Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/THF LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth .Congressional District of S. C. Ledger. % hr- i , „' tasgg*^ SEUI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AHD FRIDAY. "'’■'MMie&W-*- WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver. tiser Who Uses the Col- umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ^ESTABLISHED FEB. 10, 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1901. MORE LIKE GUEST / THAN A PRISONER / — ^guinaldo Receives Distin guished Consideration. HE IS LF1NG IN CLOVER I'urobaalns Diamonds and Other Jew* He Removed From Hie Present Quarters to a Fashionable and Pleasantly Located Home. Manila, April 8.—Goueral MacAr- thur says it is impossible to make a statement concerning Agniualdo now. It is possible that Aguinaldo will be re moved from the Malacanau palaco to a large house with pleasant grounds, 50 Geueralu Solano street, a fashionable quarter of the city beside the Pasig siver, which is being renovated and prepared for occpnucy. Aguinaldo is purchasing diamonds and other jewelry. He continues to re* coivo certain visitors, but newspaper Correspondents are excluded. It is said that the manifesto which Aguinaldo has been preparing is not yet signed, and it is added that Aguinaldo is reluctant to comply with the conditions. It upiKmrs that tho majority of the Filipinos in Manila distrust Aguinaldo and dislike to see him accorded special favors. They say he ought to be severe ly punished. General Sanico, a former member of Aguinaldo’s cabinet, has surrendered to the American authorities at Oabauatuau, in the province of New Ecija. He has a bad record aud may be tried. TO ASSASSINATE LOUBET. French Detectives Receive Informa* , lion of a Plot. London, April 8.—A dispatch to The Evening News from Paris says that the French detectives were privately in formed of n projected attempt to assas sinate President Loubet daring bis com ing trip. Extraordinary precautions have been taken every where and the usual police protection has been doubled. Outsiders have been excluded from the railroad stations. Ten thousand soldiers have been detailed to maintain order during the French president’s stay at Nice, where stringent orders have been issued to rigorously suppress the slightest hos tile demoustration. President Loubet is inclined to laugh at the detectives’ fears that an attempt will bo made upon his life. A-sassIaated F rom Ambush. yiLSo.\DALE,W.Va., April 8.—Henry arcura, a well-to-do farmer of this county, was last night fatally shot from ambush. The assassin is unknown. Strike Is Probable. New Youy, April 8.—Neither em ployers nor employed have made deci sive moves in the wage dispute that may terminate with a strike on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It is expected that tho men will confer within the next 24 hoars and by vote agree upon a plan of action. The withdrawal from the city of the chiefs of the brotherhoods of railway men, after an unsuccessful attempt to secure a conference with the officials of the railroad, restores the dis pute to one directly between the com pany aud its men. Negroes on Confederate Roll. CoiA’JtniA, & C., April 8.—Confeder ate veterans are considerably exercised over the fact that there are several ne groes on tho pension rolls. These men have been indorsed for pensions by the county boards, and unless the state board is shown that they are not entitled to pensions they cannot be stricken off. Some camps have passed resolutions of protest. In one instance the negro pen sioner was a free negro; in another he was a slave, but lost his leg in following his master in battle. Litigation Over Mayoralty. Topeka, April 8.—Albert Parker com menced an action in tbe district oonrt today by maudamns to compel Colonel J. W. F. Hughes to tarn the office of mayor over to Colonel Parker, elected mayor. Ott the face of the retnrns Col onel Hughes, the law and order candi date, received a majority of seven. Mr. Parker’s name appears on two tickets, tlie Democratic and citizens. United states Steel Company. Nkw York, Aprils.