Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 CHARTFRS. 1 ? ^ ■ Twenty-two Stnte Banks Were miected TMa Year. _ l MINING CONCERNS. then wm a (ffiil Uf »t of along such Unas this year: Hardwood Lumbar Co., Hamburg..... • 60 0C0 Carolina ConsCrutloo Co., Anderson 00,000 Belton Power Co., Holiday Shoals... >100 000 Piedmont Electric Company Pled moot r r .. .*_^ ?4 i p}0 . mwmHI k foldier Wko 1 - '■ . e - 5i a Two of the Passengers and Seven of the Crew Perish. Times la ^ ' 'Ml.A- ' • •>;v T AID LITIS TO TILL TEI TALI. Over Twenty Thousand J Killed Around Port Arthur. Bfteea Colton Seed Oil Mills Chartered. —Two Cotton Mills and Two Stnte Bonks Increased Their Capital. A Very Creditable Record t? for New Concerns. In the Columbia Stole on Tuesday ot last week was given a statement In regard to the amount of capital in vested In now cotton mills during the year now drawing to a close. Tbe showing was not very complimentary, for tbe aggregate vas considerably leas than a million ddtars, and at least two of the mills noorporated this year have been in operation several years as private enterprises. But In tbe matter of projecting banking Institutions, cotton seed oil mills and varied Industries, which was published in Tbe State of Wednes day the record is very much more creditable. The total amount thus invested in 22 local banks is 1645 000; In 16 cotton seed oil mills, 1312,000. Two banks chartered In 1903 increased their capItallzatloL by 195,000 and two oil mills by 20,000; making a to tal of 1740,000 projected in local banks and 6332,000 In oil mills. Tbe fol lowing tsblea will contain Interesting Information: BANKING INSTITUTIONS Lowndesville Banking Co.. 6 25,000 Bank of lit. Carmel.. .... 26.1)00 Union Bank and Trust (Jo., Aiken 50,000 i Bank of Starr.' 16,000 Bank of Holly HIM . . 16,000 Commercial Savings Bank, ChairleatQtL, ,, 50,000 Tbe Jefferson Bank, Jiffer- 1£t000 10,000 25,000 75.000 50,000 50,000 30,000 2r>,oo.> 50,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 10,000 50,000 20,000 10,000 Bank of Lamar Bank of St. O^orge Peoples’ Bank, Georgetown Peoples’ Bank of Kershaw. The Bank of Kershaw...... Bank of Leesvllle. Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank, Mullins.. Cltttens’ Bank, Seneca .... Bank of Ell iee........... Bank of Cameron Bank of North ... / Z on Savings Bank. Orange burg Spartan Savings and Loan Co Security Bank, Spartanburg Bank of Greeley ville Total .. r.. 6645,000 INCREASE OK CAPITALIZATION. From To Bank of Clio, 1900. 6 20,000 625,000 Bank of Anderson, Dickson Engine and Power Co., Charleston . S. S. Solomons Orosstle Co., Charleston Puckharber Bros. Mfg. Co.. Whitman Construction Co., Charleston Carolina Development Co., Charleston Sterling Mifg. Co., Charles ton., j. Bread Elver Light and Power Co., Charleston... E. P. Burton Lumber Co., Charleston. r 400,000 Halsey Lumber Co. .Charles ton. Carolina Suspender Co.,An dersen— Blue Ridge Beverage and Extract Co., Anderson.. Gaffney Lime Co., Gaffoey. Carolina Tin Co., Gaffney.. Lycob’s River Tramway Co., McKee - « Combabee number Go Summervil e Hardwood Co- Dargan Limbtr Co Florence Light and Power co McCjwq & Clarke Co., F .ore nee Oneida Timber Co.,George town F. Gilllvan Building Co., GreenvihS . - Paris Mountain Granite Co, Greenville.^ ; . Lumber and Bobbin Mfg., Co., Greenwood Greenwood Granite and Const. Co , Greenwood . Two truck farms at Home- wo>d, Horry county Marlori County Lumber Co. Marlon Mfg. Co ...... . Carolina Water, L'ght *fid. Power Co., Marlon. *^r-_ Dillon Naval Stores Co... P. A Hodges Mfg, Co. Ben- nettoviije Bessie loe Mfg. Co., Ben- nettoville.. .