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THE LARGEST ‘circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEESLY- -PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE rhe 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 UAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, FEBKUAKY 24, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE * PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. tfveutit Unit Have Taken 1’lace from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchangei* for (Jah k Heading by Scores of Bmty People. Buroey Glenn of Union has been confined lo his room for 11 years with rheumatism. Mr Glenn was once a county commissioner for Union coun ty a nd was a soldier in the var. The seiretary of state today issued a charter to the Rock Hill private hospital, which will have a capital of $6,000. Among the directors are Dr. Gil Wylie, of New York, and Drs. A. S. Lynn, W. G. Htevens and J. R. Mil ler, of Rock Hill. Mr. S. L. Miller, of Columbia, has presented to the King’s Mountain Military Academy in Yorkville a handsome gold medal to be won by the best drilled cadet of the corps. The right to the medal is to be deter mined by quarterly contests. Edgar Donald, who was injured in the cyclone at Honea Bath Monday afternoon, has rallied and physicians express hope that he will recover. One leg will be amputated but it is thought that the other, as well as the broken arms, will koit together satis factorily. Governor Heyward has issued a re quisition on the governor of North Carolina for Sam Watkins, a negro, who committed murder in Marlboro in 1891 and escaped. He was recent ly located in Wilmington, N. C., and Sheriff J no. B Green, of Marlboro, has been named as the state’s agent. At a dance at Clark’s Hal! in Col- '-umbia Thursday night the dress of a ycung girl caught on fire and her clothes were completely burned off of her. Strang* to say, the young lady’s body vas not much i*ij:ired by the flames She was wrapped in rugs and taken home, laughing gayiy at her strange costume. The Gluck mills at Anderson has received its charter and tue directors have called a meeting of the stock holders for March 10, at which time four additional directors will he elect ed and the site of the mill determin ed. Then the work on this big mill will begin as soon as the building materials can be secured. ^ Contractor Hughes, who is engaged in the work of building the new dou ble track to the Spartanburg June tion, had a leg broken Thursday in a peculiar manner. By the sudden jumping forward of one of a pair of mules attached to a plow, the double tree flew suddenly backwards, strik ing Mr. Hughes on the leg. Under jhe act of the general as sembly appropriating $20,000 for the erection of an equestrian statue to the late Wade Hampton, the appro priation becnmingavailable when $10.- 000 has been raised by suoscription from the citizens, Governor Heyward has appointed the legislative members of the monument commission. There was a bad wreck on the Sea board near Cheraw Saturday. A freight train which was presumably running at a good rate of speed suc ceeded in leaving the track and smashing sixteen loaded box and Hat cats. They were badly mixed up and twisted. No one was hurt in the wr.-ck but the track was completely blocked. A wrecking crew went from Columbia to assist in clearing the road. Ike Rankin, a negro traveling about the county on foot, carrying a valise which contained two 38 calibre pis tols, a box of cartridges, four knives and a country cured ham, was arrest ed Saturday morning near BJling-^ Springs by Mr. John W. Nolen, and lodged In the Spartanburg jail. The ham in the valise was stolen from a mao at Boiling Springs the night be fore, and Ike will be tried for house breaking. A suit for $20,000 damages has been brought by Saul Bowman of Charleston against the proprietor of the animal show which has been fill ing a protracted engagement in Char leston. Mr. Bowman is the father of young Reymood Bowman, who was recently so severely bitten by a leo pard which is exhibited as a part of the show’s menagerie. The boy will recover, but for a time bis life was despaired of. Sheriff Dull, who came from Micbi- , gan for Smith, under arrest in Char leston and wanted in Michigan for bigamy, is still in Columbia. It was expected that the proper requisition papers from Gov. Bliss would reach Columbia Saturday, but they have evidently been delayed on the snow bound roads. In the meantime Sher iff Dull has to wait until they come as Smith declines to go without them. Smith is being held by the sheriff of Charleston county by direction of the governor. The habeas corpus proceedings in the Smith bigamy case were heard Thursday at Charleston before Re corder Jervey and Judge Memminger, the state being represented by John P. Grace and the defendant by G. H. Momeler, and R. C. Merritt. The question of law in the case was dis cussed at some length by both sides, the defense claiming that the arrest had not been made in accordance with the law and the state’s attorney claiming that the arrest was made in a legal way. Mr. C. S. May’s residence in Rock Hill had a narrow escape from des truction by fire Thursday morning between 12 and 1 o’clock. Mr. May was awakened by the furious barking of his dog, a faithful Mastiff, ami at that time his room was filled with smoke and he