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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Governor Fraz;er has been elected United States senator from Tennes see, to succeed :he late Senator Wm. B. Bate. Alton B. Parker has given out the statement that he will not consider any proposition to return to the bench of New York. Eight or nine lives were lost, a number of houses -ere destroyed and other property was damaged by a cy clone which swept across the south ern part of Randolph county, Ala., this week. A freight train on the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern was wrecked near Jellico Junction. Tenn., on Tues day. The engineer and fireman were caught beneath the engine and roast ed to death. Andrew M. Griscom, of Philadel phia, who disappeared from Philadel phia several weeks ago and was sup posed to be in Europe. committed sui cide on March 19 by jumping over board at sea from the steamer Min netonka. The consolidation of the Southern Cotton association and the National Cotton association has been announc ed. ~The National has been doing work in Texas on lines similar to those of the Southern. From now on the work will be carried on by the Southern association. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Texas, says that Thomas Hayes shot and mortatlly wounded Charles Mor gan, instantly killed Roy Bess, then returnel home and told his young wife what he had done, after which he locked himself in a closet and blew out his brains. The cause of the trag edy is unknown. By the explosion of a boiler in the large shoe manufacturing establish ment of the R. B. Grover company, in Brockton. Mass.. on Monday night, probably one hundred persons lost their lives, and it seems probable that but fourteen bodies will be buri ed with their identity positively es tablished. The explosion was im mediately followed by fire, which consumed the structure. There we re many daring deeds of heroism a.nd self-sacrifice. Congregationai ministers repre s.enting Boston and various sections of New England have forwarded to the American board of commission ers for foreign missions a protest against the acceptance by the board of $roo,ooo from oJhn D. Rockefeller. on the ground that the Standard Oil company, of which Mr. Rockefeller is head, "stands before the public under repeated and recent indictments in specific terms for methods which are morally iniquitous." "OUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Two negroes, one of whom had small-pox, escaped from the Marion jail on Monday night. Mr. James L. Tribble, one of the best known lawyers of the state, died at his home in Anderson at an early hour on Tuesday morning. It is reported from Spartanburg that the sale of tickets to the May Music festival at Converse college has broken all records for the same period so far. Charlie McLindon, colored, was shot and killed at Dillon on Monday afternoon by Cleve Atkinson, white. There had been bad feeling between the parties for some weeks. The building of the Char leston and Summerville electric railway seems now definitely assured, a bond for $1,ooo,o00 having been filed to secure the issue of bonds. Mrs. Louise Rainey and Mr. John Swaney, of Charlotte, were married in Rock Hill on Sunday. The couple drove the distance of 25 miles to Rock Hill, and after the wedding started to drive back, making a drive of 50 milIes to bring about their union. A real estate and improvement -o-an has been organized in ratesburg t- hande real e .tate and to develop the natural resources of the C um-.mltY. One of the first steps will be the erection, ()I an ther :ourist hotel at a cost (f about $25.000. Furman universitv. at Greenville. is to have a Carnegie library. The un versitv is enabled to take advantage of Mr. Carnegie'z generosity through the handsome gift of $25.000 from a South Carolina friend. The name of this friend has not been disclosed. At the invitation of President Pell, of Converse college,. and President Snyder, of Wofford college. Mr. Robert C. Odgen and his party of northern educators who will attend the Southern Educational conference in Columbia will visit Spartanburg on Saturday. April 29. The northerners will go to Greenville from Columbia on the night of April 28. F. V. McDonald. a Scotch immi grant. who has bought a farm in- the lower part of Richland county and settled there, was held up by two negroes near his home late Monday night and beaten and robbed. The negroes have the idea. he thinks, that the immigrants will come here and "run them away," as he expressed it. The Meanest of All. Warrior (Ala..) Breeze. There is probably no place on earth better than a country newspa per office to learn how many kinds of people there are. Some get huffy if a statement is sent, others will not pay until they receive a statement. Some will pay without a statement and others won't pay whether a state ment is sent or not. Some thought they owed more and some thought they didn't owe so much. Some say they couldn't get along without the paper, and others say it 'don't amount to much. But the meanest, scrub b.et in the list is the man who takes it until he is shut off for nonpayment and then spends all his time explain ing how he used to take "the thing" but stopped because it was "no 'count." HON. J. P. well-known membe -has voluntarily wri S. C., newspaper, th He writes the Bobbitt Chen K[ate Gibson, had a terrible cas many doctors had tried i writes. " and would cry and to use Rheumnacide she iri S terrible disease. For Rhet praise it toe highly. My wi sdrewhat I hare written, se Th sonly one of thousands of a covery that powerfully CLEANSES TEl TION and BUILDS UP THE ENTItl Write BOBBITT CHEMICAL CC Sold by Gilder, Weeks & Just a OF Y Time, I We wish to call your a Spring and Summer Gc A dollar expended with us will do We offer the trade our best efforts est. The prices the lowest for the We offer some dainty Mert..erized' n price from roc. to Soc. yd. We have nice line Knickerbock St imities, Ducks, DeLaines and othei re dreams for waists or dresses. Sj iverside Plaids, Southern Silks, Ch Our Shoes are built to wear. Our sell Groceries. Get prices and see st S. S. Bli P'rossnerd Very Low Excursion Rates. Via the Southern railway to the following points: Kansas City, Mo.-Southern Bap tist convention: May Ioth-17th, 1905. Rate one first class fare plus 5o cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 7 to Ii inclusive; final limit May 23d. 1905. St. Louis. Mo.-National Baptist Anniversary. May 16-24, 1905: Rate one first class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 14 j5--6, with final limit May 27th, 1905. Asheville. N. C.-South Atlantic Missionary Conference, May 17-21St, i9o5. Rate one first class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. Tickets on sale May 16, 17th; final limit May 23d. 1905. Fort Worth, Texas-General As sembly Southern Presbyterian church May 18-26th. i9o5. Rate one first class fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Tickets on sale May i5th, 16th, 17th; final limit May 31st, 1905. Toronto. Ont.-International Sun day School association, June 20-27, .90;. Rate one first class fare plus go cents for round trip. Tickets on sale June 19, 20, 22, 23. 1905; limit June 30th. 1905. Hot Springs. Va.-Southern Hard ware Jobbers association June 6-9, 1905. Rate one first class farL plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale June 3. 4. 5: final limit June 13th. Savannah, Ga.-National Travel ers Protective association of America, May 16-23. 1905. Rate one first class fare plus 5o cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 13-14th; final limit May 26th, 1905. Saannah, Ga.-Fourth Annual Tournament Southern Golf associa tion. May 9-13. 1905. Rate one first class fare plus twenty-five cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 7, 8. 9. 1905; limited May i;th, 1905. The Southern railway is the most direct line to all of the above points, operating Pullman sleeping cars, high back vestibule coaches, with superb dining car service. For detailed information apply to any ticket agent this company, or R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. GIBsoN, of Bennettsville, S. C., a r of the South Carolina Legislature, ~ten to " The Field," the Conway, highest possible praise of ical Co., sept. 8, 1904, that his dauthter, Mis eof Rheumatism that all other medicines and ia to cure. "She could not walk a step," he Iscream from pain. 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