Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ne wspnpe in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability >f fivery 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. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESD \ Y OCTOBER 8, 1901 81.50 A YEAR. THROUSMT THE PALMETTO STATE, Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Eventtt that Have Taken Flaw from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchange* for tjulck Heading by “core* of Hu«y People. Senator McLaurin has declared his intention to support President Roose velt in the policy of reciprocity the new executive has promised to press. The cotton boll worm has appeared in several sections uf Sumter count} and is reported to bring considerable damage. These worms appeared first in Marlboro county several years ago and this year many fields of cotton in that country have been almost totally destroyed. Lieut. Victor Blue, U. S. N., the gallant South Carolinian who distin guished himself around Santiago in the war with Spain, having lately re turned from service in the Philip pines, was in Columbia last week en route to his home in Marion for a few days. He has been recently given an assignment which places him in Pniiadeldhia as inspector of the new vessels now being built there. Near Lanes, on the Central road Sunday morning, a through freight train was tired into and two small shot embedded themselves in Engin eer Layton’s shoulder. The shot wa> fired on the fireman’s side, but that individual was not touched. Mr. Layton says he hasn’t any enemies and cannot account for the shot. It came from a dense wood. A physi cian extracted the leaden pellets. Anderson proposes to fully test the legality of the beer dispensaries. Normally that is a strong prohibition town, and there was the strongest kind of opposition to the establish ment there of a beer dispensary from the beginning. The institution seemed to, thrive beautifully after once obtaining a foothold. At a meeting of the city council the city attorney was instructed to procr**-d vigorously to the end tnat the beer dispensary be abolished. Albert Smith, of the Philadelphia neighborhood, who was in Spartan burg, Friday reported an t-arly futai oc currence at the borne of his son, VV. L. Smith, on Wednesday night. Young Mr. Smith was reading near a bureau when the storm of that night came up. and was knocked down and stunned by a stroke of lightning, which shattered tne mirror and tore up a great deal of furniture. Mrs. Smith was struck and both were un conscious for a few minutes The lightning came in at the top of the house. Strange as it may seem some magis trates in different portions of tne state have had the idea that because a man loses his citizenship upon being convicted and sent to the state prison he is not required to pay taxes after he is set free. One m^gisfrate wrote the attorney general about the matter and Mr. Bellinger replied as follows: Dear Sir: 1 beg to say that no one is relieved of the burden of paying tax.«s, either upon property or poll, by season of indictment or conviction for crime. The law does not place such a premium upon violation of law. The Charleston Turnverein is making big preparations for (ierman Day at the Schutzenplatz Thursday, October 10 Tht§ entertainment, which is to be given for the benefit of the sick fund, will begin at 1 o’clock and last until 10 p. m. Ample amusements will be provided for, a feature of which is a wheel of fortune for live geese and turkeys. An ad mission fee of 25 cents will be charged. The committee has arranged for free transportation to and froin the cars. The I'urnverein is a popular organi zation. There is every reason to believe the entertainment will meet with success. An oyster canning factory is to be established near Charleston this winter. Several substantial business men are behind the scheme and it will doubtless prove a success. The Bull’s Bay oyster beds, near there, produce an oyster with an almost national reputation and these are the oysters which it is proposed to can. A number of Savannah people are also interested in the venture. They have an oyat^r canning factory near Savannah, but they are not blind to the superior quality of oysters raised at Charleston arid they are desirious of puttir g their money into the Char leston oyster Industry. William W. Klugh, Sr., of Coro- naca. Greenwood county, died in a hospital at Baltimore Thursday of hip joint disease. The body was brought on Thursday night ami car ried to Coronaca next day, and the funeral was held at the Methodist church thore. Mr. Klugh was one of the most progressive citizens of upper South Carolina and was at the head of Klugh Bros.’ granite works and