was stifled almost be yond breathing Making his way out of the house, he awakened his uncle, S. T. Frew, living next door, and has tening to the threatened home, they located the fire in another room. They wont to work and put it out be fore the building had been injured. A trial of unusual interest was con cluded at Lexington court house Thursday afternoon. R. W. McDan iel, a representative young business man, well connected, was tried for killing John L. Neect-, policeman, at Swansea, where the killing occurred. Mr. McDaniel was shooting firearms on Christmas Eve when Policeman Neece attempted to stop him. An altercation ensued, and during the struggle McDaniel shot his antagon ist with his, Neece’s, pistol. The plea of accidental shooting was made by the defense and the case was stub bornly contested. A verd'et of mur der with a recommendation to mercy was rendered by the jury. Atteution, Frleml* of tlie LOImiry. All of the friends of the public li brary who intend to present hooks are earnestly urged to deliver these dona tions to the librarian Miss Munro, at the Association's room, in the new City Hali, on or before the first of March. The Book Committee is ex tremely anxious to forward an order for new volumes, immediate!} after the above mentioned date, and to avoid purchasing duplicates it is im portant to know whit is to be receiv ed in the way of gifts. Cannot our Blacksburg neighbors come over, join the Associati m and bring us some books? We hope that Major Jones, always public spirited, and Rev. G. Croft Williams will exert themselves in this direction. Hon. William Jef. feries, Hon C. W. Wnisonaut, T. M. Littlejohn E-q., Captain J. J Mag- ness, Mr. M. C Lipscomb, Alfred Harris Esq., Mr. Jno D. Jefferies Jr., Capt. M. M. Tate, Mr. John Hamee, Mr. J. M. Swoiford, Capt. Love, Cap tain C. B. Foster, Col. Isias M. Smith, Mr Wilkes Brown, all men of influence in their communities, might be of valuable assistance in se*uring us some hooks. Help along the good work and let the books be delivered at once. He Took French Leave. Saturday evening the police arrest ed Wils Lipscomb, a negro for bring drunk and disorderly and placed him in the new city prison in the city hall building. As his offence was not very grave, he was not placed in the steel cells but was allowed to r< main in the carrider of the prison, which gave him access to the outer barred win dows and not relishing the prospect ive punishment, which he knew from experience, he would get when he went before the Mayor yesterday morning he concluded Sunday night not to appear, and securing a piece of iron piping, which had been left in the prison when it was finished a few weeks ago he prized the bars out of the window and made his escape. If Wils will stay away the city will be amply remunerated for the sum it will have to pay for repairing the prison. Service* at I’renOyterlaii Church. Last Sabbath at the Presbyterian church the following named gentle men were ordained and installed as deacons: Dr. Park Thompson, Mess. B. T. Porter, J. F. Finckon, Henry A. Killian. These brethren will be quite an addition to the board of deacons A large congregation was present. Most excellent music was rendered by the choir, in which the congrega tion joined. The church is much pleased with the new hymnal. The pastor discussed some points touching the office of deacon, namely : It’s origin, nature, duties, qualifica tions and reward. The Ladies Aid Missionary Society will meet at the residence of the pas tor today (Tuesday) at 4 p. m. All the ladies of the church invited. City Taxes. The time for paying city taxes witbout|penalty expires next Tuesday, the 3rd of March. LAST DAYS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMCLY, Work Completed and Houses Adjourned Saturday. WORK DONE AND RESULTS Tirtuiilly Cou>|iletc<l l>y Friritty but Necessity of FiiKroHHiiif; Caused Delay In AdjourniiiK—Over One Thousand Hill* In troduced—Suuiiuury of SeHHion'K Work. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Columbia, S. C., Feb. 23 —It is no easy matter for a legislature to adjourn Our general assembly tried to do so from Friday to 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. All the work was virtually com pleted by Friday, the various amend ments to the more important bills were nearly all agreed upon, the con ference committees had very little trouble in reaching an agreement and yet adjournment was not reached. The delay was, as usual, caused by the necessity to engross every act in the exact foim in which it passes and is ratified. This means that every bill must be copied by hand after all amendments have been inserted and then signed in joint session by the lieutenant governor and the speaker. Very often tiiis procedure has pro longed the final session well into Sunday morning and the adjourn ment this year before Saturday night is unusual It was due to the fact that the hills upon which contests were certain were taken up earlier in the session than is usual. The senate disposed of the contes ted issues as soon as possible, and even over them wasted no time, being economical of sneech this year. The child labor bill, for instance, went through without discussion. The bien nial session measure elicited litile debate, as did the Hampton monu ment bill and other important mat ters Tne house debated the child labor