Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:V?, f. BY cqjNKBgAli?S & LAMBTON ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,1903. VOLUME XXXIX -NO. ?. HEBE IS THE S?BT OF Oue that haa style and finish ; that fita fd?^f^ "nmei ; a Sommer Suit mada far waar. ^??W^J fctYonwon't find auch Clothes as these a?^*?0 ?"L?? Ldareprioedat- 'etna e^k $9.00, $10.00 and $12.50. EiTgood assortment of other Summer Clothes at $6.00, 6.00, $7.00, $7.60 and $8.60. ?AA A A A A A ? A. ^ ^ .? A ^ ^ ? ^ ^.A.' A ) Gala is ?oining ! )32?ake your headquarters with us r when attending that great and en- f joyable event. Plenty of : : i ? ] K*OOI?E?2aS and OKC jLXIR/S t LPor you to vest in. L ;PE?PLKS FURNITURE GO. t __ w ww^w .www'W'.ww'www www **y w ?rS' in Dress ? Yon must have thom ? ~ d plenty of them, for this Sum ir's social calendar says there will be an unusually large 'ttber of social you to attend. Kow is the best time to make your selections, and of OTC wo advise you to make them here, as our stock is very fcplete with new styles and pretty pattern?, Then, too, 1 price is so reasonable ' So to Yard ! . Andin WHITE GOODS reign supreme. Tour every want can be supplied from stock.. Bend us your orders. Write for samples; McCall B??ar patterns and Free fashion Sheets. STATE SEWS. - Tho Citadel cadets havo begun their annual encampment ot Rack ] ma. i - The IOBB of Greenwood County.ia bridge? as a result of tho reoenfc flood . is estimated at 125,000. i - Aiken will have a new tourist hotel for nett season. It will be ; 400 feet long and contain 200 rooms, i . ? ? -- The trustees of Woflord collects 1 have conferred tho degree of;? LL. I), on Associate Justice Charles A. Woods of the Supreme court. - A negro was . drowned at Ash ford's ferry on Broad river In New berry county while trying to see tue a bale of Paoolet cotton floating dow? the river. - Tho board of* trustees of Clem son college at their meotiag last week decided to erect an agricultural build ing, and appropriated $40,000 for a beginning. - The Eaaley cotton tail!, John M. Geer, president, has bees author ised to increase its o&pital to 1600,000, and this is the third increase sinos its organization. - Normie Hodges, whits, who was con vie ted in Greenwood recently of highway robbery, and ?soaped, was captured by tho Sheriff on Tuesday night, 16th inst. - The County Commissioners of Piokens county estimate that the loss to the county by the washing away of public bridges during the reoent freshet, will amount to $12,000. - A report comes from Edgefield that an oid rooster who gave signs of wanting to sot was pjaoed on a nest ci" eggs and in the appointed time came off With eleven little ohiok CUB. - A report from Clemson Coll?ge says that Prof; CB,. Wall?r has re signed the assistant professorship of mathematics at Clemson to accept the chair of chemistry .and biology at Woflord. - J. H. Williams, a farmer of Lan caster county, aged 35, . committed suicide on Tuesday night, 16th inst., withe shotgun. He was despondent on account of ill health and i u ability to work his crops. -r At a church festival at Phoe nix, Greenwood' county. JnoD. Wil liams and J. Buck Ward*, well known white farmers, got into a fight, and the 1 latter got his nose cut off ard his face slashed with a knife. - On Tuesday, 16th inst., Arthur Blakely, a negro preacher in Aiken County, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The negro was re turning from the field with a hoe on his shoulder, quietly smoking and the bolt struck him on the head running ?.own his righi leg, buruiug the cloth ing off, from his waist down. - Miss Corinne Player has present ed to the South Carolina supreme court an oil portrait of her' grandfather, chancellor Dargan, one of the most distinguished jurists the state ever produced. The portrait was hung in the supreme court room beside those of. Judge Monroe, Joseph Johnson and Jas. L. Petigru, the only others in the chamber. ?i-Last Wednesday night ibo barn and etablcB of J. W. Holliday, in in Marion County, were otruok by lightning and burned to tho ground. lu the building were fifteen mules, one horse, one oow and. the oats off of fifty acres of land, all of which were consumed by the Hames. Mr. Holli* day's loss is estimated at $5,000 to $6,000,.without any insurance. - Tho sinking fund commission -will meet on the 25th. The principal matter to be considered will be the proposed sale of 5,509 sores of land in Georgetown Conn' . Several offers have been reoeiveu and the land will be -"knocked down" to the one offer ing the best proposition. V Que of the bidders proposes to colonise a lot of foreigners of the better type und other desirable settl?re. -'rr Lewis S. Truitt, known 4s one of tho most gallant soldiers from this State in the Conf?d?ral