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7 1 ~ " ■ ' ■■ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ne^spape in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver- tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., rBIDAY, APBIL IS, 1902. $1.00 A YEAH. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. £vnnt8 that Have Taken Place from One Kuil of the State to the Other Called from JSschangcft for Oulck Reading by Scores of Butty People. The State Medical Association met in Spartanburg Wednesday. Senator B. R. Tillmaji has an nounced that he will speak at Man ning April 25. Mrs. J. C. Maxwell, whose hus band was the founder of Connie Max well Orphanage, died at her home in Greenwood on Monday night. Tuesday night some miscreants attempted to rob a store in Fair For est, but were discovered in the act and run out of town with blood hounds. H-nry Xorris, a youn-j white man who lives on the Sampson Mill hill, in Greenville, v shot aori .seriously wounded ab iflt 11 Tuesday night while mak g an attempt to enter the house of .). F. Crandy, 1202 Buncombe street. The second annual convention of the Sou'ii Carolina Hi kers Asso ciation will be held at the St. Johns Hotel in Chariest in on May 7th and 8th. All of the bank officers in South Carolina are invited to attend, whether members or not. Bob. Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, wired Governor McSweeney Monday to know exactly the stand that South Carolina has tnken in the matter of a glove contest at the Exposition. Governor McSweeney assured him that it was positively proh;b ted. A negro attempted the assault of a six year-old girl near Hock Hill Monday. The girl was at a spring with several of her playmates when the negro seized her by the throat. He was frightened away, however, by the cries of the children, and was caught and lodged in j dl. The board of control for the pro posed State rum mill at Yuikvi le an nounc'd that it is ready to r ceive applications for the position of bar keeper and propositions from prop erty owner* for “a suitable room” in which to do business, it i- p isible that there will be a number of appli cations for the j oh to be let out and also to rent property. The condition of six thousand mill operatives in the Horse Creek Valley is gloomy, serious and foreboding. At Graniteville, Warrenville. Bath. Langley and Vaucluse, the big cot ton mills, are closed indefinitely by order of the mill president, who states that this action is taken by reason of the strike of the mill opera tives of the King Mill at Augusta. Richard Rice, colored, tried to escape from Constable Floyd in Spar tanburg Tuesday afternoon. He had been arrested on the charge of ob taining money under false pretense and being unable to give bond, which the magistrate fixed at $200, be at tempted to take “leg bail.” He was recaptured after a short chase, and sent to the chaingang for thirty days. Mr. C. F. Clement, who conducts a boarding bouse at Clifton, was in Spartanburg Wednesday morning on the lookout for a thief, who on Tues day night broke into his house and stole from a trunk $115 in cash and also a gold watch from the vest pock et of Mr. Clement. So far no arrests have been made. Mr. Clement bas suspicious as to the thief, but no developments have turned up. A woman aged 78 years from But ler township in Greenville county, was among the visitors this week to the Charleston exposition. This visi tor is worthy of special mention be cause of the fact that until she went to Greenville this week she had never ridden on a train. She had seen trains as they sped through tbe coun try near her home but never before bad she ever experienced tbe pleasure of riding on one. Tbe safe in the general merchan dise store of H. £. Batson, at Bamp- aon Mill, Greenville county, was blown open Tuesday night and re lieved of $15 in cash. There is no clue as to the guilty parties, bub every indication that it was the work ol an expert. The office of the Car olina Cotton Milla was tmtered on Haturday night, but the burglars failed to got any booty. It is be lieved that there is an organized gang at work in that section. Wednesday morning tbe five-year- old daughter of Mr. Columbus Baug- bam, an operative in the cotton mill at Fairmont near Hpartanburg, met with an awful death. A quanity of traiii and rubbish bed accumulat'd in the'yard of Mr. Biugham, which he set on (ire to get rid of. Tbe child was playing out in the yard at ! he time this t rash was burning. Her clothes caught on tire, and be fore aid reached her, she was fatally burned. The child lingered in agonies for several hours after the burning, and died about noon Wed nesday. A proposition is under discussion in Laurens to build an electric rail way to connect the towns of Clinton and Laurens. The project contem plates the organization of a company with a capital stock of $125 000. Clinton and Laurens are nine miles distant, and the two towns have an aggregate population of about 8 000. The intervening country is well set tled with a prosperous class of peo ple. In connection with the proj-ct the development of Yarborough’s Mill shoals, on tbe Eooree