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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? If You ... From our previous advertising that our GASH WAY of doing business will ? The fault is in the advertising and not in the business itself ! WE SELL ! I Clothes, Slioes, Hats and I^ixrnisliiixgs, And the reason our PRICES are so MODERATE is simply due to our CASE WAY of doing business. It'll pay you to bri. .g your Cash to this Store, where you pay for only what you get, and not for what the other fellow gets. If you spend your Cash at a Credit Store you are helping to pay for the losses occasioned in doing a credit business. No doubt about it. B. 0. Evans & Co. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers Why Not Give Tour House a Coat of Ton can put it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you more than ------ -_- - - - J^rve or ?ix Dollars! SOLD tVf Orr~Gray & Co. - r ----- Harrows, ^ Cultivators, And Weeders. Seasonable Goods for the Farmers. WE ate prepared to furnish the Farmer with j net euch Farm Imple* enta aa he need? at thia season of (he year. You will always find our stock of STEEL PLOWS complete. There ls no way that the Farmer can economize more than to use one of ?ur UNIVERSAL GUANO DISTRIBUTORS, that opens the furrow and |puts ia the Fertilizer at the same time, unless it is to get one of our WEED ERS, and run it over the cotton Held just as it is trying to break through the lard crust that forms ou ihe bedded row jost after one of thete Spring rains mt never fails to come. Come in and let us tell you about our Adjustable keystone Weeder-the great labor saver and cotton miser. " Don't fcrget that we are Headquarters for COTTON PLANTERS [ARROWS, CULTIVATORS and HOES. Our PERFECT HARROW -the greatest Corn and Cotton Cultivator, on the market-once you get one rf these Harrows you cannot afford to do without them. , We also tell the ioman and Terrel that stands first on the list. HOES!-Just received a Car Load of Hoes, all sizes and kinds,and prices lre low enough. ' Big stock of Garden Rakes and other tools for the gardener. Builders' Hardware, Nails and Barb Wire always On hand. ROCK HARDWARE COMPANY, Successors to Brock Brothers. STATE NEWS. - A glass factory trill bo baili ic Columbia. - Sumter is to have a fireman's tournament June 25 and 26. - The South Carolina college has Just sent out 16 new lawyers. - An election has been ordered on the Allendale County proposal for .- Already 28 candidates have an nounced themselves in the new coun ty of Lee. - Batesburg has voted by a large majority a three mill extra tax levy for sohool purposes. - Joe W. Stevens of Collo tor. Coun ty was struok by lightning and killed while plowing in a field near his home. - The Laurens dispensary has been re-opened and it is stated that the ?Leged shortage has been adjust ed. - Lightning struok the cotton warehouse at Batesville Mill and over 300 bales of cotton were injured by fire. - A baby was given a large amount of morphine by mistake at Parksville Sunday and its life wss saved with difficulty. - Clemson College has received a gold medal from the Paris Exposition for the exhibit of the experiment sta tion there. - Sumter, Union, Bamberg, Lau rens, Aiken and Greenwood have eaoh. made bids for the removal of Columbia Female College. - A $9,000,000 company is formed for the control of electric plants, ice factories, pleasure resorts, etc., of many of the Virginia cities. - Congressman Latimer has intro- ! duced a bill for the relief of the Char leston exposition. The bill carries an appropriation of $150,000. - Mrs. Walker Edwards was found murdered on her door steps in Lau rene. She had quarreled with her hus band, who has been arrested. - The Baptists of this State are making preparations to build a college to the memory of Luther Rice, the well-known missionary worker. - Jim Young was seriousls shot hy an unknown person who stuck a gun through r crack and fired at him, on J. D. Moore's place near Cokesbnry. - The Ware's Shoals Manufactur ing Company has made application for a commission. The oapital stook is $500,000, Laurens contributing $100, 000. - A orowd of 14-year-old boys got into a row with some negro boys at Rock Hill Wednesday night and three of the white .boys were badly out by one of negroes. - A few days ago in York County Tom McLeave, a negro, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself because MB wife had fallen in love with another man. - There were 50,000 people present at the Exposition last Thursday "Wag enner Day." It was a holiday in Char leston aqd all the .stores and. public, buildings were closed. ?