the Carolina Oil Mill and was an extensive farmer. He was about TS years of age. He was a brother of Judge James C. Klugh. His daught er, Miss Nola, was a student at Con verse College in Spartanburg. The work on the Southern’s costly new bridge over the Congaree is pro gressing very well. Two of the prin cipal spans have been put in position resting upon wooden false-work above the old piers allowing room for the building up of the old piers. The bridge builders o’ course have to work under many difficulties as the trains pass over the structure con tinually The massive steel beam that fell into the river hit bean raised and has been sent back to the steel plant to be reshaped. The most difficult work, the putting in of the centre spans, yet has to be done. It is exceedingly interesting to watch the operations of the builders Wednesday morning about a fourth of a mile east of Ebeuezer, York county, Frank Dunlap, a negro man, was instantly killed while riding along the road. He. with two men. were hauling to the works of the Catawba Power Compa .y one of the immense horseshoe shaped iron pieces which will make up part of one of ihe big wheels. Dunlap was eating his breakfast. Although the iron weighed more than 3 500 pounds its support was according co authority, sutfi'-ient. hut at this point one of the timbers broke and both negroes fell to the ground. At his end of the wagon the great iron slid down upon Dunlap and shaved off half of his head, mashing it into the ground. So instantly did death come that not a sound was heard. Magistrate McGowan, of Spartan burg. Friday heard the case against W J Neeley for obtaining goods un der false pretenses He sent the de fendant to court. This case involves a large sum of money. W. J Neeley has been running a small store at Pacolet and has been buying goods from W H. Clark, a wholesale grocer of Spartanburg. It appears from the testimony that he represented to Mr Clark that he was in partnership wiih Ids son, John W. Neeley, and on this showing was given abundant credit. Young Mr Neeley has a high rating and is good for atiything he wants in the commercial line. Mr Clerk sold him about $1 ]00 worth of gooda and when he made an effort to col lect he was informed by the senior Neeley that the young man was not in the firm, and the etf ;rt at collect ing failed. R K Carson represents the prosecution and Stanyaroe Wil son the defense. The little town of Fort Lawn, twenty miles Southeast of Rock Hill, was thrown into a state of much excitement Thursday morning be tween 11 and 12 o’clock on account of a very unfortunate shooting affair that took place in that, village. The tacts art hard to obtain, hut as near as they could be learned over the ’phone they areas follows: At an earlier hour in the morning Mr. J. G Jordan and Mr. W. H McKeown had a dispute about some matter unknown to us. The two men parted, how ever, but later in the day Mr. Jordan appeared on the s'reels armed with a shotgun and approaching Mr. Mc Keown, who was seated in Mr R H. F'udge’s store door, fired upon Mr McKeown. whether with one or both barrels of his gun is not stated. The gun was loaded with number three shot, about ten of which entered Mr McKeown’s face and three penetrated his left breast. The wounds in the face are very painful, hut not danger ous. The breast wounds, however, are very serious and there is much fear of a fatal outcome. Worm or Snake In Calihaee. A long stringy specimen of the worm or snake family was sent to this office last week by a lady who lives at the Limestone cotton mill. The lady was cutting up some cabbage for dinner when she discovered the worm, or snake, or whatever it may be called, imbededed in one of the heads It was about a foot in length, white in color and had a well devel oped head. Its size was that of a common pin, and the same from one end to the other. Several have called at this office to see the “varmint,” and while none of them had seen exactly the same thing, some claimed that they had seen black ones of the same variety. We do not know whether it is a worm or snake, but we are not at all in clined to think that its presence in a cabbage head would add any sweet ness to the natural flavor of that veg- etihfe. I.oral Cotton Mitrkt-i. The follow!' g prices prevail on the Gaffney market today : Good Middling g 15 Middling ; 71 LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL POLLINGS. Farmers Having Fine Weath er for their Work. COTTON OPENING FAST. A Hue Variety of Peas—Au Old Indian Axe Picked Up IlmiHe Framed and Put Cp In a Day l>y One Man—KIUIiik Near Grtn- dal—Personal Mention. (Correspondence of The I.edgrer.) Etta Jane Oct 5—Mrs. C. In man gave us some of the finest peas we have