Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NE!WS NOTZS. Items of More or Les Interest Con densed Throughout the World. President Roosevelt has ordered a very handsome sewing machine as a present to the empress of Japan. Former Governor Charles T. O' Ferrall, of Virginia, died last Friday. Fletcher Byrd and Palmer Cress well will be hanged in Greenville on the ioth of November for the mur der of Magistrate Cox near Simpson ville about a year ago. The man, Joseph Girard,. arrested on Central Bridge, in New York Tuesday for the murder of Gussie Pfeiffer was not the right man. A race horse trainer, John F. Har ris, was shot at Louisville, Kentucky, in a difficuhy with R. E. Lee Sims. A proclamation has been issued at Peoria, Illinois, forbidding children the use of the streets day or night until the epidemic of diptheria now raging at that place is concluded. The police and physician decided that Christine Grossman, the i5-year old girl who was found unconscious in her home in New York from al leged robber's artack, was suffering only from mental hallucination. The Mississippi report on Wednes day showed only one death from yel low fever in the state, at Natchez. A woman by the name of Mary Money was murdered in the Mersthan tunnel in London where Frederick I. Gold -was brutally murdered in z88i. The Tri-State Medical association is in session ax Chattanooga, this week. The association is composed of physicians of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Wiliam Kirkpatrick, of Philadephia killed himself in the bathroom of his apartments by putting a bullet through his head. Agricultural Commissioner Hudson after a trip through south Georgia reported that the cotton crop was practically harvested. That by the first of the month the fields will be perfecty clean. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less -Interest Con densed Throughout the State. A company has been organized in Lancaster with a capital stock of $1o,ooo and will purchase the plants of the three newspapers now pub lished there. The three will be con solidated and a first-class semi weekly will be published instead of the three weeklies as heretofor. Arthur McFadden shot and killed George Burgess at Cades Tuesday night. Both parties are negroes. A woman is said to be the cause of the trouble. Dr. Gil Wilie, president of the Ca tawba Power company, was in Spar tanburg Tuesday looking after the prospect of supplying electricity to some of the cotton mills. John Piper was sentenced to the penitentiary five years for killing a man named Hartley which occurred near Montmorenci some time last June. Van Buren Robertson, aged sixty eight, a farmer of Waterloo, fell from a wagon loaded with cotton and was instantly killed by breaking his neck. Charlie Jones, -a white man about 17' years old shot and killed his uncle, J. J. Wall. The parties were drink ing which no doubt caused the trouble. Daisy Moss and Sam Patterson, of Orangeburg, -were arrested for killing Marshal McCreery Saturday night. The disturbance started at a cider stand and ended wit'h- the killing which occurred at Mr. C. C. Zeig ler's place. A small child was badly cut in a row which tcook place between the child's mother, Lilly Foster, and father, Win. Plumeau. The child was carried to the hospital for treatment. Steven Elmore, aged 85, said to be the oldest man .n Greenwood, died at that place Monday. The mayor oi Columbia has offered $250 fcor the arrest of the guilty par ties of the recent hold-ups in that city. Fisher and O'Day the alleged Heath Springs robbers were given a prelimi nary hearing at Lancaster and bound over to cou:r:. Sarne~ men believe they are doing A -BLACK HAND" CASE. b .- s Young Woman Beaten into Insensi- b bility By A Negro. r C The State. a New York, September 25.-Irene a Grossman, a girl of sixteen years, s was found clubbed into insensibility ti in the hallway of her home at 542 tl west 142nd street early today. The at- t tack was the culmination of a series o of nightly entries in the Grossman pri,rate residence which were intend ed to enforce, by "black hand" meth ods, payments of money for immu nity from attack. Beginning Fri day night a negro visited the house r nightly, appearing only 'to Miss Grossman and escaping when fright- d ened by her screams. Despite the the lookout set for him by the fami ly he srcceeded today in reaching Miss Grossman before she had a chance to give a warning. t The girl's brother told the police