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THE NEWS IN BRIEF F6?M. Items ol Nows of tho Past Week Gathorod (rota Various Sourcos. Tho salary ot' tho Japanese soldier j is 'lo cunts poi* month. Of oourse tv man with a salary lik? that would not caro whether ho lived or ol ?od. Two mon were killed, two fatally injured and ono severely hurt as the j result of a dynamite explosion in the Bals?n oil Held, near Houston, rexiis, one day last week. A terrific explosion ot' dynamite, wliich occurred ?it Mount Vernon, 1^ Y., last Tuesday, caused injuries ?dtf> about ld persons and ?lid damage jP properly th it is estimated at $100,000. The coronor's jury (dosed tho in oiiost in the Morrison lynching case til Lancaster, rendering a verdict to the effect that Morrison caine to his death tit the hands of parties un known to them. The contract for the now Metho dist college al Hyatt Park, Colum bia, has been awarded to Granby & .Jordan, of G roon vii lo. The build ings are to cost over $100,000 and will be ready by next fall. .John Swanson, of the linn of Swanson, Cairns & Co., cotton brok ers, of London, recently made a trip through tho cotton belt of the United Stilles. Ile estimates the present crop al I 1 ,?()(),00(). Three young while mon of Saluda county have been sentenced to the penitentiary for len years for killing a defenseless and harmless old negro. This will h;ive ti doterrctit itillu onoo on the lawless of that county, and of Others also. A guttapercha timi rubber manu facturing company, of Toronto, has made ti belt for the grain elevator of Ihc Iutor-Colonial Railway ?it St. John's, which is ono of tin1 largest ever prod ticed, lt is of rubier and inoausures ii,'if)'.) fool. Its weight is unit' tons. Whaling agents in Now IJ ed ford, Mass., hilve received dispatches from the whaling Hool, which has boen cruising in Arctic, waters ibo past season, stilting that Pd boW'hoads and 8 right whales had boen caught. This your's supply of whalebone will lie about 1 I '2,000. Thc last, sales ol' bone were made id. about $f> a pound. In tho United State? Cirent Court Judge Brawley has sighed an order j deferring thc Columbia torin of tho j Court from the fourth Tuesday of November to tho second Tuesday of January, at which time all witnesses, jurors, parties out on recognizances are required to pul in (heir appear? anet*. The order adjourning the Court to a later time was made necessary by Judge Brawley having to sit with the Ci .cuit Court ?d' Appeals, which convenes al Rich mond, Va., on November \->. Two eases of murder ami suicide ol' similar naturi! occurred iii Chicago last Tuesday within two hours of each other. J. Al. Skala, a butcher, fatally shot his wife and then him self. The .shooting is said to have been due lo business troubles, grow I ing out ol' tho fact that tho wife, in her own right, was the proprietor of a meat shop. Shortly afterwards Wm. K oldman, publisher and presi dent of a mining company, was shot and fatally injured by bis former partner, Henry Holtze, wdio immedi ately killed himself. Holtze is said to have believed that he had been swindled by Kuhlmaii. Hm au ucl Michael Friend, one of New York's well known criminal lawyers, died suddenly in that oily last week. The cause of death is not known, but il is thought to have been heart failure. Among tho many celebrated cases with which Mr. Friend was connected as coun sel was thc defense of "Frenchy," j also known as "Ben Ali," and "Jack j thd Hip; er," wdio was (.'barged with | the killing "Shakespeare," in the I Fast River Hotel in New Vork. Other cases wore that of Dr. Ken nedy, charged with killing Dolly Reynolds and Augusta Nack, who, ' with Martin Thorne, was indicted for j ! the murder of Wm. 0uldensuppo. ?fir There is no cough medicine so popular ils Kelcy's Honey and Tar. It contains no opiates or poisons amt never fails to cure. Sold hy .1. W. Hell, Walhalla; W. J. Kenney, Seneca. Typical of other communities in thc South is the fact that thc tanners o'' Granville county, North Carolina, have $700,000 iii bank, more than ii 100,000 of which is in thc two banks at ( Ixion!. A NOTED CRIMINAL. Woman Whoso r?farioi's Trade Raises tho Indignation ot an Empire. Berlin, November -The 1 lam ber baby farmer, Klizabcih Wieso, has been found guilty