seen this season ; they are of the LeConte variety and are very fine. No doubt they would fqual. if not surpass anything at the State fair, both in size and lusciousness. Mr. James Girner has shown us an Indian axe, picked up on the Doug las p'ace near here It is a nicely polished stone of the blue granite species apparantly, and is adapted to the kind of work for which it was originally intended. Farmers are having fine weather for picking cotton, peas, and pulling fod(L r. Cotton is opening very fast since the fair weather set in. The weather is very cool and indicates early trosts. Potatoes arc very good, especially ihe vineless variety. Ifa boy finds a knife worth $100 snd sells it for 50 cents, what per cent did he gain or lose by the trans action? In speaking of the failure of our jury law, a man said the other day, we had better cut the State in two and give (me half of it to North Car olina and the other half to Georgia. Our Texas friends and comrades are making preparations to have the grandest re-union of Confederate vet- erans at Dallas, riex spring, that has ever been or ever will be witnessed on this continent again. The railroads and steamboat lines intend to do their part in making it possible. Sev eral camps in the far F^ast have al ready signified their intt-ution to be there in full force. All the railroads and steamboat lines will be brought into requisition to put the veti.iu. & and visitors on the grounds, and we presume the rates will be ms good “T better than any ever < ff red before. Besides, it is expected that the time given will enable persons visiting Dallas to extend their trips to any other portion of the state. A few o' our farmers have had cotton ginned. Everybody has pretty well agreed that the cotton crop will not excei d 50 per cent, in tins county this year, ami our neighbors in other counties have nothing more to boast of. Mr. J»mes Eison finished sowing here last Tuesday and will remove to his home soon where he expects to run a public gin. Will some Bible reader please tell us where the largest parentnesis is found in the Scriptures? N ws has juat r« ached here that Wilkes II D FMoyd had killed Joe Vaughn, Thursday night, near Grin- dall Shoals,in Union county. The par ticulars of the killing were not given. Joe Vaugnn is the son of our old army comrade, Wm. J. Vaughn, to whom and nis family our heart goes out in the deepest sympathy. Prof Biggerstaff closed his singing school at Mount Ararat one day week before last. From what we learn his patrins were well pleased with his work there. Miss Mary F’dwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards, has re turned to Cedar Springs Institute where she will resume her studies for another year. Mr. James Garner framed a house 18x20 feet and put it up in one day last week without any one to help him He is almost a giant in size and strength. He was a member of Company H. 5th S. C. regiment dur ing the civil war. and at^the battle of Gettysburg was wounded slightly in the arm but never quit the field, although he couldn’t use a gun. With his arm in a sling he went with the detail to throw down fences. It took generally two men to a corner but he could take hold of the bottom rail with one hand and throw the fence winding, thus opening the way for the Confederates to charge the Federal*. The poor obscure private or non commissioned officer who rendered such valuable service is soon forgot- t“n and his deeds of gallantry are hardly ever mentioned until af.er somebody puts a hunch of Howrrs on his grave. We ought to mention the gnod deeds of the living or keep silent after they are dead The best way for a fellow to do when he is caught where he has no bus.ness is t'» run home, get his gun, and fire it off *nd call tne dogs. This may keep down suspicion sometimes. We were glad to see among the many Cfcerokeeans we met at (rsffn-y this week, our old friend Mr F^dward Lipscomb, of the Goucher section. He is extremely hale and strong for a man of his age, and looks as if there might be several years allotted him yet. He is one of Cherokee’s most successful farmers He is an original thinker and the only man we ever heard blend words of exactly opposite meanings and make them mean anything—such for instance as “an educated fool.” This term he aotly applies to some college gradu ates. Madame rumor says we are to have another newspaper in Gaffney. Per haps it’s time the city was putting on airs. When we see it we will believe it not before. We are glad to state that Mr. “Bud” Robinson, whose injuries have been mentioned in this correspond ence. has so far recovered as to be able too go to work again. Our thanks are due The Ledger for a quantity of stationery. A