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F , VOL. XI . THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY. Executive Corniuitte Met Saturday to Ar /! range Campaign Schedule, etc Through the kindness of the edtor of the Rock Hill Herald, The I Timae iu -,?? W1...I. 4' * - u IU VIIUW1\U IU piUIISIl KHIIiy I the following Recount of Satur- r day's meeting of the county Dem- I ocratic executive committer t The county executive committee i of the Democratic party met in a the court house in Yorkville Saturday, pursuaut to the call of r the chairman. e There were present W. H. Dun- t lap, Antioch; VV. T. Jackson, Beth- 'J any; ?J. P. Blair, Hlairsville; W. B. t! Smith, Clover;T. W. Boyd, Coates* n Tavern; R. M. Wallace, Clark's f Fork; C. P. Blankenship, Fort i Mill; W. A. Youugblood, Forest t Hill; B. F. Scoggius, Hickory a drove; P. M. Burris, McConnells- n Vltlo- T II filo.... Vumr.n.t . T T 1 . ..>v J ?. , .*! v? .vim, ?l . ?l . I Hull, Rock Hill; ?T. H. Saye, t Sharon; It. W. Whites ides, Smyr- r, tin; It. J. Jackson, Tirzah; J. S. t Brice, Yorkville. The following were absent: G. L. Iiiddle, Bethel; E. M. Bankhead, Bullock's Creek; T. A. Barron, Ebenezer; B. F. Wilson, Flint Hill. . ii The convention was called to r order by J. S. Brice, chairman. . On motion J. H. Naye was re- j elected secretary and treasurer. ^ He then submitted the following y report of the transaction of the _5 ? , omce for the past two years: Amout ou hand from the camp&ign of 18j)8 $ 72.00 ~ Amount received from W. P. Pollock, campaign of 1000 23.00 ^ Amount received front candi- | dates, campaign of 1000 . 318.30 j Total campaign fund 1900 . 413.36 c Amount expended in campaign C of 1900 861.38 c Bulance on hand May, 1903. 53.04 ' This balance in cash, with about $300 1 additional (unpaid), was expended in ] advertising the holding of the recent , county convention. ^ The report whs a matter of con- j. ?siderable interest to the committee, si nee it appeared that the item of advertising consumed more than two-thirds of the sum that had beeu expended. The situation was discussed at some length, with f the result tnat the committee de- * cided that hereafter, and especially * in the pending campaign, expenses c must necessarily be curtailed, and ^ Messrs J. 8. Biire, W. 11. Smith ^ f and W. Thompson Jackson were appointed a committer to have di- 1 rectiou of theexuenditiir??of fnurlu for advertising aud other expenses. ? The committee decided to re- k epect the rule of the State execu- 11 tive committee and not assess U. S. v Senatorial or State candidates. It [ was deemed fair and equitable to assess Congressional candidates, ' the amount being fixed at $15 11 each. Their assessment in the * last campaign was $20. Assessments against county can- ^ didates were made as follows: t House, of representatives . . $ 4.00 _ Auditor 14.00 Treasurer 13.00 r Co. supt. of education . . . 7.00 t County supervisor .... 7.00 n Probate judge (4 years) . . 12.00 ^ County commissioners ... 2.00 Magistrates?Betliesda, Broad River, Bethel and Bullock's Greek, each 91.00; 8 Ebeuezor and King's Mountain, each $1.25; Port Mill, |1.00; York, $1,00; * Catawba, $3.25. Magistrates are assessed accord- ^ ing to the value of the offices. ^ Heretofore the fee was uniform, ^ $2.00 in each case. ^ The committee decided fo open the comity campaign at Forest ^ Hill, and the following schedule of the meetings was arranged: ' Forest Hill?Monday, August 11th. Clover?Tuesday, August 12th. ' Bethany?Wednesday, August 18th. ' Piedmont Springs-Thursday, Aug. 14. v Hickory drove?' Friday, August 15th. n Blairsville?1Tuesday. August lutb. n Rock Hill?Wednesday, August 20th. . Port Mill?Thursday, August 21st. 1 Tirzah?Friday, August 22ud. t Yorkville--Saturday, August 33rd. t OR! F' EIGHTH WEEK OF THE STRIKE. Ainers Say ll Will Coatinue Unless There is Arbitration. Wilkes bar re, Pu., J une 29.?Tlie beginning of the eighth week of he Huthraeite miners'strike shows 10 change in the situation. At President Mitchell's headquarters he board member, John Fallon, is n charge during Mr. Mitchell's ibseuce in the West. Mr. Fallon 6aid tonight that the nitiers were just as determined H6 tver and unless there was arbitrnion the strike is destiued to go on. Che national hoard member also lenied that there was any suffering ittiong the strikers. He said so ar there wns no prosecution and tot likely to l>e any for a long ime to come. The local operators re u unit in saying that a break nnv crime nnv <lu? ?.