Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ' ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1904. VOLUME XXXX-NO. 12. ast Can tm*> FOR ?*sa 9 Some of you think it's too late to buy Summer Clothes, but you forget what a hot month September usually is. It'll be a good long time before you'll feel the need of Winter Clothes, and right now we have some exceptional Bargains to offer you in-* LOW GUT SHOES, ODD TROUSERS, STRAW HATS and TWO-PIECE SUITS. Prices on the above are reduced from one-quarter to one third, You'll find some values here, so come La this week And get them. Boys' School Suits. We have just received our first shipments of Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Good Suits, well-made Suits-Suits that'll stand hard knocks-made for growing boys. In this department we'll show for Fall a larger and better assortment than we have ever shown. Bring your boy here and you'll find what you want. Puits from $1.50 to $6.00. Boys' Enee Pants at 50c, 75c and $1.00. Ages 4 to Vt years. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers This is their space, but there are so many Bar gains in their Une that they can't enumerate them all here, so they ask that their customers use their eyes in looking over their matchless values in SHOES, 9 HATS, And "sich like^' To see thom is to buy them. They .areht?Mrwm . They ar? Headquarters on good, sound, dry CORN. Warranted free of must and rats. Their feed- ..-1 ? OATS Are of the best quality. Everybody that ia anybody knows that DEAN'S PATENT FLOIffS pifhe best that grows. So why pay more for] infe rior goods when you can be trftnscendantly happy by trading here. THAT'S THB QUESTION! DEAN & RATLIFFE. The Polks that Sell the Good Kinds. ?TATE KEWS - Florenoe is to have a $50,000 eleotrio plant. - Harry Hardy, a deaf mute, was run over and killed by a train on the Coast Line road at Kingstree on Thursday. He was drunk. - Solomon Robertson, colored, fell under the wheels of a moving train at Wellford, Spartanburg County, on Wednesday and had his lc <? out off. - Two young men in Richland County have been arrested on the charge of perjury for voting at two preoiuots in the recent primary elec tion. - Twenty-five of the most promi nent farmers in Greenville County have called a meeting of farmers to discuss measures for keeping up tho price of cotton. - Gus Gilmer, son of a worthy widow of Gaffney, is in jail for appro priating or stealing $304 of express money while employed in the office by Express Agent Glenn. - Two brothers of adjoining coun ties were elected to their drat term in the State Senate at the recent primary -Cole L. Bleaae, of Newberry, and Eugene S. Blease, of Saluda. - Judge Parker has declined to come to Charleston to the proposed ratification meeting in his honor, and Senator Tillman also oannot be pres ent. Other speakers will be invited. - Stella Johnson, aged 30 years, a disreputable white woman of Sumter, committed suicide by swallowing an ounoe of laudanum. Remorse over her life is thought to have been the cause for the co;. - Claude Beloher, a 15-year-old or phan boy, while out hunting with sev eral other boys near Fair Forest in Spartanburg County, Wednesday after noon accidentally shot himself and was instantly killed. - Mrs. Phillip Waddell and Mr. Frank Arent were married a few days ago near Green Pond Church in the county. The bride is 70 years of age. The groom is 48 years of age and hails from Kentucky.-Spartanburg Her ald. - William J. Fleming, a well known young man, was drowned laut Thursday night while in surf bathing off Sullivan's Island. He was bath log with a young lady tc whom he was engaged to be married. She was res cued in an unconscious condition. - T. N. Hall, of Westminster, has found on his place above Walhalla what is thought to be a valuable mar ble quarry. There is some talk that the Blue Ridge Railroad will be ex tended to this place in the event that the marble proves plenteous. - Butler Holt, the white man who was arrested for the murder of the mysterious white woman in Columbia, but who wa ssupposed be his wife, has been released from custody, as his wife is alive and well. She appeared in Newberry last week, where she had oome from Bath, and the authorities then released Holt. The murder is still a mystery. - Three boys from the charity so ciety of New York arrived in Colum bia from that place and were taken in charge by Commissioner Watson. Two of them, Michael November and Edward Thornton, were sent tc Niue ty-Six and the other cf Scotch blood, James McIntosh, will be sent to the lower part of Richland County, to Dr J. L. Hopkins' place. - South Carolina will have an. ex hibit at the World's Fo^r, even though it is a small one. One of the quarry concerns in the State has asked Com missioner Watson to aid them, in oondiug samples of ita granite to be shown io St. Louis. The authorities of the fair have consented and several bf the large blocks . of stone will be shipped next Week. - South Carolina has 69,000 dogs j arid 46,000 sheep. This is not an encouraging fact. The figures ought tobe reversed and then fifty jper cent added to the sheep and taken from the doga. Perhaps if our sol?os ever suc ceed in gettiog through the dog law in proper ebapo thia much to-be-desired change wiii take plaee, and Sheep raising may beoome a profitable in dustry ta South Carolina.