Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY CLINKSCALES ? LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1904. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 38. And let us show you our NEW ?i?ft? of IMS. We have the LAEGEST and MOST COMPLETE line we have ever shown. NEW SHAPES, NEW COLORS. Enough sizes and hinds to please and fit any man's head. The prices are as reasonable as good Hats can be sold. Prices begin at 50c. and end with Stetson's $5.00. Our No Name Hats At $2.50, $3.00 and $3^0 are the best to be had for the money. B. 0. Evans ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers & Are too Busy to fill in this space with the many - - - atchless Values They are daily giving ont to ' he Trade. I ' These values speak for themselves wherever they are ?old, and hence need no fulsome praise in these columns. Our reputation for selling only Goods of the very best finality is a sufficient guarantee to the trade, ll jj Our prices are always THE LOWEST I Konsistent with the best quality and honest measure. I I Bear in mind, then, our line : 9 [HOES, DRY GOODS, I TRUNKS, MOLASSES, T0BA?C0, 'M DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR, ?! . Ratliff* Select COFFEE, 6 foot, everything that white folks nie, * AGENTS FOR WHEAT FERTILIZER ! Also, sole agents 'for Anderson Connty^for the 'genuine, P-fashionci PERUVIAN GUANO. Tho Tip-Toppsst Cfotton Buyers. STATE MEWS. - Colombia vil! soon have estab lished in her limit', a large paint fac tory. - Mrs. Julia M. Merriok has been appointed postmistress of tho Wal halla postoffioe. - Woik has begun on the exten sion of the Greenville trolley li?e so as to make it a belt line. - Reports indicate that the to b?ceo aoresge will be much cut down in tho tobacco seotions of this State. - A boiler in a car manufacturing concern in Georgetown bursted kill ing one man and doing $2,000 dam ages. - Charleston is mad dog ridden. Several persons havo been bitten by canines and the mayor has ordered all dogs muzzled. - The elders and deacons* of tbe Presbyterian ohurches of Columbia have protested against the removal of Seminary to Atlanta. - Guard Thos. Banks shot and killed a negro on the Saluda chain gang on Saturday. It is understood the negro was trying to escape. - John L. Ritts, of Laurens Coun ty, wes instantly killed last Saturday afternoon by a falling tree, which crushed his head into an unrecog nizable mass. - The six-year-old daughter of Thoa. Suydam, of Richland County, was killed at school on Wednesday by being crushed by a log rolling upon her from a woodpile. - Miss Lila S. Wray, desoribed as "a beautiful young woman," was re quested to leave one of the pvominent hotels sn Columbia because she ap* peared in an intoxicated condition. - A negro made an attack upon a whito boss at the Ashepoo works near Charleston last week and was knock ed down by the boss. The other negroes became stirred np and a seri ous oonfliot was narrowly everted. - The barn and stables of J. M. Wilson, at Ridgeway, Fairfield coun ty, Y7ore burned on Wednesday night, with two horses, a mule and a eow and a lot of oom and fodder. The IOBS was $1,000 with no insurance. - A negro who had been put in a ?uard house at Holly Hill, Berkley 'ounty, for a fighting offence was found in an old house near that town dead with a bullet hole in his body. It is thought the negros assassin is a white man. - Miss Susie Scofield, a teacher in Clifford Femalt? seminary, Union, is in a dangerous condition, dn? to a pis scratch which caused blood poison. It is feared that one of her arms may have to be amputated, and even this may not save her life. - Thurston O. McGee, a livery stable man, wa.s shot and killed at L*ke City, Williamsburg county, on Wednesday by Karo Wilhams, a negro, abont a mule trade. The negro was arrested and carried to Columbia to save him from lynohiog. - Governor Heyward has pardoned Charles Rapp, of Laurene., who was sentenced to five years in the peniten tiary for murder. It was agreed when Rapp was sentenced that at the end of three years the judge and solicitor ?7cold recommend a pardon which was done. - Jake Gannon, colored, was shot and killed by Milt Duke, colored, near Piokens on Sunday afternoon. The shooting was the result of a quar rel which arose during a game of craps. Indictments for sixteen ne groes who were in the game have been issued. - The Columbia State say? a short age of almost $11,500 has been found in the accounts of E. D. Free, oounty treasurer of Barnwell oounty. The