Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Lees Interest Con densed Outside the State. The house committee has authoriz ed a favorable report on the bill for the holding of the Jamestown expo sition. A delegation of citizens from Montgomery, Ala., called on Presi dent Roosevelc on Saturday and in viLed him to v'sit Montgomery on his trip south. The president statetd it would afford him pleasure to accept the invita:tion, provided he could make arrangements to do so. Reuben A. Torrey and Charles M. Alexander, American evangelists, have begun in London what is de scribed as the greatest revival in the history of that city. The revival was opened in Royal Albert Hall, Lon don's largest theaEre, on Saturday night, the audience numberi-g awout ii.ooo, including many of London's most prominent people. A choir a 3,000 voices furnished the musi. Indictment for murder will be asked for by Coroner Hoffman of Chicago. against Johann Hoch,thea-1 leged poisoner of many wives. Infor-, mation is being received every day which charges him with the murder of wives in addition to those with whose murder he is now charged. Two of the wives of Hoch have quar reled over money alleged to have been found on him when arrested. Manufacturers of hoisery or soft cotton yarns in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama met in Charlotte on Saturday and completed the organi zation of the Southern Soft Yarn Spinners' association, the principal business of which will be the enforce ment of contracts between the spin ners and commission houses or knit ters for -the purchase of yarns. Judge Swayne has made formal re sponse in the United States senate to *the articles of impeachment made by the house of representatives. In every case the fact charged was ad mitted, but explained e Judge Swayne's point of view and in addi tion it was contended that even if -the conditions were true aso rged they Avere not of a charactW to justify proceedings for imyeachment for "high crimes and misdemearnors." "Flagrant," gilful and continuous violation" of the law during the past five years is the way in which the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad is arraigned in a decision which has been promulgated by the interstate commerce commision~ on the "alleged unlawful rates and prac tices'' of that road in the transporta tion of coal and mine supplhes, im volving also the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. The decision charg es that the Colorado Fuel and Iron company has been favored to the de triment of individual competition. In the course of an address before the American Academy of Political and Social Science, in Philadelphia. on Saturday night, Booker T. Wash ington advocated the development of the negro race not only mentally, but manually, in order that the negro might be properly trained to supply the wants that naturally follow edu cation. "It is cruel in many cases," he said, among other things, "to in crease the wants of the black youth by mental development alone,, with out at th~e same time increasing his ability to supply these increased wants along the lines in which he can fmnd employment." Two trainmen lost their lives and a score or more- passentgers were mn juredl in a wreck on the New York Central railroad three miles west of Utica, N. Y., on Saturday mornmng. As the western express was passing the Buffalo special, eastbound, the boiler of the locomotive of the west bound train exploded. The force of the explosion and the upheavel of the engine threw the entire train of thir teen cars composing the special frora the rails as if it had been a string of toy caoches. The wes'tbound train did not leave the track. Most of the people who were injured wvere in the sleeping car on the eastbound train that was opposite the engine of the westbound 'train at the instant of ex plosion. This car was lifted from tue track and hurled about 50 feet away a:1d is said to have turned over sev -nl i mes in the flight. ':OUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. M r. and N1 rs. Thomas Nelson Page are spending a week in Caniden. John Johnson. Vade HaImpton's faithful old servant, died last week at his home ir Waverly. near Colum bia. W. E. Catlin, special agent for the Royal Exchange Assurance company was drowned on Thursday near Georgetown, while shooting ducks on Black river. Zeb Barron, the ne gro boatman was also drowned at the same time. The negro's body has been recovered. Governor Heyward has sent to 'the general assembly a letter from Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee. president of the Jamestown Exposition company. in which General Lee expresses the de sire to visit Columbia. at any time convenient to the legislature, for the purpose of addressing that body. The Farmers' club of Concord, in Anderson county, has started a movement to have all cotton covered with cotton bagging. It is