Army, died at his home in Abbeville last week. He was a member of 19th 8.C. Regt., and is the mau of wbotu ii is related that ho absolutely refused to. deliver his regimental colors to Gen. Stephen D. Leo and was afterwards praised by Gen. Lee for his refusal./ - The tenant farmers in the lower part of Richland county are in a de plorable condition. Their crops have been entirely destroyed by hail and flood and they have not enough money to purchase seed to replant. An ap peal has been made to the people, for assistance to help these poor people, the majority of whom are hard work ing and deserving negroes, to stem the tide and make a crop. - Bill Washington, a negro farm hendon C. O. Mo Alloy's plantation near Chester, was killled last week by being dragged a quarter of a mile by a runaway mulo. The negro after his day's work was riding home in a care less manner, when the mule shied, throwing tho negro to the ground. In some way he was caught in the traces. This terrified the already frightened animal, which rai*, dragging the negro a quarter of a .aile. - ?. B. Gaines, of Gaffney, has brought suit against the Southern road for $33,700, the penalty for vio lating the constitution of the State regulating tho operation of compet ing lines. Last year the Southern got control of the South Carolina aud Georgia F-xtension, with a t?rminos at Gaffney. The State constitution forbids thc ' ???iOjMsi?ou ot com peting lines. If the plaintiff wins die case he will get half the money and tho other half will go to the State. ..,:,.<:_;- ? , >_ " : . GE NE H il. HS WS? - There were 4.400 eases of small- , pox io North Carolina the last twelve months. M , - The Atlanta cottou mills have i olyoed down indefinitely on co count of scarcity and high pr ico of cotton* j - Miss Sallie Btewart. a prominent young woman of Eufeula, Ala., oom* bitted suicido by drowning herself io a oreek., - The record of two negro lynch i uga within forty days is held by Uli* noifl, the home and last resting place of Lincoln. -' The Southern association of ho siery manufacturers has determined to Increase the prioe of their product 10 per eent. - The Mississippi railroad com mission has raised the Talnation of the roads io that State over three mil lion dollars. - An imsesse cro?se memorial tablet to Eli Whitney, the inventor of tho cotton gin, fees been placed in the court house at Angosta. - Pour men of Wayo no county, Ohio, were strueV by lightning and were killed while thoy were carrying a heavy pieee of timber on their shoul ders. - ID Kansas City, Kas., 23,000 people are destitute and homeless be cause of the recent floods, and an argent appeal has been made in their behalf. - A special term of court has been convened at Wilson, N. C.. 'for the trial of eleven men charged with mur dering Insurance Agent Jones on the 13th of May. - Dr. Wilkinson, of Augusta, Ga., has been fasting fifty days, living on nothing but water. Hois doing it to cure dyspepsia, and hethinksthe euro is about completed. - Ab Kalkaska, Mich., Mrs. Mary McKnight confessed to the poisoning of her brother, ?fohn Murphy, his wifo and baby and she is suspected of caus ing eight other deaths. - A young lady dislocated her haad with a jerk while combing her hair in Omaha the other day. Physi cians by careful work got her neck properly adjusted and she can go ahead. - Tho Governor of Alabama has offered a reward of $300 for Preeident T. J. Oamwall, of the wrecked savings bank at Bessemer, who fled leavings statement that he had misappropriated the banks' funds. - Robert C?tlett, a wealthy citizen of Sevier oounty, Tenn., was sen tenced on Friday tc 'be hanged on July 31st for complicity in the mur der of William and Laura Whaley, who were whiteoapped in December, 1897. - Lewis Bolin, aged 60, waa killed at Sneed vi Ile, Tenn., by hie 13-year old step daughter, who struck him in the head with an axe. Bol?n ?TES p?u ishing one of his step sons, when the boy called the sister for help. Both the children are in jail. - Ed. Johns, a young farmer at Bellville, Ga., was accidentally shot by a dog the other day and will prob ably, die from tho wound. He was standing with the muzzle of the gnn leaning toward him, when the dog in playfully jumping upon him struck the trigger and tho gun was discharged. - The telegram of the Osar of Rus sia to King Peter, the successor of the murdered ruler of Servia, termi nates all possibility of an internal op rising/against King Peter,/ and it is though?, that the other powers will follow the lead cf Russia, and that King Peter will bo recognized as the legitimate ruler of Servia. - Adam Jackson', colored, a Char lotte negro, was swung up by an angry mob for criminal assault upon a white woman* Mrs. Isaac Poora, of Wash ington County, Tenn. The sheriff coming