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BY CUJ?KSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1904. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 50. Next Time You buy a SUIT OF CLOTHES oome here and see how easy it is for you to get pleased, and what an easy time we have getting a Suit to fit you. Our s Clothes are not made to order, but they are made to flt. Enough patterns in Suits to please any man's fancy, enough sizes to fit any man's form. Prices as LOW as GOOD CLOTHES eau be sold. MEN'S SUITS $5.00 to $22.50. YOUTHS' SUITS $4.00 to $15.00. I BOYS'SUITS $1.50 to $6. Men's Outfitters ! Another Feast OP '-itt? ?i ? ii m ? .W . N. [ <? ? 4 Jk SINCE the closing of onr Spacial Sale we have been impor tuned by our customers and friends to put on another Salo of equal values. While, for obvious reasons, we can not make the ??oe ""?ping faction, throaghout o?, W Store, *JL. decided to inaugurate on THURSDAY, MAY 12th- W. A Special Sh,oe Sale, Continuing for Thirty Days only. Buring this time we will sell for Cash any Shoe in our Store at Ten Per Cent Discount ; end in addi tion on all bills amounting to $5.00 and over wo will give an additional Five Per Cent Discount. These discounts 'are/of course, given on Gash bills. This is a splendid opportunity for Merchants to replenish their stock, and to families to buy their Summer Shoe* cheap. There are EXTRA INDUCEMENTS also on That should not bo ignored. As a leader wc offer about one hun dred barrels Washburn-Crosley Co's. Parisian at $4.25 per barrel, (former price 85.00.) Ooo hundred barrels low . grade Flour at ?3.25, (former pr^ I4?5;) These, also, are strictly for Cash. ^ Yours for thirty days only, 1)F A N11? ? T? TPPP Uh ixl V \% IxiX i Jun 114* 500 bushels musty Corn at 6Cc per bushel. Fine for hogs. STATE HEW?. - Constable M. 8. Davenport, of Greenwood, who killed a negro at Ninety 8ix, Vas been granted bail in the sum of CL',009. - Jim Harshar shot and killed Pal mer Ferguson at a church near West minister, Ooonee County, Sunday night-both colored. - It has been announced that the contract has been signed for building the trolley line at Neal's Shoclo, on the Seaboard railway, to Union. - Geo. Wi Murray, colored, ex oongrossman, was tried and convicted of forgery in Sumter last week, and sentenced to three years ou the ohain gang and to pay a fine of $250. A motion for a new trial wa?? refused. - In tho Charleston oity court on Monday one negro was brought up for throwing oil on another who was asleep and then applying a match. Fortunately the fire was extinguished and the sleeper not seriously hurt. -- A palmetto wroath has been sent to Col. Henry L. Turner, of Chicago, by the Charleston Daughters of the Confederacy in memory of his aot ia firing a salute over the graves of Con federate dead in Oakwood cemetery. - Mr. W. H. Weldon, a white far mer about 45 years of age, of Provi dence, S. C., oommitted suicide about 6 o'clock Thursday afternoon by ehoot ing himself through the head with a 38-oalibro pistol. He was in bad health. - It is reported in the News and Courier that since the law requiring all fires of a suspicious nature to be reported to the comptroller general went into effect there have been an average of about ten fires reported every day at his office. - The new steel bridge just com pleted over Broad river at Shelton, on the S. U. & C. line of the Southern, is one of the handsomest and most substantial structures of ita kind in tbs South. It has been built since Deoember and cost $46,000. - The Conway correspondent of The Sute says : "Tho 57 oar loads of strawberries spoken of in my last let ter meant about $90,000 to the ship pers. Some $25,000 worth have been shipped from Conway alone this sea son and three more oar loads go out to-day." - A little nogro boy named James Robinson climbed on a Pullman oar of the Seaboard in Columbia a few days ago and released the brakes, when it went down the road with great speed and ran into a freight oar loaded with whiskey, causing damages to oars and whiskey of $3,000. The boy has been arrested. - The Charleston police soored all reoords by arresting forty cows Thurs day morning, entailing a lot of trouble tra the officers. The resident and owners of property have been annoyed by the cows running at large in the upper section of the oity, and on ac count of the complaint the police de partment deoided to enforce tho ordi nance and the orders were given for the arrest of the animals. - The Beauregard memorial com mittee of Camp Sumter, United Con federate Veterans, ' has deoided to creo t