—At the annuel meeting of tbe United States Steel com pany tbe following directors were elected: C. M. Schwab, E. G. Garry, Samuel Spicer, Charles McVeagh and Robert Bacon. At the meeting of the board of directors on Saturday the ttnm- ber of the board was redaoed to flea Charged With Theft. Essi ey, Ala., April 9 —J. A. Shivers, a Well known younf man, and Mra Daisy Smith, a young married woman, have been arrested on the ehaffe of stealing 1800 worth of commissary checki from the Easley Liquor company. Off F or the Philipplnee. Des Moines, April 1—Congressman J. A. t. Hull, chairman of ths commit tee on military affaira* started lustnlghi for the Pbiiippine islands, for the pur* pose of making an Inapeotlon of the gov- eminent transport service. Republican Dally Mewspaperi CoM’UUu, 8. 0., April 8.—there li A strong prospect of the publication of a Republican daily newspaper at Colum bia. It U understood that Mr. W. & Smith Whaley, the cotton mill magnAts, will be in charge. Dran of Canterbury 111. Lon Do*, April 8.—The Very Rev. Frederick V. Farrar, dean of Canter bury, whoso condition has for the laat few days caused anxiety, bad a restless night and this morning shows no im* torutsment. OVER THE STATE. ALL FOOL’S DAY. Nowny Itru.n from Other Counties Urouped Together. The women’s department of the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition will give a prize of $10.00 for the best original design for souvenirs to be sold in the Wo men’s Building, during the exposi tion. In the case of Thornhill, the man who le;t his wife in Colombia and took away their 8-monthe-old child, Judge Gage has issued an order giv ing the child into the custody of tbe mother. The order allows the father to see the child as often as be wants to, but in the presence of the mother. Sus Jacobs has been resentenced to be banged on April 26th at Dar lington. By an appeal his lawyer succeeded in gaining time for him, but his appeal was dismissed and the sentence again pronounced. Jacobs is the murderer of Mr. J. L. Byrd and was convicted at the last term of court. Gordon Fredericks, of Seneca, was run over by a train on the Blue Ridge Railroad, at the Seneca cotton factory side-track last Wednesday and one leg was cut off. From tbe best information obtainable he was knocked off the top of the cars by an over head scaffold about tbe mill and fell between the cars. Cooley Harris and John Alston, both colored, employed in the Char leston Hotel, became involved in a difficulty in the rear part of the hotel Thursday evening at 6:60 o’clock. Both negroes drew their knives and slashed each other. Hartis was cut in the face and side, while Alston was stabbed several times in tbe body. Over at Marion a case of small pox broke out at tbe hotel where Judge Earnest Gary was a guest. The town council met and was fixing to put a cordon of guards around the house and hold tbe guests. The Judge and Solicitor got tips and skip ped successfully while the council were drawing up resolutions and ex tending orders. A rather peculiar case was presen ted to the Governor from Spartan burg tbe other day in tbe shape of a petition for pardon. An old man was convicted of violation of the dispen sary law and the jury who tried tbe case the next day after rendering their verdict voluntarily presented a petition asking the man’s pardon. The Governor granted their request. It is stated that tbe Richland Dis tilling company has made the pur chase of seven and a half acres of land upon the river, just north of the Granby mill village, and will proceed shortly to erect its distillery. The plans and specifications for the buildings of the plant have been re ceived. They are from western architects and provide for commo dious and convenient structures. George Weaton and Abraham Lin coln, colored, were bound over to the court of general sessions Friday by Magistrate Levy on a warrant sworn out by John Campbell, white, charg ing them with highway robbery on the night of March 28. Tbe warrant alleges that on the night in question the defendants forcibly took from Campbell, near King and Line streets, $5, one neck tie and one shirt. The defendants denied the charge. They have employed E. R. Hayne to defend them. The postoffice department have given warning notice of the work of a gang of swindlers who have recently appeared along tbe line of rural free delivery routs. Tbe notice eays that the swindlers “have been traveling about the country representing them selves as postoffice inspectors. Their scheme is to pretend to inspect tbe mail boxes and then demand from $8 to $5. It ie the habit of tbe swin dlers to work their schemes shortly after rural routes have been estab- liebed, tbe patrons, not being