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Scraps and ifacts. ? Rutherford ton, N. C., Nov. 4: Two months ago, Oliver Webb, an overseer In the Florence mills, six miles from here, struck Sam Lewis, one of his employes over the head with a large piece of iron, claiming that Lewis had started for him with an open knife. Both were tried before a magistrate, and bound over to court. The humiliation was too great and immediately after the trial Webb went to a drug store, bought two bottles of laudanum drank one and was drinking the other when friends Interfered. Three physicians worked with him until the following morning, when he was revived. In the criminal court here yesterday Judge Council fined Webb |25 and Lewis $5. Webb, again feeling that he was forever disgraced, paid the fine, left the court room and went directly to the drug store, where he secured more laudanum and drank It, dying this morning. ? Bishop Marcel, of the Catholic church, says a Washington dispatch, has received a letter confirming the news of the massacre of the American missionaries at Lienchow and giving the following particulars: Dr. Machle requested the removal of the street theatre near the hospital on account of the noise. This request Incensed the Chinese, who becoming violent, attacked the hospital. The mob then paraded the streets, exhibiting a skeleton used In the Instruction of a medical class and alleging it was an example of the foreigners' Inhumanity to the Chinese people. Becoming frenzied the crowd burned the hospital, girls' school, and the residences of the missionaries. Dr. Machle, Mrs. Machle, their ten year old daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Peale, Dr. Eleanor Chesnut, and Miss Paterson took refuge In a cave. The mob pursued them and killed all except Dr. Machle and Miss Patterson, who escaped to the Yamen. Dr. Machle was badly wounded. The gunboat Callao and two Chinese gunboats with members of the American board of missions are proceeding to the scene of the massacre. ? Spartanburg Journal: It appears from recent statistics that the cotton mills of the south now use as much raw cotton as those of the north and that In the last Ave years the consumption of raw cotton In the northern mills has Increased only about 3i per cent, while the Increase In southern mills has been more than 34 per cent. Five-eighths of the total spindles at work In this country are In the north, but the average production per spindle In the north Is only 67.1 pounds against 126.4 pounds In the south. The takings of raw cotton In the northern mills have been about stationary for the past ten years and those of the British mills for twenty years. Both the northern spinners of this country and the mills of England are being crowded out of the market for coarse cotton goods by the southern mills, %nd in this held the trade of the world lies before the south. The mills of the south are comparatively new and their machinery up to date, and they can give England and the northern mills a hard fight for the fine goods trade whenever they choose to Invade that market. ? Panama. Nov. 6: Secretary Taft, accompanied by Col. Edwards, chief of the bureau of Insular affairs. Col. Wm. B. Black and Lieut. Mark Brooke, last Friday examined the location for the fortifications at the Pacific terminal of the canal. The Associated Press is informed that the small foot hill at Ancon is the point selected. Regarding the fortification of an island in Panama bay to protect the canal entrance, it was decided to do nothing until the canal is finished. The engineers left here Saturday afternoon for Colon, where the location for forts presents more difficulties than at Panama. These will probably be erected on Tero Point, where some Americans own a cocoanut plantation. The celebrations here came to an end tonight with a grand reception given by President Amador in honor of Secretary Taft. All the prominent residents of Panama together with the zone officials and members of the diplomatic and consular corps were present. Secretary Taft will leave tomorrow for Colon, where the American colony will give a ball in his honor. ? Sir Frederick Treves, the famous English physician, in an address before the Philosophical society, at Edinburgh, last Saturday, on the subject of disease promulgated what appears to be a startling paradox, that disease, instead of being, as is generally supposed, malignant, is really benevolent. People have considered every symptom of disease noxious, and that It ought to be stamped out with relentless determination, but according to Sir Frederick the motive of disease is benevolent and protective. If it were not for disease, he said, the human race would soon be extinct. The lecturer took examples such as a wound and the supervening inflammation, which is a process of cure to be imitated rather than hindered. Peritonitis. he said, was an operating surgeon's best friend; without it every example of appendicitis would be fatal. The phenomena of a cough and cold were in the main manifestations of a cure. Without them a common cold might become fatal. The catarrh and persistent sneezing were practical means of dislodging bacteria from the nasal passage and the cough of removing the bacteria from the windpipe. Again, the whole of the manifestations of tuberculosis were expressions of unflagging efforts on the part of the body to oppose the progress of invading bacterium. ? A special of Sunday to the Knoxvllle, Tenn., Journal and Tribune from Middlesboro, Ky., tells of a reign of terror in the border line city that threatens to rival in violence the bloody feuds of Breathitt county. The Middlesboro militia company spent Sunday afternoon in the mountains after a lawless gang, said to be headed by Frank Ball, wanted for the murder rv# T/vU? D^l,.? ~ Ur.11 IL. ro. ui tiuuu uuiru, a uai uci. uau ? -? ?v. ported to have with him a crowd of at least 40 men who intend to resist his arrest to :he last. Four miles from Middlepboro, the soldiers today attacked a blind tiger and riddled it with steel bullets, although they succeeded in capturing nine of the men. Returning to town a roll call of the company showed the absence of three men whose whereabouts are not known. Tonight the town is comparatively quiet, but all telegraph wires have been cut and the only news that can get out of there is by telephone. Gov. Beckham has been asked to send more soldiers and another company is expected tomorrow as the local militiamen are worn out by constant duty of the past three days. The Mlddlesboro company Is In charge of Capt. Geo. W. Albrecht, a leading citizen, who. up to Sept. 1. was editor of the Mid- i dlesboro News. Secrecy is preserved j by both citizens and soldiers and it is I reliably reported that the Western l Union operator has been warned not < to send out news of the disturbance to i any papers. I , 1 iThc \(orlti,iilf (fnquivcr. 