VOL. XI.
THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE
Short Items of State News Conveniently
Grouped for Times Readers.
There have been 225 cars of
cantaloupes shipped from Blackville,
Barnwell county, this season.
The police of Columbia have
notified, those merchants having
slot machines that they can be op.
crated no longer.
Application has been made to;
the secretary of state for n elim-tei
for the Col 11 mbin and Georgetown
Steamboat Company.
At the meeting of the State
Teachers' Association, held . at
Hock Hill last week, President
Geo. 11. Cromer of Newberry College
was elected president of the
association.
W. L. Harris received his c inmission
as postmaster at Charleston
Thursday and was formally
sworn in by George I. Cunningham,
who laid aside the office to become
United States marshal.
The opening sales of tobacco
for the present season were made
in Marion Wednesday. The sales
amounted to over 110,000 pounds.
The prices realized were satisfactory
to the farmers.
Camden was visited by a disastrous
tire on Wednesday morning
of last week, caused by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp, which
destroyed all 1 lie principal plan s
of business in the heart of the city.
The loss is estimated at $100,000,
The board of trustees of Win j
C\itIahto Imu.i llw? f..l
r t"" V V?vv?v*l till I'M
lowing teachers to till the existing
vacancies: Miss Lumpkin, of Co'utnbia,
teacher of elocution; Mies
liarbot, of Charleston, assistant
music teacher; Miss Rosa, of Aaheville,
assistant in English; Miss
Evans, of Marion, assistant in history.
Fire destroyed one of the business
blocks in Sununerville Saturday
morning, burning cloven stores and
two dwel.iuge. The same block
was destroyed by tire ten years
ago, and the present conflagration
follows closely the lire winch
wiped out. another part of the business
section of the little city six
mouths ago.
After 30 Years, Escaped Convict Caught.
Hollis Truesdell, an aged negro
man who has lived in this township
for the past two years and
who has recently been employed ns
a driver by Dr. D. G. Thompson,
wns arrested by Policeman Nivens
vesterdav mot nine.
For several weeks Inteiulnut MeEllianey
and Policeman Ni veils
have had the man under surveillance,
believing that he was an escaped
prisoner from the penitentiary
in Columbia. In the book issued
by the State prison authorities
giving the names and descriptions
of the escaped prisoners there a p.
pears the name Hollis Truesdell.
Thinking that the negro living
here and known by that name was
this man, Intendanl McEihaney
recently began corresponding with
Mr. I. It. McPadden, at (iartonin,
N. 0., who, it was learned, knew
Hollis Tiuesdell at the time he
was sent to the penitentiary. Monday
night Mr. McFadden came to
Fort Mill and Tuesday morning
accompanied Officer Nivena t<> the |
home of Trneedell and at once
identified liiin as the escaped prisoner.
Hence the nrrest.
HolliB Trnesdell was convicted
in Chester in the spring of 1^72
or. the charge of grand larceny
and was given a penitentiary sentence
of ighteen months. After
serving four months lie escaped
and has since been at large. When
told why ho was arrested, Tunsdell
admitted that he was once a
prisoner at the penitentiary, b;:t
said that ho had been pardoned,
i He was taken to Columbia by
Officer Nivens, who will receive a
rewurd of $50.
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Campaign Meeting at Chester.
The reporter for The Times
attended the State campaign meeting
held in Chester Saturday. 'J'he
meeting was an orderly one and
was attended l>y perhaps as many
as SiX") people. Most of the candidates
for the minor State offices
spoke during the- morning hours (
and all were recorded a respectful
hearing, interspersed with more or
less applause.
The candidates for governor were
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wit) UlSl lilt' speaK. iMr, AUFell wilt; :
Hio first of tlio number to present .
liis claims to the voters for con
biilerntion, and he closed amid
some applause.
Then came I)r. Timmeiman, who
explained the issues as he saw
them. Dr. Tinimoitnan would
doubtless make a safe, conservative
governor, but the coti'-ensns if
opinion at the meeting was that, litis
making a 1? sing light.
('ol. -Tim Tillman was the next
candidate up for gubernatorial l
honors. His speech war. not different
to the ones lie has made at |
the other campaign meetings, ? :c- I
c.ept his reference to newspaper)
slanders and the Gall'iiey incident.
