The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, August 20, 1913, Image 2
WEEK'S NEWS
| STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con1>
densed to a Paragraph.
I; WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News of Interest That Trickles From
] the White House and the Various
? Departments?Catalogue of
| Crimea and Casualties.
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Spl ' The drought in such cattle raising
States as Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska,
fel Oklahoma and the Southwest gener?&>
<dly may cause an imprecedented rise
f:' in the price of fresh beef. The situar
y , tion is regarded with concern by Department
ot Agriculture officials.
j| V A public reprimand was administered
to Ambassador Henry Lane Wilaon,
as a result of his affront to Great
|p; Britain, when the President forwarded
a note to London repudiating the
^ Ambassador's statement
Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, in
Produced a bill to increase the salary
I ef the Vice President from $12,000
V to $25,000.
r President Wilson was pleased over
I Mexico's reception of Mr. Lind.
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(The Grand Duke Alexander Michael?vltdh,
brother-in-law of the Czar of
Russia, arrived for a visit to Barclay
Varburton, of Philadelphia.
Ex-President Ta?t notified the Tax
Board of Cincinnati that he was a citi*en
of New Haven, Conn., and no
longer a resident of Cincinnati.
John Raymond Audi, eighteen, son
of a vice president of the Reading
Railway Company, eloped with and
married Miss Edith West, twentyeight,
a trained nurse.
Nat Goodwin, the comedian, sailed
tor Europe with his fifth wife, on a
honeymoon journey.
I Sporting
Ban Johnson has informed all
imtiripfln T.ftaCTm n moires that no balk
shall be charged to a pitcher when
he, while in the act of pitching, accidentally
drops the ball.
Ban Johnson, president of the
American League, said that the National
Commission had decided to
start the world's series on Monday.
October 6.
Pitcher Hedgepeth established a
world's record at Petersburg, Va.,
when he pitched both games of a
double header against Richmond and
was hit safely but once in the eighteen
consecutive innings. He was not
scored against
A new record for the International
League was established when the
Jersey City Skeeters and the Toronto
Maple Leafs battled through twenty
scoreless innings at Jersey City.
Three hours and twenty minutes were
required to play the game, which was
called on account of darkness.
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General
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Miss\ Krill, accused of the murder
of Dr. Tron, ras discharged at Utica,
N. Y.
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Foundry Company, at Sharon, Fa., was
destroyed by fire at a loss of $75,000.
A thief entered the New York State
National Bank in Albany and stole
$870 from the paying teller's window.
He escaped.
That racing is being re-established ;
on a firm basis was manifested by the j
action of the Saratoga Association in
announcing stake races for 1014 and
1915.
Albert J. Fountain and Charles
Davis, of Saratoga, N. Y., were kilied
when their automobile struck a tree
on a sudden turn of the road at the
foot of a hill.
The American tennis players who
brought back the Davis Cup were
cheered when they landed at New
York, and Champion McLoughlin was
hugged by tennis enthusiasts on the
pier.
W?at and rJiwne'ht r-nnriitioiis in the
Middle West have become so serious
^bat corn and other crops are in peril
of destruction and epidemics are
threatened in various localities because
of impure water. Live stock is
perishing for lack of water and the
Sre hazard is alarming.
The trade reviews point to a maintenance
of volume of business, made
omewhat more conservative by the
damage to the corn crop. Favorable
conditions, among them better finanipial
outlook due to the Treasury action,
predominate in the business situation.
At St. Joseph, Mo., three brothers,
Frank, Hemry and M. A. Matheny, of
Blockton, Iowa, were operated on for
appendicitis the same day.
The Rev. George R. Warren, ninety ce,
the oldest minister in the Central
Presbyterian Conference of the
Methodist Church, is dead at his
home in Tyrone, Pa. He preached
tor nearly sixty yeara.
All over Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
heat records of a quarter of a
century, it :a saia nave uotu i/iv&cu.
The big Arkansas River, n^ar
Wichita, is dry and so is the Xinne3C*h.
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> The thermometer registered 110 deI
grees in Kansas.
| September 18 was set as the date
! for the trial of Governor Sulzer.
i General Edward F. Jones, the Civil
j War veteran, died at Bingharaton, N.
! Y.# aged 85 years.
M. H. De Young has resigned as
chairman of the Panama-Pacific Exposition
Committee.
