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F vol. xr. EDITORIAL COMMENT. An Augusta (bra.) labor paper is advocating municipal ownership of cotton mills. Who said thnt eome people ought to be operated on with a crosscut saw for prolapsus of intellect? mm* "Mr. A. C. Latimer is preaching against the prevalent buncombe in which certain politicians indulge against Republicans."? i orkviite unquirer. Perhaps it it is not too much to hope that the people of York county, as well as the county Democratic executive committee, will ere long learn that there are only four Democratic newspapers in the county?the Yorkville Yeoman, the liock Hill Herald, the Rock Hill Journal and the Fort Mill Times. * * The Yorkville correspondent of the News and Courier claims that the soil and climate of the Nile valley are absolutely necessary for a staple like Egyptian cotton, and that it cannot be profitably grown there. And it goes without saying that the Yorkville correspondent /if Tim M onJ O 1. ? ? v... A unu vy. nauns cits much about the matter as uny man iu the United States, Mr. A. W. Brabham, of Bamberg county, who is successfully growing his third crop of tho staple, to the contrary notwithstanding. * * * As the senatorial campaign progresses one fact becomes more and more apparent to the attentive newspaper render, and it is that Mr. Asbury 0. Latimer is the weakest candidate in the field. So far he has failed 011 every occasion to measure up with the other can didates. Messrs. Johnstone and Lvans have tossed him about in such a way ns to leave 110 doubt in the mind of any thinking citizen that he does not possess the intellectual qualifications necessarv fill 41*/* o.*??n4/v..r,l. .V '-4 >J >V mi I.UO priimui Oil I ?? L'lflHl" ably. It is said that Senator Tillman remarked not a great while ago that "Latimer is a damn fool.'' If the senator did make such a remark, it is possible that he had in mind the statement Mr. Latimetis said to have made to the effect that members of the cotton spinners1 association meet in Charlotte annually and fix the price of cotton. Up Salt river's breezy clime; Better luck another time? when you aspire to a place you are qualified to fill, Mr. Latimer. * * From the daily papers it is learned that among the names of the beneficiarios of the artificial limb fund appears that of Adjutant General Floyd, who lost an arm in the civil wnr. The artificial limb fund, as is well known, was created by the Legislature for the benefit of ex-Confederate hoIdiers who lost a limb while in the UnrvicA Tim !?/-? m-ooi!.... 41... e. ?.1 . ..W* uicniiu^ Ilic 1 It Mil does not expressly state that only those who are too poor to boy limbs for themselves should be the beneficiaries thereof, but this was clearly the intention of the Legislature. Then, wherein the justice of Gen. Floyd participating in the distribution of the fund? It cannot be truthfully stated that he is in need of State aid in this connection. For four years lie has held the office of adjutant and inspector general, at an annual salary of $1,500; besides, he is a prosperous farmer. Gen. Floyd is a candidate for Congress in this district, and before the campaign is over he will probably face many needy old soldiers who are entitled to a part of the fund, but who have not received it. The Times therefore suggests to Gen. Floyd that he turn the $22 he has received as his part, of the fund over to some comrade who really needs it. There are at least three such veterans in Fort Mill township, each of whom lost a limb lighting for their Country. v( I ORT FO MINERS APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. The Circular States the Line of Action Determined On?No General Strike. At 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon the convention of United Mine Workers, in session at Indiannpolis, Jnd., adjourned after declaring against a general strike, providing for the raising of a fund with which to aid the striking anthracite miners and issuing an appeal to the people of the United States for support. The circular to the public Htates the line of action determined on and the reasons therefor. It says in part: "When we look upon enormous fortunes that our labor has made possible, and luxuries it brings to the people at largo and then examine the paltry pittance we receive as wages for the labor we have to perform, the dancers we undergo, the dampness we must endure, the foul nir we must breathe and the peculiar rheumatic and lung troubles, superinduced by these conditions which we must bear, we naturally feel that we are being dealt with unjustly. "The extremely low wages paid to anthracite miners; the refusal of the coal