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The Lexington Dispatch, LEXINGTON, S. 0., SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months 60 Three Months 25 ADVERTISING RATES. Eegnlar Advertising, first insertion, 75 cents per inch; each insertion thereafter, 50 cents per inch Local notices, 5 cents per line each insertion; no local accepted for less than 26 cents Jor first insertion. Obituaries. Tributes of Respect In Memonam, Resolutions of Respects, Cards of Thanks, are charged lorai ine race 01 one half C6nt a word for every word over 100. The cash must invariably accompany the copy. In sending copy count the words and send one-half a cent for each word over one hundred. This rule will in no case and under no circumstances be deviated from. Marriage notices inserted free and are solicted. Kates for contract advertising will be cheerfully furnished on application Anonymous communications will receive no attention Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless accompanied by stamps for the purpose. ChaDges 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 Monday afternoon. For any further information call on or address. G. M. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher. Wednesday, February 24,1904. The legislative committee appointed to investigate the manner of the work done in completing the State house has apparently found a "pretty kettle of fish." In its report to the legislature, the committee charges | fraud against the architect and coc- | tractors and reflects severly upon the integrity of the old Commission board consoling of Ex Governor H. B. McSweenev, G Duncan Bellinger, R. H. Jennings, J. Harvey Wilson, Robert J. Gantfc and W. J. Johnson. The legislature has ordered civil proceedings to be instituted against the architect and contractors to recover damages It seems now that Senator Marshall, of Richland, knew wh^t he was about when be protested against the way work was being doDe on the capitol and was not merely "talking through his hat" for political effect. As this matter- will undergo legal investigation, the Dispatch will make no further comment upon the matter at present. The people of Georgia are raising funds'to erect a monument to the memory of the late Gen. John B Gordon. It is proposed to accept j voluntary subscriptions from every other Southern State as well a3 from persons in the North. It will be an Equstrian Statue, and will be placed on the State house grounds in Atlanta. Bourke Cochran, the famous Tarnmanny Hall orator, who has been nominated by the democrats to succeed Mayor McClelland in Congress, says that the outlook for democratic success for the presidency is most hopeful. =?-rrr? Admiral Dewey passed through CaarlestoQ yesterday while en route to witness the naval manoeuvres in the Caribbean sea. His stay in Charleston was only long enough to board the Ma> flower. Mr. E. J. Watson, of Columbia, has been appointed Commissioner of Immigration. This is a good appoiafcment, as he is a live and progessive young man and will enter upon his work with enthusiasm and energy. c?i ?:ii i-. i A i1._i. O&eps wm Ud uej<uu iU Anautt* to subscribe $3,000,000 for a fund to purchase a battleship for Japar. CjI. Harry Silverman of the govei- | nor's staff suggested the scheme and wants the Jews of America to make subscriptions. Daadvilie, Mis*., a little town, is experiencing some serious race troubles. Several persons of both races have been killed. Whites are searching for several other negroes and declare that they will lyDch them. Hon. Wm. J. Bryan was enter tained in Columbia last Friday while passing through. He made a speech in which h6 declared that free silver was not dead. The suffrage lawn or Alabama nave been ruled out of the United States Supreme court for want of proper jurisdiction. The people of the Fork and the county generally, are expecting some action looking to the building cf tte bridge over Saluda river. A Deplorable Tradgedy. A deplcrable tragedy occurred near Lorick's mill, on Saluda river, about five miles from this place, last Friday afternoon, in which John W. Me ^tze, a youDg white farmer and mill man lost his life and a negro womaD, MinDie Wise, was seriously, probably fatally shot. The circumstances surrounding this brutal murder are shrouded in mystery which will in all possibility never be cleared away as long as time last. I On this fatal day, John W. Meetze lof*-. Mn Hnmp. which sat uoon a hill toward the river, for his mill to work. The evidence adduced at the Coroner's inquest goes to show that Mr. Meetze, that day sent to Lexington and purchased a half-gallon of whiskey; that be and a negro