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^ T-TTrTtTT AL T A mn orriAxi ! ANDERSON. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 18. Beginning Wednesday morning:, January 4th, we will offer our entire Stock of Men's and Boys' CLOTHING, OVERCOATS and ODD TROUSERS at a discount of 25 per cent. This Sale includes our entire Stock of Clothing?nothing reserved. Every January wp have these Sales, and if you have attended one in the past you know what it means ; if not, you had best come and share in these GENUINE BARGAINS we offer. Men's and Boys' Overcoats ?? AT A ? Reduction of 25 per Cent. This Sale comes just in mid-winter, when you need an Overcoat most, for you know how cold and disagreeable January usually is. $5.00 Overcoats* 25 per cent off. now f 3.75 7.50 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, now 5.65 10.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, now 7.50 12.50 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, now 9.40 15.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, now 11.25 20.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, now 15.00 Men's and Youths' Suits At a discount of 25 per cent. Copyright i 904 by Hart Schaffrier fcf Marx HERE'S A CHANCE To gefea new Suit that doesn't come your way often. Up-to date Bults, made as only our Clothes Can be, and fully worth our regular prices to any one, but it's not our way of doing business to carry goods from one season to another. Hence this January Clearance Sale : $5.00 Jtfen's and Youth's Suits now $3.75 7.50 Men's and Youths' Suits now 5.65 10.00 Men's and Youths9 Suits now 7.50 12.50 Men's and Youths" Suits now 9.40 15.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now 11.25 20.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now 15.00 Parents will be Interested in This! Interested because it offers to them an opportunity to provide for their boys smooth, stylish, well-tailored Suits at exceptionally littio prices. This is really an important sale corning just at this season, when many boys are in need of a new Suit: $2.00 Boy?'Kneo Pants Suits now $1.50 2.50 Boys' Knee Pants Suits now 1.90 3.00 Boys'Kneo Pants Suits now 2.25 4.00 Boys'Knee Pants Suits now 3.00 .'.5.00 Boys' En80 Pants Suits now 3.75 6.QQ Boya'Knee Pants Suits now 4.50 o p y r i g'h t 190 Hart Schaffner & 4 by Marx The cuts on the above1 named Suits and Overcoats are deep* but their ate v v ^o you can oomo here knowing beforehand that what you see ia thia advenisoment will be1 more than substantiated when you see the Clothes,, Tho best things always go first, so you had beat come early and get your shase of those excellent bargains. ,;f?l 8TATB WBWS. "T| ? Catndou is to have a new court house ousting $32,000. ? Rev. Thornwell Jaoobs has re signed his place in tho Presbyterian Orphanage at Clinton and will go to Nashville. ? A mtn atGranby Mill at Colum bia refusod to bo vaccinated, took smallpox and died. His last request ' was that his wife and children bo vao oinated. ? The Riohland delegation will re commend to tho Legislaiuro a measure to havo the salaries of all coostables and magistrates in that oounty rais ed. ? A negro was sout to jail in Char leston recently for passing a forged check?this being tho third negro caught at this offense within the past two weeks. ? Mr*. Hannah Levi died at Man ning from fright duo to. seeing a bur glar in the house. The thief got $75 besides valuable goods. Mrs. Levi was 75 years old. ? Another big cotton mill, operat ing thousands of spindles and employ ing hundreds of hands is to be com pleted and in operation by next fall, at the Lookhardt Shoals, on Broad itiver, in Union County. ? A Salisbury, N. C, liquor drum mer was run in by the police in G an noy for soliciting orders for liquor, without a license, and put up $25 for his appearance?but ho did not ap ?tear for trial, and the money was for oited. ? The civil aervice commission has announced that au examination will be held at Charleston February 4, for thn purpose cf securing yuuog men and ladies for postoffioo clerks and also letter carriers. ? Representative Legare, of Char leston, has introdnoed a bill in Con gress to?pay Raphael L. David, of that city, $52,350 for stores and supplies taken by Sherman's army during the Civil war, forty years ago. . ? W. J. Pooser, railrood and ex press ogent at Terrys, on the South ern road, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling $300 belonging to the Southern and $471 belonging ti the Southern Express company. He* is just 21, and has been agent less than a year. ? As passenger train No. 33 from Columbia had nearly reached the de pot at Springfield, the engine struck a negro named Diok Jones and tossed him into the air like a ball, 1 t threw him dear off the rail. His right leg and right arm were both broken, but