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. *S?" WHEN YOU BUY A <Sft NT?R OV a* in ret 00. not i'w?, Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner fcf Marx AT THI3 STORE you will be sure to get the most stylish, the beat tail ored and the be3t fitting Overcoat that can be had for the money. We have made sure of this by handling only tho product of the bett Clothes makers in the cour t ry, and eau there fore guarantee every garment to be ~^a3 represented. In Meu's and Youug Men's Over coats we are offering incomparable values at $5.00 to $20.00 That you will do well to take advan tage of while our atyle and fabric as sortment is at its zenith. We were never so proud of any particular group of Clothing as we arc of our Stylish Overcoats at $15. They are extremely fashionable garments, such as you usually pay 820 for, and conaist of knee-length, me dium-length and long Overcoats, up? to-the-minute in style, close- fitting col lar, broud shoulders, cut loose and roomy; made of Kerseys, Vicunas, Cheviots and Friezes, in black and Oxford, and certainly the most re markable value ever seen at 815.00. Fashionable Suits for Little Boys. Here thrifty parents can clothe the "little shavers" most styli shly at de ^isive savings ovei what like quality Clothing costs elsewhere. Visit other Stores first, then come here and make any lair comparison you like-if you pc, you'll find our styles smarter and our prices lower. Here's just a hint i \ BOY?' SUITS, |izes 4 to 17 years, made of sturdy Serges, Fancy Cheviots and Tweeds ?indBomely tailored, strong linings, trousers &? f'f? TA tf*? fl fl -inforced, Warm, comfortable, serviceable... 4)1 ?OU I U 3u.UUa 'B. O. Evans & Co, iale 1 I THE SPOT CA. CLOTHIERS, erson-i M. ? Til ft WORD ABOUT ! L's Patent. H AND OTHER FLOORS. | Jl I g. g THE only reason that the people of South Carolina H have to -ent sticky Flour is that these is no Pure Food J . H Law in this State, and, as a consequence, this State .is ? - 1 made the dumping ground of every refueo lot of cheap, ?rn 1 adulterated Flour in the country. We have no Pure ? I Food Law bec???? the people do not want it, as it will # I force manufacturera to discontinuo their Beckles and in- <r ' ' - I jurioua adulteration, and incidentally increase the cost of . ? < ; - I pure foodstufid. The howling demagogues of the conn- ? i try could not Bland any increase in the cost of living, ^ ^9 I ?ad therefore the State is hopelessly committed to im- ?$ . I pure* bread a Huoh is not thec^, however, with our Flours, for ? I every Oar of our Flou; is thoroughly tested for imp uri- 5 I ties, and bur mill contrata gu?u?n??w, absolute purity in . S. " ^ Jevery det?flj . .-v, '.. _ * X I We rise to tell tho dear people that if 4he great, good % T ? |and paw?ot?o X*g?4laturo % ? ? y Jharks that are feeding them on nyarions minerals iwhleh thejKcaU Flour, we will'.do so; but we must charge ; # ?ill do well by 1, , . , " 'wn& ? . . ?hem tho pnce of pure Flour, as we caunot sell pure , V largest Sidonia k,^- cbea.p>? the ?tt?fei?ow S lake the next ?ax g . .. ^ ancoeea in thu> 1 ?. % ^ triC?Sa I . iHa^n^exs of Etire Foods aii'd '?PiiU, ^ili^y'--^"-: STATE NEWS. - In an attempt to arrest a negro for selling whiskey, a negro is killed, and two men wounded in Lancaster. - A party of Yule students have come South and made Charleston their headquarters to study the forostry conditions in this Slate. - A negro drank six bottles of soda water straight along at Auburn, Darlington County, and died soon afterwards from the effects. - While huntintr near Greers, Greenville County, Harrison Gastoa, aged 12, was accidentally shot aud killed by Cleveland JO Ilia, aged 14. - Hon. I). E. Converse, of Louis ville, Ky., has bought thc Southern Presbyterian and will move it to At lanta, Ga., about the first of January. - A white man who recently went to Georgetown and posed as a detec tive, has been arrested on the charge of criminally assaulting a little negro girl. - Seven negroes were fined $50 each, and paid up, in the Charleston police court on Wednesday and six white blind tigers were fined $25 etch. - Wm. A. Smith, of Marlboro Coun ty, was killed on Saturday night by falling under his wagon