Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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—■— - ■ • , ■■ v : T'* ■ - • I THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. Wc GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every 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., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1902 tl.OO A YEAR. it i p THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Uvrnt* that Have Taken Tlace from One End of the State to the Other Called from Kxchangea for Quick Heading by Score* of Bnsy People. A new bnnk is to be established at Clinton. R Z Wright is at the head of the movement. A charter has been granted to the Kershaw Telephone Co., of Kershaw, capitalized at 15,000. The annual reunion of Newberry College will be held at Little Moun tain on Friday, Aug 1st. A trolley car and a freight car col lided in Columbia Thursday. No body was hurt seriously. Friday afternoon a government flat overturned in Congaree river and two negro men were drowned. The Grendel Mills at Greenwood are adding still more spindles and looms to their equipment. The Bell Telephone Company is constructing a line from Clinton to Abbeville by way of Greenwood. Rev. Thornwell Jacobs has been elected vice-president of the i horn- well Orphanage ami will begin his duties shortly. The management of the Mallahon Mill at Newberry expect, to have the machinery in and the wheels in mo tion by July 15th. A number of bricklayer sworking at Swift & Company’s cold storage plant in Charleston, struck Wednesday be cause of an increase in hours. Ground has been broken for the erection of a veneer plant at Cberaw. It is to be one of the largest con cerns of the kind in the South. The remains of the 700 bales of cot ton, which were damaged in the re cent fire at, the warehouse of the Columbia Duck Mills, have been sold for ^14,510 The company of United States marines which has been doing duty at the Exposition grounds since the opening of the show, has returned to Washington. The Olympia Mill, in Columbia, caught on fire Wednesday, but the fire department of the mill extin guished the flames before any ciam- age was done. Henry Pregnall, an old and respec ted citizen of Charleston, died Ins home there Thursday in the 98th years of his age. He was probably the oldest man in Charleston. The city council of Greenwood has received a petition from the dispen sary advocates asking for another election. They ordered the election, but fixed the time ten months away, in April, 1903: . Sister Mary Laurentia Early, the superior of the St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, Charleston, died there Thursday. She was a member of the community of Our Lord of .Mercy for 31 vears and connected with the in firmary tor 17 years. Three octogenarians died in Fair- field County last week. Dr. R. A. Buchanan, 83 years old, died at Winnsboro. Tuesday ; David Cock, 9U years old, died at Woodward, anu J. L. Brown. SO years old died at Rocky Mount on the same day, Saturday. The progressive little town of Ker shaw is to have electric lights and water works. The contract has been let and the machinery will be installed immediately. The piping, hydrants and everything necessary for the waterworks ‘ v® been shipped and will he pie a and in working order in 00 days. In South Carolina cotton suffered from excessive moisture in Barnwell and Orangeburg counties, and a few contiguous districts, but elsewhere continues to do well. In most places it is blooming freely, and has put on bolls. A few reports indicate that it is growing too much to weed. Lice continues to infest and damage it over limited areas. The Mexican Weevil is still confined to Marlboro county. Sea-island cotton needs rain. About 9 o’clock this morning Dr. Stephen Jackson, one of the most inoffensive colored men in Darlington, was shot and killed by A. McNinch, a white man, who is a stone cutter by trade. McNinch was under the influ ence of whiskey and was on the side walk in front of Jackson’s place of business near the old depot, few words McNinch fired the fatal shot at Jackson, and it is stated that Mr. C. C. Beck, whose store is next to Jackson’s, came near being shot by the same fellow. McNinch got inside of a building and resisted the officers for a while but was finally arrested and lodged in jail. A negro known as Thomas Maddry, but answering to the description of Dan Gould who is wanted in North Carolina for murder, was arrested in Georgetown recently. Gould beat a white man to death with a fence rail 20 years ago and was sentenced to hang. He escaped from jail before the day set for his execution and has not been seen since. This negro ans wers to Gould's description and will be sent to North Carolina for identifi cation. At Sumter a shooting scrape occurred at Bardwell’s market on the corner of Main and Dingle streets Friday morning about 10:30 o’clock. Some words passed between Vernon McCloud, a negro, and Mr. Jacob Bradweil, white. It appeares that Bradweil struck McCloud on the head with a stick and that then Mc Cloud threw a bottle of whiskey at him, later on striking Bradweil in the head with a brick. The negro then ran and Bradweil went into his store and got a rifle and shot the ne gro. The bullet entered McCloud’s right side and came out below the left nipple. There is very little hope of the negro’s recovery. HORRIBLY MANGLED. GOOD WORK OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL Is Drawing the Christian World Closer Together. