Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 23, 1902, Image 1
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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?
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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;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.
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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.
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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
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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.