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ANDERSON, S. C , WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1901. ' --???????????Mtrnmrnm??J?? VOLUME XXXVII-NO. 26. Jftl THAT no other Stcr* had Clothing but us, or that you could not get as choice an assortment anywhere else as here, and after we had tojd you so, you should find out different, you'd never have any faith in our "adi"?but we are very careful what we say. We do say that a great majority of our floods are bought for less ajid soM enough less for you to come and look over what we have ; then if you fail to be pleased it's our fault. But if you fail to come here, but go elsewhere and pay U more than we ask, then it^s your fault. From $5 OO to $20.00 ! From $5.00 to $20.00 ! / We have just.received one Car Load of F^cy; Winte^ Oats. Come quick and secure some o? them before they are all (Bold. IF YOU ARE A Our Prices aiid^OobdR will Mirrty Tempt Yob. We have always given good values in this line, acd there is no reason why we should not do the same for yon. In buying Shoe* you want to look ?*t the quality as well as the price. Oura stand the closest inspection and are #eft made and1 durable. .We use the utmost caution and bay only those Shoes which we absolutely of the very i>e?t quality. We do not experiment with various Ibs?fcut stick to those which have the manufacturers as well as o?jr guaranteft fc?hind them, and should by chance any imperfection in workmanship or feather occur, yoa will always fh?? us ready to satisfy you. ?KS5 B?OH SHOE FOE MEN. This is the most reasoa ably priced High Grade Shoe on tho market. We i ?aav? them ?a alLiha v^less Isstha? and styies. BROS STATE NEW?. ?- New Y?sr's Day ?i the Charles ton exposition will be Negro Day. ? Florence has an artesian well under construction which has cost the town over $20,000. ? Alumni of the. Citadel academy propose to have ? reunion at the Charleston exposition. ? It is proposed at Abbeville to ortjftn? a cespssj f?r tue erection of another cotton factory in that town. ? "Motftagua?. Ball," Furman'B handsome dormitory with the .acoomo d?t;o>s of 60 or 100 students, has been dedicated. ? B. M. Shealy, a prom' ?ont citi zen of Leesville, committed suicide by shooting himself ' with a pistol. Bad health is assigned as the probable oau?e. ? Governor MeSweeney has tack led his new job, that of considering applications for the return of seized lijuor. Several oases have been pass ed upon. ? William D. Bice, D. I)., a very prominent Baptist minister of Den mark, who was president of the State convention 25 years, is dead. He was 76 years of age. ?'It ?b reported that the ooal sup ply for the cotton mills in this State will be materially reduced, and the pri?e will be increased, The Southern railway needs the output of coal. ? The Graniteville artesian well has proved a failure. It reached a depth of 600 feet, but yielded .only ten or twelve thousand gallons a day. The contractor has given up the job and gone. ? Representative Finie y has intro duced a bill in tho House for the erection of a publie building at Book Hill.' The bill has been referred''to the committee on publio buildings aud grounds. ? An event rather unusual in this State in matrimonial annals, occurred at Edgefield last week. Miss Ida Watson was married to Mr. Jerome Timmerman. The bride is only 14 yoarS of ogo. ':V*B ? Bev^ Andrew McGuffin, aged 90, died at Westminister last week. Ho kept a partial reoord of the couples he had married, which was about 4U0. lie was of the opinion that, he had married 700 couples during his life. ? Governor MeSweeney hfea'..offered a reward of a hundred dollars for tho appveheneio? end conviction of the party or par ties who burned the rb?jh, g i u n ery an d. bo vcral head of sto?kftt e pro?eny^of,8?ymour aud.l9[uot>jn(the White* Hall./section of" Greenwood county on Saturday night, Novembor 16' -'. ^ - '.'11 ' ? Columbifc%committee is s?ojp to be in Washington . presenting that oity's superior claims for the location of the army post to be established in the South. It is said that Birming-. ham, Anniston and Huntsville, all in Alabama, are leading applicants for the southern post. Greenville is also trying to get the post. ? The matter of dispensaries on the Charleston Exposition grounds which recently oreated considerable comment has been settled. The Char leston County board has simply, es tablished, with the proper approval, six additional regular dispensaries 'which will bo located on the grounds. ?