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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Two negro murderers were lynch ed near Allenton. Wilcox county. Ala., this week. Many thousands of dollars worth oi property were destroyed in Santa Barbara, Cal., this week by a severe storm. President Roosevelt on Monday evening addressed the National Con gress of Mothers, in session in Wash ington. The president delivered a strong and appropriate address. For the first time in fifty years the demQcratic party on Monday elected the mayor of Bangor, Maine. The republicans were successful in the other municipal elections held in the state. Justice of the Peace Robert N. Chism. of Cutler. Ga.. charged with forging names zo an application for a pension. has admitted hi guilt. say ing he did not know it was wrong. His bond was fixed at $500. Daniel J. Sully and Edward Had ley, of the failed firm of cotton brokers of D. J. Stilly and Co., have received discharges in bankruptcy in the United States district court in New York. This discharge wipes out all Mr. Sully's in ebtedness. A pitched battle was fought between a sheriff's posse of white men and three negroes, suspected of murder, near Lake Village, Ark., on Tuesday af ternoon, two of the negroes being killed outright and one white man be ing wounded in the arm. Flood conditions in Los Angeles, Cal.. and vicinity. are the worst known in many years. A bri 1ge over the Los Angeles river fel on Mon day. carrying with it i1o Jhe rive- 12 to iz pers)ns. wo of whom w\-'re be 'ieved to be dro'wned. With the removal of the last four bodies from the Virginia mine. near .rimingham, on Tuesday, the total number of bodies recovered from the awful explosion of February 20 was swelled -o im. The fund which was raised for the relief of the widows and orphans by the disaster reached nearly $30,ooo. An official proclamation has been issued by General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, paying un stinted praise and tribute to congress for passing the battle flag return measure, and to President Roosevelt for his prompt signature. General Lee urges upon all parties, north and south, who have colors An their pos session to return them at once to the state capitols. Julius Stevens, a negro ing.risoned in jail at Longview, Texas'iharged with assault upon Carl Anderson at a saw mill, was shot to death on Tuesday in his cell by a mob. The mob entered the jail and forced the jailer to deliver the keys. The negro was called to the front of the cell and told of the mob's intention. He ask ed and received permission to write to his mother, returning to the cell door, where he fell with a 4-calibre pistol bullet through the heart. Reduced Rates to Florence. On account of meeting of the South Carolina Sunday School con vention. to be held at Florence. March 28 to 30th, inclusive, the C.. N. & L. railroad will sell tickets at the reduced rate of $5.25 from New berry. These tickets will be sold on the certificate plan, the purchaser to pay full fare to Florence and by pre senting the certificate (whicih will be furnished by your ticket agent) to ticket agent at Florence, who will sell you return tickets at reduced rate plus 25 cents. For further information write, J. WV. Denning, Agent. An automobile is rigid economy compared with a wife. Once in a while a boy knows enough not to know more than his father. A woman isn't half as afraid of a burglar's revolver as he is of her scream. It is a much better gi.ess .to be made a fool of by a woman than to think she is the one. "OUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. T;e strect railway -ystei in An ders 'n has bnccil completed and cars are now running on all the lines. A contract for Sa2.ooo has been signed for a new scho.-l building forl the cit%- of Columbia. t., be located On Thompson's green. Pe:itions asking the ordering of an election upon the question of voting out the dispensary are being circulat ed in Spartanburg. James Burgess. a mill watchman in Greenville, was run over and instant lv killed on the Reedy river trestle on Monday by a Southern railway tramn. Williani A. Retlau. of Buffalo. was in Columbia this week. on his way to Jacksonville. Fla.. to which point he is bound on f,ot. He had walked all the way from uffalo. The trip is being made as -he result of having lost an election wager. A bNdd burglary has bee. reported frim L.ancaster county. The resi dence of Mr. Lester Starnes, a few miles from the town of Lancaster, was entered and S21.90 in cash and his revolver were stolen from underl Mr. Starnes' pillow while he was asleep. The Piedmont Fair association, of Greenville. is to be organized at once with a capital stock of $i_,ooo. The purpose