Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEEK'S NEWS STORIES RETOLD I- ? Events That Made a Stir Con| > densed to a Paragraph. V..7 > * ? I IA K All! <1 WHAI WA5HINUIUN 15 DUINt v ? News of Interest That Trickles From , the White House and the Various Departments?Catalogue of Crimea and Casualties. PKBOiuwmiiiuuiitnRumuiinnmnninuinniiniiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiHiiiMiu^ I Washington j The nomlnatioii of Francis Burton Harrison to be Governor-General of the Philippines was confirmed. President Wilson nominated Francis Burton Harrison, Representative from New York,, to be Governor General of the Philippines. Bp/- ' President Wilson's programme for free sugar in 1916 carried the day in !;: the Senate, when Democrats rallied te the support of the Tariff bill and jg defeated all amendments to the sugar dhedule. The House majority caucus, aided by Secretary Bryan, defeated the foes of the Administration's currency bill. MsainiiiiiiiiinuiiiiniiiinimmiiiiiiiiniinuiinHiiiuiniuiiiiiininiUHmm^ Personal CatutniiwvtininiiiiimiinfiiiiiuiiiiujuiimMiiiiiiuiiJiuiiiiiinHiiuiiiiumiitic Lord Strathcona, Canadian Highway Ii Commissioner, has signified his intention of resigning. He will probably be succeeded by the Hon. Clifford Sif\ ton. Mrs. Miller French of Tarry town, N. Y., met her father, 84 years old, a civil ymx veteran whom she had given up for dead, for the first time in 50 years. James G. Shepherd, retired mill ionsire of Scranton, Pa., has sued for divorce in Reno, Nev., on the ground that his wife objected to his going to church. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, of Columbia, is organizing, under the Carnegie fund, a commission to investigate the atrocities of the Balkan wars. wninuitiflHiuiaiii!iitn<i.-!iU!iiiiiiiiuiinnnmi!!iHinniiiiHiuiifliiit(iiiuttiPj I Sporting 1 lisifiiuniinuniiifHiiiiuiiiiiRiiiniiiiiiiiiiifliiiHiiiuuiuinoiiiniiiiiiininimii Oscar Egg at Paris broke the world's one hour bicycle record, unpaced, by vOtvering 43 kilometres 280 metres (26.92 miles). Norman Elberfeld. known az the "Tobasco Kid," who for many years held down the far corner for the Yankees, will manage the Chattanooga team of the Southern League in 1914. Lord Northcliffe gave $10,000 to the British Olympic Games Committee, and many others, including several American firms in business in London, have contributed. Keese, the bone setter, after attending to Ed Walsh's arm, ordered him to rest for the remainder of the season and declared that he would be as . good as ever next year. A misplaced tendon was discovered in the pitcher's arm. mmuiii!unmnnmninniitiiii;iHii:]iiiiiimiriii>iiiit;<iiiiiMi!i:iii!iiiiiii!f!!i<tnM General Secretary Bryan will stump in Maine for two days in tlie early part of September. Alleging violation of the live stock transf>ortation law, IS suits for $500 damages each have been filed in Chicago against six railroads. Representative Murray, of Massachusetts, urged a favorable report on his resolution calling for a joint investigation of the anthracite industry. Mayor Gaynor will head a third ticket in the New York city election, EJdward E. McCall having agreed to aocept the Tammany nomination for Mayor. The Public Service Commission of Maryland, authorized the Pennsylvania Railroad to purchase and take control of the Central Railroad of Maryland. Pasquale Sirico and James Mahon were held in $10,000 bail each by United States Commissioner Hitcheock at New York, on a charge of ?rfhite slavery. r Robert Edwin Gray, 71 years old, member of the old First City Troop of Philadelphia, which acted as a bodyguard when Lincoln's body lay in the State Independence Hall, is dead in that city. The Assembly Judiciary Committee decided to ppush the investigation meant to show Governor Sulzer was the author of the charge that four Republican Assemblymen had voted "through improper influences" to impeach him. Oicar Hammerstein, in defending &e suit to keep him from re-entering rrznrt on?ra field in New York. charge* violation of the Sherman, An&Trust law by an alleged monopoly KtthS head of which is the MetropoiSan Opera Company. Vernon L. Whitney, Governor