river, is discussed, the suggestion being to establish dynamos there and transmit the electric power. George Kilgore, a negro charged with shooting and slightly wounding 1). Thomas tn, a white man, was tried in Laurens this week. Thom ason lives in Greenville county and the scooting took place near Foun tain inn at Kilgore’s house close to the county line. The defence was that Thomason with other white men went to Kilgore’s hoiii-e to whiitoap him or for some such purpose, and that on that account the negro fin d upon them. The jury acquitteo Kilgore. The State's case wa< ins' an officer went to the house wh>-u- ivilgore was to arrest a woman foi disorder!v conduct, at Fountain Inn Kilgore was acquitted because the officer had no warrant. LOCAL HAPPENINGS, News of the Week Gathered for Ledger Readers BY OUR CORRESPONDENT. Farmerx TMantingr Corn and Getting Readr to Flant Cotton—Death of an Old Soldier —The Ledger Hemming More Popular— Other Item* (Cv. respondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Aprif 1G —In the death of Dr. T. DeVVitt Talmage are mourn th< : ' h ss of the greatest man the world hash rod need in two centuries at least A dreman's Close Call. ‘ I stuck to n«y engine, although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain,” writes 0. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa, ‘ I was weak and pale, without nay appe'ite and all run down. As I was about to give up. 1 got a bottle of Electric Bitter* and, a't«-r taking it. 1 felt as well a* I ever did in my life.” Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. J'rice 50c. Only their conceit k-o ps men from discovering t bar tn or q ia'iti -s about which women mu-t care are their usefulness to tfum. A V VLlAHI.i: .01 IODIC INK For Cough* and Coldx in Children. “J Lave not the slightest hesitancy in recommending Chamberlain’s Cjugh Remedy to all who are suffer ing from cough or colds,” says Clias. M. Cramer, E-q , a well known watch maker, of Colombo, Cey on. “It has been some two years since the City Dispensary first called my attention to this valuable medicine and 1 have repeatedly used it and it has always been beneficial. It has cured me quickly of all chest colds. It is es pecially effective for children and seldom takes more than one bottle to cure them of hoarseness. I have per suaded many to try this valuable medicine, and they are all as well pleased as myself over the results. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Any woman can love a man if he can make her believe other women would like to love him only he won’t let them. Saved Many n Time. Don’t neglect coughs and colds even if it is spring. Such cases often result seriously at this season just because people are careless. A dose of One Minute Cough Cure will re move all danger. Absolutely safe. Acts at once, bure cure for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, and other throat and lung troubles. “I have used One Minute Cough Cure several years,” says Postmaster C. O. Dawson, Barr, III. ‘‘It is the very best cough medicine on the market. "It has saved me many a severe spell of sickness and I warmly recommend it.” Tbe children’s favorite. Chero kee Drug Company, Truth was formerly proclaimed from the housetops—but that was before the advent of tbe sky-scraper. * Her Hon'M Life Saved by Chamberlain** Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. "A neighbor ran in with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy when my son was suffering with severe cramps and was given up as beyond hope by my regu lar physician, who stands high in his profession. After administering three doses of it, my son regained consciousness and recovered entirely within twenty-four hours,” says Mrs. Mary Haller, of Mt. Crawford, Va. This Remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Company. He will be greatly mi.-t>ed by nearly all eli: es of people. Il is estimated tLut over thirty million of people re., i his sermons weekly, both in this country and in Christaiuized Europe, w u:re tb< y wt-re received as in*pira- tmn. Who will take his place is the question of the day. baered and profane historians both tell us that at no time in the world’s history has a crisis come that God had not pio- ided men 'or the emergency. This vill *till continue. One takes up the work when another lays it down. Men will fall but the work goes on. Gen. Hampton’s death has spread universal gloom over the land. It is a verification of the truth that death always chooses a shining work. We are told that in 1885 more noted n en died than in any one year within the 1'Jth century, bo far 1902 has furnished a fearful death rate of distinguished men for the 20ih cen tury. \Ve are glad to iearti that tur county paper, The Ledger, is grow ing popular in several communities outside of this county. This must be encouraging to the management. A lady in a far distant State say of i*. ‘In each issue I see names with which I am well acquainted, and 1 read Hiem with great satisfaction. We know more about your county amt iittle cit> than we do of our own ” Mr. J. Wesley Smith, of Georgia, who i« visiting his brother, Dr. M W