Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Ftrmer Sulerisor Speegie, of e Greenville county. is ill at liender- a sourille. N. C.. and will not be re qu red t.o come to Grenville at pres en,. l.st e.an'tTh :anld Kay Robinson sentencel t , ve years in the n- 1 itentiary fo r the killing of yr tle B ur in upper Greenville. l e has been1 arreSted at Tn' . N. C.. charged with the mur S . Pi'Inby at Glassy Moun e> llJ epeer. 1896. Sumey wCa acquitted in I =: , Ilt rder of Oscar y v\a- ):It 132 = 11 P4 Ituv }actt \'e: e -~ ~ :1) i fr .=I11 ,"t 20 cent a This wa- the biggest break i . . ket has had in several years. R. L. and C. E. Graham. ui Green ave easel fr 18 months the :i. C otton Mill at Goldvile In c.;:.. Y.. Varn be lan \es l;. the negru charged *i ;ttemp1t tc co,lmmitt rape il Sum e. aS tr:e( at -pecial term o court md3 i"ec :_ ;o years in the pen t -' io.J. has been e lect rd manager of the Columbia street ral:.av to succeed P. 1. Welles, who bcc:mes manager of the Union and Gl:a Sprtl:gs raiway. C , A. B. Andrews of Raleigh, N. C.. irst vice-president of the South -err railway. has been elected presi dent of the Blue Ridge railroad to succeed the late 1. C. Beatty. The company's offices will be removed from Greenville to Anderson. An attempt to poison the tamily of Mrs. J. A. Ferguson near Clinton by putting poison in a well has been discovered. Several members of the family and household were made ill but they have recovered. A negrc bo-, named Jake Carwile is suspecte( :an( is being searched for. I. A. Pride, commercial agent of th Seaboard Air Line at Columbia. r said to be going to be appointed as sistant general passenger agent of th Seaboard Air Line with headquarter ,at Atlanta. The supreme court has granted new trial to Earle Rochester, th Oconee county farmer, sentenced b Spccial Judge McCullough to han for the murder of WValter Mills wit whom Roshester quarreled oecause< the killing of the latter's hogs whi< :had gotten into Mills' wheat field. The dispensary issue caused qui ~a lively episode in the district confe ence of the Methodist church at B< ton. Thursday afternoon. The d -C r was rapp)ed good and har and -come preachers went so tar to ~av how the members of th churches stood on' the issue. Senal La hner. although not a member cofierence, asked the priviledge speaking. He said that he would w the wxhole business out of the st if iae had the power. but thought it place: of the ministers of the gos to preach the gospel and not d political matters into the chu Then some minister attacked the ator's position. and there was a Iin dilscussion until a word from Bis Duncan ended it. Funrther investigation of 'the su: visor' office oi Greenville rev more startling state of affairs. It bet :n made public that Ex-Superv Speegie received S1.200 for work < byV 'e chainganig. which he dep edl t his personal account. There been1 a lit of county proCety sol so. h:.t :here is n:. reco~rd mad thle boks T o the b)oilet explo,ion cn the boa; Benminlgt(n. ~which 0cci Friday, 49 men were killed an were wounded. some of whom die:. The vesse was lying in Die2go harbor, California, wher di.taster occurred. Lieut. N. K. Lry, a native of Columbia was 1 rLiemn. Victor Blue, also a nati this state. was saved from inju: havmrg been taken to a hospiti da~. before with appendicitis. G KTir.x, hospital attendant, and ti- e of Laurens was also killed. wCee 250 men aboard the ship the accident occurred and man: were hurled or- forced to jum1 the sea by the terrific exp ;vc:lite a rt of the deck. ;ems of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the World. .\rrests are expected soon in the )!tonl leak case in the department o Tricnltture. In Shanghai there is a belief that" 1e Chinese boycott of :\mericn rt ;o(s will be shortlived. G!vrniet experts are s:ndyin i he diamond-back terrapin at the nited States experimental farm on he Ch. ptantk river. Ml d.il The Russian Zemsto\ Congre S assed restduti' ns againt: officials i(lati,,n uf private and social rights. Two hundred persons (lied(l during he week in New York from the h)t .pell. which was broken yesterday. The 'anamia canal c' mmi s ion Ia )-i r id, 17n1 Supll ing '.000 . 