Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Lees Interest Con densed Outside the State. The supreme court of the United States has held that portion f the Alaska code which provides for a jury of six men is unconstitutional. The three monuments at Appo mattox. Va.. erected to conimemo rate the valor of North Carolina troops in the war for southern inde pendence, were unveiled on -Monday. The trial of Nan Patterson on the charge of killing Caesar Young. which was to have been begun in the court of general sessions in New York on Monday. was postponed for one week upon request of the prosecution. J. J. C. Howard. a representative in the Kentucky legislature from the seventy-first district, was shot and killed on Monday in a saloon in Clay county by Tilford Benge. The men had quarreled. Abou: 400 indictments charging the Standard Oil company with failure to take out peddlers' license, as re quired by the Kentucky statutes, were returned by the Franklin county. Ky., grand jury on Tuesday. Stewart Campion, manager of a plantation near Tuscaloosa, Ala.. was shot and kiiled while sitting before a fire -olding his baby. The shot was fired through a window. The baby was slightly wounded. Two negro laborers have been arrested. But for the timely arrival of a heavy downpour of rain on Tuesday afternoon, Jacksontown, a colored suburb of Lynchburg, Va.. would have been partially wiped out by a forest fire, which was started by a locomo tive. Two negro children were burned to death in a house at Orlando, Fla., this week. The father has not been able to give a satisfactory account of his whereabouts at the time and has been arrested. The house was in sured for $i.ooo. An explosion of dynamite in Bloss b,:rg. Ala.. on Tuesday, wrecked the houses of a white miner and a color ed rnin-r, both non-union men. The white man's io-year-old daughter was killed and two other children in the same family were badly hurt. A special from Springfield, Ark. says it is reported there t:hat Marquis Meadam has made a dea .h-bed con fession to the murder several years ago of Dr. C. C. Chant'.ess, at Cen ter Ridge, for which Alexander Brinkley was hanged at Merrilton. The home of Geo. T. Maull, in, Clarksburg, W. Va., was entirely de stroyed by fire on Tuesday, and four * of his children were burned to death. The parents, with a fifth child, were barely in time to escape from the burning building. The charred bod ies of the four children, were recov ered. A. D. Pierson, a leading wholesale merchant of Scranton. Pa., sent two bullets into his head on Monday while a prisoner in the county jail. Pierson was arrested a short time ago charged with enticing young Polish girls into his store for improper pur poses. He was about 60 years of age and leaves several grown children. Chaplain Bradford, of the Illinois house of reoresentatives, at the open ing of the legislature's daily session on Tuesday. offered a prayer for the safety of F'wsident Roosevelt on the president's hunting rtip through thec west and southw:est. He drew a pic ture of the dangers into which the president was going and prayed for his safe return. Frank M. Payne, a prominent mer chant at Lone Oak, Va., was shot and dangerously wounded on Sunday by Bruce Land, of Irisburg. Land met Payne in the public road and demand ed an apology in connection with some old trouble, which Payne re fused to make It was poposed to fight it cut, but Land who was physi cally the weaker man, proposed that they make it a duel. Land was un hurt. Nothing gives a woman's religion such a jolt as the suggestion that she got the husband heaven really intend ed for her. "OUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Benjamin F. Ferguson. pre-ident o the Santee River Cypress Lumbe company. of Ferguson, S. C., died thi week at his home in Chicago. The petition for an election to de cide the formation of Heyward coun ty is a'gain before Governor Heyward There has been some change in th proposed formation of the county. Greenwood has been notified tha she is entitled to free mail deliverN the only requisite being that the streets be named and the house numbered. John King. James Johnson and 1 R. Rabens were found guilty in th United States court in Charlestoi this week of conspiracy to rob an robberv of the postoffice at Latta. Mrs. J. S. Glass, of Cokesbury'.-, suS tained serious and possibly fatal in juries several days ago by fallin! over the bed springs. which had bee: taken off the bed without her knowl edge and placed a: the door. It is reported from Rock Hill ,ha e a very general complain among the cottoi. mills of that whol section -of country as to the scarcit; of labor. It is said that this has be come so acute in Rock Hill that th mis have recently not been able t run all their machinery. The tag tax receipts this yea promise to break all previous record; So far the amount received by th state treasurer is $109,345.26. agains $99,815.15 for t1e same date last yeai The total amount received last yea was $118,974.15. Of the amount re ceived this year $104,000 has alread: been turned over to Clemson college Law Abernathy Kill Coyote. A dispatch from Lawton, 0. T., un der date of April i. says: President Roosevelt has seen Johi Abernathy. the well known wol catcher, in his unique way kill a co vote. Abernathy's favorite dog cap tured the first wolf in the chase. Aber nathv leaped from his horse and witl heavily gloved hands seized the pros trated animal's jaws, lifting it in hi arms and smilingly delivered it to th, president, who, 40 feet away, had dis mounted anud walked to Abernathy' side. T.hat the president is enjoying ever: hour of his recreation is evidenced b: the fact that he has expressed a de sire to remain in the pasture until Sat urday evening, thus extending hi allotted time two days. MR. JONES' PLATFORM. His Position On The Various Ques tions Now Before The People of - This State. Mr. A. C. Jones, who is a candidat< for governor in the campaign of 1906 has issued the following statemeni setting forth his platform: To the Democracy of South Caro line:-Having announced myself as candidate for governor, and as I an expecting to make the canvass in th< democratic primary next year. I fee that it is due the