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY. Mr. Kol>t. Kl*«*r, of t’lierolu-e Full*, Ktin Over by PiiKneiiser Train. On Saturday afternoon about 5 o’clock.as a northbound train on the Southern was approaching the depot in this city, Mr. Robert Kiser, Jr., attempted to cross the track and was knocked down and his left foot and hand were run over. His foot was crushed off just above the ankle and the fingers ou his hand were cut off about the first joint from the hand, and he received several severe scalp wounds and it is thought that his skull is slightly fractured. There were a number present and he was pulled away from the train and was found in the condition des cribed above and totally unconscious. Dr. !S B. Crawley, the Southern’s surgeon, was sent lor and Mr. Kiser was carried to a near by house and made as comfortable us possible. Dr. Crawley soon arrived and had with him Drs. Jefferies and Nesbitt. They made a hasty but careful examina tion of the case and administered anodynes, which apparently allayed all suffering, and then carefully dressed the wounds. They have been giving him careful attention since, but up to this writing he has not revived sufficiently to undergo the amputations which will be necessary for his recovery. Mr. K.ser’s parents live at Chero kee Falls. His father was phoned for and came to his son at once, and his mother arrived Hunday morning and are giving him that devoted attention which is only actuated by parental love. While every one hopes for Mr. Kiser’s recovery and deeply sym pathizes with liim and bis aged par ents, little hope is held out for his recovery. IlellKlitful IMtuio Keeltal. Last Saturday evening a piano re cital was given by Misses Lena Lip scomb and Lueye Littlejohn at the home of Aiss Littlejohn at Asbury, in the presence of quite a number of friends. Both pianists played with their usual precision and ease and with much expression. The phrasing and tiie interpretation of the pieces ren dered showed that they had been well studied and the selections pry- sented a wide range of styles of com positions that were unusually inter esting to all present. The program was as follows: Mater dc Linde, from < >p. Volknian .Mis* l.ueyo l.ltt ejolm. Miss l.eiiu Lipscomb. The I'latteier, Cl Hut major Chumlnude Miss Lena Lipscomb. Nocturne, A major Field Sdierizino, F major. i>p. I*. No. 2. Moskowski Miss Lueye Littlejohn. Yalse, l> Hat major, up. ii2, No. 1 Chopin Miss Lena Lipscomb. Sonata, F, major, Op. It, No. I . Beethoven Miss Lueye Littlejohn. Consolation. K major Mendelssohn To Spring. F sharp major. Up. 4i, No. H l»rci>, r Miss Lena Lipscomb Gavotte, from Fifth French Suite Much Miss Lueye Littlejohn. Postilion, de ATnour Ilehr Miss Lueye Littlejohn. Miss Lena Lipscomb. A Gentle Hint. In our style of climate,/rith 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 sickness, a large doctor’s bill v aiid perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease After a^oJLthe Throat or flungs, its success is - * " '^simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you Gft a sample bottle free from CberoYee Drug Co. Regu- fir size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. The Intenmtloual Sunday School Convrn tlou Will Meet In .lerusaloin in 11)04.— Etta Jane New* item*. —Mbtcheviou* Mike Sellar*. iCorrespondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, July 4.—We under stand that Miss Annie Comer had a sun stroke day before yesterday and is quite unwell from its effects. The International Sunday school Convention will hold its meeting in Toronto, Canada, in 1905, and the world’s convention will meet in Jerusalem in 1904. That the work of the Sabbath School is drawing the Christian world closer together than it has’ ever been, none can deny. Just think of our own people, in their Christian work, being invited to that noted city where our Saviour minis tered over 1900 years ago, and we naturally stop and ask ourselves the question, “Is this a dream?’' No. its not a dream, its a reality, and two years from now some of our represen tative men and women will be look ing over the sacred grounds of Geth- semane