>?. j w ?. > j ?uj iiun, JL 11 IO UC" ief is based on the operators1 laiiu to bave received news from nany sources that the families of he strikers are in want. A $10,000,000 MIIL The largest cotton mill in the vorld is to be built within 20 niles of Kansas City, Mo. Ten nilliou dollars is to be invested, W.IO.'.OOO of which has already >een subscribed by Eastern and ? ao ?? " ? vokiu men. u. i>. oimill^haley, president of the Olympia ind Granby Cottuu Mills, of Coumbin, is to be president and central manager of the enterprise. Che mill will have 500.000 spinlies and 12,000 looms. It will employ 4,000 operatives and have a >ay roll of $2,450,000 a year. The capacity of the mill will be 170, 00 bales of cotton a year, with an mlput of 75,000,000 pounds of unshed cloth. The mill will be evolutionary in its cons ruction. Electricity will bo used as the notive power and several new deuces will be installed. There will m four mill buildings covering an i~C ?? ' * '6K,rK"lc U1 <&,wo acres oi ground. ? Southera Operates the S C. Jt 0 Ex. Monday night at 12 o'clock he Southern Railway commenced o operate the South Carolina & j?yjrgia Extension Railway, for airly the 3 C's, which, as is well mown in this section, extends from 3amden to Marion, N. C., a disance of more than a hundred u iles. An act passed at the last session if the Legislature empowered the Southern to purchase the road, aud tiany improvements in the eerice will doubtless follow the ransfer of the property. For a niig time the service of the road las been such that a change of iwnership was greatly desired by he public. The most interesting feature in onnectiou with the deal is the act that it is proposed to extend lie road from Marion to Johnston, :enn., and thence to the big coal egions. Before the road was Bold u the Southern work had commenced on the extension, and with he Southern back of the project his important railroad connection eems assured. Tk? Charleston Naval Station. Washington, June 27.?The conerees on the naval appropriation till reached a complete ngreemeut ndny on all items except that on tuilding war ships in government ards. The agreement carries 500,000 for improving the new laval station at Charleston, S. C., diieli is to be done, however, | inder one bureau, instead of being eparated into many branches of ; rork, as first proposed. This greenieut was reached after Chairnan t'oM, of inn uoiino conferee", ad been assured that the original >lan of selling the Port Royal staiou would be carritd out. '^WSKBSBf^ < Mil ORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA, Tw? Negroes Shot to Death. S There was a serious riot on the " g| train on the Southern road coming outof Augusta Saturday night. ^ It started in a drunken row. Fac- ^ tory people and negroes were engaged and knives and pistols were freely used. Eight or ten white men were tuore or less seriously shot and a half-dozen negroes were wounded. Two of the negroes, one named Wyatt Holes and the other Collins, were arrested in Langley and locked up. The people hecame infuriated and although Sheriff Alderman, of Aikeu, was ^ present he could do nothing with the tuob. S All of the wounded white men j were residents of Langley and vi- ^ I cinitv. and men irntli? .?<! f*1... ? . p> l?