1 YORKVILLE. S. C.t < l TUESDAY, NOVEMBER?. 11I05. J The people of York county can sup- i press the liquor business If they will i and we believe they will. , a t ! People who desire to help suppress the liquor traffic In York county may 1 do so by subscribing to a fund to ' be raised for the purpose. ' A fund of respectable size raised by ' private subscription will be notice to 1 the liquor dealers everywhere that it 1 is time to quit. When such a fund 1 is called for by the proper authorities, it is hoped that there will be a liberal response. j Judge Klugh on yesterday declined 1 to issue an injunction against the hold ing of the Brice law election in Spartanburg county today, and the election Is now In progress. The outlook Is that the dispensary will be voted out by a large majority. Mess as. Caldwell and Tompkins, owners of the Charlotte Observer, have bought a controlling Interest in the Greenville News, and if they bring it out as they have brought out the Observer they will make one of the best dailies in South Carolina. The best way to take advantage of the prosperous tim'es now on is to erect good buildings on the farms. Those who lead in this movement are going to be the first to *eap the rewards. They will not only get their work done cheaper; but they will have first choice of labor. Tra reported threat of the King's Mountain township tigers to kill the man who reports them may be taken as a challenge to all who stand for law and order as against lawlessness. The spectacle of a few lawless ruffians defying the decency of the whole county is, to say the least, humiliating. But will the law-abiding people of the neighborhood, of the county, stand such a thing. We don't believe they will. The outlook is that the Republican party is going to be badly divided on the railroad rate question, and the game of the opposition to reform will be to manipulate the southern vote tp their side of the issue. They will do It by means of the usual appeals to factionalism, if they do It at all. The cue of the Democrats the southern Democrats, we think will be to stand by the president, provided the president remains steadfast. If the south- . em Democrats will only play their cards right along this line, they will stand a good show to control the government after the next presidential election. The New York municipal campaign came to a close last Sunday night with speeches by various candidates and the election is in progress today. The general impression yesterday was | that McClellan would be re-elected mayor; but the Hearst sympathizers i had by no means given up the fight. | Many of them believed that Hearst would win and It is quite possible that he may do so. Ivlns, the Republican i candidate for mayor, is not seriously counted in the race. Jerome, the Independent candidate for district attorney, I is in full sympathy with the Hearst I movement. The probability is that he will be elected over Osborne, the Tarn many candidate. I Better Homes For Laborers. There Is an old saying to the effect ( that the average individual Is better able to stand adversity than prosperity, and whether this be true or not there Is no question of the fact that prosperity, like adversity, has Its pe- j cullar problems. This country is in a prosperous condition just now. It is hardly necessary to enter into any lengthy recital of facts to prove this statement. Those who need to be reassured have only to look back three or four years for comparisons that will settle the mat- ' ter beyond question. There are those who read this, who have seen as much prosperity as exists now. Some of them saw it before the war. Others saw something akin to it during the first twenty years that followed the war; but they have not seen anything to compare with it during the past fifteen years. Under conditions existing for many years after the war the labor problem was comparatively easy and simple. The reason is not difficult to explain. The negroes had not begun to rely upon themselves and looked entirely to the whites for employment on such terms as the whites saw proper to off *-r As to whether there was fair treatment of the negroes by the whites, it is not necessary to argue. We say .hat the treatment was fair. The negro had everything to learn, even to the responsibility of taking care of himself. He was like a child. He worked and worked well. His wages were low; but as a general thing, he got all that was coming to him and ! more. With a higher class of labor, and relieved of the responsibility cf ( caring for the negroes, the whites , could have paid much better wages, and made a great deal more progress ' for themselves. But anyhow, the past three years in- , eluding the present, are making an- t other transition stage in the labor question. There are evidences that , new conditions are at hand, and peo- i pie who are wise are beginning to rec- < ognize the fact. j It is a common thing now for negro J croppers to come out at the end of the i year with all bills paid and severai ' hundred dollars profit in addition. | There are numerous cases where these i negroes have had more money than < they knew what to do with?where ] they have thrown it away for things j they did not need; but that is merely s in incident of their first initiation into prosperity about which they have heretofore known but little. If we assume that this kind of thing is to continue, we will make a mistake. It is not the rule for people who make money by the sweat ?of their brows to continue to throw it away. In the course of time they generally begin to learn the wisdom of being provident. A tendency of the time is a general demand for higher wages and a growing dissatisfaction with the cropper system. Laborers who have been working at from $10 to $14 a month, are beginning to talk of $18 or $20, and those who have been getting along reasonably well working for a part of the crop, are now