^ r _. Parr Shoals Power ;C Newberry*'. ,. — Oconee Water, Light end Power Co.,.., (may Increase to Symmes Railway Car E e- valor Co., St. Matthews. Orangeburg loe M'g. Co... Crystal Ice Co . — M’lptvale Lumber Co., Pick ens...:... Ong. Trowbridge & Co., Contractors, Alford Dental Motor Mfg. Co., Sumter Sumter Lumber Co Sumter Foundry Union Creamery Co. 10,000 Bailey Furniture Mfg Co., Union Wilson Lumber Co., Jades. Lake City-Mfg. Co — Lake City Plow Co Enterprise Wood Dl,tilling .Go Sylerciw Mfg. Co., Roolc, Hill 1891 Union Savings Bank Bennettsville, ’02 .. Total ... io6,ooo NEW OIL MILLS. Salley Oil Mill, Salley Peoples’ Oil & Fert. Co., Andtrror. Starr Oil Mill, Starr —yalrfav Cnt, Oil C )., Fair- 76,060 150,00C 10,000 25.000 200,000 -25,000 10,000 ’ 50,000 60,0^ 60,000 50,000 10,000 1,000,000 32,000 3.600 10,000 26,000 25,000 5 000 10,000 5,000 50,000 50,000 20.000 250,000 25,000 20,000 30,000 5,000 7.600 300 000 100,000 250,400+ 12,0*00 25,000 50,000 Ie Feet He Will Soon Be Rathrely] THE BURNED VESSEL | w.u ..« r~i. Take tbe Field Against to BLOODSHED AND WOE. Wat Rebuilt from Another Vessel Whlci 6500 6.0i 004 0) 10,000 15,000 25,000 500,000 10,000 12,000 20,000 12,000 20.000 7,'> 000 8,000 2,000 10,000 35,000 20,000 fax Home OH mill, Greenville . Blue Ridge Cot. Oil Mill Co., Travelers Rest Troy Oil mill.. Bradley Cot OH Co Farmers’ Cotton Oil Co., Brunson. Laurens Cot. Oil mill, Lan- ford ........ Farmer*’ Jil mill, Newberry Chappell Oil mill, Chappell Pomaria Oil mill, Pom&ria. Little Mountain Oil mill... Whitmire Mfg. Co., Whit mire >.vir-. 20,000 25,000 26,000 20,000 15,000 20,000 12,000 30,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 10,000 6312,000 5,000 A mong TfffTQOtobie Increases luxap Itol zatlon under the head of mlscel laneous arelhe fo 1 lowing: — From Catawba Power Co, RQCk Hill, 1900 .6100,000 6 850,00 AlanticCoast Lum ber C irporatlon, Georgetown Southern Hydrau lic Brick Co., ,4- Gh«rl<»son. To 100,000 1,000,000 25-000 40 000 On the whole, the sbo ring indicates that there is a very healthy develop ment in tbe State. Capitol Is not be ing centralized In mills, but is being diffused through farms, banks, oil mills and varied industries. Loat in tbe Gale. A dispatch from Boatoa says Was Destroyed by Fire Sometime . •. — Ago. Aa Engineer, Four Fire- men and Two Deck Hands Perish in tbe Hold. Nine persons, Including two passen gers and seven of the crew, lost their lives early Saturday In the burning steamer Glen Island bound from New Ycrk to New Haven. Tbe steamer drifted aground on Captains Island, Long Island sound, and burned to the water's edge. The veisel ,left New York at 9 o’clock Friday night with ten or twelve passsngers and a heavy valuable cargoj Fire was discovered before midnight off Execution point, anc la believed to have started In the dining room. One lost passenger was a mao., Tbe other was a woman, resident of New York. Tbe Glen Island belonged to tbe Star- in transportation line. Tbe remainder of the passengers and crew was picked up by a passing tug and brought to New York. Tbe Glen Island was commanded by Capt. McAllister, who was the last person to leave the wreck. She was con struct ad from the (Jlt> of Richmond. The latter, curioudy enough, also was burne l. - Fol ■ firemen, two deck hands and Euglreer Hendrickson who pe+lahed were i i the hold and dculd hdV esdffpe befon tbe llamjs swept over them. Two’passengers reported dead were missing when tbe survivors reached tbe b» a-. It is supposed that they were caught In the cabins and burned to death.