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THE LARGEST 'Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEEKL'S—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wfc GUARANTEfc t he Reliability of Every Adve' - 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. f ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, t8»4 HAFFNEY, S. O., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of P issing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. I£v«ntri that Hu, j Takaii Place f.*oni Oue Kntl of tlie KUiti; to the Other Called from KxehaugeK for (juick Reading; l.y Scores of filmy People. Thu gold medal awarded tba Spar tanburg gradod echoi ls for the finest school efibibit at the Charleston exno- sitioo, has been ordered from the Gor ham company in New York and will be received there on l eb. loth. A large ice factory, with a capacity Of one hundred tons per day, is to he 'ocatedin Charleston (jeorge Arthur, formerly-of (Sac Francisco, is at the head of the new enterprise ami is now in that city inspecting several availa ble sites. Constable Bateman Saturday after noon seized 1UK)gallons of corn whis key at the Southern railway depot in Columbia The whiskey was from Salisbury. Y. C., and was in TjAj kegs of o gallons each. It was coneigned to parties in Columbia but under fictitious names. John Sides, colored, who, while scorching aiong a street in Orange burg some time ago, ran over a little girl and broke her arm, was convicted of assault and batt ery of a high and aggravated nature in the sessions court last week and sentenced to the chaingang for throe years or to pay a fine ol $150. Fire was discoyerad Friday night about 10:15 o’clock in the Wigington Iron Works atPeidmont. A desperate effort was made to save something of the machinery, toole or material, but the flames had made such headway that nothing could be done, only the tools and a few pieces of office furni ture being saved. The loss is esti mated at $4000; insurance $1000. Saturday Gov. Heyward granted bis first pardon. It was in the case of Robert Boyd convicted of grand lar ceny in Clarendon county and sen tenced to eighteen months on the county chaingang. He hud served twelve months of his lerm. The prose cutors and the attending physicians asked that the man be pardoned inas much as he is in a pitiable phycical condition. D. J. McAlister, of Seneca, while at work as a section band on the .South ern read, was struck Friday afternoon by train No. 81 a freight. He re ceived a painful wound on the head and also hud several wounds on his body. His left leg was also broken. As he made an efiort to clear the track the engine struck him. it is thought that the wound on the head will not prove fatal. A special from Georgetown says late •Friday afternoon the schooner Minne haha, about GO tons, from Charleston, loaded with coal to bo delivered to the United States government at North Island, sprung a leak and sank about one mile east of the bend of the north jet.ty at the eutranco to Winyah Bay, about one-seventh mile south of it, in about 2G feet of water at low tide. No lives were lost. McHenry it Morton, I’hiladelphia contractors, are tearing down three of the main buildings at the .Exposition grounds in Charleston. A force was put to wort this week on the agri cultural building. The Cotton Palace will be torn down next and afterward the contractors will tackle the Palace of Commerce. Mr. McHenry says that it will take until the first of April to finish the job. Eugene P. Smith, of the Florence Steam Uiundry, has gone to Columbia to appear before the committee of the legislature in regard to a bill intro duced by Florence county’s delegation levying a tax on laudnry agents repre senting laundries out of the state who solicit business in this state and who cut of! the revenue of the laundries in the state that have to pay siata and county taxes and license. The^overnor has appointed the f ol- lowing delegates to attend the Inter- nat'ouul Good Roads Conference to be held in Detroit, Mich.* on February 13 14: F. H. Hyatt, Columbia; W. A. Dowling, Darlington; J. E. Kpigel, Greenville; H. W. Mitchell. CburloH- ton; T. J. Moore, Spartanburg; J. F. Bate, Laurens; P. C. Johnson, Jr., George s; C. R. Burns, WalhalU; B. R. Mullins, Charleston, and J. L. G. White, Chester. . % The trial of Ulysses Campbell, col ored, in Greenville, for the murder o) Blanche Dial, colored, which took 1 place last fall in the Fork« restaurant in that city, was the principal attrac tion on Thursday and occupied the attention of the court for several boars. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in about ao hour after leav- acd the court room, and the cour.t sen tenced Campbell to be hung on Fri day, 27th (Tl February, wnich is the date assigned for the hanging of Joe Keenan. Mi. R. JU^Broach, df the Hyman- ville section of Florence county, was found dying in the road near his home last Monday. About 9 o’clock in the morning Mr. Broach went into the woods to cut timber and in cutting a tree a limb fell hitting him on the forehead and killed him. He was found by his oldest son about 2 o’clock in toe afternoon, who becom ing apprehensive about his father’s staying out so late, had gone ki search of him. He was living when found but not conscious. He died about live minutes after he was found. Robert McAlister, alias Luther Hardwick, charged with committing a forgery in Greenville waived a pre liminary hearing when he was taken before a magistrate in that city and his case went before the grand jury, where a true bill was found against him very speedily. It was a plain case, and the proof wag clear and em phatic that he had forged a check for $375 purporting to he signed by Simp son and Long, merchants at Pei-dmont, which he passed uponC. H. .Mahon, of Greenville. He entered a plea of guilty anri was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and servo five years iu the penitentiary. At the point of a pistol Southern Express Messenger Holliday of the Greenville express office was forced to give up his express pouch Fiiduy morning at 2:15. Holliday was oc cupying his usual position on the rear of the express wagon which was re turning from the Air Line depot, hav ing met passenger train No. 35, due there at 1:30 While the wagon was passing through a dark portion of Washington street some unknown party suddenly appeared in front of Mr. Holliday with bis pistol drawn and demanded bis pom-h. Holliday could do notiiing hut give it up. The pouch contained nothing but a few papers. THINGS THEATRICAL. WORK DONE BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Wliat is AVoIhk m U « Local TJieatricuJ | WorU*. The Southern Comedy Co. closed their engagement at the Star Theatre on Saturday night luot, playing to a fair sized audience. The company deserve great commendation; it is a pleasure to meet such a clever, ’oily set of people. The Rumley sisters are an exceed ingly graceful pair of singers and dadeers. Their cake walk act is one of the most artistic dainty hits of acting imaginable.' Mr. Geo. W. Devere, a comedian of national repu tation, joined the show on Thursday last, and made an immediate hit. Mr. Devere is a sure cure for the blues. Mr Jeif Robinson was the lucky holder of the coupon that drew the large silver set the Southern Comedy Co gave away on Saturday night. This company will appear at the Blacksburg Opera House all this week, beginning tonight. This is an opportunity for the people of Blacks burg to set. a high-class, refined vau deville show, at moderate prices. ‘ Folks up Willow Creek," a thril ling tnelo drama, was the attraction at Blacksburg last night, acted by the Frank Davidson Co. in a pleasing manner. The house was comforta bly filled and all left well pleased. Manager Osborne is giving the Blacksburg people the best of attrac tions, and deserves the generous sup port that is being accorded him. lie is an able, clever and accommodating gentleman. May ho ever prosper. pi Caution! This is not a gentle word—but when you think how liable you are not to purchase the only remedy univer sally known and a remedy that has had the largest sale of any medicine in the world since 18G8 for the cure and treatment of Consumption and Throat and Lung troubles withoi t losing its great popularity all those years, you will be thankful we called your attention to Boschee’s German 8yrup. There are so many ordinary cough remedies made by druggists and others that are cheap and good for light colds perhaps, but for severe Coughs, Bronchitis, Croup—and es pecially for Consumption, where there is difficult expectoration and cough ing during the nights and mornings, there is nothing like German Syrup The 25 cent size has just been intro duced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all druggist. G. G. Gkkkn, Woodbury, N. J. —The most up-to-date line of neck wear that has ever been shown In Gaffney can be seen in J. C. Lip scomb <fc Co.’e show window. The irices are very popular. 4 —Honey Comb Candy (a delicious monfectlon), for sale only at Lipscomb p Richardson’s. Good Progress Made in Dis posing of Business. THE TOY PISTOL MUST GO. Semcto ra»SFH Hill Fixing i>ate of I’iiyiiu-nl of Tiixan—Coiii|iiilKory FCucat inn ItiK Ooc-s Through—Winthrop H.'-hohii-Hhip In- creuaed to !$l oo. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) OoLimmA, Feb. 2—As today is salesday and the lawyers in the legis lature whose name is legion, al| de sire to be at their respective county seats, neither house met todav. The house of representatives will meet at 8 o’clock tonight and the senate ut noon tomorrow. The general assembly on the whole i» pretty well along with its work for alirst session. The senate bus made particularly good progress in disuos- i:ig of some of the most important measures. Not only the biennia! ses sions bill and the child labor bill but the compulsory education bill is out of the way. But the house has not touched any of these questions, de voting its time so far principally to the road law and county government matters and local measures. Both housee devoted their Saturday ses sions to clearing the calendars of un- eontested and local hills. The compulsory education hill passed !.») the senate r qtires The at. tenuanco ai some schuoi of ail child ren between 8 and 12 years of age un less prevented by illness or residence more than 2 miles from a school house. The penalty imposed cn parents and guardians for noticompliance with thG law i« to be a floe of not less than $5 nor more than $20. This measure provoked much discussion in