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^ .. .. ^'V ? ' ' '_ ./ " *_;_. _- f , - ' ? - . ~ -.. ' ? * ' AMlV?T.-RSON a H WOTWRSTUY ATTftTTST 19 1903 VOLUME XYXTA-NO. 9. * sa? SOME ? a * And Low Cut SH??SI On our front gounter we have placed about two hundred pair of $8.00 and 33.60 Trousers, Those are the Trousers wo have been selling all the season at tjieeo prices. For quick riddance we have priced them $1.95. If yon want a pair of I Trousers this is your chance. ..^pr entire line of T* apiece Suits have orders to get out. At their former prices they were considered excellent values; At the Out P^oes we place on them they certainly are ex ceptional values. 18,00 Two-Hece Su|(;s reduced to ?4,50 7.50 u " " 5.75 10,00 " ? ? 7,50 \ LOW ?OT SHOES;Jt?b?O?b. $2.00Xow Cfut Shoes now S?.65 2.50 " " M " 1,95 3.00 " " Si ? 2.35 3.5? " " " ? The cuts on the above GoodB are deep, but they ^??e?:.??^ nine reductions. Ko fake business here, AAA AA'A?A'AA'AA'A.A A lt>"'-*-'f ^ if? rfti fri HT . : We have just received nearly a solid train load of -fr: By buying a large shipment we got it at a reasons* > bl? psi??, and w? ?re to Sell it very cheap. Come to ? see us and see how cheap we can sell you what #on: want,-... " > : ; . PEOPLE? FUBMiTUilE CO. f SFECIAX SAXE tgtff? ??.?i Stack of Ladies9' Vests at th^ following Spe? siai Sale prices : Ono lot Ladies* Fine Vsrts, regular 10o_.. Special 8c. Wno lot Indies' Fancy (ind Colored Vests ^ga?ar 15c. ?Special 10c. Ono lot Ladies- Ribbed V<st35 regular loo...?..,.... .Special 12c. , pno icl'?^esVM?W(msd Vests, regula? 25c...... ? .Special 20c. Oao lo* La-lee1 Athletic QKic&s,'-regular 25c,..Special 20?. Ono lot U??im* S?k Lu^re Ve?is, regalar 60e...._Special 33c? Considering quality yo** will find these to be exceptional ^elt:^ fc? st t??6^gmar price tJb?y fir^ ihs j?sst ( s ba Eemember tft^pedal Salo, C^^rs reeelv^? prompt attention; STATE NEWS. - Good raina have fallen^ io nearly every seotion of the Stat j the ' past week* - A hotel in Florence was quaran tined on account of smallpox lait week. - Tho State says there are rewards offered to the amount of SL500 in South Carolina for escaped orimlnals. - The first bale of now cotton re ported from this State waa shipped on Wednesday, 12th inst., from Barn berg to Augusta, and sold for 20 couta a pound. * - It is reported from Spartanburg iliac President H. N. Snyder, of Wofr ford collegs, has been offered the 8residency or the University of North aroliua. - A bolt of lightning struek tho barn of Mrs. L. JD, Childs, on her plantation south of Columbia, and sot it on fre, destroying 2,000 bale* bf hay -and other property, valued at $2,000. - Andrew Carnegie is going to give Spartanburg a $15,000 library. The oiiy has complied with the conditions -to furnish tho site for the building and to pay annually $1,500 for main* taming the library. - The State Agricultural and Me chanical Sooiety ox South Carolina is the only organization of its kind in this State, therefore, let us all determine now to moke the next Stato Fab a sue co sa in every department. K - A negro who was working at the quarry threo miles above Trenton was run over, by an engine last week and was so ont up that one leg had to bo amputated. Death soon followed; He was asleep on the: railroad switch. Two white men have. been cori? vioted in Pickens county bf. stealing chiokens. When white men under take to Usurp this particular industry from Coffee, they deserve to have the extreme penalty of the law put og them. - Mrs, Daniel Iriok, cf EiloreO, Ora?geburg County, gavo birth-; tu three daughters, weighing 4i, 4 and 3 pounds caoh. The babies are fully developed, bright, healthy looking little fellows. The mother and chil dren are all doing weir.. \ m? I - Thero was a fight at a ball game at Richland, Oconee county, on Satur day, 8th inst., between Richland and Walhalla teams. Roy Morgan the Walhalla pitoher, shot J. B. MolVa h?n, a spectator, in the leg and Mo-' Mahan out Morgan <?ith a knife. The row occurred over some dispute About, a plo-/ * --. %o Odd Fellows of South Caro lina; are determined to establish en orphan's home ?in this State. The grand lodge nV?t in Columbia last May and that body wes very enthusiastic over the idea. The grand master ap pointed a committee to select a site and proceed with full power to act. - Four children were burned to death Sunday night st Welford. They had been left alone in the house while their parents attended church services about ft milo away. During their ab