of Jolo, was slijbtly wounded when attacked by two Moros at a camp on the brtand. He killed both assailants. Harry K. Thaw won a week's delay In his fight against deportation or extradition from Canada when Justice Goblensky at Sherbrooke postponed bearing argument on the writ of habcorpus. John Noonan, sixty-two, a farmer employed for twenty-six years by Thomas Henry Grant, cf Middletown Township, near Red Bank, N. J., was gored and trampled to death by a bull on the farm. y. ' Si^so ; tikfir&M: , ' , * i Fire swept four blocks in Jersey I City, destroying eight factories ana seventeen dwellings. The Administration decided to gc back to the policy o? non-interference in Mexico. President Wilson went "scouting" with some Boy Scouts in the White House grounds. ' Five sticks of dynamite were found outside of Mayor Gaynor's office in the New York City Hall. The striking miners at the Coal Creek, Va., mining district have agreed j to accept a wage increase of 11 per cent. Raymond E. Smith, the missing Treasurer of the Roseville (N. J.) Trust Company, was found to be short $358,000. Harry K. Thaw, who escaped from Matteawan Insane Asylum was arrested at St. Hermenegilde-Garforde, Quebec, Canada. Wearing overalls, Governor Major, of Missouri and Governor Hodges, of Kansas led an army of 350,000 goodroads workers in Missouri. Senator Jones, of Washington State, introduced a bill setting aside a space near the Capitol for erecting statuee and memorials to women. George W. Griggs, missing millionaire bachelor and grain dealer, was found in the Mississippi *ear St Paul. The police say suicide. Robert C. Ogden's will was filed. His two daughters and his brother get the bulk of the estate, which totals from $2,500,000 to $3.000,000. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rrtmnanv'c rorwrt chnwQ thnf Ha.ma.Cfi VVAAlJk/IAiaj W * V* V TT V W*.ww >^v.?? Q ? to corn in that line's territory in Nebraska is estimated at 75 per cent Edward Asmuth, of New York, and Miss A. M. Grubb, a trained nurse, were killed when their carriage was struck by a railroad train near Saranac Lake, N. Y. Preston C. McGcodwin, of Oklahoma, nominated as Minister to Venezuela, will be allowed to answer charges before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Harry Elionski failed by 300 yards In his second attempt to swim from the Battery, New York, to Sandy Hook, N. J., a distance of 21% mtles. after swimming continually for 15 hours and 15 minutes. Assemblyman Arthur A. Quinn, of Perth Amboy, was chosen president of the New Jersey Federation of Labor in annual convention at Trenton. The convention adjourned to meet in i\ewara oexi, year. Katherine Packard, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. an-d Mrs. William L. Packard, was drowned in Seneca Lake, N. Y., while bathing. She sank without being seen by her younger sister and a nurse nearby on shore. The Senate committee rejected the President's Currency bill. A sheriff's Jury assessed damages of $100 against Sigmund Greenberg, a house owner, because the disposition of a little daughter of one of his tenants was spoiled when the janitress accidentally threw an ash can on her. Governor Sulzer will be formally charged, before the Court of Impeachl ment, with usurpation of office. It is also planned to charge him with having tried to "threaten and cajole" AsBemblymen against voting for his impeachment. The bodies of three sons of Thomas Fleming, who have been missing from Ticonderoga, N. Y., were found in Trout Brook, near that city. Four years ago three La Rose brothers were drowned in the same place. Allie Burris, 17 years old, was drowned when she attempted to save her father trying to rescue a sixteen fear old boy who had fallen into the water at Stockdale, Tex. The boy was drowned, but the father was rescued. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, said Magistrate Deuel disgraces the Magistrate's bench and ought to be removed. He said that because $Ir. Deuel had asserted that restaurant guests could drink after 1 A. M. liquor ordered before that hour. ^iiiHtniiiiHtiiidiiiiimiiiiiiniiinuiittftiimiiiRninnmiiinmiiuiiininiimmng r ?? # . H i M \WM | RII!l?U!ll!ii:i;Ulilllilll!llll!i!l!ll!i!li!U:ilUUUIlUiUllllliliilUl!llllllilinUUIIIIli The King and Queen of Roumania were shot at while automobiling near Sinaia. