. THE OLD FOI Are Never Without for Catarrh UNDER date of January 10,1897, Dr Hartman received the following letter: "My wife had been suffering from 3 complication of diseases for the past 2. years. " Her case had baffled the skill of somi of the most noted physicians. <jno o her worst troubles was chronic consti pation of several years' standing. "She also was passing through tha most critical period in the life of s woman?change of life. In June, 1S95 I wrote to you about her case. You ad vised a course of Peruna and Manalin which we at once commenced, and hav< to say it completely cured her. Shi firmly believes that she would have beci dead only for these wonderful remedies "About the same time I wrote yoi about my own case of catarrh, whicl had been of 25 years' standing. At time I was almost past going. I commence) to use Peruna according to your instruc tions and continued ics use for about; year, and it has completely cured me. "Your remedies do all that you clain for them, and even more. Catarn cannot exist where Peruna is takei according to directions. Success t you and your remedies." John 0. Atkinson. We are preparing for a big f: ^ daily receiving new good: | DRY GOODS. ^ eq al to any|5g Oar line of DRY GOODS er |P: that line and we strive alw jjjra the highe ^ We intend always to carry I DRESS line and all the latest style fa season will be found ii | Notions an 'j?\ we are headquarters One 1 "v vincing than le I MEN'S FURNI ^ Yoa can find anything and e pnpular prices. ife YOUR INSPECTION IN ^>~ 1603 Main Street, | COLUMBIA J " ? BELI * * ? # $ $ # * $ * $ # * * # ? $ * * i ! OUR FALL ! SH< * * i<? dow ready for our Lexinqton Frie 2" jast the kiud they want. We were \ $ made, 'lliev have SOLID INNEB i X LEATHER COUNTERS. They ca: * I PRICES RI ! E. P. & F. * % mo ma: % columbia, & & "Strength and vigor come of gooc food, duly digested. 'Force,' a ready to-serve wheat and barley food, addi no burden, but sustains, nourishes invigorates." LKS AT HOME Peruna in the House al Diseases. | [NSON, INDEPENDENCE, MO. In a letter dated January 1,1900, Mr. I ; Atkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruna: i " / will ever continue to speak a good 3 word for Peruna. In my rounds as a traveling man I am a walking advera tisement for Peruna and have Induoed *. many people during the past year to *- i use Peruna with the most satisfactory - j results. 1 am still cured of catarrh." A John O. Atkinson, J t Box 272, Independence, Mo. J 1 When old age comes on, catarrhal dis> eases come also. Systemic catarrh is al" most universal in old people. i This explains why Peruna has become 2 so indispensable to old people. Peruna 2 is their safe-guard. Peruna is the only 1 remedy yet devised that meets these >. P9.S09 PTTAP.tlv. 1 Such cases cannot be treated locally; 1 nothing but an effective systemic rems edy could cure them. This is exactly i what Peruna is. " If you do not receive prompt and sata isfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a 3 full statement of your ease and he will fr be pleased to give you his valuable ad13 vice gratis. 0 Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. if 4 all and w;rier trc.de. We are |? s a ad are no* prepared to M a line of jSfe AND NOTIONS | -none excepted. ^ cbraces everything carried in 'ays to keep the qaaiity up to p. ist standard. the very latest styles in the GOODS i m ibrics in vogue for the coming 1 oar immense stock. In s?? d Novelties, I ook over our line is more con>ngthy arguments. ishins goods. i verything needed in this line at Qvality unexcelled. lYITED AND SOLICITED. ?& i , Lever's Old Stand, .? - s. c, | MNE 418. ^ ^ .. Jf &##*$$$**$# ? *#** AND WINTER ! oes i * * nds to inspect. We know that we have * i : .v:. > j. ft 'try CRrei'ii in n&viu^ tuns seawm h vjuuus * and OUTER SOLRS and GENUINE * n't help from giving good wear. * IASONABLE. ; A. DAVIS, I a [N STREET, % s. c. I ft * I j The expression of the currency ~ doesn't worry the average man & ? millionth part aB much as the expansion of his expenses. I * J