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GENF.AL NEWS NOTES. Ztems of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. The birthday of President Jeffersop Davis was observed throughout the south on Friday. Several more mills in New Eng-1 land have decided to run on short xime. affecting many operatives. A tornado did considerable damage in several Texas towns on Friday. 1 There were very probably several fa tahties. Thomas Moore. of Hartford. Conn.. ,committed suicide in Asheville on Friday afternoon by shooting him self through the head. He was an in valid and ill health is supposed to have actuated the deed. The long deadlock in the Illinois:i state republican convention was< broken on Friday. when. on the', seventy-ninth ballot. Charles S Deneen was nominated gubernatorial candi date to head the ' republican ticket. The convention met about the middle of May, and the deadlock was one!1 of the longest in the history of state nominating conventions. - ~ One man was killed and nineteen were injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains on the Missouri Pacific railway, near Mar tin,'Kansas, Friday night. Two visitors to the St. Louis expo- t sition were killed on Friday while t crossing the tracks of the Wabash - railway.. -t Two boys, aged 18 and 9 years re spectively. were killed by a fast mail train on -the Southern railroad, near Memphis, Tenn.. on Friday. The boys' were driving a wagon across t the track when the accident occurred. As a result of a fight which occur Ted on.a plantation at Trial Lake, Miss.. John Sims and his manager. named Cato. were killed by negroes. and three of the negroes were killed -bv white men in return. In a collision between two trolley -cars in Norwalk. Ohio, on last T;urs day afternoon, six persons were kill- c -ed and a dozen or more were injured. Both cars were running at a high I speed when. the collision occurred. The cohtempt proceedings oi Fed-; eral Judge Purnell. of Raleigh. N. C.. against Editor Josephus Daniels. of! the Raleigh News and Observer. who "has been in custody since Monday of last week for refusal to pay a $2.ooo fine. were dismissed on Friday and Mr. Daniels was released. Mr. Dan iels had been fined by Judge Purnel! for editorially criticising the judge I for his action in appointing receivers for the -Atlantic and North Carolina railroad. The appointment of the rece..ers was overruled by Chief Jus tice Fulleraid now Judge Pritchard has released Mr. Daniels. Telegrams 'vi congratulation have been pouring Eon Mr. Daniels. Natharn Sibb'ett. a 14-year-old boy. ' is in ja,il, at Trenton. N. J.. charged with being responsible for the death of his imother. According to testi mony brought out. the lad had a quar re& with his mother on the Tuesday before her body was found, and he1 -oushed her from the top of the stairs.1 'her death resulting. The boy -then covered her body with bed clothing -and left the house. ~'He wandered -aroulnd the neighborhood. telling -those he saw that his mother had -gone to Philadelphia. After he had been locked up and closely question ed by.the,authorities he made a con tession which led to his being held 'n the charge. -CC. L. Saylor, office manager for the Armour; Parking -company, at South1 Moaha. N~eb.. committed suicide on Thursda'y biy shooting himself tfnrough the head. He had been a sufferer from nervous prostration. said to have been the result of over work. irid the ict was committed only an hour .hefo,rp the time. set for him ~to leave for a~sanitarium. The National Tradesman's bank, of Newe Haven' Conn.. has lost from $3.o00 to $6o,ooo through the embez zlement of its funds by a trusted em ploye, Douglass M. Smith. Smith ac kin'owledged voluntarily that he had embezzled about $3o,0oo, and the greater part .of it,. if not all, within the past eight or nine months. The employes of the Houston street car line went out on h strike last. week and on Thursday not a car moved during the whole day. The striking union men agreed that there should absolutely be no violence or intimidation. Another lynching was attempted at Springfield, Ohio, one night last ...eek A crow of negroes snuround ed the jail at midight to lynch a ne gro under arrest for killing a negro. The negro had been carried off be forehand. however. and