talking of buying mules, tools, etc., and paying standing rent. Both propositions are natural 3evelopments of the times. Fair prices Tor cotton stimulate its production, and the eagerness to make more cotton makes a sharper demand for more labor. The demand is causing the increase in price. People who have made a pretty good thing working on shares see how, under existing condillons they can make more working for standing rent. All these conditions are legitimate and need to be faced. They cannot be dodged. The wage scale has got to be Increased in many instances, and where a farmer, whether he be white 3r black, insists on operating on basis af standing rent rather than on basis 3f a part of what he makes, he will be able to And some one who will proride such an arrangement. As we see it, if conditions keep on improving as they have been, or even bold up to their present standard, the labor problem will continue to grow mfore pronounced. There is no easy way to settle or regulate this problem; but we believe ttfat by use of the proper means the threatened troubles can be minimized, and the secret lies In providing better homes for labor on the farms. Look all over the country, and we will find that the best satisfied labor Is that which is most comfortably loused. Most of our readers will agree with as in the statement that the average family of negro farm laborers knows yery little about comfortable living. It Is something that they have never been accustomed to. Many of them ire little better off in their homes than they would be out of doors. But however unaccustomed any nan may have been to comfortable living, give him a taste of it one time, md forever after that will be the chief ;nd of his desire. This applies not bnly to negroes but to whites as well. The tendency of the average land iwner for years past has been to get ilong with as little expense in the shape of building improvements as possible. He has left his laborers to live in almost any kind of an old shack that would at all answer. In most cases his policy has been dictated by necessity at Its Inception, and maintained afterward as the result of neglect. It is plain, however, that the farms need to be fixed up. The time has arrived when it is again profitable to spend money on good buildings, and in this we believe will be found a com plete remedy for the situation. The landowners who are able to offer the best and most comfortable homes for their laborers are going' to have the least trouble In getting the best labor that Is to be had at the lowest wages. To Enforce the Law. We agree pretty fully with all Senator Brlce had to say yesterday about enforcing the law against the liquor traffic and we sincerely hope that the substantial people of the county will at once begin to give the matter their careful consideration. The enforcement of the laws against tigerlsm devolves upon those who are opposed to tigerlsm and that Is about all there is of It. There is certainly no need to look for assistance from people who are In sympathy with the law breakers. It Is a fact also, that no matter what may be the views %of the individual as to liquor traffic, If that Individual believes in law and order, his Interest requires that the liquor traffic be suppressed. No reasonable man Is going to try to deny the proposition that if violation of the law is winked at In one particular It will be winked at in others, and toleration of the tigers Is bound to encourage the growth of lawlessness. There is no doubt In our mind that the dispensary has done more to encourage lawlessness In South Carolina than any other agency that has over fie-nred in fiur eovernment. The proposition is capable of easy demonstration to any reasonable man; but it is not worth while to resort to any extended argument about the matter. Everybody understands the scant regard for law that has been shown by those who have had charge of the administration of the dispensary machine and this of itself ought to be sufficient. Of course there are still people who have no sympathy with any effort that might be made to put a stop to the liquor traffic. They want the liquor traffic to go on; but these people do not. by any means, constitute the solid substantial element of York county's citizenship, the backbone of the county, and if those who are earnest in their desire to put a stop to lawlessness of this kind will only unite their forces in one long,, hard, fearless effort, they will soon 3tamp the liquor business out of existence. ? Louis D. Brandeis, counsel for the Equitable Life policy holders' committee, delivered an address before the Commercial club of Boston, last week, In which he gave not only some very inti resting information, but some very impor.ant conclusions, says the Buffalo Express. Mr. Brandeis said that there are now outstanding in the 90 principal old-line companies in the United States 21,082,352 policies, covering the lives of about 10,000,000 persons. Half the population of the United States Is directly interested in these policies. The aggregate amount of insurance represented by them is $12,928,493,754, which is more than the actual value af all the steam railroads in the United States. The amount received for premiums in 1904 was $498,303,279 and the aggregate assets were $2,573 186,639, which is four-flfths as much as the total deposits in all the national banks fh? TTnlt<>ft States Thp total in come of these companies was $612,896,S87, which is greater than the total revenues of the United States government. Nearly half of the total assets 3f $1,247,231,758 was held by the three aig New York companies?the Equitaole, the New York Life and the Mutual. This Is a revelation of the financial power of the life insurance companies, especially of the big three, ivhich will surprise even those who jelieved themselves familiar with the subject. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Foushee Cash Store?Is closing out Its entire stock of up-to-date millinery. Next Monday's sale will be comforts and blankets. J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice to creditors of Frank C. Thomas, deceased, to present claims before Nov. 15th, duly authenticated. J. F. McElwee?Has four carloads of pine shingles bought that must be sold. J. M. Hughes, Trustee?Wants school teacher for Gold Hill school. John L. Aycock, Olive?Will sell various articles of personal property at public auction November 15th for cash. First National Bank?Tells you how, once started, a savings account always grows in volume. Carroll Bros.?Tell you about a number of good things to eat which they now have in stock. D. E. Boney, Manager?Calls your attention to what the Farmers' Mutual Life Insurance company is doing and how cheap it furnishes insurance. J. E. Lowry, Mayor?Publishes an ordinance granting the Catawba Power company the right to do business and construct lines in Yorkville, J. S. Brlce, Plaintiff's Attorney?Publishes summons for relief in case of Frona J. Horn et al. vs. Annie Horn et al. J. M. Heath & Co.?Offer 20 lbs granulated sugar for Jl. Arbuckles' coffee at 15 cents a package, j H. H. Beard?Wants to recover bunch of keys lost a few days ago. There was no New York market today on account of the municipal election. There ia a little wheat being sown In different parts of the county; but nowhere Is the sowing as heavy as It should be. In the first place there Is a (scarcity of seed; but worse than that I there is widespread Indifference. BeI cause of the high price of cotton, many people who might otherwise sow some grain are neglecting It altogether. Thera ia aanaral complaint about the high price of lumber. We have only to remark that the country will see lumber very much higher before it goes any lower. The splendid financial conditions now prevailing will send lumber booming. Mr. Elias Ramsay of Sharon, called yesterday. for a pair of spectacles advertised recently as having been found and left at The Enquirer office by Mr. J. T. Ferguson. He identified the spectacles as his own. Mr. R. D. Alexander found the dog he advertised for last Friday. It was reported on Saturday. Speaking of the cotton market yesterday, a local cotton man said: "This is a very puzzling situation, and nobody seems to have a satisfactory idea of its significance. Cotton has been moving up all right; but as to whether it is because of present demand, or the efforts of dealers who sold short last summer to get the cotton with which to fill their contracts, it Is difficult tb say. If the advance Is caused by the filling of last summer's contracts, it is quite possible that there will be a decline as soon as those contracts are filled; but this is by no means certain. The market seems to be in an especially dangerous condition so far as speculators are concerned; but as I see it the man who has the spot cotton has but little need to worry on account of the price." Of course there will be lots of dlN ference of opinion as to Just where the credit for* 11 cents cotton comes in; but it may as well be conceded that the Southern Cotton association is now on top?that it has won a great victory. It Is a fact that the rain aof} unfavorable seasons did much to cut down the cotton yield. It is also a fact that good trade conditions, and increased splndleage have done much to put up the price of raw cotton; but let us not be too quick to attribute the present high prices to these things. All of us very well remember no long time back when the spinners were able to gobble up different crops at 7 and 8 cents?crops that were hardly '"" "i ???/Mi??h tn unnnlV the legitimate la 15c CilOUgii VV? O ? demand. We have seen cases too when the farmers would raise from a halfi million to a million more bales than the mills could spin in a single season, and the p^lce would go far belowj the cost of production. The price was fixed not by the cotton the mills wan-* ted; but by that which they did not want. Under similar conditions last year, if the mills had been allowed to have their way the crop would have sold at an average of 5 or 6 cents a pound. But the Southern Cotton association got in its work and saved the day last year, and It has had no little to do with the situation this year. The association has certainly done great things for the south and it should receive the enthusiastic support of cotton raisers everywhere. SECOND WEEK JURORS. The Jury commissioners this morning drew the following petit Jurors to serve during the second week of the approaching term of the circuit court: J. J. Steele Ebenezer. O. L. Bailey Bullock's Creek. J. S. H. Ferls Catawba. W. S. McClelland Fort Mill. S. A. McAlliley Bullock's Creek. H. C. Cox Catawba. J. T. Latham Bullock's Creek. B. W. Creek Catawba. J. T. Wilson Bullock's Creek. J. M. Starr York. J. D. Hamilton Broad River. W. P. Wright Broad River. J. B. Ford Bethel. Geo. S. Williams York. J. M. Brlce York. T. B. Goforth Bethel. J. R. Halle Fort Mill. J. B. H. Jackson... .King's Mountain. R. A. Jackson King's Mountain. J. W. Lilly Ebenezer. R. D. Stephenson Broad River. J. H. Campbell Bethesda. Sep Massey Catawba. Starr Kimbrell Fort Mill. E. D. Darwin Broad River. R. O. Minter Catawba. D. L. Glenn Ebenezer. J. H. Barrett Bethel. M. S. Carroll York. E. Meek Moore Bethel. F. S. Love Catawba. A. G. McAlliley Bullock's Creek. A. R. Kimbrell Catawba. W. J. Mitchell Bullock's Creek. I n tKOAM TXfVllto Vrtrlf L. H. Good Buliock's Creek. AUCTION SALES. There was quite a crowd of people at the auction sales of real estate before the court house door yesterday morning and bidding was lively. Lands brought good prices. The sales were as follows: By the clerk: In the case of John W. North, plaintiff, vs. Nancy Raglan Dye, Harry R. North and others, a tract of 254 acres, including Pinckney ferry. Bought by R. L. Dye for $16 an acre. In the case of Joseph M. Sims, plaintiff, vs. John B. Ross and others, defendants, a lot of land in the town of Sharon, containing one acre. Bought by S. B. Pratt for $900. In the case of J. L. McGill, administrator of the estate of Frank C. Thomas, deceased, vs. Margaret Falls and others, a tract of fifteen acres in King's Mountain township. Boughtby C. T. Thomas for $370. In the case of Margaret Strickland, plaintiff, against Jermlma Bradford, the Hartln tracts as follows: 1. Home tract of 65 acres; bought by D. C. Clark for $12.05 an acre. 2. Tract of 116 acres, bought by Dr. W. Q. White for $5 an acre. 3. Tract of 65 acres; bought by J. J. Plexico for $9.10 an acre. 4. Tract of 60 acres; bought by J. J. Plexico for $7.25 an acre. 5. Tract of 63 acres; bought by J. J. Plexico for $5.06 an acre. By. J. D. B. McLean, executor: The Mrs. M. E. McLean, "Bigger" _? - <M Da4Ua1 svnrMoVil w lnAl.i/lln(T place, 111 DCI net lunuoiiip, iiii/iuuiug 217 acres; bought by J. D. B. Currence for 13,050. By John A. Ratteree and others for division: A tract of 153 acres on Allison creek in Bethel township; bought by J. S. Brlce, attorney, for |2 995. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Ernest Beard and Miss Mamie Johnson are visiting in Charleston. Mr. Paul O. Grist of Lenoir, N. C., is spending a few days with relatives and friends in Torkville. Mrs. Sarah Garner and son, Mr. Louis Garner of Union, are visiting the family of Mr. Jas. F. Thomson. Mrs. T. G. McCants of Winnsboro is visiting her sister, Mrs. Withers Adickes. Mrs. R. P. Roberts of Cherokee Falls, is spending a few days with Mrs. B. F. White. Mr. Clark Wardlaw Adickes of Davidson College spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Withers Adickes. Mr. C. W. Moorman of Columbia, is visiting his stepmother, Mrs. Janl? Moorman, who is critically ill at the home of Mr. Withers Adlckep. Mr. William Cte.rson of the Delphos neighborhood had hiB hip broken recently as the result of a fall and has since been confined to his bed In a helpless condition. Mr. A. H. Loutnian. wno naa Deen a valuable employe of The Enquirer for several years past, has given up his position to work at the printing business in Charlotte. Mr. Louthlan has given The Enqutrhr good honest service, and that Is what Is to be expected of him wherever he may go. Uncle Robin Love passed through Yorkvllle last Saturday on his way from the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Love on the Charlotte road to :he home of his son, Mr. R. L. Love, In the Clark's Fork neighborhood. Uncle Robin met a number of his friends and acquaintances in Yorkvllle, all of whom were glad to see him. THE COTTON ASSOCIATION. Although there Is little reason to doubt that the Southern Cotton association has made millions of dollars for the south In Increased prices for cotton, and while there are few farmers who are disposed to dispute the fact, still the members are not standing by the association as they should. They are not paying even the trifling assessment of Ave cents a bale, that has been asked of them. Some few of the subordinate associations In York county have paid a portion of their assessment; but with most of the members It looks like pulling eyeteeth to get that five cents a bale. Mr. C. E. Spencer, president of the York county association, and Mr. J. M. Starr, treasurer, are dbing all they can to awaken Interest In the matter; but up to this time they are meeting with only Indifferent success. It looks as if interest In the association wanes In proportion to the clearness with which Its good work becomes apparent. President Spencer Is Just sending out another circular begging the members of the association to pay their assessments. He urges the members not to wait for collectors to come around, but to hunt up the township officers, and pay assessments voluntarily, thus saving expense. He calls attention to the fact that it is now a matter of no difficulty for any cotton grower to estimate the number of I bales he has made, and he also sug! gests how the ridiculously low assess[ ment can be paid from increased profIlts without being missed. Meetings are called to be held In all the townships on the first Saturday in December for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention to be held in Yorkville on the second Saturday in December at 11 o'clock. This convention is to elect officers for the ensuing year, and it will also choose delegates to the state convention and to the general convention. President Spencer is very anxious that the township associations hold meetings at least once a week on Saturdays, so as to keep up interest. He feels, and he is no doubt correct, that if the local organizations are allowed to go down, it will be a question of but a short time until the general organization will lose its power, and the cotton growers will soon be at the mercy of the manipulating speculators again. CALENDAR ONE. The following is a list of the cases on Calendar 1, which, according to our best Information, may be called for trial at the approaching term of the Court of Common Pleas for York county: 5. A. E. Sutton vs. Catawba Power company. 17. Samuel Biggers vs. Catawba Power company. 23. Merchants' Grocery company vs. Kendall. 25. B. B. Quick vs. Millfort Mill company. 30. Mack Steele vs. Southern Railway company. 31. J. R. Key vs. Western Union Telegraph company, 33. Jane M. Gwin vs. D. N. A. Carter. 34. Southern Railway company vs. City of Rock Hill. 37. Ben. Green vs. Catawba Power company. # 38. Charles P. Hudson vs. Southern Railway company. 39. Waverly Fairman vs. S. A. L. Railway. 40. Henley Chapman vs. S. A. L. Railway. 41. R. T. Allison, adm'r., vs. S. A. L. Railway. 42a. C. B. White vs. Tavora Cotton Mills. 42b. J. J. Hull, adm'r., vs. S. A. L. Railway. 43. C. S. Coleman vs. S. A. L. Railway. 44. Rob't Williams vs. Southern Railway company. 47. M. S. Whitesides vs. Wm. E. Holmes. 48. Neely vs. Catawba Power com pany. 4 9. H. A. McCorkle vs. Sallie J. Allison. 50. Isaiah Gadsden vs. Catawba Power company. 51. Hofman vs. Fidelity, etc. company. 52. Sarah S. Scogglns vs. R. L. Scoggins, executor. 53. Thos. Broftn vs. Tavora Cotton Mills. 55a. J. L. Moore vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 55b. Jas. M. Cherry vs. Smlth-Fewell company. 56. Jno. A. Steele vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 57. D. C. Boyd vs. Catawba Power company. 58. Sam'l L. Smith vs. Catawba Power company. 59. D. M. Johnston vs. Catawba < Power company. i 60. W. W. Auten vs. Catawba Power company. 61. J. R. Wallace vs. Catawba Pow- 1 er company. I 62. Li. G. Thompson vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 63. R. A. Bratton vs. Catawba Power company. 64. T. G. Sims vs. Southern Rail- . way company. 65. John F. Williams vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 66. Josie K. Coins vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 67. James Johnson vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 68. Pinckney Good vs. Western Union Telegraph company. 6 9. S. V. Cash vs. J. E. Lowry et al. 70. Allen Parker vs. C. and N.-W. Railway company. 71. J. J. Keller & Co. vs. Southern Railway company. . 72. Chas. D. Nelson vs. Columbia Electric, etc. company et al. 73. E. M. Mendenhall vs. C. & N.W. Ry. company et al. 74. The New Home Sewing Machine company vs. Southern Railway company. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Business continues good. ? Trade continues to hold up nicely. ? Deposits continue to increase at the banks. ? The Victor Oil mill will use electric power. ? The cotton receipts up to date aggregate very nearly six thousand bales. ? Mr. Jas. F. Thomson is making extensive Improvements on the Watson house, recently purchased by him. ? Eleven cents was offered for cotton last Saturday; but there was none sold on this market at that price. ? The horse traders had a great day yesterday. There was lots of trading stock in town, and business was u 1 ? ? I? Knolr Into #PAm TTIftrn UUUIUllIg III IIIC uavn iw vu ....... ing until night. ? Messrs. J. J. Keller & Co., have four pretty good sized Jobs under way In Yorkvllle, and they are having trouble In getting carpenters. i?The work of putting up poles for the new electric lighting and power system is In progress. The wires will be run on almost every street. ? The Neely Manufacturing company will probably begin operations about next Monday. This Is provided there are no more unforeseen delays. ? Yorkvllle needs to be laid off In streets. Citizens Interested in the town's growth and development might do well to hold a convention on the subject. ? Rev. R. A. Rouse and Miss Lula Dameron are to be married this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dameron on West Madison street. ? Mr. John M. Pollock has opened a merchandise brokerage office in the B. N. Moore building next to the Yorkvllle Hardware company's store. Mr. F. C. Black will have his Insurance office In, the same room. ? The papers In a $12,000 real estate deal were filed In the clerk's office yesterday. The block that Includes the Loan and Savings Bank, Ferguson & Clinton's store, and J. Q. Wray's store was sold by MaJ. W. B. Moore to Mr. James M. Stroup. ? The largest audience of the season gathered at the opera house last Saturday night to witness the musical comedy "Beggar Prince." The piece was delightfully presented by firstclass actors, and eveiybody was well pleased. It was a real good show. ? Rev. W. E. Hurt, on last Sunday tendered his resignation as pastor of the Yorkvllle Baptist church. He will continue In charge of the Union, Clover and Enon churches. Yhe Yorkvllle congregation is considering the Idea of having a pastor for his whole time. r.^1 a linn r\t fho Pfitflwhft PflW - X lie |A/1C llltu Vfc bl?v wwMvnww ? er company was completed to the transformer house of the Neely Manufacturing company last Saturday afternoon. The motors and transformers necessary for the utilization of the current by the Neely Manufacturing company also arrived during the day and the understanding is that the mills will be started In about a week. ? It *was a full sized November salesday crowd in Yorkvllle yesterday, and there were lots of horsetrajers here from the surrounding counties; but so well behaved was this crowd that the police did not find It necessary to make a single arrest. The crowd was watched closely all day and the testimony of Policemen Love and Sanders Is to the effect that they saw only three men who were noticeably under the Influence of liquor, and these did not transgress the proprieties sufficiently to warrant their being run in. ? Mr. R. T. Castles of Smyrna, was in Yorkvllle last Saturday, having come down on business. "I like to come here," said Mr. Castles. "Yorkvllle Is the best old town I know of? the people are so clever to do business with and they know so well how to treat visitors. And let me tell you, if you didn't know it. These two banks are doing your town lots of good. You've got the cleverest banking folks to be found anywhere. I don't mean that they will give you anything you are not entitled to; but they'll give you all of that. Why If It had not been for these banks many of our people would have had to sell cotton at whatever It would bring. But It seems like most anybody In our country has been able to get all the accommodation that could be desired. Yes, you Yorkvllle people are getting there and you ought to be feeling good about It." TO ENFORCE THE LAW. Pursuant to the published call of Senator Brice, some twenty-flve or thirty representative citizens from dif- i ferent parts of the county assembled 1 In tne court nouse yesieruay immediately after the legal sales, to consider the subject of the Illegal sale of liquor > In York county and agree upon the best means of securing the enforce- < ment of the law against the same. < Mr. J. Ed Leech was called to the 1 chair and Senator Brice explained the I object of the meeting in a brief address in which he discussed the liquor I situation in this county in all its phases. 1 "I would not have it understood," ] said Mr. Brice, "that this meeting has | been called because of any especially ' noticeable increase of activity among J the tigers since the voting out of the | dispensary, because such is not the case. The Illegal sale of liquor has j been going on over the county for ten years; and it is going on now; but I can't see that there has been any especially noticeable increase of activity of late. "Under the law as It stands, the governor has the right, if in his Judgment conditions seem to warrant such action. to levy a half-mill tax for the purpose of hiring constables to enforce the liquor laws. Sometime ago ] the governor announced that hie would not resort to this right except upon re- i quest of the people of the counties in- 1 terested, and this I think is very t proper. Of late, however, upon the re- t port of Chief Constable Hammett that the law was being violated in certain i counties the governor has sent constables back to them. I would not be understood as questioning the honesty of Mr. Hammett; but I will say while In my Judgment there is no more violation of the liquor laws In York county right now than there has been for years past. If Mr. Hammett should come here to Inquire Into the matter, he would come in contact with people who would represent that the tigers are running things with a high hand and selling all the liquor they want to sell. The governor can easily And excuse for the return of the constables if he so desires. "But we don't want these constables 10 come 10 mis county. rvutii mc main. Is to put a stop to the illegal liquor traffic, and we can do that with our regularly constituted legal machinery. My observation is that the state constabulary has not contributed a great deal to the enforcement of the law against the sale of liquor. Just as when the chaingang was established, road overseers everywhere began to rely on the chaingang to work their roads, when the constabulary was established, magistrates and the people generally left the .enforcement of the liquor laws to the constabulary. And the constabulary has never been able to accomplish a great deal. Juries have not been willing to convict on their testimony. In cases where the evidence seemed so plain as to leave no possible room for escape from a conclusion of guilt, I have heard Jurors give as an excuse that they would believe the defendant as quickly as the constables and they had therefore to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt. 