along, before the negro died, the negro was taken down in response to appeals from the sheriff's posse and was bound over to court sod lodged in jail. - Second Lieutenant Ros ooo H. Hearn, of the sixteenth infantry, who was sent to Gainesville, Ga., to ex tend federal assistance to the tornado sufferers, reports to the war depart ment that there 'ure 1,000 people there dependent upon charity, bf whom about'five hundred will need aid for one or two months. The remainder, he saya, will be able to get work. - Within three or four months trolloy oars will bo running between New Yoik and Jersey City under the Hodson river. Nearly 6,000 feet of the tunnel connecting the oities have been finished and only about 1,000 feet remain to be ont. The boring of this great tube was, as a matter of fact, commenced more than fifteen years ago, bot for varions reasons it has been delayed. - The Presbyterian synod of Geor gia has addressed a communication to the synods of Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and North and South Caro lina asking for a meeting of those synods to ha hold in Atlanta in De cember to determine whether the uni versities at Columbia, S. C., and Clarksville, Tenn., shall bc consoli dated into the million-dollar university for which Atlanta has recently raised |250,<KK). Two contracta let by the War Department give some idea of the ex tent of the government departments at Washington and particularly of the War Department, although it is not b? any means thc largest of thc de partments. One was a contract for washing tho office towels cf tho depart ment. The lowest bid received was Tor 6 cents a dozen, and'this contract will cost the government something in okcess of $6,500. ?HIHlBn^fiH^^i^sa^Ht^i^nalMflMHMHIIlMHHI H ? lill? I lill HMM Lowndesvi?e News. Bira. J. C. Hill, of Greenville, is visiting her daughter, if rs. Barber. Mrs. Bonn Allen and children went to Anderson last week to visit rela tives. Mr. Bruce Moseley is in Ninety 8ix visiting his sister, Mrs. Durrett JLipa oomb. Mrs. Lirclo Swift and eon, of Elber ton, are -visiting Afra. Hop J taker. Mrs. B. L. Smith and little son visit ed friends in Anderson last week. Bf aster Alvin Harper is in Anderson visitingfriends. Airs. Weston Harper has been visit ing Mrs. Preston Allen of Starr. Misses Lila and Virginia Sherard and T. J. Basion, of Moftattsville, attend ed services in the Presbyterian Chrrch here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Barnes spent last week in Georgia with relatives. T. 0. Liddell and Miss LU Huokabee anent a few days of last week in Abbe Misa Camille Smith is spending awhile with her grandfather, J. B. Le Boy. Vedie. June 2?. Prospect Dots. Rev, W. B. Hawkins preached a very interesting sermon last Sunday at New Prospect Church, and he had a large crowd of hearers. Robert Harbin visited the family of William Harbin of tide section. Cadete Tom and Pren Boltand Wade Banders are now at home to spend the summer months. We are very glad to say the little oana or J. b. Neal is now getting along nicely, after being- sick for some time. B. C. Harbin and wife spent last Sun day with Sam Harbin. Oscar Browne buried his little babe at this place last Sunday. It was about one year old and a very pretty little child. Bufos Hombree has been visiting Alvin Eskew very recently. Come again, Mr. Hembree, for we are always glad to have you with UB. S. O. Campbell spent part of last Sun day with J. Eskew. The farmers have an abundance of Sraes and arestill fighting to keepit own. B. L. G. . June 20. Hopewell News. The health of this community is very good at this writing. We have again been blessed with rain. But we nave been fortunate so far in escaping the storms that have visited many places. We are thankful that we have been spared, and have a heartfelt sympathy xor those who have been less fortunate than ourselves. Since the refreshing rains vegetation haB put on now life and is growing rap idly. Farmers who had thinned out their cotton now have it to thin again, and a lot of grass to be taken ont, too. The congregation at this place last Suuday listened attentively to a tine sermon delivered by their pastor, Rev. O.L.Martin. Miss Joe Jolly has been spending awhile with her niece, Mrs. Thurston Martin. Mr. Will Campbell, one of Belton's most progressing merchants, and daughter, were in our midst iasc Sun day. Lily. Juno 20. Singing Convention. The next meeting of the WiUiamstou Township Singing Convention will be held with the First Baptist Church at Pelzor on the first Sunday in July. All lovers of musio are invited to attend. Come one and. all and bring well filled baskets for dinner. The Brushy Creek Singing Convention is especially invited. A. M. Guyton, for Convention. A Card of Thanks. Mr. Editor: Please allow me the pri vilege through the columns of The Intelligencer of returning my thanks to tho many friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness and words of sympathy on account of my recent sad bereavement in the death of my husband. May God bless and reward each and every one of them. Mrs. P. B. Mitchell. .