*c ^1 surrounding country to avenge them. Crowds gathered during the evening and at midnight broke ^ into the ciduboose and shot to dentil the two wounded negroes. Collins and Holes. r< - A Qraai lastltuf(< b The Thoruwell Orphanage has received $25,000 from an unknown (, friend in New York. We are not M out ineu. jt We do not believe that there is an ins'itutiou in the United States p that is a parallel to the Thornwell j, Orphanage. The writer remetii- e bers a good many years ngo when j, he stood as a small boy and saw e the corner atone of tlie first build- u ing laid. Having contributed 50 a cents earned by hard work, we p watched the progress of the build p ing. And we have watched it c ever since. From the one building costing probably three thousand dollars the Thorn well Orphanage has grown to a score of build- j, tugs costing hundreds of thousands, f, But the most remarkable part of it ull is the fact that during these j, years the institution has clothed H and educated thousands of friend- | less boys and girls who have gone to their piaceB in the world and H have occupied pos'lions of trust p and responsibility which was made possible by that obscure beginning j, wneu wiui a lew dollars voluti- j, tarily contributed, the first bricks were piled one on the other in the woods near Clinton. The struggle j has been li^rd for this institution, ^ for it started without an endow- c tnent and it has b en fed by faith With no endowment, with no re- j, serve fund, few needy children j, have ever been denied admission. tj Home days have been dark, and At times it has looked as though on p the morrow there might he hunger j, and want, but in some mysterious way the means have always been (| provided and the ins'.itution lias y grown and fastened itself upon ^ the hearts of the whole country. w The world has known few more a consecrated men than Dr. Jacobs, ^ and the work that lie hns done at ^ Clinton will live forever. It is not I surprising that some philanthropic ^ person who learned of the Thorn- M well Orphanage should have do- tj uated $25,000 to it.?Spartanburg p Herald. , t| Ttxfflt latfMtry tf thu Country. fi ai A few days ago the Census tl Bureau issued a report on the textile industry of the United States, fi The report says that the census si tables seem to indicate that the United States in 1900 wa-t the 3 leading country of the world in ci the manufacture of cotton, but it r< is well known that Great Britain h is far in the lead. ci The fact ia brought out in the Vl special report of the cotton indus- fj try, that an immense proportion ri of the spinning in the United ft States ia coarse or medium yarns, ai wl?cre?s the spinning on the other ti side of the Atlantic is much tiner. The report concludes: L "The sudden springing of the e' \ JL 1 WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1902. louthern States into prominence i tlie cotton industry is shown trikingly by the total inerea-e of itpital, from $20,418,414 in 1880 ( 3 $02.t>23,729 in 1890, and to c 187,172,501 in 1900. Ten years ' no, and also in 1880, Georgia was ^ usily tlie lender among the Southrn States, but it has now been ( urpassed by both North Carolina ^ n<l South Carolina, in each of hieh States the value of products as not much less than in the hates of Maine and New Hainp- ' hire, where the industry has been 1 stablished for half a century; and 1 lie number of hands employed ' i both North and South Carolina , urpass both of these two New higlaud States. The growth in ^ dab una has been also v ery great, he amount of capital having al lost exactly quadrupled in ten ' 11 c ears. I War Tax Off Yesterday. t The revenue repeal act, which * einoves all that is left of the war ' ix, went into effect yesterday, the ^ e^itinin^ of the fiscal year. The ' iternal revenue laws then re- ' urned to the point at which they 1 rere at the beginning of the Spanill-American war. At the commencement of has- 1 ilities Congress in the endeavor to tcrease the revenues of the govrmnetit coinniensurate with the 1 icreased expenses caused by the * uormous outlay in conducting the 1 rar, raised the tax on nil Hi ;?..?