familiar with tbe requirements, being easily led to believe that it is necessary to pay rental on tbe boxes.” Saturday morning tbe constables caught up with Will McKinney, a white man who was found on Wash ington street, Greenville,with several gallons of liquor. They bsd been laying for him io the edge of the city. Warren McKenzie, a negro, hid bought tbres pints from McKinney, and another negro named Hsrrlsoo became involved in the trouble, which caused the constables to take charge of tbe whole outfit, and present them to the officii! notice of Magistrate Clyde, who sect Harrison to jail In default of $200 for bis appearance at court, while McKinney gave bond McKinney and Harrison were opera ting with a horse and buggy from William's stable on Ltorsni street, which wti being used without the owner'i permlseloo. Tbe announcement of Jthe signing of the agreement for tbe purchase of tbs Lawton tract for tbs naval eta- tion has otnssd a good deal of satis faction among tbs people generally. Tbe deal bad been pending for 10 long thet many people were fearing that tbe navel etatlon would be kept at fort Royal, and tbe bard work of Senator Tillman and otbere In Cbar- leeton’e lotereet would be to no par- poet. Mr. Rutledge, tbe attorney for tbe Lawtons, bee not yet re turned from Washington and tbe terms of the agreement are not known definitely. All that ia known Is that $50,000 is the consideration, but it Is not known whether this ex cess of $16,000 over tbe offer recom mended by ths naval board will have to be born by Charleston or wbstbsv the govtrnmtnt iniMMtd U» ode* to ttll WQUOli Komjt Checked Maid Accepted a Propoat- tlon of Marriage. (Correspondence of The ledger.) Buffalo, April 2 —Yesterday was ‘‘all fools” day. A pretty rosy cheeked little lassie made a fool of the writer. A young man in this community received tbe following anonymous letter dated Blsxburg, April 1st, Dear Sir: In reply to yours of recent date I will say that I am willing to accept your proposi tion to be your wife. I would sug gest the fourth Sunday in this month as the date of our marriage. If that day doesn’t suit you please call around at your earliest convenience and probably we can agree upon some other day. Lovingly yours The recipient of the above letter written in a lady’s band writing may think it was from his best girl but it was not. It has been raining all day and still looks as though it might rain a little ilood. It no doubt makes many a poor farmer feel blue but it may yet prove a blessing in disguise. Last week we prayed for a drough to cut off tbe cotton crop in order to save tbe poor foolish farm ers from financial ruin next fail, but it now looks like the Lord is sending hie mercy down on them^io torrents of rain instead of hot rays of sunshine, lojhis great|wisdom be is nipping|lheir foolishness in the bud. But for tbe wise oversight of a kind providence we would every one go to the devil in our own ignorance. Mr. Gilbert Wylie, one of our pop ular bachelors, has gone into gen eral merchandising. He no doubt wants a pair of dainty little hands to hold the yard stick for him. Miss Bessie Porter has gone to Co lumbia to attend school a couple of months to better prepare herself for teaching. Cupid has been visiting this sec tion. He has been successful in tbe object of his visit. Misses Mabel Moore and Edna Mosa returned home from Gaffney a day or two ago from a visit among friends and relatives. We would like to see an article in The Ledger on the subject of the broad tire, from the pen of Mr. Row land Black. Dr. Ramseur could give our^fa‘mere some good advice about fattening hogs on chufna. The doctor is a practical farmer and a gentleman of undoubted veracity. What was said about Deacon Fletcher Duncan last week was in tended for a good natural joke and he took it as such. We are inclined to believe tbe deacon already haa one in view. Mr. E H. Bridges started his new roller mill about aix weeks ago and has already ground over two thous and bushels of wheat. From the time Mr. Bridges first began building bis mill until it was finished many people predicted that it would be a failure but it doesn’t look very much like it now. Rev. Mr. Smith, of Greenville, will preach at Mt. Paron next Sunday. Bachklor. clogfsd. Ds Risen cleanse (be They never gripe. Company. THE LONG HAUL AND THE SHORT Decision By United States Supreme Court THE COTTON PROBLEM. LOWER COURTS