- The ?b?rge has been made against the constables of Charleston that they meet at night and drink the beer they have seized whioh is unlawful. The matter will be investigated. - Spartonlurg was .visited last week by a party of English mill men who have been making trips to vari ous cities in tho South inspecting the cotton manufacturing plants. - An attempt was made near Blythe vcod on the Southern Railway to wreok the fast mail train from Wash? ington by placing a crosstio on the traok. The train was not derailed. - Two negroes tried to burglarize the store of D'. W. Alderman & Sons ?it Alcolu one night last week but were met with a load of small shot. One was disabled and has been arrest ad. - The sum of nearly $45,000, re bates on tobaoco revenue tax, is being liutributed in this State. If you have my claim against Unole Sam on that icoount you will soon receive your iheok. - An order has been given by J. B. Duke, president of the American To )aooo company,' for a million dollar lotton mill, to be located at Great "ails, on Catawba river, in Chester mun ty. - Madison Smalls, a negro who es taped from the penitently 27 years igo, has boen cap? .'.red in Flor mee and oarried back to serve out a rear's sentence of whioh only six nohths remain. - The Sute hoard of medical exam ners met last week in Columbia for he purpose of examining candidates lesirous of practicing io this State. There are 89 candidates, all male, and wo of them negroes. - The city of Greenville might roll be termed a oity of cotton mills, n addition to her six large, well es abiished factories another one is soon o be built. The new mill will be mder the management of John T. Voodside, president, and his brother, r. D. Woodside of Gainesville, Ga., rill be treasurer. The capital stock rill be $200,000. - Miss Janie Bryant, an operator n the spinning department of the aili at MoColl, was the viotim of a iad accident a few days ago. While t her work she moved too near the bsohinery and her clothing was aught in the belt. Miss Bryant waa rinded rapidly around and seriously lurt. Her skull is thought to have eeo fraotured and there were many 'mises on her body. Her clothing ras torn into shreds. Her injuries rill not prove fatal. GEBER AL NEWS, - Ne~ Orleans u?groutj are alarmed over the fearful death rate among them. - Over 100 lives were lost by an explosion of gas in a ooal mine in Canada. - The revolutionists are in com ?lete eontrol of the republic of Santo domingo. - Judge McAdams, of Joplin, Ga., is accredited with having united in marriage 1,780 couples. - Some of the truck farmers near Hiokory, N. C., got $300 an aore for strawberries this year. - Meat stores ia New York and Boston are wrecked by mobs beoause the proprietors refuse to quit selling meats. - Almost continuous shooks of earthquakes were felt for thre6 hours last Wednesday night at St. Augus tine, Fla. - Au auarohist plot to assassi nate Alfonso, the young monarch of Spain, on the oooasion of his corona tion, was thwarted. - The seventeen-year lo ouata have appeared on time. The first localities to report their arrival are Washington, D. C., and Evansville, Ind. - AB a result of a gas explosion in the F rater ville, Tenn., ooal mine, about 200 men and boys met death. It is the worst disaster in the history of Tennessee. - Five persons wero burned to death in tho American Hotel at Point Pleasant, W. Ya., on Thursday night and three other persons were serious ly injured. - A negro man was burned at the stake last Thursday, at Lansing, Texas, for criminally assaulting a white woman. Many women were present to witness the burning. - At last Cuba is free. The gov ernment of the island was turned over to president Palma on May 20th, whioh by that faot becomes the Inde pendence day of the Cubans. - The Pennsylvania ooal miners decide to eontinue the strike and it will likely be one of the most deeper-' ate fights between capital and labor over witnessed in thia oountry. - The reeent earthquake in Guate mala is reported to have wrought ter rible damage. The oity of Ooos was ruined and hardly any coffee planta tion escaped damage. The loss of