> ' - I ready taxed, and taxed many 1 liiugs on which no tax had been 1 aid since a short while after the ' ivil war. ' From Bryan's "Commoner." ( The true test of Democracy is ' 5}ally to principle, not eagerness Dr spoils of ofliee. A negro school in Illinois has Hen destroyed and the teachers < lid Students forced t. , flee. 1(1 I Uinois! f The man who compares the f nnexation of the Philippines with r lie annexation of the Louisiana < irritory proves-nothing save that * e is ignorant of his country's 1 istory. T From a Democratic standpoint t here is something wrong with the I )emoeratic platform that meets < rith the approbation of Keuuhli- c tin politicians. i When Americans celebrate the t 'ourth of ?l uly in Manilu they must e careful not to read the Declaraion of Independence. It is a crime j read the Declaration in some | arts of the territory under the ^ iirisdiction of the United States, liishop Thohuru says we are "in t le Philippines by thy act of God." Ui 11 the truly good bishop please ( oint to the chapter and verse hich tells us to go with bayonets ^ nd torches and water cure to | reach the peaceful and loving' ^ ospei or me iMazereneY The Mount Pelee eruption killed j O.Ov.O people, and America stood t gliast. More deaths have been r le result of an eruption of ituerialisiu and greed in this coun- v y, yet thousands of people pro*ks to see the hand of God in it v ud encourage future eruptions of t le same kind. c Mr. Hunna is ostensibly a great j riend of labor, and makes coiiiderable show of his etfort to sconcile labor and capitul. Mr. [anna mny be all that his friends rj laim, but somehow or other the ^ uuling of an editorial praising ^ im for his friendship towards ( rganiz d labor recalls the old ^ erse: "There was a young lady ? 'oni Niger who went out for a H de with a tiger. They returned v 'oin the ride with the lady inside, rj nd a smile on the face of the ger." - a Mrs. Frances V. Grist, wife of Cupl. p . M. Grist, died iu Yorkville Friday e reuing. o riME Important Seizure of Hot Stuff. Mondny afternoon at 1 o'clock >no of the most important seizures )f contraha?i(l whi-key and boer mule in this section for some ime was etfectcxl by Dispensary Nonstable Thomasson, assisted by a leputy, when four negro men were ' irrested while e I mill Dlmrlotte with a supply for blind im-ts at the (l-iin of the Catawba Power Company. The seizure (mounted to twenty.five gallons, nore than two-thuds of which was oru whiskey put np in flasks, j0^8 nut ke<^s. The four negroes arrested? 1 Mark Hellent, tJeor^e Davidson, Kli Nash and Steven Thomasson, hy name?wore brought to town ate Monday afternoon and tried before Magistrate Mills on the :har^e of violating the disponoary aw. All four were convicted, and ach received a chain gang R&11lence of thirty days or an optional line of !?H>0. Yesterday luortiiu^ Itrllent's wife paid his fine, hikI ?e was released. The other pris)iiers were taken to the chain jang, near Yorkville, yesterday. L'lie contraband whiskey and Deer will ultimately reach the. State dispensary in Columbia. Two of the negroes?Nash and J rhi.masson ? were croppers on the' [limitation of Mr. John Beny, in j Datawba township. Early Monday Horning the.se negroes slipped uvay from hoine in buggiiH3 belonging to Mr. 15erry. The buggies were seized, along with the contraband whiskey and beer, but as Mr. Berry was ignorant of the use to which they were being put, he experienced no troublo in having hem released. .? Mr. W. J. KJmbrell Married. Wednesday evening at 8.J0 | /clock Mr. W. J. Kimhrell, (lie! jopular carrier on one of the rural Vee delivery mail routes emerging mm Fort Mill, was happily iiiur ied to Miss Minnie llawtieid, an iHtimahlu lady of the Providence lection of Mecklenburg county. ST. C., at. the home of the latter. L'lie ceremony was performed by he Rev. M r. Sprinkle, of Pilieville, *J. C., in tlie presence of a number ?f relatives ami friends of the (ontraeting parties. Mr. and Mrs. vimbrell raine to their home in his township Thursday. Registration Board Visits Fort MIIL Pursuant to mi uit of the Legisature passed in l'.K l authorizing ho county boards of egUtration to iriit towns of over 500inhabitants, he board of resist ration for York ounty came to Fort Mill Friday norning and opened the books of egistration for the convenience of hose who preferred to register at loine ins ead of traveling to Yorkille foi that purpose. During the stay of the hoard in Ant Mill certificates were issued o 41) citizens, bringing