Smith, at Gaffney, is expected to spend the day with his niece Mrs. Eotiia Estes tomorrow. A young man in this neighborhood lias b night a bran new buggy. What does it mean?. Look <>ut girls some body wants a house k -eper. Rev bam T. Creech preached at Mesopotamia yesterday, to a large and appreciative congregation. His text was Galatians 5 Gb. “Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flnsh.” Mr. Joe Brown died at his home nyar Gowdeyuville last Friday and was buried at El bethel on Saturday. He was an old soldier—a member of 18 r .h 8. C. Regiment. He bad been in had health for a ling time and his death was no surprise. His wife died several years ago. He left no chil dren. Our people are planting corn and getting ready to plant cotton as soon as the weather will permit. We are glad to welcome "Old Flaw” back to our circle of Ledger corres pondents. He always has something spicy to say and makes it the more interesting in the way he says it. Besides, he is the bell wether of the ‘'Coalin' Ground flock,” and through him we learn much of that worthy and unpretentious part of our people-. You can’t down Flaw. He will come out everylime. If others sec tions of the county will furnish such racy writers as Mr. Picker is, The Ledger's list of subscriber^ would grow amazingly in a very short time, and everybody would be pleased. We are glad to report tbe health of our community much improved within the last few days, and with favorable circumstances all will be up in a short time. Several fine fish, we are told, have been caught recently with set hocks and gill nets. Since tbe old and distructive method of seining bas been discontinued largely, the streams seem to be filling up with fish. The shad, trought and some other species are things of tbe past, and will be until tbe channel of the river is opened for them to come up. Mr. Harry Wilkins answered our last problem correctly while some others missed it. Go up head young man. Here are two other simple ones. A and B have each the same Income. A spends bis and contracts a debt, annually, amounting to one seventh of bis income. B lives upon four- fiths of his income, and at the end of ten years has saved enough to pay off B’s debts and lias $240 to spare, What is the income of each? A map is drawn on a scale one fourth of an inch to the square mile, and is six feet five inches long and three feet six inches broad; find the area of a map drawn ou a slate which is fifteen inches long and six inches broad on tbe largest scale which the slate will permit. Also find the scale I on which it is drawn. U. S Fi-nator B R. Tillman, has j our ihark* 'nr copies of his speech in the ^<*i'>'t> of the United States I"eb. 21-22, 1902 Mr Genung, the map msr, was in this s u etiou last week delivering the map of South Carolina which he sold to subscribers for uinety-e'ght cents cash. Some people seemed to doubt the action of Gov McSweeney would take in the Jefferies Fitzsimmons prize fight, which the sports expected to pull off in Charleston sometime soon. We can’t see how any man who knows Gov. McSweeney could for a moment think that he would allow the State of South Carolina, or any part of it, to become the temporary dumping ground for the imported riffraff of the sporting fraternity much less the scene of a di* e :aceful prize fight. If nothing else will do these pro- f o 9sional sluggers and bullies but a good pummelling we would recom mend them to call upou mif fighting Innhuck, Jim Proctor and Frank Pruitt, who will take great p. isure in ridding the county of all such nuisances without inviting distaste ful, brntal and experience prize fights. . in the person of Governor | ft ie Miles R McSweeney, the State has a man eqaal to al! such emergencies and his people are well a sare of lhat fact. J L. s. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Tuesdav, and Wednesday steps were being taken tn carry the matter to tbe Supreme Court. Deputy Marshal Albright recently seized the two distilleries of Mr. John L. Wood near Pleasant Ridge, in Gaston county. Mr. H. C. Huff- stetier, the store-keeper on the evening previous, being kept at home by tbe illness of a child, left the keys at ti^e distillery so that the opening in the morning would not be delayfd by his absence. It seems that ad vantage was taken of this fact and the revenue officers, who were sta tioned in the woods nearby, seized both stills about daybreak on account of this irregularity. About seven hundred gallons of whiskey and the two outfits were taken to Gastonia and shipued to Charlotte. Da* id Bennett, one of the hardest working and most deserving young men of King's Mountain, had the misfortune to lose $182 between Bir mingham md Atlanta Tuesday night, while on his way home to s.e a very si' k mother. He carried the money in his inside vest pocket, and while asleep it was taken. Wheo he awoke his vest was unbuttoned and the Intereatliig Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* ileyond the Line Wbleh May Frore Entertaining Reading for Hundred* ot Ledger Reader*. The Concord Lodge, Knights of Pythias, has purchased a lot on Union street in that city, and will begin at