Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ T-TTrTtTT AL T A mn orriAxi ! ANDERSON. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 18. V Mua gad tabre! [I ? l ? ."' .J - OnVW I90t Bj lui leJuffaw A M tai Next Time You buy a SUIT OF CLOCHES come here and see how easy it is for you to get pleased, and what an easy time wo have getting a Suit to fit you. Our Clothes are not made to order, but they are made to fit. Enough patterns in Suit'i to please any man's fancy, enough sizes to fit any man's form. Prices as LOW as GOOD CLOTHES can be sold. MEN'S SUITS $5.00 to $22.50. YOUTHS' SUITS $4.00 to $15.00. BOYS'SUITS $1.50 to $6.00. . 0. Evans & Co, Men's Outfitters ! This is their space, but there are so many Bar gains in their line that they can't enumerate them ali here, so they ask that their customers use their eyes in looking over their matohless values in SHOES, DRESS GOODS, HATS, And "sich like." Tojsee them is to buy them. They are hummers. , They are Headquarters on good, sound, dry CORN. Warranted free of must and rats. Their feed Are of the best quality. Everybody that is any body knows that DEAN S PATENT FLOUR Ie the best that grows? So why pay more for infe rior goods when you can be transcendently happy by trading here. "* THAT'S THE QUESTION I DEAN & RATUFFE. The Folks that Sell the Good Kinds. STATE NEWS. - There ere an even dozen can didates for the office of county super visor of Chesterfield County. - The weather bureau in Colum bia has just prepared tbe first ther mal map of the State ev?r published. - Constables oaptured a 75-gallon still and other paraphenalie in the "Dark Corner" of Greenville County and destroyed it. - Dispensary constables raided the Union club and the Union Social club, in Columbia, and seized all the liquor found in the olub rooms. - The grand jury of Spartanburg presented several parties for keeping disorderly houses, and the accused were arrested and put uuicr $750 bonds. - J.J. Rowe, a white man, was convioted in Georgetown on Friday of stealing a hog, and Judge Aldrich sentenced him to 16 months imprison ment and $100 fine. - Bryan Hall pleaded guilty at Spartanburg of praotioing dentistry without a license , and Judge Hunt sentenced him to pay a fine of $200 or serve six months. - The dead body of James Hor sey, a 16 year-old boy, was found in a mill poiid ?' ot Winnsboro. It is sup? ?osea that he was drowned while io athing by himself the night before. - As the result of an explosion of a half barrel of quiok lime in Colum bia, John Mime, a colored carpen ter, was horribly burned about the face and it is feared that he will lose his sight. - Miss Agnes Sohreiver, of Bruns wick, Ga., who is visiting friends in Greenville, was run over by a wagon and had both legs fractured. Soe is 70 years old, and the injuries are like ly to prove serious. - Dr. Arthur Thomas, a well known dentist of Spartanburg, was knooked on the head while riding in the su burbs the other night and was robbed of $25 and his gold watch. A negro has been arrested on suspioion. - Of the million dollars appropri ated this year by Congress for arms and equipment of the militia of the United States the South Carolina companies get $17,962-a large por tion of which will be spent in encamp ment.' - W. E. Dargpo, of Darlington, lost a fine buggy mare a few days ago. The animal was trying to remove a fly and in throwing her head around caught a ring of the bit in a oheok hook. While trying to straighten her neok, she fell to the ground breaking her neck. - The Rev. Samuel Philips Ver nor, son of John S. Vernor, of Colum bia, who has just returned from Afri co, announces that he has for an ex hibit at the World': iair ten pigmies, or little men about three feet high. He also has a genuine cannibal as part of the exhibit. Mr. Vernor has been in Afrio* several tabatha, and has been through some startling adven tures. - It is probable that the Free short age in Barnwell County will be set tled without suit. Free was tbe County Treasurer and was about $12,000 short. The bonding com pany will probably pay up without suit. The Comptroller is pow mak ing settlements with tba various ecus ties es rapidly as possible, and nearly ail of them ate ready unusually early this year. - The D?mocratie Executive Com mittee of Berkeley County has adopt ed a resolution assessing candidates for Congress $500 eaoh. It is report ed that the purpose of the resolution seems to bo more to test the power of oounty assessments on congressional candidates than to get money, as it oarries with it the appointment of a committee to confer* with similar com mittees from the other counties in the district and take some general action in the matter. - In Columbia last Wednesday the jnry in the oase of Frank James, the young white man charged with mur der, acquitted him without leaving their seats. James wast an overseer on Col. Singleton's