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena of Italy will visit Montenegro in September. President Poincare, of France, celebrated his o3d birthday at his country home at Sampigny. The first woman judge to be appointed in Norway is Ruth Soresen, 36 years old, of Christiania. Dr. Piacenza, the Italian Alpinist, scaled the summit of Mount Numzkum, a 20,000 foot Himalayan peak, in India. Three men were killed and five others seriously injured when a naval gun exploded while be'ng tested at. Pola, Hungary. The International Harvester Co.'s plant at Hamilton, Ont., will be reAKrm* 1 rtftf) TrVPD PTP ATTlDlOV 2d in the plant. Roger Thompson, who drove the car In which Harry Thaw escaped from Matteawan, threatened to confess unless Thaw's lawyers got him out of 3herbrooke jail. Miss Consuelo Rodriguez, saddened by many deaths in the Mexican revolution, leaped from the liner Mexico; imong sharks in the Gulf of Mexico.; Judge Charlton, father of Porter i Hhatfton, has engaged Onorevole Camera, former Italian Minister of! finance, as chief counsel for his son, charged with killing his wife at Lake Como in 1910. TI r!11 ^ Aa!o >*0/i| t T> ** f o r, rt_ W lillttiU JJllIVWlll UOVIOICU uiai. a, ?_/" rear concession had been granted t>y the Brazilian government allowing the; company to establish a wireless sen-" vice between that country and the United States. TIE BOLL WEEVIL THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IS NOW PLANNING FOR ITS COMING. AID FROM STATE IS ASKED The Columbia Chamber of Commerce is Urging Other Commercial Bodies to Join the Fight.?How Fight Will Be Carried On. Columbia. ? State-wide movement looking to the eradication of the cattie tick has been started by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, and a resolution, passed by the board of directors of the chamber at its meeting, calls 011 the Richland delegation and the general assembly to appropriate not exceeding $40,000 the coming year to co-operate with Che federal government in ridding the state of a pest against which a majority of the counties are now quarantined. B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division of I the United States department of ag- i riculture, when in Columbia recently, said that the government would put j into the movement dollar for dollar, j Tick eradication would mean a bet- I ter market and better price for cattle, I it is said, and it is pointed out mat the boll weevil will reach South Carolina within five or six years and that it is important that there be something to offset a falling off of the cotton crop. Stock raising at the time ! of the coming of the weevil is being ; advocated. ' Pinglo T. Youmans, Alva M. Lump- i kin and K. H. Welch, members of the j Richland delegation, expressed them- j selves as favoring any movement that would benefit the state. Mr. Youmans and Mr. Lumpkin said that they would support a measure making an appropriation. Mr. Welch said that j he favored anything that would -bene- | fit the people, but could not say what | position he would take in the matter j until having looked into it. Senator j F. H. Weston is out of the city. Secretary Clark of the Chamber of j Commerce said that copies of the I board's resolution would be sent to j i every commercial body in the state, j j with a letter urging them to place the ; I matter before their respective county 1 j delegations. j Suffered Eczema Fifty Years?; Row Well. Seems a. long time to endure the ' aw ful burning, itching, smarting skm-disease known as ''tetter"?another name for Eczema. Seems good i to realize, aDo, that DR. HOBSON'3 ECZEMA. OINTMENT has proven a ; perfect cure. Mrs. D. L. Kennev writes:?'T can 1 not sufficiently express my thanks to you for your Dr. liobson's Eczema Ointment. It has cured my tetter, ; which has troubled me for over 50 j j years.