farmer goes to four county fairs with a drove of horses. He gives a hors*' to enter the fairs, sells om -half the remainder in the fair, and givi-s one horse to get out. He reports the operation at each of the other fairs and has but one horse to go home on. How many horses did he start out with? Some one please give us the answer, by arithmetical rules. We have heard some comulaints of the boll worm attacking the cotton, but we don’t suppose it will amount to anything in this section. We hope not however. E der C. \V. Whisonant attended the meetings of Enoree Presbytery at Greenville this week. The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the KePon circuit will convene at F'oster’s chap* 1 on next F'riday, the 11th i"8t., at 11:510 a. no While in Grff oy last week we were regaled by our friend, Mr. * Gi't” Briggs with a mess of fresh fi-di cooked up in the best style and s-rved at his restaurant. Gist knows how to tickle the pedate of the most fastidious epicure, and besides he is a jolly, whole-souled te low, a wide awake progressive Cherokeeftu, J L s. LOWERY SURE ENOUGH! He Coe* to shflby. shoot* «t a Polh-en/xn Hinl KNi-Mpe*. Jim Lowery, the negro who murder ed Chief Jones, of Shelby, sometime ago, returned to Shelby one night lust week, paraded the streets as “big a* life,” exchanged a couple of shots with a policeman, and then made good his escape—notwithstanding t.oe fact that elaborate preparations had been male to capture him. and even at the time of his escuoe the avennes leading from the city were guarded by artm-d men on the lookout for the murderer. Lowery was chased for several days by a large p,.s-e with bloodhounds but sn far has escaped capture Jim has been “arrested” all ov^r the country and has been killed several times but he is still on d'-ck as “sassy” as ■ vt r. and says he has been in West Vir ginia all the time since he committed th« crime f >r which he is wanted. One night last we* k it was reported to i'ur police officers that Jim was at the house of a colored woman in the suburbs of the city where he had “put up” for the night. The officers, with several citizens of the place, went at once to the house, but found, as usual, that it was the “wrong man.” It is believed however that Jim is in hiding somewhere in Cherokee county; though there is no telling where he may turn up next. There is now a reward of of $1 000 for him. and his friends must, cer tainly be loyal to him to shield him in the face of such a temptation. SaleiHlitjr, Yesterday was salesday and some very desirable city property was offered, and it brought mighty good prices. The Webster property was the attractive feature. The Ken drick corner brought $5 150 the Peeler it Lemmond corner £$4 190 the stable $1 500 and the vacant lot above Mr. J. V Surratt’s residence .$89-o. All the preperty was bought by Judge J E. Weboter except the stable lot, which wa* purchased by Mrs F K Wilkins, of Cowpeus. The other property offered was of minor importance. Two Mini Twenty Two. Sexton R ibert Spencer informs us that then* were twenty-two burials in Oakland cemetery last year from tvphoid fever while there have been only two from the same cause this year up to the present time. This is, Indeed, an inter-sting bit of mtel- ligencu and -peaks well for the sani tary condition of our little city There | have not, been ver> many burials in I Oakland this year from any cause. Add one or t.«vo tahlespoonsful of ■ sugar to strong turnips when cook- 1 itig. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. made his escape. He claims to hail from Blacksburg. Governor Aycock Wednesday of fered three rewards f>r fugitive from jus'ice. A reward nf $100 was placed on Alex Davis, of Moore county, who ,:ll..^ 1.-1;-.. J,. NOKTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interefttiug Items Concerning Our Neigh bors iteyond the I.lne Which May Prove Entertain'ug Heading for Hundreds of Ledger Headers. Things were quite lively down on Reid’s row in Gastonia F'riday night about 10 o’clock A quarrel ended in the shooting of Will Johnson, colored. The ball entered the right -uie and penetrated the lungs. The doctors pronounce the wound serious though not necessarily fatal. Jim Hall the negro who did the shooting, has not yet been caught. A terrible accident occurred near Clinton Friday. It was the burning of four negro children at the home of their parents about one mile from that place. Tne mother had gone off to a neighbor’s house and while she was gone the barn caught fire and was burned with the four children and all the contents. The arms and legs of the children were burned com pletely oil Not b trace of them could be found. Nothing was left bu r the charred