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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.
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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
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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
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INTER-CITY RELAY RACE
CHARLOTTE TO ROCK HILL .
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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