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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any N ; v}/> ip; in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Re!.ability of Rvery Adver tiser Who U^es 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. TUESDAY OCTOBEK 1901. • 1.50 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. EvnntH tlmt Il»ve Taken I’lace fr«jni One End of the State to the Other tailed from Exchange, for tjulck Heading by Score, of Huny People. Reports are taking definite shape that McLturin is to be invited to a place in the Roosevelt cabinet. It is understood that Roosevelt’s request of Koester was that Deas be left job less. Friends of Miss Rebecca Douglass, of Chester have died objections at the War Deparfmeut against the is suance of a commission in the regu lar army to Capt. W. P. Crawford. They claim the officer has, without cause, refused to wed the woman. The new bank at Jonesville will open for business the 1st of Novem ber, with Emslie Nicholson president, and J H. McKissick cashier. The new bank building will not he com pleted by that time, hut an office will be.opened in a vacant store until the brick building is finished. “Military Day” at the exposition will be celebiated on George Wash ington’s birthday anniversary. Feb rubary 22, and it is expected that there will be troops from every county in South Carolina, many states, and the United States soldiers in line, numbering upward of 20 000 men. Adjutant General Floyd will command the parade. Thursday night the office of the Williamston Oil and Fertilizer com pany was entered and the safe blown open by dynamite and robbed of its itents. Fortunately the cash had been deposited in the hank at 8 o’clock yesterday afternoon and there was but $53 94 in the safe. This amount was taken by the burglars as a reward for their daring deed. The town of Mullins has perma nently established a tobacco market second to none in the state in this most important industrial develop ment. Mullins has kept quiet, so far as the outside world is concerned, re garding the tohtt‘*co business. A visit to the town on any day shows that this apparent quiet was neces sary, because the people there a*-e too busy attending to their own busi ness. A white man escaped from the chaingang at Charlotte, N. C , a few j^days ago and went to Catawba river at Wright’s Ferry and made two ne groes put him accross. He then stole a horse from Mrs. Hannah Mason and a buggy from Henry Beard, both in York county. It is supposed he passed around Yorkville and went in the direction of Chester, and down in the Rocky Creek section of that county, where he originally came from. There is a reward of $25 for his arrest. * The new act regulating fees for commissioners and charters in the office of secretary of state, which by 'the way did not become effective un til some time after the year had open ed, is working well. Up to date the charter and commission fees for this year amount to the handsome sum of $39 000, and there is considerable more to be heard from before the end of the year. Under the old system last year’s receipts from these fees only amounted to $9,500, which was the largest for some years preceding. Former United States Senator M. ■C. Butler arrived in Charleston from bis home in Edgefield county, one •day last week. In speaking to a re porter General Butler stated that he came to Charleston to attend to busi ness of a private nature. “I am now enjoying the quiet and solitude of ru ral life and um t a full . ficffged son of toil,” said the statesman. General Butler said that he was in a hurry to get home, but he intended to go out to the ExDOsition grounds and see I for himself something cf the show mbout which he has heard so much. Th8 long continued drought in Charleston has hud the effect of emptying nearly all the small cis terns in the city. The lack of water has begun to assume alarming pro portions. Neighbors have borrowed from one another until practically all ot the tanks have been depleted. The big cistern a» the station house, which holds thousands of gallons of water, has been turned over to the public At all hours of the day there is a scramble and a rush about, the big pump on the Hudson street side oA the huiidmg An officer has to be detailed to preserve order. The