plantation a few miles below the eity and several months ego he killed a negro in self ! defense. The negro had threatened James and one morning attaoked him. Be fired at him four times, hitting him twice, death resulting from the wounds.. The trial was simply a mat ter of form and did no? ocoupy much tints. - J. Clarence Edwards, a white man aged 21 years, is in the Spartan burg jail to await trial for forgery. The case is a pitiable example of the downfall of a young man, who attri butes it to drink. Wednesday Ed wards secured a blank oheok from the store of Dunbar Bros., and filled it out, using the name of A. B. Omen, one ol the county's wealthiest citizens, as endorser. The oheok ?ras for $200, and was presented by Edwards at tbe First National Bank. The fraud was at once deteoted and Edwards was ar-, rested and lodged in jail. -A negro tenant house on tho property of Mr. Jaoob Long, about three miles from the steel bridge, on* the Kin ard's ferry road to Saluda was soaked with kerosene and set on fire early Tuesday . morning, when the three inmates were supposed to be io bed and. asleep. A negro woman', Sallie Ready, was living in the house With her blind mother anda small child. One of the wtmen was awaken ed by tho blase in time to summon aid and check the . headway of the flames before much damage was done. 1 On investigation it was found that the murderous soheme had been carefully planned, and that only good fortune prevented the death of all three in mates of the house. GENERAL NEWS* - Miss Mollie Wayoott was killed by lightning in Columbus, Miss., on Friday. Her neok was broken. - Mrs. Julia Wyatt, aged 28, oomr mitted suicide with laudanum in Co lumbus Ga. She and her husband had separated. - Judge Speer, a Federal judge for the district of Georgia, has deoided that ohain gang sentenoes cannot be enforced by oity governments. - State tax in Florida has been re duced from 3 milla on the dollar to 1-2 mill on the dollar, on account of the flourishing condition of the State. - A negro was lynched by negroes at Randolph, Bibb County, Ala., last week. The negro had attacked ou? killed another negro on account of jealousy. - The beautiful twins of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brown, of Augusta, Ga., aged seven months, died tho same day -Tuesday-and were buried in the same grave. - A cloudburst near Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday inundated 500 homes and business houses, doing damage to the amount of half a million in a few minutes. - Claude Moon, of Monroe, Ga., committed suioide by sending a bul let through his brain because his bride of a week refused to live with him longer. He was only 20. - The National Prohibition Con vention has nominated Silas C. Swal low, of Pennsylvania, for president of the United States, and Geo. W. Carroll, of Texas, for vice president, - There are more than a dozen business women in Chicago enjoying incomes of from $3,000 to $10,000 a year, resulting from their own enter prise, promoted and managed by them selves. - Mrs. M. D. Mitchell, of Atlanta, and Mrs. R. L. Malone, of Athens, Ga., sisters, died at their homes on Saturday-both of typhoid fever-and both were buried at their old home at Griffin on Sunday. - Elmer Oliver, of Plymouth, Pa., is suing Miss Elizabeth Alspaugh for $5,000 for breaoh of promise. She broke the engagement without any reason, he says, and he wants to teach her a lesson. - The Baldwin Locomotive works, the largest engine builders in the world, bas discharged 4,000 men which is almost two-thirds of its force. The company olaims the reduotion is due to a falling off in orders. - Thoa. L. Youn, foreman of the AugUBta, Ga., Tribune, has brought suit for $1,500 damages against W. Q. Walsh and the Walsh Direotory company for publishing him in the Augusta direotory as colored. - Threatened with starvation and with her husband hopelessly insane in the asylum at Kankekee, Mrs. Annie Kelseyrick, of Chicago, gave up the struggle for existence, killed her three small ohildren and then ended her own life. - Dan Emmett, the old time min strel and famous as the composer of "Dixie," died at his home at Mt. Ver non, Ohio, last week. He was 80 years old. His last publio appearance was made four years ago when he toured the States with a minstrel company. - Gage County, in southwest Ne braska, was swept by a severe hail storm recently. Two ohildren near Homesville were killed. Hail stones twelve inehes in size and weighing light ounces were picked up. The losses in live stock and orohard orop are heavy. - The third annual summer school for the South opened at Knoxville on Tuesday, June 28th, and will con tinue through to August 15. The ag gregate attendance is expected to reach 1,500 to 2,000. Among the lecturers for this week is President Snyder, of Woff?rd College. - Mrs. Maie Stewart, of Los An geles, Cal., is suing