-Newb?rry Observer. - President Mell has everything about ready for the opening of the twelfth session of Clemson on So. tem tember 14th. The oollege will be full to overflowing, and will begin the year's work with. more students- and better equipment than in any year before. Especially will this be. true of tho agricultural department, Which will begin work in a building of fte own. - At Red HU?, Marlboro County, Caitrin Hyatt shot and killed Maloora Brewer, both white.' The trouble, was cauBed by an arrest made by Hyatt a few days ago. Hyatt is a constable and had cause to arrest Brewer's ?on. They met at Bed Hill. Brewer as saulted Hyatt abd was giving him severe blows when Hyatt shot him through the body, with a 44*calibre pistol ball. Brewer lived only'a few hours. - Tom Cheek and Will Brown, two white farmers and neighbors of the Booree section, while returning from a trip to Laurene in a wagon Wednes day afternoon, became Involved ip Some difficulty. Subsequently when they reached home and Brown and his wife were unloading the wagon in their yard, Cheek approached and fi|e4 at Brown with' a shot gun. Brown escaped with a very slight wound, bat several of the shots struck Hrs. Brown, one of the balls pene trating her right eye, oar sing it to be extracted by tho doctor. Her coy.'.* ditton is regarded as critioal. GENERAL NEWS, - A newly discovered cotton tree in Mexico promises to rival in pro duction the cotton plant of the Unit ed States. >-- Marshall Field is the heaviest in dividual taxpayer in the United States. The assessed value of Mr. Field's tax able property is ?40,000,000. - Lynching continuos in Georgia. Jim Glover, a negro, was shot and otherwise killed at Cedartown for a violent assault ou a little girl. - A bug has been discovered at St. Paul, Minn., which doctors claim causes diptheria. Its bite causes a membrane to form in the throat. - The meat trust is growing rich daring the strike. They say they haye all the hands they need and the price of meat has been advanoed. - Mrs. Hannah Claopy, aged 80 years, was barned to death in her bed at her son-in-law's house in Harlem, N. Y., as a result of smoking a pipe in bed. - A couple who eloped from Ala bama wore married by telephone, con necting Bowden and Carrolltou eigh teen miles apart, Justice Norman per forming the ceremony. - Despito stories of the possibility of Sunday opening at the World's Fair it has been deolared by a rep resentative of the exposition company thatsuoh a suggestion is absolutely futile. - Next year the Methodist Epis copal Mission in India will celebrate its jubilee. It is proposed to raise a thank offering of $200,000 to be de voted speoially to the equipment of the several publishing houses. - One man waB killed and three were wounded in a battle between two families at a religious meeting near Tazewell, Va. The battle was the result of a family feud of thirty years' standing. - A through freight from Raleigh to Monroe on the Seaboard Air Line was wrecked at Peedee, N. C., by running into a washout. The engin eer, Alex. Adam?, and Fireman Shep pard were killed, being buried under the wreckage. - At High Bridge, Ky., Miss Sarah Barns and two little girl companions were caught upon the railroad bridge by swift express train. Through rare presence of mird of Miss Burns all threo swung from ends of orosB-ties until train passed. - John Cox, a white boy, put obstruction*, ou the Southern road near Martinsville, Va., and tho train would have been wrecked but for the timely discovery. His object was re venge because the train had run over and killed his dog. - At Fayetteville, N. C., last Fri day George ll oil id ay, a negro, in jail for dtunkenness and resisting an offi cer, in an attaokof delirium tremens, drove out his negro cellmate, then olimbed to the top of the steel cage, fell baok and broke his neok. - It is claimed that the cot to u urop has been out off at least 25 to 50 per cent, in the southern oounties of North Carolina on aooount of the ex cessive rains. There has also bees great damage tu the tobacco