companies to have the coal properly weighed, or permit the miners to employ a man, at their own expense, to see the coal they have mined weighed, measured or credited; the great number of hours the miner must work each day in the most unsanitary conditions; their cruel and unjust treatment tiv i-ntti* <! .? ? J uv/aoco, HIC III UlUfllJf assumption by the employers that neither the miners nor the public has any lights that are entitled to be considered by t hem, have forced ?is to organize, not to take from the operators that which blengs to them, tint to secure, by business methods, better treatment and fair recompense for our labor. "If it is the put pose of the coal operators to destroy our union, then upon the principle that selfpreservation is the first law of 11 ture, we would be fully justified in taking drastic measures to prevent the accomplishment of their designs. "\Yre believe that our interests in the communit y and our obligations to the operators with whom we have'agreements, require that we shall not inaugurate a general suspension of work in the coal trado. 1 hey may destroy our union, but they cannot make us violate our contracts. The struggle in the anthracite region will bo continued until our demands have been ! _ uiHinfM or a competent board of arbitration lias declared that we are wrong." The circular appeals for all possible pressure on the officers and stockholders of all anthracite coal interests to secure a general arbitration. The miners of Illino's have appropriated $50,000 from their treasury. Ohio gave $10,000 and Iowa and Indiana promised contributions later. President Mitchell declared that there was approximately $1,000,000 in the treasuries of the various local unions, of which they should contribute onehalf. The convention then adjourned. ? Has Had Similar Experience. Yorkville Yeoman. The editor of the Fort Mill Times is having some experience tl.f.4 OL I- > - ' vti i j uuf una who tries lO make his paper interesting?fool folks eon-truing his words into meanings ho never intended for them and imputing to him motives he never dreamed of. Quite recently a minister of the gospel chose to 'fall out" with this paper for the publication of an item to which was given very little thought at the time because it had only the quality of interest and was not worth serious consideration, and a few thoughtless pe >ple criticised without ever taking the trouble to inquire of the facts. The matter had the meiit of being a public matter and whereas when the truthfulness of the publication was questioned it was easily maintained; thence some 1< ss wise claimed that the reporter had taken advantage of a private conversation, a charge equally false and as easily proven, but life is too short to pursue such with a waste of valuable gray matj ter. Time and their own mouths will eventually condemn theui and show how dreadfully deceitful is the human heart; that even when it would do good it is "prone to err," MI] RT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA, Tillman Outlaws Von Kolnitz. A Charleston 'lispatcli states that Senator Tillman lias i>nt Mr. breorge Von Kolnitz, a candidate for the State senate from Charleston county, under the ban, and he declares that if Mr. Von Kolnitz is elected he will never do another thing for Charleston. Senator Tillman's declaration on the subject is most emphatic, having been given in writing as well as by letter, and he declares thai he means every word that he has said. Senator Tillman's opposition to Von Kolnitz is based on Von Kolnitz support of the Republican party platform and candidates in the campaign of 181)0. Von Kolnitz made a number of speeches in opposition to the Democratic ticket in New York and other doubtful States, lie spoke as a "sound money Democrat," opposed to the Chicago platform, prefering the triumph of the Republican ticket to that put out by the Democratic convention. McLaurin Declines the Judgeship. President Roosevelt is in receipt of a letter from Senator John L. McLauriu declining the protTerred appointment to the vacancy on the bench of the United States court of claims. The president, it is said, much regrets Senator McLaurin's decision, as he believes tliut MeLaurin's senatorial experience and his career as attorney general of South Carolina would have rendered him a particularly good addition to the court of claims. -? Bricklaying by Machinery. A Canadian has invented a machine for laying bricks which does the work of six or seven sk lied bricklayers and cost ?500. In common house walls a bricklayer, with a laboror to keep him supplied with materials, will lay on an average about 1,500 in a day of ten hours. In