the sen ate and will elicit, still more vigorous debate iu the house, with considerable doubt of its passage. The senate lias passed a biil pio- posed by Senator Stanrilaud prohihit- ing*the use of toy pistols, except those us;ng paper caps, the measure being inspired by the numerous accidents, several fatal, which have resulted from careless handling of these toys. A biil introduced by Senator Blake fixing the time for payment of taxes and the penalties thereon has also passed the senate. The biil provides that ail State and county taxes and all taxes collected when state and county taxes are collected, shall bo due and payaole from the 15th day of October to and including the 31st day of December of each and every year, and if .such taxes and assessments are not paid on or before said time, a penalty of five per centum thereon shall be added by the county auditor on the county duplicate and collected by the coun'y treasurer; and if the said taxes and assessments and penal ties are not paid on or before the 31st day of March next Thereafter, the said county treasurer shall issue his tax execution for the said taxes and pen alties, against the defaulting tax payer, according to law. Mr Hydrick’s joint resolution to extend the tim i f it the payment of taxes without penalty unliil March 31 1903, has been read the second time, hut promises to develop op position when it comes up Tuesday for a final reading. Many senators express themselves openly that the people are expecting the time to be extended and its passage will relieve the complicated condition of the pres ent tax books .without injury to the people or the .State. The house has given a good deal of time to the road law. The general law now in operation causes dissatisfac tion since the conditions i:i different sections of the State are so different ;* the upcountry counties with white population desiring a few days road duty and a higher commutation tax and the low-country counties with negro population wanting more days with a lower tax. The constitutional provision against special legislation prevents the passage of measures suited to each county, as the law on this as other subjects has to apply to all the counties alike. To circum vent this provision a number ol bills nave been proposed, and the consti tutionality of each has been attacked. The bill which was passed provides that instead of "eight bays if so many bo neccessary,” the law shall read "not less than three nor more than eight," to be regulated by the county commissioners, and iu lieu thereof the commutation tax instead of being fixed at $1 shall not be "less than $1 nor more than $3." There were a number of good speeches made. One feature of the debate was the opposition to taxing boys of 18 to 21 years when they have no voice in matters of Btate. While several of the best lawyers In the bouse contend that this meas ure is constitutional, others bold the opposite view, and so Mr. Wingo and Mr. De Bruhl have each introduced a resolution submitting an amend ment to the constitution so as to per mit special legislation on the matter of working the roads and fixing the commutation tax according to the needs and desires of every county. The house has passed a bill raising the value of scholarships in Winthrop from $11 to $100. The house has killed Mr. Hinton’s bill to devote all the dispensary profits to the public schools. Numerous measures of local impor tance only and a lot of others seeking to amend the statutes, none of which will ever be heard of, are on the calen dar of each house and will be passed or rejected without much discussion. It takes time however, to dispose of business of that sort, and hence much of the most important work of the general assembly is of this non spec tacular character. Jas. A. Hoyt, Ju. ANNUAL TABERNACLE. Will Titlir rii.ee in Atlanta Feb.'ilth Fuller Direction of Kev. I.eu. O. Rrmif-hton. The annual March Tabernacle Bible Conference, Rev. Len. G. Broughton, founder and director, takes place at the Baptist, tabernacle, Atlanta, Geor gia, beginning Friday night, Febru ary 27th, and closing Sunday night, March 8th. There will be six sessions each day. The regular speakers are: Rev. G. Campbell Moriran, Northfield, Mass. Rev. Elmore Harris, D. 1)., president Toronto Bible and Mission ary Training School, Toronto,Canada ; Rev. John Balcom Snaw, I) D., pas tor Presbyterian church. New York; Rev. Emory Hunt, 1). D.. nresident I)rni-o University Ohio; Rev I)-. Georg - ft.**-, .-viutli Ainca; Evange list A. 1*. Fitt, president Moody Insti tute, Chicago Evangelist Robt. Mil ler, Georgia; Mr. W. It. Moody, di rector of Narthlield Schools and Bible Conference. Other speakers will give ad-dresses on special lines during the Conference. This year there will be a Musical Institute conducted each day by Prof D. B. Towner, at 3 o’clock. Prof. Towner is the teacher of music in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and conducts an Institute in connection with the Northfield Bible Conference. At the Baptist Tabernacle Bible Con ference he will treat of the relation of music to the church services; the kind ; of music most helpful; gospel hymns, gospel singing; the conduct of music in prayer meeting and Sunday schools; the organization and conduct of choirs; the