The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 09, 1902, Image 3
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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.
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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.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Much valuable information;
mailed free to any address upon
application to agents Southern
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W. H. Taylor,
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Atlanta, Ga.
R. W. Hunt,
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J. C. Beam,
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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.
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or a good Suit or Cap.
We ha/e them and hope you
will call. ::::::
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The Boat’s I^riends.
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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
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The Red, White and Blue Store
J. M. NELSON, Propr.
Next to Carroll, Carpenter & Byers.
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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—
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Don’t fail to see us before buying.
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