the neater outer faces of back buildings he will lay 1,200; in good, ordinary stroet fronts, 800 to 1.000, and of the very finest lower story faces, from 150 to 500, depending on the number of angles, etc. In plain massive engineering ho should average about 2.000 a day. The machine is adapted only to plain work, and should lay from 0,000 to 12,000 bricks a day. Two men and a lad are required to operate it. From Bryan's "Commoner." The Republican party always was a great hand at busting the trusts bet ween sessionsof Congress. Are we to understand, Admiral Dewey, that Ainorican lives were sneriticed to Spanish pride and naval complacency Y The cable informs us that J. Pierpont Morgan has left Berlin. We are pleased to know that Mr. Morgan will leave something. President Roosevelt said a few words in denunciation of the trusts and then took dinner with Mr. Frick of Homestead riot and steel trust fame. The steel worker with his 10 per cent increase in wages still has cause to ponder when he bumps against the 40 per cent increase in foodstuffs. The men who bored holes in the bottom of the Democratic ship insist that they he given command of the viss?d because they know just where they bored the lioh-s. Now that Congress ha} adjourned the president has delegated Congressman Littletield to draft an anti-trust law. People who dearly love to ho deceived by this sort of thing will tiiui in this sort of tiling Something to deceive them. The Colored Deaoon's Prayer. A white minister, nfler conducting services at a colored church, asked an old deacon to lead in prayer. The brother in black offered a fervent appeal for t lie white brother, and said: "Oh, Lord, gib him do eye ob de eagle (let ho spy out sin afar otf. Wav his hands to de go pel plaw. Tie his tongue to de line ob truth. Nail his enr to de gospel pole. How his bead way down between his knees and bis knees way down in some lonesome dark and narrow valley where prayer is much wanted to be made. 'Noiut him wid de koryseno ile of salvashon and sot him on fire.''? Roanoke (N. 0.) News. X 1 WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1902. Condition of the Growing Cotton Crop. The high temperature of last week continues in the Gulf and Atlantic States, hut without injury, as the weather is generally cloudy. Ah a consequence of prevailing thunder showers, and general rain in sections, the temperature has moderated, and is now slightly helow normal in the northern portion of the "belt," about normal in Georgia and the Gulf States, and slightly obove normal in Texas, all of which is very favorable. A general rain in the Atlantic States, with thunder showers over the entire belt, with the exception of Tennessee and Arkansas, has put the greater portion of the crop in a favorable condition. if..;.. ? -1 .1 - 1 id nil i I CI'UOU III lilt? WCBl* ern p irtion of Texas, l?ut tlit? remainder of the iStuto is in good condition. The continued dry went her in Arkansas and Tennessee has fortunately been attended by cool nights and moderate temperature during the day, with con.-iderable cloudiness, so that with moisture from June rains, conditions are still favorable. Good rains would prove very acceptable just now. The drought has been broken in the southern portion of Louisiana by good rains and temporarily relieved in central portion by good showers accompanied by general cloudiness. Deterioration has been nrruuliwl l*?W tlo? ???1"-'^ ^4 4 1 .. vu?v.u, uui iiic nuuic OIIUC llL't'd." rain. Conditions in Mississippi are about the same as in Louisiana, although rains have been a little more general. If good results are to follow in this State, the rains must continue. Conditions ii: Alabama are somewhat improved, though there is not sutfieient rainfall for safety. In Georgia condith ns are nearly perfect, the rainfall in this State having been more general than in any other portion of the cotton region. North and South Carolina have been blessed by generous rains and conditions are pronounced well nigh perfect. Upon the whole, tho past ten days have been favorable in the greater portion of the belt. Family R. F. D. Boxes Necessary. The postmaster general has issued an order providing that after October 1, 11)02, each person desiring the rural free delivery service must erect at his cost and by the roadside, so that tho carrier may have access to it without dismounting from his vehicle, a mail box conforming to the specifica lions approved and published by the department. Such boxes as conform to the requirements may be stamped by the manufacturer, "Approved by the postmaster general," and will then conic within the protection of the law passed at the lastsession