a memorial arch of Caroli?a gran ite on Washington square "in honor of P. G T. Beauregard, general, Con federate States army, who kept in violate the gates of Charleston from 1861 to 1665." Tho committee has been for some time considering plans and has finally deoided upon the gen eral style and shape of the memorial. - Congressman Johnson has re ceived from the war department five vouchers for claims entered through him against the government under (he aot of February 12, 1902, to reim burse those.who had property taken from them by Federal soldiers after the surrender. The vouohers and the amounts are as. follows i, Andrew Mitchell, Union. $135; W. H. San ders, JUnion, 135; Capt. J. Frank Wofford, Switzer, $125; G. W. Fow ler, Union, $135; Mrs. Lizzie D. Fleming, . Spartanburg, $225. Total, $725. - The Sixth Regiment, 8. C. Cav alry, Butler's Brigade, will hold a reunion at Edgefield, on June ll, 1904. It is hoped that every mem ber Will be present. It is said that the occasion Will be an interesting ono. Among the speakers will be Mr. Wm. P. Calhoun Who will deliver an address of welcome. ? The members of the Sixth regiment will appreciate it if the papera will call attention to tho meeting. It is hoped, too, that as mady as desire to show their appre ciation of the services of these noble and brave men from 1861 to 1865, will attend the meeting. ' -And while-we are honoring he roes let us not. forget 15-year-old Wade Plummer, of. Lamar. Darling ton County, who rescued John Gibson from the' waters cf Lynches' H ver. Our di epate h says that when young Gibson vank the men on the river bank did hot undertake the risk of at? tempting his reson?. But -the boy did*. The drowning man grappled with him and earned him beneath the water. After being twine borne dowo, Wade heeded the voioe of his father and broke away from Gibson's grip. Bat only for a moment, and to recover breath and gita him strength, did the brava boy otase hit efforts. Then ha dived 12 tr 15 feet, found tbs body of Gibson on the bottom of the river, brought it to the surf ace and to the shore. Lifo seemed ? tico t but in aa hour Gibson was resuscitated and we art told there wat "great gratifica tion." And there waa double cause for r o j oici og ; not only had. a tragedy naen averted but it had been develop ed that in that community there was such a youth as Wade Plummer: Colombia State. GENERAL REWS. - The United States has granted 3,500 patents to ?omen. - Dnricg the racing season more than $1,000,000 a day ia wagered on horses. - The total income of all Ameri can farmers last year was about $5, 500,000,000. - A woman stabbed a man with a hat pin over the left eye, the other day in Savannah, and tho man died from the wound. - Sam Jones, of Georgia, says "thc democrats will win if thoy just keep steady and don't do some fool thing at aoriti?ttl juncture." - It is reported that the boll weevil is so bad in Mexico that that country oan not compote with the United States this srason in raising cotton. - The Presbyterian general assem bly at Buffalo has taken action by which ministers of that denomina tion are enjoined from marrying di vorced persons. - The postmaster at Choctaw, Ala., has been indioted with crimes calling for 180 years imprisonment and $6000 fines. The eharges againet him are mostly for forgery. - The Democratic State conven- { tion of Indiana instructed its thirty delegate? to the St. Louis convention to vote for Judge Parker for the presi dential nomination. - The reports at the Southern Baptist convention show receipts for home missions for the year of $124, 850: for foreign missions $247,512; for Sunday Schools $100,000. - Dan White shot and killed Sid Vaden at Carthage, Tenn., on Wed nesday about a cow and then killed Robert Overstreet, one of the posse that was sent to arrest him. - A boy threw a railroad spike through a window of a ooaoh of cn Atlantic Coast Line train at Naylor, Ga., on Tuesday, striking a child that was lying in its mother's lap and kill ing it. - While Mrs. Robert Rogers, of Mecklenburg County, N. C., was try ing to drive a horse out of a wheat field the animal attacked her, knock ed her down and stamped her to cteath. - Mrs. Stephen Jones committed suieide on Tuesday at her home three miles from Juokson, Ga., by shooting herself with a pistol, leaving a hus band and four children. Her mind was unbalanced. T- A news item from Riohtuond. Va., is to the effect that the original indictment of Aaron Burr, charged with treason, has reoently been found. It is signed by John Randolph, fore man of the ?rand jury. - We occasionally