and calvary or riding out to the little village of Bethany, the home of Martha, Mary ami Lazarus. What wouderful possibilities await the faithful in the opening of the 20th century. Of the thirty million.of Sunday school scholars in the world fully one half of them are in the United States. What a grand oppor tunity for these faithful servants to have representatives on the very ground where the world's Redeemer dwelt in the 11 -sti and taught the way of salvation to lost mankind. In these days of territorial expan sion and the spreading of the gospel we can see the prophetic truth of the Psalmist verified: Ask ut mo and for heritage The heathen Fll make thine: And for possession I to thee, \\ ill Hive earth's utmost line. In that convention nearly, if not fully, one half of the delegates will be Americans, and we hope some of our Ledger readers will be among those so highly honored. We would not he surprised at any time to hear of somebody killing our friend and neighbor Mr. Mike Sellers. He is so mischevious that people can’t stand him. The other day he saw a fellow working in a cotton patch that was badly in need of thinning out and worked, and he told him he nad better go to Gaffney and get some oil and salts. “What for?” queried the fellow. “To work out that cotton patch,” replied Mike, who rode off us quietly as if he was in dead earnest. The fellow stood as if he didn’t know what to say—whether to get mad or laugh. Mr. T. M. Littlejohn and his tenants have planted over a lot of their corn in “Egypt” this week. The last freshet drowned most of it out. Three years ago on the Oth of July we planted over about four acres of the same laud that had been drowned out and it made about one hundred and fifty bushels of corn, and an abundance of fodder. There is no telling what such land will make with fair seasons and regular work. Thickety and Gilky creeks have much of this kind of land along their banks. The oppressively hot weather and so much work to do prevented our being able to attend the celebration at Gaffney today. We could not go, and do justice to our home affairs. The young people, however, went and we hope will enjoy the occasion. Mr. Robert Whisonaur, of Hickory Grove, made us a call yesterday and spent an hour or two. He is repre senting the “Farmers Mutual Life Insurance Company.” Bob is a hustler in that business. Its an easy job for him to follow some other agents and “write up” applications that they can’t touch. He is an old hand at the business and goes fully prepared to give an applicant all the information he wants to know. Besides, be will not solicit an appli cation from an unsound subject— neither will he write up any such if he knows it. The picnic at Piedmont Springs took some of our neighbors over there to spend .the Fourth. The people of Shiloh will have a picnic there to morrow, 5th inst. The colored people had a 4th of July celebration at Walker’s church today. Quite a number have gone and we are glad to see that they are disposed to have their own festive occasions where they can enjoy themselves with their own color. We are glad to see that the leading ministers of the gospel are turning on the light as it has never been done before. Those in Columbia have inaugurated a crusade against gambling which, if persistently fol lowed up by others, and not only ministers but lay members, too, will rid the country largely of this per nicious and growing evil, or at le^st cause the gambling,fraternity to roost lower in the future. Grand jurors and so-called good men, it seems, are often afraid to tackle this demoralizing practice. It's unpopular, they think, and so their perjured consciences compromise with the evil, and thus it goes on and on It should never become necessary for the ministry to take up this matter. Before long we will hear the cry, “preaches ought to let this thing alone. They have enough to do to preach ou other lines and let the town, city and state authorities deal with this class of offenders.” Poor excuse. Go on brethren—shell the woods and let even Daniel come to judgement. If you will only lock through the eyes of Elisha’s servant you will find that tht-y which be for you are more than they who are against you. j. i, s. THROUGHOUT THE TAH HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. WADE R. BROWN APPOINTED. Will he at tlie Head of the Music Depart ment of N. C. Female Unlveniity. [Now York 1‘ress.j Much importance is attached to the appointment of Wade R. Brdwn as head of the music department of the Baptist Female University of North Carolina. This is a Statff'Col- lege capable of accommodating more than 4U0 students. Mr. Brown will begin his work in September. He is a native of Ohio,and has been actively .engaged in college work. He was head of the musical department in the State College for Women