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T Established in 1891. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. The Clarendon county Con-1 federate monument is now nearing completion. It is a handsome shaft of South Carolina granite, surmounted by the marble figure of a young Con federate private bearing an old-time muzzle loading musket, such as the army was equipped with before breech-loading rifles had been invented. The intense heat, of Thursday caused the death of two fine mules near Allendale, one belonging to W. L. Manor and the other to P. J. Zeigler. The mules had been plowing and showing signs of sunstroke, were- unhitched and given attention but rapidly succumbed. A terrific electric storm swept Columbia and its suburbs Sunday afternoon between 5 o'clock and 5:30, strewing wreckage in every direction. No loss of life was reported. A. L. Abbott, a young business man of Hartsville, was assaulted by an unknown man on a street in New York City Monday night and his skull crushed by a blow, Iroiri which injury he died at 4 o'clock the following afternoon. Mr. Abbott was in New York on business. The governor Thursday issued paroles in favor of two negroes, (leorgo Owejis of Charleston county and .lake Walker of Calhoun county. Owens was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill in June, 1912. Walker was convicted of violating the dispensary ordinance and sentenced to one year on the county chaingang in November, 1913. The barn at the dairy of the State Hospital for the Insane was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon about 5:15 o'clock, resulting in a. fire that destroyed r the building and contents. The largest loss was the burning of the 3,(HK) bundles of oats in sheaf, which had been stored in the barn. The machinery loss amounts to about $3,000, of which $2,000 is covered by insurance. E. F. Nates, nurse at the State Hospital for the Insane, was drowned Sunday morning about 10:30 o'clock in the Congaree river near Columbia. He was swimming out towards a rock when he seemed to have gotten cramps and sunk before aid could be given. Martin F. Ansel, ex-governor of South Carolina, has accepted the invitation to deliver the principal address at the patriotic celebration to be held at Rock Hill July 0. Concrete feeding floors for hogs are becoming popular in many sections of the State. There is practically no loss of feed where this is used. A concrete mixture generally used for the purpose is one part cement, three parts sand anil six parts gravel. Work has begun on the new athletic field which is to be constructed at Clemson college durifig the coming year. It will require about a year to do the work. The field will be 400 by 500 feet. During an electric storm last Saturday six mules were killed by lightning near Shady drove church ahout five miles east of Belton. The mules belonged to the county. Joseph S. Hagins of I Lancaster county, a prominent and well known merchant and farmer of the Elgin section, was struck by lightning late Friday afternoon during a severe storm while standing with several other gentlemen on the small porch outside of the front door of his store room. He was knocked into insensibility at full length upon the floor, where he remained totally unconscious for nearly two hours. . A s >. - A .Sv HE F Lever Bill Passes House. The Lever bill designed to eliminate the gambling on cotton exchanges was passed by the national house of representatives Monday by a vote of 84 to 21. A lively debate preceded the vote. Democratic Leader Underwood. favoring the measure, pointed out that that whole proposition rested on the proposal that Congress should either suppress or regulate the cotton exchanges of the country. The Lever bill was agreed to as a substitute for the measure drafted by Senator Smith of South Carolina, and passed by the senate. The senate bill would prohibit the use of the mails for contracts that do not meet conditions of standard grades and commercial differences. That provision is omitted from the Lever bill. The senate diii would not tax contracts tor future delivery. The house bill levies a tax of one cent a pound on all contracts for future delivery thai do not meet standard grades and commercial grades as set out in the bill. This tax of one cent a pound is intended to be prohibitory. amounting to $1)00 a contract. There are a number of other provisions on dealing in cotton