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r FORT MILL MELANGE. I Pithy Points Qtthcrcd lor the Perusal of Times Readers. Miss Carrie Pobr, of Ebeuezer, is the ^uest of Miss Ella M (-Murray., Mr. Luther Niins, of Mt. Holly, J N. C., spent laat Friday at the i home of his brother, Mr. F. Xiuis, in this township. The Charlotte Brick Company, whose plant is *2 ihMhh c.miU ^ Fort Mill, had more than 200,000 ; brick destroyed by the rain of last week. S The Times is requested to state ? that Dr. Thornwell will preach at j the Presbyterian church in this place next Sunday nfternuon at 4 o'clock. * Messrs. J. M. Spratt, Z. D. Boyd ' and J. L. At matron;: were drawn ( yesterday to serve on the petit jury during the second week of the approaching term ?.f the circuit court. The Spratt Machine Company I has the contract for the erection of two live-room cottages for Mrs. 11. O'Connell, on the vacant lot adjoining the grounds of the Presbyterian manse. On account of the absence of Prof. S. M. Mason, who went to , Yorkville yesterday afternoon to be present at the marriage of a friend this evening, the j?ruded school is closed to day. The Lancaster Enterprise states that the residence of Mr. J. T. Mackey, who moved from Fort Mill to Lancaster rome time ago, came i near heiiiK destroyed by fire one day last week. Saturday morning the Catawba Power Company filed with the secretary of state notice of an increase of its cupitul stock from $100,000 to $150,000. The increase j is to he made hy the issue of preferred stock. Mr. Lewis Baker, whose home was in Fort Mill for several years prior to 1800, was in town Monday. Mr. Baker is living in,Uoek Hill' at present and will accept the po- i sit ion of weave room boss at the ! Chicora cotton mill in that city as soon as the new machinery which ... is now being put in the mill is installed. Word conies from Rock Hill to the effect that the company which J is soon to begin the publication of the new semi-weekly newspaper in that city placed an order for a $11,500 outfit last Friday. Now, we admire the pluck of the gentlemen who are to run The Journal?that's to be the name of the paper?but like the old fellow who witnessed the boy's efforts to but tin? billy goat off the bridge, wo question their judgment. However, we wish The Journal all kinds of good luck. At the meeting of the Fort Mill camp of Confederate veterans Saturday afternoon, Messrs. W. I. Jones and J. M. Armstrong were j elected delegates to the State reunion to he held in Columbia next month and Miss Mabel Ardrey was appointed sponsor for the camp. As yet she has not selected her maid of honor. Columbia is making extensive preparations for the ' reunion, which promises to he the most successful one yet held. Monday afternoon the regular monthly meeting of the town council was held and the vagrancy law j which The Times has urged for | some time was passed. It is said j to l>e the purpose of the town otfi- j cials to see that the law is enforced 10 me letier, and those wlio are convicted under the law will either have to pay the fines imposed or , serve their time on the streets. As ) most vngrants are not 011 speaking terms with ever so little coin of the realm, it is thought that much good work will be done 011 the streets during the coming summer rts a result of the law. " Attention, Sons of Veterans. A meeting of John M. White J Camp No. 88, U. S. C. V., is called J for Friday evening, April 12, at 8 ' o'clock, in the town hall, for the 1 purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. Delegates, a sponsor | and a maid of honor to represent the camp at the State convention to be held in Columbia, May 8, will also be elected at this meeting. J. K. Haile, Coinmaudaut. , f . ? > Negro Woman Killed Suoday. j As whs stated in these columns some time ago, difficulties among the negroes employed in constructing the dam of the Catawba Power ! Company, near Fort Mill, are not, inft cqueut. Most of the trouble seems to arise from differences over , card playing ami is confined prin- | cipally to the men. Only a few days ago two negro men became t involved in a dispute over a card name and one of the men was shot i in the neck. The first difficulty which has resulted seriously, how- 1 ever, occurred Sunday moruing at 11 o'clock. This time the princi-j pals were a man and a woman, and , the woman lo?t her life. Reuben Stewart is a negro man who is said to have come to this community some time ago from Blnckstocks. He is known by most cf the negroes hereabouts and is ' considered by them u sort of bully, having been heard to boast a iium- j ber of times that he did not intend to he arrested. Several weeks ago I he secured work on the dam of the ; Catawba Power Company. llisj quarrelsome disposition is said to : have gotten him into itiiuinienihle . rowa with the other negro oniployees. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Stewart got into a difficulty with Ida Watts, a dissolute colored | woman who was living temporarily near the dam, but whose home was . in Charlotte. The woman called Stewart a liar, whereupon he drew i his pistol and fired at her. The ball 1 penetrated the woman's heart, killing her instantly. Stewart at once fled from the scene of his crime and came to Fort ; Mill. He ate dinner at a negro restaurant in this place about 1 o'clock and immediately left town, going down the tracksof the Southern Railway toward Rock Hill. News of the killing reached Fort Mill within a few minutes after Stewart had gone, and Police Otfi- j ccr H. C. Culp, accompanied by n deputy, at once left town in search of him. All efforts to locate the murderer proved futile, however,1 and the two officers returned i?? town late in the evening* after un- J expectedly discovering more than i a Kcore of negro men and women ' gambling in a grove near the brick plant 2 miles south of town. It is said that the body of the dead woman was not removed from the spot on which she was killed until Monday night. Whether an inquest was held over the body, The Times has not been able to learn. The killing occurred in Ebenezer township. Last Week's Ksln Storm. The hcnvy rains of last week played havoc with most of the creek bridges in this section, bosides doing no little damage other- ! wise. The swollen condition of Sugar creek on Tuesday and Wednesday resulted in no mail being carried over the star route between Fort Mill and points in Lancaster county and Ardreys, N. C..011 those days. There are three bridges over Sugar creek near this place, and all of them are in bnd condition. Especially is this true of the bridges known as Barber's and Murray's, both of which are now impassible. Fortunately, the county bridge ' across Catawba river is not damaged, and tlie published report to thecontrury is erroneous. By noon Thursday the river had risen 15 feet and was out of the banks, but this fact occasioned no inconvenience to those who wished to cross on the bridge. It is thought that the bridge will not be impassible \ until the river has risen at least 20 feet, and then it would probably be unwise to attempt to cross. Ml Five ThouMnd Dollars Stolen. A Columbia press dispatch says ' that on last Thursday the Bank of Columbin forwarded to the Bank of Commerce in New York $5,000 in paper money. When the puck ' age arrived at its destination on I Saturday it was discovered that the money had been removed and brown paper substituted for the money. The Columbia bank was astounded to receive telegraphic information to that effect and an investigation was ordered at ouce.! The package whh put up by a bunk official in tin* presence or the president, Col. W. Ci. Childs, ami an- | other official carried the package to the express office. The Columbia bank is absolved from all blame and the financial loss is upon the Southern Express Company; and Capt. O. M. Sadler, general superintendent of the company, is at work on the case. It is believed in Columbia that the package arrived in New York City all light, and that the substitution was made I there. The work is represented to j have been clever; the package bore ' 110 evidence of having been tam.......~i inri rvi Georgia Has Slaves, Too. Tlit* Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier nays that Governor McSweeney lias received a letter from a substantial eiti/.en in Laurens county which would ( seem to indicate that they have 1 something like the Anderson system of labor farms in Georgia. It was only after public attention had been called t?? the situation in Anderson that the system was exploited and finally broken up. From the letter received there seems to be u disposition across the line to delay formal trials. The letter contains the following statement, and is signod^by Mr John D. Sullivan, 1 of Sullivans, in Laurens county, who has voluntarily taken up the ease of James Giay: He states that Gray was arrested on his ulantation for o??ttv Inr, 4 r" - J ,,4,v" and carried to Elbert, Ga., and was | promised a speedy trial. A convict contractor took him out of jail; ho was never carried before any court or tried or offered any trial, but was carried to a convict i camp, locked up at night with the j convicts, guarded and worked with them during the day. Mr. Sullivan begs the governor not to issue requisition papers bofore acquainting himself with the facts in the case, and says that he | went to Georgia in behalf of the negro and witii difficulty got hi 111 j to trial. The heaviest fine possi- i ble was impo.-ed on the negro. Here is a clear case of the same j offense committed in Anderson county. The owner of the convict camp told the negro that he owed him $100 from last year, and he did not know how much he would i t charge him for the escape, and that ' he intended to keep him locked up and guarded until he and his wife signed papers agreeing for him to ! work. Mr. Sullivan says that this has I been going on in Georgia for many 1 years and asks in the name of lni. inanity that it he stopped. Defrauding Pensioners. ' W. 1). Starling,one of the inem- | I hers of the State pension tnmrd,1 has heeii informed that a man calling himself Dr. DeLeon has been i j going anions the pensioners in i Orangeburg eounty, armed with a i list of that county's pensioners, and representing himself as an agent of the State hoard, has been col| lecting &1.410 from each pensioner, representing to each that it costs that amount to get the money, < )f course Dr.-DeLeon is a fraud, and i those from whom he has collected i this sum have lost their money. 1 Sponsor for York Regiment, U. C. V. Fokt Mii.i., S. C., March 28, 1901. IIdqus. York Co., Kkoimkst, U. C. V. (Order No. U.) Miss Ollie Elder, Gathriexville, S. C. Dear Miss: You are hercbv annoint?d ' ?