life was large. - In Hanoook oouuty, Ky., Mrs. Robert Pool was overcome by a faint ing spell and fell in the road near her nome. Her face struok in a wagon rut filled with water, and she smoth ered and strangled to death. - The news from London says that ..peace is practically assured" in South Africa. # It is said that Boer leaders are willing to accept the ternis offered, but that some of the rank and file may continue the struggle. - Emptions at Martinique con tinue and the panie stricken people are fleeing from the city. The U. S. Steamship Dixie has arrived with an immense quantity of supplies end had difficulty in finding storage room. - Areola, 111., was visited by a cloudburst and hurricane, whioh did great damage to many buildings and growing crops. Forty-four years ago to the day the town was visited by a cyclone and was utterly blotted from the map. - Mr. Isidore Newman of New Or leans has just contributed a big sum .of money for the erection of & train ing school for the boys and girls of that oity. Mr. Newman will also give an ample sum for the equipment and permanent endowment of the institu tion. - Postmaster General Payne has issued a proclamation to continue the present postal relations between Cuba and this oountry, also one of the same effect was issued by President Palma, of Cuba in accordance with the under standing reached between them several weeks ago. - The German steamer Sakkarah, Captain Pienig, has beoome a total loss at Huamblin Island off, the coast of Chile. The fate of the steamer's crew and passengers is not known. The cargo of the Sakkarah inoluded $1,500,000 in gold specio, whioh was being demitted by the Chillian gov ernment. - A large number of the members of the Alabama division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are de sirous of having permanently preser ved.' "tho first Confederate White House"-the houso in Montgomery in whioh Jefferson Davis resided in 1861, before the Confederate capital was transferred to Richmond, Ya. - Muoh discussion has been arous ed in Washington by a story printed in New York Thursday that Andrew Carnegie has offered to furnish the twenty million dollars thia oountry paid to Spain for the Philippines, if by that means he conld be able to as sure the Filipinos that their indepen dence would ultimately be acknowl edged by the United States. - Ed Burnett, a young man of Maoon, Ga., had a narrow escape from serious injury and perhaps death Wed nesday. Ho was leaning out of the second story window of a Blore when he lost his balance and fell ont head foremost. His body made a half turn in the descent and he struok upon his right shoulder on the awning over the door-way and bounded off. He made a complete sumersault and landed on his feet on the stone sidewalk and did not sustain the slightest injury. Spectators who saw Burnett fall thought ho would strike upon his head and break his neck. - STATE CONVENTION. The Democratic Party Adopts Platform S?d Resolutions. Colombia, 8. C., May 31.-The State Democratic Convention met at noon to-day in the hall of the House of Rep resentatives and was called to order by Chairman Wilie Jones. Three hundred members were present and much time was sp?ut in calling the roll and re vising it. * v In place of J. H. Tillman, of Edge field, the name of T. H. Kain Rf on1 was substituted, and of J. W. Moou,, jf Hampton, the name of Col. Wilie Jones. Col. Wilie Jones and Governor Mc sweeney were nominated for chair man, but the governor withdrew and Colonel J ones was unanimously elected. Thomas E. Hawes and J. T. Parker were elected secretaries. The following vice-presidents were elected: First district, .J. W. Dunn, Charleston; Second district. Dr. W. C. Smith, Barnwell: Third Dietriot, A. J. Sligh, Newberry; Fourth district, W. L. Mauldin, Greenville; Fifth district, I J. E. McDonald, Winnsboro; Sixth ! district, A. H. Williams, Williams j burg; Seventh district. W. B. Scar I borough. F. M. Mixou waselected sergeant-;: t I arms and J. E. Bogga treasurer. j DISCUSSION OVER RESOLUTIONS. I A long discussion inane tl over a reso j lution introduced by D. S. Henderson, i of Aiken, providing that all resolutions ! Bhould be referred without debate to a committee composed of ono member of each county delegation. W. D. Evans, of Marlboro, opposed the resolutions, and offered a substitute that two com mittees should be