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I?JK* 1 THE FORT MILL TIMES. OFWOCRATJC. PUBLISHED W^PNKSDAYS. B. W. BRADFORD. Publisher. pubneriptiop price $1 j* r year. Cprreiipourtoiict* on current Kubji-cts is Invited, but wo clo not a^roo to publish rompiniiication# containing inov,o than 1 BOO wortla, ami no responsibility is as- i puinojil (or the views of o<>rr?:si>omleuts. Ah an advertising medium for Charlotte PJuoville, Fort- Mill, ami R<>ek Ilill business houses The Times is uiisurItassed. Hut oh made known on appliea- j ion to the publisher. I>ocal Telephony Ivo. 20. APRIL 20. 1002. President Roosevelt is being ^ nrge/d by fcjouthern Republicans i lo show Iuh regard for lhis section of the country by inviting n man froip south of Mason and Dixon'k jiip: to ta^e a seat in his cabinet. Tlje principal promoters of the pcheme wre Republicans who are fioy in public office, but who will shortly be relegeted to private life. The subject was started before P resilient Mclvinley died, and President Roosevelt's recent visit hjouth has infused new life and hope into the project. John L. McLauriu, of South Carolina, has J pegn mimed for the place. Home of Senator Tillman's Manning friends are looking forward ivitji much interest to his speech at tjiat place J/Viday. Editor Appelt, of Mnipijng, who is a strong frieqd of Mcfjuurin, has recenly repeated charges made against Tillman, and ;t js believed that the ! senator js going tljere to resent Uncharges. If thip b.e the case, why j look opt BjO. Appe|t. there is a roastjng jn afore for you. Anyway, tjie speech will have some bearing in the approaching campiign. ... In the dpath of Co!. Charles ^ Marshall, whjeh occurred at his| home in Baltimore Sunday night, A I IT * A 1 /I ? ? ' inp uu}tej^ uonieaerate Veterans' Association hag lost another of its potest members. Colonel Marshall was born at Warrcnton, Ya., j jn 184Q, bccapip a member of (Jen. Lee's staff in 18t>2, and was attached to liiiu throughout the entire \yar. Hp was military secretary to pen. h< e, was the o ?'y! member of the peneral's stat]' to i accompany him at the surreiufer at Appomattox, and the terms of the purrepulei werq drafted by him. In politics, he has always figured conapcnonsly with the Democratic jiarty of his State. Jim Tillman,of sword, etc. fame. liiiH bobbed up again. This time I it was pt Graniteville, where he and Col. Geo. Croft appeared on the 11 tli instant to address a large prow<4 of cotton mill men, who had been locked out of the mi Is oij aceoutft pf the Augusta strike. An exchange, in giving an outline of tJMImau s speech, says: "Tillman spoke first, and an- ; iiouneed that he proposed to take Rooseyelt as his text, lie said lie was glad to l}e there, because lie wanted an excuse for not being in Charleston on Roosevelt Day. llonsevelt, in inviting a negro to the white house, had insulted the South; was thefrjend of the trusts and the millionaires and t he enemy pf the people. He had been asked what lie would do with the sword. ....,1 ?!--? I - ' i mm n rt I r*ii I lirtl lit' 1111? IKlfd U) HsK ?-evelt tq present it to Hooker Washington. Col Tillman paid his respeets to Mr. (ion/.alert and Maid that it \yould be well for l(oosevelt fo have him present at (he presentation, lie cle?ired to express his gratitude to the peo pie fop their support, and would endeayop to asHirtt them in thpir preset difficulties." ? - - ? ? Cruel Murder Near Kayenels. Dispatches Kept out from Clmrloston stated that a murder of extraordinary brutality was pou.initted ppir ^pvenel's station, Qolleton county, Monday mopiing. \\. \V. tlotios, a section master on the Plant System, op returning to his home iii the forenoon found the laxly of his wife in a doghouse iieaf his home. The throat of the young vyifp wrh cut from ear to eqc, and tip) head was almost severed from the body. A blood. Stained sickle, which lay near the porpso, showpd how the criipe had beep committed. As several nrtiples are missing from the house, robbery is supposed to have been the ma>n ohj?*-t. Whetlp'r. as has v ?t? Adiiar has been a p. ..