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4.V 1*3. ■J. Kl^MOV AI^ Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 13 IC T 1« r is now lociit(?d in his handsome new suit of rooms In the Star Theatre building. Can be found In office six days lit theweeU. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over National Bank. William S. Hall, Jr. James A. Willis. ~ HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE BLDd. o a. i-c J-c r«4 i-c~v, ». c:. Notary Public injoffice. Prompt attention given to all business. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over.!. R. Tolieson’s new store In office from 1st to 26tb of each mouth: Notice of Discharge. UNotice Is hereby given that I. as guardian for Maggie Turner will make tinal settle ment before the Probate Court of Cherokee county, S. C„ on Saturday, Sept. -7th next, 10o’clock a. m. of said estate and ask for Hnal discharge as said guardian. L. Moody Turner. Guardian. Published In Ledger Sept. 5, 12. 19, and 26, 1902. J SHINGLES, BRICK, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS and all kinds of Building Ma- terial, Paints, Oils, Etc. for sale at a small per cent, above cost for cash. Estimates? made without charge. L. BAKER Do Your Duty. “England expects every man to do his duty,’’ said Nelson at Trafalgar, and “duty performed is tha sublimest achievement.’ said R. E. Lee. Then why not insure your property in the Cherokee Mutual Eire In surance Company, and be happy, freeing yourself from anxiety as to the effect a loss of your house would curtail on yourself and ■family also. This is the cheapest insurance known among men and your money kept at home. Instead of swelling the Coffers of Northern Co-operations to Im* used for enslaving the many for the benefit of the few in the Gigan tic Trusts which seek to control the staple necessities of life, or is loaned to the despots of Europe to bind the shackles of slavery tighter upon the limbs of their helpless sub jects. If you feel it your duty to insure, tills company asks tiiat you consider the claims it has upon you. Rev. a. D. Davidson, and Frank McClunt, Agents. JETor—^ Building and Plastering Lime Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris. Bosendale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. JUNE H. CARR, ARTISTIC photographer 812 Limestone Street, Gaffney, S. C. “Artist Proofs" are deservedly popular because tbey stand without a peer for beauty and originality of design and finish. WE MAKE THEM. Our complete line of photographic work embraces the best materials, the bes methods and that painstaking care so essen- tlal'to good work. Our guarantee against fading goes* with all* photos bearing jour name. Bring us your kodak work, our prices are low as the lowest. Remember us for |any photographic want. jy’Phone 170. Sminer Resort Folder SOUTHERN RAILWAY Much valuable information; mailed free to any address upon application to agents Southern Railway. W. H. Taylor, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. R. W. Hunt, Div. Pass. Agent, Charleston, S. C J. C. Beam, Dist. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. CHIEF EXECUTIVE IK CHATTANOOGA Speaks to Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen. ELECTED HONORARY MEMBER. Pays Tribute to the Railroad Men of the Country and Says He Is an Em phatic Believer In Organized La bor. Chattanoga, Tunn., Sept. S.—Presi dent Roosevelt today was elected an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He attend ed the executive session of the order in the morning, walking from the ho tel to the Auditorium, a distance of a few blocks, escorted by Grand Master Sargent, a committee of the brother hood and a detachment oi Troop B, state guard. The brotherhood first held an executive session, which the president attended. Acting Grand Master Hannahan welcomed the presi- dent, stating that his attendance at this convention would do great good to organized labor, not only in this country, but in Canada and other coun tries as well. The president returned his thanks for the welcome and said he was glad to be with the brotherhood. He said the firemen were the result which naturally results from the application of the principle of common sense to their work. He said that organized labor never hod made an unreasonable request of him, or that if it haxl, he would have denied it In speaking of the appointment of Grand Master Sargent, of the brotherhood, to bo commissioner of general immigration, the president said it was one of tHe most satisfactory appointments to him and to the public he had ever made; that Mr. Sargent has a hard laxly and not a soft head. John F. McNorre, of Columbus. 