United States government has ourehased IKlO acres of laud on the bank or ine Cooper riv< r, oppo site the sight of the naval station at Charleston. The price has not been announced, but it is considered a fair offer. The papers are now being examined by the district attorneys and the formal transfer of the pos se *ion of the land will soon take place. The land is not needed, save to guard against the construction of long piers, which might have been built by the owners interfering with the current of water and proving a source of trouble and annoyance to vessels entering the dry docks. Mystery shrouds the whereabouts of Eugene K Hall, son of Mrs. Wal ter G. Hall of Florence. The young man disappeared from Montgomery, Ala., whi-re he was employed by the Seaboard Air Line, on Tuesday. Sept ember 25, and though the police of Montgomery and other officers have made a vigilant search no tidings have come to relieve the terrible anx iety of the sorrowing mother. She heard from him on September 29. The letter was dated “Sc-pt. 17.” but had been missent. Shortly after this there came an insurance policy issued hy the New York Life for $1,- 000, The policy was dated August 24. No letter or word of any sort ac companied it. LOWER'CHEROKEE LOCAL PULLINGS. Preaching at Salem on First Sabbath. CORN THIEVES AT WORK. TOUCHING DEVOTION. S. Hart, existed a unusual, be com- KafuiMMt to l.rave IIU Sinter’d Canket After It Wmm In the IlngKiiK** Car. (Special to The Charlotte Observer.! Ashkvillk, Oct. 20 —At the crowded oasseuger station yesterday, an in stance of human grief was noticed, so deep and profound that many felt awed as they looked on in silent sym pathy. Miss Lottie Hart, 18 years of age, died here recently, and the re mains were being sent to Brooklyn, the former home of the family. The young woman was a sister of the well-known actor, W and betw-en the two there bond of affection that was The brother refused to forted. All during the night pre vious he sat by the casket and talked as if carrying on an ordinary conver sation. with his sister. At the sta tion, while waiting for the train, the brother left his mother and other rel atives, saying he would go “stay with Lottie.” When the casket was placed iu the baggage coach the brother remained near by, and neither trainmen nor relatives could shake him from his purpose of re maining in the baggage coach until they reached Brooklyn. And yet this man, overcome by grief, was in Providence, R I. when the tele gram came saying his sister was diad He was just ready to go upo'i the stage for a matinee periormance when the telegram was landed to him. He went on, played hi- ptrt — that, of John Storm, in The Christian —and left immediately after the performance for Ashville. “What marvelous will power.” remarked some one, “it must have taken to have acted that part on the stage with a mind and soul torn by a real tragedy.” Mayor’ll .fourt. The only case before the Mayor yesterday was that of Manuel Rimore, who was convicted before the Mayor on Monday of last week, and who ap pealed from the Mayor's decision and was granted a new trial before a jury, which was set, first, for last Wednes day. then continued to Friday, and on Friday to yesterday when it came up to be re-tried before his Honor, Mayor Littlejohn, and a jury. Col. T. B Butler appeared for the city' and Mr. J. C. Jefferies for the de fendant. The case was hotly contested by both sid'-s, hut after a careful hear ing. tho jury, which was composed of us good men as the city affords, rendered a verdict of “guilty.” The mayor sentenced Elmore to pay a fine of one hundred dollars or thirty days on the public works of the city. Elmore then appealed to the circuit court and was placed un der bond for his appearance. Elmore is a negro blacksmith and works for Capt. W. H. Richardson. He is a quiet and generally an or derly man. but it seems his sins have found him out. Mi-h Gordon Dead. I Spa nun burg Journal.] The remains of Mrs M. W.Gordon, who died in Abbeville on Friday af ternoon. reached the city yesterday. The funeral services will be held at the residence of Mr C. M Amos on South Church street this morning at 9:30 o’clock. The r- mams will then he intered in Oakwood cemetery. The following gentlemen will act as pall bearers: R E. Oudd H-race L. Boinar J J Gentry. B. W Getsinger, T C. iJt-ao Ben Montgomery [Mrs Gordon was well known in Gaffney where she tiad many friends who deeply sympathize with her he- reaved husband snd parents «<he w«s a graduate of Liinei.