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THE LARGEST Circulation ot Any Ne in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. VI $ i ,, ^ n * j&L ? V1 ^^ JL-j' ^ » SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wh GUARANTEE The Rei.j.bility of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in a!! that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. Hi, 1894. HAFFNEY. S. C.. TUESD v\ SEPTEMBER *4, 1901. S 1.50 A YEAR. t 1 THROOGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Kventa that ll'.v*; Taken l > liu , «- from One Kml of the State to the Other (ulle«1 from KxehanKes for Ouiek |{ea<tlti(; by Seores of Hu„y People. Over 80.CKX) pounds of tobacco were sold on the Florence market Satur day. .Mr. F. J. Rhodes made the , splendid average of 2i cents on l,o21 pounds. Near Catawba Juction Tuesday about ten or twelve freight cars went through the bridge, doing consider able damage. No one was seriously hurt and the damage wa> quickly re paired. The governor has received from the governor of Georgia r q liiition papers for on, ,J R Shedd, who is charged with violating the liquor laws of Georgia. The governor wili honor the rntjuisition. Mr. () L I’otts, who killed the ne gro. Will Stevenson in Chester, was granted hail on last Wednesday. Mr. Pott’s friends think that there will be no trouble in proving that he did the shooting in self defense. A negro man, Wm. Means by name, living a few miles from Jonesville. worked hard and saved up $250. which he had in Ms house and one night last week his house was entered by unknown parties through a window and all his money stolen. The last of the columns on the front portico of the State capitoi has been set in position, and now the work of putting the heavy granite that will rest on the columns is to be gotten under way. The granite work • about the dome is steadily progress ing. A member of the penitentiary di rectors states that the cotton crop on the State farms is better than it has been for years and that picking is going right along. The aorn crop is poor, but the state farms are not pe culiar in this respect. This crop has not been good anywhere. The case against W. I). Howard, ex-county beer dispenser, of Spartan burg, charged with embezzlement, came up for hearing in Magistrate Kirby’s court Saturday. The prose cutor failed to prosecute the case and discharged Howard. The defenuent was represented by Hon. Stanyarue Wilson. The Union Oil Mill has been solif and brought pur to the stockholders. It was sold to the Southern Cotton Oil Co. President W. E. Thomson will continue to run it as manager. The company is known as the •'trust” * but is separate from the Virginfa- Caroiina Co. The organization of the new elec tric company, which proposes to build a line from Greenville to Piedmont, is making good progress, and when the charter has been obtained from the secretary of State, which will be in a few days, definite plans will take shape and arrangements will be com pleted for building the road. Mayor ;ilardin, of Chester, has written the gove-nor in reference to a disease among horses, which appears to be glanders, and which was dis covered in the livery stable of W. \V. Brice, of Chester. He asks that the veterinary surgeon of Clemson he sent to investigate. The governor has referred the letter to Clemson college. David Guignard, colored, was con victed at Orangeburg last week of at tempting to wreck freight train 212, and passenger train '.io on the M. and A. road and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Mr. J. C. Blount worked up the case, and when the negro was arrested he admitted his guilt. The engine of the freight train was damaged. Haturday Constable Bateman caught quite a shipment of illicit liquor at one of the freight depots in Columbia The liquor was put up iu pint flasks and the total amount seized was the contents of 12 cases, there being 100 flasks to the case! The identity of the party to whom the liquor was consigned is not clear. Arthur Derrick alias Arthur Pasco, a negro boy in jail, in Columbia, charged with criminally assaulting a little five year old negro girl. The case would have come up Saturday morning before the magistrate but the girl was unable to come to the preliminary. On account of his youth. Derrick will probably 1 z aeut to the reformatory* for a number of years, when the ease is tried in the circut court. A. F. Fennell, a boss at the Man chester mill, in