futures designed to eliminate certain practices of the New York and New Orleans exchanges. Was Second Largest Crop. Final figures on the 1013 cotton crop, announced by the census Jmrcau. place it as the largest the United States had grown with the exception of that of 1011. At the same time the estimate of the total value of the crop shows it was the most valuable ever produced, it being worth $1,043,760,000. The quantity of cotton ginned from the 101:1 crop, counting round as half bales and excluding (inters, was 13.982,811 running bales, or 14,156,468 bales of 500 pounds grose weight. Cotton seed produced was 6,305,000 tons, of which 4,570,508 tons were crushed. The value of the cotton is estimated at $887.160,0(H> and of the seed $156,600,000. "The Battle of Gettysburg." This, greatest of all battles in American history, will be shown in five parts at the Majestic Theatre. Fort Mill, on next Tuesday. Julv 7. PICKETT'S CHARGE. It is the night of July 2, 1863. General Lee decides in council to aim his chief blow on the morrow at Hancock's position on ( VlYlot.Jl'V Hill ninrKt ? - .T ...... " 'IS H.V ammunition trains arrive, trenches arc dug and everything is made ready for the crucial conflict of the next day. The morning of the third was spent in preparations. At one o'clock 115 of Lee's guns open a rapid cross fire on Cemetery Hill. A hundred Union guns reply and for two hours this artillery duel continues. Gen. I .ee speaks and Pickett and his Virginians in the van, supported on the right by Wilcox's brigade and on the left by Pettigrew's North Carolin ians, start swiftly over the undulating plains. The line is fully three miles in length and there are 18,000 men in the desperate charge. As they dash madly forward shot and shell from Hancock's guns make fearful lanes jn their compact ranks but on they press. As they approach nearer, eannister is used with deadly effect, but on they press. One entire division is overwhelmed and captured, but the : others press forward through i this inferno of shot and smoke and shell. Over the Union defences many of them go and fall inside the breastworks they have so bravely stormed. The citizens of Gettysburg flee panic-stricken to the nearby hills to watch the greatest battle of American history and the most heroic charge in the history of the world. The losses of the Confederates were 2.592 killed. 12,700 wounded and 5,150 missing, a total of 20.451. The losses to the Union forces were .3,070 killed. 14,191 wounded and 5,434 missing, a total of 23.003_ Mrs. J. S. Potts and little sons are visiting relatives in Sanforsb N. C I gfafijLl i V v T ' - 4 A * . **' ORT I FORT MILL. S. C? THTJ] INTER-CITY RELAY RACE CHARLOTTE TO ROCK HILL . 1 For the benefit of a considera- "j bio number of interested boys and lor the information of the J general public, the following facts a?*e submitted regarding * the inter-city bicycle relay race , for boys to take place on July ' the Gth between Charlotte and ) Rock Hill. There will be- three competing , teams of ten boys each, representing the three contending ' cities, Charlotte, Fort Mill and ' Rock Hill. The members of each , team will wear a streamer or 1 number tag of one color: the ' Rock Hill team wearing red, j Charlotte team white, and Fort ' Mill team blue, in harmony with the color scheme of the national flag. This arrangement will al- 1 so serve to inform the spectators along the way which team from time to time is leading in ( the race. ( The mayor of Charlotte will ( deliver a duplicate message of greeting for the mayor of Rock Hill to each of the three boys who start the race in front of the Y. M. C. A. building at I Charlotte. These three starters, one representing Charlotte, one , Fort Mill and one Rock Hill, will ' ride out three miles from Char- [ lotte to the end of the first re- : lay. where three more riders, one on each team, will be waiting to take the messages, and these in turn will ride three I i miles to the next relay station . where three more boys will receive and carry the message the j i next three miles, and so on till S j the entire distance, approxi-j mately thirty miles, is covered. The finish of the race will be on Oakland avenue in front of; Winthrop college at Rock Hill. The team which succeeds in delivering its message first to the mayor of Rock Hill, who will be I at the finish of the race, will be the winning team, provided that i none