the crowd was so advised by the sheriff. They yelled back that they would get their nan whe. he was brought back for .rial. An explosion which occurred in the i-story warehouse of the Corning iistillery. the second largest in the world. at Peoria. Ill.. on Saturday ifternoon. completely wrecked the >uilding. Ten men were buried be ieath the ruins and burned to death, Lnd six others were seriously injured. rhe loss on buildings and whiskey knd spirits stored will approximate ;.000.000. Lawrence Cowles Phipps. who is t brother to Henry Phiips. the drigi ial partner of Andrew Carnegie in he steel business, took his two chil Iren from his mother early Saturday norning while his wife was asleep n her house in New Yo'rk. He was >ursued by the woman but managed o escape after a painful scene. and :arried them back to Pittsburg with tim. Curtis Jett. under a life sentence' for he murder of Attorney J. B. Mar :um. at Jackson. Ky.. was taken to rison at Frankfort on Saturday. Frank T. Young. bookmaker, horse wner and stockholder in Pacific :oast track while on a way to a pier o join'his wife. with whom he was o have sailed for Europe. Mrs. Coung was waiting at the' pier when he news of her husband's death -eached her. There was a woman in he cab with Young when the police nan reached it. She said Young hot himself. but for various reasons he woman was arrested. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. tems of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. Thirty-one graduates received their liplomas from the Spartanburg ,raded schools on Friday night. An unknown negro was killed by a rain at Gaffney on Wednesday night. Nhen the corpse was found it was old and stiff. The annual encampement of the adet* of the South Carolina Military cademy. Charleston. will be held in olumbia on June 29. A severe wind storm swept the up er part of Pickens county last week. everal houses were blown down. but o injuries to persons have been re orted. During a high wind and rain storm ,t Ware's Shoals. in Anderson coun y. last week. the ti,.rd story of the nill there collapsed. Several work nen were painfully hurt by falling rick. but there were no serious in uries. Invitations are out announcing he marriage of' Miss Helen Sheppard. laughter of Former Governar John .Sheppard. of Edgeneld, to Mr. B. .Nicholson. on the evening of Wed esday. June 15. Col. J. C. Haskell. of Columbia. has rought suit.. against the Seaboard ailway for $80. the commercial value eplaces on an opaline ring he is aid to have lost in a berth on the 'ad while making a trip from Wash ngton to *Columbia. in 'April a year ego. It is reported from Lexington that he race for state senator in that ounty promises to be very interest g. The incumbent. Hon. WV. H. ;hape. and Hon. D. F. Entrd. who tas been a member of the lower ouse for a numlber of years. have an iounced themselves, and it is thought hat Dr.. D. M. Crosson. of Leesville, vill also enter the race. The State house commission have ~warded the contract for putting in *he new heating plant to A. A. San orn, of Boston, for $18,845, and that or doing the brick work to Padgett, t Postell, of Columbia. for $4.725. The commencement exercises of Limestone college were held last veek, when a large class of young adies received their diplomas. Considerable stir has been caused n Charleston by the proceedings which have been instituted by the government for the collection of be ween $2,ooo and $3,000 duty on about 5,ooo smuggled cigars, handled by everaI Charlestont dealers and smoked by leading citizens of Char eston. The idea is to proceed quietly with the collection of the duty on account of the prominence of the parties and ignorance of the viola tion of the law in the purchase of the In a runiwav which occurred dur ing the return of a' Darlington pleas ure party from a picnic on Friday afternoon. Chief of Police Dargan was thrown from a spring wagon and had one of his legs broken in two places. and Mr. and Mrs. Fraser James were1 thrown from another wagon and painfully bruised. The board of railroad assessors. in session in Columbia, on Saturday concluded their assessments of rail roads in this state by mileage. A number of raises were made over last year's assessments. but the raises this year are