hear of a black man turning white, but Thomas Goss, a white man in a hospital at London, England, [ is gradually turning blaok. The medical men are unable to dis cover tho cause of his change of color. . - Yazco City, Miss., a town of ; 6,000 inhabitants, had a dre on Wed- j nosday that destroyed nearly every business house and many private resi dences. The loss is estimated at $2,500,000; the insuranoe at $800,003 to $1,000,000. - There are some 4,000,000 bach elors in the United States. Rev. Madison C. Peters expressed the opin ion in a sermon in Philadelphia a day or two ago that the "extravegouco and incompetence of modern young wo men was the cause of this condition of affairs." - A small ohild of John Goodnight, near Conoord, N. C., was nearly killed by a dose of morphine instead of calo* mel. What any family wants with suoh drugs in his house is more than one ean tell. Some men and women are insane on the medicine question. Never administer ouch drugs without the advice of a physician. . , - Jasper Carter, a young man of Tampa, Fla., who became infatuated with a young woman named Gentry MoNew, while she was visiting there, followed her to Atlanta, and failing to induoe her to return with him, ahot and fatally wounded her on Monday night and then blew his own brains out with the same weapon. - A naturalist found black ants were devouring the skins cf some bird speoimens on a table, so he made tar oiroles on fonr pieces of paper, and put one under eaoh leg of the table. Ants will not cross tar. Pretty Boon he found the. ants busily at work again, and, looking at the tar circles, found each one was bridged by bits of sand, which the clever ants had brought in from the street. - "How may a man become r mother?" is the question the members of the New York City Mother's Club are asking eaoh other. The society, last monday, let the bars down to "him," ano: he may now become a member on the payment of $2 a year. The revised constitution provides that any man may bcoomo an assooiate member and attend meetings if he is insympathy with tho purpose of the organisation. i - The Elberton, Ga., Star notes as follows the success of a negro farmer, Who did what downs cf intelligent colored men are' doing : "Pcrry Hud son, an industrious negro of Lucapkin County, Georgia, told the past year from a one horro farm $489.97 worth of cora, mea!? acas, ohiokana. hatter, turkeys, cattle and the Uko, besides eight bales of cotton which he was able to hold and sell at the highest prices of the season. Hudson is dea con in his ohnreh, Sunday School superintendent, and has alway? voted the Democratic tioket. The race ?uostion ia no question at all with , 'erry Hudson." A BIG BATTLE FOUGHT. JAPANESE ASSAULT ONE OF THE BLOODIEST OF MODERN TIMES. Tokio, May 28.-The Japaneso as sault on Nansbun hill \vnn one of the fiercest and bloodiest alkira in modern waitara. In the earlier rushes of the engage ment every mau pa.ticipatiug was shot down before he reached tho first line of Kassian trenches. It was found necessary to stop these infaut y charges and renew tho artillery fire from the rear before the final nnd successful assault on the Russian position could be made. Tho success of this assault was brought about by ono detachment of Japanese troops, more intrepid than their comrades, who succeeded in piercing the Russian line. A splendid stroke of fortune wns tho discovery and destruction by the Jap anese of the electric wires leading to the mines at the eastern foot of the Nanshan hill. This prevented the Russians from exploding these mines when the Japanese infantry crossed tho ground where they had been placed. It is possible that the fortune of the day hinged|upon these mines. If the Russians had been able to ex plode them at the right time the losses among the Japanese troops would have been tremendous and it is possible alBo that the Russians would have been able to hold the hill. Uanshan was splendidly defended. Nearly fiO guns of various sizes were mounted on the emplacements and there were also two batteries of quick firing field pieces. The artillery was sheltered behind loopholes trenched on terraces of the hill. The infantry man ning the field pieceB ran with them around the hill, thus using these guns for the protection of the iuost import ant points. Tile Japanese began the fight by bringing all their field guns into action and concentrating their fire on the em placements on the hill. By ll o'clock m the morning, the principal Russian batteries had been silenced The two Russian field batteries then withdrew to Nan Qnan Ling hill and from