*one College ai d a sisu-r of Mrs Henator R. C. harratt, of ihis cily .1 Farinei-H liiisy IlKUlinu Corn. IMc-klng Cot ton mid DlgKlni; Potatoes -Little Talk of the Free Kerry -New HuiMIng* Personal and Other Items. UJoriesnondencfc of The Ledger.i Etta .Tank, Oct. 26.—Rev. Wm. H. White, pastor of Mt. Tabor, Lockhart and Santuc Presbyterian churches, will preach at Salem on the first Sabbath in November at 11 o’clock a. m., and also that night at 7 :30 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Potter is expected to be present and preach at 3 o’clock p. ra. on that day. This will be the first visit of either of these brethren to our com munity and church and we bespeak for them large and attentive congre gations at each servic. We hone that the county officers of both York and Cherokee will push the work and have the free ferry in operation by that time for the accom modation of our over-the-river church going people. When a man makes up his mind to go to ruin, any wav seems to suit him. But when a woman chooses to go, wrong she tries uearly ail the routes at once. Some rhymer has got off the follow ing verse which contaius some truth, no donb*: “It women wen; judged only Hy other women, then We’ . I bet ten to one the uugels Would every one be men.” Our friend and neighbor, Mr. C. F. Inman has gathered his corn crop and savs be will have enough to do him. Only a few of our farmers can say what he does and tell the truth. We believe that if any man in the State of South Carolina can be trust ed to do the right thing at the rignt time, that man is Governor Miles B McSweeney. The appointment of Miss L H. Laborde as State Librarian over so many worthy and deserving anpli- cauts for that office, and.the pardon of Louis Byers are cited in proof of his assertion. Miss LaBorde. we understand, is an orphan herself with seven small brothers and sisters depending on her foe support, and this no doubt weigh d heavily in her lavnr against other aspirants for the office. She is fully competent to discharge the duties of State Librarian. The wife of Louis Byers with six little helpless children moved the great heart of the executive to clem ency in the case of the husband and father. Solomon says. “He that honoreth his Maker, hath mercy on the poor.” Mrs Lizzie Buice is suffering with a sore throat. She is a daughter of our army comrade, Robt. W. Davis, and one of the best ladies in the land. Edward Littlejohn, one of our most highly respected and intelligent col ored citizens, says he couldn’t nigh get along without The Ledger. The following characteristic tele gram, from the irrepressible Hon. G Walt. Whitman to U S. Senator B R Tillman, has caused a good deal of speculation among our people. Here it is: “Union S C , Oct. 20. 1901. Senator B. R. Tillman, Trenton, S. C. The Booker T. Washington incident plays and vith progressive democracy (I do not cuss) and does not auuur we I for ’be South, and is a menace to our civilization. G. Walt Whitman.” The telegram was sent “collect. ” The compositor in The Ledger office who handles types so carelessly makes the paper appear odd when he makes ’ Able” stand for Abel. Had Abel been able to help hitoself be would not have let Cain kill him. The question la-t week about the house sill 32 feet long in two sections lost its problematic element by our neglecting to say the pieces were to have on foot lap The omission oc curred in our copying from the notes and it’s no fault of the compositor this time Several new buildings are going up in this neighborhood at this time Contractor K. A. Fwster has his hands full. Home huti-woinan’s right-man has made the assertion that when a wo man marries she gets all the liber y she wuntf while the man gives up • II th»- liberty he ever had. We i. e rather Inclined to think that the very opposite is nearer the truth Messr- William and Jack Brown, t*o of Y'irk county's hustling young men. came over on this sole Iasi Thursday on business. In thi- 9 h ver-H of the 47th chap ter of Genesis there are e.even (11) propositions Morn than any verse Of ’lie same length in the Bible. 