-llrt^RlIt.. Circuit Cuurt. The following < n*es, in nddilion t > those id rendy reported, huvo been disposed of 1 ?y flu* court of general sessions at Yorkville: Eil Kt'iri, convicted <?f a-sault Miid battery of a high and aggravated nature, and sentenced to pay a fine of or go to the chaingang for ?i\ in<nitliB. William Walker, convicted of in diciotts burning of a house, sentenced to the chningang for 18 months. Ken hen Lindsay plead guilty of houscbreading and larceny and was sentenceil to the chaingang for '2~t days. Kelly (list plead guilty of lar. ceny and was sentenced to hard labor for ten months. Ned Spratt pie nl guilty of violation of the di-pensary law and waa sentenced to throe months or $HK). William Wright and William (iillillen, charged with assaidt and battery, were acquitted. i n us ijynn was eonvicicil c?1 housebreaking and laroi ny and sen t cnoi d til thirteen months at hard labor. In the case af K. linscotn Kennedy charged with burglary and larcciix, tin* jury found that tindefendant is iusano. and his honor signed an order requiring eontine1111*111 in the asyiuni until cured. Wallace llainscy, white, was convicted of burglary and larceny, in connection with the stealing of a bale of cotton, ami was sentenced to the penitentiary or clmingang for a period of two years. The case against Henry Ibice. charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, was nol ptossed on tlio payment of $15 by the defendant. Sol l)orsey. chained with murder, was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor. I dames Lindsay, charged with murder, was convicted with a receoininendation to tin* mercy of the court, lie was sentenced to the penitentiary for the remainder of his life. .loe Henry, charged with murder, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to tin* penitentiary for live \ ears. Samuel Fair, charged with murder, was allowed to plead guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty pears. Dock Lanier, white, charged with murder, was acquitted. .VII of the pending eases having heen disposed of, at tive o'clock Thursday afternoon, the petit jurors were discharged and the session court was adjourned until o'clock yosteidny morning when it adjourned sine die. The court hassince been engaged with common pleas lui-iness. Machinist's Strike Oyer. The big strike of the machinists on the Sent hern Knilyvay is over and the fitX) machinists will go I aick to work as fast as places can be found for tlicin. Nonoti union men who have been faithful to the company will lie discharged to make room for the strikers, however. The machinists who return to work gain nothing whatever, their only consul ition being that they have caused the railroad and tin* travelling public a good deal of inconvenience. They will get the same wages and work the same hours as before the st l ike. However, tliey will appoint a committee to confer further with the railroad otfic nls for the purpose of obtaining the demands that were made at the time of the strike last May. The eoiiferenees which have taken place within the last few weeks have resulted in this. The representatives of the ! strikers have received assurances that their committee would he ] well received after the strike was formally ded ired oil'and they have agreed upon this course. The strikers were c intending for two things principally. One was a nine hour day instead of a ten hour day, but ton hours pay, and the other was a reduction of the nuiqher of apprentices in tlje shops to one apprentice to every I '? machinists. Formerly, it appeals 1 the Southern Inul many more npprentices than this. Third V ice-President (lannon.of ! the Southern, refused t?? meet those demands of the strikers ahold one year aujo. and consequently last May the t>00 union machinists of the Soul hern Railway walked out. Job Couldn't Uavo Stood It If he'd had Itching Piles. They're terribly annoying; but Rucklen's Arnica Salve will cure the won-t case of piles on earth. It has cured thousands. For Injuries, Pains or i Poddy Kruutions it a the beet salye ; in the world. Price 25c a bo* at i Mea9han?'s Drugstore. utpnutepd