tho fire occurred, but it is not j known how it - started. The oldest child, a boy of 10 years, jumped from a windo w sud waa saved. v --Last Wednesday in Charleston Chas. C. Tylee and Miss S. Malone were married. After the wedding they repaired to'their future home, and as the bride passed ia through the front dcor of the house, she hada hemorrige.of the lungs and swooned in the arms of her huebapd. In a short time she was dead. - Sarah Polite, colored, and two children were killed by lightning last Thursday night at Brogdens, in Sum ter county. The woman was in the i act of closing a window when killed: Tho infant in her arms was knooked across tho room and.aoriously injured, but ?B alive today. The other two children were on tho opposite side of tho room. \ ^- The County Commissioners of Ooonee and Piofcens counties let the contract to build the Lawrence and Old JPickcns bridgcB over Kcowce river list Saturday. Tho contracts were awarded tt? Geo. H. Crafts & Co., of Atlanta, Ga., for $7,080.. Tho cost of the two bridges ss to be divided equally between tho two. counties. : The bridges ere to be of iron; - There aro no more large traots of land in possession ,of the State, the sale of 30.000 acres io Georgetown re cently being tho last. There are a countless number of omall tracts rang ing from ten to two hundred acres, however, about ^hich tho State land agent is constantly recaivihg inqui res. Some of this is quite desirable andi? a short time more of it will be disposed nf by the State. - Jerome ^tark, of Columbia, & lineman in tho smpioy of the Bell Tel ephone Compauy, working in Charles ton, carno in contact with a live wire Thursday afternoon while afc work on '* a pole and fell t. distance of 60 feet to the pavement. Fortunately hi? fall was broken by coming down upon a fellow workman and ho suffered no serious bodily injury. His ?gut hend was hz??y burned by tu* Wirey> i - Up to th? let of August there has been collected by the State Treas* urer $90,903.65 on account of the for- , tiliser inspection tax. The law ra* ? qia?res that an inspection tax of ??SR' , cents per ton shall be paid for fer ti- j Haere offered for sale in this State. ? This entire tax is held in the treasury aubjeot to tho order of tho ,bo*r4 Af .'. trust?es of Clemson Col??ge. The sale . of fertilizers ttis year has been great- ] er vhan in a number of years and be- H foro tho *md of the year tt?s Hource of < iDoomf/iwill ?ive Olombon College over . worooa OEN?HA?i KEWS. - The govemniout crop report in dicates much improved condition of I cotton. - No iv York is goiog to make a cheese that will weigh two tone and will likely exhibit it at the St. Louis exposition. - ? madman at Winfield, Kan., fired iato a crowd of 5,000 people, killing three people and seriously in juring many others. -The yellow fever epidemic in Mexico ia being closely guarded by United States authorities, to prevent it from entering this country. - Sol Benje and wife of Winston ! Salem. N. G., have been arrested on j the charge of murdering their own daughter more tba? a year ago. ? - Albert W. Deibel, tellor of the City National bank of Canton, O., has been arrested on the charge of em bezzling $22,000 of the bank's money. - Tho Mexican ootton boll weevil has crossed tho -Mississippi river and has appeared in the government experiment station near New Orleans. - The l?gislature of Georgia-has enacted a law permitting counties to use their convicts under sentenoe of five years and less for working high way 8. '-- It ia said if Tammany be suc cessful in the city elections in New York that organisation will declare for Grover Cleveland for the presi dency. - The records show that the trade between this country and Russia, has been.larger duri cg the year just end ed thin it has for the past twenty years. - The Weat Indian storm was more, destructive to life and property than at first supposed. Fifty person: were killed and the property loss is placed at $10,000,000. - By shutting down the cptton mills at Fail Ri ver,-Mass., 7,500 hands are idle. Sixteen milla* are affected. They are not expected to start up till the new crop goes into marget. - The Bulgarian insurgents have begun their bloody work. They at tacked and captured the Turkish vil lage of Benattf, killing all of the in habitants pf the place exoept two. . - Kay Wood, colored, shot James Sanders, white, in Indianapolis, Ind., ou Wednesday in a discussion of how much education a negro ought to have. A mob pursued Wood and shot him. - Dr. Sities, the discoverer of the parasite that is said to destroy tho mosquito, is busily engaged in breed ing them in large numbers with a view to turning them loose on the mos quitoes. < ..