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Pot Your Wants THE Dill/; TIMES. The RCoRENe AILY Vol. III. FLORKNCK. S C. FRIDAY KV^t DECEMBER 11, 189B f We invite you to call and inspect our lar tj and complete line of Holiday Goods. _ 1 The Most Extensive in theCity.emhcingall the Latest Novelties in Sterling and Silver Mounted Tffct Sets, Leather Goods^ etc. A veritable mine of Holiday Novelties, used and ornamental. LOCALSJN BRIEF, Short Paragraphs of Home Hap penings. I’erMonai anil General Mention of Home Folk* anil Others Whom we all Know. Advertising pays. M?86r8. J. S. McKenzie and Angus McTaggert spent yesterday in Bennettsville. Miss Lottie Young, of Rerahert, Sumter county, is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. W. C. Harllee. Mr. J. D. Trevathan is getting up a rattle on a high grade Ram bler bicycle ’96 model. Mr. S. J. McLeod, of Lumber Bridge, N. C., is visiting bis son Dr. F. H. McLeod on Irby street. Mr. H. F. White, of Darlington, travelling agent for Personne Ar my Letters, was in Florence this morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Harllee, have returned from Mars Bluff. Mrs. Harllee is very much im proved in health. Mr. and Mrs. John McSween, of Timmonsville and little John McSween of this place, who have been visiting in Charleston, re turned last night. Our friend Mr. J. W■ King, of Ebenezer, brought us three rutta baga turnips this morning weigh ing 12 pounds. These turnips are of the blue top variety. Lutheran services for Sunday night have been changed to the following Sunday when services will be held morning and evening A crowd of young men made themselves exceedingly obnoxious by throwing torpedos under the feet of pedestrians. Such pranks are strictly against the ordinances of the city. The Daughters of the Confeder acy will give an entertainment at the court house on Tuesday even ing 15th inst., drilling and tableau. Hot coffee, oysters, cake and ice cream will be served. Admittance xocts., open at 7.31*.^ W. F. Claylon Esq.,'took x testi mony in the R. W. Wilkes '4pur- r case in Florence on the 5th Rb, and in Timmonsville on FSth and forwarded his report the clerk of court at Jackson- lle on the 9th. He examined lue witnesses. There seems to be much en thusiasm among our citizens in re gard to the comedy to be presented at the opera house to-night. The company will probably be greeted by a full house. A goodly num ber will be here from Darlington aleo from Timmonsville. A good house makes a good show. A party of young ladies and gentlemen participated in a de lightful dance last evening at the residence of Mr. Willie Maurice. Messrs. Daylo and Morgan de lighted thi< dancers with their music on the guitar and mando lin. This orchestra of two instru ments plays good selections of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, schott- . •’laches, two steps, etc. Editor Frank Carter, of th« Lake City Times is in the city to day. Mr. Carter is a newspaper man of experience, and stands high in the profession of quill drivers. As a writer he speaks out boldly and calls things by the right name, and the city of Flow ing Wells is to be congratulated upon having a man of his ability at the helm of her good newe- paper. The Florence Confectionery and Fruit Store is well stocked with groceries, confectionery and fruits of all kinds. Opposite A. A. Cohen’s. Hear “A Midnight Bell." Duncan B. Harrison, manager of Digby Bell, who is now starring in Hoyt’s “A Midnight Bell” has secured for bis star two new com edies which he will produce early next season. Their titles are “The Hoosier Doctor” is by th® eminent WILKES HELD FOR MURDER. Cx>vin$ton & McLeod. playwright Augustus P. Thomas, author of “In Missouri,” “The Burglar,” “Alabama” and other brilliant gems. “The Pacific Mail” is the work of Paul Potter, translator and adaptor of“Trilby.” At the Florence Opera House this (Friday) evening. Fire. Last night at 8.15 o’clock the alarm was given that Ned How ell’s restaurant an Evans street was on fire. The fire department qnickly responded but before they reached the building the flames had been extinguished by the bucket brigade. The fire burnt a hole in the roof about the size of a hat. Howell doesn’t know whether it was cansed from sparks from the chimney or cannon crackers as a crowd had been shooting crackers near the build ing only a short time before the fire. This building has been on fire several times during the present year but each time it showed no disposition to burn. Everything nice for the Xmas holidays at C. B. Ham’s Florence Confectionery and Fruit Store. Just arrivid a 8. D. Rodgers stables, a large lot of fine horses and mules, suitable for all pur poses. Buy your fruit and confectionery from C. B. Ham, proprietor of the Florence Confectionery and Fruit Store. If you want good horses cheap. Call at Elliott’s stables. Result of the Investigation by the Coroner’s Jury. Some Emets Copied From the“Dai- ly Citizen” of Jacksonville—The Cane w ill go to the Grand Jury. We have space to