bill, however, during several days and finally passed it, but the house continued the biennial sessions bill without discussion. Both houses debated at length the compulsory education bill, tne senate sending it to the house where it was killed. In fact the tendency seems to have been for each house to kill the bills of the other. The fish hill which passed the house after long discussion was ir the senate continued until n xt session ; the dog tax bill had a similar career, us did tne bill to further prohibit cockfigh-Jug, the bill to regulate in surance companies and establish tue office of insurance commissioner. On the other hand, in uadiWon to the compulsory education bill a number of others lo which the senate assented were rtjtcted bv the house, among these bt-iog the hill to regulate traffic in seed and lint cotton, to provide qualifications for county superinten dent of education, to establish the office of oil inspector of illuminating oils, the bill providing $25,000 for an txhioit at the St .Lems exposition and others. THE POSITIVE RESULTS. It will st em that the bills which have run the fire in both n. oses are not v. ry numerous nor conspicuous, yet when a list of th'-tn is prepared it will he much larger than the reader would think. For about one,thousand bills and joint resolutions were intro duced and more than half of these have been voted on, some being “con- tiuu> d until next session,” which means that they maj bo taken up next year if their authors insist. Among those latter were the hills to provide two extra circuits, which, it was at one time expected, would be a leading issue. The measures upon which both houses have agreed and which will become laws cannot, be enumerated in this letter. The more important ones have been mentioned before, includ ing the child labor law, the bill put ting ten year convicts on the chain- gang, the Hampton monument, the bill to reorganize the dispensary con stabulary force and to provide for a c h ief constable. This last bill was ratified and immediately signed by the governor, who soon thereafter an nounced his select! >n as chief con stable to be Mr. U B Hammet, of Barnwell. This is the only dispensary legislation of any consequence at this session. There were several proposi- tious to regulate the distribution of profits, diverting a larger proportion to the school fund, but these were fought hard and defeated. There were also bills to increase the number of directors of tne dispensary, but those also failed, lo the senate there was au abortive attempt to institute an investigation of the state dispensary. The senate recommitted to the stand ing committee on the dispensary the resolution with instructions and au thority to ascertain whether an in vestigation was necessary, and the committee found that the complaints did not justify such radical proceed ings. In the report to the senate the committee says: “That your committee has been in almost continuous session for eight days, and has examined a number of witnesses whose testimony has been taken down by a stenographer and transcribed on a typewriter, and is herewith submitted. After a pains taking and careful consideration of the evidence, the undersigned, being a majority of the committee, are un able to find anything against the management. “That time and opportunity was too short for such a full and thorough investigation as is either just to the management or to the state.” APPROPRIATIONS. One reason, the principal reason, for the smooth adjournment was that there was no radical nor persistent disagreement on the items in the ap propriation and supply bills. The Charleston delegation usually dispute among themselves concerning the provisions for that county but this vear they seemed to be harmonious. No attempt was made to reduce taxes, the state levy remaining at five mills, and tne general appropriations of last year nearly all being readopted. The colleges get all they asked for, al though this was not done without protest. When the free conference committee reported Friday morning it recommended that the senate re cede from a number of amendments. The following were adopted : Governor’s stenographer $500 in stead of $4(X) as recommended by th< senate. Railroad commissioner’s stenogra pher $100. The state geologist will get $1,500 f •• t i-i contingent fund in*f>-H<l -if $2,000 a» rLCommendtd by Uj;- senate and $1,000 by the house. The state board of health gets $8,000 for the purpose of protection against the spread of contagion, and the gov ernor is authorized in rhe case of em ergency to borrow $7,000 additional for that purpose. The attorney general will not get $3 000 for the purpose of prosecuting the trust, hut will get $500. The comptroller general’s office gets $200 additional for stationery and stamps for the insurance department The Sou:k Carolina college gets the recommendation of the senate, $21),- 400 in Read of $28 107 as adopted by the house, and $1,040 additional for scholarships. Winthrop college gets $52,000 and $5,400 for scholarships; the latter sum was stricken out by the house. The Citadel gets $25,000 for scholar ships, $1,000 for repairs, $250 for gymnasium, $1,000 for library, $J ,200 for insurance. The State colored college gets $5,- 000 for general support and $1,500 for the roof on a new building. These were the only contested points and a 1 were settled