investigation has been proceeding for some time, and Mr. E. B. Wilson of the comptroller general's office has been at work cn the books. - Mrs. E. B. Foxworth, of Marion, died a few days ago from the effect of picking a fever blister with a brass Sin. She was apparently in good ealth when a small I vs ter appeared on her lip and she pioked it with a pin, after which it festered and blood poisoning followed. She suffered a great deal until death relieved her. - Gallie, wife of Wm. Maxwell, a oolored woman living on Col. T. J. Moore's place, near Spartanburg, had a peooliar aooident. When stewing some apples in a half gallon tin can she took the lid off and the contento exploded, burning her fwe and cloth ing badly and closing up both eyes. Some of the fruit struck the oeiling over her head. It is not believed that the woman's sight ia lost. --The board of visitors of the Citadel academy, at their meeting in Columbia on Thursday, deoidsd to send the cadets to the St. Louis ex position, where they will go into en campment from the 15th to the 28th of June. The Sute wi!l pay their expenses while there, but they must pay their own transportation, which will not bo muon aa the roads will give them special rates. - Attorney General Gunter has rendered no opinion in the matter of the franchi BO tax law. but it is sure that hewitt agree with the Comp troller-General. In this casa the Sute will have a deficit of nearly $150,000 this year. The law being signed on Feb. 20th, does not become effective until the 18th of March, twenty days af Ur. lu approval. The revenue from the tax on railroads alone would have been $30,000, and it ia probable that the income this year will be $89.000 short of what was figured on. By the end of the year tue S uto will'show a defioit cf a Ihalf million dollars sinoe the year in which tba pension fund was increased by 4100,000. GENERAL HEWS. - Strawberries sro selling at 35 and 40o. per quart in Augusta. - Three mon wcro^ killed and 18 wounded in an explosion in a staroh mill in Waukengan, 111. - Two women and their oleven I small children were burned to death at St. Felioien, Canada. - Eight cotton mills, with 2000 employes, at Concord, N. C., will ro duce their -.working time from six to four days a week. - Noah Rabey, said to be tho old est person in America, died at New Brungwick, N. J., on Tuesday, 1st inst., aged 132 years. - Prairie fires in Oklahoma have destroyed hundreds of buildings, much live stock and caused tho death of a number of people. - Notwithstanding tho war with Hussia tho Japanese government do olarcs that it will make a big display at tho St. Louis exposition. - In tho Eastern oities, because of the increased price of flour, the price of bread and rolls has been advanood consideraby by the bakers. Lima, Peru, had another great earthquake. It was the severest in 30 years. Much damage was done but no lives are reported lost. - Congressman Charles Dick has been elected by the Ohio legislature to succeed Senator Mark lianna for both the short term and the long term. - The mockingbird is said to be especially fond of the grubs of the boll weevil and will be extensively propagated in Texas to prey upon the insect pest. - J. W. Turner, his wife and thoir three ohildren we* truck at Marietta, Ga., by a railroad traiu. He and one child was killed and Mrs. Turnor had her foot crushed. - The Manufacturers Record of Baltimore says the value of last year's ootton orop was $650,000,000 against $325,000,000 for the year before-the increase being caused by the higher prices. - The Metropolitan Art Museum of New York has just purchased an old ohariot for $50,000. it was un earthed near Rome some time ago, and is 2600 years old and splendidly preserved. - Roosevelt is in favor of making two new States by consolidating Ari I zona and Ne;? Medice for one and Oklahoma and Indian Territory for the other with restrictions as to full citizenship. - The framework of a thirteen story building in New York collapsed, oausing the death of fourteen or more persons and the injury of matty others. Criminal carelessness on the part of the contractors is charged. - The Wisconsin State Capitol building was practically destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. Tha origin of the fire is believed to havo been a lighted gas jet in a toilet room on the second floor. The loss is estimated afc $800,000. - Senator (ballinger, of New Hamp shire, has introduced a bill to inorease salaries as follows : President, $75, 000; vice president, $15,000; speaker