crop on account of many hail storms. - A Missouri negro has bet hi* life on the election of Roosevelt. He has agreed with another of his raoe that if the President is not re-eleoted he will jump from the Eada bridge at St. Louis into the Mississippi river. Against thiB stake the other negro has put $5. ? - Two boys in Franklin County, Ga., were drowned while bathing. The younger one who was ll years old got into deep water and could not swim. His brother who was 13 years old went to bis rese?e. The drowning boy clasped both s rms around the neok of bis brother and both were drowned'together? - - Five negroes, all supposed to be members of the "Before-Day" dub, have been arrested at Salem, Ala., for attempting to enter a house and morder the family. Oneof the mem bers of the gang oonfessen to the au thorities that the negroes in the com munity had organised for the pur pose of murdering, robbing and burn ing. 1- Within a very few weeks active .work will begin in China upon what is undoubtedly destined to be the lar gest oollego in that country, devoted to broad educational principles in the English language ana in accordance with the most modern high sohool and college methods. This institution is the Canton Christian College. - A cave, apparently constructed for concealing goods, has been found on the premises of Capt. Jas, D. Phillips, at Spenoer, N. C., the South ern Railway conductor nor/ in jail at Salisbury charged with ;obbing oars. In the cave, which is the work of a ?coins, waa found 400 pounds of brass. Uh ur alleged stolen ar dolos of mer chandise were found in his dwelling. Capt. Phillips will await his trial be fore the next term of Rowan Fnperior - Milton J. Sternberger, a travel ing salesman of Memphis, Tenn., and a former Charleston man, was myster iously shot and probably fatally wounded in Memphis. Tenn., last week. His wife is held by the police ponding an investigation. It ia al leged that he was packing his grip and that he asked his wife for a pistol which ho had given her. The vornan claims in the sonnie ' for tho posses sion of the weapon it was accidentally discharged .inflicting, what was sup p?t? 3d to be a fatal wound. Latest War News. Washington. September 1.-The Ja panese minister bas received tho fol lowing dispatch from Tokio: "Accord ing to telegraphic advices received at headquarters this afternoon our army corps on tho left, by lierco and repeat ed assaults, took possession ot the heights which the enemy's right occu pied. Thereupon nil tho enemy south of Liao-Yaug began retreat. The Ja panese army is now pursuing." Mukden, September 1, 0:37 D. m. The train service between Mukdeu and Liao-Yang is interrupted. The roads are impassable. Tokio, September 1, ? p. m.-At day break to-day the Japanese army cn tho left delivered a fierce and successful assault against the heights io the west of Hsinliugtun and tho high ground to the west of Shushaupoa. It pierced the Kassian lines and later forced the retirement of the Russian troops from their position on the right and center. Marquis Oy nm a telegraphs that his losses iii these assaults were heavy. It is believed here that General Kuropatkin bas been sweepingly de feated and that the possession of Liao Yang is a matter of hours. General Kuroki's casualties from August 24 to August 28. amounted to 2,250, the other casualties have not been reported. Tokio, September 2, 3 p. m.-The list of casualties in the fighting be fore Liao-Yang ia growing. Indica tions are that it will provo to be the bloodiest battle aince the Franco Prussian war. The calculations of casualties must include the losses since August 23, for the contest haa been practically continuous since then. The Japanese have already report ed over 25.000 mon killed or wounded. The chief of staff of the center Jap anese army, General Nodzu's, tele graphing early this morning, reported that the Japanese center was continu ing to advance to-day with the object of taking a line from Shincbiyen to Liao-Yang, and effecting a rejunction with the Japanese left, commanded by General Oku. Tokio, September 2-Noon-A tele gram from the obief of the staff on the field indicates General Oku in com mand of the Japanese left army, gain ed the ascendancy over the Russian right and center by a night assault. The Japanese gaiued a foothold near Hsinlintun Wednesday morning and the telegram sayB they occupied Hsin lintun and the eminences at the west of Shousbinpao at 3 o'clock Thursday morning after having delivered a suc cessful night attack, which surprised the Russians. St. Petersburg, September 3.