REVERSED “I have been troubled with indi gestion for ten years, have tried many things and spent much money to no purpose until 1 tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I I have taken two bottles and gotten more relief from them than all other medicines taken. I feel more like a boy than I have felt in twenty years.” Anderson Riggs of Sunny Lane, Tex. Thou sands have testified as did Mr. Riggs. Cherokee Drug Co. The best men are not so good as they ought to be, and the worst men are a great deal more degraded and sinful than they themselves or any one else suppose. ‘‘Last winter I was confined to my bed with a very bad cold on the lungs. Nothing gave me relief. Fi nally my wife bought a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure that effected a apeedy cure. I cannot speak too highly of that excellent remedy.”— Mr. T. K. Houseman, Manatawney, Pa. Cherokee Drug Co. Io Atchison county, Kan., a far mer’s wife sold $1,000 worth of but ter lilt year. Another one sold $564 worth of butter and eggs. ‘‘I bnd piles so bad I could get no rest nor fiod a core until I tried De- Witt’i Witch Hazel Belve. After neing it once, I forgot I ever bad anything like Pllei. E. 0. Boice, N. Y Look oat for imitations. Be •ore you ask for DeWltt’s. Chero kee Drug Company. For several days past tbe ther mometer In tbe southern districts of West Australia reglatered aa high af lift In the inn and 121 In tbe shade. You cannot enjoy perfect health, rosy ohssks and sparkling eyes If your liver Is sluggish and your bowels ~ Wilt’s Victory For the Kant Tennessee Rail road Over the Interstate Cinimeroe Commission, tho Circuit Court aud Circuit Court of Appeals. Washington, April a—In the United States supreme coart today nn opinion was handed down by Justice White L. various cases involving the Iouk aud short clause of the interstate commerce law. The principal opinion was rendered in the case of the Ea^t Tennessee and Georgia Railroad company, and the charge woe to the effect that a lower rate was charged on freight carried to Nashville than was charged on freight to Chattanooga, tho distance to the first point being greater thati to the fatter. The decisions of tho interstate com merce coiuiuis-ion, the circuit court and the circuit court of appeals were ail an tagonistic to the railroad company, though ou different grounds. Tho opinion handed down todhy re versed all these decisions and was in fa vor of the railroad company, though without prejudice. The decisions ta other similar cases were ou similar liueo. MINISTER WU AT ChARLOTE Wu Ting-F'ang Will Hake Address There April 18. Charlotte, N. C., April 8.—Mr. D. A. Tompkins, president of tho Manu facturers’ club, today received the fol lowing letter from Minister Wu Ting- Fang, dated from the Chinese legation in Washington: “1 have just reoived yonr letter of the fourth iust. It gives me great pleasure to accept the invitation you extend to me on behalf of the board of governor! of the Manufacturers’ club to become the guest of the club ou April 18.” Minister Wu will arrive hero on the evening of April 17, and the afternoon of April 18 will hold a reception at tho Manufacturers’ dab, the banquet to fol low that night. Kxcii'ed From Du y. Washington, April 8.—The president today issued the following order: “It ia hereby ordered that upon Tuesday, the 9th iustaut, such employes of the execu tive departmeuts, the goverumeut print ing office aud the navy yard aud station as served in the military or naval ser vice of the Uuited States iu the civil war or the Spanish-Americau war shall be excused from duty at 1 o’clock p. m. for the remaiuder of that day, to enable them to participate iu the exercises of the unveiling of tbe statue erected to the memory of the late General John A. Logan.” Store Rus-lnn Students Arrested. London, April 8 —A dispatch from St Petersburg to the Reuter Telegram company says the police at Kharkoff have arrested 21 students for rioting at the railroad station, on the occasion of tho departure of other stadems who were expelled for being connected with previous disturbances at Kharkoff. A number of students were also arrested in St. Petersburg ou leaving a theater where they had mrnifested particular approval of certain passages of a play which seemed to refer to existing politi cal conditions in Russia. Little Early whole nyitena# Oherokte Drug In the Gettysburg National park 225 mounted caoooae have been placed aod a tote! of 810 moaumeotal tablets aod about 500 monuiseoti have been erected. Bpriog coughs are apeoially dan- geroua aod uolen oared st case, ie- rious results ofteo follow. Ooe Minute Oougb Cure aoti like magic. It la oot a common mixture but la a high gradf raatdy. Cherokee Drug Oompiop, •Too Moch Common Senm -Iu Kedut-lng Acreage to Tlesse F'urmem.” Correspondence of Tne Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 5.