appointed, one to act upon platform and resolutions; the other to act on constitution and rules. Those committees will each be com posed of one member from each dele gation. After some debate this was adopted. A number of resolutions were then Submitted and read. Among them were a D?mocratie platform by G. R. Rembert, of Richland, an expression of congratulation to Coba by Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville; a condemna tion of Senator McLaurin's course in forsaking the Democratic party by T. J. Rogers; a condemnation of trusts by G. Duncan Bellinger, and another simi lar bill by Mr. McCalla. Two protests against child labor in the mills were introduced by Solicitor J. Wm. Thur > mond and Mr. T. J. Croft, of Aiken. I TIIE LOCK-OUT PEOPLE. I In Mr. McCall a's resolution was cm ! bodied a clause deploring the condi ! tion of the locked-out employes in thb Horse Creek Valley millo. Another resolution along the same line was in I traduced by Mr. Cole L. Blease, of Newberry. It reads as follows : "Whereas, This convention has heard with profound regret that the opera tives of the cotton mills of Horse Creek j Valley, in Aiken County, are in dis tress, caused by the action of the cot ' ton mill presidents in ordering a lock out in aaid mills, because of a strike in a cotton mill in the State of Georgia. "Be it resolved, That this convention hereby extends to the . operatives of Horse Creek Valley, on account of their loyalty to the Democratic party in the past, every assistance possible to relieve them from the screws of. op pression. "Resolved second, That we condemn the acts of the said mill presidents, as heartless, unwarranted and unjust, causing untold Buffering and distress among the people who constitute one third of the entire population of Aiken County. "Resolved third, That we call upon all law-loving citizens who feel that the poor laboring whito men of our State aro unjustly prohibited from earning an honest livelihood, to extend to the people of Horse Creek Valley moral and financial aid. "Resolved fourth, That we demand of our law-makers the enactment of such laws as will relieve and forever protect tho laboring people of the great State of South Carolina, who are the bone and sinew of our land, from such unlawful treatment in the future, and such other laws we demand as will prevent the crippling of values of real estate and other property by combina tion of capital." SENATOR TILLMAN THERE. Senator Tillman, who is a member of the convention, was present in the Edgefleld delegation. THE PLATFORM. At ll o'clock to-night the platform waa presented and adopted without debr *e. The three points covered were impe rialism, monopolies and tariff for reve nue only advocated. The resolution expressing sympathy for locked-out cotton mill employes in the Horse Creek Valley, and condemn ing the mill owners for their cruelty, was finally adopted by a two to one vote. The pledge fixed for candidates for the Senate and House of Representa tives requires them to stand on tho party platform and to vote with their colleagues on party questions. It was not as extreme as had been anticipa ted. A resolution welcoming Cuba into the world of nations, declaring that she would be welcomed as a State in this union if she applied of her free will, and in the meanwhile declaring T VJU I ehe should have the beno?ts of recip rocity, vf aa adopted amid cheers. M'LAURIN CONDEMNED. Without remarks o. protest, a reso lution of a dozen words, condemning the course of Senator McLaurin, waa passed. By a standing vote, resolutions im pressively read by Seuutur Tiiiman speaking of Wade Hampton's service to his State in the highest terms were unanimously adopted. resolution condemning child labor in mills and declaring the age limit should not be less thau 12 years, was adopted, after some debate. After the convention adjourned ot a late hour, Senator Tillman was call 1 upon and addressed the body. THE TKUST PLANK. I The trust plank contains tho follow ing: I .Resolved, by tho Democracy of South Carolina in convention assembled, that wo re-affirni and endorse the platform of principles enunciated by tho State Democratic Convention of 1000, with especial stress upon the following sec tions: "That we view with alarm the power which the trusts, through tho Republi can party, are exercising over legisla tion and national politics and their