^'_Harmon Drug Co., or by mail, 50c. rFifilf JbxiK UKEMlCAn CO., j St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Adv. i To Construct a New Gaffney.?A conference was held at j Gaston Shoals, this county, between the officials of Cherokee county, the ; delegation to the General Assembly j from Cherokee, other interested cit- j izens and certain citizens from North Carolina, looking to the construction j of a new road which will be in the na- j ture of a connecting link between I Gaffney and Shelby, X. C. The con- \ ference lasted all day long and was j attended by probably about 30 people. ! i When you have an achy, stretchy ' feeling and vou are dull, tired anddis- ! couraged it is a sign of approaching : Malaria or Chills. You should act j quickly to ward off an attack. SIM- ; MON'S RED Z LIVER REGULATOR i i i offers you the help you r.eed. It df- ! | stroys the Malaria germ, drives out j j impurities, regulates the bowels and j ! makes you feel bright, vigorous and \ ! cheerful. Price, large package, >1.00: ! | small size, 25c. Soki >y All Druggists, i j . advt. | i i The Dispensary Election in Sumter. | Sumter.?From present indications 1 it would seem that each day is going j to bring some new feature in the re- j cent dispensary election. A box was j ! brought in from Bloom Hill, a small precinct in the counry, which seen,- I I , ingly had heen for the time bein,g | overlooked by both of the contesting { parties, and while the count at this precinct did not materially affect the result of the election, ,it cut down the prohibition lead to ten votes. Then, it is reliably stated that 12 anti-dispensary votes which were polled in envelopes at Ward 3 were counted in the published report, and advocates of the dispensary declare that if these challenged votes are thrown out the victory will be theirs. Costly Treatment. "I was troubled with constipation and indigestion and spent hundreds of i dollars for medicine and treatment,'' writes O. H. Hines, of Whitlow, Ark. "1 went to a St. Louis hospital, also to a hospital in New Orleans, but no cure vv:ts effected, On returning home i began taking Chamberlain's Tablets, and worked right along. I used them for sometime and am now all right." For sale by All Dealers. adv. / 1 Tutt'sPills Stimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and are un- i equaled as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE, In malarial districts their virtues are widely recognized, as they possess peculiar properties in freeing the system from that poison. Elegantly sugar coated. Take No Substitute. Getting Rid of Blind Tigers. Lancaster.?Several Government detectives, with the help of the local police are waging war upon the numerous ''blind tigers" around here and in'a number of country districts where they have been, with more than usual openness, industriously plying their traffic of selling whiskey. Five alleged "tigers," two of whom are well-known white men, and five negroes, were arrested and placed in i the county jail here, and it is said that 25 or 30 others under suspicion will probably be arrested next week. Mothers! Have Your Ghiidren Worms? Are they feverish, restless, nervous, irritable, " dizzy or constipated? Do they continually pick their nose or grind their teeth? Have the cramping pains, irregular and ravenous appetite? These are all signs of worms. Worms not only cause \our child suffering, hut stunt its mind and growth. Give "Kickapco Worm Killer" at once. It kills and removes the worms, * imnrr.vpe vnnr oh y mm) ifr rr-crn. ""t" ^ J ? ' latps stomach, liver aud bowels. Tne . symptoms disappear and your child is made happy and healthy, as nature intended. Harmon Drug Co., or by ' mail, 25c. KICKAPOO INDIAN MEDICINE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. ^dv. . Dispensary Loses in Williamsburg. Kingstree.?Complete returns from all the voting precincts in Williamsburg county give a majority of six against the dispensary. The vote in the county was very light and very little interest was manifested in the election. The total vote was: For dispensary, 253; agains dispensary, 259. WThile the official count may change the results, yet all indications are that Williamsburg will remain in the dry column. " Tlie Best Pain Killer. "Rucklen's Arnica Salve when applied I w.ii a o?