Concerning the former lie said:;
"They may crucify me upon a
cross of slander, hut God in lleav ,
en knows it is a.-> unjustifiable as t
when lhey pinioned to the cro s;
the lonely Xaxarenef In justitier.tion
?>f his couduct at GatVney i
lip riMW) u li?tt ir f mm ii?.? T*. ? \ 1 %
Weber, of Yorkville, in which lie 1
was adin mit bed "not to take too;
seriously the charge of falsehood
mailo against you at tho campaign I
meeting yesterday." Ho paid his]
respects to Editor Gonzales of Tho
State by saying tliat Gonztles was
a Cuban-American and that if Gonzales
thought lie was a coward he
desired to recall to theeditor's mem ory
an incident which occurred in
1800. Then he stated that he had
extended nil invitation to Mr.
Gonzales to visit Georgia in that
year, but the invitation was declined
with thanks.' Col. Tillman's
speech ended amid long
applause.
Col. Talbert was next introduced
and was greeted with cheers and
applause. lie dwelt upon his
proposition to appropriate to the
negro schools only that part of the
school liiiul which is collected
from them by taxation. He was |
willing to be judged by bis record
and did not want the ofliee unless
he deserved it. Applause.
The last speaker of the day was
Cnpt. lleywnrd, who receive I an
ovation. The hour was now so
lute that he hesitated to speak.
However, he discn.-sed the issues
and was ^iven close attention.
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Champion Jaffrlas Wins Agsln.
After li ;htin<; a bdtle of eitrht
rounds in San Francisco that
was fraught with brilliant nnd
courageous work. Dob Fdziimmons
Friday ni?jht foifeitod ].'?
last claim upon the heavy weight
championship of the world, lie was
knocked to the floor by James
Jeffries and counted out after he
had so badly punished the chnm
pion that it vvas a f rnro-ie conclusion
anions tiie spectators that
the Cornishmun ninst win. Weeding
fioin a number of gashes in
the face, apparently weakening,
niul clearly uimhle to cops with
Fit/simmons' superior skill, Jeffries
delivered two lucky punches
ns Fitzsimmons paused in his
lighting to speak to him. and
turned the tide. The battle was
| Inicf, but noteworthy, and will
live in pug'listio history.
Fitz 11 ied once to rise i'roin ihe
mat, but sat down again in help,
h ssuoss and heard himself counted
out, where but a moment before
he had apparently all the belter of
I the tight.
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>UT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA
Cclton Facts From thu Census.
Tlu> census bulletin on cotton
manufactures is full of intensely
interesting facts about the colt on
mil! industry, which has recently
shown such wonderful develop- i
uient. The census figures are in
elusive of the year 1DOO. The
report under the head of labor 1
iiiiH Hub timely conclusion:
"The change has not yet per
ceptibly a fleeted the South. 'There
the labor conditions are different.
The industry is growing al a won
dcrful rate. The help employed
is chiefly local. Whole families
in tint region enter the factories,
because in no other way can the
demand for labor be satisfied.
Con ojuenlly the changes in the J
proportion of men, worn* n and
ehiUi'ren employed are largely f. rtuiioiis.
lhmghly speaking there
were three times ns many mui,
twieo ns many women and and)
nearly three times as many children
einph yed in Southern mills
in HUH) there were in IShO.
The numerical increase was :2S.nl l
men, 17,1-15 women and 15,1 >211
children. Manufacturers took
whom they couh! get for opera
tivts in the new mills. The employment
of children was not a
matt* r of choice, hut of necessity
ami, eeotiomically, is a losing
tather than a profitable system;
for more than the savins!1 in the
w . '
<lol!;ir - :?:icl cents of their vva^t'8 i.-;:
lest svlit'i! tin.' (jimntilv ami quality
of tin ii* work ?-< considered."
An important table shows the
.. onsumption for l'.KiO in South
| Carolina to have been 185,0-1
bales; in 1 St>0 to have been 15.'CM-i
bales ami in 1SS0 to have been
! (121 bales.
j It will be surprising to note how
I the consumption of cotton has
j overtaken the pr* duction in South
! Carolina. According to the New
i York Ckronicl the crop in South
I Carolina, 1809-1000, was 200,810
bales, against a consumption of
| 41)5,021 bales. It appears that the
crop in South Carolina needed to
be supplemented by almost exactly
100,CG(),0CO pounds, drawn from
I other Slates, to supply its spintu'i'H;
that the Noitli Carolina crop
was deficient more than .31,000,000
pounds; thai Alabama made use at
home of two thirds of its crop;
that the great cotton-growing Slate
of Georgia (onsumed more than
one fifth of its crop; and I hat even
i Virginia, which had made less
progress in the industry than the
States further South, consumed
more than one-twelfth of its crop.