The Knights Templar, in session at
Denver, voted to hold their next convention
at Los Angeles.
The State Commissioner of Agricul
S ture estimates the loss by the
drought in Kentucky at $30,000,000.
William H. Locke, president of the
National League Baseball Club, died
at Ventnor, N. J., after a long illness.
Mrs. Hinman Barrett, 72 years old, |
of Indianapolis, Ind., died when she
saw her dog killed by a blow from a
whip.
Samuel Lewine, a feather manufacturer,
of New York city, died of acute
j indigestion, while riding in an auto|
mobiles
Governor Sulzer and Lieutenant
Governor Glynn both undertook to
transact the State's business at the
Capitol, Albany.
Nine miners were killed when a
cable pin on an oar car snapped,
causing it to speed down a 2,000 foot
grade near Clifton., Ariz.
Sanders Franklin and Henry Ralston,
two negroes, were lynched at
Ardmore, Okla. They were accused
of killing a man and a boy.
The seven cotton mills of the Fall
River Iron Works, shut down since
early in May, will resume operations.
The mills employ 5,000 hands.
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i Oil a.i Liiui ui iiuji, 11.
j Y., was elected Grand Commander of
I the Grand Encampment of the
Knights Templar of the United State.
The Manila, now at Mare Island
Navy Yard, is offered for sale at $10,000.
She was captured by Admiral
Dewey in the battle of Manila Harbor.
Abraham Snyder, of No. 65 Market
street, Paterson, N. J., is dead as the
result of being bitten by a spider during
a straw ride in Sullivan County,
N. Y.
Mrs. Nelson L. Pollard, of Elizabeth,
N. J., accused of sending
"poisoned pen" letters to some of her
neighbors, was held for the Federal
Grand Jury.
Porter Charlton was taken from New
York in the steerage of the Italian
steamer De d' Italia to answer to the
charge of killing his wife at Lake
Como, Italy, in 1910.
Friends of Mayor Gaynor, of New
York, told Tammany leaders mat ne
oould not afford to accept a renomination
if the fight with Governor Sulzer
were carried to much greater lengths.v
Henry Jackson, a negro, of Philadelphia,
who pleaded guilty to seven
indictments charging him with robbing
seven saloons at Camden, N. J.,
was sentenced to 25 years in the State
j prison at Trenton.
Water famine in Butler and Bloomingdale
boroughs, New Jersey, has
been averted through the generosity
of Morris and Warren Kinney, cigarette
manufacturers, who will lift the
sluice gate of the Kinneylan lake.
A factory firm in New Britain,
Conn., enclosed notices in the stenographers'
pay envelopes warning
them against slit skirts and transparent
hose and waists. Many of the
young women took umbrage at the
order.
Messrs. Sulzer and Glynn, each |
claiming to be Governor, signed
requisitions. Efforts to arrange a plan
for a test in the courts did not succeed.
A Sulzer adviser said Tammany
had paicf cash for votes to impeach
the Governor.
The Reading Coal and Iron Company
gave assurances to the widows
of all the men killed at East Brookside
shaft, where twenty miners met
death two weeks ago, that they will
be carried on the paydoll of the company
indefinitely.
The Roseville Trust Company, of
Newark, N. J., was closed by State
| officials after a shortage of at least
| $300,000 was discovered. Detectives
! and poiice were seeking Raymond E.
| Smith, Secretary and Treasurer and
i virtual head of the concern.
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! Prince Albert of Monaco arrived at
| Halifax on the steamer Princess
| Alice.
| Chinese government troops captured I
j a position that commands the city of i
I Nanking. j
J The Mexican Constitutionalists are ;
! reported to have captured Saitillo, the j
i capital of Coahulia. i
King George's grouse shooting party j
I of six guns at Dallowgill bagged 43i' j
! brace in one day.
Followers of the Mad Mullah in j
Somaliland ambushed and badly crip- j
pled a native British force.
Alexander Gibson, lumber king of j
New Brunswick province, died at Fre- j
derieton. N. B? aged 94 years.
| Czar Nicholas has decided to e?- j
tabl-ish a department of sports for the j
promotion of athletics throughout the
Russian empire.
It was announced in Tokio that the j
| United States would favor the pay- l
ment of an indemnity to Japanese who \
were affected by the Alien Land law
of California.
Aim? Moret, the French painter and I
officer of the Legion of Honor, died !
at Dinardt, France, aged 63 years.