*wuTiv Kn*?r? ?*\?' 1H 11 UUL, ui din# wui ii vi ov/u.u, or other iujrny of tbe skin will immediately rjmoveall pain, E E. Chamber lip, of Clinton. Me., says: "It robs cuts and other injuries of their rerrors. As a healing remedy its j equal don't exist." Will do good {or v,?u. Only 25c fit Harmon Drug Co. York County Bonds Sold. Yorkvillc.?The $75.imp worth of four and one-half per cent York county bonds authorized at the gen- * eral election las: November for the purpose of erecting a new court house in Yorkville were sold, the sale being closed after numerous failures dur- , ing the past several months to dis- I pose of the bonds. The bonds were * sold at par, less accrued interest, and the deal was made by the Court House Commission with the People's National Bank of Rock Hill? the bank being the purchaser. 1 Postmaster Antoine ivioria, ua:a- i nor, Mich., speaks for rue guidance | of those troubled with kidney and 1 bladder irregularities, and ;-ays "From ? my own experience I can recommend Foleys Kidney Pills. My taii.cr ah-o I was cured of kidney disease, and many 1 neighbors were cured by Foley Kid- a nev Pills." At Harman Drug Store I adv. Camden.?During the last few days many alleged "blind tigers" have been rounded up in. and near Camden i and as a result some have been fined Js while others are under heavy bond. ? Two detectives from Charlotte came 3 here representing themselves as cot- 1 ton mill operatives and secured a job \ in one of the mills and within a few days liad damaging evidence against j many alleged offenders. I Hew the Trouble Starts. Constipation is tko cause of many ailments and disorders that make life ~ miserable. Take Chamberlain's Tablets, keep your bowels regnh . and you Sj will avoid these diseases. For sale by v Ail Dealers. adv. cj Spartanburg.?Receipt of a cable- Sj gram from Dr. Louis W. Sambon of jj the London School of Tropical Medi- sj cine stating that he will not arrive in tj the United States until August 30, has Sj necessitated a postponement of the cj pellagra conference which was to have Sj been held here August 29, with |j Doctor Sambon as the principal Sj speaker. The conference will be C held September 2 or 3. >j Final Discharge. sj NTntioo iu hprphv frivpn tn all enn- (: cerned that I will apply to George S. i\ Drafts, Judge of Probate for Lexing- Si ton county, on the 1st day of Septem- ?i ber, 1913, for a Final Discharge as vj Executor of the estate of E. R. Hall- Si man, deceased. /I F. H. HENDRIX. <1 Aug. 6, 1913?4.3. Executor. j>; Fresh bread always found Jj at Harman Bazaar. 5! . t BARGAINS THIS WEEK! ^ -#reo- KOBRECT yPSfBs. ^<5^ 55=5~5>_ \ .tc-wiin'orr ^xg. B B M M H ,?ll?^5g\ SHAPE ; CUADC pHtiiJfeA ormrt \\ QUfiCQ try then, J Btoilings & Armstrong New Brookland, S. C. More Goods for Same Money, Same Goods for Less Money. = JJ Columbia, S. C. Phone 498 LORICK BROTHERS Jobbers and Dealers in Ci "\f"o> flot.* kjiuvea Ranges Tiles and Grates Furnaces Heaters Stove Pipe Steam, Gas, Water Pipe Hollow-ware and Fittings Valves Enamel Ware Water Closets and * Tin and Galvanized Ware Trimmings "Wear Ever" Enameled Iron i Aluminum Ware Bath Tubs and Lavatories Bath Room Accessories ^ ? Terra Cotta 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 Jtvoonng Metal Shingles S'an r? Felt Ventilators T?r Paper Galvanized and Black R d Eo*ii: Sized Sheeting Sheet Iron Roof Coo ting Metal Ceiling Roof Paint Gutter and Conductor Pipe ^ Tinners'Tools Corrugated and V. Crimp ed Roofing Pumps and Well Goods Ridge Roll Rubber Hose Valley, Etc. >ur Stock is Complete; 'Prices Low; Deliveries Prompt. Let us quote you before you buy. i | Columbia Lumber And 1 i I Sfienii^entiirinar Hn a IMdSIUItibiilimg UU. | MANUFACTURERS OF | . | Sash, Doors and Blind, inferior Finish, j Fins, Gyprass and Oak. 1 j Flooring, Ceiling, Weaiherboarding, Moulding, & ^ Door and Window Frames. ^ ] 1730 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. j Is where you can find one of the best stocks of I OF ALL KINDS I 5 DOORS, SASH, i BLINDS & GLASS LIMB AND CEMENT. j CABINET MAJNTLES. I Call or write for Prices. | ? - a ' - - *^1