At tlie present rate of progress it
will not he long before the entire
cotton supply of the States along
the Atlantic seaboard will be taken
at homo. More than half of it
was taken dining the census year
here reportid; f >r of the 1,2<>0,
000,000 pounds raised by the
States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Ala-'
ban a, their own mills took (551,-.
000,000 pounds.
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Senatorial Vote !n Char'scidn.
In flic race for the United States
Senate, says the News and Con
rier, the Charleston vote will be
even more divided than in the gubernatorial
contest. There arc- six
good men who are seeking the
best office within the gift of the
t 3in i?
j >v m il iiie.>e gentlemen
spoke In re two wet ks ago they nil
devch petl more or lews strength,
and it is simply a ijftiulile to any
w!io will lead in Charleston on the
iL:st primary. There is no straw
| to show in which direction the
.political gale in sweeping. Tin
race is open -much more so than
that for governor and for the betting
people it is a case of pay
your money and lake y< ur pick.
After tiw> fust primnry it may be
; easy enough to figure on the vote
1 when it is known \%l>nt en miniates
; will make the second race. At the
present time, however, it is idle
1 speculation.
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WKONKSDAY, Jl'LY :!(), l!Mh!
Would-Be Congressmen Here.
The congressional cnmliihitcs in
this d'strirt cnme to Fort Mill Sut
?> 1 ' 1 1
uiudj (u mi ii'" mi uiih (U'KI II 1111*1*1 j
iuj^ in Confederate park. The fuel
that the meeting wna to be hold
wuh not generally known through j
nut.the township and only about a
hundred voters were presold,.
The eni ipaiou this year bids!
fair to be one of the spieient ever |
held in this district and the voters
are looking for#?i;ai with interest
to (lie outcome of the eloetioii.
J here are font eaiuliduti b for tin
position 1). K, L< in ley, ol \ oi k
\iile, the iucumhent; T. .1. Strait,
of I .arte.inter, ex eongr .-sinnn:
\V. 15. Wil.xon, a loailiti-T lawyer ol
Rock 11 ill, and Col. J. T. Fl*of
Kershaw, adjutant gem nil. They
are from diiferetit seetionn of th"
district and are all well known i
throughout tin1 community.
1 )r. Strait. Indd fli - '
M r. Fin ley wiw elected and claims
that four yours n?n he predicted
the treachery of Senator MrJ,iurin
to the Democratic patty, mid
the people owe him a lasting tril?ute
for his past services. lie
claimed that Mr. Fltiley 1 ingh d
at liis prediction whon made in the
court house at Yorkvillo.
Mr. W ilson was a firm be l e vel
in expansion and talked up tin*
Philippines. lie said that the
cotton crop was the all important
question in the Soiiili and pre
dieted that it would ultimately
! reach fifteen million hales, and an
i outlet was nee. s?ry in the Mast.
Genera! Floyd was the farmer
I candidate and of course la-lit vrd
! in rotation in o!lice; that is, from
j a lower office to a higher one, but
not io'atiou out of oflice.
Congressman Finley was the
next speaker, and it could be seen
at once that lie had the crowd, lie
replied to Dr. Straits statement
that ho laugh d at his prediction
concerning McLaurin and referred
to one of Strait's speeches and
claimed that Strait helped to make
McLaurin. lie sai-l his name was
, "Strait," hut that was about all.
Mr. Finh-y reviewed Ids past
I term, in office and referred to the
number of rural delivery routes lie
had established and the appropriations
he had secured for the district.
The meeting was orderly and
much interest was displayed in the
speech of each of the candidates.
President Kartzug Resigns
President Ilenry S. llartzog, of
Clemson College, on Friday rendered
his resignation to Col.
Simpson, president of the board
of trustees of t! at institution, to
take effect Jit once.
President Ilarlzog's resignation
was brought about by bis accepting
the presidency of the Slate I Hi
versity at Fuyelt -ville, Ark. lie
will leave Clems hi as soon us he
can arrange "to got away, as his
services are much needed at I'uyetteville.
The Arkansas Fniversity
lias more than 1 .<>.>'J students.
1>..^..| .1:
ii r r?ir mniu ;i 111 ^ ill*" I p; : 11'
of those who may possibly kii |
coed aMk. Ihiit/.o^. It is said that
< tiie B"ii{iiiiciit ainon.4 the members
J of tho hoard in k!ron^Iy cmilril|
iziiu; upon Prof. Sloan, of the
i South Carolina College, for the
| place. He would he an ideal man
i for the place if he would accept,
; which ia exceedingly <1 >ub fill.