0., one *f the grand officers and a Dem ocratic momber of the legislature, moved that the degree of grand hon orary membership be conferred upon President Roosevelt. The resolution was referred to the committee on by laws whose recommendation was unan imous that the motion be adopted. The report of the committee was adopted by a rising unanimous vote amid great cheers. The president thanked the conven tion for the compliment paid him and the grand master, Sargent, then gave him a pass which admits him to all meetings of the brotherhood. At this point the brotherhood ad journed until 9 o’clock tomorrow morn ing, and the public was admitted to the auditorium to hear the president's address. While the audience was be ing seated the band rendered “Amer ica.” the president and the others in the hall arising. Mayor Chambliss delivered a short address of welcome In which he wel comed to Chattanooga all the firemen, whether they came from Canada. Mex ico or Oyster Bay. After an address ot welcome In behalf of the state by Governor McMillan and address by Grand Master Sargent, interspersed with music by the Seventh Cavalry band, President Roosevent was intro duced by Acting Grand Master Han nahan. His reception was almost en thusiastic, the audience rising to Its feet and cheering. When the presi dent addressed the convention as “My Brothers,” he wns cheered again. He said he was glad to be here and Join* ed with the others in extending a cordial welcome to the visitors from Canada and Mexico. He needed no pressing, he said, to come to this meeting. He said In part: “I have always, gen^’emen, admired greatly the railroad men of the coun try and I do not see how any one who believes in the foundamental princi ples of citizenship can fall to do so.” He compared the railroad men to soldiers who are accustomed to tak ing risks, acting on their own initia tive and obeying orders. In raisng his own regiment, he said, he got a number of railroad men. Of course, the first requisite was that a man should know how to ride and how to shoot. Giving them these two quali ties he found there was no better group from which soldiers could he drawn than railroad men. The president said he hoped and Re lieved that the danger of war would be less in the future than It has in the past. “At the opening of the twentieth century we face conditions vastly changed from a century ago. We, as a people, find awaiting us prob lems which need our best thoughts to solve them.” The president referred to the good work accomplished by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. “I believe emphatically,” he said, “In organized labor. The worth of an organization,” he continued, “depends upon its being handled with the cour age, the skill and the wisdom of fair dealing as between man and man and the wlee restraint which, I am glad to be able to say, your brotherhood has shown. “I feet that organisations like yours have a tonic effect on the whole body politic. It ie a good thing that there should be a large body of our fellow citizens who exercise the old quali ties of courage, daring and reeolutlon, unflinching willingness to meet dan ger if need be and that there should be a profession whose members must year in and year out display these qualities. I hope to see all our people develop the softer, gentler virtues to an ever-tncreaslng degree, but I have never to see them lose the sterner vir- tues that make men. The problem of good citizenship Is a problem of pro ducing good men and women. All the organizations in the world won’t make a (Njward or a shirk a good engineer or a good fireman, and the best constitu tion will work but ill if we have not In the average citbven something that stands far above intellect as intellect does above mere brute strength—char acter that is composed of honesty, oi courage and of hard common sense.” The president told of his trip over the battlefield of Chickamaugia yester day and drew a lesson of the heroism by the armies of the north and south. WOMAN BRUTALLY MURDERED. Found with Head Almost Severed Near Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept 8a—With her head almost severed from the neck, her skull crushed in at the bock, her right arm broken, and other marks of injury, the body of Annie Schum^n, a white woman, was found yesterday morning partially submerged in the water in Three-Mile branch at the place where it crosses what Is known as the Plank road, near Jacksonville brick yard, in the western part o{ the city. Indications about the spot where the body was found showed that the foul est kind of a murder hod been com- mitted, and upon investigation being made by the authorities details were brought out which point to one of the most horrible crimes that has ever oc curred in this county. That the wo man’s death was the result of a bru tal assault was plainly demonstrated. There was evidence found showing that the woman had been pursued, felled with a brickbat, and afterward had her throat cut. A terrible strug gle must have taken place, as bloo?I was found on the ground in several different places, and in spite of the rain which has fallen since Saturday night a week ago, when the murder is supposed to have occurred, there were marks in the sand near the bank of the stream and on the sward, which showed that the victim made a vigor ous resistance. The deceased had been living in Jacksonville moat of her life, though she was a native of Bryan county, Ga. She was 29 years old. There ia no clew to the murderer. DEADLY ARSENIC SPRINGS. Over Four Hundred Poisoned by Drinking the Water. San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 8.