without much trouble. The appropriation bill was presented on better time this year than ever before, and the chair man, Mr Altamont Moses, has been commended for the promptness of the committee. THE ROAD BILL. The free conference committee on Mr. Morgan’s road bill recommended the rejection of the bill The report was adopted and the bill was killed. The senate wanted to fix the age of persons subject to road duty from 21 to 50 years. The house wanted to leave the age limit at the discretion of the several boards of county com missioners. -The original hill con templated a flexible law allowing a commutation tax, etc., to take the place of the old law fixing the com mutation tax at $1 for all counties The bill was killed and the old law stands. THE END. The above is a concise and in some respects incomplete summary of the session’s work. It will be seen that it was a negative session lacking in aggressive action. The legislature is composed of men of more than aver age ability, many of them youtg men, with good ideas and impulses but deficient in experience and as sertiveness. Nothing radical has been done. The members have seem ed more concerned about local meas ures than matters of general* import ance, so that when they meet their constituents at home they can assert that they have looked after their county’s interest. Another session’s experience will doubtless develop the assembly, especially the house, into a more aggressive and useful body. Two commissions have been ap pointed to report next year. One of these is to investigate the tax laws of the state and recommend suitable revisions as to the assessment and taxation of property. The other com mission is to investigate the character of the work done on the state house and to report whether or not the con tract has been complied with. Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr. Anjr Cook Uood Enough “Clifton” flour makes the sweetest and most nutritious biaonlts that ever oame out oftbe oven—and any cook is good enough cook to make them. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS Interciitliij; Item* Coiu'ernliii; Our Neigh bor* Heyoud the Llue Which May Frov« Kutertainiug Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. Ed Gray, colored, who killed John Foster, in VVaynesvile, last week, is >et. at large. Rev. Benjamin R. Hall, presiding elder of the Fayetteville district, North Corolina Conference, died at a sanitarium at Fayetteville at 7:10 Friday evening. The North Carolina 8erHte passed the cnild labor hill Friday after amending it. As amended, it pro hibits the emplovrnent of children un der twelve. M tkes 60 hours a week’s work for children under eighteen but doesn’t prohibit working longer. Mr. Z. T Bailee, of Pineville, lost hia gin house by lirt about 12 o’clock rhur-day night. Five bales of seed cot ion and 800 to I 000 pounds of cotton seed were destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a cornhii ation of match and a rat. There was no insurance. Suit has been entered against the Southern Railway at Lexington for the sum of $25,000 damages by Mr. VV. A. PMIIina, admieiistrafor nf the late A It t ■ 11 i : ' - m t Ids death v,hi.c .•. buu obi.ici. bd The Southern as brakeman a few da}8 ago between Salisbury and Asheville. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lloyd, of Spen cer, lost their three months old infant Wednesday night. When the\ retired tlie child was seemingly in the best nf health. About 6 o’clock the next morning it was found to be dead. The supposition is tnat it was smothered. It had bean dead for some time when discovered. At VVinstou Sandy Stevenson was Friday sentenetd to the State prison for 30 years at hard labor for the mur der of John Miller, on December 21, last. The prisoner plead for mercy but Judge Show gave him the full limit of foe law for murder in the sec ond degree. The prisoner declarta his innocence of the crime. Jason Lindsay, supposed to be the scoundrel who opened the switch at Thomasville on the Southern recently result ing in the wrecking of the south bound vestibule, was arrested at Thomasviilo Saturday and taken to Lexington jail. The case against the negro was worked ud by a Pinkerton detective from Philade phia. News of the destruction by Monday night’s storm in northeastern North Carolina comes in slowly, hut it seems from what has been received that the damage to property and the injury to persons is far greater than was at first supposed. Country homes suffered worse. Mueh damage was done in Chowan as well as in ^ ertie and other counties there. An accident occurred on the Spar tanburg & Asheville division of the Southern Saturday at the trestle over Benton’s Creek nearTryon. The axle of a freight jar which was part of a local freight from Asheville to Spar tanburg, broke and caused two of the freight cars to leave the tracit. The wreck blocked the track iffeotually for several hours. A hold burglary was committed in Greensboro early Friday morning at Mr. 1). R. Hutfines’ bottling works near the Soutnern Railway passenger station and adjoining the Hotel Huf- fine. An entrance was efftfCted through the rear door, which was under the glare of an electric light. The thieves broke opeo a strong cash box and stole $44 in cash and a note for $332,20. Wednesday night between Ruther- fordton and Henrietta Dick (Januca, one of the Levi