estimated that by covering each bale with nine yards of cotton bagging, weighing not less than two pounds to the yard 375,ooo bales of the south's crop will be consumed. The Fitzmaurice building, in Main street in Columbia, with conten-ts, was entirely destroyed by fire on Sat urday night. It is estimated the building was worth $5,o0o to $6,000, while the stock was worth aboui $30,000. There was a reasonable amount of insurance on the building, but it is stated there was not more than $i8,ooo or $ig,ooo insurance on the stock. Raymond Bowman, a 16-year-old boy, has been committed to jail in Charleston charged with having started several fires which have re cently occurred in that city. He does not deny having started the fires at several places and says "bad com pany" was responsible for his mis deeds. He has a pocketful of match es and was visiting the scene of one of his fires when arrested. Joe Mims, a negro living in Aiken ounty, near the Edgefield line, was shot and killed on last Wednesday night while standing on the piazza of a residi ce. The shot was fired from the road and the deceased did not see his slayer, but before he died he told ofthrats hav'ing having SH1 MRRF of threats having been made aga,nst his life by another negro, who has been placed under arrest. The dispensary at Pendleton was destroyed by tire on Friday night and the entire stock of whiskey and the books wvere lost. The total loss is about Sa-30o. Rumors of a shortage gained currency after the fire, but were promptly denied by the dispen ser. Inspector Dean had gone to Pendleton on Friday afternoon to check up the books but he had not entered upon his work. The fire is said 'to have caught from a defective George P. Ashley of Aiken, lost his life in a F :in Kentucky last wveek while trping to save his em ployers' property. As general super intendent of WV. J. Oliver & Co., con tractors and railroad builders he had the keys of the safe containing some money and the books of the company and when awakened by fire ran to his .nie door. He was seen no more. but when his body was found after the tire. the~ keys to the safe were in his hands, showing that he lost his life in endeavoring to reach the safc. Ball Caine and his brother Hucks Caine, who are in jail in Charleston charged for'violating an order of the United States court by hunting on lands in Georgetown held in lease by the Annandale Gun club, have made serious charges to a newspaper re porter against the Greenville jail, in which 'they were lodged some time ago, stating they were placed in a cell in which were nine murderers and that they were forced to pay each of these alleged murderers a5 cents each, under the threat of being whipped and that one of the occu pants of the cell had a razor. It is reported from WVashingcon hat President Re-.osevelt has had a rand .:-:n aubot tie new Fd eeral hrab)ly rep rted a h)Ii establiShing a ne-w iudicial district f,r this tate. and in case c becomes a iw th rup resitatives told the prcsident the lpe,ple "4 the new (istrict desircd that a judge should he selected from within the district. It is stated that if the proper man can be found with in the district, a man in every sense qualitied for the place, there is good ground for the statement that the president will appoint him. One of the students at the Georgia State college for colored youths, near Savannah. on last Thursday after noon hit one of -he professors in the head with a brick, the professor sub sequently dying from his injuries. The professor. T. L. Cotton. put the student. Sammie Bowen. out of the recitation room when Bowen who says the professor Threatened him with a stick, seized a brick and huri ed it at the professor, striking him in the head. Students pursued Bowen with shouts of "lynch him." The motorman and conductor of a trolley car protected the boy and the car took him to Thunderbolt, where he was arrested. Bowen is 17 ycars old. Steps That Betray. Steps that are quick are indicative of energy and agitation. Tiptoe walking betrays surprise, curiosity, discretion or mystery. Turned in toes are often found with preoccupied, absent minded per sons. The miser's walk is represented as stooping, noiseless, with short, nerv ous, anxious steps. The proud step is slo wand meas ed. The toes are conspicuously -curn ed out, the legs straightened. Slow step, whether long or short, suggest a gentle or reflective state of mind, as the case may be. The direction of the steps waver ing and following every changing -m pulse of the mind inevitably betrays uncertainty, hesitation and indecis ion. Obstinate people who in argument rely more on muscularity than on in tellectual power rest the feet flatly and firmly on the ground, walking heavily and slowly, and stand with the legs firmly planted far apart. She Does Hate Men. Milwaukee Wiconsin. Miss Sarah Jackson. living near Dilsboro, Dearborn county, Ind., is