and being run over while returniug home from Cheraw. - In Lexington County Jay Jeff coat was trying to remove a loaded shell from his gun, wheu it exploded, the entire load striking Mrs. Naucy Sturkie in the face and killing her. - The model for the Wade Hamp ton statue in Columbia has been fin ished and has been exhibited in the State capitol. It is reported to be a work of art and satisfactory in every r?spect. - Marion is now sure to have a Carnegie library building. The amount of seven thousand, five hun dred dollars ?B given on the condition that the town itself raise $750 annual ly, to support the undertaking. - Tho damage suit for $65,000 against the Southern Railway brought by the family of the late Jamos L. Andrews, of Greenwood, has been compromised. The road offered to pay $10,000 and this offer has been accepted. - Constable Beauregard Conner an i two negroes, John Sadler and Joe Mollwain, had a shooting scrape in Lancaster, in which Mell wain was killed, Sadler's ann was broken by a pistol ball and ibu constable was shot in the chin, arm and side. - Dr. 6. H. Thurman, a prominent physician of Cheraw, was shot and killed two'miles from town by hts tenant, Geo. W. Carma. The only witnesses were Mr. ana Mrs. Carma and a negro man and woman in their i employ. Carins surrendered to the sheriff without waiting for a reward to be offered. - The little lS-months-old daugh ter of Charlie Hobson, who lives two miles from Pi o kc ns, was burned to death .Thursday morning. The father *?ss badly burned in attempting to resane the ohild. Tho family were ont early picking cotton and the child's olothing caught from a fire that had been built in the field. " While raiding the establishment of the Schiaderesai in Charleston the constables and the proprietors got to shooting at eaeh other, when 15 or 23 shots were exchanged. The young er Sohiaderessi tras slightly wounded; nobody else was hurt. The constables found 75 quarts of whiskey in the establishment. - A. J. MoKelway of Charlotte, N. C., assistant secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, has written a letter to Governor Heyward asking his co-operation in having the age limit in the cotton mills raised from 12 to 14 years for the uneducated children. He mentions that Senator Tillman favors the idea. - Aiken County has the prospects and promise of a colony of immigrants, to be located between Roseland and Windsor. A syndicato ha's taken an option on two thousand, eight hun dred acres of land owned by the South ern railroad, with a view of purchasing ton thousand moro aeres from the farmers in that neighborhood, to colo nise ou. - A new proposition in the way of another county has been reeeived by the governor in the" shape of two peti tions jfor tho ordering1 of an election for the formelles of "Hey ward1' coun ty out of Aiken and Edgefield coun ties. Somo of the boundaries for the proposed new county are different from the proposed Calhoun County, bu;, ?he s-tnccounty seat ja proposed-North Augusta. - A most daring robbery was com mitted in Lynchburg, tho oti>er night. Whib J. G. Stokes and his clerks wemat:;-fiupper, some one placed a ladder,:ih fx?nroT^his store, went in through thc transom, oper\$d the back door, took, tho ir^n pin with "tyhioh the door was fastened, and beat: open tho cash drawer to the safe and took about two hundred dollars in cash, besides cheeks and other valuable papers. .sate of a 700 acre farm in B? or ion Conn ty, seven' miles from a railroad station, for $28,000 cash is just another.Of those straws whioh re veals conditions in this State. That is ari. avengo of .$40 an* "acre for the land, cleared and wooded. It is a good price, but tho land is worth the weney. Country real estate is advan W&g in South Carolina f rom low water mark and it wfll continue tc advance for years to vom*. Thia is thc aost aaw-sugeous time, in oar opinion, It?