THROUGHOUT SOUTH CAROLINA. Short Items of State News Conveniently Grouped for Times Readers. > Tlie Democracy of Leo county iins boon organized according to the rules of the tiarlv. This boini/ a new county it was necessary to ; have a complete organization. The governor has received an earnest letter from Charleston urg- ' ing the reconsideration and re-! opening of the proposed boxing;! contest matter. The governor will r> ply declining; to reconsider the | matter in any form The governor Thursday reap- j pointed T. \V. Hoyd to he State! Indian agent, with headquarters! at Yorkville. He has been for, some years in charge of IheCataw- j ba Indians on the reservation in York county, the only Indians left in the State. Governor (Moll and stall' are in Char est on today participating in I tlie exercises of New York State Day at the exposition. \l ni'timnii I u n r<? uleoiwl *?* f*w?4 to erect it splendid monument to (ieii. Wade Hampton, to lie mount - | cd I?y an etpicHtrian statue. The movement is in the hands of the Daughters of the Confederacy, who will collect funds f-oin all over the State. A. H. (ireene, proprietor of the Carolina hotel of Koek Hill, has bought tlio Nicholson hotel at Chester. Consideration 5?S.2f>0. The State Agricultural ami Mechanical Society of South Carolina have opened the State fair to the highest bidder Bids from any city in the State will be received until May 15. Some negroes fishing on Dong | Cane creek near Abbeville Wednesday found the body of a negro man with his throat cut. It is thought to be tlu* body of Morgan Belcher who disappeared two weeks ago. A petition signed by a majority of the voters of Lee county has j been tiled with the county board of control asking for tie' establishment of a dispensary at Scranton. The Iv. M. M. A. at Yorkville has made its return to the secretary of State. The capital stock is put. at $12,000. I. A. Allison, a well known Southern railway conductor, was painfully injured Thursday at Perry. near Columbia, by the blowing otV of an air brake valve, which ! struck and dislocntt d his right i i 1 shoulder. i The Tavora cotton mills have 1 have submitted to the town council of Yorkville a proposition t<.' furnish all tin lit street lights at $ 75 a year each. The council has not \ot acted in tho matter. President lloosevelt on Wed lies- ; ! tiny sent in to the senate tin' nomination of Miss Maggie M. Moore I to l?e postmistress at Yorkville. 1 which position she has held since iso:; The main building of the Howl ing (i eon knitting mill is about ready to put machinery in place. , i It is hoped that the whet |s will begin to turn by the tirst of June. , Fourteen bales of Cotton oil the cotton platform at Van W'yck were almost totally des'royed by lire last Friday. The fire originatid from a spark from a passing locomotive. The 5.year-old daughter of Columbus Itaughn. an operative of the Fairmont mill, Spartanburg, was so severely burned Wednesday morning that she died about noon. The board of control for the proposed State rum mill at Yorkville announces that it is ready to receive applications for the position of barkeeper and propositions from property owners for a "suitable room" in which to do busiiuss. -? *- ? W ill I ijjlit in California. Now that the governor has doclincd to allow a prize tight in this State, Kobt. Fitzsiinnnms has sent a telegram to James -I. J? tTi ies saying he was convinced that tinonly State wher?? a glove contest could be hyld \yithout interference i wns California. Fitzsimmons fur. tiler said tliat lie would meet Jeffrie* anywhere in California and ' at any tint? 1" box for the championship of tlie world and that he would leave the making of arrangeineuts to JelTries, he to do the best possible for all coueerned. A Saging. Soaring Flood Washed down a telegraph line winch Cluis. U. I'll I is of Lisbon, la. had to repair. "Standing waist deep in icy water." he writes,"gave i me a terrible cold ami cough. It I grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oakland, Sioux City and Omaha said J had Consumption and could not live. Then I be. ganusing