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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional * District of S. C. The tedger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. We 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, AUGUST 19, 1904 *1.00 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. f;v*ntH that Have Taken Tlare from One Rnd of the State to the Other Called from Exchange, for (Juick Reading by Score. of Itu.y I’eople. The Laurens jail is without an in mate for the first time during Sheriff Duckett’s incumbency. The question of forming Pee Dee County from parts of Marion and Marlboro Counties is again being agitated by the people of that section. The police of Columbia have un dertaken to enforce the Sunday blue laws and keep the cigar and fruit stands and soda fountains from run ning O' 1 Sunday. An unknown man about 55 years old, whose name is supposed to be Johnson, was found dead in his bed at the Hill house in Columbia Thurs day morning. A lew nights ago robbers entered the dwelling of Dr. J. R. McElveen, at North, and stole clothing and cash to the amount of $50. Four negroes have been arrested. In a dispute about 20 cents Tues day Ceasar Hogg, colored, was killed near Waverly Mills by Mathias Als ton, also colored, bis head being laid open with a knife. The state campaign for 1902 will close with the meeting at Columbia Thursday and the senatorial cam paign will close with the meeting at Winnsboro on the same day. The negro truckers in the Atlantic Coast Line freight transfer yard at Florence struck for shorter hours Tuesday but their places were soon filled. R. E. Morris and I. A. Garland, of Florence fell from an excursion train near Marion when it was traveling at a good rate of speed. They were badly bruised but no bones were broken. Mr. J. C. Norcross has resigned his position as superintendent of the Spartanburg Railway. Gas and Elec tric Company, and will go to Massa chusetts to accept a similar position. His many friends regret his depart ure. During tbe storm Monday after noon in Rock Hill Mr. Win. Mitchell’s handsome new residence on West Main street, was set on fire by light ning and almost completely destroy ed it. Mrs. Mitchell’s was badly shocked. Tuesday afternoon the body of Edinborough Coleman, a negro, was found near Chester Taylor’s place in Saluda county. He had two gun shot wounds on his body and had been missing since Sunday. There la no clue as to the murderer. On Monday afternoon lightning •truck the barn of Col. J. F. North, at North, and it was burned. About 6,000 pounds of fodder, some corn and other grain were consumed. Two adjacent farm houses were also burned. The addition to tbe Monarch Cot ton Mills, at Union, is nearing com pletion. The equipment of the plant is now 14,000 spindles and 300 nar row looms. When the addition is completed it will be increased to 30- 000 splndlee and 740 looms. Tbe governor has pardoned Chas. W. Anderson, convicted in Green ville county in September, 1902, of manslaughter and sentenced to two years on,the chaingang. Anderson is a white man and has served one year. He killed a negro, it is claimed, In self defence. Perry Miller, colored, aged about 30 years, committed suicide some time between 2 a. m. and noon Friday, by banging himself to a pine tree about 300 yards from his house near Arkwright. His domestic life was not pleasant and be thought bis wife unfaithful; and this caused despond ency, which led to the suicide. He was a quiet, industrious negro, and ran a back from Spartanburg to Ark wright. A 12-year old negro boy, of Beau fort, whose father thought be merit ed punishment for mischievous be havior,ran to a wharf Friday morning and jumped overboard, rather than submit to oapture by several pursu ing boys sent by tbe father. As the tide was low the boy sustained cuts in both feet b? coming in contact with oyster shells when he jumped. Undaunted, he swam about a quar ter of a mile, when, discovering bis injuries, he wisely returned home for treatment. Gov. MoSweeney Saturday added : $100 to the rewards heretofore offered ! for the capture of Charley Jeffcoat, j the desperado and outlaw. The price | on Jf-ffcont’s liberty is $1,300. When Jeffcoat left this State, for Georgia, Gov. Klierhe offered a reward of $100. When lie killed J. C. Flanders in Georgia, the dead man’s widow of fered $200 for Jeffi-oat’s capture. This was increased by Sheriff J. T. Flanders to $400; and friends of the family added $200 more. The gov ernor of Georgia increased these re wards to $900 Gov McSweeney of fered a reward of $200 for an un known horse thief in Aiken county— now supposed to have been Jeffcoat; and after the outlaw killed Deputy Sheriff Aull the Aiken county au thorities offered $100 for his arrest. For the murder of Aull, Gov. Mc Sweeney Saturday offered $100 addi tional, making $100 in South Caro lina and $900 in Georgia awaiting tbe captor or captors. About 3 o’clock Saturday morning in a negro house