-Tiie jury Ivors were In open hoa-d ©TrlTSftLN'C'jitnlbg, bound for that city about aq, hour after leaving the Glen Island, y . The property loss is estimated at 6250,000. That more lives were not sacrificed Is undoubtedly due to the personal courage of officers and crew and excellent discipline. When the steamer was abandoned she was dame- swept from stem to stern, and yet tbe on'y persons who Ipst their lives were those whose escape had been entlrly cut off by the fire before tbe alarm reached them. Of thirty-one persojosa Including ton pass tigers who sailed on the Glen Is land Saturday night, twenty-two, In cluding eight passengers, were brought back Sunday - The dead pas sengere are an unknown Hebrew wo man, who is said to reside at New Haven and an unknown man, suppos ed to be a New Yorker While tbe officers and crew were working tueje_ wa8 a tearful scene of confusion among tbe ten passengers. They ran about in disarray. The wo man who lost her life had been arous- ed by tbe stewardess and was on the way to one of the life boats when she Suddenly turned and dashed back into the naming cabin. It Is supposed that she went back for her valuables. She was not seen again and must have perished. There was no possibility of waiting for the rescue of those who the Jape. A 'dispatch from Moscow > aays Kinnohenko, probably tbe most thoroughly shot to pieces man wbo has survived tbe'present .war, arlved recently from Harbin, where, after weeks In tbe brspltal, tbe doctors ex tracted seventeen bullets from him. amputated one leg and discharged him aa cured. He gave bis experi ences in a quick, matter of fact way, and one can hardly do better than quote his own words. He said: “It was at L'ao-Yang that I got put out of commission for good. On thie evening of September 2 we bad been ordered to attack some pf tbe Japanese trenches. We tad to cro s a good piece of Open ground under a The Attackers Nor Defenders dive Asy Thought i» Death, but Fell, Hu ll reds at a Thoe,'Beneath Bay onet, Shell ud Shrapaei Around Fortress. Gen. Stoessel In bis dispatch to the emperor tella of the hard fighting around Port Arthur. The first dis patch Is dated November 25 and la as follows: I am bappy to inform your majes ty that on November 20, after an In creased bombardment, the Japanese heavy cross fire and there were, axrffone of the f jrts on tbe north death was the pr obable fate of the hut surgeons sav he cannot re- crew of the schooner)Richard S. Learn ing, which was driven ashore on Long Shoal last Sunday. Both of the schooner's yawl boats were found Total.. INURBANE I in CAPITALIZATION. From To Prosperity Cotton (HI mills, 1903.. ..-. ..020,000 ,030,000 Rowesville Cot. Oil. Co., 1903.......... 20,000 30,000 Total 140,000 660,000 CLAY AND MINERAL COMPANIES. There was much interest manifest ed In the development of kaolin plants In this State. The department of Immigration has circulated broadcast. Prof. Earle Sloan’s treatise on the clays ot South Carolina and this may have had somethi ng to do with it. One concern which has bought a site hear Otlumbia has not token cut let ters of Incorporation; and another concern, “tbe Carolina Kaolin com pany” of Columbia, has token out two charters, one op the 28th of June and the other qn April 29th, J aniTfcas nordohe anything stfioe. The following kaolin and other mineral de veloping oompanles have been char tered: Pope Olay Products Co., Aiken Wood Pottery company — Gaffney Lime Co., Gaffney. Carolina Tin Co., Gsffney.. Summerville Brick Co Indian Pottery and Brick Oo., Garnett. 7.7.. flew them-Paint Mfg. Go., Colombia Carolina Kaolin Oo., Colum bia. 200,000 Carolina Kaolin Co., Oolum- bia .. 260,000 Hyatt Brick Oo., Columbia. 20,000 Columbia Clay Co., Colom bia 10,000 aboard her today, one of them haviog been smashed to splinters. It is sup posed that the crew took to the rig ging and when it was can led awa: they fell witb ltAnto thu ocean The names of the captain and crew we ref Capt. Nelson E. Mills. L. T. Rene, first mate. Wm. Pittouof St. Andrews, second mate. . J. Murphy, seaman. J. D, Roberts, seaman. E. Scluman, seaman. James Williams, seaman. Capt. Mills jolted the schooner at Windsor, N. S. It is not known ben where tbe members of the crew lived The Riuhard S. Learning left Wind sor on November 16 with a cargo o’ gypsum for Chester,. Pa. When