that his sister had started for an early walk when she was attacked. He heard her scream and ran into the hallway, where he found her uncon scious, but saw nothing of the mnan. Immediately after the clubbing the police found two pictures in 'the r Grossman home with. their faces turn ed to the wall and notes demanding a money written on the back. On the back of a photograph of Mrs. Gross man was written: 'We expect $goo from you. B. F. C." On the back of her daugh-cer's pict ure was written in the sanie hand and: i "We expcct $200 for you. B. F. C." I In the two previous visits to the house the burglar had stolen several valuable pictures and more than $400 worth of silverware. Miss Grossman's inju7ies are not believed to be dangerous. Credited To Mr. Johnson. "There was an attorney down in my state," says Reprensentative John son of South Carolina, "who was rough on witnesses, never hesitating to give them severe raps whenever the. failed to testify just abou-c as he wi. d them to. One day he. met his match in a testy young lady whom he was examining. She had answered his questions in a way anything but satisfactory to him, and finally, his wrath being up he said: "'Young wornan, there's enough: of brass in your face to make a five-gal lon kettle. "'And sap enough in your head to fill it," quickly snapped the witness. "This experience almost cured Mr. Attorney of hard knocks at witnesses, but he was always known after -that as sap-head." Georgia All Right. Washington Post. J. P. Williams, of Savannah, Ga., who is at the New Willard has for years been recognized as one of the leading business men. of Georgia's beautiful and historic seaport He is president and chief owner of -The Georgia, Florida and Alabama rail road and is at the hea-d of one of the most important firms in the southc dealing in naval stores a business in1I which Savannah leads all other towns. "Our heated gubernat,orial cam paign," said Mr. Williams, "seems to have been prematurely sprung, and as i now consists chiefly of a wordy conflict between Messrs. Smith and I Howell, there is a probability that the i voters may tire of both these candi-C dates and choose a South Georgia I mn that sec-ion of the state being, in fact, entitled to the office. We ~ have plenty of good men in our sec tion and two of the highest calibre- c Col. Estill the veteran Savannah jour- I nalist, and Represen-tative Brantlay, ' of Brunswick. Either of these would make *a first-rate governor, and as between them there will be none of the asperities and recriminations which have sadly marred the rival candidacies of the Atlanta aspirants. Georgia has no complaint to make these days. seeing that the old state, is enjoying a greater share of ~ prosperity than a-t any time since the landing of General Oglethorpe. C 'Of course, we have our quota of agitators. who think that the rail- i a roads and other corporations are rob ing -them and that congress shouldfC ass dlrastic laws against the hatedr das the great majo--ity or citizens re too ine:gn co 'e iflueced~( y such demagogical sophistry The >uth -stands in need of men who will ring in their capital and invest it ,sources. The radical and confis atory program that some of these Ileged patriots are using would, if dopted, be the worst blow that ever truck the south for it would arrest ie most remarkable movement in e way of growth and productive en erprise that has been witnessed in ur generation." The Way To Make Tea. While drinking a cup of the Tetley's ea at the Little-Long company's tore, the other day, the reporter ealized what the demonstrator, Miss lorris, meant when she said, "It all epended upon the brand of tea used nd the way in which it is rewed. "If you follow the rules which are sed by the English people, who are he greatest tea drinkers, you will ave a cup of the most delicious, in igorating beverage. "Always use a tea which is proper y selected, cured, blended and acked. "Always use an earthern vessel to nake tea in. "Always scald the tea pot before dding the tea. "Always use one teaspoonful, the nost, tea to every pint of boiling vater. "Always stir the leaf before strain ng the tea from it. "Always strain the tea three min ites after pouring on the freshly >oiled water. "If the housekeepers of Charlotte vould call and sample the tea that I nake they would soon become -tea rinkers." Where The Sea Disappears. Philadelphia Bulletin. A Philadelphia girl was recently >vertaken and drowned by the