her mother-in law, Mrs. W. C. 8tewart, for $5,000 damages for alienating the affections of the plaintiff's husband, with whom she alleges she lived happily until the old lady interfered. They were mar i ried three years ago. - The explosion of a small bundle I of fireworks whioh was being wrapped i up for a customer in the store room of tho Diamond Fireworks company, in Philadelphia, cn Monday ignited the room full of fireworks and three persons were killed and a half dozen others were injured. The cause of the fireworks exploding is not known. - Rov. J. B. Holley, a prominent Baptist minister and editor of the Southern Baptist, was fined $250 in the criminal oourt of Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday for p'saulting Rev. W. A. Hobson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of that city and also an editor of the Southern Baptist. Tho difficulty arose over the conduct of the paper. - Mr. Ike Jones, of Harlem, Ga., left his 18-months old daughter sit ting in a little express wagon in the lot while he looked after the stock. The child held oom in her hand and a large hog made a grab at it and swal lowed thc child's arm nearly np to the elbow. The screams of the ohild brought the father and the. arm was released from the mouth and throat of the hog withoat serious injury. .- At Girard, Ga., the little 9 montha-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Parker was ohoked to death by falling across a swing that was sus pended under the house where the ohildren were accustomed to play and where the little one had gono; it is supposed she fell across tho swing and was ohoked to death before help could reach her. Latest War News. Tokio, June 2*.-After a hot light, which lasted for six hours yesterday morning (June 27), the Takushau divi sion of tho Japanese army completely defeated five battalions ot' Russian in fautry, which, supported by two regi ments of cavalry and sixteen guns, occupied Fenshufling, 27 miles north west of Stuycu. Th? Russians tinnily fell back in the direction of Shi-Mu-Cheng. Tho Ja panese casualties aggregated about one hundred killed and wouuded. Chefoo, June 28.-Chinese who left Port Arthur on June 24 say that only four battleships, live cruisers and the torpedo boats left the harbor on June 23. Of these three returned badly damaged, but none sank. Un June 24 the Japanese main army was within 14 miles of Port Arthur. The scouts were nearer. Natives of Manchuria have not been ordered out of Port Arthur, but only the natives of other provinces and thousands of these have left. Tokio, Juue29.-It is unotlicially re ported that the Chik-Wan-Shan, Chit An-Shau and So-Cho-Shan forts, south east of and part of the Port Arthur de fenses, wore captured on Sunday after an all day tight, beginning with an artillery duel. So-Cho-Shan, it is added, waa ?rst captured and the other forts fell soon afterward. The Russinns retreated west, leaving forty deado: wounded. The composition of the Japanese forces has not been ascertained be yond the fact that it is said to have consisted cf all brauchea of the ser vice. The Japanese lost three officers and a hundred men killed or wounded und captured two guus and a quantity of ammunition. Tokio, June 80.-lt is reported with authority that there is continual skir mishing in the vicinity of Poit Ar thur, and that the Japanese forces are closing in on that place, lt is Expect ed that the foreign military attaches and the newspaper correspondents assigned to the second Japanese army will leave tor the front soon after the departure of Field Marshal Marquis Oyama. Cheefoo, July 1.-On June 24, it is said, the Japanese landed au indepen dent division of 10,000 at their naval house on tho Elliott islandB. This division is to be used, it is said, to either assist General Nogi, at Port Arthur, or General Oku in clearing the railroad. From outhoritive sources it is learned that the Japanese now have 180,000 mon in the field. Chefoo, July 2.-A report from Port Arthur this morning has it that the Kassian authorities there have closed all the shops in town and sealed their doors, lt is further reported that the last one of the combatants, including every able-bodied man, han been sent out to the trenches, lt is evident that a full assault on the city from the land side is thought to be imminent. London, July 1.-The Tokio corre spondent of the Reuter Telegram com pany wires that it is rumored there that Russin, tnrough France as an in termediary, has ottered to surrender Port Arthur with its shipB and arma to Japan, provided the garrison is allow ed to go free. The report has not been confirmed. Lynched a Negro. Cmrleston. 8. C., June GO.