- An attempt was made at Hills boro, Ohio, to lynch Maynard Hud son, colored, for assaulting a 12-year old white girl. The mob broke into the jail, but thi: negro had been spirit ed away. - A ?sob dynamited a negro's house in Oklahoma City, Okh, on Thursday. The whites in a certain section of the'city have ordered the negroes to leave, and a race war is threatened. -- It is said that experiments with X-rays have nearly cost Mr. Edison his eyesight. His assistant, Charles Dally, has l?st One of his arms, and it is possible that the other will also have tobe amputated. - A pretty young woman was ar-* Tested at Bristol, Tenn., on Monday charged with robbing guest? at various hotels. She had several sums of mon ey when arrested and some checks payable to other persons. - Pittsburg. Pa., claims to be the home of the champion chioken thief of the United States, in the person of Henry Vaunt, colored. Vaunt confesses to having stolen for 10,000 to 13,000 chickens in the'psst five years. - In Macon, Ga., hut week the re corder sent a white woman anda negro woman to the Bibb oounty ehaingang for a term of four months for getting drunk. They got drunk together and were Hud culled together [when sent put to work. - Willard S. Allon, of Boston, treasurer of the Preachers' Aid so ciety of the New England Methodist conference, after fleeing to Canada wrote back on Wednesday a confession that he was a defaulter to the amonnt of more than $80,000 of the society's funds. \ - Astonishment prevailed in Ashe ville,. N. C., railroad eirolea when it became known Monday that O. D. G?iro had been arrested on the oharge of embezzlement. Guire held the posi tion of yardmaster with the Southern Ballway Company an. a warrant which waa served during thc forenoon char ges him with having embezslsd $1,000 by reporting overtime on the wages of the large number of men employed under Mm and putting the balance in his pocket. - Twenty years sg(? tba houso of 25TS. Luci ?da Johnson, near Buek Shoals. Yndkin county, N. C., was entered in the day time while th family waa away from home sud rob bed of a lot of bacon, meal and other things. Suspieion rested upon one Tam Coply and a search for the stolen articles revealed them in his posses sion: He was tried in Ysdkin Supe rior Cf urt. convicted and sentence* to 10 yea? iu tho .penitentiary. After Boraig two years of his sentence he i made h*,s escapo and for 18 years he has beet* hiding and. dodging from i place tc place. Lest week George and \ rom Marshall captured him and oar- i ried h:sn back to K??cigu, whore he i wll serve the. remainder of his term. 3 Splendid Talk Delivered: at the Farmer's Institute. Clemson College, August 13.-At the afternoon meeting of tho instituto Ooh M. V. Richards, in an extempora neous address spoke of the wonderful development, made in the State of South Carolina, ?long agricultural and other lines. Col. Richards e'atod that the cen sus shows the increase of ospital in vested ic enterprises in the South to be 348 per cent, while in the United States the i uereaso was only 253 per cent; that the increase in the value of produots of the faolories in the South from 1880 to 1900 was 220 per cent, and in the United States 142 per oent; that ia 1880 there were 161 cotton milla in the South with 561,360 spindles, ic 1802 there were 570 cotton mills, with 6,480,974 spindles. Speaking of the development of tho territory tributary to the line of tho Southern Ballway he stated that during the year 1902 there were constructed on the Southern Bail way 33 cotton mills with 15,266 looms, 543,000 spindles, and in 1900 there were 19,000,000 spindles. During th? year 1902 there were located tributar] to the line- of the * Southern ' Bailwa; 663 factories having a capital of $19, 000,000/ Speaking of the railroad de velopment of the South he showac that tho railroads io 1860 in th? United States had a traokage of 30, 000 miles while in 1900 the roads ii ! the South alone had a traokage of 55, 0?O miles_ In speaking of the resources cf th; South and the question of emigratioi ; thereto he showed that the South ii thirty-fivo ytars bad developed fros : bankruptcy to affluence. As late ai 11880 there was considerable dis o alis faction in the South, little cfevelop ment of the farms, and the towns wer backward; that at that time emigra tion was going out of the