copy but a few items from the Daily Florida Citizen showing the result of the investigation of the coroners jury in this most unfortunate affair: R. Willie Wilkes was formally charged by the coroner’s jury with the murder of Mrs. R. E. Carro- way, otherwise known as Ravemah Carroway, who was found dead in her room in the Smith Building on last Saturday. Dr. J. H. Livingston, who was called in to examine the woman at the request of the jury list Satur day, was the first witness. He testified that he found the woman lying on the bed in the mann previously described. He found sUfcht discoloration of the th the marks apparently’HSTfug' made by fingers and finger nails. The marks were on either side of the windpipe. He also examined the mouth, and found the tongue party protruding between the teeth. The lips were discolored, and he pronounced strangulation as being the cause of death. IDENTIFIED WILKES. C. B. Smith, owner ofthe build Mhered. ?elia Blocker said that she saw both together in the building ay, and had oiten seen Wiikes e building with the woman, saw him come out ot the room it 4 o’clock Friday evening, asked her for a match, and she him two of them. She left walking up and down the hall- fputy Sheriff). A. Yinzantwas rward sworn, and he identified prisoner as “R. Willie |kes. ’ ’ The jury afterwards retired and tdered a verdict that “R. W. Ikes did choke, strangle, beat, |iise, one Ravemah Caroway, that by reason of such chok- strangling, beating, and bruis- he did then and there kill and OUR SCHOOL HISTORIES. toed der.” he case will now come before grand jury, which was con- yesterday, and an indict- nt will probably be brought th little delay upon which ilkes will be tried in the Circuit urt. During the hearing yesterday af- noon Wilkes intently scrutinized ia the A l.Hter Kroiu Mule SupirlntondaUt i f I'-il uritllon AlhyfW 1 (1. V ImutorsofFi.ohenck Daily Times: In your is^ue of Dec. 1st, j oil re print a communication from the p*n of Prof. Junius E. L-*igh on the subject of school h store's and comment on it editorially. 1 wish to join in tin* general sentiment expressed l»y Prof. leogh and by you and to add that such were the unanimous views of the Slate Board of Education in making its adoption in lS9d of histones to hi us d by the fr.se public schools under the control of that board By examination it will he seen that Hansell's School Histories w e adopted together with Mont- lery’s Beginner’s History I'll a Montgomery book is not the om that was condemned by Prof. Le.gh. It is said that Hansell’s Histories are the fairest and best arranged school histories yet pub lished and if the school teachers would only stick to the list of A Kiiuuwsjr. \ mule belonging to Mr. E. F- Douglas, while standing harnessed to a wagon in front of this gen tleman’s grocery department, be came frightened at the report of * cannon cracker thrown near him and struck out at full speed down Evans strert, which was at the time orow.jed with people return ing from the scene of the fire. A crowd of young men, white and colored, regardless of loss of life ami destruction of personal prop erty, at once s"t to work with their howls to sue now much damage thev could cause. A young lady and genth mau at the corner of | Evans and Dargan streets narrow ly t scaped being run over aud people on Evans street, not bein^ able to hear the rattling of the wagon on account of the howling of the crowd running behind, barely had time to disperse. Mr. J. P. Chase, Jr., who was driving up the street, wheeled his horse and drove at full speed, turning down church street at Stackley’a corner. The mule followed and nearly e\ that was snu books adopted, there would be no cause of complaint such as is now 1 Hr. Chase by gradually reining going up all over this State on ac-1 his horae stopped the count of the use of objectionable 1 About this time the crq#d histories. The 8tg.ts Board at the!up and,’ commencing .&e lotie. wed no emotion, however. AN IMPORTANT LETTER. Attorney A. M. Michelson was present at the hearing in the inter est of Wilkes. He states that the letter in the post offices mailed on Saturday, and addressed to Mrs. Caroway, of which mention was made in yesterday’s Citizen, will ing, testified that Mrs. Caroway furnish important evidence for the had rented room. No. 47. The accused. The letter is claimed to chambermaid reported to him on jfhave been written by Wilkes after Saturday that the woman was dead in the room, and he went up there and found her in that condition. He knew her as “O. F. Caroway,” which was the name that she gave; wheu he rented the room to her. He identified Wilkes as being the man who occupied the room with her, and whom he supposed was her husband. When the woman rented the room she said that she was from Ocala, and said that her husband would arrive within a few days. Wilkes came a few days af terward. A. T. Jones, the night clerk of the building, said that Wilkes occu pied the room with Mrs. Caroway, and claimed to be her husband. He did not know differently