of Congress making it a criminal offence to tamper with mail receptacles on rural free delivery routes. The order provides that the same box must not be used for more than one family, except in the case of near relatives or those residing in the same house, and rural carriers are directed not to serve those who subsequent to October 1st have not complied with the requirements of the order. - ? Two Gretna Green Affairs. Mr. Edward T. Reeves, formerly engineer for the Fort Mill Mfj?. Company, tmt recently employed in Charlotte, and Mis* Susie Lumpkin, daughter of Mr. IV T. Lumpkin, of that city, ran away from the home of the young lady's father Saturday afternoon and were married l?y a minister whose name is not announced. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves passed through Fort Mill Sunday morning en route to their future home in Edgefield. Mr. W S. Stacy, of Morgantort, N. C.. and Miss Annie Carothers, daughter of Mr. W. R. Camthers, were married Sunday afternoon. Mr. Stacy is a plum her and is temporarily employed at the Dover Yarn Mill in Pineville. Sunday afternoon he and Miss Carothers loft town ostensibly for the purpose of visiting a relative of the young lady in the country. Instead of going to the home of the relative they drove to Notary Public W. O. Bailes', where he performed the ceremony that made them man and wife. Ttetnl the advertisement of the store of the Fort Mill Mfg. Company. PIME FORT MILL MELANGE. Minor Happenings In and About Town Told in Paragrahs. Miss LuIh Hall, of Laurens, is visiting at the home of Air. A. A. Young. Miss Maud Thompson returned Saturday morning, after a visit to friends in Dallas, N. C. Miss Jcmie Fowoll, daughter of Mr. Will Fewell, <?F Rook Hill, is visiting Miss Louise MeMurray. Miss Coriune Kondrick, an accomplished llock llill young lady, is the guest of Mrs. J. li. Mendenliall. Mrs. M. M. Watson has moved into her pretty new cottage on liooth street, opposite the residence of Mr. 11. F. drier. Having heen convicted before | a I .*! >> nxni^iBiruie Willis i t carryingan unlawful pistol, Tom Seigle, colored, is serving n short sentence on the county chain gang. The Times is requested to state that there will bo preaching in the Prt shytorian church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Thornwell. Monday morning the first contribution to the proposed monument to be erected to the memory of the late Prof. L. Shurley was received by Mr. \V. 11. Menchain from Mr. R. ,1. Mellwain, of Clio, Alabama. Misses Kitty Kirk pat rick, Wren Harris and Louise McMurray left this morning for All Healing Springs, N.C., to attend a house party, to be given by Miss Grace Kirkp drick, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Kirk pat rick, president of the Jones Seminary. It is statod that the Dover Yarn Mdl, at Pinevillo, will suspend work Saturday at noon and will be closed for six week* (lie i of the shut down being to rearrange the shafting throughout the entire mill and to install u number of new spinning frames. The Fort Mill M fg Company has another secretary and treasurer. Two weeks ago Mr. 10. S. Link, of Chester, came here with a view of accepting the position, which hud been tendered hint on account of tin' ill health of the then secretary ' and treasurer, Mr. \V. B. Mcucham. Mr. Link returned Monday morning and assumed the duties of the place. The Fort Mill baseball club has arranged a match game with the Pineville team which will bo played on the grounds of the latter Saturday afternoon at 4. JO o'clock. The home team, composed of the following young men, is sanguine of success: S. \V. and 10. S. Parks, James and Allison Thornwell, H, C. Ferguson, lien Mussey, Walter and Edgar Hoover and Jus. Kizer. While cleaning off the yard of Mr. J. C. Warren, local section master of the Southern, a few days ago a negro man unearthed a foreign coin which appeals to have been made in 1 175. The coin is so worn that the year in which it was lltltde I'll ll nnl tin /liolnmlltp . . X ...? aawv 1 * l?\* VlinllllV>(i ) , l>ut all who have aeon it are of tho opinion that it was made in the year indicated. The coin is of metal that looks like copper, and is about tho size of the old-style onecent piece issued hy tho government years ago. Among t!i? number who took advantage of tho excursion rates from here to Columbia and return \esterday the following were noted: Messrs. 