1 i ail ling corn, picki: g cotton and digging potatoes* is the work of the fanners. Complaint is made that cotton don’t open as fast as usual. The fact is it needs a good frost to start it. We spent a short time last Thurs day with our township commissioner. Mr. T. M. Littlejohn He is one of Cherokee’s most progressive farmers and thoroughly qualified business men. He reaches his conclusions af ter a deliberate study of his subject. There is no man in the county, or the State, whose views upon the subject of education are more liberal, practical and well balanced than his. We hear little of the free ferry now since the county boards have agreed to establish it. What’s the matter, gentlemen ? We are certainly glad to see Uncle Jimmy in the ring of Ledgerites The * Old Dominion” will always find a welcome in the Palmetto State. Uncle Jeff Hughes was round last Wednesday. He is one of our “right hand men” and is worth a cowpen full of quack doctors in curing “the blues ” Just get him to tell you about his trip to Texas Some of our neighbors complain that they have lost corn from the field. This kind of stealing teaches the highest grade of misdemeadors and makes it an expensive business to those who engage in it. A Hock of wild geese went down the river yesterdav morning. Look out for cold weather, says the old settler. Miss Grace Whisnant left home this week. She goes to Anderson county where she will begin t< aching school nex 1 w<->-k. We commend her to the people with wh im she has cast her lot. j l s GZ0L00SZ PAYS THE PERALTY. He Was Electrocuted This Morning. |S|>e<-iiil to Tin Ledger over Uc-asou k Wil son’s Leased Wire ] Aubt kn Prison, N. Y., Oct. 29 — Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, paid the penalty of his crime a 7 o'clock this morning. Only the number of persons allowed hy law were permitted to witness the electrocution. There were no unusual incidents connoted with the en- cution. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. New Zload iiiTc >r|»oralra. Tallahassee, Oct. 24 — Letters pat ent have been issued by Governor Jen nings for the incorporation of the South ern Florida ami Gull Coast Railway company, witn nriucipal • ffices at Urep- ha Island, Lee county, Fla. The capi tal stocii ot this compauy is 12,000,000 and the object is to build, maintain and operate a railroad tnrough the counties of Brevard, Osceola. DeSoto and Lee from Fort Pierce to Puma Rassa, a dis tance of about 150 miles. Tbe incor porators are John ii. Roach, William W. Gurley aud Millard B. Hereiey, ail of Chicago The incorporators are now here preparing to build the proposed road. I o Purchase $7."5,000 Plant. Asheville, N. C., Oct. 24.—General Theodore F. Davidson ami Colonel S. A. Jones, the latter of Wayuesvilie, have gone to New Yor*, where they go as representatives of the National Abrasive Manutacruringcomnany Tuey will complete the negotiations for tue purchase of a 975.000 plant for this com pany, whose plant is now at Waynes viile Tiie new machinery will be ust-d in getting out corundum and kaolin at a point several miles beyoud Wayues vilie, on Hcott’s creek. North Carolina Veterans. Ra Li.kih, Oct. 24.—The annual meet ing of tue North Carolina Association of Confederate Veterans has just been held nere, Juhan S. Carr presiding He ma'ie.au admirable speech aud was fol lowed oy General William K. Cox ami General William P. Roberts. Carr was re-elected by acclamation. W. P. Wood was elected vice president and Olaude B. Denson was re elected secretary and treasurer by a rising vote. < otiou tirow-rs* Association. Raleigh, Oct. 24 —The North Caro lina state Cotton Growers’ association met here yes'erday. Dr. R. H. Hpeciit presiding. Constitution and bylaws were adopted. A movement was inau gural* <1 oy the Cotton Growers’ Protec tive association to cons Imaie it and otuer associations. Tue protective asso ciation I- organized in only twocouutie* in the state. Haial Itoiier Kxninsion. Spartanburg, 8. 0., Oct. 24.—W. H. Wofford was instantly Killed oy tile ex plosion of a boiler to the eiuriue wnicb wr.s running a ginnery Tne accident occurr-d 2 mde.s from G.euu Spring at the paint of E. S. Smitn. ine dead man is survived by a wife and turee children. Interesting Items Cwnc-.