of South Carolina for several years. His specialty is piano teach ing, and it was with a view to com parative study of the different meth ods in a great centre like New York that he came here a year ago, taking the nosition of organist and choir master of the Waverly Congregation al church in Jersey City. Here he introduced a chorus choir, and the work he has done with this choir and with the general music of the church is remarkable. Beginning with ten voices, he now has a vested choir of thirty-five senior and fifty junior voices, the church being the first of that denom ination to have a choir in vestments. They use both processional and re cessional hymns, and the music is an attractive feature of the services. Each Sunday evening some promin ent soloist sings in addition to the choir and this plan will be continued during the summer. Mr. Brown has an especial talent for conducting choruses and is high ly successful in this branch of his work. Last winter several of the large musical compositions were sung, among them Gaul’s “Holy City,” “The Crucifixion.”J by Sir John Stainer, and “Rebekah,” bg Barnby. Oo next Sunday eveninh Gounod’s ‘ Gallia” will be sung, wily Miss Kathrin Hilkeas the soloist. In addition to all this, Mr. Brown has had a children’s free class for vocal music, not only for the chil dren of the church, but also for any in the neighborhood who had voices ami wanted to study. In this way singers were prepared for admittance to his large choir. Both pastor and flock justly are proud of the music of their church, and the organist gets great credit for the large share he has had in bringing it to its present con dition. Hard work, patience and un limited executive ability have been required, and Mr. Brown seems to have proved equal to all emergencies. The college to which he goes has been incorporated only four years. North Carolina has had a large ami flourishing college for men for many years, and the other school is an out growth of the desire to give an iquul- ly good chance to the women. The music department is building an au ditorium to seat at least 2,000 per sons, and here oratorios will be given next season in connection with dif ferent Northern organizations. One has been arranged with the Boston Festival Orchestra. Mr. Brown con ducted festivals in the South when living there before, and undoubtedly will find a broad field for the talent which he has in such abundance. Intere*tlng I term* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Heyon.l the Line Which M»y Prove Entertaining KeadiiiK for Hundred* of Ledger Header*, Mr. J. B. Jackson, one of the Char lotte yard conductors of the Southern Railway, was crushed to death yester day afternoon bv a switch engine on the Atherton Mill side track, just south of the city. The Bell Telephone Company of Charlotte is minus $1(5.85 which, was stolen Friday night from their office on 53 South Tryon street. The mon ey had been left in a drawer in a desk Friday evening at closing time. On the 10th of July, in each county in North Carolina, the county super intendent will examine applicants for admission to the Agricultural and Mechanical Col'ege. President Winston says that there will be room for 500 students next session. A charter has been granted by the State to the Lenoir Electric Company, capital $50,(XX), G. L Bernhardt be ing the principal stockholder. The company is empowered to furnish light and power, operate cars, tele graph and telephone lines, etc. Information has been given out that another large chair factory is to be built at Lexington at an early date. A stock company is to be organized, and it will be composed of men of capital and experience. Only grade chairs will be manufactured. had physicians on the scene in a few moments. The wounded man was removed to a vacant store building and was kept there all day, the phy sicians deeming it unwise to move him. About miduight it was seen that he could not survive and he was put on a hand car and carried to his home, where be died that night about 11 o’clock. On the night of May 24th a burglar entered the large general store of the Morrow-Heath Company, of Wax- haw, and carried off a good quantity of clothing, dry goods, shoes, coffee, etc. Until recently no clue to the identity of the burglar could be ob tained and investigation bad practi cally ceased. But only a day or so ago a negro by the name of Henry Dunham, who lives about three mile's west of town, walked into the store with a nice suit of clothse on, which was readily recognized as having been taken from the store that night. The negro was at once taken to task. At first he denied having stolen the suit at all, claiming to have bought it of a salesman who is not with the firm now. hut, was up to a few m'Miths ago. Pina iy h*- confessed to Living “just taken” the suit iu