Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Mor or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Semi-officia 1 returns from lary land show that the electoral vote of the state is split. It appears that seven democrats and one republican were elected. Both sides claim frauds and irregularities in the elec tions and the methods of carrying on the campaign. Thirteen persons wereinjured, more or less seriously, in a collision near Macon, Georgia, on Friday, when the Brunswick and Jacksonville mail train, on the Southern was ditched. Fred Thorpe and Frank Christian, two prominent Georgia contractors, engaged in a fatal duel with knives on last Saturday. Tharpe is dead, and the other party to the duel is in a hospital with little or no chance of recovery. Yale defeated Princeton in football, on the Princeton grounds, on Satur day afternoon, by a score of 12 'to o. The ground was wet and soggy making it impossible for Princeton to use her fast backs to advantage in the long runs arounds the end. Yale won the game by heavy line buck ing. Bishop Warren of Denver -speak ing on Saturday morning to the General Missionary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church in Den ver, said he regarded the occupation of the Philippines by the United States government as providential. A boiler attached to a threshing machine on the Samuel Kaufman farm, near Laporte, Ind., exploded on Saturday morning, and killed Warren Bassett, I0 years old, and John Boltenhouse, 60 years old, both of Elkhart. Six were hurt. Judge Brawley. in the United States court in Charleston, S. C., has signed an order directing the resale of the Dekalb cotton mille at Camden on December 21 at no less than $150,000. Mrs. Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone of the new building of the Hebrew Technioal School for Girls. in New York Saturday. former President Cleveland presiding and making an address. The schooner WVilson and Hunting was run down off Barnegar Saturday by the United States supply Culgoa and sunk. Captain Watson and his wife and two seamen were drowned. Herman Haas. charged with em bezzling funds from the Corn Ex change National bank of Chicago,1 pleaded guilty on Friday and was sen tenced to the penitentiary for six years. A New York jury has rendered a verdict of $35,0o0 to Mrs. Mary C. Ga Nun for the death of her husband in the Grand Central tunnel. * Mrs. C. A. Curry was shot ind kill ed and her husband probably fatally * wounded in a pistol duel at their home, in East Puebla on Friday. John Hodgsen, brother of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the authoress, died a pauper in the City Hospital, in Knoxville. Tenn.. an Friday. The steamer Valencia has reported having assisted the little schooner G. H. S., met at sea helpless and drifting. La.wrence de Fabio shot Carrie J imitz and her brother Frank in Southington, Ct., on Saturday and then killed himself. Four tramps were burned to death in 0. WV. Haggerty's barn, which was: destroyed by fire near Altoona. Pa. Frederick Griebel, of Ridgewood Heights. L. I...who lost all he had on the election, committed suicide. "This custom of having two tele phones in the office has its disadvan tages. too." said the business man. "W~e've got a new office boy, and one of his duties is to answer the tele phone. The other day he heard the bell ring. andl. coming to me'. said: 'You're wanted at the 'phone by a~ ladv-. "*'Which one?' I inquired, think ing of the 'phones. of course. "'Please sir.' stammered the h.. 'I-T--T think it's voor wife.' '' P.ort!and Exnress. The profits of the dispensary is the ":v :fn the' oitment."i I th sta:e i d:' en'ce'raze thle drink habit. If a ijh} price is charged. big prom: is 'na&-, but the drink habit is thereby SOUTH CAROLANA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. Ex-Senator Edmunds is now at Aiken. where he will spend the win ter. He owns many of the hand somest residences of that resort, and will use his influence in an effort to ward securing a public building for the town. Memorial services were held yes terday in the St. Paul's Episcopal church, at Charleston, in honor ot the late Dr. W. H. Campbell for 25 vears rector of that church. The board of trustees of Clemson college will meet today, at the Wright's hotel, in Columbia. to con sider matters