Rock Hill, has been sum mend to appear before Magistrate R M Anderson of Ebenezer township for trial on a charge of assault and battery upon Alva Holmes, with whom be had a diflculty in the Man chester mill a few days ago. In the clash Mr. Homes was struck several severe blows about the head by Mr. Fennell, but no serious damage re sulted on either side. The case against Thomas Goings for murder is a matter of great inter est at Union. Last December Goings killed J. M Splawn at the Union Cot ton Mill. Mr. Splawn wa*- the origi- nator of the Polo Mill in Spartanburg county. The case was given to the jury early Saturday. The attorneys were: State, Solicitor Sease, J. C. Wallace. W. W. Dixon; defense, V. E. D-l’ttss James Munro, C. P. San ders, D. R. Duncan. J L Carson, of Spartanburg, pres ident of the Morgan Iron Works of that city, is in Charleston in the in terest of the exhibit that will be made by Spartanburg at the exposition. The Morgan Iron Works will send down a large exhibit of its manufact ure:! products and a Urge amount of space will be occupied by this com pany The citizens of the city of !■ partanhurg and of tiie county have g me actively to work in the interest of the exhibit and Mr. Carson states that it will be most interesting. The announcement is made that Mr. E. B Freeman, who has been the general manager of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company plant at Georgetown, is to be promoted and that he will go to Europe as the rep resentative of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company. Mr. Freeman lias made a decided success of his work in this slate and the company is to send him to Europe where much of the product from the mills sold. ‘ Big Jesus,” a negro whom Sheriff Burch arrested in Rocky Mount and was bringing to Florence, made good his escape by jumping from the train as it was crossing the long trestle at Pee Dee, and has not been seen since. The fellow was handcuffed. He had a fall of nearly 30 feet and it is believed, landed in a deep slue. His escape from fatal injury or death was miraculous. The spot was searched but no trace of “Big Jesus,” was to be found He is said to have been seen in Marion county. The government tug at work on the Congaree near Columbia went down in 25 feet of water Saturday. The tug is a Hut bottom boat, and while cruising around where the govern ment work was submerged, a hole was punched in the boat’s bottom by a piece of machinery hidden under the water. All hands escaped and the little steamer will be all right again as soon as the flood subsides. The boat went down the day it was launched but suffered no serious dam age. Friday morning at 4 o’clock seven tenant houses, located on Gower street in Greenville, lUO yards inside the city limits, were totally destroyed by fire. The authorities at the sta tion house were notified of the fire, but the fire bell was not rung and consequently the fire department was not called out. It was believed that the fire was beyond the city limits and this is given us a reason for the bell not ringing. All the cottages were occupied, but the occupants were unable to save but little of their belongings. One of the cottages was occupied by William Kelly, an ex- Confederate soldier, well known in the city as a barbecuer. For several years he has been in very straitened circumstances. Since the fire he is in even a more destitute condition than ever. BEFORE THE MAYOR. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL PULLINGS. Man Gets His Leg Hurt in a Saw Mill. EARLY FROST INDICATED Two CttKeM Tried in th« City Court Venter- duy Morning. After a rest of several days, during which peace and quiet ‘‘reigned su preme” around the city’s bar o ? jus tice, Mayor Littlejohn was culled upon to don his official robes yester day morning and pass judgment upon two meek and lowly sinners who had trangressed the laws of both heaven and earth, and of Gaffney in partic ular “Wils” Lipscomb, a colored fellow who seems to have a “knack” for getting drunk and getting caught at it. got on a jag Saturday night, and soon had the disorderly” attachment hooked on. He finally landed in the place made end especially prepared for all such characters, and yesterday morning he was sentenced to thirty days on the gang or to pay a fine of five dollars. He couldn’t pay, and is now on the gang again. The other inebriate was one Hamp Jones, of colored extraction Hamp’s crime was the same old thing—too I much “boozerina.” He put up twn- . fifty for his anpearance yesterday i morning, hut failed to appear and thus forfeited his bond. Trie daily ration of the farmer’s family should contain more fiesh eggs and poultry. liro;i<l 1’.iwr at Its H.