people, who wvil have the right to take part in tha election, that they should know m3 position in reference to the issues which are likely to be discussed ir that campaign. I am in favor of a primary electior for the nomination of all state and ounty officers, and that the candi dates for state offices be required tc make a thorough canvass, appearims in all the counties; and that the state democratic executive committee, witi the assistance of the different countI chairmen, arrange for the time and place of meetings and throw around the primary all the safeguards neces sary to secure a fair election; thus enabling the white people of the stat< to settle their differences among themselves and to continue in con tol, the democratic party, the partl f the people. I favor giving the peo pie a conservative, economical, busi ness-like administration, conducted upon the same principles that a suc cessful farmer would manage his farm a merchant his store, a banker his bank, a mechanic his shop, or a cot* ton mill president his mil1; and alor,g such lines as will promote the mateQr ial prosperity of every worthy private that our people in all sections of South Carolina enjoy every advantage in freight and transportation facilities that are low cnjoyed by thC citizens of adjoining sta:es. I favor encour aging emigratirn and the investment I-,r capitalists from outside the state by guaranteeing to them equal righ:s r before the law. I favor encouraging our own people to organize small banks: to supply them with money - for promoting local enterprises and ~ the cultivation of their farms, as a better plan than the present credit I system in the state. I favor a liberal support of the public schools and t such appropriations as may be neces sarv to increase the usefulness of the colleges of the state. I favor Chris 5 tian educa:ion. and heartily endorse the work which has been accomplish ed and is now being done by our e denominational colleges. To them, and the Christian men and women who have been educated by them, are due much for the foundation upon which we have erected our present common school education system. I favor a state board of arbitration to settle all differences that may arise between labor and capital. that the rights of each may be respected and t protected. I am opposed to class leg t islation and the enactment of any e laws that are not for the general good . of the people and the party. I am op . posed to collecting a dollar of taxes 1 from :he people that is not necessary ) to pay the actual expenses of the gov ernment economically administered. r I am opposed to .allowing lobbyists the privileges of the floor in the sen c ate and house during the sessions of t the general assembly. I am opposed . to the dispensary law, because it is r undemocratic in principle, and has - done more to injure temperance and to corrupt the morals of the people of the state than all other influences I combined. The leaders of the d -no cratic party in 1892 promised the --o hibition democrats of the state that if a majority voting in that election, voted for prohibition, they would pass f a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a - beverage. The people voting on this question carried the state by over ten thousand majority, and the party fail ed to keep the pledge they had made; but instead gave them the dispensary as a step towards prohibition, which began its reign by practically con fiscating the property of individuals: and nderthe guise of hypocricy, en teduon a business, which they had declared by their actions, it was rwrong for the individual to continue; and which has resulted in sowing dis cord and strife and'causing bloodshed throughout the state; and in this busi ness they have encouraged the sale of liquors and 'aken from the pockets of the people millions of dollars (more than three million dollars last year). and given them worse than nothing in return; in fact, the money thus taken should have gone to buy bread for the children to eat and clothes for them to wear, and it still continues to blight everything that is good that it touches. Personally, I am opposed to the manufacture and sale of intoxicating licuors as a bev erage in any form, but as a democrat, recognizing the right of the demo cratic voters of the state to decide all questions for themselves, I would apsk that the matter be referred back to the state and let them decide, after reviewing its history and the injury it has done, whether it shall continue or not. I would like to see every dis pensary in the state closed before the next election, and the Christian peo pe of the state controlling the politics of the state, instead of the dispensary political machine, which now attempts to dictate what shall be the laws and who shall fill the state and county offices. If I am honored by you with the nomination, I pledge myself to gwe you the benefits of more than twenty years successful business experience, which has brought me into contact with the people of all parts of the state and enabled me to study their wants. Having devoted my life to the democratic party, the state, and the best interests of the people; if elected, I would enter upon the die tharge of the duties devolving upon me, firmly relying upon Him who holds the destinies of nations in His hands, to aid me in fulfilling t-he pledges I have made to render you faithful service. Sincerely. A. C. Tnnes. Wagon Talk. Dont vuu think it is about time to ge: you a new wagon before that old one breaks down at a time when you need it most. Better come now and get one from us. We sell the right kind, strong and durable. Made for use on roads where they don't use road machir.ry. Our prices are right too. Perhaps it is a buggy,you want. Well we have them too. Nice, sty lish vehicles. See and price them be fore vou buy. You won't miss it if you buy from us. Geo. 0, Davennort. TO THE CREDITORS OF H. V. TAYLOR. Newberry, S. C., April 6th, 1905. Mr. H. V. 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C., Newberry, S. C. N AND SEE 4 >pping tour come here first. unnecessary steps and much 'ou want then look elsewhere. at wedo wish you to see our 11 be to your advantage in kre the final rush begins. JG STORE.