of the members of that i team have violated the rules of I the race. Starting from the Y. M. C. A. j at Charlotte the race course proj ceeds out South Tryon street to I Moorehead street, thence crossing over Moorehead street bridge i one block to South Boulevard, thence along South Boulevard to the macadam road which parallels the railroad for two or three miles and crossing the ; railroad veers off to the right1 j past Long's store and continuing to the end of the new Mecklen- : burg macadam road. From this j point the course proceeds along i the road passing the farms of Victor Bailes, and Major W. VV. j Boyce, over the railroad bridge : near springs' place on to i<ort | Mill, passing through Main' ' street at Fort Mill and out past 'Griffin's store to the wagon road ! bridge crossing the Catawba , ! river thence over the Whitner I road to the Cherry road tinish; ing at Winthrop College. The j course will be marked with flags i or arrows at the various forks j and crossings along the way so I that the riders will make no mis' take in following the race course. i Any boy under 18 years of age in either of the three competing cities is elligible to enter the race. Each boy will provide his j own bicycle. The boys who are selected to ride in the race will be taken out in automobiles or on ! the train to within an easy riding j distance of the relay station assigned them. The relay stations will le II marked by a United States flap. No boy can go back of bis relay | station to meet the on coming rider who is to de.iver him the | message. Five hundred feet in front of | the relay station a yellow flag 1 will be located to warn the rider ; i that he is approaching the next ;. relay station. Twenty yards; | beyond the relay station a red (lag will show where each rider i after delivering his ires age to his riding mate must cut otV of the course and wait till the 1 official car has passed. The official car will contain a timekeeper for each city competing in \ the race, the timekeepers also acting as judges of the .race. 1 The official car will follow immediately behind the rear rider. ; It is permitted to each team to . carry one or more reserve subI stitutes rders to ?se in case . i ' - _ - 4v '"W * >. f >; . % ' s '" i Mill EtSDAY, JULT % 1914. Railroads Not Liable. I Railroads are not liable for njury to employees of interstate farriers, or members of their amilies, while riding on free lasses, containing stipulations < hat the passenger assumes all t isks while being so transported. 1 The Supreme Court of the r Jnited States so held in re- s /ersing a judgment procured by ] Jzzie Thomson, wife of a track land at Augusta, (Ja.. for $1,300 'or injuries sustained in a rail oad collision near McCormick. >. C.. in 1910. The court held a pass is not to le regarded as part of the cornnation for which the employee works. Illlt it1* "fi-nn " Everybody goes ABREL IT'S THE CO id oceans of ventilal ble the hottest days, asant, you'll always hop with us. his Wee alues in the Coolest Muslin Uunerwe lg list of other sumr 1. combine comfort and Kimbr /here Quality Reig . \ i V "...... . r md subject to any conditions he railroad mav impose. > Would-be Governors Get Personal. At Darlington Monday L. J. i Browning, candidate for Governor, attacked Prof. J. G. Clinkscales. also candidate for Governor. referring to him as a two-plank man?Statewide compulsory education and Statewide prohibition. The reply of Professor CI inkscales by many was not regarded as effective. J. B. Adger Mullally of Anderson. joined the party Monday. He attaaked John Richards and referred to him as an eleventh-hour hour convert. Johnson Retains Title. Jack Johnson still holds the heavyweight championship of the world. In a hard fought battle in Paris. France, the negro easily defeated Frank Moran of Pittsburgh on points in a 20-round contest. Moran was game and stubborn. He did most of the leading and made many friends. Johnson's superior skill and his effective uppercutting wore down his opponent. there shall be any accident or breakdown occurring to any member of the respective teams, such substitute riders with their bicycles to be transported behind the official car. A silver trophy cup bearing a : nuiuuif ninci ipilUIl Will Ue awarded to the accredited winning team. This cup will be provided jointly by the interested agencies of the three cities promoting the race. ggH5E5B5H5a5a5H5H5B5H5E5B5 I