ability to control the price of tho ne cessities of lifo without regard to tho law of supply and demand. Wo con demn the hypocritical attitude of the Republican lenders who abuse trusts and combines, while they uso tho money obtained from them and extort ed from the people to debauch the ig norant voters of the country. "That wo re-a til rm and endorse tho correlated sections of tho Kansas City platform upon the subject of trusts and imperialism." The convention decided to provide for two series of campaign meetiugs, one to include candidates for State offices, the other for candidates for federal ?nices. Senator Tillman, who had it all his way, spoke upon national Issues. Col. Wilie Jones woo re-elected State Chairman. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20,1902. The attempt to Morganize the small national banks of the country mnde by the Republicans of the House Commit tee on Banking and Currency when they reported the Fowler Currency bill, which among its many objectiona ble features provides for branch na tional banks, was virtually killed for the present session at a conference of the House Republicans held last week* although no vote was taken and the conference adjourned to meet again qext week to consider the same bill. The death blow was given the bill by Representative Power, of Maine, who directed his attack especially upou the branch bank clause of the bill, of which he said: "It will Morganize our na tional banks, this plan for branch banks. The small banks of the coun try will either have to liquidate or go into branch banking." He told how the branch banking law of Canada had. reduced the number of banks in the entire Dominion of Canada to 85; and of how the law worked in the little Canadian town of Woodstock just ncros-. the border from his home, Honiton, Me., Mr. Powers said: "There were two private banks there. When the law for branch banks was enacted in Canada these two banks were ab sorbed by the great banks in Montreal and the interest rate, instead of de creasing, went up." Tho Republican bosses may try to put this bill through at tho next session, but it has been made plain to tuent that it will be too dangerous to try to do so before tho Congressional elections. The old bur usually successful'plan of using patronage to buy off opposi tion to administration measures is be ing used by Mr. Roosevelt on tho Re publican members of the House who aided the Democrats to overthrow thc bosses and add ibo amendment repeal ing the differential duty on relined sugar to tho Cuban reciprocity bill. Tho Sugar Trust has ordered that amendment killed, because it would decrease its profits about 98,000,000 a year. The Republican bosses in the Senate have told Mr. Roosevelt that they can kill it in the Senate, and he is now trying to secure the Republican votes needed to get the House to agree to the bill as it will be passed by the Senate. There is some very desirable Federal patronage that is now or soon will be available, and this Mr. Roose velt is offering to give the Republican kickers of the Honse to reverse them selves and vote as the Sugar Trust wishes them to vote. If Mr. Roosevelt succeeds in this dicker, as now seems probable, the kickers may find them selves called to account by their con stituents. This isn't a good year for Congressional wobbling. It is difficult to shake off the bossing habit. After President Palma had been duly inaugurated President of the supposedly independent Cuban repub lic Secretary Root ordered him by cable, not to receive tho credentials of the British Minister to Cuba, who was in Havana, until after the U. S. Minis ter, who was detained in Washington by tho delay of tho Senate in confirm ing his nomination, had delivered his. Tho minif *.er whose credentials aro first uiujy AAA? JJ.