—Relia ble information has reached here of trouble and destruction of life at Ma- pini, Mexico, by the breaking forth of arsenic springs in the mountains near the city. The waters of the springs have united with those of the springs which supply the city with drinking water and the distributing reservoir Is thoroughly impregnated with arsen ic. As a result, 30 are dead and over 400 are seriously 111. Those nearest the reservoir seemed to get the full benefit of the deadly poison and lived only a short time. This is the first information officially received of the matter, and It was some time before the correct source of the poison was ascertained. By that time, hundreds were ill all over the city, as if the place was stricken by a plague, and physicians were wired for from all the surrounding mining camps and towns. Even when the source of poisoning was discovered, some time was requir ed to ascertain the exact cause, such a thing as natural spring arsenic was never dreamed of before. The citi zens are now suffering for want of water. BOY'S TERRIBLE DEATH. Nephew of Senator Pritchard Dies of Hydrophobia. Asheville, N. C., Sept. 8.—A little more than three weeks ago young Willie Harris, nephew of Senator Pritchard, was seriously bitten by a mad dog. The child was speedily taken to the Pasteur institute, New York city, by his father, J. T. Harris. At first diagnosis the case was pronounced almost without hope, but for 23 days everything possible was done to re lieve the child. At the expiration of this time the case was decided to be hopeless, and the sorrowing father dc- parted for home. On the return trip the effect of the opiates wore off and the little victim went into the most horrible convulsions. Doctors had to be called In at several stations to ad minister hypodermics. Passengers say the scene was heartrending when the weeping father had to use all hie strength to control the boy suffering in the horrible convulsions that at tend hydrophobia. He died Saturday afternoon and woe buried at Marshall, N. C. Profsssionhl Whistler In Choir. Chicago, Sept. 8.—The Innovation of a professional whistler In church has attracted to the vesper service of the South Congregational church a crowd that filled every seat of the auditori um and overflowed Into the vestibule. Carriages stopped on the boulevard, and passers-by waited outside the doors. Three numbers were render ed by Robert Chisholm Bain-—Rubin stein’s “Voices from the Wood#;” Lassen's “The Loving Votes of Jesus," and “The Holy City." M*. R. H. Blake, the chairman of the church committee of music, was highly plsased with the result. CHETE-A-POROT REGASOED AS PIRATE Sinking of Firrninist Gunboat by German Vessel. REPORT .OF MARINE MINISTRY. Haitien Provisional Government In- Forms Germany that Interests of Haiti Are Untouched by Action of Panther In Sinking Gunboat Berlin, Sept. 8.—The German for eign office informs the Associated Press that the Haytien. provisional government has communicated to Ger- many that Haiti regarded the Firm- inist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot as a pi rate and that the interests of Haiti were untouched by the action of the German gunboat Panther in sinking the Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance of the harbor of Gonaives. The marine ministry' has given out the following official report of the sinking of the Firrninist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot: “Captain Eckerman, of the Panther, had received orders to capture the pi ratical gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot. TEe Panther went from Port-an-Prince to Gonaives, where it completely surpris ed the Crete-a-Pierrot. The German commandant sent the following ulti matum: “‘Strike your colors within 5 min utes and disembark from your ship and make no defensive measures what ever, or otherwise immediate attack will follow.’ ‘‘The Panther had already cleared for action. The Crete-a-Pierrot haul ed down her Hag within the allotted time and the crew disembarked. The Panther then intended to take the Crete-a-Pierrot in tow, but an explo sion of her after powder magazine soon occurred, which evidently was af fected by the Crete-a-Pierrot’s crew. The explosion destroyed her stern and set the vessel on fire, rendering the towing of the vessel impossible, especially as further explosions fol lowed. As this was regarded as a hostile act and as the guns afore were still in condition, the Panther’s cap- tain caused the forward magazine to be exploded through a cannonade. Af ter this was exploded the Crete-a^Pier- rot bh>ke up and sank. The admiral was on board with the rebels. Gon aives is in the hands of the rebels.” ENGLISH PAPERS CO MM E-NT. Some Think Crets-a-Pierrot Affair May Prove Controversial. London, Sept. 8.