Col. Simpson has ealh-d a meet1
ino of the hoard of trustees to he
: held August 12 to i lect Preside ill
I Haitzou's sucecB-or.
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Diet. week the statement wan
; made in these columns that the
; hooks of the Democratic club roll
! VL" i i 1 Ka h?l? iinw ? to.". .? ?
? .11 WW v.wtn iv.i Mfi v i;n\iu; I 11U
primary fiction. This was a mi.sluko.
The rules < f the parly pre
s<*riho that the mils mu.-t l>o kept
open until fiv?. ilnys Ivfore the
primary.
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FORT WILL MFUNRE.
Minor Happenings In and Ahout Town
Told in Paragrnhs.
Mr H. W. Wnlfo sfHMil Sunday '
with tvlativoH in liork Hill.
Mr. li. M. Spratt returned to
Chester Monday morninir, after a
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v unii iw in.ii i\ <*> iii r??n .Will.
Mr. \\ mi. ( \?l>!e,? } China (Jrove,
N. C? is spending a few (lays at '
tin' homo of his sister, Mi-. \V. L. i
Hall.
.Mrs. ( . It. ('raven and children, '
of Hook 11:11. wriv ouesls at t!>?v
home i i Mrs Downs, Mr- (.'raven's {
tnotln r, Sunday in. 1 Monday.
ftev nu extended visit to liov
sister, M rs. .1. Warren, Miss
Alice 1!t\l_'ep:ilh returned to her '
homo in Chester Wednesday inurn:
ii?^.
The Times is informed that j
Prof. .1. A. Lloyd is considering an
oiler to teach the public school at
Piiieville. LVof. 15-yd hi now liv
intr at 11 uutcrsville. N. C.
'i lie Tunes is pleased to null
uniee t he candidacy of M r. \V. 1*1.
Adams, .11.. of llethrl township. ft a*
j t!ic ol'ice of county auditor. Mr.
! Adams was in I'ort Mill \ 'stetday
; prosecuting his canvass.
Some valuable work is being
done on the streets < f the town l.y
a force of hands un lor the silver
| vision ui Oi'icer Xivens. 1 he im
! provemenls a: e particularly n j1 :? ??
' able on M i n itn. 1 lio itli h!i? el--.
! While in 1 ivn Monday nfterj
noon, County Supervisor ?T. I'*
j Gordon amlu;ii/.od The Times to
I announce his candidacy for re
{election. Mr. Gordon thinks his
i chanei H of success 'food.
After a shot! visit at. tlic home
: of his father. Dr. J. 11 Thornwcll,
Prof. K. K. Thornwcll left yesterday
tn< rnino for Lancaster, where
he will spend some time with
friends. This fall 1'iof.Thornwell
will loach school at Mayosvillo.
The doors of Gold 111II Academy
were swuno open Monday morning
and the fall term of the school
was heouii. with Prof, daekson
Hamilton, principal, and Misses
Cammie (Took and Mason Harris
assistant ! aiders. Tiie enroll
nient of pupils is up to that of
past ytais.
The tiiht annual reunion of the
Parks family of this section was
held at the old White mansion, the
home of Mr. A. 1L Parks, Satur
day. The reunion was held on the
85th birthday <>f Air. Jos. Parka,
Sr., tin* oldest surviving member
of tli<? family. Mr. Parks lias
more than 75 children, grand ohil
dreu and great grand children,
neai ly all of whom wore present.
Dr. Leon L. Campbell, of Knergy.
this county, sp *nt Wednesday
I of last wi ok in town, the guest, of
| Dr. D. (J. Thompson. Dr. (kunpi
bell recently graduated from the
medical department of the University
of Ijouisvdle. lie will
locate at Leslie, and his many
friends here hope that he will succeed
in building up a large and
luer.lt :Ve J TaCtiee.
Mr and Mrs. Leave Leonard, of
Lex'ngton, N. , are gnosis at the
Inane of Mr. .1. 11. Sutton in this
I o\v iirtln j). Ah. mil ,M rs. Leonard
' were married in C'iiurlottu Siturliny.
having t^rmo to that oily on
an excursion train. Mr. Leonard
! was n son of Iholi'o David Loon
arc!, who wns fclierili of Davie
i county, N. a few years n<jo.
; Mrs Leonard wns Miss Sadie lJelh*
j Elliott.