not so large as they' were at the last assessment by the board. The total trackage last year was assesed at $28,389.ooo. This is raised about $2,ooo.ooo. By an accidental discharge of a par lor rifle in the hands of his young, brother on Friday afternoon. Ralph Edwards. of Anderson. six years of! age. was -Ahot through the head and fatally wounded. The child was aI son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Edwards. of Monterey, Mexico. Mrs. Edwards and family have been spending the summer in Anderson. but Mr. Ed wards. is in Mexico. The family is one of the oldest in Anderson. and the news of the tragedy shocked every one. Possibly the human race owes a debt of gratitude to those poets who die with their music in them. A soft answer never turns away a soft young man. A WONDERFUL SAVING. The largest Methodist church in Georgia- calculated to use over one hundred gallons of the usual kind of mixed paint in painting their church. They used only 32 gallons of the Longman & Martinez Paint mixed with 24 gallons of linseed oil. Actual cost of paint made was less than $1.20 per gallon. Saved over eighty ($8o.oo) dollars in paint, and got a big donation be sid'es EVERY CHURCH will be give- a liberal quantity whenever they paint. Many houses are well painted with I four gallons of L. & M. and three gal lons of linseed dil mixed therewith. Wears and covers like gold. These celebrated paints are sold by the Newberry Hdwe. Co. BRIDGE CONTRACT TO LET. The County Boards of Newberry and Saluda Counties will be at Kemp son's ferry, on Saluda river, on June 30th. 1904. at ii a. m.. to let contract for .building of steel bridge across said river near said ferry. Plans and specifications will be on file with the Clerk of the Board of Newberry County after June'i5th and will be at the proposed bridge site on day of letting of contract. Right reserved to reject any and all bids. J. M. Schumpert, Supervisor for Newberry County. Miss Ida. M. Snyder. Treamureir 1trae Drooklyn East End Art Club. Sif women would pay more attention to their health we would have more happy wives, mothers and dauSh.ers, and if they would observe results they would find that the doctors' prescriptions do not perform the many cures they are given credit for. " In consulting with my druggist he ad vised McElree's Wine of Cardui and Thed. 'forts Black-Draught, and so I took it and have every reason to thank him for a new life opened up to me with restored health, and It only took three months to cure me." Wine of Car dui is aregulator of the -menstrual functions and is a most a tonishing tonic for women. It .cures scanty, suporessed. toofrequept, irreg ular and painful menstruation, aihn . of the womb, whites and flooding. I is helpful when approaching woman hood, during pregnancy, after child birth andin change of life. It fre quently brings a dear baby to homes that have been barren for years. All dggtshave $1.00 bottles of Wine WI NECoCARDU I SA' IMilllliei! We Will MILLI At a Savii of 50 to 10 Every article in thE RIGHT IHAIR&I The Right F * RUBBER STAMPS Are my long suit. * except bad ones S'stamp and an indf 4 ing linen for 40 < other good things Typewriters', Offi< 4 1334 Main Street, HUDGENS BROS., Foundry, Mach! Hay P . We are selling agents Press, which has prov on the market at the can be seen at Mr. G. platform. We now employ one of 1 South, and are prepared to ations to any who contem stock. The mail puts you ne H UDGENS BROS... . . .MILLI We beg to call y fact that we have jul * line of Millinery. $ DR ESS * Our line of Dress *in every respect. + We are "Up-tc $Novelties, Etc. + We invite the pu }spect our line of go i MRS. S.W Mililliniery! j sell You NERY Ig to You 3 per cent. : House sold at the PRICE. kAVIRD: rice Store. 1 make any kind* I furnish a new + -lIible pad for mark ents. I have some* J.WIL8ONGIBBES, e Supplies, etc. Columbia, S. C. LAURENS, S. C. no Shops and resses. for the Rapid Fill Hay n to be the best press price. These Presses M. B. Epting's cotton he best Architects in the furnish Plans and Specifi plate building. and supplies kept in t door to us. ....LA UR ENS, S. C. NERY . . ur attention to the t opened up a new . OODS. Goods is complete -date" on Notions,* blic to call and in-* ods before buying. . CALMES, ITY, S. C.