of the house, $12,000; members of the cabinet, $15,000; eouutots and members of the house, $8,000. - Sam Bullock vas shot and killed and Upton Head wns seriously wound ed in a shooting tiorape near Buch anan, Ga., whick grew out of a quar rel because Head refused to drink with Bullock and another party. The affair occurred in Head's dining room. - Three members of a family in Sioux Falls, S. D., have reoently died of typhoid fever, and it is said the disease was oaught by opening the coffin of a member of the family who died of the disease in Louisiana and whoso body was shipped home for burial. - H. A. Knowles, a well-known business man of Buffalo, N. Y., shot and killed H. L. Sohwartz, a promi nent lawyer, and ten minutes later, in the presence bf two detectives, snot and killed himself. The snooting is said to bavo been the culmination of business troubles. -- Mrs. Horace G. Allis, formerly a well-known society leader in Little Rook, Ark., committed suicido by hanging. Her husband, who was president of a bank, was convicted some time ago for embezzlement and sent to the penitentiary, and this dis grace led to her rash act. - Mrs. Helen Williams Post, the "mind healer" who was eon vic ted some time ago in Jacksonville, Fla., of using the mails for fraudulent pur poses, was sentenced last week to confinement one year in the Fed eral penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn. She took an appeal and gave a fe5,000 bond. - Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zimmerman, of 4068 Finney avenue, St. Louis, celebrated their wooden wedding a few days ago, on which occasion, their friends presented them with a pretty frame cottage, whioh had been erect ed pu a lot sorno distance away owned by Mr. . Zimmerman. The . oouple knew nothing about the matter until the house was complote in every de tail. - The postoffioe department has received news that th? offico at Hum phrey, Ark., h?B been blown up. Re ports nave it that the motive was rob bery and other reports that the affair was oansed by dissatisfaction with I the postmaster, who was a negro I named Greer. The office bas reoently been in charge of a neg rc girl and man, is deputies of Greer. Prospect News. The health of this community is very good at this writing. We are having some very good weather, and the farmers are making good use of it by plowing. They are trying to get ready for putting in their fertilizers. Mr. Stacy McClain and wife spent last Sunday eveniug with Mr. aud Mrs. M. L. Campbell. The Sabbath School at this place is about to mnko a failure. There ave only about six or seven who attend regularly. We are having a very largo school at this pince. Professor Ira Giles has the management of tho school. Ho is a good teacher and the children all like him and he takes a lot of paine to leant them. Prue Dean aud wife spent last Sun day with Henry deer and family. S. M. Brooks was in this section last Monday on some business. Hara. Harbin hud a narrow escape from a fatal accident a few days ago. Ho fell in a well about twenty-five feet deep. Ho bad just finished cleaning out tho well and had Marted out, when he got to tho top his hands slipped and let him go baek on his feet. March 5. B. L. G. Portman News. The weather If? very disagreeable at this writing. Johnnie Amnions, who helped to build the dara, ia visiting at this place. W. H. Lie Leer/ roof caught on tire Saturday from sparhs. lt wrns discov ered in time to savo the house MTS. Laura Stevenson and Johnnie Stevenson, of Lavonia, Ga., have been visitiug relatives here. Mies Corrio Whitaker visited rela tives in Andersou last week. Alonzo McLees and wife and Miss Mattie McLees, of Williamson, and Miss Sallie Bowie, of Anderson, were the gueslc, of Mrs. Lucy McLees re cently Sloan Whitaker visited at Townville last Sunday. J. C. Martin is wearing a broad smile. He has purchased a new buggy. Newton Whitaker has boen visiting relatives in our community. Thomas McClure was out on his farm the other day. He says he is not hav ing good health. M. Baseball in Brushy Creek. Mr. Editor: The that game of base ball for this season in this section was played last Friday afternoon at Moun tain View school house between a team from Easley and a team made up from the Mountain View and White Plains schools. The game was an interesting one throughout and highly enjoyed by the crowd of spectators and the play era. The batteries wore as follows : Eas ley, LaBoon and Johnston; home team. Gentry and Owens. After the boys from the