-iirlit A New Si-lioot to lie Crecti-il Fair Prospect for Good Crop of Sweet Potatoes Pcr.sou:.| and Focal. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jaxs, Sept. 20—Since the death of our martyred President Wil liam McKinley, the most universally beloved, and highly respected Ameri can that ever lived, it is right and proper that we turn the leaf of fate and examine the history of his suc cessor who is now the ex* ciutive head of the greatest nation on the globe. If what we see and hear of the war is true we think that between the characteristics of Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington there is a striking similarity, except, perhaps that the former is more impulsive than the latter. Their dispositions, temperaments and habits are much the same. Coining, as he does, from Puritanical stock on ins father s side and stretching for eight generations back through the Stuy vesants of New York, and through Revolutionary and Colonial times, while on the inateral side he descends from the old ciouthern family of Bullock’s which produced the noted governor of Georgia, and, also the builder of the Confederate privateer, Alabama. Theodore Roosevelt is what we might and do call a practical politician—a militant republican, but he says: “I do not numbePparty allegiance among the Ten Commandments.” If he will make the Ten Commandments his guide his administration will be a success. Just twenty years elapsed between the death of President James A. Gar field and the burial of President William McKinley. In one of our letters last week we said that Henry Harrison, 9th presi dent of the United States, was inaugurated on Friday, when it should have been was born on Friday. Zachary Taylor, 12thjpresident. was born on Friday and was inaugurated on Monday, March 5th, 1849 R. B. Hayes, 19th president, was born on Friday and was inaugurated on Monday, March 5th, 1877. We find this foot note in some school histories which we beg to notice : “The fourth of March is the custo mary time of inauguration ; but when this date falls upon Sunday, the pres ident is inaugurated on the 5th. It thus happened with Hayes’ inaugura tion ; with Washington’s (second term); with Munroe’s (-iecond term); and with Pay lor's (1819) and the same will again occur in 19U5 ” This is a mistake, both with regard to Washington’s second term (1793) as the 4th of March fell on Monday in that, year and it will faL on Satur day in 1905 The 4ih of March will not again tall on Sundav (m an inaugural year) till 1917. In 1904 it will be on Sunday, again in 1910 and then again in 1917. Mr. “Bud” R.tbinson got his leg hurt at the saw mill of Mr. Eison last Saturday and has been suffering greatly since then. Dr. Black thinks an operation may yet have to he per formed to relieve him. Our old friend Mr Joe M. Coyle, oi Gaffney, passed here to-day in company with Mr. Painter, a sewing machine man. Mr. Coyle dosen’t get any older it seems. Mr. “Jack” Moore, of Ezell, paid us a visit this week. Mr. James Eison will move his saw mill to this place next week. Miss Agnes Wylie will suspend her shool after this week till the busy season passes off. An effort wili be made by the patrons to have a new school house built here (or near here) as the pres ent building is too small to accom modate the children. Besides, it is not comfortable in the winter season. Hon. D. C. Finley, our worthy con gressman, has our thanks for public documents from the census bureau JJJJ All of the mails coming to mis office took yesterday as a day of rest. Broad rtver was at its height day before yesterday and did not admit of any crossing till yesterday evening. This makes ten or twelve rises this year—something unprecedented in the recollections of the oldest inhabi tants In the opinion of our weather bureau now the sudden fall in the temperature of the weather indicates an cany frost—something we are poorly prepared for at this time. Mo*t people have a fair prospect for sweet potato crops no me day before long we propose to give our Ledger readers a chapter of Mr T. Jeff Hughes history which will include his trip out west at the end of what is known as the “Ku Klux war.” We will give it as near as possible in