pertaining to the fer tilizer department. Miss Minnie Russell. employed in the laundry at Winthrop college. at Rock Hill, had her hand badly mash ed kast week by being caught between the hot rollers of one of the machines. After a long and hard-fought legal battle in the case of Mrs. May Bell Kean against the Landrum estate, in Edgefield county, the case was de cided in favor of Mrs. Kean who was given a substantial verdict. Captain Emil Linborg, a prominent Swede, who was the Swedish con sul to the St. Louis exposition. was in Columbia last week, in conference with Commissioner Watson, consid ering plans to colonize several parts of South Carolint iwth immigrants. Governor Heyward offered a re ward of two hundred dollars for the capture of Sam Brown, wanted in Charleston county for the murder of Allen Heathington. The friends and relatives of the deceased have ot fered an additional three hundred. Mr. G. T. Rogers. a prominent farmer of Darlington county, lost his ginnery. gin-house and contents. in a fire which occurred early on Sat urdav morning. The loss amounted to about $4.ooo, and there was abso lutely no insurance. Calvin McNeill and Neil Barnes. colored workmen at the big cotton prLss at the Dillon oil mill ginnery. were instantly killed on Friday after noon. by the explosion of a steam cylinder. The lever on the cylinder was opened too wie by one of the deceascd negroes. and the rush or steam caused the explosion. The bureau of immigration at Co lumbia has received information that a colony of Russian Jews is desirous of coming to South Carolina to settle permanently. It is understood that the Jews are of the farming class and will come with money to purchase land. The immigration ac tseems to provide only for certain specified foreigners, and it may not be possi ble for the bureau to aid the colonists directly. There will be no objection to their making arrangements through other persons or agencies to settle in the state. It is alleged _that John Watson, colored, committed a criminal assault upon a young colored girl at Aiken. on Friday. Tthe father has made complaint, but as yet no arrest has been made. The whites are some what indignant, and a reward wvill probably be offered for the arrest or WVatson. J. Samuel McCue announced in an interview given a reporter yesterday that he expects to get a new trial. He declares that if the supreme court decides in his favor as to the granting of a trial he will ask for a change of venue. There is a considerable dif ference of opinion in Charlottesville as to whether McCue is really guilty or not. The country in general seems to believe that he is. First Motor Car in Pawn. For the first time in the history of the Paris pawnbroking department. a motor car was pawned w.ith it the other dlay. The proprietor drove h:s car slowly in to the courtyard of the pr:-nbroking offnce in the Rue Serv-an. and after satisfying the of Scial that the machine was really his property. and showing that it was an adlvawe o"n it. Jrat-cible Old4 Gemlema'n: (to cab drvr -I say;' abby. we're o~ going toa nra."( Cabby (prom ptly) "No. andl w.e ain't ging to nlo bloom BEWARE THE HAMBURGER. A Snare and a Delusion and in Some Cases Rank Poison. Ware the I1amburger steak. It is a snare and delusion and by and by becomes sulphuric acid, and that is rank poison. This all came out in the upper house of the council recently. when an ordinance was passes making it prohibitive to use salts of suiphurous acid in articles of food. The aider men were suspicious of the whole business and took the word of the board of health for it that the ordi nance would be a good law. They passed it without debate. Dr. Cutler. the meat inspector, was on hand to tell what he knew about it. He saia he was after the lunch cart man and the place where they pile up great puddles of Hamburger steak. "Rank poison," said Dr. Cutler. "It is all rank poison. I know a man who daily makes iooo pounds of blue meat look like the reddest and fresh est 1Iamburger. He sells -it to the night lunch wagon men and they make sandwiches of it. 