—Typograph ical error? in our letter of March 80tb makes us say that Enoree Pres bytery will meet at Lockhart, April 10th, instead of 16th, and in the problem answered that the sugar costs 10 cents per pound instead of 16 cents. Broad river was higher from Tues day’s rain than it was a week ago, but the lands were not so badly washed. Some people complain that their seed potatoes are rotting in the bed. Some of oar neighbor boys went fox hunting down in the fork last Wednesday night. A fox was seen there Wednesday morning by Mr Addis and they concinded to give it a race. The Ledger i* certainly an enter prising paper—equal to, if not supe rior, U any semi-weekly in the State. It givee accounts of important events taking place about the hour of its publication. Our frieud, DcCamp. deserves credit for his energy and push id making it what it is—one of the leading semi-weeklies in the State. The meeting of the farmers tomor row will, no doubt, be fairly well at tended. But the result is easy to tell. Everybody knows and every body says a reduction of the acreage is the solution of the cotton problem, so far as the farmer is concerned. But, now, get them to adopt aud, io good faith, slick to that theory. “Bachelor,” of Buffalo, is about right when he says, “There would be too much common sense in reducing tbe acreage in cotton to please the farmers.” “If there is any one thing ou the face of the earth, or under the shioing sun, that is distasteful to farmers it is common sense.” Nothing is so cheap and yet worth so much as good advice. Almost any ooe is able and ready to give it, but few, if any, are ready to take it. It is one of those products which is ‘more blessed to give than to re ceive.” With our better half we spent yes terday evening with our mutual friend and neighbor, J. R. Poole, Esq., of Sunny Side. He is one of our most entertaining talkers and in telligent citizens aud no one will re gret tbe time spent with him aod his family. We also met our old friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Buice, there too. Mr. Buice had his outfit for taking pictures and showed us a sample of his work. All he lacks of doing an immense business in his lioe is to let his old friends and cus tomers know through an ad. iu Tbe Ledger where he is at and his terms, and we will guarantee tbe rest. The Ledger will bring ’em in, Noah. If you don’t believe it. just try it. j. L. s. THE REUNION AT MEMPHIS. The Gatuesborough Portrait. Liverpool, April 8. — O. Moreland Agnew, upon his arrival here on the steamer Etruria this morning, admitted that he hod the Gaiuesborongh portrait of the Dnchess of Devonshire. Mr. Ag- new himself carried the picture ashore, bat beyond admitting that it was tbe famous missing Gainesboroagh he de clined to famish any details regarding its recovery ana proceeded to London. Liberal Raster Contributions. Chattanooga, April 8.—At St Paul’s Eptsoopal church yesterday Rector Good man aunonneed that, in response to ap peals. the congregation had placed in the alms dishes daring the Easter day service the sam of $4,500, enough to completely wipe oat the church debt The charch is one of the handsomest in the country, built on the old English plan. Nothing In the Report. Knoxville, April k.—Referring to the report that the Southern railway had oloeed a deal with the Tennessee Central railway, which would In two months give the Southern an entrance into Nashville, Ooloael Jere Baxter, president of the Tennessee Central, to* day wired The Sentinel: “There Is ab solutely nothing in the report." Railroad Uonds Voted. Franklin, N. O., April 8—Maoon county has voted, by a handsome ma jority, to issue bonds lu aid of a railroad to connect Franklin with tke road from Charlotte to Atlanta. This action In sures the building of a road from this place southward to Tallulah Falls, Ga., and to Cornelia Station, on the Char lotte and Atlanta Air Line. Kate of a Feaeemaker. Ucxpku, Aprils—A Scimitar