sho was caug’it off this port in Sunday’! storm and cast ashore, life saver* went out to her, but they found no signs of life aboard and thought tho orev had token to boats. Tue steamer George B. Ferguson which went ashore in Sunday's gal) lies In about 8 feet of water, but it it thought falling every step from tie time we broke cover to tbe minute we rushed the trenches at the point of tbe bayo net. Nothing happened to me until we were close to the Japanese lines, when I got a bullet in my right Lot that brought me down. From that time I was no more good except as a target, but I must say I drew a good deal of Japanese ammunition if that chunted for anything. “Our fellows went .on and carried the Japanese trenches on the left in a hand to hand fig it, for we can usual 1/ whip those fellows if we can get close enough to them. But there was a long line on shooting. They were the people who did for me, I was on the ground with my teeth chattering, nostly with pain. Scared? O! course 4 w** lailM feo appear. He Must Have Been Crazy. Fred Jones, of Charlotte ville, Wed ; nesday afternoon shot and killed Con stable William C. Gray, and Mrs Abbe Goodrich, a widow. He then turned the revolver upon himself and tired a bullet into his brain. He is still cover. Jones was a rejected suitor for Mrs Gccdrich’s baud. He is 28 years oid and mrs. Goodrich was 54. So per- *htUnL had Jones become that Mrs. Goodrich went before a Justice of the Ptace and made a complaint, claim ing that Jones had ttreatened to kill her and set her buildings on fire if 6700 000 8,000 25,000 25,000 26,000 100,000 100,006 Total 61,463,000 MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES. 1 has been a great deal of mon in power plants and mis- _ manufacturing enterpria- following list shows tost DeH*ib Mill* Hold at Last. After several unsuccessful attempts tbe Dekalb Cotton Mills were sold Tuesday, Mr. George M. White, of Unl'Ki, being the successful bidder Tbe price for which it was sold was 6176,000. The Interest in the sale was decidedly greater than at the two previous attempts, and it has stimu lated Interest in the sale of tbe Cam den Cotton Mill, which will be sold the first Monday in ..January. . Xhe. company which Mr. Wright repre sents is to be congratulated however, upon getting the DeKalb Mill at so small a price. Battleship Texas Damaged. Breaking five great cables as if they bad been threads, tho 100-ton floating derrick Hercules, moored to the side of tbe new battleship Connecticut, broke adrift in the navy yard basin in Wallabeut Bay#Thanday and crashed into the starnof the battleship Texas, smashing pistes and so Injuring tbe war veanl that she will have to go in to dry dook. ~ was Issued and giver to Const ibie Gray to serve. Jones ;.sked that Mrs. Goodrich be sent for in order that he :h adwick was arrested might adjust matters ufid avoid being * t „ 0 5XJ*1ShB5 arrested. Wnen June, heard tbe wo man's voice he drew u revolver and shot Gray, killing him instantly. He then shot Mrs. Goodrich In the leg, causing her to fall to >he floor. Ad vancing close to her 1 e put another bulled Into ber head. He then shot hlms If In the head. Mrs. Goodrich died an hour latefT~ —- Fairbanks to Resign. Senator Fairbanks vdll January 9, the day on which tbe Legislature cf Indiana meets, resign bis seat In the Unit* d States Senate, to take effect Marcu 4 next. JIhsreLbas been some disou sion as to the 1< gallty of the Legis ature tilling a- vacancy to be m&dt in the future by 1 resignation in thla irm hut It. hxa b»an rtaolrtari fry * cared under seemed to me when those fellows found I was not dead they did not take any interest in shooting at any thing but me. That probably was cot so, but that was the way it seemed me. -— 1 • j ^ Any how^ i msde opmy mind to get out and crawled along toward tbe trenches where our