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THE FORT HQX TIMES. DEMOCRATIC. VTTI'I TSHKD WEDNESDAYS R W. BRADFORD. Tit.v? of Srns> lUiTlox : One year ?t.(Wi Si* month* ..#?i Three mm it Its .213 on currmit K-ihjeet* is invited, hut no responsibility is assumed for the views of eorres|xnidt'iitK. Advertising rates are made known to those interested on a|i|ilieation to the publishers. Fort Mill Telephone (with long distanee connect ions) No. 2U. OCTOHKll S. 1(H)>. A Fri?lay despatch from Washing says Hint the oreat coal confer dice between the President and represent tut ives of the operntoi'H niul the miners, came to and end nt the temporary White House, facing Lnfay. tte Square, at 4:5o o'clock this afternoon, with a failure to roach an aipcement. Apparently the rock upon which the conference split was recognition of tin' miner's union. The President had uracil tho contending parties to cease strife in the interests of the public welfare; the minors, through the president of their union, had expressed a willingness to submit ditTer uices to the arbitration of a tribunal to !? named by the President and to enter into an agreement to abide by the terms fixed by the at hit ration for a period of from one to five years, and the employers, through tho presidents of the railroad and coal companies, and a leading independent mine operator, had squarely refused arbitration, had denounced the miners' labor organization as a lawless and anarchistic body, with which they could and would have no dealings; had demanded 1?\ d end troops to ensure complete pro? lection to workers ami their families in tlioininiiiLT region ami court proceedings against tlio miners' union, and had offered. if the men returned to work, to submit jjriev nnces at individual collieries to tlie decision of the judges of the Court of Common I Mens fur the district, of Pennsylvania, in which the eol liery was located. There the matter(dosed. Tonight both the miners and the operators are still in the city, hut. tomorrow they return to their several local-ities, eaelfsaying at a late, Juuir that the stru^le will continue.. 'The situalion in the coal strike which is bearing so heavily on all sections of the country is reviewed as follows: The people are botrinninj* to speak out in heluilf of their rights in tlie anthracite c.oal fields. 'That they have some rights there is 110 doubt. There is no reason why they should suffer from lack of t V i ? iiu'i necause tin1 coml operators and the coal miners fail to ? ??nu? to an agreement, with each other sh to wanes..', People do not undertake to say that the strikers shall he settled with on their own terms. They do not say that the eon I operators are in the wronger that the strikers are in tho wrong. They simply say that it. is the duty of the coal operators to give them coal. And thus far they have raised no question about the price though they would if they believed the price unreasonable. Parties in l?ost>oii have filed a bill in the supreme court of Massachusetts asking that a receiver be appoint? d f? r the coal roads a receiver that will opperate the mines. The people of Meriden, (sain., at a mass meeting, have pissed resolutions asking the governor of Pennsylvania to inaugurate proceedings looking to placing the coal roads in the hands of a receiver, so that the coal mines will he operated III.. i-i: _ nun iiiu [>li 1)11(1 Will lit' IklllO got coal. Evidently a crisis is approaching in the hattlo between the coal opera torn ami the strikers. The public in taking a hand in it and soon 1 here will have to he an adjustment ?d the differences. The public does not intend to be the victim of the stubbornness of the opposing parties much longer, ir tliey can help it. There must be an agreement, or one party or tinother must give under and that Soon. With the public demanding coal the strikers seem to have the best of the battle. If thoy can hold on a few weeks longer?until freezing weather sets in?the coal operators will have to yield to prevent riots in the cities in which autlirncito coal