man. Nero, the negro ferryman at Lorick's ferry; that about 12 o'clock, two negro women, Minnie Wise aDd Bertha Leaphart, the former a servant of Mr. Meetze, brought his dinner; the negro women were given ! whiskey until they were drunk. Bertha went up the public road, fell into a ditch and went to sleep, when she was awakened by the discharge cf firearms. In her testimony Minnie says that she started to leave when Mr. Meetze asked her to remain as he wanted to send a message to the house. Continuing, she said: "Mr. Meetze told me to briDg the dinner buckets back fc;> the house and one of you (meaning me or Bertha) to come back to the mill and do some sweeping. I told him I bad some patching to do but I would try and get Bertha to come ! He replied either of you will do. I tried to find ber (Bertha) at the house and she was not there, I went back towards the mill hunting her and I j came across two (2) white men in some ivy on the slant of the hill near i | the pond and I went on to the mill and I asked Mr. Meetze did he see Bertha Leaphart and he replied that about five minutes after you left with | the buckets she came back and asked j for you. Then I said to bim. I ! cam9 back hunting her and I saw I ^ two white men laying down, and he said whereabouts, and T said upon | the edge of the pond in them ivye, | and he said come and show them to me, and when we got near the men he said: Wait, Minnie, I ain't got any gun, you hunt me a rock, and 11 got one and gave it to him. I kept | on up the hill ahead Gf him and just as I got up the hill I saw the guns pointing through the fence crack and I said, Ob, look yonder Mr. Meetze! and then I started to run and they shot him, and just as I got off a piece they shot me and I said, Oh, Lord}! I they shot me 9nd Mr. Meetze, and 11 | kept a sink between me aDd them ! I to keep them from ebootiog me again I got a house between me and them and I ran through Mr. Jake Mom's yard and through his garden and on I to Uncle Nero Jones* house and I told him I was shot and Mr. Meetze, and asked him (Nero) to carry me home and he said he'd carry me a part of the way and then go back and see about Mr. Meetze, I told him i I was goiog to tell "Miss E^sie," j (Mrs. John Meetze) and he said don't j do it, she go mighty' near crszy, and I said well, then, I'll go on to tne doctor aDd I came on to the house and asked Mies Essie for the boggy to go to the doctor's as I was shot. A little above Mr. Gibson's house Uncle Nero said he was going back to look for Mr. Meetz9 and then he'd come and tell Miss Essie. I told Mrs. Meetze that Mr. John (Meetz ) had gone to look for them two men. The tesiimony of Minnie was corroborated by Berlha Leaphart, Nsro Jones and Wm. Sam Jones in its essential points. The body of Mr. Meelze was found by Jake Monts lying by the path that leads up the hill from the pond; the face uppermost with the head up the hill and feet down and with buck shot wounds in the face fmm and fiidfi of the neck. His body was removed from where it was found to his home at about 8 o'clock. The Coroner's jury found the following verdict: "We, the jurors of the iDquest of John Meetze, find that he came to bis death by a gun shot wound by parties unknown to the jury. Wre believe Minnie Wise and Bertha Leap hart is accessory to the fact in the case of the murder of John Meetze." There are many rumors and conjectures concerning this tragedy afloat, but as they are only conjectures we will not mention any cf them. The officers of the law will spare no effort to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice. The sympathies of the entire county goes out to Mrs. Meetze in her terrible affliction. Bertha Leaphart has been arrested and i3 now in jail charged with being an accessory to the murder before and after the fact. The latest reports from Minnie, the negro woman who was shot, is to I fcte effect that she is in a critical condition and but little hope is entertained for her recovery. She is still at Brookland. The Panama treaty has been ratified by the United States senate and arrangements will be immediately made to break dirt in the Dew ground. An appropriation of ovsr half a million dollars has been made by Congress for the Charleston Navy yard's. Charleston has Dot yet kicked against this appropriation. The latest war news is that the Japanese have landed at several places. One battle has been fought ? - nnrtAnna ronnnf Willi japiuoee bulucoo. hu hv<.uv fights on the water are reported. And now comes tbe report that even France has an acute case of war fever and is rushing all available war ammunition and materials from Marsailles to Satgon, French Cochen, China. The