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THE LARGEST Circulation of An/ Nrwjpape in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliabi'ity of Every Adver. tiser Who Uses the Col- # umns of Thi; 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, APRIL 29, 1902. 81.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Event* that Have Taken Flare from One End of the State to the Other Culled from KxchHiiK^’* n» r Onick Heading l»y Score* of Bu*y People. There are G3 paupers in the Ander son poor house—33 white and 30 col ored. The state pension roll shows that about 350 Confederate soldiers have passed away during the last year. The shad season around George town is about over, and fishermen are now preparing to catch shrimps crabs and pan fish. The Columbia Mattress Company of Columbia has been bought by the Congaree Mattress and Belting Com pany. who will eventually enlarge the plant. The family of Judge I. D. Whiter- spoor.. at Yorkville, has found a scholarship at the Presbyterian col lege at COnton. This scholarship will be known as the Djqoiu Whith- erspoon Memorial. Tavora Cotton Mills of Yorkville. 8. C.. has ordered between $5,000 and $10,000 worth of additional ma chinery, ‘the funds to be obtained from its recent increases in capital from $40,000 to $65,000. City Assessor D. L. Sinkler, of Charleston, was robbed Wednesday afternoon of his pocket book, con taining $35 and valuable papers, showing that the light fingered in dividuals who infest the city do not confine their attention to visitors. Julius Gibbs, a negro, was hanged at Florence Friday for criminal as sault upon a respectable married wo man a mouth ago. He was tried by a special term of court. Two com panies of militia were on hand to guard the jail, but there was no dis turbance. Last Saturday Col. Elliott Estes, of the Union Central Life Insurance Co., of Cincinnati. O , mailed to Mrs. Ida A. Greene, of Easley, a check for $1,000. This is the amount of the policy carried by her husband, B. A. Greene (who recently died), with that company. Mr. IS. F. Kelly one day last week found a peculiar Indian relic near the Wateree iron bridge. It is a rock weighing about two pounds skillfully chiseled out on both sides strikingly resembling a soap dish. Mr. Kelly is keeper of the cbaingang and the curiosity was scooped up with one of the road scoops. Ben Smith, a negro supposed to have had part in the killing of Mrs. W.W.Jonen, near Ravenel, last week, was killed while attempting to escape from the magistrate’s constables. The negro was handcuffed when he made the break for liberty. He re- fuaed to halt when ordered to do so, and as he was swifter of foot than the constables, they opened fire upon him and brought him to the ground. A few nights ago some enterpris ing thief burglarized the Spartan City Club to the extent of about $80. He affected an entrance through one of the downstairs windows which was not securely fastened, and going up stairs into the safe opened a drawer in the buffet with a key, abstracting therefrom the cash contents. He disdained to take coppers and care- fully left them In the darwer. No trace of the burglar has yet been found, though he was evidently aomebody familiar with the premises and knew where the money was kept. A possible clue to tbe murderers of the Chinese laundrytnan, .lames Sing VVab which occured in Charleston a few days ago, has beer found in an invitation to a party to dine with the Chinaman on the afternoon of the tragedy. The invitation does not bear the name of the party and the envelope in which it was enclosed has not been found. The supposition is that the “Friend” of the Chinaman after taking dinner concluded that he would like to have the gold, which the Chinese laundrymau was thought to have hidden, and the poor fellow met his death when he refused to deliver his money. A colored woman living not lar from Waxhaw, has given birth to wbat'tbe doctors pronounce a mon- •trosity” It has the body and limbs of a fairly well developed infant, but its head is very much like that of ft huge frog. The head is uhn'iKt flat on the back, the eyea being large In the top of the head. It* face has •omewhat of an owlish appearance, but il perhaps more like that of a frog. Bra. H. 0. Houston and J. V . Hunter made an autopsy and found that it had no brain whatever, its spinal column extending dear up the back of the head. It has no neck at all. A photograph of both front and side views were made and will be preserved. Senator B. T> . Tillman Friday ad dressed a crowd of 15,000 people at Manning, S. C. The editor of The Clarendon county newspaper, Louis A. Appelt, formerly an enthusiastic follower of Tillman, but more recent ly an ardent advocate of ‘‘Commer cial Democracy,” and a supporter of Senator McLaurin, had for several months made numerous charges against Senator Tillman,J claiming that he had received rebates from great whiskey firms dealing with the South Carolina dispensary. The charges fell fiat before Tillman’s statements and the accuser was met with a torrent of withering sarcasm which reminded some present of Tillman’s fierce campaign of 1890. Senator Tillman took the