The Coolest Place 1 in town 1 KI1\ I THESE WARM DAYS High ceilings ar cool and comforta ing extremely pie and profitable to s 1? __ I T p[] Ideal Bargain V re and Lisle Hosiery jjj Oxfords, and a loi g merous to mentioi j If you want to E. W. I "v nr ? JL 11V1J DEAD BESIDE TRACKS; SUICIDE OR ACCIDEN1 The dead and mangled bod^ )f S. L. Boulware. a resident o: ;he Manchester mill village neai !loek Hill, was found Thursday norning about 9 o'clock along ?ide the Southern Railroad track: i few hundred yards north o he Catawba river trestle. Tin jody was discovered by T. N Lcmmond, of the Charlotti Brick company, who was return ng to the brick plant from th< river. Mr. Lenimond at onci notified the authorities here an< these in turn notified Corone Black at Rock Hill. The coroner accompanied by a Rock llil physician, came over about nooi in an automobile and empanele a jury to investigate the caus of Boulware's death. An e> animation disclosed that th throat was cut, the limbs wer uiuacu in dcvciai piact'S aim til body was badly bruised. The verdict of the coroner' jury was to the effect that th man bad come to his death b having his throat cut, either b himself or others and bein struck by a train, though th jury considered it possible th* the entire accident may hav been caused by collision with train. Rou 1 ware was 60-odd years c age and the same man reporte missing from his home in th Manchester mill village ne? Rock Hill since the previou Monday morning. He Was b< lieved to be demented and. ha> ing threatened his own life, t have drowned himself in th Catawba river. Mr. Boulware son is reported to have state that a razor usually kept by th dead man in a drawer at h home had been missing since h disappearance. The body was taken to Roc Hill for burial. Want State Exhibit. The State department of agr culture has been asked to sen an exhibit to the York Count Fair, which will be held in Roc Hill in October. The invitatic to send the exhibit was e: tended by Charles R. Weel president of the fair associat'oi which was recently chartere with a capital stock cf $10,000. 5H5H 5B5H 5Z SgSa 5H5a5B -.w-v : ' 3*?^ ' 3 ' "vf * es. $1.25 Per Year. Our Gold Hill Letter. j1 Times Correspondence. We confess that during these sultry days we feel like writing ; like little Johnny did when his ' teacher told him to describe a r base ball game. The little fellow ; sat for a few minutes as if he . were in a deep study and then 3 snatched up his pencil and f scrawled off hurriedly. "No a game?rain." We had Brother M. W. White" sides with us Sunday. .He made e a splendid talk in behalf of the ' mill churches. - Our crops are damaged slighte ly as the result of a heavy rain > Friday evening in which theie was a little hail. We have about finished sowing our grain crop, d The fruit crop is good, and is n about its maturity, d We expect to enjoy ourselves e at an ice cream supper at Charlie Boyd's this (Monday) evening. e given by the Ladies' Aid Society e of Flint Hill. e W. H. Winded and C. P. Blankenship have been "sortie" s sick for the past week. e G. C. Blankenship, of Rock y Hill, spent Sunday with his y parents in this section. K Miss Mattie Ratterree. sister ie of the late Prof. John L. Ratd terree, is visiting in this vicinity. e H. M. Dunlap, of Rock Hill a ran over on a short business trip today at noon. Our young people inteml to d spend the "glorious" fourth ie picnicking at the dam. u* J ay gold ls Gold Hill June 21). Fort Mill Team Outclassed. :o , . ... ie It was a plain case ol being s outclassed the last week when ,(j the Fort Mill team of amateur ,e ball players dropped three games js to the semi-professional Winns js ooro team. The games wore played Wednesday. Thursday k and Friday on the Winnsboro ball ground and while the Fort Mill boys had little show at winning, they report a very pleasant trip as well as some surprise i- at the showing they made id against the strong Winnsboro ,y team. k in The Methodist Sunday school *c- will hold a children's day exerts cise in the church next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, to which 'd the public is cordially invited to i attend. to Pleasant and Prof- fji itable to trade here ? I J jjjl -L'S n OLEST PLACE IN TOWN K :ion make our store 5 And, besides be- ? 5 find it interesting | f ik Dress Goods, Silk Gj ar, White Ca nvas m ner goods, too nu- S profit drop in at | nl ell Co., I " re ns. jo itfi * Tsb