the physician in charge thinks the man has a ohanoe for recovery. ? Postmaster Charles J. Mulky, at Westminster, has gotten into trouble with the authorities at Washington by making and soliciting contributions for paying the expenses of negro and other delegates to State and county conventions. Mulky, it is stated, will lose his position, which he has held only since April 19, 1904. ? An investigation into the finan cial affairs of Greenville County re veals the astounding fact that the oounty is in debt about $350,000. Her bonded debt is $184,500; out standing notes countersigned by the treasurer $97,712 34;. notes for mcscy borrowed, $38,800; outstanding claims, $25,000?and other items. ? James E. Vaugban, Jr., a well known young man of Oamdeo, met with a serious accident at Belinont, a few miles below Camden. As he was getting out of a buggy he took hold of the mutile of his gun, and it was dis charged, striking him on the hand, and inflicting suoh a wound that am putation of the right hand was neoes aary. ? Becontly at Cheraw Mr. W. C. Traywiok was shot and kill? > while down near the river inspecting lumber. The cause of his death was a mystery for several days, but it finally devel oped that he was accidentally shot by a party of young white men while tar get shooting. The dead man was a member of Kershaw Camp Woodmen of the World, whioh appointed a com mittee to go to Cheraw and investi gate the shooting. As a. result of their work, a warrant was sworn out for a Mr. Melntosh, charging him with criminal carelessness. -? A peculiar accident occurred in Newberry last Thursday night, which resulted in tbe death of a young man. While Mr. Joe Hargrove, of the Whit mire seotion of Newberry County, and a Mr. Ferguson were rolling ten-pins in the bowling alley on Caldwell street. Mr. Ferguson's coat 'fell off the nail on the wall, and a pistol in one of tbe p?QK?ta was discharged, the bail strik ing Mr. Hargrove in th? heart and killing 'him instantly. Mr. Header Son, the owner of the alley, saw Har grove staggering, but the man/was dead by the time he' assisted him to a chairs y ?- The phosphate royalty has dwin dled from $223,000 in 1903 to $9,732.01 in 1904, and the royalty has been re duced to encourage this languishing industry from $1.03 per ton to 25 cents per ton, the money now being perverted to the sinking fund, and there are petitions before tbe phos phate board for an abolition of the whole tas. Th? figures from Comp troller General Jones' report are most interesting. There are but two com panies now doing business in the State, the Central and 8tono Com panies, and they together mine 29.664 t?nt. "The report shows that there Was some stone left over from last year, the total amount shipped being 38,928 tons, a decrease from last year of. 28,818 tons. On the shipments ! this yea? there was a royalty paid the State of $10,784, of whioh the two i'mnnanies now in businoes paid $9, ; 730,01. .The royalty last year -amount ed to $16,730.47. Tho Farmers' Educational and C:-Operative Union of America. ! conducted BY J. o. 8triblinq? ? * Oommuloatlona intended for this <le|?ir? aient should be add refined to J. C. Strlbjing, Pwidloton, 8. C. Use cotton seed instead of commor- i c'al man urea. There is ut least wovon I or eight dollars difference in price in favor of cotton need, and besides you know that cotton soed ispnre and hori ost goods. Wlien our experiment sta tions make up their table? of compara tive commercial or money values of cottonseed in comparison ?\ith com mercial fertilizer, there is usually no mention made of the. very i 'i I port a a t fact that every cotton seed acts as a ! small reservoir to hold moisture and air daring drought, which may exert an influence toward feeding the plant over the concentrated manures that might count for one-third of a crop in extremo cases. The mechanical action of cotton seed in keeping the soil open and loose to preserve moisture and admit air is another advantage. (Jar cotton oil mills and chemists tell us that the oil in seed is of no value as a fertilizer, and that it is a loss to put it on land, bur, it is cheaper for tho farmer to lose che oil at home than it is to haul it off to the mills and give it away. Hold Cotton is Consul's Advice. Washington, Jan. 19.?The following report from United States Consul Smythe at Tnnstnll, England, was given out today by the Department of Commerce and Labor, dated December 10, 1004: -in was my intention to cable you today in reference to reports that ap peared in last night's papers concern ing tho condition uf the Egyptian cot ton crop, with relation to the position of our cotton planters of the South, but I concluded a mail dispatch would accomplish my purpose just as well. These reports are very discouraging, inasmuch as they foreshadow a short age in next years crop of the class of staple that comes into competition with American cotton. For this reason I do not hesitate to say it would be ad visable to warn the Southern planters against any move on the part of Lan cashire manufacturer!