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'r e w NO 61 A s. VOL. XLII. NO. 61 NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY MAY 1905.1 TWICE A WEEK. S1.50 A YEAR ERSKINE'S MAN VICTOR. R. L. Patrick Wins in Oratorical con test.. S. E. Boney, the Furman Representative, Takes Sec ond Place. Areenwood. April 28.-Greenwoo ihas today been in the hands of th college boys and girls and this ha been particularly a students' day o Crowds of visitors thronged thi streets all day, and college boys gay ly floating their respective color! have been enjoying the hospitaliti which the city of Greenwood nevei -ails to accord. Tht seventh annual inter-collegiat< oratorical contest was held tonight ir the auditorium of the Lander Col lege, before the largest crowd whict hnas ever gathered at a similar con test in the city of Greenwood. The large auditorium being taxec to its utmost, hundreds were turned away. The representatives of sever institutions strove earnestly to car ry off the palm of victory and the fo rensic battle has -been recorded by those who are capable of judging as the best yet held. It remained for R. L. Patrick, ol Erskine, to carry first honors and S. E. Boney, of Furman, the second, both making masterful speeches. The people of Greenwood each year look forward wit1h much pleasure -to the meeting of the State Inter-Col iegiatc Oratorical association, which is comoosed of Clemson. Erskine, Wofford, Furman. the Citadel, Pres byterian college of South Carolina and Newberry colleges. The hospitality for which the lit tle city is so well known was lived up to. The various representatives were entertained royally at the Oregon hotel along with the judges and mem H.A Our sales week, as bef the trading p + In this der 0 + biggest and c + Stores of S.C to us that h ~*It's business * special prices * purchasing ~ 4! * yard, 5 yards 4s 4 1 lot Black Dress Goods, * 1 lot Black Dress Goods .* 1 lot Black Pau-de-Soie, * I lot colored Dress Good * I lot of Persian Lawns I lot -Whiteland colored 0 1 lot India Linen Organdy Shoes and Slippers, solid bers of tih'e executive committee of the association. The Hon M. F. An sel. of Greenville. the Rev. S. M. Smith. of Columbia, and the Hon. T. S. Sease. of Spartanburg, composed the committee. L. W. Courtney, president of the association. presided. The meeting e was opened with prayer by Dr. W. G. s Neville. The address of welcome on f behalf of Greenwood was delivered by W. H. Nicholson, who spoke of the pleasure the people of this city fad in entertaining the association. Prof. kV. M. Steele o-f Furman, re sponded on behalf of the association, and sung loud the praises of Green wood. The contestants and their subjects were: L. E. Boykin. Clemson col lege, "The Majesty of the Law;" M. B. Pierce, Wofford college, "A Leader from the South;" R. W. Frick, of Newberry college, "God's Architects;" R. L. Patrick, Erskine college, "The Destiny of Democracy:" J. H. Clark, Presbyterian college of South Caro lina. "A Voice of the Tw.entieth Cen tury:' J. B. Hodges. The Citadel. 'The Salvation of the New South Higher Education." and S. E. Boney. Furman University. "Is the Poet Performing Life's Highest Mission?" The speeches were interspersed with music by the Clemson college band and selections by the Lander college Vocal Classes, which added very ma terially to the occasion. The floral tributes were very beautiful and plen tiful. some of the young orators be ing almost drowned in flowers. South Carolina college was admit ted into the association this afternoon t at a meeting of the executive com- I mittee and will be represented next a year. This should be very gratifying t to the many alumni of Carolina who i have wished to see her admitted into V the association. s AR & still Increase in D ore, we will exert i ublic to visit our si MILLINERY! I ~artment is wher< heapest Stores of] ,and then see the: ome talent and ri we want, and if y Swill be made. 'A $2.50 in cash we to each customer BIacI( On value $1.25 our price, 79 cer ,value 49 cents our price, 24 cer value $1.65 our price 89c. the ys s, value 35 cents our price 39 cer , value 39 cents our price, 23 cen rgandv value 25c. our price, 1 1 1 value 12 1-2 cents our price, 7 1-1 leather, priced right. IRI Thea FEARFUL WRECK OF OGDEN'S SPECIAL TRAIN NARROW ESCAPE OF MOST OF THE EDUCATORS. Magnificent Train De Luxe knocked to Atoms-Four Killed and Seven Persons More or Less In jured, News and Courier. Greenville. April 29.