-William Herbert, the sixteen months old son of L. Z. Bevill, of Spartanburg, was burned to death Thursday. It is not known how the child's clothing oaught fire. The mother was out of the house for only about two minutef. and it is supposed tho child fell in the fire. The burns were terrible and death camo in a few hours. ? W, B, Aokermao, a well known oitizen of Colleton county, was found guilty iu the United States court in Columbia last Wednesday of violating the pension laws and was sentenced to five yearsV imprisonment at Sing Sing. He was charged with having worked up fraudulent pension claims and then forging the signatures of alleged witnesses. ? The Columbia papers state that that city is flooded -with counterfeit silver coins. It is said the bogus Stuff is hard to detect as they are standard in weight and looks and lacks only the ripg whiob good money has It is thought that fakirs on their way to the Charleston exposi tion are responsible for the appear ance of so much of the "queer" in the city. ? In the appointment of Committees in Congress the South Carolina dele gation was assigned as follows: Judi ciary, Elliott; civil service, Elliott; territories, Ftnley; congressional, Fin ley; labor, W.' fl. Talbert; election committee. No. 2, J. T. Johnston; invalid pensions, A. C. Latimer; bank ing and currency, W. J. Talbert: con nue, Scarborough; District of Colum bia, Latimer; Pacific railroad, Finley. Congressman Lever, being a "now man," has not been assigned to com mittees, but he will be later. *' ? Assistant Ssoretary of State Gantt has returned to Columbia after having installed at the Charleston Exposition the valuable collection of state papers and rclica belong? to the state of South Usrclia?. Mr. Gantt was fortunate in securing for the display a number of handsome cases used for the United States gov ernment exhibit at the/Paris exposi tion,-and the quaiDt old manuceripts which have boen handed down in South Carolina for two hundred years or more were tastily displayed in the*o oases where they can be inspected but not handled by tho crowds, and hence will suffer no damage. General sews. ? "Wayne, W. Vu., baa been almost wiped out by fire. ? A Chicago woman has been divor ced three times from the same hus band. ? Two negroes relieved a New York jeweler of $15,000 worth of diamonds in a Portland, Ore., Hotel. ?Two negro employes of J. M. Youngf of Augusta, killed him and robbed his store Monday night. ? It is said that Los Angeles, Cal., j mos eighty carloads of eggs a year be sides what its own hens produce. ? The Bulgarian government de clines to assume any responsibility as to the capture of Miss Stone by tbe brigands. ? Sid Preacher, a bunco steerer, in Houston, Tex., killed two officers while resisting arrest and was him self killed. ? The whiskoy Association met in Cincinnati last week and made an appeal to reduoe the tax from $1.10 to 70 cents a gallon, r *? Andrew Carnegie has offered $10,000.000 to the . United States to establish a great university for high er education. 1 ? Booker Washington, tho negro educator, was refused "accommoda tions at three of the leading hotels of Springfield, Mass. ? Miss Daisy Miller, v40bse father, C. O. Miller, is one of the wealthiest men of Stamford, Coon., is going to Corea as a missionary. ' ? Representative Gardner, of New Jersey, has'offered a bill to buy the Danish West India islands for not more than four million dollars! ? Tbe six Demooratio congressmen from Louisiana have declared their intention to vote for the Philippine tariff bill, a Republican measure. ? They have discussed how to make whiskey out of watermelons, but the very name of it preoludes the idea of .its ever becoming popular in Kentucky. ? J. G. Hood, a prominent busi ness man of Charlotte, N. C, tried to kill himself by outting his throat be cause of financial losses. He may get well. ? Ssnator Hoar has introduced a bill to give the United States jurisdic tion in oases of lynohing and making the crime of participation in lynchings punishable by death. , ? Il J. Fleishman, cashier of a bank in L?s Angeles, Cal., has made way with $100,8?0 of the bank's mon ey and has - disappeared. He had been connected with the bank ?.6 years. -- There are fewer contested seats in the present fifty-seventh ' congress than in any 'previous house of repre sentatives' "i?r I thirty years. There are no serious contests for seats, in. the senate. ? The grand, jury have presented the mayor of Decatur, Illinois, for malfeasance in office, among the spec ifications 'being gambling, allowing saloons to remain open on Sundays and permitting illegal slot machines to run. ? The Sob^ey court of inquiry was divided in its verdict?Ben h am and Rnmsey declcivc that Suhley's conduct was characterized by vacillation and dilatoriness; Dewey says that Schley did everything possible under the cir cumstances and deserves all credit. ? Miss Maude-Wiloutt. of Bowling Green, Ky., and J. W. Simmons of Peaster, Texas, were married by tele graph. Tbe ceremony wsb performed by a justiee.