Cotton Mill employees of the former place,who had just been discharged and was loaded for bear, made a desperate attempt to jump from the Southern passenger train, which was going at the rate of forty miles an hour. Flagman Will Sulli van grabbed him just in time to save his life and had quite a tussle with him before he could be gotten quiet. W. H. Green, the colored attorney of Charlotte, caused another stir in the Superior Court in that city Fri day morning when he objected to a nol pros in the case of his client, Will Peoples. Last April quite a sensation was caused by a request of Green to nave the court investigate the means of choosing jurors in Mecklenburg county, alleging that the negro race was discriminated against in direct de fiance of the United States constitu tion. Ex-Sbsriff R. Logan Nichols, of Marion, left the county last week for parts unknown, It has leaked out that, be is short in his accounts with McDowell county to the amount of $4,000 or $5,000. It has been known for some time—by certain parties— that his accounts while sheriff were in a bad condition, but no ;Love was made by his bondsmen until last week when they realized that Mr. Nichols did not intend to make any attempt to relieve them. The greatest social and criminal sensation Raleigh has ever known de veloped at 4:20 o’clock 8'iturday afternoon when, on Fayetteville street, in that city, Ernest Haywood shot and killed Ludlow Skinner. The prominence of both families is mark ed. Haywood is a grandson of the late State Treasurer John Haywood ana son of the late Dr. E Burke Hay wood and one of Raleigh’s lead ing lawyers. Skinner was a grandson of the late Mr. Ludlow, of New York, and u son of Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, of Raleigh, one of the best known Baptists in the south. J. H. Williamson was shot, and killed by Heny Yonng at;Huinlet Sat urday night. The tragedy occurred about 9 o’clock in B. Aurmon’s bar. Williamson and a friend had gone in the bar to get a drink. Young was in the bar and after a few words had been spoken he cursed Williamson’s friend. Williamson interfered, whereupon Young shot him Young made his escape. Mr. Williamson’s home is in Monroe. He is a well- known druggist and has recently been in the employment of the Mont gomery Drug Company, at Troy. Henry Y'oung is a son of Mr. J. D. Young, a well-known citizen of Rock ingham. BOWLiNSVILL BUDGET. School Matter*—OitnmRcd hy the Storm. FerHOual Mention. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Bowlinsvii.le, Feb. 21.—-It seems that “Billy” has a rugged path to travel. I think that if “Sissic” knew that he was an old bachelor he would not have set him down Jso hard, nor accused him of having fighting chil dren at Ivome, for I think that every body has sympathy for an old bach elor. Now if I mentioned Corinth school (which I didn’t) I beg to be pardoned; I was only referring to all schools. Of course some schools are worse than others, and where “Sis- sie” has a good school teacher, trus tees, etc., other schools haven’t. I do say that we need better schools and longer ones, and where we need bet ter trustees, we will leave that with the parents and superintendent of education Quite a severe storm passed over this section last Monday night which did a great deal of damage to timber, etc. During the storm a portion of Mr. I. G. Phillips’ house roof in which he resides was uplifted, and a por tion of his chimney was blown down. Besides Mr. Phillips’ damegea, no other has yet been heard of in our immediate neighborhood, except to timber. A saw mill is badly needed in this neighborhood. It would be a good investment for some one to erect a saw mill and ginnery plant hero. The Clary Line school closed last Monday, with Miss Ellen Kirby as teacher. We learn that Cherokee county will soon have rnral free delivery. Mr. Horace Lipscomb made a busi ness trip to the county seat yester day. We learn that County Supervisor Whelchel has purchased $7,200 worth of good roads machinery, including three engines and one rock crusher. Now this is just what we have been needing a long time. It is impossible to estimate the value of good roads; they are useful to the merchant as well as to the farmer, and as useful to the rich as to the poor, in fact there is no class of people to whom good roads will not be beneficial, and they will be worth thousands of dollars to the farmers. This new road law will meet with opposition by some, but that will only show its bad points, and it can be made better. Now being the wheel has started to rolling let us keep it rolling. Let everybody turn his mind to this matter, so that in a few years Cherokee county can boast of her good roads. Billy. Have you solved the Christmas pres ent problem? Lard Kxpeuiilve and Injurious. Lard it> not only expensive but in-- jurious to the health when used la liberal quantities. To make the so- called cheap patent flours white enough, the life is all ground out of the flour; then it is necessary to load it up with'lard in order to make it work. This accounts largely for your heavy biscuits and rolls and your bad digestion. It takes less than one-half the lard to work “Clifton” that it does cheap patents, so that you not only save more than the difference Id price but get a more healthful and nutritions food product. Health and economy dictate tbe use of “CIPton.”