is the chief fuel. The mine owners have been pretendimr "Ilint they could operate the mines if given protection, hut it is evident that they cannot, as a suftirient number of miners cannot be had. Tiic governor of Pennsylvania hap been and is still giving them all of the protection he can, but they have made hut little progress in getting the coal out of the mines. It looks as if they would have to make coqeegsious, Many of the newspapers of tlx* Stale me disscussiug tlx' advisability of an net prohibiting children 1111< 1:'r 111 years of age wurki ng iii the mill ami also all ednc.itioiial law providing for ho many months sehoohug. Hot h of these i laws would be a great In dp to the State, ami we would like to see the next legislature piss them, lint, if neither lie enacted, the next liest law would lie one to place on the chaingang the many fathers who 'compel their children to work, while they lie around idle and drink ami in other ways squander j"tlie money earned by the children. The rate at which the Sou lis textile imluslsy is growing is liest revealed by the fuel that during the thitd quarter of the year embracing July, August ami September, plans have been made to add to the southern textile equipment JUS.oi'iS spindles and N.fil 1 looms, representing an investment of about $<>,">(>1,31)0. Figures compiled l>y the Manufacturers' Record in last week's issue show 1 72.J2S spindles ami 1.11S looms to he added by 20 established eompunies and 1 ."in,Oat) spindles and looms to lie installed by Id new companies. Wlcox Gets New Trial. Times readers will bo interested and pleased to know tliat .lames Wilcox, convicted of tho murder i of Miss Nellie Cropsey at Kli/.a- | , both City, N. 0., last November, is 1 to lio jjiveii another chance to dis prove his iruilt. This decision ' was handed down by the supreme court of North Carolina. In LrrantiiiL! a new trial the su ; preme court says the evidence was j entirely circumstantial. The jury docs not seem to have given the j necessary cautious and vigilant J attention to the evidence, or the, presentation of the pi isouer's case i by counsel. It says that tin- con i duct of the spectators in and about the court was sutlicieut to' prejudice the jury. "No such demoustrations," reads the opin-, ion, "were ever wittnessed in our j State before. Anion*; these demonstrations: i were people leaving the court ; room in a body and the rinuing of | a tire alarm. The court docs not | timl the jury was influenced by ( these thinirs, but viewing all of! IIiih disorderly conduct, it says the | i trial was not eondneted in the proper form of law, and gi\cs a J now trial to Wilcox, which it Nays must he attended by no such dominant rations of lawlessness and in tiinidation as were present on the former occasion. The next term of the court, begins in Pasquotank County on November 17. and the ; case will be heard again at tliut time Curious Ties of Divorce. There are 110,000 more divorced women than there are divorced men in the United St.des, the olliI rial Inures being 8-1,000 divorced i men and 11 t.000 divorced women. The desparity is accounted for by I the fact that men procuring divorces or from whom divorces have I been procured more often remarry I than the women under like conditions. The number of divorced men is Inri'CMt ill I milium %ul?i?.l? lum j 5,7000. There arc more than 4,000 each in Ofilif<>rnin. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, New York and Pennsylvania. Texas lias 0,300 and Massachusetts 2,500. South Carolina, the only State ; which has no law authorizing or i permitting divorces, has 275 di| vorced men among its residents, and South Dakota, a State which has become noted by reason of the facility wdli which divorce is granted, has 563. ? _ Believes Democrats Will Win In 1904. Senator Harris, of Kansas, has just returned from Europe where he went in the interest of the St.. Lous lair. Speaking of his trip. Senator Harris pointed to his shoes which were American made and which he purchased in London nt 20 per cent, less than they enn be