^wd'O^trious people to moro into South Carolin*, and acquire land. Coltttnbia State. GENERAL NE WH. - Tho Republican majority in thc next House of Representatives will be 118. - Russia has declared her unwil lingness to join other powers in the proposed peaco conference. - Enoch Sloan, a farmer of Pike County, Ky., while druuk killed his wife and their four children. - J. M. Williams, who killed two men while they were at work on their farm in Texas, was killed by a posse. - A cotton picking machine was tried in a field near Charlotte, N. C., last week and failed to do the work expected. - It bas boen decided to hold the next annual reunion of Confederate Veterans in Louisville, Ky., on June 5, ? and 7. - Mrs. John Kyser shot and mor tally wounded Miss Nettie Edwards at ber home in Birmingham, Ala., and then shot and killed herself. The cause was jealousy. - Residents of Paonia, Colorado, claim that tho largest apple in the world was raised ic that diBtriot this year. It is of the Wolf River variety, and weighs 31] ounces. - John Plummer, a prominent Floridian, living near Jacksonville, was assassinated while sitting in his front porch playing a violin. There is no clew to tho assassin. - Rev. J. W. Wheeler, aged 63, of Charlotte, N. C., was ruc into by a messenger boy, moving rapidly on a bicyele and his collar bone was broken and other injuries received. - Because* his stepdaughter mar ried against his will, J. M. Williams, of Alvarado, Texas, shot and killed tho groom and his father and wounded a brother while they were at work in their field. - Richard M. Scruggs, the million aire philanthropist of St. Louis, who died recently, left bequests aggre gating $481,000. The Southern Meth odist Church shares largely in this amount. - Henrietta Hendrickson, a little girl living at Vermilion, South Dako ta, swallowed a grain of corn which lodged in her throat and sprouted, when an incision bad to be made for its removal. - The prospective strike of the stockyard butchers in Chicago ha? col lapsed, At one time last week it ha l begun to assume serious proportions again. Now it appears to bo ended for good and all. - W. W. Brooks, a Rome, Ga., lawyer, in a missionary rally by the Georgia Baptist Association at Colum bus on Thursday, gave $5,000 for mis sions. A short time ago he gave a similar amount to Shorter College. - A jury awarded to William Kil martin, a poor laborer, a verdict for $14,500 against the city of Boston for tho loss of his sight by an explosion of dynamite while he was working on the etreoti of the city. - A distinguished-looking German, aged about 27, committed suicide in a oell at polioe headquarters in Cin cinnati, O., by hanging himself with his long silk neektie. He had been arrested on the oharge of house-break ing. - Rev. W. R. Foote, D. D , for merly presiding elder of the Rome Dietriot, was found guilty of drunk enness at the session of the North Georgia conference at Marietta on Friday and will be expelled from that body. - Under a ruling by Attorney Gen eral Moody that the lottery or guess ing contests gotten up by some news papers and magazines are illegal, the postoffice department will hereafter exclude from the mails any paper in dulging in such sohemes. - A ornsade against persons who sell alleged adulterated drugs has begun in Chicago by Colonel J. E. Stuart,. of the poBtoffioe department. Fivo arrests were made on chargoa of fraudulent use of the mails. Fifteen thousand dollars' worth af alleged spurious drugs were confiscated. - Mrs. Julia Williams, wife of a prominent citizen of Wayoross, Ga., ? died on Wednesday aa the result of a S?stol shot wound received at the : ands of Kinch Williams, her 18 year-old step son. He shot her be cause she refuser! tc givo him whiskey. j - Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to start up tho cotton ' print mills at Fall River, Mass, Ga j one day tba uuiis were opened and the t power started in the hope that some j of tbs operatives wo vu 1 be induced to 1 come baok to work, but the attempt j was a failure. - Drouth in Central Kentucky is i the worst in the history of the State. Pasture lands that have been ia grass i for. twenty years will have to be re- * sown, even the roots being parched., j Creeks, ponds and wells are drying up and stook is out down to one drink of i water in twenty-four hours in many 1 sections. Railroads and farmers are 1 baying water at oity water works and ' hauling H miles. The big blue grass ? stook farms are in dire straits, j Wheat is rained in some places. ; . - The biggest deals in paper ever \ made in this country were made a , few days ago when the Champion j Paper company of Carthage, N. Y., i and the De Grasse Paper company of ' Pyrites, N. Y., contracted for their entire output of 25,000 tons a year for ' the next fiT years to two large daily \ newspapers-the former with the Chi- 1 cago Tribune, the latter with the t Boston Herald. The amount invol ved in both deals is about six million dollars, i Latest War News, Tokio, November 2!?.