the total lumber registered in this townhip up to d7?i. Unite a number vlio had misplaced their eertiHutes applied for new ones, but rere informed in each instance hat the board could only *i sue ertificntes from the court-house u such cases. Merited Praise, We Htpe. Rah for the sprightly Fort Mill ?imes; it has had the conr.ige and he get-up-and-get to forsake its lotmetal outside?has quit ediing the Fort Mill end of the Chari)tte Xewspap r Union, and is iow issuing a clean appearing and ttractive "all-home print'' paper, rhicli is a credit. Success to The ?itnes.?Rock Hill Journal. The lowor house of Congress yestorday gnwil to the Senate amendment apropriating $ptoono for the Charlostcn xposit ion. Mr. Fialey spoke in behalf f the amendment. :s. NO. 15. FORT MILL MELANGE. Minor Happenings In and About Town Told in Paragralis. Mr. S. W. Meiritt spent Sunday with relatives near ltock Hi1!. Miss Alice Ardrey, of Ardreys, N. 0., is visiting her sister, Mrs. ?T. L. Sprntt. Mrs. J. d. Cooley, of Darlington, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. li. Mendenhall. Mr. O. T. Crook spent Mondny in Rock Hill, his trip being of a business nature. M im Uetia Caldwell, of Harrisburg, N. O., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. F. Grier. Mrs. Kiln Smith ami children left Monday for an extended visit to relatives in Raleigh, N. ('. Mr. .J. M. White left Monday for Chester, to accept a position in the Springst in cotton mill. \r.. n: mi. vijuu nipp, assistant sin tiou agent at the Southern depot, iH spending a few dijs nt his former home at Alount villc, S. C. Alias Iluttie Curtis left Monday morning for a six-week's visit to tier part-nts, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. S.Curtis, in Lumliertnn, N. C. A colored lineman of the Wcs!.ern I'niun Telegraph Company had Ins right arm hrokeu by a pole falling on it at the depot Salurday morning. Mr. S. H. Kell. a citiy.cn of the I'rov'.denee neighborhood who is well known in Fort Mill, is a candidate for county commissioner of Mecklenburg county, N. C. Rev. \V. A. Wright and Air. Fdward Alerritt returned from Blaeksburg Sat urday evening, after sneiidinir aMi'urul .1 e ? n ?.v.> .... miyn nine HH delegates of tho Fort Mill Metho?Ji?t church to the district conference. Id a letter to the editor of The Times, Col. John I). Front expresses himself au being sanguine of success in the race for adjutant and inspector general. The indications are thai Col. Frost will rereive a f)altering vote in this township. Mr. Oscar \V. Potts is a candidate for the Legislature from Lancaster county. Two years ago he ran for the same otHee, hut was defeated. This year his chances of success are raid to lie much better. Mr. Potts has many friends in this section who hope to sec him elected. dc. T. ?l. Strait, of Lancaster, \v?h in Fort Milt yesterday in the interest of his candidacy for ('on urcss. Dr. Strait nays that ho feels very much encouraged over the reception tie has met with in the different parts of the district lie has visited. Laura Sullid^e, an a^ed negress, ? i "o t4i... 1 ? - - t?..u ti.uv tui iiic ir.iumpU'U lilCIl of h box of tnlcnm powder from the store of Mills <fc Young Monday morning. She was arrested and placed in the guard house, but succeeded in effecting a compromise by paying the town $1.50 and Mills & Young $5. Saturday afternoon at Gold Hill Academy a meeting of the Gold Hill cornet and string hand was held, the purpose of the meeting being the consolidation of the bands, which was effected after some discussion. Mr. C. T. Crook, who has been captain of the cornet band for years, was eloctod captain of the new organization. Dispensary Constables Thomasson and Kcroggins paid a visit tto the employees of the Catawba. Power Company Friday night irru the hope of capturing the blind' tigers which are said to be running, at large in that section. Thetigers evidently took to the woods, on the approach of the constables, as their mission was nusuccessful. Saturday morning Constable Thomnssou came to Fort Mill and seized a gallon of whiskey, the prop rty of a colored man.