there continued to tire on the Japanese until nightfall. After the Russian batteries had been ? silenced the Japanese artillery opened | on tbe enemy's trenches the Japanese infantry advancing meanwhile to with in rifle range. The Japanese grad ually worked to within 400 metres of the Russian lines, where they encoun tered wire and other entanglements. They succeeded in discovering an opening in these obstacles and, get ting finally to within 200 metres of the Russian trenches, they rushed for the line. Several successive charges were made but every officer and man in the attacking parties was shot down, 20 or SO morrea from the line. The charges were then stepped and the Japanese artillery renewed its preparatory lire on the enemy's position. Towards eve ning a detachment of Japanese car ried a section of the Russian trenches, breaking through the enemy's line. Hundreds of the comrades of these men, inspired by their successes, sprang forward and then the entire Japanese line swept rp the hill driving the Rus sians from their positions. It was in the desperate infantry charges that the Japanese sustained the bulk of their losses.; Tokio, May 28.-Japan paid heavily for her victories at Kin Chou, Nan shan and Tien Wan, losing 8,000 men in killed and wounded in the repeated assaults against these positions, but she scored a sweeping and valuable victory over the Russians, captnring 50 guns, clearing the way to Port Arthur and inflicting losses on the Russians which in the end are expected to total 2,000 men. lt is donbted if the Russians will stand again north of Port Arthur. They retired from the field beaten and failed to rally at Nan QuanLing, where it was anticipated that a second stand would be made. The desperate onslaughts.of Japa nese on the heighta of Nanshan were toiling, for the Russians left 800 dead in the trenches there. A complete search of this field is expected to show a greater number of dead. Nan Qu an Ling was occupied yester day morning by a force of infantry, artillery and engineers under the com mand of Gen. Nakrnura. The main Japanese force spent Friday night in the villages around Nanshan. The soldiers were greatly fatigued as a result ot the constant fighting but they entered with much spirit npon the new operations. A force of Rus sians held Sanchilipu station, which is northwest of Dalny, but the Japanese drove them out. The Russians aban doned and bnrned the station and re tired in the direction of Port Arthur. The estimates of the Russians en gaged in the defense or Kin Chou, Nansbnn hill and tho south shore of Tullen Wan bay vary but it is evi dent that the Russians drew for men from the forces nt Port Arthur and ottered all the resistance possible. It is understood here that Lieut. Gen. Stoesell, commander of the military forces at Port Arthur, was in personal command of the recent operations. As soon as the Japanese troops have rested they will press on to the south. New Chwang, May 28.-A staff offi cer just from .1/uk den says the delib eration and precision ot the enemy has surprised Kuropatkin, who at first believed the Japanese campaign would be one of dashing recklessness, with more theatrical display about the manoeuvers than strategy. A Ch?ncso merchant just arrived who left Dalny five days ago says the Russians h nive vacated the town which at the time of his departure had not been occupied by the Japanese forces. The latter were still engaged in land ing troops at Kin Chou bay. It is said on excellent authority that Japan ia to use a force of 100,000 men ia opera tions against Port Arthur and take it by storm in a fortnight. They real ise that their loasea in the exeeution of thia plan will be severe, but it ia considered better to take the risk than to keep ? large army, idle for three months. They do not' propose, it is said, to penetrate into the inter ior of the country any further than Mukden. Washington, May 28.-Minister Gria com cables the state department from Tokio under to-day's date that the Japanese government declares the Liao Tong peninsula from Pitsewo to Puliontan to be in a state of block ade. Tokia, May 29, noon.-The Japanese casualties at Nanshan are now esti mated at 8,600. The number of Rus sian guns captured exceed 70. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to A A A A AJL ?k ?? A A ^> A A AA Our Buyer has just returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the moBt fastidious dressers the result of careful selections.; See our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE hZONEY. 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