opportuni ty to announce hia views of the status of the South Carolina Demo cracy, and of his relations thereto. He paid a warm tribute to the late General Hampton, declared the abso lute necessity for party solidity in this State, denounced Senator Me- Laurin’s alleged defection from tbe Democracy and suggested that the party exact such pledges of party fealty from candidates as would rule out from nomination any so-called Democrats of the McLaurin type. He acknowledged having accepted a frank from the Western Union Tele graph Company, which was about the only one of Editor Appelt’s charges that was substantiated. As to his speculations, he said he held $1,200 in a Texas oil well, under the laws of Texas; that it became a New Jersey company after he went into it and that be expected to lose all the money he had put into it. It was a pure speculation. While he liked to speculate, he never played cards or bet on horse races. He admited that he had lost considerable money in cotton futures and to-day he owed more money than when he went to the United Htates Senate, and if he were a dishonest man he need not owe a cent but could have plenty of money. BUFFALO BUEGET. _______________ • (iafTiieylte* Attend Preiiclilng at Murrain and Miiijfl* With the People. (Correspondence of The Ledaer.) Buffalo, April 28 —Rev. T. Dixon preached an able sermon at Buffalo last Sabbath to a larger congregation than common. We are sorry to learn of the illness of Mrs. John Hopper, one of Buffalo’s worthy ladies; but glad to know that Mrs. Drayton W’yley is improving. Mr. C. Q Weber, of Cherokee Falls, was in this section last week on bus iness. He was accompanied by Mrs. Weber. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gooding, -of Gaffney, visited our worthy neighbor, W. D. Gaston. Messrs. J. J. and L D. Rippv, of Gaffney, visited relatives on this side Sunday. The farmers in this section are get ting in good time, owing to the late spring. Well, it seems that “Bachelor” keeps an eye on the evil doers of Buffalo. I think he is getting in the siddle with his rough spur on. If he won’t come to see you, neither hear you, maybe he cun feel, so spur ahead. Bachelor says this school matter is rotten, but I don’t think so. Last summer one of tbe trustees said they would draw $112, or close to it, but by some means they paid a teicher for five months at $45 per month. Bachelor, please see tvho was so kind to Solomon us to give him about $112. We all like money, but we cannot get it that will multiply like this. A large number of Gaffneyites at tended meeting at Buffalo Sunday. They were mill hands, liverymen, merchants and, lo, the candidates! Among them was our old frie r d Harry, who we think could handle the county's money all right and give you your tax receipt at once, without having you wait an hour. _ Com Obacksb. A Uftntle Mint. In our style of climate, with Its sudden changes of temperature—rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled In a single day—it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neg lected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boschee’s German Syrup kept about your home for Immediate use will pre vent serious Hickness, a large doctor’s bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages. 1‘rieumoniu, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. THE FESTIVE GOAT IN WOODMEN’S CAMP Causes Novel Damage Suit in Yorkville Court. DESCRIPTION OF GOAT. A Mriulx'r of Hickory <!rove Camp Krouglit Suit Agaln*t Woodmen of the World for DitiiiaK' * Kecelved While HeniK Initiated —Ollier XewH. <Coi respondence of The Ledger.! Etta J AXE, April 2G.—The com munion meeting will begin at Salem on Saturday next, May 3rd, at 11 a. m. Tne sacrament of the Lord’s Sunpc-r will be administered on Sab bath iti"-ning. Preaching Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock. The church sec-Hon will be kept open during the entire service for the transaction of any business coming before it. The public is generally invited to attend thebe services. The notes of the whippoorwill keep some people awake these nights. Some have an idea that it is an evil omen for these nocturnal songsters to come near a house in which anyone lives—that’s all stuff. A few have planted their early watermelons. We believe that Messrs. Morgan Millwood, John Gaffney and Capt. John Mintz raise more melons than any six men in the county all put together, and they are of finest variety and largest size. If these gentlemen had the advantage of the soil and climate some portions of South Carolina give them, they could compete with South Georgia and Florida in this industry. They are all fine farmers in other lines. Where and who of the Old Testa ment prophets literally describes the resurrection? Will some Bible reader tell us? * “Uncle Sy” thicks it’s no wonder Gen. Wade Hampton died. The name of the disease was enough to kill him —“valvular affection of the heart.” There are 140,097 days in 400 con secutive years. Will some one please explain how that is? Great complaint is made by poultry raisers that hens are doing no good batching. There will be a drouth among the chicken eaters this