once the erection of a hand some bunding. A telephone message to Charlotte Wednesday morning from Harris burg. stated that Mr. A. L. Fox, father of Mr. Fox, the Southern’s depot agent, of that place, died v-. rv suddenly in Harrisburg that morning. At the Merchants, Manufacturer” 5 and Farmers’ bonded warehouse in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, money gone. He at once notified Night Wax Her Terror. "I would cough nearly all night long,” v.rius Mrs. Cn«s. Applegate, of Alt xandna, lud., “and could hard ly get any deep. I had consumption so bad that if 1 walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood but, when all other medicines failed ttifee $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds.” It’s absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs. Colds, LaGrippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c. and $1 (M). Trial bottles free at Oberokfee Drug Co drug ston . One troub'e with the man fond of his joke is that he everybody else to be fond of it. who is expects CTitbl Woitti Mtlliunx. "My cnild is worth millions to me,” says Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg. Pa. “yet. I would have lost her by croup had 1 not purchased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure.” One Min ute cough Cure is sure cure for coughs, croup and throat and lung troubles. An absolutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. Tbe youngest child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure bandy. At this season especially it may be needed suddenly. Cherokee Drug Co. tnr> e hales of cotton, tne property ui Heath-Rdd Jo.iOfug and Com- mir-*ion company, caught on fire from a Spain Irom a passing engine. Employes amund the platform had the blaze under coutroLvvben the departments arrived. cotton was insured and tbe %>ss will be ! slight. The Supreme Court Wednesday evening remanded the case of State against Lawyer Ed S. Battle, of Wilmington, to the Superior Court “for proper judgment according to law ” Judge Robinson sentenced Mr. Battle to the roads for sixty days for assaulting Mayor Powell, of Ra leigh. on tne street last October. The Supreme Court *ays that under the law 80 days or $50 fine was the maximum penalty. Mr. Samuel Cohen and son, Maxey, | of Goldsboro, had a close call Wednes* j day. While crossing the bridge at | Stevens’ mill the bridge gave way, j the Messrs.'Coben, with their two! horses, being precipitated to the : stream below, which a» this point is twelve feet deep. Mr. Samuel Cohen was stunned by the fall and did not speak for ncurs By the heroic effort of Mr. Maxey Cohen, aided by parties who witnessed the catastrophe, the i elder Coben and the horses wt-re res cued. Man is better for a good woman than a bad woman ; he is better for a bad woman than no woman at all. Want* To Help Other*. “I bad stomach troubles all my life,” says Edw. Meb’er, propietor of the Union Bottling Works, Erie, Pa., "and tried all kinds of remedies, went to several doctors and spent consid erable money trying to get a mo ment’s peace. Finally I read of Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure and have been taking it to my great satisfaction. I never found ita equal for stomach trouble and gladly recommend it in bop»‘ttfat r may help other suffer ers.”’ Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure cures all stonqach troubles. You don’t have to diet, Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. Cherokee Drug Com pany. ' y' Any hard-working man who spends very little on himself can nuke him self very useful to his wife. Nliot In HI* Left L<-g. For all kind of sores, burns, bruis es, or either wounds DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is a sure cure. Skin dis eases yield to it at once. Never fails in|cases of piles. Cooling and healing. None genuine but DeWitt’s. Beware of counterfeits “I suffered for many years from a sore caused by a gun shot wound in my left leg.” says A. S. Fuller, English, Ind. "It would not heal and gave me much trouble. I used all kinds of remedies to no purpose until I tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes completely cured me.” Cherokee Drug com pany. The man who doesn’t owe some of his success to some woman hasn’t bad any. A CliHttniiooKH DruKK'xt'x SlMtriiit-nt Robt. J. Miller, proprietor of the Read House Drug Store of Chatta nooga, Tenn., writes: “There 14 more merit in Foley’s Honey aud Tar than in any other cough syrup. Tbe calls for it multiply wonderfully and we sell more of it than all other cough syrups combined Cherokee Drug Company. The negroes held tin ir State con vention, called by President Hagan, of Wayne, and Secretary Letk of Raleigh in the latter city Wednesday afternoon. A dozen were present out side of Raleigh. A lengthy resolu tion was adopted which slates in the preamble that negroes are leaving North Carolina for States where they are “safe and free in their political right,” that "citizenship without the ballot is a misnomer.” It is asser ted that negroes are not properly re presented on juries and this tends to increase crime among them. Hanging in front of John R. Simp son Jc