'Freezum' is the commerical name of salts or sul phurous acid. When put in 'smellin'g' game it takes the odor away, and when mixed with antique shanks, ox hearts, old livers or fly-blown meat it turns it red and gives it a fresh appearance. This commands a retail market and then the damage starts. It is used in Hamburger steak be cause it can be worked all through that sort of stuff. It makes the meat tough and it turns the s-.lphurous acid into sodium hydrogen -sulphide. When this gets into the stomach the .iucies turn all this into sulphuric acid, and there is your poison." Dr. Cutler says there is a growing trade in the "freezum," but this is to be nipped now that an ordinance is passed imposing a fne of from STO to $oo and laying the seller liable to 12 months in jail. Kan'sas City Journal. Whalebone. There may not at first ;ight scei to be any necessary relation between a lady of fashion in LondIn. Paris o New York and a bowhead whaic tumbling and diving in Artic seas. says the London Graphic. Neverthe less the one is steadily, it uncon Isciously, extirpating the other. It is th oha whale yields whalebone and such is the demand of corset manufacturers for this material that the source of supply bids fair to be exhausted. No satisfactor; substitute has yet been divised, and the conse quence is that the bowhead whale is at present in the same perilous posi tion in which his brother, the sperm whale, found himself before the ad vent of petroleum gave him a fresh chance in the struggle for existence. Last year's catch of whalebone reach ed 70.0oo pounds as compared with two or thre times that amount in previous years; one-half of the ships engaged in the industry came back "clean." The price has naturally shot skvwards. W\halebone. which a few years ago cost eight shillings a pound wholesale, has this year cost thirty shillings. and the corset makers will have to pay forty shillings or more. Formerly whalebone had other use, es besides the improvement of the fe male figure. but with the diminution of the stupply it came to be practically monopolized for the purpose of fash ion, and even in that limited field it is now available only for the most ex pensive wares. The prospect is not encouraging either for the bowvhead whale or for the dIress reformer. There is reason to fear that both wilt shortly be extinct. The trial of the French officers at tached to the MIilitary Information Bureau, charged with appropriating funds which were used to secure evi dence against Dreyfus. came to an abrupt end on Mionday by the gov ernment abandoning the case. Wh-ere the Preacher Works. Chu'rch-Thec average man like- t sit id! and see some oither man d.> al: the. work. Th tra! of Nan Patterson for the murder of Caesar Young has been Comnranced Business Ne No t the largcst-not the oldest 1) legal organization, the stronges sECURE *RPROGRES*lv PAciIM A llOBRT 1ORRIS, Gelomi Aeost, Wocr IWOOT Bargain Now $12,000 worth of Dry Clothing, Noioins, et< I have money to raise an be soi Come and see for yourse S. J. WC P. S.-All Goods Sold foi out on approval. teed to bake either in the stove. Sold by THE NEWB A CAND * We hereby announ *candidate for more b ourselves to satisfy a * MAYES' DPI + We believe in woi A BIG'3 KT H air & I This is to be a big w~ Newberry, and'we will s you buy your Dry Good, from the Right Price Stor Millinery! Another big lot just arri A big cut in Dress Goo Skirts, this week. SHOES! SH OE A big lot Children's Sho pair, and up. 21 yds. good Checks 96 .HAIR & F arly Forty Years Ago. it. by reason of its peculiar life insurance Co. in the world. The Pacific Mutual Life writes in the plainest terms the most liberal policy sold. In taking life insurance it is :iot estimates (guesses) that the people want but Guarantees. Our Guaranteed values, writ ten, in policies, are greater than :ie guarantees of any other company. Its rates are no greater than those of other old line com panies. To find out all the good things Xe offer send date of birth to, or call on )TV"U P[SIC11og NWbaln,S.. EN'S Sale is On! . Goods, Shoes. Hats, ., at actual cost. d these Goods must d. If and be convinced. )OTEN. r Cash. Nothing sent THE LISK ROASTER is the only F -BASTINS roaster on --the market. It is guaran oven or on topTof the ERRY HARDWARE CO., Just below the Dispensary. 'IDA TE ce ourselves as a usiness and pledge * l customers. JG STORE.+ nian's suffrage. MEEK lavird's. eek for everybody in ave you big money if Millinery an Shoes e. Millinery! ved at the right price. ds and Ready Made SI SHOES! es, priced rIght-24c. ~c. this week at IA VIRD,