sum mer it appears. Mr. W. C. Blackwell went to Ches ter county this week on a visit. While the election of Major Gen eral C. I. Walker to the command of the U. C. Veterans’ Army of Northern Virginia, made vacant by tbe death of Lieutenant General Wade Hamp ton, removes from tbe South Carolina division one of its most efficient working members, it is a deserved honor worthily bestowed. Next year the grand reunion will be held in New Orleans. La. Through the courtesy of our repre sentative in congress, Hon. D. E. Finley, we are in posseftsion of a copy of the full report of the 11th census. For two weeks we have bad most delightful weather for farming. The nights are just warm enough to en courage cotton planting and farmers are making good use of it. Tbe trial of the case of Sam W. Hodges, of the Hickory Grove camp, against the Woodmen of the World in the circuit court of Yorkville this week for damages sustained in initia tion, is attracting a great deal of at tention and there is much specula tion as to the verdict of the jury. The regulation goat was introduced in evidence and of bis goatship the Yorkville correspodent of the News and Courier.among other things,says : “The goat ridden by Mitchell when he was initiated was again put in evi dence, and this time it was set up, or reorganized, and its office In the init iatory ceremonies of the Hichory Grove camn illustrted. The goat is a rather stupid looking contrivance and the only resemblance it bears to the natural goat is that it has a head somewhat similar to it, including horns and whiskers. The body is about two and a half feet in length and one foot in diameter, the whole being covered with a sheep skin with the wool left on. On either side of the body is tacked a stirrup, and at- 'tached to its bead a pair of bridal reins. The goat is operated by means jf a steel frame in the shape of a right-angled triangle. Near one angle the gout is fastened to thejframe, and a handle, similar to the cross piece on a lawn mower handle, is at tached at the angle of the frame, which extends to the rear, and two wheels are attached immediately un der the rider’s seat at the third angle. “The goat, as described, was intro duced. and the four members who had charge of it tbe night Mitchell was initiated Illustrated how tbe con trivance was used. “Prof. J. W. Linley, a graduate of the Citadel, and who, at*the time of Mitchell’s initiation, was in charge of the high school at Hickory Grove, and also a member of the Woodmen’s camn at that place, agreed to ride the goat iii court today. He was put on tbe varmint end Sam Leech and Joe Leech took hold of his arms and Ix-ld him in position, while Dennis Whiso- nant manipulated the handle in the rear. The goat was pulled forward, possibly ten or twelve feet, and Whis- onant worked the handies up and down. causing the goat <o buck and pitch in a very life-like manner. Af ter some delay the return trip was made in a similar way, and the rider was dumped on the floor by reason of the handle bep'g elevated and the goat’s head thereby being lowered Mr. Linley alighted on bis feet amid roars of laughter, in which even the judge joined. “Sovereign Commander Root was put on tbe stand and questioned as to whether or not the goat was a regular feature of the initiation ceremonies of the Woodmen. He said it was not, and that its use was strictly forbidden by the sovereign camp, and he also said that the goat introduced in evi dence whs the first one of that breed that, he had ever seen. “Members of the Hickory Grove camp testified that they had intro duced the goat feature into their in itiation for their own amusement, without authority from the sovereign camp, having borrowed the idea fnfhi the camps at R >• k Hill and Clover. They stated that they ordered the goat from some place in Illinois and that it was paid for by the members by personal subscriptions outside of regular camp funds.” For several days the Thompson mill has been idle in consequnce of some much needed repairs being made on tbe dam. Our people are anxious for the chain gang to give the road between this place and Gaffney a general working Some very bad places in the road make it almost impossible for loaded wagons to pass. By the time this is in print many of the veterans and visitors who at tended the Dallas reunion will have returned, and we hope some of these will give our Ledger readers an ac count of it. We are beginning to get vegatabies out of our gardens and the country households are having a better kind of living. The irresponsible “Mike” Sellers still holds on to his Egyptian farm which he has planted in corn this week. He is one of our best farmers and most industrious men—be is never idle. He is building him a nice cottage at Jonesville where he expects to move bis family after this year. In consequence of tbe R. F. D service the postoffice at Hopewell will ,be discontinued after tbe 30th Inst. j. l s. Autlocli Note*. (CorrMoondencto of The Ledger.) Antioch, April 21.—Mk. Editor: I will give you the news of Antioch. The farmers are all in a bustle prepar ing for another big cotton crop in this section. I think it would be better for the farmers to raise more com, wheat, and grow their own meat, and cotton as a surplus. There was a burial at Antioch Mon day 14tb, which was attended by a large crowd. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. J. D. Bailey, pas tor of Antioch church. Miss Alice Hambright has been visiting her brother, Mr. W. R. Ham- bright. Mr. Eddie Hambright has been visiting Charleston. He says that he saw mere than be can tell about. There are others who are talking about going to the Imposition. We have one candidate on this side of the river for the State Senate, and we hope he wlli make a good run. We are all going to vote for him. Mrs. Addie McSwaiu has returned from a visit to her father at Blairs- vide. Mr. K. C. Hardin and Miss Kate Whisonant, of Blacksburg, visited Kella’s father on Sunday the 13th, inst. Kind’s Crkfk Bovs. Worthy S|ii>iiM»r* Appoluteri. Miss Catherine Deal, of Blacks burg, has been selected by Col. H. P. Griffith, of the Cherokee Regiment, U. C. Veterans, to represent the regi ment at the Confederate reunion in Greenville in June, and Miss Maggie Bryant, of Trough, has been ap pointed sponsor lor tbe Jake Carpen ter Camp, U. C. Veterans, by Com mander 1). A. Thomas, to represent the camp on that occasion. v Misses Deal and Bryant are two Cherokee’s popular, amiable abu lovable young women, and both are handsoiriFe moulds of all the virtues that give a charm to womanhood. The blood of patriots flows In their veins, for they are daughters of men who wore the gray and staked their lives upon the cause It represented; and Colonel Griffith and Commander Thoinaa could not have selected two more worthy young women to do honor to the veterans at their reunion In Greenville. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STaTE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. lutere*tiuff Item* CoaceruliiK Our Neigh bor* Iteyoud the Line Which May ProT« Kutrrtainlug Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. A negro woman in Asheboro was placed under arrest Friday for murder ing her own child today. DiMon, the Asheville negro who shot and nearly killed Conductor Salisbury.of the Southern in that city not long ago, has plead guilty to an assault and Judge Justice will impose sentence Friday. Billie McCall, a negro, killed Will Memory, white, Friday morning at McCee’s Mill in Bladen county, with and Iron bolt. McCall is about 5 feet, 4 inches. v*ry black and very active *nd intelligent His Weight is 157 pounds. He’s still at large. A forthcoming incident of interest to Charlotte is a visit of seven English cotton manufacturers who have just arrived at Boston, having come to this country to study textile machinery. They will, of course, be welcomed| in Charlotte, as elsewhere in the South. Tomorrow (Wednesday) night then will be a game of championship pool played at the Central Hotel billiard room in Charlotte. The players will be Alfert De Oro, of New York city, who is said to be the champion pool player of the world, and John Dahl, of Chicago, who holds the champion ship of the West. It has been learned from reliable sources that the railway from Ruth- erfordton to the coal fields of Tenn essee will go through Asheville. The line has been surveyed and rights along the entire route have been se cured. Tbe roaa will enter the city from tbe eastern section via Haw Creek section, which opens up a valley country. Galloway and John Blue, negro des peradoes of Quewhilfle township, in CumberlandCounty, who have been carrying things with a high hand in that section of the county, were outlawed Friday by Magistrates McLean and Overby of Fayetteville A third one of the band, Sandy, ie now in jail badly wounded in tbe struggle for bis arrest. Tbe case of State vs. Janes and McIntosh for lynching George Ritter, colored, two years ago, consumed the greater portion of court in Cart hage last week. Tbe case was com menced Tuesday and went to the jury late Saturday afternoon. The de fendants were represented by Black and Adams Seawall and Burns, of Carthage, and Cameron Morrison, of Rockingham, while the solicitor was aided in the prosecution by Zeb R. Sanders, of Albemarle. Hamp Johnson, an employe of Elmira Cotton Mill, at Burlington, was arrested last Monday on a war rant sworn out by Mrs. Mary Elias, an Assyrian pedler, charging him with attempted criminal assault. Johnson very easily proved an alibi and was released. It was a case of mistaken identity on tbe part of the plaintiff, though, as substqueut events proved, she had the name right. The real culprit, a negro, was captured and bound over to court. John Rankin, a negro who was wanted in Geston county, was ar rested Saturday in Charlotte at Latta Park. Sunday, the 13th of April, Rankin severely cut another negro, named Wilson Brown, at Stanley Creek. After the assault Rankin went to Charlotte and has been work ing around the city ever since When arrested he admitted his guilt, but said that before he cut Brown the latter had struck him with a heavy stick. Rankin was taken back to Gaston county by a Gastonia po liceman. A tram wreck, chock-full of sensa tional incidents, occured on the Sea board Air Line a quarter of a mile