-The Japanese have occupied Liao-Yang. lt is officially announced that Gen. Kuropatkin is retreating, that Liao Yang has been abandoned and that Gen. Stakleburg's corps has been cut off. A dispatch has bee:, received here from General Kuropatkin announcing that be has ordered hie army to eva cuate Liao-Yang and withdraw north ward. The Russiana blew up the magazines and set lire to the army H torea and provisions at Liao-Yang be fore evacuating that place. St. Pot era burg, Sept. 5.-A dispatch received from General Kuropatkin, forwarded yesterday evening, indi cates that Knropatkin's army and Ku roki's army are racing tor Mukden, and that the result is in doubt. _ St. Petersburg, Sept. C.-It is offi cially stated that the united Raseian forces are north of Yen tai, except a de tachment left at that place to cover the retreat. The Japanese swarmed aoross the Ta i tao river at its junction with the Ponai. The bulk of the Japanese forceo is marching direct on Afukden. Tokio, Sept. G.-Field Marshal Oyama bas succeeded in getting his entire army across tho Taits? river and ia in bot pursuit of the Russians. Tokio, Sept. 5, 8.00 p. m.-A mass of official reports on the battle of Liao Yang reached the imperial headquar ters to-day, but they will not be given out until it is pcasi ble to put them in order and make a concise and detailed report. It is generally known that Genoral Kuropatkin succeeded by means of a desperate rearguard action and a tr on g nutt well handled flank movement in withdrawing the great bulk of the Russian army and that, he cut bridgea to hamper the Japanese pursuit. The critical interest centers in the opera tions of the Japanese right wing, whioh occurred late Friday night and early Saturday morning. General Knroki then swung to tue westward, his move ment being designed to flank the re mainder of the Russians left at Liao Yang itsolf. It is believed here that General Kuropatkin is bound to lose many prisoners to the Japanese. It is possible, however, that the topographi cal difficulties and the overwhelming opposition of the Russians may check thia movement on the part of General Kuroki. St. Petersburg, Sept. 5.-According to the latest but not official reports to the war office some rear guard fighting is progressing, and the retirement of General Kuropatkin's army ia con tinuing. St. Petersburg, Sept. 5, 5.55 p. m. The report that the Emperor will go to the front is again revived and now seems to have foundation. It is known that the imperial train has been fitted out for a long journey. . Sc Petersburg, Sept. 5.- General Stakelburg and his corps, twenty-five thousand strong, have escaped to Yen tai and joined Kuropatkin. St. Petersburg, Sept. 5.-It is report ed here, but not confirmed, that Gen eral Kuropatkin was obliged to aban don two hundred guns at Liao-Yang, some of them, it is added, were dam aged in the fighting and the rest were disabled by order of the Russian com mander-in-chief. - There is the greatest demand for cotton piokers in tho cotton region of Texas known in twenty years, and ia many cities and towns, draymen, de livery, boys and oooks and even hotel helpers have been induced by high prices paid for picking to goto the fields.. The hot weather of the pant ten days has caused all the colton not destroyed by insects to opea, thus creating an extraordinary demand for piokers. The crop in central Texas promises to be better than last year. -?The more hours children study at school the faster they dou't learn. . - There are more oases of indiffer ence at first sight, than there are of lore. - The poet paints with words ; the advertiser speaks with type. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, como to A A A A A A A A A A A A A, A. A AA AA. ^ ^ A ^ A, A^ The Racket Store. <_ . i Oar Bayer has just returned from the Northern markets? 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 Strauss & Bros. High Art SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAYS MONEY. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else* where. We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is true. MORROW-BASS CO., Successor to Horn-Bass Co., 110,116,120, East Benson St.,.Andersen, S. 0? OM Buyers Are off For Northern The chance in business we contemplated hasn't aa yet materialized, so will continue business under old firm name. We respectfully ask your patronage for the coming season, w^ich ;yp?v,have so liberally bestowed in the past, and promise you a Stock of Goods that will ba in every particular Up-to-Date. Watch our ad. for new arrivals. Moore, Acter & Co. RUBBER STOMPS ABE MY LONG SUIT. I make any kind except the bad one?., I furnish a name, Stamp and indellibl? pad for marking linen for 40c. I have some other good things cr. wixisoisr OIBBES, ^ Typewriters, Office Supplies, Etc., 1334 Main Street, - - - . Columbia, S. C.