in oming tide on the west coast of rance. A transplanted Breton said >f this fatality: "Can you, who see your own tides :rawl in at the rate of ten feet or o an hour, imagine tides racing like vild white horses up the flat sands ,t the rate of half a mile a minute? "The extraordinary flatness of our 3?eton coast gives us these phe iomenal tides. The sea does not ise and fall. It appears and, disap ears. You have a vast and flat >an of sand. At a set hour the sea ushes in, white, wil'd, submerging his vast plain. At a set hour an un een hand sucks back the waters >ack thirty, forty, fifty miles-and iothing is visible but the plain of >ale sand again. "Woe unto such as walk on this lesolate plain when the tide be rins to rise, for they must drown! othing can save them."' LAND SALES. On Saleday, in October, 1905, at II 'clock a. in., we will sell at public uction in front of the court house, .bout 330 acres -of land, of the estate if Mrs. Sibbie D. Cromer, deceased, y authority given us in her will, the ane to be sold in four tracts, plats f which will be exhibited at the sale .nd may be seen before that time up in appliation.' Terms of Sale: One half of the iurchase money to be paid in cash and alance in one year, with interest from Lay of sale, with leav-e to anticipate ayment of the credit portion in whole ir in part, the credit portion to be ecured by note and mortgage of the iremises, with stipulation for io per ent attorney's fees if placed in the Lands of a lawyer for collection. Pur haser to pay for papers. John A. Cromer, I. M. Smith, Executors of Sibibie D. Cromer. CITIZENS MEETING. A meeting of the,.citizens of New erry county is hereby called for the rst Monday inl October with a view o taking some steps toward seeing hat the law against the sale of li uor is properly enforced. Every ci izen is cordially invited to attend nd take part in the deliberations, rhether he was for or against the ispensary in the late election. The etng will be held in the court n2e immedila:%iy after the adjourn tent ofl Cotton Growers' asso n. ,V. I. Herbert, Chairman. A Joke on The Doctor. Harper's Weekly. A Baltimore physician says that recently he boarded a Charles street car that was sadly overcrowded. He soon observed a big German sprawled over an area sufficient to seat two persons at least, while just in front of him stood a poor wan woman hanging to a strap. Indignant at this exhibition of selfishness on the part of The German, the physician tap ped him on the shoulder, saying: "See here! Why don't you move a little, so that . this. tired woman may QUIT COUGH1I There is no n Lungs out, w tle of Murra lien and Tar. A few doses of this Househol lief. A positive cure for Infi Throat. Anti-Spasmodic in I THE MURRAY DRt OColuzmIa, COME SOC 4I g Whenever you start out on a s * This plan wil save you mauy time. If we haven't just what * We shall not urge you to buy, * goods as soon as you can. It' every way to make selections I * MAYES DF -too. When Wanting Son CALI Geo. D. D Cod Fish Balls, Devil pered, Herring, Frenc Boneless Herring, Roi Beef, Lunch Tongue, Chicken and Potted Tui Pineapple, Mushrooni Salad, Pickles-Sweeti lets, Cheese, Coffee fro Cream of Wheat, Qui Force, Peanut Butter, Ferris' Breakfast Baco Spices for Pickling, Virn Apple, Fresh lot of Choi pound. Phone 1 10. SOUTH CAROL. 1805 Four Schools: Arts, Law~ System of Wide Election. Opens Septemi BENJAMIN GLU FOR BARGA FURNI IHOUSEHOI Kibler,De NEW2EF iave a seat?" For a moment the German looked dazed. Then a broad smile spread over his countenance as he an swered: "Say, dot's a joke on you, all right! Dot's my wife!" Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. 1G eed of wearing your hen you can geta bot 's Horehound, Mul d Remedy will give immediate re uenza, Bronchitis and Diseasses of :rUp. c cc., N AND SEE hopping tour come here first. unnecessary steps and much you want then look elsewhere. but we do wish you to see our will be to your advantage in *fore the final rush begins. 'UG STORE. iething Good to Eat . ON avenport. 3d Crabs, Shrimps, Kip h Sardines, Lobsters. -st Mutton and Roast Sliced Ham, Potted ~key, Grated and Sliced , Asparagus. Celery and Sour, Junket Tab m 15c. to 35c. per lb., iker Oats, Grape Nuts, Butter Beans, Olives, n, Tetley's T ea, Mixed egar--White Wine and colate Candies 40c. per INA COLLEGE .1905 ,Sciences and Teachers. Expenses Moderate. >er 27th, 1905. )VER, President. INS [TURE .D GOODS T0 NIS & Co RY. S. C.