Co’s, store in Monroe Tuesday was tbe long lost flag of tbe famous Forty-eighth North Carolina Regi ment. It is pierced bv many a ball, bears the blood stains of battle and is tattered and torn by time, but it is yet a gallant sight, fit to stir tbe blood of an old soldier. On its face are written tbe names of the battlefields of Sharpsburg, Richmond, Frasier’s Farm, |Harper’s Ferry and Bristol Station. The flag was lost at Ap- pomatox. It is thought that some soldier took it.from its staff and con cealed it about bis person to keep it from being surrendered. Jno. Boat, a negro about 30 years old living near Concord, shot O. O. Overcash through the lung Wednes day. Overcash and Frat k Johnston had a warrant for Boet’s arrest. After reading the warrant Overcash started to handcuff Bost when be drew bis pistol and shot. Boat had lived on Overcash’s farm and pur chased supplies and moved away. O H. Hamilton, E-q , of Concord, issued a warrant for Bust’s arrest and deputized Johnston to arrest him. Boat was found nearby in a cabin on Sim’s place. After the shooting he ran but was ceptured and Is now in jail. Overcash is in a serious con dition. In the Superior Court in Wilming ton Tuesday a verdict was rendered for the defendant in a very interes ting suit brought by Capt. J. H. Sloan, the well known cotton expor ter. of Charlotte, against Mr. R. E. Lee. a prominent merchant of Laurin- burg. Sloan claimed that Lee sold him 130 bales of cotton for 7i cents per pound In January, 1900. A week later there was a sharp advance in the staple and Lee sold out to, Messrs Alexander Sprunt & Son for $350 more than at the price at which Sloan bought. Lee set up that the cotton was tendered to Sloan but for some reason it was refused. The jury did not reach a verdict until II o'clock the eonduetor. hut th*- train was crowded and he bad absolutely no clue, so tlie conductor could do notb- if>L r for him. Be.mett served all through the Spanish-American war in Company A, First Rr-yunent, and no better soldier ever carried a gun. A most serious fire was very nar rowly—a 1 m(nirHCulousI—averted in Lineolnto' Friday rmo jing. The boiler and engine house the Wilson Lumber and Milling company, a frame structure adjoining their large box factory, was burned and the main building saved, although it was for several minutes wrapped in the Hamea of the burning engine bouse. Splen did work was done by the local fire engine and the water supply from their near neighbors, the Harper Fur* j niture Co. This was a very nanow j escape for two or three million feet of ! lumber on adjoining yards, and sev- | --rai manufacturing plants near by. j The loss, which was fully cover'd by insurance, will be several hunrded dollars. WorkliiK ‘-i t llmirx it Day. There’s no rest for those tireless little workers—Dr. King’s New Life Bills. Millions are always busy, curing Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Bil iousness, Fever and Ague. They banish Sick Headache, drive out Malaria. Never gripe or weaken. Small, taste nice, wotk wonders. Try them. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. The difference between a man who lies and a woman who lies is that lie knows he is lying. Robert Ward, Maxey’s, Ga , says: ‘‘I suffered from blood poison, my head, face and shoulders were one mass of corruption, aches in bonea and joints, burning, itching, scabby skin, was all run down and dis couraged, but Botanic Blood Balm cured me perfectly, healed all the sores and gave my t-kin the rich glow of health. Blood Balm put new life into my blood and new ambition into into my brain.” Geo. A. Williams, Roxbury, face covered with pimples, chronic sore on back of head, supperat- ing swelling on neck, eating ulcer on leg, bone pains, Itching skin cured per fectly by Botanic Blood Balm—sores all healed. Botanic Blood Balm, cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula, etc. Especially advised for all obstinate cases that have reached the second or third stage. Druggists, $1. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by.writing Blood Balm Co , Atlanta, Ga. Describe and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. The sins of the second generations are visited family name. and third upon the It D»x/.le« The World. No Discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the excitement that has been caused by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It’s severest tests have been on hope less victims of Consumption, Pneu monia, Hemorrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchitis, thousands of whom it has restored to perfect health. For Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, Hay Fever, Hoarseness and Whooping Cough it is the quickest, surest coca in the world. It is sold by Cherokea Drug Co., who guarantee satisfaction or. refund money. Large bottles 50o and $1 00. Trial bottles free. Widows know too much they know anything. to let ou FueiiiiiiMila lx Hitlil»«d of ilx Terror* By Foley’s Hooey and Tar. It stops the racking cough aod heals and strengthens the lungs. If taken In time it will prevent sn attack cf pneumonia. Refuse substitutes. Chert kee Drug Company.