hills and the plains had run and run until they could run no more, the affair was amicably terminated as the official score declared to be 20 to 4 in favor of the home team. A beauti ful triplet play was made by the home team. Easley was at the bat with run ners on every base, Gentry caught a fly, threw it to third and thence to first. A double play was made by Easley in similar way. Observer. The Negro Fair Association. The Agricultural Fair Association will hold an important meetingon next Saturday, 12th inst.? at 12 o'clock, lavery woman and man in the Connty who is interested in the movement should be present. Mr. J. C. Jefferson will be the main speaker of the day. We shall also have some words of ad vice and encouragement from some of our white citizen friends. We have 45 mixed packages of farm and garden seeds, sent by Senator Latimerfor freo distribution. "First come first served." Please be on time. Geo. W. Hill, President. Pulled off the Fights. Greenville, March 5.-The chicken fighters did not succeed in having their snort in Greenville County, but they stole a march on the officials in Pick ens and Anderson Counties, the fights taking place near the line between those Counties across the Saluda river. Sheriff Gilresth had warned the au thorities on the other side of the river, but they did not catch np with the snorts until 13 rounds were fought, North Carolina defeating Georgia by a heavy majority, and a good deal of money changing hands. Magistrate Jamison, of Easley, reached the grounds after the sport was practically over, but he made two arrests, select ing the leaders from Georgia and North Carolina, who gave bond xor their ap ?iearance at the magistrate's court. /olnmbia State. Japanese Well Equipped. London, February '?7.-A dispatch to the Daily . Mail from Corea says that foreign military men greatly praise the Japanese commissary and transport arrangements Oen. H. T. Allen, Chief of the Phili ppine con stabulary, who has been active as Amerioan military attache at Seoul, told the correspondent that the in fantry equipment was splendidly adapted for the worl. faoing the troops in Corea. The food arrangements ure perfect. Each infantry unit has a cylindrical stove and detachable kett'e, capable of cooking enough rioe to furnish one meal for 100 men. Nine suoh stoves and kettles are used for eooking for a battalion. Boxes containing half pound cans of meat are carried by four horses for eaoh battalion. A quantity of sodium sulphate is car ried to purify water for drinking. Eaoh soldier is provided with a Ger man aluminum mess pan, containing two eooked rations of rice in addi tion to six emergency rations. The rice is boiled and dried in the sun ! and wrapped in cotton bags. It is of trifling weight.-New York Sun. THIS SPACE BELONGS 9 Successors to Horn-?ass Co. "Sell 'Em Cheap" Will Still Be Our Motto. Watch this space a little later for a ftuide to make your Dollar GO A LONG WAYS. WE ARE RECEIVING.... Each week so many New Goode of differ ent kinds that we can't tell you about each piece. You will have to come to our Store and spend awhile looking through. : : : Dress Fabrics, For your evening and street costumes, 25c to $2.00 yard. Handsome Trimmings, New Notions, Pretty Novelties, White Goods, Of every descuption. EMBROIDERIES, LACES AND INSERTIONS. From 2c yard up. Remnants of Percale, Madras, Oxfords, etc., the best you? have ever seen. We save you on these from 2c to 10c yard, Most anything you w&ut can bo had here, and the priced are alright. Sena us your orders. Samples sent on request. Moore,Acker&Co. CLOGGED KIDNEYS. The kidneys are the sewers of the body. Whan they loss their aotlrlty thsy bxnm) filled wita poisonous waste ?nd ktdnoy allraoata result. Psln la snallof the bwW, be* Uah?, so ?air, painful, burning urine,dizziness, bloating, sro the forerunners of whit, it neglected misai sinoni disais?. Murray's Buchu, Oin and Juniper Is a remedy that ?fTn-Ja Immediate rallof- a combination of drags whtoh hare a llreri and curative action on the urinary organs-a formula usel and proscribed by thousand? of emin int physiol iqv It Increases the action of the kidney*, c eansing th i on of dlsai.a-f roluelo t i np iritis. It r*nl*rs th j urine bland, soothing ana antiseptic,rall-:?ins; alOQCJ all b'.allsr dims iltlM. ?ci-i'.y, it?'.d, bi ming urine, etc. Useful in every kidney and b'adder ailment,dropsy, grarel.Jaandlca. Price, One Dollar. Guaranteed satisfactory to ev try purchaser. PREPARED BY THE MURRAY DR?G COMPANY, COLUMBIA, 8. 0.