Mr. Hughes’own language and it will be very interesting. It is full of fun as well as gome touching incidents which no doubt will he greatly enjojed by our readers. Don’t fail to get a copy of it. It may run through sevnral numbers of the paper. j. l s. Etta Jaxe, Sept. 23—In behalf of the session and congregation you are respectfully requested to announce in The Ledger the Sacramental meet ing will begin at Salem on Friday next. 27 r h inst., 11 o’clock «, in Rri parutory Sf-rvices are expected t*i continue on Saturday and Saturday night, and the Lord’s Supper cele brated on Sunday at 11 a. m. A cor dial invitation is extended to all to attend and take part in these servi ces. ,i l s. THE S. C. & G. E. R. R. Kcport that Some Cliaiiifes Will he Made in IIh Ma* ugement. Reports come from reliable sources that the South Carolina A Georgia Extension Railroad will soon pass in to the hands of the Atlantic Coast Line Company, and that the S. C A G. E shops are to be moved from Blacksburg to Rock Hill. Of the former, the Columbia Record of the 2U: h had this to say : “Today’s News and Courier has a report from Yorkville to the effect that the Atlantic Coast Line will as sume management of the South Caro- iina tfc Georgia Extension Railroad, better known as the “Three Cs ” “It is said the owner will operate through trains, both freight and pas senger, between Charleston and Mar ion, N. C.. via Sumter, and that the entire road will be improved to an extent that will cause it to compare favorably with the other lines owned and operated by this great system, and that the equipment will be second to none. The report goes on to say that it is the purpose of the new management to operate double daily passenger trains between Charleston and Marion ‘‘In railroad circles here it was as serted that the road would be extended to some point in Tennessee, where it would make connection with another road in which the Coast Line is inter ested. and that when this was done the Coast Line would have practically a through line from Cincinnati and and the West. No one here was able to speak authoratively on this point and the ‘talk’ is reported as one of the railroad rumors of the day. ’ It is also stated that an important schedule change will so n go into ef fect on the S. C. & G, E. railroad and that an additional passenger train will be operated between Sumter and Marion. N. C. The railroad officials are not dis- oosed to go into details, it seems, about the changes, and it cannot be said with any degree of certainty, just now, when, if at all, the S. C <fc G. E. shops will be moved from Blacksburg. The people of Rock Hill are elated over the contemplated move of the shops, and no doubt it would be a great thing for that city to have them within her borders. Mill iflll Notes. Capt. Jim Byers, boss spinner, has been confined to his room for several days with something like diptlieria. Mr. Will Byers’ little daughter who has been very sick with fever is very much improved. With the exception of a few bad colds the Hill is in good health; only one death from fever this season. Mr. Ben Gaffney, cloth room boss of Limestone Mill, reports every thing on a boom. The mill runs day and night. At this writing we learn that Mr. Porter Dixon, son of Mr and Mrs. J. A. Dixon, is very sick with fever, but better than he was. Mr John Kendrick Jones wants it Understood among the ladies that he is not on the old man’s list yet. If reports be true the widow on Stable street says he is only 21. Miss Lillie Morgan's best fellow s uow located at the Limestone mill, and this is what he said wheuheleft: Your Toney now is far away. Miss Lillie, never uilncl; Your Toney’s love will not forget The Lillie he left Itehlnri. Miss Lillie replied: Come back, my Toney, come back. I’llt* 1 what I will do; We will send for the preacher And kill the old rooster, too. Prof W G Hopper, of Slice, N. 0. will open up a singing school in basement of the 2nd Baptist church next Friday night. Sept. 27th All that are interested will take notice. The little “Baby Dreamer” is only 13 years of age and is subject to cry ing and whining spells Will some of The Ledger readers please give me a remedy. If Mr. “Bachelor.” of Buffalo, will come ov**r I thins we can find a r* Hi ed) for that kick he received at the heart May The Ledger live to a ripe old age. Dukamkk. THROUGHOUT TKE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interestinj; Items Concerniua Our