bought for in this country. The senator states that ho found numerous instances where similar conditions prevailed and lie emphatically denies that the goods sold abroad by American manufacturer? are only the surplus products, lie says that the American manufacturers are selling; their goods abroad at n fair and reasonable profit and that they are selling them in this country at oxhorbitant profits. Senator Harris believes that the prospects of Democratic success are much bettor than they were a fe-v months ago and speaks most confidently of the prospects for XlH>4. How to Mako Water Breaks. A government publication gives | tlit* fallowing insiiii ti nis to r ud | ImildeiS as ti? the pioper prepaia- | ration of "water breaks' on (till i sides: ! "In order to prevent the wash ( ing out of earlti roads on lulls it , Home iines becomes necessary to construct water breaks; that is. j broad shallow ditches arranged so j ' as to catch the surface water and carry it each way into the side ( ditches. Such ditches retard traf lie to a certain extent, and often result in overturning vehicles; J consequently they should never be ' used until all other means have I failed to cause the water to flow into the side channels; neither should they- lie allowed to cross ) the entire road diagonally, but ? should be constructed in the shape of the letter V. This arrangement permits teams following the mid-, of the road to cross the ditch squarely and *t li us avoi I the dan ...... .,r mi ia..i ' vs* w? wm Miuiini^, m.u?*ni" uiii'iitrn [ should not be deeper than is nbso- 1 lately neeessary to throw the:' water off the surface, anil the part I of the centre should be the shal- J lowest." : I Darlington Magistrate Suspended. The Columbia Record says that, the governor has suspended Mag- 1 istrate Lamar, of Darlington couti- , ty, who is charged with marrying i , a white man and a mulatto girl. The magistrate has been at rested, and waving a preliminary exunn- j nation, gave bail for his nppear- 1 unco at the court of general ses-! sioiiH. The suspension will last until the court passes upon his ( innocence or guilt. The magistrate eluims that lie married the ] couple at night with a very dim light burning and that the girl ( was of such a light complexion that he thought she was white. Looking tor the End ot Time Believing the prophecy of one of thier number that the world will mine to an end before the month of October lots missed n I- " i band of Second Adventists, who j reside in groat numbers near the border of Snsi|uehunna and Bradford counties. 1'enn.. are now busily engaged preparing for the event. Many farmers of this faith have turned their stock out on the hillsides, deserted their farms and homes and joined th.e camp of Second Adventists. ( Hhers have refused to work or earner 1heir crops, believing it I would be wrong. in veiw ot the proximity of the world's end. j Some of the adventists spend all day at camp, praying and listening to the exhortations of their leaders, ami return at night to their homes. A few of the more sanguine lie- j lievers are making robes of asoen- ' sion. ( M tiers farmers, alarmed all the rapid spread of the prophecy, are endeavoring to dissuade the the adventists from the belief, but so tar their efforts have met with rebuke, and, in some eases, the would he Olifi linvn 1 ? ?.*?? oil out of camp. His Life in Peril. "I just seemed to have gone a" to pieces," writes Alfred Hee, of Welfare. Tex., "biliousness and a i lame back had made life a burden. | | 1 couldn't eat or sleep and felt, id- j i most too worn out to work when I 1 be^an to use Electric Hitters, but i they worked wonders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained in strength and enjoy hard work." They give vigorous health and new life to weak, sickly. run : j down people. Try them. Only 50c al Menehuin's drug store. A bank official in Vienna robbed the bank of $1,150,000, and then drowned himself. America's Famous Beauties. Look with horror on skin Erup- i , tions. Blotches, Sores, Pimples. 