trunks, Bynum Hunter, Colored, was put in j til in Shelby last week on the charge of stealing a pair of pants from Mr. LeR-y Grigg. He was tried before Mayor Jennings. Police men Carroll of Shelby went to Gas tonia Thursday and carried Ben Flun- ter his brother, to Shelby for trial on the charge of stealing Mr. Griffi- h Border*’ dinner. He was tried be fore ’Squire J. F. Tiddy and sent to jail to await his trial at court It is thought that he stole the pants also, but Bynum was iound wearing th§m, At the tuxt gehtfal election in the State a chief justice will be voted for to GctfUpy the position made vacant by tne death of. Chief Justice F'.Nr- cloth. Lt will be rim-mbered that As-oclate Justice Furchrs was ap pointed to fi'l the unexpired term of Judge Furches as Chief Justice and this position he now occupies. A number of th- 1 members of the Char lotte bar have been asked recently for an opin-ioti and a large mi jority express t hems -I V's as strongly in tavnr of Judge Walter Clark for Chief Jusiicn of the Supr-me Court. Charlie Lyle charged with larcency, was convicted in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg last Monday’ morning and sentenced to 12 months on the county roads. He will not take an appeal, but will serve the sentence. I'hi* is, practically, the end of a very sensational episode. It will he re- membered that the verdict of the coroner’s jury charged Lyle with the murder of Lanier, la^t August. An analysis of the contents of Lanier’s stomach by a chemist disclosed the presence of a large quanity of mor phine, supporting the theory that Lanier had committed suicide or at any rate, had taKen the poison volun tarily. The grand jury failed to find a bill for murder against Lyle, but acted upon testimony that showed that Lyle had Ticked or swindled the dead man out of $20 Counterfeit si ver dollarsj half dol lars and quarters are in eirculafion in Raleigh. A penitentiary convict has been arrested for passing the c ninterfeit coin. He was a ••tru*ty” and put the imitation money in circulation while in the. city. He completed his term at the pen Mon day and as he walked out of the big stockade at the pen he was taken in custody bv United States Deputy Marshal K —inu Merritt. Ben Fields is the name of the convict who was palming off the spurious coin while making his Trusted visits to the city. He hails from E igecombe county and hos just completed a six year sen tence for murder. When arraigned on the charges of counterfeiting Fields declined to talk. He was committed to jtil to await trial in the United Slates court in Decem ber Tuesday morning a telegram was received by Oapt Nolen, of Gastonia, -tating that Chas Hopper bad been shot in a quarrel on the Narrow Gauge near Granite Falls and they vanted to inform his people at Gas tonia so as to know what to d>> wi’h the body Gus Herndon wenf up to Granite Fulls 011 the morning tram Puesdav and returned with the corpse in the afternoon Both negroes were employed on the stone ilnm belt g built at K'iodnia*a mile from Granite F ills Tne shooting occurred shout twelve nVioek after they returned from Uistonia on the excursion to the show The shooting was done with an old time 22 pistol Phe ball entered the eye If 'in close range. Ph-re whs a woman u r the ho ,, o'ri of the trouble. Ed. Comp tile murderer hare and prowled about the neigh bor’s premises, but they were seldom to be seen by day. An officer arrived in Winston- Salem Friday evening from Wilkes- boro with ’ Bud” Parks, who is to be tried this week on the charge of opening two railroad switches near Rural Hail His father, moth-rand brother, who are in jai! at Wilkes- boro will be tried in that county fur harboring “Bud A reporter called .'.t the jail Saturoay afternoon and had a talk with Parks, who is a mulatto and claims to be 14 or 15 years old He now denies the charge against him—says he had nothing to no with changing the switches. He admitted, however, that he was in Winston about that • 'tin; ttod walk'd home, counting crost-ih s. He rode a short distance on a hand car. When h? arri^d Friday afternoon Puiffcg was asked bf Jailer Thompson if he showed the officer the switches he opened as they came down on the train. He replied that he did not. “Why d : dn’t ymi?” he was asked. ‘‘Wc were not sittin’ on de right side of the train or I would.” said the negro Temperature at HafTney. Phe following fable shows the max imum and minimum temperature at Gaffney for the month of September,mb recorded by (Thief Catifp, voluntary ('(•server Ihe time of recoruing was 8 o’clock in the morning: • Maximum. Minimum. Rub celery on the hands to remove the odor of onions. Mix -:o\ (Hacking with « pttle t-mofua to pieveut its burning off.