} to force the scale of cotton at low prices in order to meet the requirements of euch a de ficiency. "The general opinion in Lancashire is that a plentiful supply of American cotton cau be bad ou a 10-cent basis. Combinations are being formed to held the price at this notch, if possible, and these combinations intend to operate through agents sent specially to Loui siana and all the cotton producing con t?es of the South. The troubles nmong the cotton manufacturers of the East are expected to aid in the development of this scheme as they are calculated to have a depressing effect on the home market in their relation to supply and demand, "My candid opinion is that an euor mohs amount of money can be saved to our plantera by taking this matter up in time, and invoking the assistance of tho banks or tho national treasury, if such an arrangement can be mftde, I to enable the planters to warehouse their cotton nntil the present etocka are worked up on this side, and the necessities of the manufacturers com pel them to break, or make liberal terms with the groweis. "The erection of new mills in Lan cashire, and the effect which their con sumption is ??keiy to have oj tho mar ket next year, lends additional interest to this subject and serves to empha size the views I have taken the liberty to present in this dispatch. Fifteen cent cotton, or even 12-cent cotton, a difference of two cents, compared with ten cents, on every bale of. cot ton exported, would cut a very im portant figure in the net assets of one year's crop, and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of the South." . - '_ TERRIBLE RIOTS IN RUSSIA.. Strikers Rise in Revolt Against Thcuov erameaf, and They, Their Wives and Children are Shot Down Like Dogs. St. Petersburg, January 22.?This haa been a day of unspeakable terror in St. Petersburg. The strikers of yesterday, goaded to desperation by a day of violeooe, fury and bloodshed, are in a state of open insurrection against the government. A condition almost bordering on oivil war exists in the terror-stricken Russian capital. The oity is under martial law, with Pricco Vasilohikoff as commander of over 60,000 of the Emperor's oraok guards. Troops are bivouoking in the streets tonight at various places on the Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare of the oity. Oo the Is land of Vassili Ostrow and in iha in dustrial seotions infuriated men bav? thrown up barrioades, which they are holding. The Empress Dowager has hastily sought safety at Tsarakoe Belq, where Emperor Nicholas II is living. Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk Nirsky presented to his Wajesfy last night the invitation of the workmen to appear at their winter palace this afternoon and receive their petition, but the Emperor's advisors had al ready taken a dcoiaion to show a firm and reiolute front, and the Emperor's answer to 100,000 workmen trying to make their way to the Palaee today ?as a solid array of troops who met them with rifle, bayonet and sabre. The priest, Gopou, the leader and ideal of the men, in his golden vest ments, holding aloft the cross and marohing at the head of thousands of workmen through the Narva Gate, miraculously escaped a volly which laid low half a hundred persons. The .figures of the total killed or wounded at tho Mosoow Gate, at vari ous bridges and islands and at the Winter Palace vary. The best esti mate-is 500, although there am exag Earated figures placing the number as igh as. 5,000. Many mon were ao* compauied by their wives end chil- i diet),and in the confusion, which left i no time for discrimination, the latter shared the fate of the men. The troops, with the exception of a Binglo regiment, which is reported to havo thrown down its arms, remained loyal and obeyed ordors. But the blood j which crimsoned the snow has fired ! tho brains cud paf-sions cf the strikers j and turned women as well as men I into wild beasts; and the cry of the ! infuriated populace is fur vengeance. The sympathy cf tho middle classes is?with the workmen. ! If Father Gopoa, the master mind of the movement, aimed at open revo lution, he managed the affair like a , genius to break the faith of the peo ple in " The Little Father." who they wore convinced, aud whom Fathvr Gopon bat' taught them would right the wrongs and redress their griev ances. Gorky, the Kustiao novelist, ! expressed the opinion that today's ! work will break his faith of the pto I pie in the 15 rn per or. lib said this ! evening to the Associated Press: "Today inaugurated revolution in Russia. The Emperor's prestige will ' he irrevocably shattered