August Ferdinand Babel, the Ger- !
man Socialist leader, died at Zurich, j
Switzerland, aged 73. Bebel Joined i
the German labor movement in 1862. ' j
Application has been made to the ;
authorities at Heidelberg to declare >
"dead" officially 14 persons who emi- i
grated to the United States in 1S52. !
Pastor Schuster, a noted ornitholo
! jEflftt of Berlin, declared that the ;
i French war offi .'e will ti*nin <>*?srl-os t-n !
harass possible enemies in aero|
planet.
Much Interest In Farming.
Barnett.?An enthusiastic farmer
meeting held in the academy at Ga
nett, Hampton county, marks clear
the day of new interest in this gre,
work. Men, women and children a
sembled for miles out of town to me*
lecturers from Clemson college. J. 3
Riley was called to the chair, and tb
Methodist minister, the Rev. J. I
Brown, opened the meeting with a
appropriate prayer. Prof. J. M. Bu
gess ably discussed live stock an
silos. Prof. C. F. Niven ably folio?
ed on fruits and truck.
Hall Storm Does Much Damage.
Laurens.?A hail storm in the vicii
ity of Boyd's Cross Roads, wroug'n
considerable damage to the growin
crops, eight or ten farms being strucl
The young cotton was badly beate
down and stripped of limbs and foi
age. Corn also suffered from th
hail and wind. At Madden an old gi:
house was blown down and in the cit
r\f T ,9 liron e a noffrn woo rattan'
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ed. At Watts mills a small house wa
struck by lightning, a bureau d?
molished and a large opening rent i]
the gable of the cabin.
Want Money to Carry on Work.
Columbia.?J. W. Babcock, M. D
and E. H. Aull, representing the Stat
Hospital for the Insane commission
appeared before the sinking fund com
mission and asked for a loan of $25.
000 to carry on the development worl
at state fair. It was held by th<
members of the asylum commission
unon the advice of the attorney gen
eral, that an act of the legislaturi
gave them the right to borrow th<
money. The proposition was takei
under consideration by the Binkini
fund commission.
THE LEXINGTON COUNT'S
DENTIST.
To My Friends:
This will inform yon that I am sga-i
t ftinr. wicVt rn c?v T \<Til
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k: v?v ju.-i what you will have to pay
I :o no Dental Work lor jSQTHING
: . i want the: cash when it is delivered,
I '- ork on STRICTLY ethical Principe
sand guarantee satisfaction, as 1
i. ? -e ahvavs clone, if my work doe?
xr r, do as recommended and if vei
f' ."i't come to see me about it, it jyour
fault. :
DR. Gr. R. HARDING
3404 Main Street, Columbia, S. C.
Ridge wooa cars pass the office every
15 minutes.
I The Farm IS
' ri ffTf OU and you
J IfflXj srea- ^ea- ?
JSJinr 3Tour tools, :
^ v? -wheels roll
grain, sacks of produce
market, loads of sand
that needs moving. \
top of a load, listen tc
creaking, groaning so
and wheels, as the load
over the road ruts. It
I stand up long under tl:
Weber
Columbus
give the buyer the mc
money because the}T d
longest time, and are
These are a few of th
to the making of the u
reputation. Selection
lumber, oak, hickory ai
|| quality steel and iron; rr
I* ing, air-drying of every
|| assembling of parts, lit'
H and perfect shaping ar
II of the purest paint to
tive and to prevent shr
|j the wood In the cc
0 undergoes many careful
? who test every part an(
S so that when the wagon
g it is practically perfec
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It FOR TORPID LIVER.
-1. A torpid liver deranges the whole
ie system, and produces
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n Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheur*
matism, Sallow Skin and Piles*
d There Is no better remedy for these
v- common diseases than DR. TUTT'S
LIVER PILLS, as a trial will prove*
Take No Substitute.
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*" Rock Hill.?Following the raid of
1 the five social clubs here by State
^ Constable Jackson, came the trial beL
for Magistrate Wingate of B. C. Small
j1 and R. B. Small, who were arrested
at the Mechanics club during the raid
e there. They were charged with violating
the state dispensary law.
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s Hew the Trouble Starts.
> Constipation is the cause of many
a ailments and disorders that make life
j miserable. Take Chamberlain's Tab!
lets, keep your bowels regular and you
1 will avoid these diseases. For sale by
g | AJ1 Dealers. adv.