-of the peace at the Texas end of the line, Miss; Wiloutt answer ing the questions over/the wire. Mrs. Simmons leaves this week to join her husband.. ? A singular oase comes from Ala bama. A girl married at 13, ami after the bivih of her eeoond child she secured a divorce and married another man. She has recently been conviot cd of manslaughter, having killed her first husband in an effort to gain pos session of her children?a?d she is not yet 20 years old. ? General Patrick ?. Collins, Dem ocrat, waB elected Mayor of Boston, t Mass., by tho largest,plurality in that j c\ffy in. a quarter of a oentury. Tho Democrats likewise obtain control of , both branches of the oity government. I I Qonerai Collins received over 52.000 votes, the largest in the history of the ! city, and ho carried eighteen of the 1 twenty-five wards. ^ ? Nelson Culver, during a fit of de spondoncyor temporary insanity, ran from his home at Hamilton, Mich., ' Thursday, climbed to the top of a tall tree. When ho saw his friends at the foot of the tree trying to rescue him, ho - pulled his gun and blew his brains out. His body dropped and was caught on the lower limbs of the tree. > fifty feet from the ground, and dangled there while his life blood ebbed away. ? Capt. Richard B. Turner, who was acting keeper of the fermons Lib by prison in Biohmond when tbe city fell, dropped dead in Suffolk, Va., last weok. When Biohmond was cap tured Yankee prisoners told their troops harrowing tales of the cruelty they had endured and Capt. Turner Was locked up, with the promise of being hanged next morning. During the night his hssir turned white as frost. ?Rev. J. W. Bradford, the pastor of the Methodist Church at Brock side, Ala., was shot and killed in the parsonage Sunday, 8th in st., by R. D. Coffman, a justice of tho peace. Brad ford had just been sent baok to tho church by conference. Coffman had been turned Out of the ohuroh for striking and abusing his wife, and the minister had severely criticised him in his sermon that morning. Threats of lynching were made. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. | From Our Own Correspondent. Washington, D. C? Deo. IG, 1901. That Mr. Roosevelt has an eye o? his 1 possible rivals before the next Repub-1 licnu national convention is becoming | visible to all except those who refuse to see. He gave Senator Fairbanks a throwdown in connection with the ap pointment of Judge Francis ?. Baker to succeed the late Judge Woods, of the United States Circuit Court, that he will remember for sometime us a re minder that things have changed; that he no longer wields undisputed power at the White House in consideration of his posing ns the McKinley candi date for 1004, and keeping the firing from being centered on Hanna. The Baker appointment is given out as n triumph for Senator Beveridge, but those on the inside know that he had very little to do with it; that Mr. Roosovelt appointed Baker to impress upon the Indiana Republicans that Fairbanks has no prestige with him. Incidentally Senator Beveridge will get some credit for the.appointment, which Mr. Roosevelt at one time de- ! clared in tho most positive terms he ' would not make, but he has paid for it by committing himself to Mr. Roose- | velt. Senator Foraker also, this week, publicly committed himself to Mr. Roosevelt. He did it as a side swipe at Senator Hanna, but that does not ..