special from Xndianola, If Isa, reports tbs kill, lug of James Bailey of that place by his wife. Loelia Bailey. Bailey had inter fered In a row between his son by a for mer marriage aud Mra Bailey’s brother, and the woman fired at him with a shot gun, killing him Instantly. The slayer u lu jail. Whisky Men Arrested. Edinburgh, April 8 — Robert and Walter Pattlson, Who were managing directors of the Pattlson whisky Arm which failed in 1898, with a deficiency of £80,000, were arrested today. The arrests promise to revive the sensation which followed the failure of the wbUky Arm, which ruined a number ef flrmg, Ueneral Walker Names Route for South Carolina Veterans. Gen. Walker Las selected the Southern Railway as the “official route” for the veterans of tbe South Carolina Division, United Confed erate Veterans, to the reunion to be held in Memphis, Tenn., in May next. Tbe following letter was re ceived by Division Passenger Agent Robt. W. Hunt, of the Southern Railway, yesterday: Charleston, March 9, 1901. Me. R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, South ern Railway Company, Charleston, S. C.:—From my positlau as com mander of the South Carolina Divis ion of tbe United Confederate vete rans, it ie my duty to select the route for tbe traDeportation of the Vete rans to the Memphis Reunion. The South .Carolina Cbicamauga Com mission, of which I am secretary, also directed ms to make tbs earns arrangements for transportation of veterans and visitors to the unveil* Ing ceremonies; aud Adjt. Gen. J. W. Floyd also requested me to ar range tbe route for movement of the •tate volunteer troops to the unveil ing of the Ohlckamauga monument. "I have duly considered tbe ad ven tages of tbs various routes offering tbsir service" ".ud I am sore that ths greater facilities to all concerned, golrg and coming, for both events, are offered by your route, (tbe South ern Railway.) aod I beg to edviee (bet It baa been selected ae tbe of* flolal route to carry the veteran! to the Memphis Reunion, May 28th, 1901. aod the state volunteer troops and visitors to ths unveiling cere monies of the South Carolina monu ment at Ohlchamauga, May 27ib, 1901.” I will confer with you further ae to tbe timei of the leaving of tram, so that you can announce the sitne. 0.1. Walker, Commander,S.C. Dlvlslon.U. 0.,V. I Secretary S. C. Cbiciiroaugs Monu ment Commission. Yon will waste time if you try to cure indigestion or dyspepsia by starving yourself. That only makes Ikworse wbsn you do sat heartily. You always need plenty of good food properly digested. Kodol Dyspepsia Curs Is ths (exult of years of scien tific research for somstbing that woo’d digest oot only some eiemente of food but evsry kind. Aod it Is tbe one remedy that will do it. Cherokee Dtug Cs. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Ilappcnlug.s and the Doliix* «>t Our Neigh bor* Aero** the I.lue. A distressing accident occurred at Forest Hill Friday morning A little daughter of Mr. J. H. J. Kluttz, five years old, was dreadfully scalded by falling into a bucket of boiling wattr. Rev. Joe Monday was arrested and locked up at Statesville Saturday for being in an intoxicated and boister ous condition. This is one of the temptations with which be has had to contend for years. Before he was arrested he had a little difficulty with Mr. James Kerr. Macon county Saturday voted, by a handsome majority, to issue bone’s in aid of a railroad to connect Frank lin with the road from Charlotte to Atlanta. This action insures the building of a road from this place southward to Tallulah Falls, Ga., and to Cornelia Station, on the Char- lott A Atlanta Air Line. About 9 o’clock Friday as cue of tl e steamers was coming in and about to make fast to the wharf, at Greenville, N. C., the body ofa white man floated up from the bottom of the river. The body was dragged out and Chief of Po lice J. T. Smith was notified. The officer went down to investigate, an! the body proved to be Mr. Frank Cor bett, a white man about forty years of age,of Falkland township. Tt has just been learned that a white man, residing just north of Greensboro, shot and seriously wounded a negro who insulted him a few days ago. He managed to keep the affair from the ears of the officers and paid the negro $285 to say nothing of it. No steps have been taken to prosecute the white man, for the reason that the matter has not been reported, and he is probably