near Fort Fremont, Privates Sutter and Braddy, two young soldiers of the Sixteenth com pany of coast artillery, engaged in a fight to prove who was the best man —Braddy having declared, that he could whip any man in the house Salter’s criticisms of Braddy’s sing ing was the cause of the quarrel. A few minutes after the fight began Braddy drew a hunting knife and stabbed Sat ter in the neck. Salter died in 30 minutes Braddy immedi ately fled from the house snd pro ceeded to Paris Island, a short dis tance, where he was captured by pur- THE HAPPENINGS OF LOWER CHEROKEE, What the People of the Etta Jane Section are Doing. A GOOD DOCTOR NEEDED If Some Doctor Would Settle In the Com munity Along Thickety anti Ullkey Creeks He Could Do Well FarmerM Fulling Fod der-Corn Crop U Light. Etta Jane, Aug. 16.—Mr. R. W. Davis, of Sarratts, is working to have telephonic communication opened with Gaffney or Union. Bob is a hustler and will work it up if it can be done. It will not cost one a great deal if everybody will go into it. Mrs Nettie LeMaster and Miss Sallie Kendrick, of Gaffney, are visit ing their sister, Mrs. C. F Inman. They have made a visit to the Mc- Oonnellsville neighborhood in York I county .where they spent several days with relatives and friends quite pleas antly. Dr W A. Fort, of Gaffney, it is hoped will conclude to locate ai his plantation at Star Farm and practice medicine. His long and successful practice will guarantee him success While we have generally one of the healthiest localities in the Piedmont assisted in the services by Rev. Mr. Carroll, of Kelton. Farmers are beginning to pull fod der. They say the corn is much lighter than they expected. We met quite a number of our friends from different parts of Chero kee county at Gaffney last Thursday The crop reports from most of them are not veryj encouriging. Cotton is opening fast in many places and will be shorter than last year. On nearly all hands we hear “they can’t have a meeting at Gaffney without a fuss or a fight.” This is unfair to Cherokee county people. Of all the “rucuses” raised there our own'people have bad but very little, if anything, to do with them except to look on. We have all our lives heard of such and such places being the battle field in elections. Such and such counties to decide the congressional contest in such and such townships or orecincts to decide a county election and so on It looks now as if some of the can didates are making this the battle fi -dd of this campaign. We are not responsible for the hap penings in our county and we might say with a good deal of assurance that every unpleasant and uncalled for ‘fistcuff” results in the changing of a number of votes either for or against a candidate—some times it does both. It never leaves results where it finds them. Several of our people speak of going to Armenia in Chester county next Saturday on the occasion of a ‘‘big” picnic. Misses Ethel and Jessie Strain and THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Ii)tere«tlfiK Itorma Conerrnlnq; Our l»ors Iteyoml tiie Line Which May Prove Ki)t<-rtainkuK Kcitdiinf for tlundredK of Ledger Ketidern. Mr. W\ A. Smith, of Concord, re ceived news Wednesday from the Meadow Creek Nugget mine that a piece of gold weighing a quarter of a pound had been found there Tues day. J. W. Hurlbut, agent of the land and industrial department of the Sou thern Railway, is camping out in the North Carolina mountains while on a surveying, fishing and exploring trip. He writes that two yearlings, a part of a herd of cattle turned out on the mountains for grazing, were killed by bears near his camp a few day- ago. State Biologist Gerald McCarthy has issued a statement to silk grow ers in North Carolina that a silk man ufacturer has off'-red to purchase all silk cocoons grown in the state at a fa>r price. In selling the cocoons the Department of Agriculture acts THE SIX CANDIDATES FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE CAN YOU PICK THE WINNER ? Elliott suing parties shortly before noon. Braddy was taken to Beaufort in the afternoon and lodged in the coun ty jail for safe keeping. Setter was from Woodbaven, L. I., and Braddy from Georgia. Both men had been indulging freely in beer for several hours before fighting. When sober they were considered peaceable men. “Well.” said the sheriff “Tve just got a man in jail for jumping his bond last court as he was getting ready to jump a train here; come on to jail and see if be is the man.” The result of the visit was the complete identification of the prison er by his neighbor as the Victor Barnes they had been looking for. He strenuously denied the charge, but a warrant had been sworn out a- gainst him for a capital crime and the parties will be called directly before the grand jury, which meets here Monday. People who have experienced ex treme cold say that it is very similar to extreme. A Ueotle Hint. 