Dr King's Now Discovery i and was wholly cured by six lx>ttles." Positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Lung troubles l>y Tjio*. ii. Alcuch- , sui Price 5Qe ami |l.uu lad Accidentally Kills His Mother. A tie orate or yesterday tens ot an extremely sad accident wliicli oecured ir. Lexington county Sunday. The little son of a devoted ! mother?hor only child and her idol had the awful misfortune to! accidentally shoot and kill that j mother. The victim was Mrs. Pierce Hen- j drix. the second wife of her hue- ' hand, who is a well-to-do farmer! living about live miles west of. Lexington court houso. Her little j son hy whose hands she died, j Idar 1 y Jlendrix. is just 10 years of aire, and is heart broken. It seems that on Sunday morn- j in*;, while Mr. llendrix was away, j h laruo hawk flew into the yard, and be^an to piny havock with | the poultry. Mrs. llendrix. who was standing on the piazza, told j the lad to step inside the house, i Ket his father's uun and shoot the j tiawk. The little fellow ran in-j doors and quickly returned with the weapon. In izoiiu-T down the steps the trimmer was accidentally struck in some way and the cun : was dischar^o d. The entire load entered Mrs. I lendrix's riirht thiyh. 1 and severed the femoral artery, j Mis. llendrix sank to the floor with a ip'oun and in 15 minutes she bled to death, those about the ! place not beiiii; able to staunch the tlow of her life blood. WHISKEY I $1.25 Per Gallon. Mention 'Times'. Send for private price list Write: WINSTON CIS. CO.. WINSTON. N. C. i Lowest Priced Whiskey House Democratic Count) Convention n. .. . .. . m... v, ur i nr. wi- m'tka i i* r?.\ r.i i i i \ r. committkkokYokk i'oi m y. Yorkville, S. April 12, liH)2. Notice is hereby j?iven to each* ami every Democrat it* club in York county to assemble at their respective places of meet iim on the F() I' RT11 SATlJ R DAY, the 2tllh hay of April, IbovJ, for the purjk)sc of electing Delegates to a Democratic County Convention, which is hereby called to meet in the Court House at Yorkville at 11 o'clock, a. in., 011 Monday, the oth day of May, 1SM2, for the purpose of? (at Kleelino id dolcjrates to represent York County in a State Democratic Convention to meet in the city of Co- ; lumbia oil Wednesday, the 21st day of May, l'.to-j. tit) Kleetiiifj the member of the State executive coinmitte from York county. (c> Electing a county chairman, id) For the transaction of such other and further business as may properly come In-fore the convention. The convention shall be com|iosed of delegates elected bv the several local clubs, one delegate I irevi-ry T\Y IvNTYFIVK members, and ONK delegate for a majority fraction thereof with the rifjht to the convention to enlarge or diminish the representation according to circunistauces. The precinct election of delegates to the county convention will be held on Saturday, April 2th h, I'.ttrj, between the hours oi* One o'clock and Siv o'clock, p. m. For the purpose of conducting said precinct elections, each member of the executive committee, or in the absence of such member the president or vice-president of the club, will apimiut TlllJKlv managers of election at their respective precincts. Said mutineers will take and subscribe to the usual ojith to conduct said election fairly, honestly, and impartially, ami they will administer to each voter an oath to the etVect that he is qualified to vote according to the rules of tin* Democratic party, and has not voted before in t his elect mm. All persons known to be Democrats may vote in said precinct election. Each precinct will elect a member to serve on the executive committee, and all other officers to serve during tlu* ensuing campaign. The anility executive couiniittee, with the ix>U lists of the first primary election of 1 liiHi as a basis, reeoiumetul the following apportionment of ilrlegates to said convention, to wit: fallen . .... 5 Bethel 4 Bethany ..... f? l'lairsville 15 Bullock's Crock H Clover N Coatcs Tavern . 4 Clark's Fork ... 1 Kbene/er .... '-i Fort Mill 12 Forest llill it Hickory t Jrove . ... S McCounellsv ille ... a Nowjtort . . . . . M llock llill -J.s Aharon . . . It Smyrna . . ... 