men bad gone t>vef~the top. As no one came back I thought they must have captured them. I bad no more than started going until a bullet in my right shoulder rolled me over again. I got my gun ir my left band then and kept on crawling. Then I got shot In the left leg just above tbe knee. Then two or three bullets got me in the right leg. I dropped my gun and helped myself along with my left hand. But they must have thought I was having too easy a time of it for I got shot through the left shoulder and thatbroughtmedown flit. There was nothing for it then but to wriggle along like a s ake on my breast and stomach. I kept on getting shot In my right leg, but all the feeling bad gone out of It so I did net mind that much. The last time I recol ect get ting hit was again in the left shoul der. “It was-'jdit dawn by the time I git to the trenches and when I finally wriggled over the top I thought they were full of Japanese. But It hap pened what Japanese uniforms I saw there were on corpses anffthe live peo ple were talking Russian, so 1 yelled for help. The mm took me to s bandaging station two miks away and the doctors did not think I was -aauofa good keeping.—I had 13 bullet* I -guess anybody would be Q ’(?ht and sgvln occupied a part of tbe ider tbe •circumstances. It trencheiTTiilt were suuthtisted by our bayonets. At 2 o’clock in tbe morn ing all was over and your majesty’s heroic troops were able to rest and high lutborlty and to the satisfaction of ev ry one that the proceeding is en tirely correct. This action on ^the part >f Senator Fairbanks will per mit the Legislature of Inilaoa to elect a successor at tbe time Senator Beveridge is re-elected. It has already been determined that Representative Henenway will be Senator Falrbink’s successor. ^ Copying The Weevil. . The Near.York World think* that Southern farmers who talk reduced acreage in one breath and plan to ex terminate the boll weevil in another are “a nervy lot.” It avfn that the boll weevil is doing the very thing the planters are demanding—cutting down tbe cotton output.—Birming ham News. Harder and Suicide. At a farm about eight miles from Victoria, Texas, a doable tragedy was enacted. Neil Stubbs, a young farmer, rejected, it la mid, by Mias Julia Miachulka shot her to death and tBefirpfiW bullet into hla osfjfc brain. in my right leg and side and four ec ti tered around other parts of me. But they tied me up and sent me on to Harbin and tbere they cut my left left off. It waa not fit to keep. Sj here I am, crippled, but that is bet ter than being dead or a prisoner.” Tbe ’Chad wick Ca«e. Still another satchel, one thought by Receiver Nathan Loeser to contain valuables belonging Ikj Mrs. Chadwick, was Thursday found to be^missing^ This developed in a short examlna tion of Mrs Mary Londravlile. Mrs Chadwick's former housekeeper, held before Referee In Binkiuptcy Rem ington. The discovery.la in addition -Atria that disappeared fr m the Holland House, m New York, the day before Mrs. Mrs Londra- ville to d of accompanying Mrs. Cba sdek to tbe Holland Hotel here at ibe latter's request and of taking two aatcbelt into a room. Askei what had become of tbe satchel * the witness repliedr 1 *7 “I was instructed to give the large one to D.^ L. Pin 0 , of that city. 1 cal ed him up by telephone and told^him ibout.lt and asked him to come for it. He arrived after Mrs. Chadwick bad left for New York, and 1 gave it to aim.” Thetotchel, she said, contained let ters and papers. She did not know what bad become of the o'her satchel. “only cent -they Warning to Mothers. The Medical News says: Tbs ihlld in the famll./’’ in 60 pdr "ihowsTlliaa viutogeuus- -bft+tet- are usually of poor health,. Jacking such of normality, both mental and physical. The “youngest caild,” the “only boy” or the “only girl” display many striking resemblances to tbe