L" Columbia.'?Tvith the arrival in Co|
lurnbia of R. H. von Ezdorf, the. Unifc1
: r-A states public health service launch3
j '-la campaign for the eradication of
L' malaria in South Carolina. Dr. ven
l" : Er.dorf will work in conjunction with
a j 'I
I the state board cf health and the city SI
~ : boards of health. Ij
| The Best Fain Killer. ^
r ! Buckien's Arnica Salve when applied ~
to a cut, braise, sprain, barn or scald,
| or o* her injury of tne skin will im- C
i mediately remove all pain. E. E. Ohamj
oerlin, of Clinton. Me., says: "It
| ; robs cuts and clner injuries of their
1 ; terrors. As a healintr remedy its
r i equal don't exist." ?vTd do good for
I I w.u. Only 25c at Harmon Drug Co.
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t St. Matthews.?In the municipal
r election recently the town made a
? general change of administration. The
t total vote cast was 171. For mayor,
f i J. G. Stabler received 92 and Walter
. | Spigener, 79. For alderman the vote
j was: McMillan, 83; Pearlstine, 98;
' | Kenagan, 128; Robinson, 68; Darby,
J 101; Murray, 141; Buyick, 113; Drel
her, 125; Hildebrand, 143. Dr. T. H.
; Dreher was unopposed for commisr
-sioner of "public works.
t Pj'!mastc-r Antoine Deloria, Gaic(
nj.\ Mich., speaks for rho gu'd-.iiee
1 cf those troubled with kidney and
? j bladder irregularities, and says "From
i :nv own experience I can recommend
Kidney P?H<?. Mv father also
! was cured of Kidney disease, and many
neighbors wore cured by Foley Kidm-y
Pills." Ac ijarinutr Drug Store
adv.
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and gravel, anything I? j S
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i pitches back and forth | j
takes solid strength to j| i
lat. I K C wagons? | ! ?
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Steel Kiiig |;jj|
>st he can get for his fc jS;
efy hard usage for the || c|
easiest on the horses. ft >;
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nbeatable I H C wagon fe >!
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id pine, and of the best , p c
lany months of toughen- >j
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ting of bolts and rivets, H Jj
id ironing; application 4 ii
act as wood preserva- <|
inking and warping of ? >j
instruction, the wagon si
I inspections by experts ; g| cj
I verif}r each operation H ' Jij
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BARGAINS THIS WEEK!
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New BrooMaiid, S. C.
More Goods for Same Money,
Same Goods for Less Money.
olumbia, S. C. Phone 49S
LORSOK BROTHERS Jobbers
and Dealers in
Stoves Mantles
Ranges Tiles and Grates
Furnaces
Heaters
Stove Pipe btcam, Gas, water Pipe
Hollow-ware and Fittings
? ? Valves
Enamel Ware Water Closets and k
Tin and Galvanized Ware Trimmings
"Wear Ever" Enameled Iron
Aluminum Ware Bath Tubs and Lavatories
Bath Room Accessories
Terra Gotta Soil Pipe and Fittings '
Sewer Pipe Compression Cocks
Flue Pipe Stops and Bibbs
Farm Drain Tile
Fire Brick and Fire Clay
Sporting Goods
Tin Plate
Pig Lead
Solder J?M Asbestos and Regal
Copper Roohrg
Metal Shingles Slaters Felt
Ventilators Tar Pap^r
Galvanized and Black R & Rosin Sized Sheeting
Sheet Iron Roof < 'coring
Metal Ceiling Rocf Paint
Gutter and Conductor
Pipe
Tinners' Tools Corrugated and V. Crimp
ed Roofing
Pumps and Well Goods Ridge Roil
Rubber Hose A'alley, Etc.
ir Stock is Complete; Prices Low; Deliveries Prompt. Let us quote
you before you buy.
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MANUFACTURERS OF g
Sash, Oaars an?3 Blind, interior Finish, ?
Pins, Gyprsss and Oak, 1
Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding, Moulding, jf
Door and Window Frames. R
^ ^ Coiii^^ia^S outh
1730 Mm STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. II
Is where you can find one of the best stocks of | I
OF ALL KINDS I
DOORS, SASH,
BLINDS & GLASS
LIME AND CEMENT. | I
CABINET MA.'NTLES. j| I
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