free bridge question, that is one across Saluda river, is gaining ground every day. The people feel the necessity for one and it is onljJ a question of a short time when one will be built. Cures Blood Poison, Cancers. Ulcers. If you have offensive pimples or eruptions, ulcers an any part of the body, achiDg booe9 or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glands, skin itches and bums, sore lips or gums, eating, festering Bores, sharp gnaging pains then you suffer frcm serious blood poison or the beginning of deadly cancer. You may be per manently cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B) made especially to cure the worst blood and skin diseases. Heals every sore or ulcer, even deadly cancer,'stops all aches and pains and reduces all swelliugs. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood troubles, such as ecz-ums, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula. Druggist, $1 00 To prove it cures, samples of Blood Bairn sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co , Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, By Geo. S. Drafts, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, ELLA E HOOK. MADE suit to me to grant ht-r Letters of Administration ot the Estate of and effects of Manning Hook, deceased, These are, therefore, to cite and admonish ail and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Manning Hook, deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Lexington, C. H., S. C.. on March 8th, ?. _ ti.? UK Kcwartf of 1 1 jyi'-i. UtJAl, UllCI puuill/auuu utiLui w? ** o'clock in thelorenoon, to show cause, if auy they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 23rd day of Fcbruarv, Anno Dorniui, 1904. GEORGE 8. DRAFTS, [L. S.) Probate Judge, Lexington Couuty. Published on the 24th day ol February, 1904, in the Lexington Dispatch. 2wl7 Notice. OPENING OF BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF M. R. HARTLEY & CO. Notice is hereby given that by authority conferred in us by Hon. J. T. Gantt. Secretary of State, we will open books of subscription to the capital stock of the M. R. Hartley &Co.. Lexington, S. 0.. on Thursday, February 25th, instant, at 4 o'clock, P. M. A. L. HARTLEY, / r, ^ . M. R. HARTLEY. \ ClM*>rator.-,. February 23, 1904?1 wb>. M A?1 ?4cfaq f] 11.U111VO uvuvn The creditors, heirs at law and all parties interested will take notice that Ada Corley, wife of 0. O. Corlev lately deceased, has petitioned me to have homestead set apart to her and the children of the deceased out of both the real and personal property of which the said C. (.). Cerley died, seized and jx>ssessed. SAMUEL B. GEORGE, Clerk of the Court. Lexington. S. C., Feb. 23, 11*04?iwltt COMMODORE NICHOLSON OF OCR NAV\ Recommend Pe ru-na ? Other ! Prominent Men Testify. /i . r-&.nL _ ^ miff cqvmoqop.epf?\ Nicholson 4^ g<Uab =? Commodore Somorville Xielndson, c-J the United States Navy, in a letter from 3537 R St., X. V,'., "Washington, R. 0.. says: ' Yoi:r Pcruna has been and is no.7 useu ny so luaiiy m m> <n.v? acquaintances as a sure cure f<>r catarrh that I am convinced of its -urative qualities and 1 unhesitatingly recommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint."?S. Nicholson. The highest men in our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men of all classes and stations are equally represented. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the :tse of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Ilartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad*vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The 1 l.irlman .Sanilarium. *~V.J mbns.O Notice. All persons indebted to the Estate of John T. Lowman, deceased, will make settlement and those having demands against said Estate will file them properly attested for payment to the undersigned, on or before the loth dav of March. 1004. j. h. shealy. Administrator. February S, 1904.?4wl7 FOLEYSHONEMAE for children; safe, sure? No opiates Capital POUR I'ER CENT.? (iiiiilt'ii \)tdi Pare and Fresh. D. M. Ferry & Co's., Grossman Bros'., E. J. Bowen's, ' BEETS" ALL OTHER GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS GROWN. A FRESH SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED AT THE I3ozc icir. to an" we "in terTsT'you^ HEGE IP/PRGVED LOG-SEAM \ SAW MILL? WITH THE I HEACOCX-KlNG VARIABLE FEED WORKS. H P IT CAN'T BE BEAT. I Write "The Machinery People" for price*1 g W. H. GIBBES ?CO. I COLUMBIA, S. C. \ S ENGINES, BOILERS, COTTON GINS, j THE GIBBES PORTABLE SHINGLE MACHINE >' | li' I TtlX STATE OF SOU f H CAROLINA, County of Lexington. By George S. Drafts. Esq., Probate Judge. TTTHEREAS, SAMUEL B. GEORGE, V\ 0. C. C. P. & G. S , made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Administration ot the Estate of aud effects of Mary A. and Elizabeth Keisler deceased. These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said M r? E audElizi'oeth Keislers, deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in tte Conr: of Probate, 1 o be held at Lexington, C. H., S. C , on the 16th day of March, 1901, after publication htieof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 1th day of February, Anno Domini 19C1. GEORGE S. DRAFTS, [L. S.] Probate Judge. Lexington County. Publisbed on the 10th day of February, 1901, in the Lexington Dispatch. 