-An awful wreck near Greenville suddenly and rudely ended the pleasant plans of Mr. Robert C. Ogden for his distin guished guests. When the Confer ence for Education ended its work at Colkimbia Mr. Ogden !had about one hundred of his friends. men and wo men. prominent in the educational d business world. and conspicuous T)hiina-thropy and study, start out on a piensure rip. It was intended visit Greenvill. and Spartanburg. aind then go to, Biltmore and Rich ! Pd. Greensboro. Charlotte. Old Pu':,t Comfort and other places. Greenville was to have been the first point of entertainment and pleasure. but instead it was one of fright and zrief. The special train in which Mr. ogden and his friends left Columbia xas a little late. and was approach ng Greenville nearly on time. On he side track near Greenville the fast rain was passed and the special. with ts ten heavy Pullman cars, was ounding a curve, just within a stone's brow of the Fertilizer Factory, when ngineer Hunter saw a freight train .head of him on the main line. He hrew on his brakes and jumped, but t was too late. The splendid train wrhich tire Pennsylvania Railroad had ent out, the finest it could assemble, HA. ry Goods, Milline every effort to r Lore. AlLIINERY! L 3 we worry and < alewberry that ci; ir trade drifting t ght treatment is ou will come to ti ednesday morn will sell Andrc ~ss Goods ani ts I1 Iot Black Dress Goods Lts. 1 Jot 36 inch Black Taffe Lrd. 1 lot Jap Silks, all colors Lts. I lot white and colored v~ ts. I lot of Persian Lawns, va 2c. I lot India Linen Organd) 2 c. I lot colored Organdy a prices 10Oc our price Right Price Stor went crashing into the rear end of i the freight train. In an instant flames burst forth from the wreckage. There. was no screaming and no crying, but amazement and consternation. Those who were up rushed to the work of 1 rescue. and when long hours after I the rescures had ceased their toil, this was the list of fatalities: List of Killed. Charles M. Cope, brakeman, from Columbia, white. John Little. colored, waiter on di- a ner St. James. t J. F. Hayne. colored. formerly I from Charleston, waiter on car St. i James. W. XV. Cummings. colored, cook on r car S:. James. d Names of Injured. f Xondcd: Prof Henry W. Farnam, s of Yale University, arm broken and head badly cut. c Mrs. Henry V. Farnam. head and arm badly bruised. Dr. Julius D. Dreher. of Washing- t ton, hea(. cut. t Editor St. C}air McKelway. of b Brooklyn,. back and shoulder bruised. Mr. Robert M. Ogden, secretary to Mr. Robert C. Ogden. hand badly cut and head severely bruised. T Mrs. J. G. Thorpe. Cambridge, a Mass., head cut. i Bishop McVickar. of R-hode Island. bruised by jar. All of the foregoing of Mr. Ogden's J party. i James Hunter. engineer on Ogden tf train, leg and arm broken. c Walter Kinshaw, electrician on C train, ear and 'head seveiely cut. st Trainmaster Maxwell, bruised and in hand cut. tl Conductor Ed. Acker. bruised. m John F. McCoy, agent of Pennsyl vania Railroad, head severely cut. R. S. Mull, colored cook on St.James w arm badly cut. w [I R D ry Shoes and Slir nake it to the bes1 IILLINERY! :ut the profit of th aim to underselh the right price st still in demand in e right price stor4 ing 9 a. m. the fir scoggin Bleachin IS'ilks. ,value 85 cents our price, 49 cer ta Silk, warranted values $1.50 o value 85 cents our price 39 cer rash goods, our price 39 cents th lue 25 cents our price 13 1-2 cen r 15 cents our price 9 cents. rid Muslin, Newberry's Biggest a 5c. S4 V I Geo. Williams, waiter on car Wal lorf. bruised and scarred. Conductor Wilcox. of diner St. fames. bruised. There were several of the -rew of lie two dining cars, whose faces were ;cratched and bruised. but they were ot seriouily hurt. The Scene of the Wreck. If any one had been asked an in tant after the crash came how many ad been killed he would have looked .t the mound of wreck and ruins piled, hree cars high, then he would have een struck wh:en th' ;iry of consum rig flames, and pron:?tly no doubt ould have been the reply that no ian or woman couMd have escaped eath. But God's providence inter !red, for in a moment after the hock there was a crashing of glasses, nd one by one passengers and train rew ran out into the field and then ,icre came others with blood stream 1g down their faces, their clothing >rn and their hair disheveled. How ley escaped they do not quite know, Lit it is a blessing that they are here. ihen the heavy special train crashed ito the freight train in its path the >comotive careened over to the side. he tender half way jumped the track id then tip on this base there piled rst the joint baggage and club car Up on this went the diner "St imes" only to crush the backbone it of t'he under Pullman car, and ten on the wreckage of the baggage Lr piled the dining car "Waldorf." lose behind the second diner, but ill on the track, was of the first sleep g cars, the "Perrilla" and back of is was a chain of Pullman apart ent cars, in which t'h! party slept. The Wonderful Escape. No one in any of the sleeping cars as hurt, and it is a miracle that they ere not but greater is the wonder 0 5Si ipers. This * t interest of 0 .eso-call ed * all Millinery * ore is proof * 0 Newberry. + 0 a this week, + st50Oladies * g lcent the* its. ur price, 79 cents. 0 ts. Le yard. ts the yard. .nd cheapest Store's I D,I