u«*y time when no one, was looking and because he need ed it. His house was searched and many articles taken on that night were found. This led to bis arrest and lodgement in jail at Monroe. It is certain that he had accomplices, but he will not tell anything. Meteorological KeeorU. We are indebted to Chief B. F. Camp, voluntary observer of t^e weather bureau, for this copy of h:a monthly report for Jur -: high Off to the B. Y. P. V. Messrs. Maynard Smyth, Henry K. Osborne, Howard Gaffney, Lewis Wood, W. N. Turner and Drs. J. N. Nesbitt and Wofford Humphries leit yesterday afternoon for Providence, R. I., where they go to attend the annual session of the National Bap tist Young People Union. An Eojoyalde Dance. On last Thursday evening a delight ful dance was given by the Young Men’s German Club In,compliment of Misses Massey and Ardrey, the fair visitors of Miss Fort. A freight train collided with one ot the work trains of Oliver it Company near Glen Alpine station Saturday afternoon. Engineer Connor, of Knoxville, had his leg broken and a colored fireman bad his leg badly crushed and sustained other injuries which it is believed will prove fatal. No one was hurt on Oliver’s train. The two engines were piled on the track, one on top of the other, and all traffic was blocked. A freight train running from Spen cer to Salisbury pulled in two on en tering the yard at Salisbury Thurs day night, the trouble being caused by a drawhead on one of the cars dropping out. The result of the dis connection was to automatically throw ou the emergency brakes on the detached portion of the train in the rear and gave the cars a violent jolt. Messrs. John Trt-xler and James Pence, botli of this place, who were returning from their work at the ispenocr shops, were thrown from the ton of a car to the ground and pain fully hurt, the former’s right leg be ing broken above the ankle. Little Bertha Barber, eight-year- old daughter of R. L. Barber, met a horrible death at her home in the western part of Durham last Satur day. She was starting a firt with oil when the can exploded and she was humect in a terrible manner. Death followed in three or four hours. The little girl was burned from her knees to her head. Her face was cut, with the flying glass when the can exoioded. When the explosion oc curred the mother of the girl ran to her and did all she could to save her life. Her burning clothes were torn from her and in doing so the mother was badly burned about the hands. Her burns, however, are not serious. A negro was arrested Thursday in the Walkup section of Union county who is fully believed to be Jim. Lowrv, who murdered the chief of po lice at Shelby a year ago. He fully answers to the description of Lowry in detail, and his captors are confident that they have the right man. He has been located in that section since early spring and has been cultivating a small crop. He has recently mar ried. and when arrested was walking along the road with his wife. He was stubborn, and one or two shots had to be fired over h's head before he would throw up even one hand, keeping the other in bis pocket and forcing the woman continually between himself and the officers. He had no weapons on his person save a common pocket- knife. He was carried to Lancaster, and the authorities at Shelby notified. Bob Kimbrough, a lineman for the Burlington Telephone Company, died at his home near Haw river Friday night from injuries received on the railroad that morning. 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What we wish to koow and what we must know before we vote is whether the candi date is sound on Pie. Camp Carpmter Met)!*. Jake Carpeu f er Camp U. C. V. will meet in the court house on Saturday the 12th inst. at 3 o’clo .k p. m. All members are earnestly requested to attend to make preparations for the reunion at Greenville on Aug. 15th, 7th and 8th. D..A Thomas, Commander. The present Thames storage reser voirs hold 1.193,(XK),000 gallons. The new ones will contain 4,988,000 000 gallons. Marbles used in Berlin are imported chiefly from Italy, France, Belgium and Africa. Sicilian is the cheapest and commonest. A St€»ry that Hear* Repeating. We have told it often, no doubt, but we feel that the favorable com ment of our many customers, as well as our own experience, justifies us in repeating the fact that “Clifton” flour possesses strength above all other flours. This is a quality which keeps it constantly rising in public esteem— and in the public bread pan, as well. It Is a quality which it gets from wheat grown on Kentucky’s richest soil. All we ask of you is a test. Test our guarantee. Test our honesty and ability. Test the completeness and efficiency of our mill. Test us in any way and we will prove to you that we make the beet flour offered on the market. BHAN*KOtD Mills. Owensboro, Ky.