by the shed- . ' ding of inuoccnt blood. llo has allicnatcd himself forever from his people. Gopon taught the workmen 10 believe that an appeal direct to the 'Little Father' would be headod. They have been undeceived. Gopon is now convinced that peaceful mear.j have failed and that the only remedy is .force. Tho first blood has been Bhod, but more will follow. It is now tho people against the oppressors, and. the battle will be fought to the bitter end." Th? military authorities had a firm grasp on overy artery in tho city. At daybreak guards, regiments, cavalry and infantry, held every bridge across the frozen Geva, tho net work of canals which interlaces tho city and tho gates leading from tho indus trial sootiou, while in the Palaoo Equare, at the storm oentre, wcro massed dragoons, infnntry and Cos oBoks of the guards. Barred from the bridges and gates, men, women and children crossed the frozen river and canals on the ice by twos and three, hur>**;"g to tho Palace fquaro, whoro they wore sure the Emperor would bo to hear them. , The street approaches to the square were cleared by volloys and Cossack charges. Men and wo men, infuriated to frenzy by the loss of loved ones, oursed the soldiers while they retroated. Men harangued the orowds, telling them that the Em peror had failed them and that tho time had come to act. Men began to build barricades in tho Ncvsky Pros pect and at other points, using any material that came to hand, and even chopping down telegraph poles. Fighting meantime continued at vatious places, soldiers volleying and charging the tob. The whole city was m a state of panio. Women are running through the streets seeking loBt mombors of their families. . Sev eral barricades were carried by the troops. Towards P o'clock in tho evening the crowds, exhausted, began to dis perse, leaving the military in posses sion. As they retreated up the Nevsky Prospect tho workmen put out all the lights. The little cbapel at the Narva Gato war. wrecked. On the Kamioostov Isfand all the lights were extinguished. Every oflioer weaving the uniform of the Emperor, who was found alone, was mobbed. A general was killed on the Nicholas llridgc and a dozen offi cers were seized, stripped of their cpulott? and deprived of their swords. It is rumored tonight that M. While will be appointed dictator to morrow, but the report is not con?rm- . od. The authorities, while they seem to realize the magnitude of the crisis with which the dynasty aud tho autocracy aro confronted on ce jount of today's events, arc apparently para lyzed 'or tho moment. An tflicial statement was promised at midnight, at which hour it was an nounced that it had been postponed until tomorrow. Intense indignation is bound to be aroused all over Russia. The work men nod revolutionists expect news from Moscow and other big oentres, where tho troops are not of tho same class as tho guards regiments of St. Petersburg. A member of tho Emperor's houoo fcold is quoted as saying today that this conflict will end the war with Ja pan, and that Russia will have a Con stitution or Emperor Nieh^la? ??11 iose his head. Tho Warsaw and Baltic Railroad is reported to have been torn up for a mile and a half, but tho damage is Baid to havo boon repaired. There aro rumors of trouble in Fin land and disaffection of the troops. With darkness it was feared the mob might try to loot and pillage and oven burn, but beyond the breaking of a fow windows in the Nevsky Pros peot and tho pillaging or fruit shops little disorder was reported. Most of the theatres were closed, but at the Poople's Palace, whioh was open, lib erals attempted to baranguo tho au dience, proposing at the olose that the audienoe tostify to their sympathy with their fallen brothers. The ora tors were promptly arrested, but the audionoo walked out. By midnight the sound of firing bto-* ceased, except on Vassili Oatrow Island, whero the troops met a renew ed demonstration with several volleys, in the meantime, the strike leaders assembled and decided to oontinue the Btrugglo with arms. No day was fixed for tho next demonstration. The strikers are so excited, however, that troublo is expected tomor row. ? Don't think that because men askyou for advice thoy really want it. T6 See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of? :\ ' DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to Oar Bayer has jast returned from the Northern markets* and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressera the result of carefaLseleotions. See our Stock of the Celebrated? Strouse & Bros. High Art FALL AND WINTER? CLOTHING 9 Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVS MONET. A new and complete line of? OXFORD ?2 &9 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* Sucoessorjto Horn-Bass Co,, 110,116,130, East Benson/St., CO., Anderson, S, Cl