0ac a Italian an d C h in ese lab o r r,,r work in the canal. lr . Ernestine l;erk killed her cell ntpaniln. Mrs. ALar I.arkins. in an insanie asylum at Traverse City, Mich. The body of General Blacknar. late cummander-in-chlel of the Grand Army of the Republic, left Chicago for IB(ston. 4-;o t' n5 of dynanite will be ex pio(ledl in tl hiarbo'r of F'ortsmoul, N. HI.. in the \VIellng and dleepenIllg hl)peratl(Ans. Th' e town "f Gcorg"etown, Indiana, wa:. abni'st wanled away by a cloud rst. The w\ater \as :hree teet in the main street of the town. How ever, no lives are reported lost. Yellow fever has been discovered n Ne Orleans by the Mobile phy si ians sent there to investigate. Mo bile has established quarantine against New Orleans. The jury in the case of Congress man Williamson, who with others was tried in Portland, Ore.. for com licity in land frauds, disagreed after being out 46 hours. This is the same case in which Senator Mitchell was convicted a short time ago. . The striking teamsters of Chicago have called off the strike, but it is I said that hardly a fourth can get back their jobs, which have been filled by others. s Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, will ad - dress the Georgia League of Munic e ipalities at Mz;con, August 16. s The city National Bank of Kan sas City has closed its doors, due tc a thhe Devlin failure a few weeks ago. e Sam Green, a 16-year old negrc y boy, was shot in his cell at Nev gBraunfels, Tex., for-assault on a four h year old child. Reports from various cities show :h that hundreds of persons died fror1 the heat and that there were numer te ouis prostrations. r J. Fraise Richard charges thati I ohn HyIde's division of the censu s in 1900 government figures were gi' d en out wrongfully. A statute to Ensign Worth Bagle eir who wa killed in the Spanish-Amer :or can war, to cost $4,0o0, will be erec of ed soon at Raleigh, N. C. f Fred Montgomery, a waiter ipe Sandwitch, Ont., is dying from ate wound in his heart, inflicted by a h the pin by a woman. e The Chinese boycott has been I ray gun against American goods. TI *ch- Chiese merchants are mamifesti en- much interest in the movement. rly Near Callman, Mass., Charlie M hop sey had a quarrel with his swe heart, Miss Brown, and shot her per- the head, inflicting a wound fr eal which she will probably die. as The Balfour government was -isor feated in the house of commons b lone majority of three votes. It is ha osi- l j vlikely that the governrnent will hassign at once. d al- Judge Pritchard at Asheville e n refused to appoint a receiver for South Carolina and Georgia Raih gu- now being operated by the So irr err. A petition to this effect was d 5 by H. H. Cumming. ill Governor Higgins has called or San New York legislature, now in Sthe sion, to investigate the Eupita Per- affairs. All insurance compam1es tilled. ing business in that state will b ve of cluded in the investigation. ry by The books of the Town Topic Il the are to be closely examined in s eo. F. as they deal with the book for v aa na-iCharles H. Ahle is said to hay There licited subscriptions under al whhen threats of blackmail. e' men Jack Donnelly. manager for Sinto Grosvenor, of New York, prot osioni.n,the award in the four-in-hand1 +a tantie City Horse Shos clines Passes--Anr_uals Are Still -on Numerous. A cur zecretar: Bonaparte-s is not the Iv cab:iet p+cket wherein no rail ad passes are to be found. An- bea lncement fr~o the navy depart ent that he hal curte,nsl de ied (tfers if the attractive little tei rds. which fit nicely int leather aile cases. t~ be had at any the a:her st~res in tw in. has made hi= titnde pr,ninient. Mr. Bonaparte. he sure. declined in far mire grace i terms tihan (lid representative tri aker. he radical Br' ,klyn member. c,,iipl, year- av. when a railr,-,ad c"X ,rw\ar(de,ilihim an l: ? 1: - :a(le puic ,). r - e1 i ll nih ch ;h ec raiirad hit indicates that his re- i sal was an entirely p~lite "ne. which -:1 Wnld not have given Offence. There are other men around presi- i1 lent R,osevelt's cabinet table who h ave not accepted courtesies from the a ailroads. and are not doing so now. t here are. also. cabinet members who a re traveling on passes. One holder ti if a port foli~ said yestrday that ne tad steadfastly <lecline( these tavors ver since he entered the cabinet. but id not wish ti aivertise his dleclina-i tion to the wi"rld. Cabinet nembers travel on public business. as a rule. in which case, of course. they are entit- i led to reimbur-eIent from the gcv ernment. They also travel a (leal on their private account. TO ,0ome of thleml. not m1en1 of large means. the use of railroad pass es would be a help financially. in view of the meager salaries that cabi net officers are paid. The practice of sending annuals to government officials is observed by the railroads to a limited extent. In some cases these are sent on the ini tiative of the railroads. but not al ways. As the capital is located in the eastern part of the country, the proffers of transportation are more numerous from railroads running east of the Allegh.enies than elsewhere. But they also come from railroads running through the states in which cabinet officers reside. It goes with out saying that if a cabinet officer should ask for transportation he would receive it promptly. There is supposed to prevail a somewhat similar rule with reference -Ito United States senators. And yet there are men in the senate, just as there are men in the cabinet, who, in Straveling, walk up to the ticket office -and put down good money for theni tickets just as the average citizer must do. It is not improbable tha itteen or twenty such men could b' tound in the senate, perhaps more On the other hand there are man: enators who have a card case fille' w1th annual passes. especially c troads passing through their respec tive states and on to WVashington. at The percentage of members of thi a house holding annual passes is muc Ltt-Ismaller. There, as in the senate, small contingent refuse to accept fr< -e-transportationl because of their ofi he cial position.