—A few of the after noon papers, in commenting on the subject, seem to anticipate that the sinking of the Firrninist gunboat Crete- a^Pierrot by the German gunboat Pan ther at the entrance of Gonaives har- lx>r may prove controversial. “So summary a revenge for a breach of inter-oceanic courtesy,” says The St. James Gazette, “is like breaking the frailest butterfly on the largest wheel Supposing the butterfly’s big neighbor takes a hand in the game, matters may become almost serious.” The Westminster Gazette, speculat ing on the matter, holds that nothing in Monroeism prevents a big conti nental power from boxing the ears of a troublesome boy on the other hem isphere, so long as the big boy does not proceed to eat or otherwise annex i-e small one. PICKETS ASSAIL ITALIANS. Mistaken For Nonunion Men—Brains of One Beaten Out Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 8.—Two Ital ian striking miners, named Frank Portay and Sistino Vancostello, left their homes in Swoyersvllle, near here, this morning to go on a hunting trip. As they approached the Hany E. colliery they were held up by the pickets who mistook them for armed nonunion men going to work. The pickets at once attacked the Italians. Vancostello was shot in the leg and his brains beaten out with stones and clubs. His companion, Portay, was knock ed down, his gun taken away from him and then his assailants beat him with clubs so that his life Is despair- ea of. Sheriff Jacobs and a large number of deputies went to the scene. The friends of the dead Italians have sworn vengeance and threaten to kill the men who committed the assault on their countrymen. Mine Fire Under Control. Bramwell, Pa., Sept. 8.—Fire In the went mine of the Pocahontaa collier- lers company is practically extinguls li ed. The company has offered $1,0111) reward for Information that will lead to tha identity of the parties who set fire to the mine. Italians on Strike. Welch, W. Va., Sept. 8.—More than 100 Italian stonecutters, working on new ovens for tha United States Steel corporation, are on a strike today. They demand the ro-instatemant of certain men discharged on Saturday. Sir Augustus Bsll Dsad. London, Sept. 8.—Sir Frederick Au gustus A. Bell, honorary secretary and director of the Imperial Institute, and former president of the British associ ation, the Iron and Steel institute, director of the Imperial Institute, and Chemistry and Scientific Bodies, Is dead. He vee born in 18S6. Pants, Shirts, Collars or a good Suit or Cap. We ha/e them and hope you will call. :::::: Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co. The Boat’s I^riends. GOOD NEWS ...OF... NEW GOODS. There s no money in politics save for a few, but in our great bargains there’s money for you. Our Fall and Winter Goods have been coming in for some time and we now have one of the largest, nicest and best quality lines of Men’s, Youth’s and Boys’ Clothing ever shown in this city. Our stock of Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishings is complete in every detail, and we can please you both in price and quality. Here’s a Trade Tonic 350 Boy’s Suits from 75c to $2.50. 600 pairs Men’s Pants from 75c to $5. —everything else in proportion. In shoes and Hats we have anything that the most fastidious buyer could desire, all marked with prices that are bound to move them. Aside from these leading lines our stock of new goods consists of Ladies' and Gent’s Underwear, Ladies' Ready-made Skirts and Shirt Waists, Men’s Shirts (all grades from $1,50 down to 25c), Neckwear, Suspenders, Ladies’ Hosiery and Notions of all kinds. The “World’s Beauty” Suspender and Belt Combined —Nothing like it ever shown in Gaffney— We Have It. Also a big lot of.... SPECIALLY MADE OVERALLS ....Nothing in the State like them^ Call and inspect our different lines; seeing is believing, and we’ll convince you that it will be to your advantage to give ug your trade. The Red, White and Blue Store J. M. NELSON, Propr. Next to Carroll, Carpenter & Byers. hlaTvtd XT Seen the Buck’s Junior Range on display at our store — Have you registered your name at our store Are you getting ready to bake biscuit at our store on September 1 8th We furnish all material. Mothers and friends are invited to see how well the little ones can operate one of those famous BUCK’S RANGES Work hard, little girls, it is worth more than your time to try for one of these handsome stoves. Our stoves will arrive this week— ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO (152) i Don’t fail to see us before buying. ML, B