such a consistent hater of men that she has provided in her will that no man shall have anything to do with her funeral. The driver of the hearse the pallbearers and even the persomz who fill the grave are to be women if the provisions of her will are car ried out. The will sets aside money for the services necessary in connec tion with her burial and stipulates that none but women aball be em poyedl in any capacity. Miss Jack son is said ro have been crossed in love more than forty years ago and not to h-ave spoken to a man since she moved to the little farm on which she lives, all her transactions taking place through. a servant, who has been with her many years. In No Hurry for the Doctor. "Almost alwvays when my patients send for me,". said a doctor "ther' instruct the messenger to tell me to come at once. In fact, this cus tom of trying to hurry the doctor to the hedside of the patient is general. and all physicians expect it. and it is such an old story to office attendants that they do not as a rule bother to remember it. But the other night I had a surprise. "It was about 7 o'clock and a gen teman had called an hour before to request me co see his wife. What was remarkable was the fact th'at he had told my office boy to inform me not to call until the next morning if I did not find it convenient to visit his wife that night before 9 o'clock, which he said was the usual hour at which they retired. "'Tell the doctors,' he said, 'it is nothing very importanc. My wife has only something the matter with her mouth that prevents her from talking. It will be all right if he cannot find 'time to call before the morning."' She-You told me before we wecre marred that youn were well off." H-I was but I didn't know it. PACIFIC MUTUAL Life Insurance Company OF CALIFORNIA : : : ORGANIZED 1868. (LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH) Commenced Business Nearly 40 Years Ago. It is not the largest---not the oldest but, by reason of its pecu'iar legal organ ization the S CRONGEST Life Insurance Company in America. In taking life insurance it is n->t ESTIMATES (Guesses) that the people want but GUARAN TEES Our aBATEES WRITTEN in the policy are GREATER. than the guarantees of any other company tho' the costs are. no greater than those of any other old line coURES -$trmITTEN in the policy it Iu PLAINEST terms and FIGRSi h oiyi GUARANfEES: Cash Loans--Paid up Insurance---Additions to the sum in sured--Extended Insurance--Cash surrender Values, AND PROVIDES: Year ly Cash Dividends--Grace in paying premiumsI--Installment plans of settlement if desired, ALSO: IMMEDIATE payment of claims--Ri.ght. of restorati*on Right to change beneficiary, AND IS: INCONTESTABLE after ONE year UNLIVIl ITED as to residence and travel. It gives the LARGEST amount of protection that the money will buy--Arms and defends BOTH the Insured and the Benificiary at ALL p-ints---Possesses every element of SECURITY--A PLAIN policy EASILY understood. It sells a deferred dividend Contract, which, at a small additional cost, gives the policy holder $5.00 a week, on each thousand of insurance, for lost time caused by accident or disea-e; and in addition, the contract provides that if the insured become permanently disabled from disease or accident the policy is ma tured--The insured QUITS PAYING PREMIUMS and will receive the amount of the policy in ten equal annual installmnents And All This Without Ad ditional Cost. To find out many other good things about our policies, call on or write, giving date of birth, to ROBERT NORRIS, General Agent fcr South Carolina. Office Over Postoffice. NEWBERRY. S. C. Have You Been To RIGHT LATELY? If not don't fail to do so the first chance you get. Every thing bright and clean, you can't help but notice the difference in the appearance of things, and the daily arrival of new goods will make a visit to the store very inters ing to you, You will still find bargains there that you can't afford to miss. Lace Curtains at and below cost. Ladies' Shirt Waists for less than New York cost. If you want a suit, over-coat or a pair of pants now is your time. For the winter goods must go regardless of price to make room for the spring goods. One lot 75c and $ 1.00 Colored Shirts, yours for only 50c while they last. S. J. WOOT EN. eCOME SOON AND SEE *Whenever you start out on a shopping tour come here first.* *This plan will save you many unnecessary steps and much 4 otime. If we haven't just what you want then look elsewhere. We shall not urge you to buy, but we do wish you to see our. goods as soon as you can. It will be to your advantage in every way to make selections before the final rush begins. *MAYES' DRU~G STORE. ANOTHER CAR EEGANT TENNESSEE FLOUR Just Arrived. While it lasts it goes for Best Patent, Cotton - - $6.30 Best Half Pat. " - - 5.65 Best St. "- - 5.55 Meal - - - - - 75 Grits, Sack - - - - 1375 MOSELEYBROS,, Prosperity, S. CO