safe, provided the negro does not die. A five year old boy has been found in EHenboro, Rutherford county, who is nearly all head. The head does ail the growing, while the r<st of the boy is nothing but skin and bone. Head at d all his weight is said to be sixty-five pounds. They allow fifteen pounds for the body, legs and arms and credit the head with tbe rest. With a fifty pound head on such fraii support it is not surprising that the boy should find it too heavy to carry around and prefer to spend bis time lying down. As a result of a dispute over some rights of way Thursday afternoon, at Mt. Airy, J. H. Reynolds, with a steel spike bar, dealt a blow on tho bead of 8. A, White, Superintendent Mt. A. tk E. R. R., knocking him seose- hss. White lay some minutes where he was felled, the rain pouring In tor rents on his upturned face. He was, however, picked up and carried to a place of safety by tbe crew of train men. Reynolds came here a few years ago from Sooth Carolina and succeeded iu interesting some of the* parties engaged iu the lumber busi ness along tbe line of tbe Mt. A. >k E. R R., and he was enabled to ac quire tbe White Sulphur Springs property. Mr. Lee Wynn, conductor on the Soutberu Railway, suffered a serious loss at the depot Saturday at States ville. He was in charge of a train that had some material for tbe Kest- ier bridge. His train was standing on tbe eide-Track awaiting the ar rival of the Charlotte traio. He had in his pocket a purse containing $420 and on missing it reported bis loss to Mr. D. M. Coiner, the agent. On going out to his train later tbe purse was discovered under the car but it was empty. He does uot know how to account for the loss ex cept that the purse dropped out of his pocket aod was discovered by some one, tbe cooteuts taken out aod the empty puree tbrowu under tbe car. There was iu the missing money one $100 bill, two $50 bills and the remaiuder of denominatiooe of $5 aud $10. Will D. Strickland and bis sister’s husband, Oliver Lewis, of Smithfield, went to a log rolling Wedoeeday of last week and both drank some whis key. After they retarded home Lewie took a horse belonging to Strickland's father from tbe stable to give It some water. Lewie began beating the horse and Strickland Interfered. Lewis caught up au axe and ran Strickland Into the bouee hitting him one lick or tbe head with tbe axe. Lewis threw Strickland down and was choking hi when Strickland shot him. The urst shot went through one of Lewis' legs. Tbe next took effect In tbe bowels. But after the •hooting Lewie would have killed Strickland but for the help of soother men. Lewie lived about a day aod night. He was a large, strong man. Striokiand was a small mao. Tbsss partlss llvsd osar Spring Hops. Tot CanMe Night Alarm. “One night my brother’s baby waa taken with Croup,” wiltes Mra. J, O. Solder, of Crittenden, Ky., “It seemed it would strangle before *• could get a doctor, so we gave it Dr. Kings New Discovery, which gave quick relief and permaoeutly eured It. We always keep it in tbe house to protect our children from Troop and Whooping Cough. It cured me of a obronlo Bronchial trouble that no other remedy would relieve." Infallible for Coughs. Colds, Tbfost and Lung troubles, 50o and $1 00. Trial boltlse free at Cbsrokee Drug Company. England is getting coal from abroad. It was not tbe wat formerly. Skin troubles, cuts, burns, scalds and chafing quickly bsal by ths use of DeWltt’e Witch Hasel Salve. It is Imitated. Bs sure you get D»- Wllt'i. Obtrokei Drug Compstif. *1.50 A YEAH. RUSSO-CHINESE SITUATION IH DOUBT From Standpoint of Washing ton Authorities. DIPLOMATS IN THE DARK Uncertainty Seems to Exist as to Whether or Not There Has iieen In terruption of Diplomatic Intercourse Between the Nations. Washington, April 8.