west of Roleigb and at the north west corner of the penitentiary stock ade at 5 o’clock Friday morning. It was the sensation of the day and thousands of sight-seers went there, most of whom had never before seen wreck. The wreck was caused by rear-end collision between two freights. Three tramps were injur ed, one fatally, and one trainman was hurt. The wreck was cleared by the afternoon. Traveling men who have been through the strawberry belt of the state within the past ft-w days say that there were never more produce solicitors In this sect ion to look after strawberry shipments. The crop promises to be large, though growers in the Burgaw and South Washing ton sections report the appearance of the strawberry weevil, a small insect which attacks the bloom of the plant and makes maturity impossible. The pest is not a new one to growers, but He appearance in the section named,will have the effect, so it is said, to shorten the crop nearly one- third. Mr. J. C. Austin, a county mer chant of New Salem township, lost his store by fire Thursday night. The fire started about 11 o’clock and is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Hia stock of goods was worth about $2,000 and the building about $500. He bad $1,500 insurance. There is a sensa tional story in Monroe, that Austin bad been to Mershville that after noon and that as he was returning home at night he was assaulted and shot at from the roadside, and that his asMiiants then advanced upon him and struck him, and otherwise roughly bandied him and then helped themselves to tne goods in bis wagon. There is being organized in Ashe ville a movement which promises to do much for that city and her people. Its purpose is to encourage tbe growing of flowers among the children of the public schools. Tne plan is simple. A prize or a number of prizes are to be awarded to the chil dren that furnish the best display at a flower show which will he held some time during the fall. The children will each receive a card on which will be printed a list of flower seeds and the child is to use its own judgment In the selection of the seed, and when it has reached a decision t > mark the name of the flower on t tie card and send it in; then tbe seed* will be dis tributed by the association. Rev. H. F. Chrelt/.berif. Rev. H. F. Chreitzberg, of Gastonia, N. 0 , arrived in the city yesterday and is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A R. N. Folger on Smith street. Mr. Chreitzberg is a native of this State and was for many years a mem ber of the South Carolina Conference and was one of its ablest preachers. He was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference in 1892, and has filled some of the first churches in the conference; four years in Asheville, four years lo Charlotte, and now has charge of a church in Gastonia. He has come to Gaffney to assist Rev. W. Hodges in a protracted meet ing in the Buford Street Methodist church which began last night and will continue through the week. Ser vices will begin every morning at 10 o’clock and at 8:15 every evening. The public is requested to attend. The Floreiu-e Mills ami Their ••Super.” The Forest City Times baa a lengthy and interesting write-up this week of the Florence Cotton Mills and their surroundings. The article is embellished with a number of cuts showing some handsome buildings, and prominent among the pictures is the genial physiognomy of Superin tendent E.J. Barnette. Mr. Barnette was once a resident of this place, and be has many friends and admirers here who are always pleased to see him or learn of bis continued pros perity and increasing popularity. luvlteri, The Ledger gratefully acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to tbe celebration of the Hundredth Anni versary of Salem Female Acadeny, at Winston-Salem, N. C., May 22nd to 29th inclusive. March has been very much like some of our State Senator*—full of wind. A Kin* Patent Flour. The celebrated “Clifton” flour, made by the Bransford Mills, Owens boro, Ky., ia introduced in this market. The “Clifton” flour is not only one of the finest patent flours made, but every sack is sold under the registered trade mark of the Anti- Adulteration League, which offers a reward of $1000 to any one who will discover any adulteration in this flour. The proprietor says this means more now than ever, as the pure food law passed by Congress two years ago is altogether inoperative. As evidence of this, he says the Illinois State 1’ure Food Commission recently analyzed the flour of six different mills, located in as many different states, and found a poison ous mineral known as barytes in th« product of every one of them. This mineral is just as white and fine as flour, and cannot he detected except by chemical analysis, but its delete rious effects will be felt by any one who eats bread made from flour con taining It. Having the League's guarantee of purity is indeed a strong point in favor of the “Clifton” brand, to say nothing of its suptrior quality of a high grade patent flour. The ‘Clifton” will be vigorously pushed In this market. For sale by R. M. Wilkins it Go . In GafTaey, and Junes A Duff, in Blacksburg. k,