Tin- Times was pleased to re
J eeive a call Saturday afternoon
| from Mr. J. J. Hull, editor of the
1 Uoek Hill Herald, who came to
; town to r? port for Iiih pap- r the
up -ec-hes of 1 lie congressional can
cliclates. Mr. Hall is a veteran
n*",v?-viper "inn and is acquainted
; with the kind <>f matter it takes to
| make a weekly pnper interesting,
' and wo were pleased to hear him
I say that he considers Tin? Times
one of the last pipers iu York
I county.
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N<>. I'd.
An Uninteresting Game of Bisebatl.
The Fort Mill has. hill club all
hut mot defeat it the frame with
the Pineville team Saturday afternoon,
the score at the end <>f the
ninth ending, when it became necessary
to call the ??anie on account,
of darkness, standing 1 and Mi.
The home hoys attributed their
inability to win the ?iiino to the
absence of two or three of their
best players, as well a< to the fact
that their pitcher, Mr. Walter
Hoover, had to retire from the
trame before it was ltn11' over, he
having been struck iti the faee
while at hat w to a l>all from the
haml of tin* opposing pitcher.
An ?ther tyanie will he played between
tin' 1'iueville club ami the
home team in h'ort Mill Saturday
a f lentojo if th % ^jroutida can be
secured.
Cheap Excursion to Savannah.
Rock Hill IleraM.
W alnut (.'.imp. Woodmen of the
W orld, are making preparations
for a hi^ time on their excursion
to S.:\ .iin in. ( i., i?:i Wednesday,
j "August Id. There will lie only a
jlimitid number of tiekels Hold?
three hundred so as t > oive everyone
ample| ipportunity of enj >yin^
the trip. I In y will also have
' sp eiat eoaehes for the ladies.
Tile fare for the round trip will
only he All Woodmen and
their friends should avail themselve
i of this opportunity of visitj
i:n; the historic old city of Savannah.
Dj the Dying Never Weep?
! '"1 have stood hy the bedside of
1 hundreds of living people," said
i an oil physician at Topelca re
e? ntly.and I have yet to see a dying
person shed a tear. No matter
what the gri? f of the bystandcra
may he, the stricken person will
show no sign of overp ?wering
emotion. 1 have seen a circle of
agonised children around a dying
tuolhci a mother who in liealih
would have ban touched to the
quiek hy signs of grief in a child
? yet she rep jsod as calm and unemotional
as though she lias heim
made of stone. There is some
.strange nod inexplicable psychoI
i ii i-i
I logical ciiaugu wnien accompann s
tlia act of dissolution. If is woil
known to all physicians that pain
disappears aa tin; ? nil approaches.
And nat ure seems to have anange I
it so that mental peace shall nl o
at'end our last lingering moments.
Kansas City Journal.
From Bryan's "Commoner."
The president, is still pulling
exclamatory shaeklca upon the
vvi ists of t he trusts.
By all means get together, hut
let it lie done on Democratic principles,
not np in appetite for ofttc".
Two days before the president
told what he was going to do to
the trusts Congre.-s adjourned withI
out having doic a thing to tlmm
Ivten (1. But liberie says that he
| intends to have a vindication, and
: ir> fliiiu-i'M jir<< llml li<> ... i 11 ? ?
. ... ...... w . .. . . ? m ?? I I I * i ; t
j if Mr. tlmmtfn pull holds out.
If tin' popo wauls to enjoy a
! jolly Hiiiiini r In* should ivnd liwit
set of H'a sevclt books and roi.>
pare what they say with what t i
, author is now saying.
Newport 'society'' 11nfl just o\
P'rien -i ll Jh<' delightful turill of a
dinner at which a monkey was lie'
uuest of honor. The monkey ft-;.
. perfectly at homo.
The coal miners, freight hand
lers. dock lab >rers, steel mill met
and boiler makers will not be abl
to retire to the seaeoast ami p iform
their labors in (lie cool o ;
I lirri'Zl'S I I'. 'Ml I In* OCl'MH .
It is nil ritflit to kill tho fnl!.* !
call upon tin* return of tin* ; r ><l
t'n1, I?nt t lie prodigal asks too nine i
w 111*11 lie dew.main m steady \.r> f
i <11?*t at tin* expense of nil the live
: stock on the premises.
An Indiana houioernt roniplni
, because tin* pnrty (lid not Lew u
hio campaign fund in 1 ?<> nt >1
i'.KJO and hlnnw s the editor of the
The Cominoner f?>r it. Wed, wu
| eoiii 1 have collected ns inueli finis
the trusts MS the committee c 11; I :
IS.?2 if we had hoen willing n.
i iiiort^n^e the party to the iru.-Ui
| us it was mortgaged in