the “only child.” Six Men to Hang One At Richmond, Va.. half a dozen men will pull oords to spring the trap when James .Gpode is hanged there on Thursday. This expedient was nec essary because no deputr wmKd agree] shine guoainto position thereon.” to bang a man alone, but they were willing to share among themselves the resp.nubility of taking the crim- tnal’illie. A Panto tn Meneca. Screaming “I am Elijah Dowie, get out of my way,” a negro maniac arm ed with an axe invaded tbe town of Seneca Wednesday. Fora while be was given all the room he wanted and 00 one disputed hla claim. Finally two policemen caught the lunatic and dkarmed him. t He Is In the Seneca guard house. eastern front and leaped with a por tion of their forces no tbe parapet. They were annihilated by rifle fire and tbe bayonet and thrown back into the trenches. Their reserves were scattered by shrapnel. From November 21 to November 23 tbe enemy violently bombarded tbe fort, and, in spite of great losses, ef fected by their perseverance a passage between the two forts on the north eastern from. “At 5:30 o'clock on the evening cf November 23, after heavy firing, the Japanese suddenly hur'td themselves against several works on this front and seiz d a portion of the trenches, but they were thrown back by the re st rve* after a fierce bayonet itruggle. They returned to the assault at mid start repairing the damage caused by tbe bombardment. From the 20th to to the 24th, the Japanese lost more than 2,000 men. All of our trope be haved as heroes. “Bombardment of tbe town and harbor continues dally. A number of buildings have been destroyed and the harbor has sustained some damage. Tbe garrisons are In excellent spirits.” Id an ither dispatch dated Novem ber 29 General Stoeseel says: “The 26 th and 27 tb were the bloodiest days in the assaults on Purt Arthur. Tbe attacks began on tb^ night of the 25th, agsinst our 1 ft flank, near Pigeon Bay. The first was repuls >d wjth great loss to the Japanese. Tbe same night tbe enemy attacked a detachment on Panluog mountain, but were repulsed, as also was their attack on Visoksia (203 Metre hill) “On the 26th tbe Japanese began to bombard and attack fiercely tbe forts on the northeastern front and the advanced trenches. The trenches repeatedly chinged bands. Never theless, on the night of tbe 26ob We threw back the Japanese at the point of the bayonet. ~Tbe enemy succeeded in blowing up tbe perapet of one cf the forts and began building parallels there. At another fort on the same night they laid sacks along.tbe ram part, out our artillery dispersed them. Towards 10 o’clock in tbe evening tbe Japanese attacked a battery on our left flank in considerable strength and at first obtained possession of a per- tion of the works, 'but our heroes brought bayonets into use and the Japanese retired, leaving a heap of their mm. Along tbe whqle front the Japanese reopened a violent fire against the interior of the fortress, keep ng It up un'll 5 o'cl ck on the morning of November 27. “The help which God sent us 00 the birthday of our mother, tbe eta* rlna, gave us further victory." ’’Sine* November 27 the Japanese have betn carrying on a violent bom bardment and making incessant as- saul’s In considerable f >roe against V sokaia (2o3 Metre hill) Their as saults were repulsed.” Oi December 12 GenerU Stoeseel I£gQ£taj(l J^lQWSi "Tne twelve days’ assault which commenced on November 20 was de ttnitely.repulaed last t,lght. l am happy ttr tay that four majesty's "heroic troops alone could have been capable of doing this. There has never been such a fierce assai It. Tbe following contributed principally to its repulse: Generals Koudrat'*nko, Nikttin and Gorbatowtky, and Colonels Irrmann and Ertiakoff, and Lieutenant Col onels Naoumenko and Gondourlne. It is, thanks to them, and tbe heroic officers and naval