-SSV, 4?. received will become the dean of the Cubau diplomatic corps. Palma will obey, of course-he cannot afford to do otherwise-but such bossing is not cal culated to make either him or other intelligent Cubans love this govern ment. Senator Pettus, although one ot the oldest members of the Senate, is one of its hardest workers. A visitor to his committee room found him at work at 7 o'clock the other morning, and asked, him if ho wasn't at work unusually early. Ho replied: "Oh. no, I go to bed reasonably early every night and then I get up at 5 o'clock in the morn ing, so that I am down here by seven. ! I am eighty-one years old and sound i in mind and body. The only thing I lack is money, and yet I don't know as I ought to complain. I notice that the men who made money and then retired are all dead. Retiring from business seems to be falal. Themen who live long aro tho men who like myself, are poor." Charges have been filed with the Civil Service Commission alleging that money has been habitually used by low grade employes of the Pension Burean to secure promotion, and the Commis sion is alleged to bo making a quiet investigation. Such investigations are always quiet, because then if they hap pen to go against those with too mr?sh pull to bo fought they can be husUeri up without public scandal. Three and a half million dollars were added to tho Omnibus Public Build ings bill by tho Senate Committee, and tho bill now carries $20,041,180. The whole bill is ono o? most daring log rolling Bchcmes over put through Con gress. Men who are fully cognizant of the dan ger of the precedent sot hythe bill have allowed themselves to be silenced by appropriations for build ings in which they aro interested. It will not be surprising if some of them live to regret sanctioning this measure. Appropriations of public mouey should not be made in this way. The only rigat way is for every appropriation asked of Congress to stand or fall upon its own merits-an impossibility with an Omnibus bill. It is now regarded as certain that this session of Congress will extend well into July and possibly into Au gust. No vote is expected in the Sen ate on tho Philippine bill before the first week in June. Then the Nicara gua Canal bill will be taken up, ar d will require anywhere from two to ih o weeks to be disposed of. After that tho Cuban reciprocity bill will be brought forward, but that measure is surrounded by so many uncertainties that nobody is attempting yet to guess how much time it will require. The Republicans are trying hard to place the responsibility for prolonging the session upon the Democrats, bnt there is really no reason for such attempts. Whatover responsibility there may be belongs to the majority and wil te placed upon them by tho people. - ? F ???? Eureka Items. The lemonade party given by Mr. and Mrs. Bud Smith at their pleasant home at this place Saturday evening was a brilliant social event. Forty persons accepted invitations and were present. The committee to arrange the table were Mrs. Mallie Elgin Misses Floria Davis, Lillie Brown. Maggie Erskine, Julia Gray, Bertha Willingham, Nellie Brown, Lillian Erskine and Cordie Campbell. At 7 o'clock we were invited out on tho lawn to help relievo the long table, which was ladened with cake and lemonade. Every effort was made by Mr. and Mrs. Smith to maka the event ono of much pleasure, and in this they succeeded admirably. Tho many friends of Mr. Berry Wil son woro delighted to welcome him as a visitor to our Sabbath School Sunday afternoon after a long absence. Several of our people attended preaching at Neal's Crook Sunday. Miss Lola" Wardlaw, of Dorchester, visited our Sabbath School last Sun day. Well, Mr. Editor, the good housewife will soon have chickens largo enough for candidates to eat. Mr. Willie Russell, of Anderson, was the guest of Mr. Richard Brown Satur- * day and Sunday. Pansies. Roberts Items. We have had a good rain, and feel very much refreshed. We wore be ginning to need rain very bad. Health only moderate in this sec tion. Mies Idell Brooks has returned home after an extended visit to relatives at Lavenia, Ga. Master Ossie Carter, cf Anderson, visited relatives near here Friday and Saturday. Miss Dosai e C li ambleo has been visit ing her sister, Mrs. Jesse Shirley. J. D. Stonecypher has returned from Charleston, whore he visited the Expo sition. Our young people are anticipating having a picnic at Anderson ville in the near future. Paul Norris and J. O. Chamblee went to Portman last Sunday. Seems that two of our young gents have some attraction in the New Hope section, as they are soon going that way quito often. But just ask thom how do they like "May cherries!" Jim McGee, of Essie, S. C., visited relatives at this place.lost week. We aro glad to see so*many corres pondents from different parts of the ' County continuo to write. Wo love to read tho news and welfare of our County paper. Success to tho Intelli gencer. Citizen. May ?4,1002.