of the promoters is to es tablish a nermanent agricultural fair and pleasure park in the suburbs of Greenville, which will attract visitors at intervals each year. It is -eported from Greenville that e..tn mili preidents in 2nd around that city ha-:e '-"lard -at the ac Th I as C. Du,incan and others in UL,n in adcpting the ten-hour a day cedule wuld "ii-t he generally fol lowed in the up-country. There are five candidates in the race for mayor of Greenwood. as fol lows: Kenneth Baker. E. S. F. Giles, J. T. Simmons, F. M. Allen and W. Ii. Kerr. The primary will be held tldav. and the two candidates re eiving the highest number of votes in the primary will enter the regular election, to he held on April 13 The scretary of state has authoriz ed the Greenville and Knoxville rail ay company to amend its charter nd change i:s name. The company ow proposes to run to Greenwood, nd the name is to be changed to that f the Greenville, Greenwood and Knoxville railroad. The road has ,. een proposed for some time, and the ~xtension to Greenwood is a new de C elopment. E. D. Smith, of Magnolia, financial 8 agent of the Southern Cotton asso :iation and president of the South d arolina association, has been deliv- c ~ring addresses in Alabama this week. t Mr. Smith, in an interviewv given out d n Montgomery, said that his reports From Texas and Indian Territory in- a :Iicatedl :hat the reduction in these ~tats would be greater than 25 per HON. J. P. 4 well-known member has voluntarily writti S. C., newspaper, the He writ.e ahe Bebbitt Chendec E:te Gieon, had a terrible case many doctors had tried in vai writes, " and would cry and to use Rheumacide she Imp terrible disease. For Rheum praise it too highly. My wife ~drse what I have writtea, so sh Th sOnly one of thousauds ofh r covery that powerfaury CLEANSES TH TION and BUILDS UP THES EN~TIRE Wite BOBBITT CHEMICAL Co., Soldhb Gilder, Weeks & I Mr. J. C. Stanley. of Columbia. died 11m"st instantly from heart failure It the union station in Columbia :-n londay afternoon. ie was assi,ting lis daughter on a train when he sud lenly staggered and fell. Mr. Stan ey was the proprietor of Stanley's 'hina Hall, one of the oldest busi 1ess establishments of Columbia. A tramp, who was seen in Den nark on Saturday afternoon playing .he part of a mute, and who was Known to be under the influence of li :uor, was discovered on Sunday morning near the Seaboard track with his left hand and right leg rushed to a pulp. It is supposed he went under the car from the side for 4helter from :he rain and being stu pified by drink. or possibly overcome by sleep. he lay there undisturbed Intil the cars were shifted over him some time during the night. The tramp gave his name as Frank A. Brooks. of Richmond. He asserts that after the car wheels passed over him two men lifted him from the rack an(l left him there. Very Low Excursion Rates. Via the Southern railway to the Folowing points: Kansas City, Mo.--Sou:hern Bap :ist convention: May 7oth-17th, 1905. Rate one first class fare plus 5o cents For round trip. Tickets on sale May 7 to ii inclusive; final limit May a3d, 1905. St. Louis, Mo.-National Baptist Anniversary, May 16-24, 1905: Rate ne first class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 14 -i6. with final limit May 27th, 1905. Asheville. N. C.-South Atlantic issionary Conference, May 17-21st, !905. Rate one first class fare plus 5 cents for the round trip. Tickets on sale May 16. 17th: final limit May r \\'orth. Texas-Gencral As S-my it:.erii irvshyterian church 'rI 18-26th. 1905. Rate one first as fare pius $2.00 for round trip. fickets on sale May 15th, j6th. 17th: inal limit May 31st. 1905. Toronto. Ont.-International Sun lay School association, June 20-27, ,9o5. Rate one first class fare plus ;o cents for round trip. Tickets on ale June 19, 20, 22, 23. 1905; limit utne 3oth, 1905. Hot Springs, Va.-Southern Hard are Jobbers association June 6-9, 905. Rate one first class fare plus 5 cents for round trip. Tickets on ale June 3, 4. 5: final limit June 13th, Savannah, Ga.-National Travel rs Protective association of America. ay 16-23, 1905. Rate one first class are pis 50 cents for round trip. fickets on sale May 13-14:h; final imit May 26th, 1905. Sa;annah, Ga.-Fourth Annual 'ournament Southern Golf associa ion, May 9-13, 1905. Rate one first lass fare plus twenty-five cents for ound trip. Tickets on sale May 7, 9. 1905; limited May 15th, 1905. The Southern railway is the mos: irect line to all of the above points. peratifrg Pullman sleeping cars, high ack vestibule coaches, with superb ining car service. For detailed information apply to ny ticket agent this company, or R. WV. 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