of tho murd or of (ive infants ami a long stries of othor grave climes. In accord anoo with CT erm a ti law she has been sch le.need live times to death, once for each iii Order. Kor piirjdry and forgOly she wis sentenced to six years'1 penal servitude. Another curious pendant to her sou toncos was thc loss of honor for the remainder of her natural life Tho details of thc trial were revolting in tin? ex treme, proving the woman to be a monster of iniquity. Tho story of her career is one of the most revolting; in tho criminal annals of the empire, lt appeared from thc evidence given at the trial that she was born at llanover in I860, her maiden name hoing iierke field. After a somewhat checkered career in her native province, whore several prosecutions and imprison ments for illegal operations and im posture had rendered it impossible for her to carry on her (railing of midwife, she moved to Hamburg, renting an expensive r?sidence in one of the fashionable thoroughfares. Here she established herself as a professional foster mother. lier method of prooeedure was to insert in both (?crinan and foreign papers prominent advertisements, in which llie adoption of children born out of wedlock was promised in ro turo for a singh?, monetary payment. These notices brought her many clients from the fashionable, as well as from the humble, ranks of society. For instance, it is stated that for taking over a child whose parents belonged to thc highest circles of the town of llanover sho received a foe of 451,000 ih addition to fc??O as hush money. At the same time sin; ! inserted in tho papers other adver j tisemeuts to the effect that a "young and beautiful girl" appealed to noble minded gentlemen for temporary pe cuniary assisi ance and forced her own illegitimate daughtei into improper reltaionships with mon who replied ' to these thinly veilod entieemenls. She visited Loudon, Hud the names ! of persons said to be resident in tho | Knglish metropolis wore mentioned , in the course of the trial just ?dosed. lt was further alleged against her, 1 though on this ootillt she hus booti acquitted, that she attempted lo poison her husband, who found bor ; proceedings not to his liking. One of the children adopted by her is said to have been tho child bf un Knglish woman of title. Of tho children whom she was paid to lake, those whose age made the proceed ing profitable,wore corrupted. Other, she poisoned with morphine, throw ing their bodies into tho Mibe, or burning them in her kitchen lire place. The crime of infanticide was brought home to her in no fewer j than live specilic eases, and how far that number was from completing tho gruesome tale of her iniquities there is no means of knowing. The dramatic feature of the trial was the appearance of the woman's husband and daughter as witnesses against her. Clubbing Oller lor Ihc farmer. Wo aro pleased to announce to our farmer patrons thal wo have a clubbing rate with "Thc Piogressive l'armer," an excellent agricultural paper published weekly at Haleigh, N. C. We oller The Courier and "The Progressive Farmer" together al, $1.70 per year. The Pro gressive Farmer has recently purchased the G robu vii lo Cotton Plant and proposes to conduct a paper of equal interest to the farmers of tho two Carolinas. There will bo a nulabor of contributors tor the paper from this State. The two papers for id.m per year. Pension lor Ever, Child. Chicago, November I.--When Mrs. Francis M. Norto'i, in address ing tho Social Keonomics Club, ad vocated a State law which would grant every mother a pension for ; i every child born, she was applauded. "This,'' said she, "would stop com- I morotai marriages and marriages j ' would be for love. When a woman I j is independent she will not marry' . for a homo. A pension for child j bearing would make her independent , in every way." One confused mother suggested ; that a pension system might increase desertions. She was frowned upon. Are being; adopted by the ?zr Mlost Progressive Farmers. ?& I'VE GOT 'EM, AND NOW IS THE TIME TO USE 'EM, Chattanooga* Reversible Disc Plows, Mallory Plows and a Fx*ll Line of Chilled Turn Plows. A l il ? 5 ts iy, io ss. Fanners' f> ^r l^ix vori to' ' I KNOCK OUT ALL COMPETITION XN MY LINE. 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