interpretations of hymns, vocal culture; the proper use of the voice in singing and speaking. Prof. Towner will also have charge of the singing for the conference. Spec ial Bible classes will be taught at 9 o’clock each day in the lecture room by Mr. A. P. Fitt, president Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and Evangelist Robt. Miller, of Geor gia. Mr. Fitt will illustrate Bible methods of study, and Mr. Miller will expound prophecy. Every arrangement will be made to secure cheap board and lodging. The railroads will sell reduced rate tickets on the certificate plan. SaleHiIay. Yesterday was the second saiesday in 1903. The day was cloudy and damp and there was a large and or derly crowd in the city and business was apparently good. • The following public sales were made: clkrk’s bales. Lot No. 1, D. I). Gaston land, 170 acres, to D. D. Gaston for $2 550. Lot No. 2,1 70 acres, to same $500. H. M. Turner land, 56 acres, Robt. Reason and J. I. Surratt $100. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From £he Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. for * to for A Hoy Kidnapped. It has just become generally known that about th^ first of December a North Carolina wagoner induced a small negro boy to leave this city with him, and, as is supposed, carried him to his home. The parents of the boy are much distressed at their loss and will be thankful for any information con cerning him. They think the man who carried their boy away lives in Polk county, N C. The name of the parents from whom the boy was stolen is Bank- head. You May Not Kxpect Good bread these cold mornings if your flour is- of the spasmodic sort, that only "works by spells." You can’t be certain, you don’t know what to depend on. "Clifton" flour will bake to your entire satisfaction, day in and day out. It is not the best flour today and the next best to morrow. It is the best all the time and people who buy ‘'Clifton" know it. All grocers sell it. —The whole town Is ,'going wild over the new Honey Comb Candy (a delicious coufection) for sale only at Lipscomb and Richardson’s. InterrHUiiK Items Concerning Our Neigh bors ISeyoud the.Line Which May Prove Kutertainlng Reading for lliiinlretls of Ledger Readers. The store of Mr. W. G Shoemaker, at the conn r of Xurth Davidson and Fifteenth streets in Charlotte, was entered by robbers Friday night and the safe rifled of $250 in cash and a gold watch worth $25. « Thomas Harton, a brother of the Harton in the Rutherfordton com pany of the Spanish American war, took a bale of cotton belonging to his mother to Forest City last Thurs day and sold it. He pocketed- the money, left the team at Forest City, and disappeared. Two large safes in the store of Heath, Barrett it Grier at Matthews, Mecklenburg county, were blown open at I o’clock Sunday morning and all the money in the safe was taken. How much money was tak >n is not known at present, though the amount was certainly over $100. Copper has been discowred on the upper waters of the Big Ivy creek in Buncombe count)’, and large rain ing enterprises to develop it have been projected. It is understood ft-at represen* ‘• ‘ ■! >f •_» can- - have i, | i traci w oi !ut)d up , vvinco tt.e Rod is located. The residence of Mr. George F. Webstre. u farmer who lives in the Turn Out neighborhood of Robeson county, a few miles south of Moxtou, was destroyed by fire late Friday af ternoon. He had no insurance and •comparatively nothing was saved. I he fire is supposed to have originat ed from a defective stove flue. Policemen M. E Crowell, R.. H. Shields and J. D. Johnston of Char lotte will sue the Seaboard Air Line Company for $5 0(K) damages each for personal injury received by them in aa accident about two months ago. They have retained us counsel Messrs. Heriot Clerkson, F. R. Mc- Ninch and J. D. McCall, of that city. While going over the old county books and papers and destroying those of no further service, Mr. C. M. Lynch, of Rutherfordton, last Friday found an old counterfeit $20 bill, one which couid not he detected by one man out of a hundred. The bill was found in an old letter from the Char lotte National Bank to Judge M. H. J ustice. A special term of the District Court will be held in Charlotte begining March 9th, for the purpose of trying Willian E. Breese, Joseph E. Dick erson and William 11. Penlaud. who are charged with embezzling funds from the First National Bunk of Ashe ville. Two former trials of Breese resulted in mistrials, the last trial being held in this city. Mr. O. R. McLeod, of Robeson county, died Friday^ morning at 8:05 o’clock at Davidson. It will be re membered that Mr. McLeod, a stud ent in the North Carolina Medical College, at Davidson, was poisoned, while in the dissecting room about tw'o weeks ago. Everything wasdono for the unfortunate young man that could,be, but without avail. About six o’clock Thursday morn ing, east of Marion, at the intersec tion of the Three C’s and the South ern roads, an engine and caboose were wrecked by jumping the track. The engine and tender went thirty feet down an|embankment. The con ductor and the engineer were not hurt. The flagman and fireman were slightly hurt. Bunks C. Carrick, a brakeman, was caught under the en gine and killed. The latter’s home IsJLinwood, near