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 Hyrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor’s bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of tbe 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. Johnstone Henderson Hemphill Evans belt, we have more or less malarial troubles along the creeks—especially Thickety and Gilky—that calls for the service of an experienced practi tioner of medicine. These sections are fast becoming depopulated and their agricultural interest are being much neglected, largely on account of the inconveniences of getting a doctor. So apparent is this that we have beard land owners who see tbe points say that they are willing to guarantee any reliable physician tbe payment of any reasonable bills made on their plantation in order to keep them filled up with good laborers. As it is, people have moved off until much of the land is practically lying out and growing up in weeds and bushes. This state of affaire will ruin any country. We had the pleasurer last Thurs day of seeing Miss Bessie Crocker, the little missionary lady who re cently returned from the Orient, the motherless child of Rev. Mr Crocker who is now a missionary in China. Miss Bessie will be two years old next month and is a robust, healthy, good-looking child—.Auch resembles her mother. Mrs. Crocker the child’s grandmother, has it in charge and it is the idol of a large portion of Cherokee county people. Its mother, Mrs. Bessie Crocker (nee Miss Bessie Thackston), was one of Union county’s most excellent young ladies—a daughter of our esteemed friend Mr. Thackston, of Asbury, of whom Cherokee county has no worthier Christian gentleman in it. Mr. Ed. McKown has returned from the Philippines where he has been serving for three years as a soldier. He looks as if the climate bad agreed with him in every parti cular. He is tbe son of Captain G. Wash McKown, of Mercer. The protracted meeting closed at Skull Shoals last Thursday night. Rev. Mr. Humphries, pastor, was Mattie Estes went to Clifton last Thursday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sparks and family. Tbe rains have fallen quite liberally in several sections of the county. Though with us they have been light as yet and a three or four days slow rain would do au immense good to both late corn and cotton. Gar dens are ruined and garden vegeta bles are scarce. Whenever it comes that men have to circulate scandalous reports (either true or faiset in order to down a can didate for office, the public ought to turn a deaf ear and treat the author ity as unworthy of credence. The man who truly deserves execration at the hands of his countrymen ought to be made to feel it in private as well as'public life. But to elbow a fellow round as long as be will do your dirty work and then when be begins to show symptoms of exercising his own right to citizenship pounce down on him with all the anathemas you can command is not manly. It is cruel, it is treacherous. Of all men living none occupy so low position as the traitor. We know of men in high positions who are exercising all the prerogatives thereof who owe it to the dirty work of those who risked their all in the way of honor to make these results possible. Yet they are ready to turn upon their benefactors and crush them in order to maintain their ill gotten gains. Ob, consistency, thou art a jewel. j. l. s. Broad River Aenoclatloo. The Broad River Association will convene with the Gilead church on Thursday, August 21st. Visitors or delegates coming by rail will be met at Jonesville if they will so notify Brother J. T. W. Hodge. S. M. Bagwell, Clerk. Latimer as agent to the growers without charge. Prospects are for a rapid development of the silk worm culture in this state. Ike Anderson, a 50-year-old negro mao. was sentenced in the Superior Court at Charlotte Thursday to serve a term of 15 years in the State peni tentiary for an assault with criminal intent upon Hester Boyd, his 14-year- old neice. The girl was living with Anderson and bis wife at their home in Long Creek township when the crime was committed. The oc currence took place last March. Late Wednesday afternoon at Greensboro Mr. John Roberts, of Richmond, manager of the Rich mond Supply Company, having tbe contract for doing the painting for the American Cigar Company fac tory at that place feel 60 feet from the celling to the basement of tbe five-story building, and was not killed, and so far as physicians can see has not sustained any serious in jury. Playing innocently with a brother three years his senior on some timber rafts in the river near the Clyde Line steamship wbarf Monday afternoon, Andrew Cowan, six years old, son of Mrs. Ida Cowan, a boarding house keeper, lost his balance, fell into 20 feet of water and was drowned. George Brown, a colored stevedore, recovered the body an hour and a half later bj diving. A distressing accident, which sub sequently proved fatal, occurred Wed nesday night, near Black Mountain. Miss Hattie Smith, a young lady from Mooresville, joined a party of young people on a straw