-Tho imperial headquarters touight summarized tho Port Arthur situutton as follows: ^ "With regard to the enemy's torts at Suugshu mountain and eastward, wo have captured tho crests, glacis and counterscarps, mut their vicinities, but tho time to charge lias not yet come. At present, wo are destroying thu easements and oilier caponiers. At Two hundred and three meter hill, by several charges, we succeeded ni cap turing tho enemy's sheller tronches near the summit.. At present ?mr loree is holding its position ami endeavor ing to capturo l?tt whole tort." Chufoo, November :?U.-Chinese leaving Port Daluy, November '?6, ar rived nero today. They reported tho lighting at Port Arthur continues. They heard tiring Nov, while on tho way. Tho Chinese assisted in carry ing tho Japanese wounded lrom the trams to tho hospitals and personally couuted 1,000. 'I no Japanese, tiley add seemed depressed. Loudon, December I.-Tho corres pondent at Chefoo ot' tho Daily Tele graph says that tue attack on 203-uio ter.nill resulted in heavy losses to tho lirst division of tho Japuuusu storemsr. Simultaneously with this assault tho correspondeut says tho men of tile ninth ami eleventh divisioUBadvaucod and menaced tho Itihlung and Kowan torts. It is stated, the correspondent adds that within the last 24 hours tho Japanese casualties have totaled 15,000 and it IB asset ted that the attacks have been planned to continue uutil Decem ber 10, when it is hoped tho capture of Port Arthur will bo completed. Tokio. December 2.-it is reported here that the Kussiuns havo attempted to retake 203 meter hill. They assem bled a Htroug loree aud assaulted the position, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The Japanese, tindiug suitors among thuKusBian dead, behove that if mou from the lieut are beiug employed in making sorties, the complement of the force must be falling Bhort. The fact that the KusBiana are forti fying the positions available between Liaoti and Nan tai mountains, increases the belief that they will make their last staud there. Continuous underground works have been constructed m the vicinity of Sinchiupu 2 miles west of the Shukhu railroad station, enabling thu Hussian Boidiers to pass from point to poiut un seen and iu safety. At the village of Tizele the Hues are so close that the voices of the Japauese can bu heard iu the Russian trenches. Tokio, December 3.-The first arin'u. tice between the combatants at Port Arthur waa declared ou December 2 for the purpose ot' burying tho dead. lt lasted six hours. The Port Arthur besiegers report that yesterday bearers of flags of truce in ihe diiectiou of the left wing arranged for partial arnuBtic to extend from 10 o'clock in thu morn ing to 4 iu theafturnoon for tho remov al of thu dead and wounded. Tokio, December 5.-It ia reported that thu Japanese botnbaidment against the licet at Port Artiiur is pro ceeding to the satisfaction ot the at tacking forces. On thu evening of the 4th inst. (Sunday) two or three Rus sian ships were hied and burned in a half hour. Their names and the ex - tent of thu damage done are not kr. "ii. lt is generally believed that tho Russian lieut must either make an early sortie or suffer irreparable dam age. Don't Sell Now Says W. P. Brown. New Orleans, Dec. 5.