at the time. Wilkes came into the office of the building last Friday, and said that he was not the woman’s husband, and that he did not in tend to occupy the room with her any longer. He asked Wilkes if they had a falling out, and Wilkes replied that they hadn’t but that he intended to occupy other quar ters. He identified Wilkes. Moses Weaden, the colored janitor at the building, said that about 11 o’clock Saturday morn ing he told the chambermaid to take some linen up to the room No. 47. The chambermaid went up and came down and said that she couldn’t get into the room, but that she heard a noise, and that the man in there “must be giving her the devil." She said that she thought that some one was being choked to death or Phone a. jhe went to the Smith Building, the theory being that he went there to tell Mrs. Caroway good-by, and finding the door locked, he con cluded that she was not in, and re turned to his hotel, where the let ter was written. Mr. Michelson will ask Judge Baker to appoint Postmaster Clark as administrator of the deceased woman, in order that the letter may be produred from the Government when want ed. Justice Smith has in his posses sion a number of letters that were written to Mrs. Caroway from Ocala, and signed “W,” presuma bly having been written by Wilkes. The letters refer to the woman in very endeavoring terms, such as “My Baby,” My Darling,” etc. The body of Mrs. Carroway re mained at Undertaker Clark’s es tablishment yesterday, with the hope that some information would be obtained from the dead woman’s relatives, who are said to reside in Knoxville, Tenn., and who have been informed of the affair by tele graph. Unless some information shall be received in the meantime, the body will be interred at Ever green Cemetery at 10 o’clock this morning.—November 16. General Insurance Agency OF SANBORN CHASE, Fire, Life & Accident Insurance. Surety Bonds Issued. FLORENCE. S. C :r Rdoption in gave this matter careful attention and after fully examining all the histories named by you and many others selected Hansell’s ns i 1 all respects best suited for use in our schools by reason both of senti ment expressed and arrangement of subject matter. 1 wish to heartily thank i’rof. Leigh for endorsing aud putting in use Hansell’s Histories which were adopted by the State Board. Prof. Leigh is superintendent of your Graded Schools. These schools are not directly under the control of the State Board and therefore fee! themselves independant to do as they please in reference to school books. If the other city superintendents would follow Professor Leigh’s course aud cuke the State Board’s adopt ion, there would bo but little further trouble on the history ques tion for the teachers’ of the coun try schools are bound to follow the State Board adoption and thus it is they have in use an unobject- tionable set of histories. The truth is that the city schools should be forced to take some un objectionable history and be not allowed to change every year or as often as some teacher may wish. As to your commeut* on free text-books I beg to say that I have made certain recomendations on this line from time to time and if you will examine the Acts tf 1894 page 937 you will find that we have succeeded in securing what I regarded at the time a sat isfactory Act, aud I am prepared t~ say the operations und^r it are most satisfactory. I would be glad if you would publish that Act and comment on it. To do so will agitate th*? question and bring to light the views of others ot. the subject. W. D. Mayfield. State Supt. Education. Subscribe for this paper. tbs mule .struck oat Chase keeping kfraad? I#* same manner as before, he stopj^, the mule a second time aud tirY men succeeded in catching the bridle. Someone fired a cracker again and the frightened animal shaking his captors loose jumped into the fence and was caught fast. But little damage was done to the wagon. Ladies’ or Gents’ Elmore Bi cycles fully guaranteed, $\o each, at Florence Bicycle Co. f Dargan street, opposite Opera House. BlejrcU* of Paper. From the Augusta Cnroulcle. A paper bicycle has now invad ed the field. One of them, owned by a bicycle agent, is now in use in London. Paper fibre, similar to that sometimes used in the manufacture of railway carriage wheels, is employed for tubing. The bicycle weighs 20 pounds, and is as strong as any one in use. A factory is said to be contemplated for the production of bicycles of this sort. For Hal*. A nice cook stove with utensils complete. Can be had cheap for cash. For full particulars apply at this office. The Times - Messenger job printing department does as good work as any office in this State. Give us your work. To the members of the Florence Bar: Briefs and arguments for the Supreme Court are printed in the best of style at the Times-Messen- ger job office. Several good all purpose horses for sale cheap at Elliott’s stables, Dargan street* New Bicycles at *35 at Florence Bicycle Co. Dargan street. Cranberries. lOcts. quart at Brown’s ChbapCasii Stoke.