~* i sponsor for York County Itegimeu', U. C. V., at the reunion of the South Carolina Division, U. C. V,, to be held in Columbia, S. C., May 8, 1901, and you are hereby instructed to nppoint your own maid of honor. By order of the colonel: S. K. White. W. II. Stewart, Adjutant. MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES. I aid agent for the George W. Clark Monument and Headstone Company, of Uutlan, Vt.# and ; Jacksonville, Fin., the largest concern of the kind in the United i States. Anyone in need c>f anything in my line would do well to call on me for prices before placing their orderH. r. D. FAULKNER, Fort Mill, 8. C. j I v\ ( These | Are Times When ono wants a liair brush or comb, ami because it is purchased so infrequently, it is preferable to ^et a good one. We have a select assortment of each, ami other ( things in this line. In hair brushes, we have a splendid assortment at 50 cents, ami several nice brushes , at 25 cents. If we can't suit you in a tooth brush, you are too hard to please. Another tiling, besides our va- | riod line of t<>il?'t snaps, we have the well-known unci reliable clean- ; sers?trramlpa tar soap, octagon i soup, ivory soap, pearline anil supolio. ARDRET'S. CI IEERFU L SU RROU NDINCiS add to the pleasure of eating. l*a- : trons of hand bros'. restaurant nro made comfortable. Our well | appointed dining room, courte- . oiih waiters, well cooked fotsl of line quality and moderate prices | make thiH an ideal place to break- j fast. dine or sup, regularly or occa- i sionally. Hand Bros, rock hill, s c. ! Silverware. We nro adding at all tinioH to! our lino of Sterling Silver all the 1 moat desirable pieoea for table use. For proHcnta or use in your family you can tind nothing better. 'Phone -277. CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' ? i To Business Men WE PRINT What is there ia our line on which you would like quotations? We want your trade, and if you will give u? a. ciuiice, will submit sample* iiutl prices that will be interesting to you. WE PRINT R. M. London ROCK HILL. 8. O. For First-class Service k?i to H.(MILTON'S - RESTAURANT, Opposite 1st Presbyterian church, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Best Oysters iti the city. lair^est lunch counter iu tho State, j 221 West. Trade street. . I canned Goods. I Tf yoti need any canned Koodfl, coine to bee ino for them. I nin very particuulnr about thin port of my ntoek, nnd claim to carry the bent nnd frenhent. In that the kind you want? I A. O. Jones. New Spi We have the largest and p in this town. We are a little 1 waiting. OUR MILLINi Will be especially attractive t Miss Mabel Ardrey will have < ten days trimming patterns iu merits in New York and Baltin prepared to fix you up a hat in expect to have all our milliner OUR ORES Are ready for your inspection, useless to nttempt to describe pleasure in showing you the pi x.. J. SPRING As Eeaster conies on the 7 on Thursday, the 4th, believin n new hat or bonnet for that sping millinery this senson. ] with quite a number of patteri styles for the season. We inv surrounding country to come I buy, come and see anyway, j who doesn't want it to remain put aside at once. Our entire line of DRES TIONS is complete. In EM and LACE. w? ? Nrit tlin luiiil.ivu Yours for MEAGH P. S. Miss Curtis, while i a $75 French hut, and her wor tion st> perfect that the tnunny hut displayed for two days wit instruction room told Miss C only a few who received instri ei Clearance "THE OLD R In order to make are selling for a fe> WINTER CLC We have a big st< suits and men's tii only last a few day* will fret extraordin o "Oi/n We are the Fort Hickory*' Wagons, ger and need fewe wagon on the mark let us sell you an "( satisfaction. T. B. BELK, I >' * * ?---?- ^ ring Goods. irettiest stock that has ever been shown ater than usual, but got lower prices by httT UtiPAKTMENT his season, both in styles nnd prices, charge of this department. She spent two of the largest millinery establishnore, aiul with her natural talent is folly l the most popular and latest style. We y open by April 4th. S GOODS, ETC., We have so many pretty things it is them, but if you will call we will take ettiest goods ever displayed in Fort Mill. MASSET. OPENING. th, we have decided to have our opening g that a majority of the Indies will want day. This will be our firBt display of Miss Curtis has returned from New York ii hats and her head full of nil the new ite ull the Indies in Fort Mill and the to our opening. If you do not want to \ny lady purchasing a hat on that day i in the display, can have it boxed and S GOODS, WASH GOODS and NOBROIDEKY, TUCKING, ALLOYEU Easter, AM & EPPS. n New York making pattern hats, copied k was so nicely done and the reproducer of the French room had MiBB Curtis' h her name on it. The manager of the nrtis that that was a compliment |>aid iction. M. ?fc E. BEAT Clothing Sale AT ELIABLE STORE." room for spring goods we .. ,1 -?i " > nays oniy ail )THINO AT COST. >ck of children's and boys' no pants. This sale will and those who buy now ary bargains. tORY" WAGONS. 4 Mill agents for the "Old These wagons run lonr repairs than any other :et. If you need a wagon. Did Hickory/' They give PROPRIETOR "TUB OLD RELIABLE 5T0RB.* %