-Cairo Williams, the negro who killed Thurs ton O. McGee, white, at Scranton, in Williamsburg County, last February, was taken from the Atlantic Const Line train at Scranton this evening and lynched. He was tried at Kings tree today and the result was a mistrial. Williams narrowly escaped lynch ing immediately after the killing and was spirited ott' to the penitentiary in Columbia for safe-keeping. Aa the train approached Scranton, a mob of lynchers with blackened faces and weaving masks ilugged it down with a red nag and searched the train for the negro, to the great terror of the passengers. Finally they found Williams and ordered the sherill's dep uties to deliver him up. This was re fused and a scuttle ensued in which the deputies were much bruised. The mob then took the negro awny, say ing that he would be dead in five min utes, and that was his fate, although the exact particulars are not available. Charleston, July 1.-A special from Lake City says the body of Cairo Wil liams, riddled with bullets, has been found in a bay near Scranton. Magis trate Baldwin is now holding an in quest. The lynchers numbered 150. Killed on the Track. Aiken, July 4.-Mrs. J. J. Ergle, wife of Mr. J. J. Ergle, a prominent mer chant of Granlteville, was instantly killed by the afternoon passenger train due at Graniteville at 3.20 o'clock. Mrs. Ergle was on her way home, with her younger child, when she was killed. The? people of Graniteville were holding a Fourth of July picnic at Lakeside Park, on the edge of the village, and Mrs. Ergle left with her child after dinner, and was walking along the Southern track when she heard the train coming from Columbia. The mother was on one side of the track and the child on the other. It is said that Mrs. Ergle was seen to start across the track to keep the little one from crossing to ber. The track makes a sharp curve at this point and the train was upon her in an instant. She was knocked about forty feet and kill ed instantly. When the body was picked up the brains were oozing out of a hole in the back of the head and the limbs and frame were horribly crushed. Mrs. Ergle leaves a husband and sev eral young children. She was a kind and loving mother, and her tragic death is a sad shock to tho community. The spot where Mrs. Ergle was killed was near the same place where the late J. W. Samuels met death in the same manner.-Special to News and Courier. An Invitation from Boston. Boston, Mass., June 30.-Invitations have been sent out to thirty prominent Ex-Con federate soldiers to be the guests of Edward W. Kinsley, Post 113, G. A. H.. in Boston, during the week of the National G. A. R. En campment, August l?. The post will also have as guests 125 members of La fayette Post, of New York. Among those invited are: Col. James A. Hoyt, Greenville, S. C.; Col. James Simons, Charleston, S. C ; Gen. Fitz hugh Lee, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, com mander-in-chief of the Confederate Veterans Association. A banquet will be given at Fatreuil Hall, and South erners will speak. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, ut Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to The Racket Store. Our Buyer has just returned from the Northern market?, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections.* See our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art s SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAT? HONEST. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, af prices unequalled else* where. v f We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our Stores? inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is trae. MORROW-BASS CO., . Successor to Horn-Bass Co., 110,116,120, East Benson St., ?'-.'..'.. Anderson, S. C. IN OUR DEPARTMENT OF SM A T T FS ? You'll find everything necessary to make your wardrobe complete, and everything that's NEW. E0SIEE7, UNDERWEAR, GLOVES, MITTS, BELTS, FANS, HANDKERCHIEFS, COMBS, NECKWEAR, TOILET POWDERS, ETC., ETC. Altogether the best selected Stoek of Colored- , Muslins and Lawns And other Thin Goods for your Summer dresses. SW A completo line of Oxfords For men, women and children. ? IVEillinery To please everybody. See us for your Summer wants. , Acker & Co. A- BLOOD-MAKEEI Murray's Iron Mixture is a genuine blood-making tonic, a purifying remedy that builds up the whole system and fortifies it against disease, the best "Spring Medicine" to overcome debility, lassitude and the "Tired Feel ing" so common at that season. MURRAY'S IRON MIXTURE is prepared from a formula used, prescribed and recommended by the best physicians. It inoreases the appetite, making it keen for three big meals a day, and affords the power to digest them. A Godsend to weak, run-down women and pale, listless chil dren. It puts color in pale cheeks and gives new life and new energy for work. Exe ellen t as a recuperating tonic in hastening convalescence from any dhease. Not a temporary brace, but gives lasting benefit. Price 50c. Guaranteed satisfactory to purchasers. At Drug 8tores. Prepared by JHB MURRAY DRUG COMPANY *r COLUMBIA, S. C.