sharpshooters and the artillerymen, that Port Arthur succeeded again in resisting. The Japanese, according to prisoners and Chinese, lost at let st 20,000 men. “We request jour prayers and those of the mother empress, which are manifestly shielding us. “As general aide decamp to your majesty, I have expressed your ma Jisty’s thanks to tie garrison.” On ports: “At 7 o’clock vesterday morning the Japanese, having concentrated all their forces, begin an assault on Visokala hill, bombarding It simul taneously with 11-inch and 16-Inch shells. A fierce fight raged all day We repelled three assaults. Towards evening the Japenese succeeded In obtaining possession of tbe crest of tbe hill and immediately got two ma Whiskey Raids in Greeavllle* An illicit distillery was destroyed by constables near Greenville Wednee day. It waa in full operation and had a capacity for 150 gallons. The operators escaped. A United States marshal captured a wagon loaded with contraband liquor Tueaday night and Wednesday the stuff and driver were brought to tbe city. There ia decided activity in the movement of contraband liquor preparation for Chrtitmaa, and the constables are watohful. 'Iff Of Every Price and 7s4'. In our different Departments, from the least expensive to the highest grade of goods. Orgaruf, Musical Instrumeots, Sewing Machines, / Furniture, House Furnishings, Crockery, Biic-a-Brac and Dress Patterns. Write for prices and descriptions to THOMAS & BARTON GO I0MOM10 Broad SI., Angosla, Ca. ^ WE ARE looking .1 & FOR YOUR ORDERS ,9 COLUMBIA LUMBCR & MfC CO l \g COLUMBIA SC. The Guinard Brick Works, coi^uiviuia, ».c. SpeclaJJilnpeitoorder. Fire Proof oared to fill Building and Re-Pres ed Brick Terra Cotta Flue Linings, for millions. Prepared to flll orders for thousands or Whiske 1 Morphine I '^GMaret Habit, I Habit I Habit Cured by ICeelev institute, 1329 Lady 8t. (or P. O. Box 76) Oolumbia, S. C- Confidei tlal txrrespond enae solicited. All Druiran'i fobaxo Hablto. of C. KILFYRE! KUFYRE! I KILFYRE!!! That is exactly what it is. a F Ire day at the State Fair showing Its fire Killer,' D: n wstraMon every ing Its tire fighting quaUttea- ——— Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mill, Ginnery and any one owning property should have them. For sale by nnr.n mrta Columbia, fc*. O. The inarhinery "§uppTy'1iciu8ft ! of the State Southeastern ’ Lime & Cement Co. CHARLESTON, 3. C. Building Material of all kinds. High Grade Roofing “RUBEROI0.” Write for prices. Got Fall D*mages- The Anniston, Ala., Hot Blast says: Dr. Clarence J. 'Qweos_wa8 allowed full damiges of 61,500 In a decree handed down by Judge Coleman In Anniston city court recently. Tbe decree banded down by Judge Coleman decides tbe case of Dr. Owens vs. tbe Soutbern Express company, which has beenr pending In the c- urt several weeks. - Tbe suit was brought for 61,500 and the full amount was allow ed. It was for the lo-s of a manu script of a text bjok on South Caro* Ima literature, a bxik which Dr. Owen had spent'three years in prepar ing and bad frequented the beet libra rlee of the state m many occasions to eecure data for this work. Tbe work covered South Carolina in periods as follow.-: Colonial, Revolutionary State Righto, Secession and tbe last quirter of the-Ninetoenth Century, the only complete work of its kind ever written j and it created a new field in llteiture as no Other state had such a. work at the time this was written. XsTTPT" merit the work, was endorsed by Coi umbian University, of Washington. D. C., in “The School of Graduate Studies.” Dr. Owen was ranked by tbe university as bavi.