--W. P. Brown, the great cotton king, has issued an address over his signature to the plant ers, merchants and bankers of the South, in which he urges that tboBU having cotton refuse to sell at prices at present, maintaining that the recent decline in price is unwarranted. He contends that'the balance of this year's crop should bring not less than 10 cents at the ports and says that the only way to bring this price is for the farmers to hold, the merchants not to force what they have ou the markets, and for thu banks to stand by the merchants and planters and not force them to sell. He admits for the sake of argument that the crop ia 12,000,000, yet he does not believe'the crop will be that large, and 'argues that consumption will bu at luast 11,500,000, (paving a small quantity to? go into tho mill reserves. Ho urges all who are inter ested in tho South and the South's prospeiityto Btand pat and refuse to give away cotton at prices now pre vailing. The Slave Pension Fraud. Columbia, December 8.-It is evident from letters received by several negroes in this city that another effort is being made by some sharper in the North to swindle them out of some money in the hope of securing a pension. These frauds, which are as old as the war itself, are not only being worked here in civil war cases, but there are also efforts being made to catch the ne groes on the Spanish war fake. It will bo remembered that a number of ne groes from Columbia enlisted, and a much larger number were turned down at the enlistingollice for failure to pass Ihe examination. Letters are being received from someoue, not only by 1 those who were turned down, but also by those who never even applied, tun ting that money can be obtaiued from the government for them by an , igencv in washington. ' Assistant District Attorney Melton is now on the look out for some cases >f this character and if any evidence is ? >btained there will be some prompt arrests. "We had a case of pension fraud in Greenville.at the last term of Court/' tie said. "A sharper .had represented to a number of negroes that the gov ernment intended' sending a train load if provisions to former slaves and vet erans of the Spanish war in the South, fie also hinted that a share of these provisions could be obtained by those ?vii o were neither veterans nor slaves, if everything were left to him. All he required was the money to nay the Creight and be got enough of that to ihip a train clear across the continent. (Ve sent him up for eighteen months. "I would be very glad to secare lome farther evidence" in these new rrauds that are cropping up, and if there is much of it I will probably have some arrests to make."-Special :o News and Courier. " -. The most brilliant jewel among rems is a tunoy disposition. To See thc Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown ia Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to .A A A A . The Racket Store j Our Buyer has just returned from tho 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 Strouse & Bros. High Art FALL AND WltfTER CLOTHING, _ Which will interest those who \Tish to dress wV? and SAVE MONET. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Mon'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., - - - - ' - Anderson, S. C. I Per Cent Discount ! SALE OF ALL Coats, Coat Suits and Jackets DURING THIS NOJ?TH. A RAR? CH. V.NCE to get the above for liss than their real worth. The Stock is broken, and in order to sell every garment we give you this reduction. COAT ?SUITS, made in the latest styles, perfect-fitting and best quality, sizes 32 to 40, priced $10.00 to $18.50, now $9.00 to $16.65. LONG COATS, priced 88.50 to $15.00, now 87.65 to 813.50. JACKETS, the beat on earth for the original price, sizes 32 to 40-* priced $3.50 to $16.50, now $3.15 to $14 85. Children's Jackets, Capes, Etc., included in this sale. Also, you'll ?ad many exceptional values in our Dross Goods, Trim mings. Silk?, Notion and Novelty departments. DOM?3TIC3-Your every want can ba supplied. FLANNELS of all kinda. COTTON GOODS of every description. HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, SHOES-a line brim full of bargains. MILLINERY-The best that is-always nuke our Store your MillfS aery place. BLANKETS and QUILTS-Just the kiud you want, 75c up. HOUSE FURNISHINGS FOR XMAS-Better see 'em. Rugs, Arf>: Squares, Tapestry, etc. t&* Everybody come and help us make this the biggest month's busi** ness of the year You'll get your dollar for dollar. Moore, Acker&Co. RUBBER TIRES ! We are in a position to put on Higfr- Grade *RUP4>0J: Tien with good service, and pricc^to correspond with Rubber be? fore it made a bounce. PAUL E. STEPHENS,