ride. While going up a steep bill the wagon in which the party rode was overturned. The wheels of the wagon, which wai a very heavy one, passed over the body of Miss Smith with the result that she sustained internal Injuries. Governor Aycock granted a commu tation of sentence for J. W. Maultsby Thursday. He was convicted at tbe January term of Cumberland court of using his club as policeman too freely on a prisoner and sentenced by Judge Robinson to 20 days in jail. The commutation is to $10 fine and costs. In stating his reasons the Governor says Maultsby has been a faithful po lice officer in Fayettville for many years, is an old man of excellent char acter and was a brave Confeoerate soldier. Avery G. Dawson, a former resident of Shelby, was arrested Thursday at Kings Mountain by Cbas E. Wright, agent for the United States secret ser vice division. Dawson was taken to Charlotte that evening, and after a brief hearing was committed to jail in default of a $500 bond for trial before United States Commissioner D. G. Maxwell Dawson is charged with altering a $1 bill to a $5 bill and at tempting to pass the bill contrary to sections 5414 and 5431 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Daw son is a young man about 30 years of age. Raleigh has been awarded the grand lod^e Masonic temple, conditional on citizHns of cicy subscribing for $12,- 500 of the second mortgage bonds. Phis amount is not yet subscribed, but will be within the next day or two. The proposition that pulled the e nple 11 Raleigh was that the Raleigh Savings Bank would take all the $50,- 000 first mortgage bonds and sell the temple company the building and lot now occupied by the bank on the north-west corner of Fayetteville and Hargett streets for^SO.OOO. An adja cent lot on Hargett street has been secured for $6,000, so that the temple site will be 60 feet on Fayetteville and 90 feet on Hargett and will cost $36,- J00. Three good buildings will have to be removed to give place to the temple. John Linder the white man who assaulted Mr. L. F. Osborne a few months ago, was tried in the Superior Court at Charlotte Saturday. There were three cases against him : the as sault on Mr,Osborne.resisting officers, and an assault on Officer Hunter. In the first case he was fined $25 and the costs, In each of the other cases judgment was suspended upon pay ment of the costs. The fines and the costs in all the cases amounted to $108. During the trial of this case Mr. Osborne, who has not been well for some time, fainted in the court room, and for a few minutes it was believed he was dead. He revived un der medical attention, however, and his condition waslimproved last Satur day niog. Mr.Osborne enjoys theen via ble reputation of being one of the ablest court officials in North Carolina and his illness was a matter of con cern to his many friends. Victor Barnes, a white boy 18 years old, was jailed in Greensboro at uoon Saturday as he was taking a train for Richmond, on a capfa* for an offense for which he had jumped his bond at last term of court. Late this after noon a justice of the peace from Sumner township was telling the sheriff of a criminal assault committed on a 7-year-old daughter of Mr. Shu- bal Walden, of that township Wed nesday, and of tbe quiet effort being made to catch up with the miscreant. “What was the negroe’s name?” asked the officer. “It was a white mao,” repliel the justice of the peace, “named Victor Barnes, neph ew of the man you have just turned out of jail for •beating his wife, and we have been bunting for him every where. Tbe little girl was dreadfully abused and deolares without besits- tiou that it was him.and other cie- oumstanoes clearly corroborate her.” Food Adulteration. “In a pure food case that was taken up from Philadelphia to the supreme court of Pennsylvania,” says Public Policy, “the plea was made that tbe law fs not violated unless tbe quanity of foreign sub stance in a food staple is sufficient to Ic.ure health. The supreme court decision is that any poisonous ingre dient, whether in quanity to injure health or not, is a violation of the statute. The cry goes up that this will affect twenty per cent, of the stock of the average .dealer. If one- fifth of tbe merchandise sold for food contains poisonous ingredients, there is a startling necessity for active measures. The stupid plea that the poison is not enough in any one arti cle to hurt the consumer indicates that tbe vendors never give enough thought to any aspect of the question but the pursuit of the nimble dime and nickel to learn the effect of the cumulative poisoning. Certainly when we hear from the trade itself that the practice of mixing poison in food has attained a twenty per cent, preva lence, it is time for strenious sup pression, aimed with the most vigor at the manufacturers of such art! eles.” In view of the above, had you not better buy “Clifton” flour, a floor gnarauteed pure by the Anti-Adul teration Leagoe. Bkansford Mills, Oweneboro, Ky.