~ A few hold annua ng over big railroad systems. But large proportion of the members as-the house who ride on the railroa et without paying do so on trip passe n A member of the house can gent ally secure those desirable slips of ~ Iper for the asking, not only for hi: d e- self, but for his family. Some oft v a more obscure members. possessi rdd but lit-tle influence, can get pas re only for themselves. They have pay for their families. Some rece has passes for their clerks and mess the gers: others do not. It is well und vay, stood in congressional circles t uth--sonie roads are more generous v Filed such fav' rs than o:hers. Senat have to worry about such things the tie if at all, but the topid of pa see--iis a very interesting one to n ble's members of the national house do- year around. in- In the departments generally am inthe subordinates of cabinet offi Co the possession of passes dep faar'much upon the importance of th< hichhich ial. It is safe to say that a I so-proortonof the assistant sec> egged ries can travel free if they cl Few of them do pay for their ti Mrsrs portation. Some are offered an1 estted by certain railroads; some only emstrip passes, secured by request. :as farther down the line of official s nis raIroad are w lien traveling " ma his own business or for pleasure. der -ear or so ago there was quite a wo tailment of these privileges among shi ernmen: )ficials, but the restric- the i ha\ e apparently been discontin- the and it was only a few weeks ago c: t 'me railroad official, testifying ,n: 're the -senate inter-state corn-m ree co mlittee. declared that the tr: eptance 'f passes was general ar' )ng government oficials. I Ie add- ta that i- wa; n wv''ider. as the pre-z- an it. ;enat'rs and others high in au- m vrity. Ser the examl)le. p. ince he rettlnrt'ed fr I his western n p. it has been stated that President ,';...velt :i paying his 'wi : raveli n r 1eie \whetnever he leave- \ash- :1: i( 1 1 :(\ ini I' i 1( al train. i i(I~ ' ( i'~ br : (ie-e:tui.Mr. SeVlt i the las i\'" "r three 'mh ,ia< made a )ii h"le in his iart v. 'ditany pe 'ple believe c''n res mi d make an allowance f"r the esident's traveling expenses. s that : c-nid travel with proper dignity id vet n')t he placed under ol')1iga on t' the railr( ads. Mr. Cleveland r wars 1nsisted on having a first-class ket for himself wherever he wvent ni he >a.I Ir inla: at of his ow I t rivate puir-e. whether he was travei n i a private car "r "n a ;peeml The raiir'ads. naturally, w\onid like 1be rid f th e pass evil. Hl )wev<er eadily they write an annual or a trip Mid SuMnI in my entire line and se( Respectfully, Mrs.S.M Prosper The Woo Tolcomi IThe majorit: cause of their We conlside a powders the I vIgiven. a Lazell's ViC Colgate's V r- Mennen's '1 a Lazell's Tal to Bear in m ive and Extract: e"-, name are rel hat ~ Lazell's Vi, orsi ir. a glass J "t- ounces of di ost iTalcum cani the te pic ong Talcum is ul of- I anS- The Rii The * ter, there is not a railroad pres :t or passenger traffic manager who ai! no prefer that every man ,aldj pay his way. The theory of railro ad pa:s. f course. is that recipient thereof is able to do the -poratisin .,ime service or aid it in ;e wa a- 4)1e imc. Perhaps this ,c true in bringing passenger I to a- in the case of certain nv an,: Iavy oiTicers. who have a In :ie transp,rtation of soldiers i:or,. But there are always ;aIV peo )pi in politics and out of etics asking stch favors who have nghi: t A-lem. and also many who ht not ti accept the favors if 1. AIId the large proportion ot railr,ad passes can render -trv:c- watever in return to tne Not Old Age. --elJ. J,hn. how are you today?" :ked a Scottish minister on meeting ne 1f his parishioners. "Gev weel. sir: gey weel," replied ohn cautiously: "gin it wasna for the heumatism inI the richt leg." -"Ah. John. be :hankful, for there is 11 mistake you are getting old like he rest o u;. and old age doesn t 'me alOle. "Auui age. sir." returned John. "I s nder to hear ye. Auld age has aething tae dae wi't. Here's my thler leg jist aS auld. an' it's soond n' soppple yet." Surguins of goods. Call them. Calmes ity, S. C. ds re Full owders ~'of them sold be cheapness. r the following >est at the prices let Talcum 25c. lolet Talcum 25c. 'alcum 25c. icum 0c. id that Powders a Bearing Lazell's iable. olet Talcum put up ar, containing six licately perfumed: not be excelled. e Lazell's ten cent rnqualled. -rht rug Store.