-rnlng Our Nelgli- lairs Heyond the Line Which May Prove Kntertaln ng Heading for Hundreds of Ledger Headers. Raleigh took holiday Thursday. All the public buildings, banks, fac tories, etc., were closed. The State officials and scores of other men prominent in public life were at the fair. At Marion. R. J. Harbin’s two lit tle children got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid Wednesday evening and orank it. Drs. Cheek aud Ashworth were immediately sutomoud and brought them around all right. Friday morning Mr. W. H. Proctor, of Greenville, was struck on tbe head with a shovel by Jake Lat- ban. a colored drayman. Proctor’s skull was fractured and he remained unconscious all day. bleeding at the r ose and mouth. The doctors do not, think he can live. The negro is in jail. A negro named Williams stole $50 from th« money drawer of the High Point Hardware Company’s store Saturday evening. He was cautured a few minutes afterward by Chief of Police Ridge with all the money on his per-ou. He was given a hearing before Magistrate Sechrest and sent to jail at Greensboro. The Governor is doing everything in his power to make the good ’roads convention at Winston, to be held November 1st and 2nd next, one of the notable public gatherings in North Carolina’s history. He has asked to be present and participate in this meeting several hundred dele gates from different portions of the Sitcte. A little three-year-old girl of Mr Jesse Wilhelm a farmer of Provi dence township. R iwat: county, play-d with matches Thursday afternoon with fatal results. The child was in a room alone at the time, its mother having stepped out for the moment. When she returned the body *>f her child met her eyes, horribly burned, with its clothing almost entirely consumed. A physician was sent for but life was already extinct. At Greenville. Friday .no.n- ing while the Masonic Hull School for girls was in session the building caught fire on the roof and was to tally destroyed. A colored woman passing saw the fire and hastened to inform the teachers and school was immedietely dismissed all the chil dren getting out of both stories with out harm to Hny. The books and desks were saved. The building be longed to the Greenville Masonic Lodge. The Joss is $800, insurance $400 At the fair grounds at Raleigh, Friday, a white fakir who gave his name as John Draper, was arrested for stealing from the express office at that place, a valise cf “Earring Bill.” a well-known ex-convict, who is a fakir and sings on the midway. Dra per is in jail and the case is dead against him “Bill” served 5 years in the penitentiary here, and was a notable singer and banjo-player there. One of his sweetest songs was ’ Shot him wid a 44;” a true prison m«-lody. Friday morning at 4 o’clock, John Russ. 17 years of age, a negro boy sleeping in a restaurant booth on the midway at the 8t-»te Fair, whs burned to death. His legs and arms wa re completely burned off. He went to sleep in the booth and the door had been locked on tbe outside. H*^ hear frantically on the door, hut the fierce flames drove the midway people back. Two other booths were destroyed by fire and Dr. W. White, of the A*lig<- tor Boy Show, was robbed of $350 There is evidence of foul play. Josiah Turner, the moat historic character in North Carolina died in Hillsboro Saturday, aged 80. As ed itor of the Raleigh Hentlnel. amid re construction tunes, his hitter snreasm arid boldness aided in driving out the carpet-hageers In 1870 he was jai-ed hh a Ku-Klux Released by the Federal Court, his ovation here was immense. He was a member of toe (hmf-derate Congress. Elected to the United States Congress alter fhe war hs was refused his seat 1' Inter vears he turned his pen on fns people, and his star fell ]o 1NS0 he was expelled from the State L gixla- ture for disorderly conduct. . Two negroes entered the store of J K Purefoy, in Charlotte s.»tm t»m I night and without ti word th< larger of the two caught Mr Purefoy and ( held him while the other negro pulled out his knife and cut open Mr. Pure- foy’s trousers pockets, extractibg a good many dollars therefrom. The same negro broke open the cash draw er in the store aud took all tbe moDay that it contained. The two robbers then released Mr. Purefoy and fted down the street. As soon as hw could recover himself Mr. Purefoy gave the alarm, and the police begs* work on the case. There