Salisbury. Thursday morning at about six o’clock some one entered the home of Mr Dave - Williams, of Caroleen, and secured $37 65 from a trunk. Mr. Williams had gone to his w’ork, and Mrs. Williams, who was in the kitchen, heard some one in the house and as she opened the kitchen door she saw a man going outjthe front door. Before she could give the alarm the man had made good his es cape. Bloodhounds were put on the track, but to no advantage. A young white manof Wadesboro, who was beating his way on the Sea board’s passenger train No. 41 Sat urday evening, lost his leg as the re sult of a very daring act He was Riding on the blind baggage. When the train was near Lilesville, in \nson county, he decided that he wanted it to stop, and he cut the engine loose from the mail car. The engine went on for a short distance before return ing. and the sudden break threw the hobo under thfi mail car, which ran tar enough ahead to crush one of his legs so badly that it had to be ampu tated. the newest concerns for is the Cuba Advertising One of Asheville company, whose headquarters will be located in that city. This new company^proposes to operate a Cuba K illing Exposition car to be known as "Cuba on Wheels." This rolling exposition will exhibit at the Kt. Louis exposition during 1904 and then travel all States in the Union for ten years. It will start early in May. Sheriff N. W. Wallace of Charlotte reports that he has at the present time 33 prisoners for trial at the criminal term of the Superior Court which will convene in that city on the 9th inst. Three of these are to be tried for murder: Arthur',L. Bishop, for killing Thomas Wilson; John Carter, colored, for the murder of his wife, and John Dodd, also col ored, for killing a negro woman sev eral months ago. The case of the State vs. J. D. Broadaway and Lee Broadaway was heard before ’Squire I. H. Horton of Wadesboro Friday. This is a case of much interest to the people of tbe upper section of the county, and is an indictment for the slander of Mrs. Mary Broadaway, a sister-in-law of the defendants. The hearing of the case was concluded late Friday after noon and J. D. Broadaway was bound over to court and the case dismissed as to Lee Broadaway. ETTA JANE LETTER. SlckneHH In the County—Complaint About price of T'Y’-t(Mzern- Other Notes. ii’oii(“siioi of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Jan. 31.—Your corres pondent feels very little like writing this a. rn., in consequence of the shaking up he got in contending with a hud road yesterday, of which it is not necessary to speak in this con nection, lest we cause some reflection on others. We are sorry to hear of the serious illness of Mrs. John A. Hames, of Gowdysville. Hhe is one of our most highly respected ladies. From what we learn she cannot possibly live. We understand she has that most dreadful disease, pneumonia. hum J, Strain has been on the sick list for a day or two Several of our geople went to Gaff ney this week to get chemicals with which to put up their guano. They haven t hit it yet in making their fertilizers at home. The general complaint is that the commercial fertilizers are too high for the amount of good they do under the most favorable circumstances. Our thanks are due our ever vigi lant member of congress, Hon. D. E. l inley, for various congressional documents sent us from time to time, including the congressional daily re cords. One thing we note with much pleasure,and that is there isn’t a man upon the floor of congress who answers roll call with more regular ity than I). E. Finley. This s'.ows that he 1b at his post all the time. The U. 8 pension list is the biggest thing we notice. We of the south boast of the pluck of our Confederate soliders, and the hard fighting they did. VV e had in round numbers from lirst to Just 600,000 men in the various armies of the military ser vice, including those who were in so-called ♦‘‘bomb proofs," which would doubtless amount to 60,000, or one-tenth of the whole. Certamly it was not less than 50,000, leaving* 550,000 to do the fighting. From these figures It would seem that every Confederate soldier either kill- ed or wo laded two men apiece. There are several cases of mumps, on the other side of the river. We understand that Miss Leech, of Hickory Grove, will teach the Sunny- side school which ha a been suspended for some time. Mr. f. Jeff Hughes passed hero yesterday on his way to York county to buy chickens for Ms Union trade. We understand that there is a move on foot to start another news paper in Gaffney. This is all right if people will take hold of it and support It. But we are inclined to think the experiment may turn out as did that of Rev. James Russell, when (through his influence, most if not entirely) thirteen members of one already weak church drew off and organized another. "Uncle Sile" Estes told him, in speaking of the matter, "Now. you have two babies end nobody to take care of either of them and both of them are likely to|pefish." "Uncle Sile" don't speak often but what he says something. We have just received a letter from Uucle Jimmy’’ Rains, of Palmyra, V a. He wishes to be remembered to The Ledger force, as well as to all his South Carolina friends. j. l. s. cotton seed hulls —Will deliver aud meal in lota. J. C. Lipscomb A Co.