2 Tiriuih i Yorkvillo ..... 25 Bv order of the Democratic Executive Committc of York County. .!. S. Bit tc K, Official: Comity t hairjuati. 1. H. S vYK- Secret.ire Noiiliterli Ha Ih<i| Ni liniulr. Trains for Cliai ! ?lt?*. etc., from Columbia, etc., pass Fort Mill, S, I', No. oO. Riciimnnd Limited, (daily 1'bill a. 111; No. 2S. Local, (daily i S;0o p. in; from Cluster. No. t'?t. Local, (except Sunday) 2:.V> p. hi. Trains for Columbia, etc , from Cliarloite. etc., pass Fort Mill, No. 27. Local, (daily) 7:is a. rji; No. 2'.I, Richmond Limited,(daily) 1U:J4 p Mi; No. 7.7, Local, (except Sunday ) 2:7>"> p. in. Through sleepers for Richmond, War. lit nip on. New York, etc. ami for Auuusta. Savannah, Charleston. Jacksonville, etc. Close (onmotions at Columbia for all points and (it Charlotte with Uupugh trains fqi the Euat. Mexican flus Inn't stny on or ncnr t'io ?nrfac??, to till} U)in. ttud Ui'lVCS out, Ifcl Tor a Lame Dsc Bore Muse or, in fact, all L ness of your bod that will drive 01 Humiliation so o Me: Mustang I f you canned re self get some on it is essential tin rubbed in most 1 Mexican Flus overontuos tho ailments ?<f li<>rs??s ( it u> a lleab ticulcr i.n i }>aia ki'l'-r i i i ill SOUT 1 THE GREA OF TRADE . Uniting tho Prii Centers and He He sorts of tho A t NORTH, l!l((h>Cl?iia Ve?tlhul? Tri batwean N w York n n Cincinnnti And Florid Aiihoville. New Y ork end Florid*, !( and Sovaniiiih, or vlt Savannah. Superior Dlntn|(.CarServ Kxcollent Service and L count 5outh Carolina 1 Expoiilion. Winter Tourist TlcUrt# 1 rA^tiritrl rAtr"i. I For detailed information, li apply to nearprt tlcket'ugent S. H. HARDW1CK, General PaxMonyer Mgent, IV axhlngton, t>. R W. HUNT. Oil'. Passenger Mgent, Charleston, J. C. R. M. I^OlVTDOIVr, ROCK III I.L, S. C. JOB PRIHTTIIVG < [?rHqyDAY preset The Lamp of tTlie lamp that doesn't Ill to use li.nl ; lli< you i;et II and slays Rood itltjly part U ltll, otiro >011 ] "Che JNew Other lamps may l>o ofl tln-y may lie, In soma resp ness, there's onlv on". T sum tin' lamp ottered yon on it; every lamp lias it. OI?l I V>*q can till every lamp i want a new lamp or ft nee. Khol, a vase mounted or o e<l Inm a New Roche send von literalnre on III" Wc arc >1*1 CI M.IST5 In Lamps. Con THE ROCHESTER LAMP 1 v???????????? fang Liniment :<nt pocs An thioiirh tho mti?cles un<| ?tli oOiCi-U.'So iild 1., h>mHJjUIUwU? * Acs, amencss and Sore-? ' y tnere i.? nouiing lit. the pain and intiickly as Xiicsn Lcmnmemit, ach tlie spot your-? e to assist you, for it the liniment be dioroup;lily. tan*?; Liniment m<l nil domestic} niiimnls. In fnrty uoiiKittcr wtioor wlmttUo juitlentia. HERN .WAY T HIGHWAY AMD TRAVEL. icipnl Commercial ulth and Pleasure >uth with the J& & ST and WEST. kins. Through Sle?pln^*Csrs ci Nrw Orl?bn?, via AilanU. a Points via Atlanta and via lhar via Lynchburg, Danville k Kichmund, Danyilla and ice on nil Through Train*. ow Raiai to Charleston ac> g Inter-Stala and West Indian K to all Resorts now on sale at I \tcrature, time tubiex, rates, ate., d , or aUdresx far W. M. TATLOE, 1 JUsxt. Gen. Patx. Urgent, 5 C. Atlanta, Ga. p J. C. BEAM. R District Puxx. J3gnnt, K Jftlanta, Ca. 6 ? =c FOR j GOOD WHISKIES, WINES, BRANDIES, ETC., CALI. ON OR WRITE TO W. H. 11 GOV EH, I'll litLO ITE, N. C. TKY THE . City Barber Sliop b\>r a first-class IIA Hi ('IT, SUA V E, SHAMPOO, or HAIR SINGE. Carothcrs 6c SonPllOl'Kl ETORS. Third door Bnnk building. ITS-for EVERY DAY USE ' Steady Habits iro up or ?mok?\ or cnuso roil ^ lump tliat looks ipkmI wlifti f yf ; III -lamp that you liuvrr will- f ^ I I Rochester. ifjsp' 'oro'l yon na "just ?s koo?I 1 (- . i-ctii, hut f >r nil arouiut iroo?t r*rL 'TfiJI In' \> w li'or/io/i'r. To niiikn l-tgySMa I-. i'iiiiln?\ I"<'k lor (Imi uniuo f i 31imip new. / j^hla vant Nomatti-r win thi r yon ^ gf-Suffix ?3! ail til ono rrpain il or rvtln- C? ' Hp r nial-r of lamp transform PfUUCrfW J C? >ster wr i nn ?'? iu ia-L ue (X ccrrSJl rj Ihc trcdlmrnt of diseases I siiltntloa l:kl:U. ' - '-a CO., ' ' f'1 I'l-rn A 53 llarrlay St., Sew York. \