1 i They don't have them, nor will any | one, who uses Bueklen's Arnica Salve. It glorifies the face. Ecze; ma or Salt liheum vanish before, it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. 25c at M enchain 'a drug store. Goes Like Hot Cakes. "lite tastest hoIIiii!_r tlim^ ! have 1 in my store," writes <1 ruvM^int C. T. Smith,of Davis, Ivy., "is Dr King's Now Discovery for Consumption, | Coughs mid Colds, because it nlways cures. In my six years of snles it 1ms never failed. I have known it to save sufTorers from | Throat and Lung diseases, who I ' could get no help from doctors or any other remedy." Mothers rely on it, best physicians prescribe it. and T. B. Meachain guarantees . , satisfaction or refunds price. Trial j bottles free. Keg. size 50c and $1. 1 Will Hagum, colored, was committed to jail from this township on Monday i I afternoon on tho charge of burglary and larcyuy. Cut of Death; Jaws. "When dt'it111 Heenu'il very near from a newr*' Btoiiiuch and liver I roll hie. that 1 Intel sulTeinJ with r.ir yearn." wrilt t? 1'. Mu-o, Durham, N. C\, . King's New Life 1'ilis H.tvetl my life and gave pel It ct health. ' Lent, pills ?jn earth ind only IhV at .Meaelimit s drug! store. SPECIAL^ NOTICESFOR SALE.?A Ktnal secondhand, two-horse waptii. Apply to A, O. Jones. ^ NOTICE?I am again located in Fort Mill and will be pleased to contract for ill kindsof paint ing, wliitewasbiiigand [taper-hanging. My work is guaranteed, j W. VV. Alexander. SEED OATS?We have just received i lot of Texas Red Rust -proof and Red Kust-proof Seed O.its which we otter at it % tiry reasonable prices. Mills & Young. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons an- hereby warned against ; uniting. tishingor ot herwise tres[<assing | ,i|m 111 any of the lands owned or eon- ] rolled by the undersigned parties. The aw will be rigidly applied to anyone lisrogarding this notice. P. NIMS. \V F. Pattkuson*. \V. 11. Jones. T. S. lvirkpatriek. J. W. Ardrev. \V. 0. Armstrong. D. A. Lee. R. S. Torrenco. ELEG JLhJ I idTn I P RETL Latimer. Hoy ward, ' %} rtlico-sookors and con Latimer for V. S. Sena nnor, and ]?olk f< To substantiate ar?? the K1j(iI'L. PRICES, wo exte ^ a special invitatio (Mi ? I Seleclt <1 slock ot 2 = l ions, Shoes, (.5 >i I nnd anything cise ' '35 IclwiudiHo. Call a > convinced that Wt JEl ., who will save yon per cent on youi ? 111 Try to .equal our uu else and it will co. Clothing, Hat! Our fall stock of C Dry Goods, etc., have position to oiler you ^ lnembered. AVe have grades, styles and pri cheap suit or a good s hill. There is no end of Hats. AYool hats hats and stiff* hats at j you in your midnight Dry Goods AVe have added ai Dress Goods and prop that will be worth yoi fiiloa AI it/I 1HI4J X'lXV ^'1 II X I 111 I Cotton Flannels, Dril Damask, Oil Cloth, ( Umbrellas, Hosiery, Fascinators, and num< will interest the close How's i Furnituro, Stoves, a nt the lowest cash pri< r t'i Yours for bai TIE OLD DEL T. B. BELK i % I I? ?' ? Piace your orders for Job Print- } ini; with The Times. AN ORDINANCE, . !, Fixing the Levy and Providing for the < Collection of Property Taxes in tho Town of'Fort Mill, S. C. lie it orilaiueil by the inteiidaitt and tvardensof Ilp> town of Fort Mill, S. C., i and bv authority of the same i Sec. 1., That two mills on the dollur is hereby levied oij all taxable property within the corporate limits of Fort Mill, i S, C., on .lanuary 1, 1902, bo and the same is hereby mad/-, for ordinary purjxises. Sec. 9, That said taxes shall be and I become tine and payable on the 15th day of Oetcber, 1902, at the ottiee of .1. M. Spr.itt, secretary and treasurer, and the treasurer's hooks shall he open on that date for the collection of said i taxes, and the same may be paid up to and including the 1st day of November, 1!HI2, after which date said taxes may uo |>;mi Willi i ? per emit penally added until the 15th (lav of November, 11)02. See. That on and after November | loth, 15H)>. executions will be issued fur all delinquents for the full amount of taxes due together with the fifteen percent penalty aud nil costs, including one dollar cost for every execution issued by the treasurer. Done and ratified in council assembled this 1 (ith day of September, 11102. J. W. MpElhanky, Attest: Intendant. J. M. Senatt. Sec. undTreas. 