-event its counting for Mr. Roose volt, who is surprising the politicians with his knowledge of tho game. Tho Philippine- tariff' bill reported to tho House to-day from the Ways and Means Committee, which is to bo rail roaded through before tho Christmas recess?from December 10th to January Cth?should have been entitled "An Act to dodge a decision of tho United ! States Supremo Court," as that is pre , ?Bely what it is intended to do. Tho Supreme Court decision declared that the Philippines were not foreign terri tory, but the now tariff bill says in effect that they are, by imposing t < Dingley tariff duties upon all goodB shipped t? the United States by con tinuing the tariff arranged by tho Philippine Commission for tho islands, and by imposing the same tonnage taxes upon vessels from the Philip pines to the United States that we col lect from vessels from foreign coun tries. . This is done, it is claimed, un der the clause of the Supreme Court decision that says Congress has the right to legislate as it sees ht for th? Philippines. : Senator Morgan has introduced a bill for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal by this government that differs somewhat from the Hepburn bill,, in troduced in the House. It names 8180,000,000 as the cost of the Canal and appropriates $5,000,000 for immediate use? and invests the control of the Canal in a board of eight citizens of the United States in addition to tho Secretary of War, whn shall be presi dent of the board, and who shall be appointed without regard to politics, and be paid $8,000 a year each. While there are some Democratic Senators who wonld like to see that clause of the Isthmian Canal treaty with England that binds the United States to make the Canal neutral and open to the ships of all nations at all times, even though we ' should be at war with one of them, changed so as to assure ns the control that will certainly be taken if the necessity arises, treaty or no treaty, they realize that it cannot be done and are not disposed to place any obstructions in the way of carry ing ont the programme for the ratifica tion of the treaty before adjournment for the holidays. ; Mr. H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, mnst be feeling pretty solid, as he has just paid $25,000 for a bonse to live in. It is in the swell west end of Washington. It. seems that the schemers have an idea that the United States is bound to be buncoed in some way before it builds an Isthmian Canal. No sooner were the Panama schemers gWonto understand that there was "nothing doing" >r them, than up bobbed a bran new set of schemers claiming to own the right of way over which the Nicaragua Canal must be constructed and demanding that their property bo bought if Congress is to authorize the construction of the Canal over that route. These new schemers uro Ameri cans, organized under the name of "Tho Maritime Canul Company, of Nicaragua." In fact, they are well known Wall street speculators, who went into the thing solely on the chance that they would at some time be able, to squeeze the United States govern ment out of a lot of money. The Sen ate Isthmian Canal Committee is now looking into the claims of this Com pany. The government of Nicaragua has shown, that it did not seriously re gard this company by entering into an agreement with this government. Reciprocity legislation mnst be ap proved by the House Committee on Ways and Means before it can get be fore the House, and the votes in that committee oh the propositions to give the Philippines even a little reciprocity made it quite certain that there will be no such legislation at this session, un less some of the Republican members can be persuaded to change their minds. It maybe of course that so mo of these Republicans are fishing for a little "persuasion" from Mr. Roose velt, but it looks now as.though recip roci t y instead of being the "haudinni den of protection" was to bo made tho footraat of tho high protectionists. The charges of tho Anti-Trust Leaguo and representatives of labor organizations against Attorney General Knox?that he wqpguilty of criminal practice while attorney for the armor plato trust, and is therefore unlit to be Attorney General of tbo United States have, resulted in his nomination being held up by tbo Senate Judiciary Com- i mittee, in order to allow time for presen tation of proof of the charges. It is very unusual for the nomination of a member of tho Cabinet to be held up and this caso is attracting much atten tion, i The Cold Wave in the South. . Memphis, Tenn., December 15.? River navigation between this point and St. Louis is closed and packets plying between the pinces will lie up until tho river gets clear of ice. Birmingham, Ala., December 15.? The thermometer registered 14 degrees above zero here at mid-night. Con- i siderable suffering hns resulted from the mercury's fall, but no deaths have been reported. Canton, Miss.. December 15.?Last night and