-g rend red Distinguished service totbej repu die of letters” for the book, and was re ceived in part satisfactioo for the Pb. D. Dr. Owen received the degrees. M. at this ips'.itution. The book was to have been published by Editor Go i- zales, of the State of C Jumbia, S. C., And waa interrupted by his tragic death at the hands of Lt. Gjvernor James B. TillmanTT T It was expressed to Dr. Owens and he has not received it. He is being ^ congratulated by all in winning the frafo- attorneys.’* Vital Weakness, Blood Poison and . Ail Discharges. WRITnilM AND hr will gi ve you THE MEANS TO CURE YOURSELF AT HOME PRIVATELY.; Any Rf-ntlMniftri rt-a.ier -if this pnper having'a private dismat-, such as Nervous Debility, var- icocele. Stricture; Sp.-eiftc'*Bloi*<t Poison any L’rethai Discharges should Mobfted Himself. At Mansfield, Ohio, sixty girls mobbed Jacob Rjose Wednesday night. Their plan to tor and feather him was almost carried into effect. Roose was hound with rooes and bea ten and Slapped by the girls. The at tackers were emp'oyecs of the Brown glove factory. Roose owns the fac tory building and has been turning off tbe water which supplies tbe power, It is alleged. The girls were angered by the loss of time. Roose was lured out of the building, tied with a rope and dragged toward the gas bouse, wjiers the tor and feathers were ready. He slipped out of bis bonds looked himself In his factory. Tbe girls tried to break in, but were pre vented by^their employer. Boose wee . „ badly frightened and, bears marks 'of BeteihberTrffaMCfarStDeesel rfr-ffough-bandUng. He has been aa saulted by the girls once before. Recognized as the oldest established and Most Reliable Special. Newton IlutiiAWHy of AtLnta for particular* of hi* new »ystera of errim- these tHanaaM la half of the time r«t| lirvd by the bid method. You apply it yourself at home, under the Doc tor’* directions, and no ons but you and ha know anything about ir. In a ahort lime you healthy and not a pain or sign of tiii&na* anywaar*. " 1 “--j- He cure* (moot* ncy in old man, atop* dia- chargM in a few days, dissolves Stricture without puin, and in the Kamo short tints af fects a marvelous change for the better la all private diseases of men. By an original aw- tem of answers, he can tell exactly what ia tha matter with you, and comi'i >und the treatmsas to cure. < t » He sends it directly to your home in a plats packuge without mirks to indicate the con tent* Let him aoud you his new books cover ing the diseases of m»n. He has four of them —Disi aaes of the Vital Organ*, B1 >od Poison ing, Stricture, Varicoce'e. His full address is Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, 88 Inman Bldg. 8. Broad St. Atlanta, 8a. Write for the one you want. It is free, sls> a detailed letter covering your caae. It is a good way to And out if you can be cured and 'ut no cost to you; so write without delay, and as the doctor has been prominent in the South for twenty-five years, you can rely on what he says. tTsThoiieyma^ The Specialist. Cures all diseases of oten. Lick He Waa loaane Monroe Wells, aged 22, son of a carpenter at North Birmingham Ala., secured a pistol Wednesday and fired at bis mother, tbe bullet nar rowly missing her, Miss Addle Beale, an aunt, rushed to the rescue of Mr*. Wells, when the young man shot her in the neck inflicting a fatal wound. He then turned the weapon upon him self and blew out-bie-bsalns. W had but recently been released Mfrom the Insane aslyum at Tuscaloosa. He was committed some time ago, but was thought to be cured. Miss Beale is expected to die before nfght. 3ccc~ s *ceGcecGocccc£ececce« gonorhoea, gleet, stricture, varlooeele, hydrocele and all private diseases of men. Catarrh Ip all forms cured quickly. Piles cured without opera tion or detention from busioees. Under guarantee. Rjoms 421 and 422 Leonard building, Augusta, Go. Write for home treatment. Offloe hours: 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. Sundays, 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. 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