'TI03NT i TiRisrs and Bulk in the lead, ipetitors in the rear, tor; I ley ward for Gov-1 >r the priee-entter. tin* fii#*t 1 hut u'i? ga i VTOllS of LOW mi ncl to everybody n to see our well Dry (10 'iIh, No- jf m its Foruisliiiiys. ^ Cm in ^i'licyni hum- ? Gf> itid you will be mm) mh 3.3 p< 1 >|lit* ? ? from 10 to 2"> 3 Qfl cash purchase. ? m3> Vulllpa fill v U'litirn - " \(t st you money. CT Shoes, Etc. lothing, Hats, Shoos, arrived and we are in rallies to long* be re4 Clothing in all the iees. If von want a * nit, we can fill your to our immense stoek for men and boys, soft mcesthat will awaken slumbers. Department. 11 up-to-date stoek of >ose to sell it at prices ir investigation. Per1^1 i s, nanncis, Outing,: ling, Blankets, Table I Comforts, Lap ltobes, Bleaching, Sheeting, erous other goods that buyer. This? tnd Sewing Machines 20s or 011 easy terms. -gains, IIBLE STORE, , Proprietor. s. J. KIMBALL, DBALEE IX Buggies and Harness, ROCK HILL, S. C. I^Wi* *t?ll the "Rock Hill Burkv;" the bent buggy ou the murkct for the money. L AU NtiRY MARKS that ai'w not found on linen fresh from The MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY, Charlotte, N. O., are rust stains, ink stains, fruit stains, and especially scorches from overheated irons, Tliat. is what \v? particularly guard against. Heckles*, 1 law less, immaoulate?white ias white can be, or as strong of color as when yon bought it (if originally of a color pattern), your washable apparel is returned clean, well washed, well ironed. Shipment made from Fort Mill every Thursday morning and laundry returned Saturday mornings by~ tD. L. McELHANEY. Ajrent. * TIIY THE City Barber Shop For a Krat-class HAIR CUT, BIIAVE, SHAMPOO, or HAIR SINGE. Carothers & Son. PROPRIETORS. Third door Bank building. FOR GOOD WHISKIES, WINES, BRANDIES, ETC., CALL ON OR WRITE TO AV. I!. IIOOVER, mint urn? k p IYt AY* VI D. J. WILLIAMS, Statesville's Lipor Dealer. Laurel Valley Corn Whiskey, 5 Tears Old: 12 Full Quarts, in neat ease, . $7 50 24 Pints 8 00 48 Half Pints , . . 8 50 4>.? Callous, kept included, 9 00 Ouo and two gallons, jug and crate included, per gallon, . 2 25 Pure N. C. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey: New, per gallon, . . 1 40 Two to Three years old, jior gal. 1 75 Pure Apple Brandy, per gallon, . 2 DO Elm City Club Rye. 7 years old, 12 quart 8, . . . .800 Twenty-four Pints, . . . 8 50 Forty-right Half pints, 9 00 One and two gallons, jug and crate included, per gallon, . 2 50 Encclsior Rye, jug and crate included, per gallon, . 2 00 Peach and Honey, ixa* gallon, . 2 00 Rock and Rye. per gallon, . . 2 00 Holland Gin, per gallon, . . 2 00 Re mem Iter I am no rectifier or oompounder. In buying my goods you aro not buying water. 1 guarantee nil these gixxls superior to anything being shipped from this market. All jugs will be put in boxes instead of crates for lf>e. extra; kegs boxed for 25c, extra, and all boxes are shipped without any marks to indicate their contents. Cash must aeoomlumy all orders. They will bo tilled the same day received. Send money by registered letter, postoftice money order or express money order. Goods shipped either by freight or exnress. As to my responsibility I refer you to the Bmdstreet and Dunn Mercantile Companies and my hundreds of customers all over the South. Remember, apim, that I guarantee satisfaction in all cases or refund the money. 1). ,1. WILLIAMS, STATES VILE, N, C. J. U. Tray wick & Co., DEALERS IN FINE L.1Q5JOKS AND WINES, No. 42 East Trailo St. CHARLOTTE. - - -NO. DR. KING'S try NEW DISCOVERY FOR THAT COLD. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. Cures Consumption,Coughs, T> A ^ vuiun, jlmuuciiiiiN, Asrnma, Pneumonia,HayFever,Pleurisy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Cough. NO CURE. NO PAY. Prica 50c. and $1. TRIAL BOTTLES FREE