1). N. Gaston, IV It. and J. NV. Collins, Andy Coffee, S. J. Kimbrell, Grover Ilall, T. !J. Hoik and little sons?Joe ami William ? J. \V. Bailes, I). K. Thompson, Walter Bailes, Guy lilankenship, J. 1'. and Wilson Crowder, K. II. I'hillips, J. H, Bailes, J. (J. Farmer, J. 15. Chapman, A. A. 1> If 1 T? __ 1 *1 jmjiuloi ii. " i ., uik1 i>l ISSeH XL.iimice Hall, Mary Hasina mid Heulah Crowder. Jim Gaston is a weaver at tlie Millfort Mill. Monday morning lie went to work aa usual not anticipating that he would soon find the services of a physician necessary. ('barley Thomas was an employe of tin* mill some time ago, and while at work there lie and Gaston had differences which were not adjusted before the former i|uit work at the mill. So Thomas entered the mill Monday morning, slipped up behind Gaston and struck him two stunning blows on the head with a shuttle, inflicting a like number of ugly gashes that had to bo sewed up. An effort was made to arrest Thomas, but he left town too hurriedly to be overtaken by his pursuers. ? . ^ ;s. NO. 18. Five Negro Gamblers In Limbo. Sunday morning in n cabin near the works of the Charlotte liriok Company, 2 miles south of town, ten negro men were arrested by Constable T. A. Mills and Mr. II. (Culp, the charge against live of the men ?LewisCrawford, George Hallard, 15ml Moore, Sid White, and Luster Mobley?for whom warrants were issued Monday morning by Magistrate Mills, was gambling at cards, while the others were held as wittnesses for the State. All were brought to town and locked up at the police station. Sunday afternoon friends of the men arrested as wittnesses secured their release by depositing cash collateral for their appearance at the next sc-hiou of the criminal court, when the five prisoners charged with Lrainbliiur will b? tried, (jumbling in an offence not within the jurisdiction of magistrates, and the live prisoners were therefore committed to the county jail Tuesday morning. ? Fort Mill Will Be There. The indications are that Fort Mill will he represented by quite a number of voters at the State campaign meeting at Yorkville Friday. The principal interest, of course, renters in the race for governor, and the three leading candidates, Messrs. Tillman, Heyward and Talbert, will each have friends from this side of the Catawba in the audience. Some are also anxious to hear the speech of .Jas. Cannier, who is running?whether very fast, de ponent sayeth not?for the otliee of railroad commissioner. For several years Mr. Causler has been what some term a chronic olfieeseeker, for the position of county superintendent of education. Having failed to land the job, he now aspires t > something better. May be lie will succeed and may be he won't. A number of newspapers ridicule his speeches and say that he is the clown of the campaign parly, wiiile others aver that lie is as sensible iiihI makes as got*I spooi*lies as his opponents. In any event, ho is sure to prove a good drawing card, being a county man and having the reputation of a mirth maker. Whether he will draw as well on election day is another story?one that can not 1k? told till after August 2(>th There are probably few, however, who would trade the prospect of a night's refreshing sleep for his chances of suece.-s. - - ? Throughout the State. Owing to unavoidable delays the Augusta-Aiken trolley line has not yet been complettil, but the first car over the line will be run within thirty days. The Greenville News has sued Hub Evans, dispensary director, for assault and battery for spanking its editor, and Evans sues The News for criminal libel. A gang of horse thieves has been operating in Aiken county. Upon the appeal of many citizens the governor ha-' ottered a reward of SI00 for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty party. The Charlotte Observer is informed that New England capitalists have decided to erect a S2o(),000 bleachery at Greenville. Tin re are only four bleaeheries in the South?two at Concord, N. one at West Point, Ga., and one in Aiken. John Collins, a white man, is said to have been killed near < Mar, Barnwell county, Wednesday bv lightning, lie was on a mule and had just stoopod down and taken his baby in bis arms from his wife, when he and his mule were killed. The Imhv wnu ? J " ? " "1 ' Tilt; Chester Si Lenoir narrow naugo railroad mm hiicIi will pass away by August 1 111 if thus* in charge of tin? work art! to be taken at their word. Trains of standard ^aii^o will on that date, a alerts the plans miscarry, be ran from Dallas to Lenoir, making use of the Southern tracks between Newton and Hickory. At Laurent) Friday Walter Barksdale, formerly a trei^ht conductor on the Charleston and Western Carolina railr >nd, was given a veidict in the common pleas court for $3,COO against the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad Company for injurios alleged to have been sustained two years 11140 w. ilo in the defendant company's cm| i?^y.