Neigh bors lieyoint the Fine Widen .May Prove Kutertaln iijj Kritdiog for Unodreds of Fedger Header*. Robert Snipes, who shot and killed John 0 Brittain in the South moun tains near Morganton last Thursday, has not been arrested, though Sheriff McDowell, of Morganton, and a posse went immediately in pursuit. Snipes returned from the Philippines a few weeks ago, where he wa? a private in one of the volunteer regiments. Several days ago while Mrs L. W. A. Thomason, of Rutherfordton. vva> preparing cabbage for dinner at her home at Purest City, Rutherfordton county, she found three liule pecu liar snakes in one cabbage head They were about six or seven inches long and about the color of the cab bage. and the lady said they were very difficult to notice. There was quite a large and en thusiastic gattiering of cotton-growers in Goldsboro Saturday to consider the propriety of taking steps looking to the protection of their seed pro duce interest. J M. Wood presided over tiie convention. Speeches were made by Col. A C. Davis, Dr W. P Exum and Capt. Jos. E. Peterson. Delegates were elected to attend the convention of fanners to be held in Raleigh this week. Messrs Oliver & Co., who are im proving the grade of the Southern Railway in Morgan’s Hill cut in Mor- gauton, near the school for the deaf, have unearthed a gold mine. One of the nuggets they have found is worth $72. and a number of smaller nuggets have been found. A little girl picked up a piece of gold worth $6 a few days sine* on the fill where the earth from the cut is being dumped. Suit was filed in the United States Court Thursday by Mrs. Sallie E. Andrews, of Charlotte, asking u judg ment against tue Union Savings Bauk for 20 shares of Thomastou Cotton Mill Stock of the par value of $100 per share. The suit asks for $500 addition for the use. making a total of $2 500 There is no reason given in the petition for the stock being in the possession of the bauk. On Tuesday night the dwelling house of Mr. J. W. Huffstetier, o. King’s Mountain, was burglariously entered and an amount of butter and cooked rations was carried away. The police made an investigation next morning and found tracks to and from the house, but the heavy rains that had fallen during the night and morning made it useless to try the hounds There is no further clue yet, hut tiie officers have the case in hand and will use their best efforts to catch the thief. Deputy ah* riff Deaton, of Moores- vihe, passed through Charlotte Fri day night en route to Harrisburg, near which place he expected to make an effort to capture Pleas McDaniell, the man wanted for an alleged crimi nal assault upon a little girl in Ire dell county some weeks ago. The of- j fioer had received a telegram *hat McDaniell was located about three miles from Harrisburg and intended to meet an cfficar there. County Surveyor C. M. Miller, of Spartanburg, with a corps of assist ants started in Friday to make the survey for the electric car line from Chestnut Hill to the Yadkin river at the Piedmont Toil Bridge. It is not expected that the line will be built to the river at once but the survey wili be completed so as to have the road available for laying rail from Spencer to the river wneuever de sired. The company will begin ac tual work on the hue as soon as the steel rad can be secured. A negro female convict, in Raleigh, who was serving a second term in the penitentiary made a daring and sen sational escape on the 12th. She was one of a gang of 20 negro women at work in tDe penitentiary garden, which is not surrounded oy a Block ade. The woman was missed a few minutes utter work was begun, ner clothing was found in thick woods nearby arid it was found she had stolen, it is believed from a peniten tiary guard, some men’s clothing, which she had on under her dr< s*. This made a quick chai.gt easy. It is certain she went off the Work iu a man’s attire. Last Monday afternoon Messrs. Jno. Allen and Clit Borders who I *«• near rdieiby, Wert- in King s Mountain trying to sell a pair of go .a ) uists. They dido t »tli and started home about dark. When iht} got IO the ^ ■ ford on Muddy Fork, near Perry Jen kins’ they saw the stream was swol len but tried to cross anyway. 