6wl9 Notice. All persons indebted to the Estate of I. H. Nunaniaker. deceased, will make ' ' i : J J. payment, and rnose naving uemauu* against said Estate will present tbeni properlv attested to the undersigned. O. F. NUN AM AKER, Irmo. S. C. J. D. NUNAMAKER. Columbia, S. C. Executors said Estate. February 9, 1904.?3wl(j. Notice. I HEREBY WARN ALL PERSONS NOT to bird or harbor Albert Kanidv's boys, as thev have hired to me for this year, [1904 ] JOHN P. CORLEY, February 8, 1904?4wpd. Notice, All persons indebted to the Estate of t. w. So miner, deceased, will make payment on or by the 1st d>yol March. 1904. and those having ciaitns ol any kind against said Estate, will present them properly attested to the undersigned for pa) men t. mrs. t. w. summer, J Administratrix. HOME I LEXINGTON, S. C. R ANNUM PAY"ABLE QUARTERLY" I N A OPPOSITE 1235 MAIN, ST., pianos I M*> 15- ly. Should be fill N?I G? | life is too precious to be carelessly I for Vo wars, and do guarantee vou 1 AN? DRUG ^ See my line of Valentines. ] to you faithful service. % J T I Q | The Licensed Druggist at. IF YOU WANT ANY give us The Dispatch Jo STATE UJt SUUIH ^JAUUIJIJXA, :gi COUNTY OF LEXINGTON. |ij| Court of Common Pleas. M Mrs. Martha A. Lewie, Mrs. Ella E. Donly, Mrs. Alice V. Sease and S. Rufus Lewie, minor, by his guar- ^Blll dian ad litem, W. H. Donly, ^811 Plaintiffs, vs. ^Hl D. J. Hallman, Defendant, 1|| In oliedience to the judgment of the Court herein, signed by Hon. Frank B. || Gary. S]xieial Presiding Judge, and tiled fl January 7th, 1904, I will sell to the fl highest bidder, at public outcry, before the Court House door. in Lexington, S. C., on the first Monday in March, 1904. ||| 'All that certain, plantation, tract or ||g parcel of land, situate in the county of Lexington and State aforesaid, coutain- Wfgji inn- two hundred and sixtv-seven acres. "IImI more or less, lying ?t Gilbert Hollow ^R| mow Lewiedale) on rk" C. C. & A. R. R., and bounded at the time of his pur- M chase from the defendant herein, on the fl North and West by S. R. and J. H. ifjj Lewie, South by J. L. Taylor and on the East by J. H. Lewie and Estate ^jjjjB lands of S. R. Lewie, deceased." iljB TERMS OF SALE?Cash. Purchaser fig to pav for papers. |ff|S SAMUEL B. GEORGE. ?? Clerk of the Court. fl|? Lexington. S. C.. Feb. 15, 11)04. ^Hi T. C. Sturkie, Attorney for Plaintiffs: || J. B. Wingard and Efird <fc Dreher, fl Attorneys for the Defendant. 3wl7 11 |High Grade! j | Low Prices! 1 I GROCERIES, HARDWARE, DRY I GOODS, SHOES, HATS AND 1 GENTS' FURNISHINGS. lJ Leading Brands or Fertilizers. Agent for the New Home and Wheeler &. Wilson Sewing Machines Oebornes Disc Har- |||H rows, Chattanooga Plows. American Car- fl|| riage Company's Buggies. Gate City vH Stoves. "I ?HIGHEST? J " ~ - ? k > m 0*. _ u 3 Market ericas ram zor woxxon 3 and Country Produce. , k ^^"Give me a call. J. S. WESSINtiEB. 1 / $ Chapin, S. C. 1 February 3?tf Place For Sale. I OA A ACRES OF LAND. 110 OPEN, J Ovrvr balance wood and timber. The land is good for cotton, corn, small H ' grain. peas and potatoes. Dark soil with , clay bottom. Good five-room dwelling J and necessary out buildings; three new ^ | tenant houses: good water. Two miles jfl I from Little Mountain. For terms, &c., wf ! apply to. John W. Fulmek. ^B Little Mountain, S. C.\ '|1| | February 3?tf yB $30,000. \ 1ANK. j ?SAW DEPOSITS.. } l HYMN )F PRAISE t elenrnes our excellent PIANOS and ? ROANS every time they are sounded, e don't mean to say that our instructs are the only good ones in the world, ^ t we do mean that they are unsurpassed ^ d give great satisfaction. You know 1 * pleasure music gives to every one. rite us for catalogues and prices. , USIG HOUSE, j Y. M. C. A., COLUMBIA, S. C. tj TTD ] I led by Druggists j A E!i\ Herlis- 1 . handled. This has been my work I pure drugs and careful work. j YOtT NEED. 3aintx. Oils; -Wmirinjr w IB rOURS TO PLEASE. j ^ 77". 3<Iina,rd.. LEESVILLE, S. C. "ii I - ~ - m i -! W? JOB PRINTING DONE an order. 1) Printing Office. . I