South am helping to build up the North an? Northwest. Col. Richards urged that the farm era, business and professional men o South Carolina take a personal an aptlye interest in the question o? d< velopment of the oounty roads of the! State, and spoke of the interest toan: fested throughout the South in thl important question. Ho advised that the owners of fatg farms favorably consider subdividin them into praotioal sizo plaoes, an selling them to Northern farmers wfa were anxious to find homes in tbi southern country. The speaker urged that more intel est be taken in the farther develo] ment of the schools of South Carolin! that every citizen sboiwld give to Clon son College his fullest! co-operatic and support;'aod should see that tl State legislature increased, rather tba decreased its present expenditure along this line; that this work is in portant to the State in many partioi lars, and this institution should 1 made one of the strongest agricultor colleges in the United States. M Richards stated that ho expected ax hoped to see the time when this cc lege should have au enrollment of 3,0( -students, and South Carolina a pop lation of three million. Coi. Riohards impressed upon h audienoe the fact that he was a stroi believer in and supporter of the loo real estate agent, and advised tl members of the institute to give the their moral' and financial support h Reving that such support would x dound to the benefit of the com mu i ty i n whioh they are located. losco Bustle Wit'a $7,000. St. Paul, Minn., August 12.--Mi A. Yan Clerke, of Shawnee, Kan., x ported to the depot'authorities to-di that she had lost a bustle oontainii 67,000, while en route to St. Paul < a Book leland train. Mrs. Van Clerk who is well advanced in years, stat? that she' feared to leave her money a hank and thought that it would safe if she sewed it in her bustl This she did. and' thea started on journey to Piers, Minn., to visit h son-in-law. When within thirty miles of ? Paul, Mrs. Van Clerke says, she le her berth to finish dressing. Short afterward she missed the velaat piece Of person*! apparel and beliov it fell from the train. Asearohi party bas been sen t out. ,- -, . *- m j mi - A Fame? Made Blind. Valdoata, Ga., Aug. 14.-News w received here last evening of a cuno freak of the lightning in Ech?la. D ring a thunderstorm a bolt struck tl rods on tho home Of Samuel Lights? a well-to-do farmer. He was stan ing in his door ai the time watehit the storm and was knocked senselei He lat?* ratcheted, but has bees < most totally blind since then. His wife and son were taking an t ternoon nap and were not harmed the least. The lightning rot s wc melted in several ?laces. It \* fear that Lightsey's eyesight will be pi tnanently impaired. YES, The Biggest) [Spring Trade of our Satisfied customers is the secret of it. More than the worth of your dollar or your dollar back. We are making a specialty of Ladies9 Black Dress Goods This Spring, and my ! the quantities we are selling. WHY t Because we are fixed on them. Selling price given at the Store and not in the papers, as lt would take too much timo and space to list them all. COME ONIE, COME ALL, And see how much CHEAPER we are than others. To look at our BL AOS GOODS means yon will buy. Watch this space. Good things to tell you from time to time. Yours to please, ( TO OUR CUSTOMERS : WE need no introduction. Our name is known all over A?deison and adjoining Counties-it 1B the synonym of succors. People who know us from the, time we were mere toddlers in thia business of giving MORE GOODS FOR LESS MONEY, will tell you that wo are the PEERS in our line. In proof of this fact our business has grown to be so large that wo aro compelled to have more room. Weare pleased to announce to cur many friends and customers that on September lat we will alco occupy the Store Boom adjoining our present quarters. This adjoining room will be our-* Dry Goods* Shoo and Notion Department. Onr present room will be our tinware, Hardware? % Woodenware, Crockery* Glassware and Stove Department? YOU please let the columns of The Anderson Intelligencer^ Daily Mail be your shopping guide, and you won't be fa? W??sk Advocate wrong. . Don't forget after Sept. 1st Two Stores down nest to the Post Office. : Yodase invited. * ? .. s;;r,'* . . ? . .- ? . ; Yours always truly, JOHN A. AUSTIN, THE MAGNET,: The Sc. an? 10c. STOEE? The Man down next to the PostofflLce that sells the Best. \ "arv ?n% -Two Stores down nest to Post Ouloe after Sep- \ Jf# temberthelst. * r~;