-1 ma^-? fly i ? ? - By the breaking of a levee at East St. Louis, 111., ll lives and a great amount of property wcro lost. - Ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield, was elected Supreme Dictator of tho Supreme Lodge Knight G of Honor, st its annual session in Richmond, Va , June 11th. - A sensation was caused in Coonee county about a year ago on account of the killing of a woman in her own house. Five white men wero arrested and three of them were convicted sub sequently. But by a decision of the supreme court, filed Friday, these men are to be given another chance for their liberty ; for the trial j edge, Judge Klugh, in his charge to the jury misconstrued the common law and used the word "tended" instead of the words "it would show conclu sively" that these men were innocent if circumstantial evidence were re garded in such and sud/ a manner. It is not probable ?haft'tho charge had anything , to do witktho issue, but the law is exacting atomes and the whole case must be fought out again. Fourth of July Excursions Via Southern Railway. The Southern Railway will sell ex cursion tickets to all points east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers at rate of one and one third fares for the round trip, minimum charge fifty cents. Tickets on sale July 2nd, 3rd and ita, with final limit to return Jnly 8th. For full information apply to any Agent of the Southern Railway, or R. W. Hunt. Div. Pass. Agt., Charleston, S. C. W. H. Tayloe, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. YES, The Biggest) {Spring Trade of : our Lives. Satisfied customers is the secret of it. More than the worth of jon? dollar or your dollar back. We are making a specialty of- ? ?? Ladies' Black Dress Goods This Spring, and my ! the quantities we are selling. WHY f Because we are fixed on them. Selling price given at the Store and not in the papers, as it would take too much time and space to list them all. COME ONE, COME ALL, And see how much CHEAPER we are than others. To look at our BLACK GOODS means you will buy. Watch this space. Good things to tell you from time to time. I ' ' ' '.' Vv"..""?.vj.! i Yours to please, ANDERSON'S FOREMOST STORE, We seek the trade of all people who believe in buying where their dollar goes farthest. Investigate ! Compare ! Are you willing to spend time enough to compare our values ? If not, you are not willing to save money. SIZZLING HOT BARGAINS. 29 paira Woman's Oxfords, Imitation Dongola, sizes 5 to 8. 38o pair 6 pairs Strap Sandals, bow and buokle. sizos 5 to 7, former prioe 75o 48o pair ll pairs Women's Oxford Tips, value $1.25. 95o pair Men's Genuine Vici Shoes, value $2.50.$1.95 pair Ladies' White Undervests, taped neek. ,. 5o each l?o quality, elegantly trimmed Undervest.- l?o each 25c quality, elegantly trimmed Undervest.-. . 15b each GO dozen Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, valuo 10c, for. 5o each White Drop Stitoh Hose, all ?he rage.l?o pair Blaok Drop Stitoh Hose. 15o kind. 10o pair Summer Corsets, 50o value..25o each 48 LADIES' HATS. All 85o and $1.00 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. (t?o All $1.25 and $1.35 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. 79o All $1.50 and $1.65 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. 89c All $1.75 and $1.85 Ladies' Trimmed Hats...;. 98o All $2.00 and $2.25 Ladies' Trimmed Hats.$1.19 All $2.50 and $2.75 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. $f.43 LOT OF EMBROIDERY. 2 and 3 inch wide, worth from 5o to 8o yard, Saturday and Monday you buy it for. 3Joyard 200 yards Spool Cotton, Saturday and Monday. lo spool Lot Gentlemen's Handkerchiefs, Saturday and Monday.... lo each A few Suspenders, Saturday and Monday. 5o pair MEN'S SHIRTS, 50o Shirts, row.-.Jg 75o Shirts, now.''?a tl 25 Shi' ts now.?.. . . *? .". . . . . Men's Hose' blue," b?o'k and Van, value 10o..':....... -? ? 6o pahr Boys' Duck Caps, white, red and blue.. Bo eao? GENTLEMEN'S UNDERWEAR-A special lot at a speoial price. STRAW HATS-Specially priced. CRE PE PAPEa^For deooration, 10 feet in a roll, sold everywhere for 50o a roll, our price 10ca roll. Don't forget us when in need of a good C.OQK 8TOYE, These prices are not baits-take as many or as few as.you like.. Buy these and nothing else if you prefer. Come, you will be weloome. Yours always truly,.... ?J - JOHN A. AUSt?N AKOjrKE MAGNET, Lnd the 5o and 10c Store-The Man down next to the Post Oifice that 8(01*3 the Best. i . j?