to-day has been the coldest weather experienced in Canton since February two years ago. Tho temper ature to-day and last night has been 10 degress above zero. The sun has been shining all day, but has not thaw ed tho ground anywhere. An old negro man froze to death at Stone's Switch last night. Atlanta, Ga., December 15.?One death, that of a colored woman, was reported to the police to-day as a re sult of the continued cold weather here. Tho mercury at 10 o'clock- to night registered 18 degrees above zero. Galveston,* Texas, December 15.? Gnlvcston is experiencing tho coldest weather that has visited here in two years. At 7 o'clock this morning the thermometer registered 24.8 nud ice I was everywhere. To-night tho ther I mometer is rising nnd wnrmer weather I is predicted for to-morrow. At 7 ' o'clock this evening the thermometer recorded 40. In the coast country the thermometer registered from 8 to 8 degrees lower than at Galveston. The planters had notice of tho cold wave and saved what they could. It is impossible to estimate'their loss. The greatest suf ferers are truck growore. New Orleans* Ln? December 15.? Louisiana had cold weather, but no storm. The temperature fell to 20 de grees hero, which has only been equal ed three times in thirty years. The weather bureau says it will fall to 20 degrees by morning, breaking all re cords. There will bo no damage to to crops, farmers having been prepar ed for the change. Austin, Texas, December 15.?The cold wave, which has boon sweeping over the North nnd West for the past four days, and which appeared here yesterday, has grown in intensity dur ing tho day and to-night it is bitter cold. Reports from the stock ranges to tho west and south of here are to the effect \lmt the cattle are not in good condition for such weather owing to the drought of the past four months and their unprotected condition on the big rangea. It is feared that much loss will result by the death of calves especially. In this section quite a number of horses are reported as dying during the A;ast twenty-four hours, mostly tho property of Jpoor people, who have been unable to-feed them| owing to the high price of food.-^Tho ther mometer is falling to-night. Marching on Together. In his address at the formal opening of the South Carolina Intor-State and West Indian Exposition the junior United States Senator from New York, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, declared with all his customary impresslveness of statement that "tho East is surren dering its spindles" to the South and the "Middle States their furnaces." We must make due allowance^for the enthusiasm born of tho occasion and for the temptation to run into rhetoric and away from fact. The Senator didn't quite mean what he said. The East isn't "surrendering" its spin lies to tho South "a little bit." Ca the contrary, it is not only holding fast to what it Has, but is steadily adding to their number. During tho cotton sen son of 188-4-05 tho East?that is tho manufacturing towns of New England ?had 13,700,000 spindles in operation; six years later the number had risen to 14,050,000?not a great increase, to he sure, but still not a loss or a "surren der" of a single spindle. Tho South, meantime, increased her spindles from 3,483,248 in 1894-05 to 4,540,515 in 1899-1900?almost 100 per cent. In building cotton mills by the cotton fields che is going ahead by leaps and by bounds?but Fall River and Lawrence and Lowell, Saco and Biddeford and Lewiston and all the ald-timo strongholds of cotton manu facture are holding the fort and strengthening it. not "surrendering.'' The Sonth is1 simply developing her >wn resourcc<s and making the most of them?"causing two blades of grass to jrow where one grew before." And tho same is true of the iron and iteel industries: There'is no "surren ier" anywhere. All sections are march ng on together.?Neic York Commer cial. Three Persons Murdered. Gi:i:knvii.lk, Dec. 14.?One of tho most revolting and heart-rending trag edies ever known in this section of the country was cnnctcd yesterday after noon near Lima, 21 miles northwest of the city. The shocking story reach ed here by 'phone several hours atter the occurrence, and the horrible deed of a drunken, crazy man created in tenso excitement in the community where it occurred. It appears that Edward Hollis, a white man, who is a commercial trav eler, had been ou a spree for several days after arriviug at the homo of his father-in-law, Mr. A. lt. P?ble, wlio lives on tho Trammel I place in a tow miles of Lima. Hollis had come to spend tho holidays, and not long aftor Ids coming a quarrel arose between himself and wife, and this ? supposed to be the foundation of the troublu which has ended in tho death of his wife and her sister, Miss Janie Poole, at the hands of Hollis, who ended his own life as tho sequel of,the awful tragedy. Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon several members of the fami ly were in tho Bitting room, when Hol lis entered with a pistol in hand and commenced tiring upon them. He aimed tho ?rst shot at Miss Poole, who sank to tho floor in the embrace of death, with a bullet through her head. His wife was tho next victim of Iub wrath, and his aim at her was also deadly, as sho fell to tho floor with life ?xtinct. Their baby was in her arms when tho deed was done, and tho little fellow was shot through its finger by the bullet which ended its mother's life. Then Hollis sought to kill his mother-in-lnw, but iihe was fortunate to escape tho shot, and then with de liberate intent ho sent a bullet into his own heart, which laid him prostrate on the iloor by the side of Iub victims. Tho threo corpses wero quite near together, and this was the gruesome sight which met the head of the house hold, Mr. Poole, as ho returned with his son uear dark from hunting on the farm. Mrs. Poole was prostrated by the awful occurrence, and her life was in jeopardy from the shock received, but un dm- tho care of physicians she rallied from tho prostration, and this morning is reported fairly well under 'the dis tressing circumstances in her home. : Tho Poole family went to Piedmont four or five years ago, and it was while thero that TIollis wooed and won the eldest daughter of the family. They were married about two years ago, and subsequently the Pooles returned to their farm, the married daughter going with them, as her husband was absent tho most of the time. Hollis has been travelling for the Arnold Hat Company of Atlanta, Ga., bat he does not seem to be known in this city, although his wife has relatives hero.?The State. Again Marries his Own Wife. Tuesday afternoon Ordinary James J. Burch issued license to Mr. Sam Col son for his marriage to his former wife, Mrs. Sam Colson. Several years ago Mr. Colsou paid his attention to Miss Smith and finally won her heart and hand. Their mar riage ensued and for several months the matrimonial sea was smooth and serene. However, after several monthB had elapsed, divisions came and finally a divorce was asked for and which was granted by the courts. After the deoree the matter was dropped, and soon passed out of the minds of the public Mr. and Mrs. Colson went to their respective homes? and no inkling was given of their in tended venture until the ordinary was called upon and the license obtained* Such things are often heard of, but it is the first occurrence of this kind that we have heard of in this county. . The happy marriage was solemnized at the bride's home about three miles from the city Wednesday evening, the ceremony being porformed by A. D# Echols. After the congratulations had been offered a sumptuous supper was served* Siberian Star. S. C. Inter-State and West Indian Exposition. Tho Charleston and Western Caroli na Railway beg to announce that they have arranged reduced rates from all their stations to Charleston on account Exposition. Parties can avail themselves of a sea son ticket, a ten-day or a aevon-day ticket, from any point on this line at very low rates. Apply to agents for further information, as to schedules, rates, etc. W. J. Craig. General Passenger Agent. tiailroad Rates For the Christmas Holl? days. The Southern Railway announces Christmas Holiday rates between all Saints on its lines one and one-third rst-ciuss standard one-way fare for the round trip. Tickets to be sold De cember 23rd, 24th, 25th. 30th, 31st, 1901, and January 1st, 1003, final limit Janu ary 3rd, 1003. . To students of schools and colleges, upon presentation and surrender of certificates signed by Superintendents, Principals or Presidents of tho various institutions, tickets at those rates wil be sold December 16th to 22nd, 1001,iu duwive, with final limit January 8th, 1003. For detailed information call on any igont of tbe of the Southern Railway, ir apply W. H. Tayloe, A. G. P. A., Minuta. Ga.; R. W. Hunt. D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. or J. C. Mean, Jr., 1). P. A., Atlanta, Ga.