is, appsr* ently, no clue to the daring crimin als. While out plowing Thursday after noon a Greensboro negro unearthed* bombshell, which be thought woukl make a nice toy for the children op at tbe house, Tbe little pickannin- les were delighted with the beautifaF piaything and after roiling it aroantf the floor for awhile decided to plae* it in the fire to see if it would melt. A few moments later there was a ter rible explosion and a sound of wail ing in tnat household. The exploded-. bomb wrecked the mantle, tore a hoiw through the roof of the house, set firtr to a bed and several other pieces of furniture, and played havoc in gen eral. An inventory of the damage done also showed a small coon minus, two fingers, while his brother hack a large hole torn in his leg. Frank Hays, Braxton Bragg, Weat- Morton, Oliver Wright, and Henry Hurton and two negroes. Walter Green and William Mangum met at- the home of 8amuel Wilson, in Gran ville county, and a quarrel was corrc- menced between Mr. jlragg and Wal ter Green over an account of $4, which Bragg claimed Green owed him. While they were out in tbe jard. Mr. Wilson stepped to the door and told t hem not to have any trouble and not to disturb his company. H* then went hack into the house and in a few minutes several pisioi shots were heard in the yard and Mr Wil"- son ran out of the house and soms twenty steps from the house lay tbe: body of Walter Grteu with a bullet in his head. He was dead when Itfr. Wilson reached his side A coroner’* inquest was held and a verdict ws» rendered as follows: “Walter Greea came to his death from a hall fired by an unknown party ” No arrest* have hern made hut Bragg is under suspicion us the n»urderer. He i*. said to be a man of bad character. IRON TRADE SITUATION. Manufacturei-H Predict Another Yea* of Prosperity. Cleveland, O., Oct. 24—The Iron Trade Review, discussing the aiaraat couditi ins this weea, say>: “Tue week has brought auded strength to tue situation. Wnarever of easier conditions is to be encountered iater ou, tnere is no foreshadowing ot it m actual events. No revival of export traueisin sight, hut notue demand is so broad aud so strong tuat iron and steel manufactu rers sneak confioeucly of tne first half of 1902, wmle many do not Hesitate to predict another year of pronounced pros perity. ’* i ue one overshadowing feature of tha iron trade today in all department* i» the unprecedented motion resulting from tne laiiure of the railroads to pro vide for the ireigut offered tuem. “Tue story of car shortage is so famil iar as to lose its iorce, bur the present congestion is without parallel in that records of 1899 ami witn many mano- facturers aim consumers ’s the upper most question, beyond any considera tion of prices of production. No cessa tion is in sigut before me clo»e of the navigation season. “ine mills that were closed by the strike have made no great headway aa yet in • -pl-uisnnig the siooks in distri butors’ minds depleted in the weeks of suutaowu. and will pass mtc toe new year under full beau way, with pros pects ot operation througnout me win ter at the present record pace. Tha strong factors in the si latiou that have been pointed out. wee by weeK, seem to be empuasized. Tl » railroads have placed rail contracts ti it insure tbe op eration of tne United Stan-s Steel cor poration's rail mills up to September, 1902, aud tbe presurnn ion is that othe* prouucers are not lar bemud.” The Care ot Fowl. Even when the foals have an un limited range it is a good plan to fee£ them every evemrg. One of the first things to learn about poultry is that thev must be kept clean and free from vermin Peafowls are handsome and subsist' with the least care of any kind of fowls. They are prolific layers and * good protection against hawks. Rhw bone contains every part of an egg—white volk and -.hell There fore it should be kept constantly be fore laying hens in the granulated form. The comh is always sr index to tiie corditi >ri of the bird When the comh is white nr v* n pale nr verv black something i“ wrong. A health! fowl show* a bright scarlet emor in the ct-mh. I lit Ulll. GoDon goes r) iwn in G-ifffiev ton. j Only 7 85 f-»r the he>»t this morning; and to- G.iffi ey MsmiTac'uiing Co. are tfie only tn-upb who are paylr g th*' price fir t (> her buyers aie I off -ru g onlj 7 75