—The Chinese minister was an early caller at the state department today to seek information as to the report, based on advices to tbe state department, that there had been interruption of the diplomatic inter course between Russia aud China. Mr. Wu had not been advised of any such development, and the information before the state department was so contradict ory that it did uot permit any clear ex planation of the real state of affairs. The doubt arises from the fact that Mr. Rockhili’s latest dispatch does not mention any such disagreement, and the officials feel bound to accept this as pretty strong evidence that prior inti mations of discord have not taken actual form. Yet the dispatch received from the American charge d’affaires, iu the absence of Minister Conger, appears to have been quite explicit that the diffi culty already had made itself manifest. Tho staro department maiutaius an attitude of doubt and expectancy, and is not yet prepared to admit that there has been au iuterraption of intercourse between the two countries, either lim ited or complete. Aside from the telegraphic advices, there are some attending circamstances which indicate that least some strain or partial interruption of intercourse has occurred. The fact developed in Washiugtou about a week ago that Rus sia had delivered to Chiua what amounted to an ultimatum ou the signing of the Manchurian agree ment. This followed the usual course of ultimatums aud fixed a defi nite limit of days iu which China could a it. It also conveyed the clear intimaiiou that unfavorable action by China would lead to a severance of di plomatic relations between the two countries. The limit of time fixed is be lieved to have been one week and to have expired last Wednesday. Chiua did not sign within the time limit, and the next day, Thursday, Russia address ed her note to the powers, which has been accepted as removing the pressure over the Manchurian agreement. This at first seemed to be a waiver of her prior intimation of an interruption of diplomatic intercourse, and yet there was no such explicit waiver, and the latest advices from Peking, reporting that an interruption has now actually occurred, seem to be directly iu line with the threat previously conveyed. In case there is to be an interruption of the relations between Russia and China, it is not expected to disarrange the negotiations between the powers and China or between Russia and the powers. It probably would bo confined to a termination of the close entente long maintained between Russia and China. BLIND TIGERS IN WAYCROSS Druggist Heavily Fined For Selling Whisky. Watcross, Ga., April 8.—The arrest of A. P. Fries, a druggist doing business ou Albany avenue, upon the charge of selling whisky, and tbe fine of $400 im posed npon him by Judge Williams of the city oonrt, was bnt the first move iu what seems to be a sensation in Way- cross. For some time past it has been very evident that, notwithstanding the high license ordinance of the city and the stringent prohibition laws of rhe conn- ly, it required but little effort and no strategy to seenre liqnor by those whose customs aud habits demanded it. The frequent occurrences of intoxioatioa that were to be seen recently aronsed the authorities to the fact that “blind tigers” existed aud tbe officers were given instructions to bring the proprie tors of snch places to justice. The first case was that of Fries and the heavy flue inflicted has made a cold chill ran down the back of those whom tbe finger of suspicion has marked as among those who will be asked to answer the same charge. While noth ing definite can be learned of what evi dence has been secured, it is rnmored that sufficient testimony will be given before the grand jury to secure the in dictment of eeveral others. Japanese Breathe Raster. Yokohoiu, April &--The newi of Russia’s decision uot to press the Man churian agreement was received here with a feeling of relief. In anticipation of complications that might ensue had Russia reached another oonelnslon, the government had resolved to postpone a number of important statute undnrtah* lagSi Involving large expendltaree, jfo More Political Prosecution* Ralxioh, April a—The dropping of the prosecutions of the Democratic elec tion officers in the federal courts is a matter of tbe flrsi Importance to North Carolina. It means rest to ths state from political strife and turmoil, which have prevailed for so many years and which, since 1898, hate been intenaa. Krhlt Crop Uninjured. Rtpox flrnixd. 8. 0., April a—Met* Withstanding the frosty mntalhfi of Into ind ths presence of quentlHee of loe, the fruit men any that peaches and apples have not been Injured In the least) and preparatlobs are being for snipping an immense crop. Chinamen Held Up. Maloni. N. Y., April 8,-tW4hty» hlne Chinamen Were arrested on the Canadian line north of Malone today, trying to make their way Into the United States. Mnolipox at Panama, Kingston, Jamaica, April &—Prlf*f adviees received hare from Panama saj Nt alipo* 1c prstaiung there,