'The ford was narrow and deep and the water swift. Both horses were swept off their feet and carried about a hundred yards down the stream. Be ing hitched to the buggy they could not get out of the channel, and were drowned. The men narrowly escaped with their lives. The horses were va’ued lit $250. Mr I). A. Whitney, of Raeford, rear Lumberton, appeared in the mayor’s (ffi :e at tha r nlace one day lu-'t week and said that he was very * luucli perplexed as to what was go ing with tiie milk from his tine cow j as she was only giving a pint, a day’." He set a diligent watch over the cow, and at last slipped upon a huge black snake in the act of sucking her. He procured a hoe, struck the snake and cut it in two After killing the rep tile the cow bellowed and bemoaned at au awful rate. Ho says the sns.ke was five feet long and exceedingly large. The citizens of Monroe who wore out late 1 hursdav night or early Fri day morning r> port a strange circum stance. Hundreds and thousands of birds, of all kinds, all sizes and col ors. passed through and over and in the town. They swarmed about the electric lights like insects and many of them were killed by dashing against the wires, posts and other obstruc tions. Man) of the birds were of the kind that are seen everv day in our forests, while others were of strai-ge and unknown plumage. The same circumstance is reported from U’ades- boro. There the stores were not closed and many of the birds fl >cked in at the open doors and were caught. George Compton, of Orange county had been threshing wheat near Me- bane and went up to that placeSatur- day morning to nave part of bis ma chinery repaired. He intended to leave on the 1:22 train. That was late and he was loitering about. H» heard the train blow to leave and rushed up to the train with his arms full of books, shoes, etc. His hand was unsteady from having imbibed too freely. In his hurry he threw the bundles on the platform, but missed the hand rail and f*l! under the train. He was dragged out by Sandy, the colored mall carrier. Upon investi gation it was found that his h ad was scratched a little over the eye, and and his arm bruised up considerably. It was a very narrow escape. To the managers of the Proximity Manufacturing Company. Greens boro. is due the credit of the inaug uration of a midnight lunch for the benefit of several hundred operative# who are employed'n the mill in t^e night. Formerly each operative carried a lunch basket to work, but now promptly at midnight all hands knock off and partake of a bountiful and substantial repast prepared and served at the expense of the company. Chicken, ham. roast beef. etc., make up the bill of fare, which is varied from night to night. Coffee is served every night. It is announced that the management is so well pleased with the experiment that it has been made a fixture, while the employes have inside formal acknowledgement of their appreciation of the thought ful kindness of the mill managers As a result of a distressing accident in Charlotte Friday afternoon Brvan Allison, the 9 year-old son of Capt. J. A. Allison, a conductor ouj the Southern Railway, lies at the point of death. Bryan, accompanied by several other boys, left his home on W est Trade street, just below the Southern depot, and went down the extension of West Trade in starch of hickory nuts. Finding a hickory tree near Irwin’s creek, half a mile from home. Bryan had climbed about 30 feet from the ground when the limb to which he was holding broke and he tel! to the ground. The boy struck % pile of rocks and sustained five frac tures. His left thigh was broken and both his right and left arms were broken in two places each; at the wrists and near the shoulders Hi* companions summoned aid and Brvan was taken home, io a small hand wagon, by Mr. Ernests William*. Robinson's 10 Ilia Coinbluecl Shows. There is certainly no traveling ex hibition in America, perhaps in the world, which presents entertainment so varied, so arrractive and so multi tudinous as do John Robinson’s Ten Combined Great Shows. Since the days of Noah a more complete me nagerie has never been seen. Poetic al and enchanting scenes never before * qualed are witueaeed in the sublime Bioical spectacle of Solomon, his Tem ple and (^'ieen of Sh».ba. Every net in the monster program is a revelation to the people. The finest tpecluiens of horse flesh in the world, the highest aeriaiists in the j civeus profession, all the champion I rid-rs. both mule mid female The finest spei-j*nens of the cutest puniee ( in the world The grandest special- , ties ever produced The funniest | clowns on earth are with the Kohin- j -on Show-. Coming to Gaffney, • Tueeda) October 1st. - <1