'We are now paying about $4,000 a year In this county for the enforcement of the criminal laws. Now is there any good reason why we should * ? ? ..mm. mil De canea upon 10 pay ??,avv a year additional for an ostensible enforcement of the laws against the sale of liquor. If this expenditure would amount to anything practical, It would not be so bad maybe; but to require us to pay J4.300 for a mere show of enforcing the laws would be an unnecessary hardship. It would not only be unnecessary; but It would be unjust and undemocratic. "Now there Is no need to try to deny that the Illegal sale of liquor Is going on in different parts of the coun. ty; but this is a heritage of the dispensary law rather than a development of the abolition of the Torkvllle dispensary. I have been hearing for years of one negro who has been selling liquor at McConnellsvllle with impunity, regardless of the constables, and I havfe the names of people who are selling liquor In King's Mountain township. Liquor is being eold in other par'. 8 of the county Just as It has been all along, and what we want to do is to put a stop to it. "One thing very important in this matter is to build up a healthy public sentiment. Let the representative citizens in each section of the county give it to be understood that they will have no more of it. And this sentiment can do a great deal to stiffen the back bone of jurors. I don't want jurors to convict without the evidence; but we do want them to convict when they are satisfied of guilt. It has been too common a thing for Jurors to listen to absolutely overwhelming testimony and then turn the defendants loose. We want witnesses, too, who when they go into the court house, will not have forgotten everything they have ever known, wun tne witnesses telling the exact truth fearlessly and comprehensively, and Jurors regarding their oaths as becomes good citizens, there need be no difficulty about securing convictions. "I have been told that liquor sellers in King's Mountain township have given it out that they will kill whoever dares report them. I do not believe that any such ruffians can cow or intimidate the honest, brave citizenship of that neighborhood in any such manner. These people should be made to feel the iron hand of the law. "There Is no need to say that the law against the liquor traffic cannot be enforced. It can be. Many people remember how years ago, before the establishment of the dispensary, the Thorn, burgs undertook to conduct an Illegal liquor business on the outskirts of Yorkville. The late SherifT Olenn took the matter in hand and with the assistance of citizens soon broke the business up completely. Some ten years ago Judge Townsend sent a white boy to the chalngang for a year for selling liquor and gave a negro woman the sentence for the same offense. That came pretty near breaking up the business In this section for the time being, and I feel pretty sure that if our people will get together and round up all the liquor sellers and send them to the chalngang, the business will cease at least for a while." Rev. J. S. Grier asked Senator Brice as to whether or not he had any plan of action to propose to the meeting. The senator said he had no plan; but had merely called the meeting in order that there might be a free discussion of the situation. He called upon Mr. F. H. Barber. Mr. Barber remarked that Senator Brice had already covered the ground so well that there was nothing left for him to say. "out we can stop mis business," he declared. "Why of course, we can stop It, and we don't need any constables either. I don't think there Is any use to tax the county to bring constables here, when they can't do anything. What we want to do Is to raise such money as we need by private subscription. I am willing to pay my part, and I am willing to submit to the tax If necessary. But what is wanted Is for the good people of York county to get together on this question, say that the tiger business has got to stop and I'll warrant that it will stop." Rev. J. S. Grler offered the following, which was adopted: Resolved, That this meeting appoint a committee to consist of one or more ?ood and true men from each township and that they be charged with authority to appoint such additional committees as they may deem proper, to solicit subscriptions, and to take such steps as they may consider advisable in the prosecution of liquor sellers. The committee was appointed as folows: Bethel W. B. Riddle. Bethesda Dr. W. M. Love. Bullock's Creek... .John L. Rainey. Broad River J. Ed Leech. Catawba Capt. F. H. Barber. Catawba John Wood. Ebenezer W. E. Gettys. Fort Mill....Rev. J. D. Huggins. King's Mountain..W. M. Faulkner. York Sam. M. Grist. York J. S. Brlce. The following offered by Senator Brlce, was adopted: Resolved, That the sheriff, his deplty, all the magistrates of the county ind their constables, and the mayor ind police of the towns, be requested o exert themselves to their utmost In oppressing the Illegal sale of liquor. Rev. J. S. Griar offered the following vhlch was adopted: Resolved, That the general assembfy be memorialized to provide for the punishment of violation of the liquor laws by service on the chalngang, without alternative of a fine, and to attach to the purchasing of illegal whisky the same penalties that are provided for the selling of the same. Magistrate R. L. A. Smith took occa: Ion to speak of the great difficulty in securing the conviction of violators of the liquor law and suggested that If it were possible, he would like to see the law so amended as to allow the punishment of the tigers on general principles. Mr. J. E. Leech, the. chairman of the meeting, took occasion to make some spirited remarks on the subject of enforcing the whisky laws. For one * nuns ne muugni u wouia De wen tor the good people of the county to let * blind tiger and all other kinds of liquor alone themselves; to set the example. Then, having set the example, he felt quite sure that if the solid, substantial citizenship of the county? he people who profess to be Christians, would stand shoulder to shoulder on this question, it would be but a short time until the tigers are run out of the county. Mr. W. T. Beamguard, mayor of Clover. and Mr. M. L. Smith, also of that place were interested participants in the meeting. It is understood ttu}t Clover is remarkably free from the sale of whisky. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned, with the understanding that the executive committee would get together and begin operations within the next few days. LOCAL LACONIC8. Death of Miss Emma Norman. Miss Emma Norman, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hose Normal), died at the home of her parents Sunday afternoon, after a lingering illness of eczema. Miss Norman was about twenty years or age ana was a memoer of the Yorkville Presbyterian church. The funeral and Interment took place at Beth-Shlloh yesterday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. E. E. Gillespie. Suit For $25,000. Proceedings have been compienced in the court of common pleas for York county in the case of Chas. D. Nelson vs. the Columbia Electric Railway and the Southern Railway. The plaintiff was Injured in a collision betyveen an electric car and a railroad train In Columbia on'the 15th of June last, and wants damages in the sum of $25,000. Mr. C. P. Sanders, representing the Southern railroad has petitioned for the removal of the case to the United States court. Work of the Chsingsng. The chalngang is still at work in Bethel township and with the assistance of the people of the Immediate neighborhood, is making some very decided improvements on the Clover and Wright's Ferry and Chester and Armstrong's Ford roads. The people are hauling gravel from the rocky knob : near Mr. I. H. Campbell's, and it is of such a character as to make almost as ' good a road as crushed rock. The macadam work on the Clover and wrignis ferry roaa extends irorn near i Mr. R. L. Campbell's to within & short distance of Bamett's mountain, nearly a mile and a half, and In the case of the other road It extends about half a mile from the point where It Intersects wl:h the Clover and Wright's Ferry road. Attempted Assault in Fort Mill. Fort Mill special of Monday to the Columbia State: The Qold Hill section of this township is the scene of wild excitement tonight as the result of an assault on the fifteen-year-old daughter of a white farmer In that neighborhood named McKinney by a negro man who Is suspected of being one Caleb White. The attempt was made Saturday afternoon. The girl lives on the farm at her father's home and late Saturday afternoon her mother sent her to the pasture, some few hundred yards from the house, to drive the cows up to the barnyard. The girl did not return within a reasonable length of time and the mother becoming apprehensive at the delay, set out in search of her daughter, calling her every few steps after entering the pasture. It seems that the girl did not readily locate the cows and was going through a clump of bushes in search of them when she was confronted by an unknown negro man who leveled a shotgun at her, saying that If she made an outcry or attempted to run he would kill her and that he Intended to keep her covered with the gun until the approaching darkness came to aid him in his heinous purpose. Fortunately a few minutes after the negro had "captured" the girl the cries of her mother were heard by the negro and as the mother neared the place where he and the girl were, the negro, fearing detection, ran and left the girl to return home with her mother without having harmed her in ? wav TK<* natvu a# tha o a. a ii j oiLat n oj. i. iic w* <w sault did not become generally known In the neighborhood until Sunday morning when a posse was formed to search for the negro. Suspicion pointed to a negro farm hand named Caleb White, and, innocent or guilty, upon learning that the posse was looking for him he decided to "light out," and every effort to locate him has thus far proved futile. To one who is acquainted with the determination of some of the men who compose the posse It is an easy guess that if the negro is captured and identified by the girl he will be lynched. MERE-MENTION. Three children were killed, and thirteen persons were injured, one fatally, by an explosion of gas which destroyed the Miners' National bank In Detroit, Mich., Sunday Seven persons were killed and many others Injured by a tornado which struck the town of Mountain View Oklahoma, Saturday. Twelve buildings were wrecked $75,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire In the wholesale paint district of New Orleans, La., Saturday A passenger train on the Southern Pacific railroad dashed Into a train of tourist cars at Santa Margarita, Cal. Friday, injuring nineteen persons, two fatally A passenger train was derailed at Ennis, Texas, on the Houston and Texas Central railroad Friday, killing one man, and fatally injuring two Seven miners were killed and a number injured by an explosion in a coal mine at Vivian, W. Va., Saturday One person was killed and five were fatally Injured In a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Central of Georgia railroad, near Gordon, Ga.. Saturday 361,000 postal cards picturing Wm. R. Hearst , candidate for mayor cf New York, throwing a burning bomb under President McKlnley, and bearing the Inscription, "Lest we forget," Issued by Tammany Hall In opposition to Hearst, were confiscated by the postmaster of New York qity, and the matter reported to the United States post, office department at Washington, which it Is expected will Institute criminal prosecution A Minneapolis, Minn., wopian shot and killed her four stej-children and then probably fatally w funded herself, In that city Saturday, after a quarrel with her husband Sir George Williams, founder of the Young Men's Christian association. Is critically 111 In London. He Is 84 years old....One person was burned to death and five Injured, two fatally, In a dwelling house fire at Montlcello, Ky., yesterday. <