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I i i THE LARGEST •Jirculation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—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. a ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THE s PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. KventM that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from ExchauKea for Quick IteadltiK *>y Score. of Busy People. Mr. Charles Milfnrd. a white man about 40 years of age, was accidental ly killed about five miles south of An derson Saturday afternoon by his wagon running over him. The hunting season came to a close March 31. According to the laws of this state it is an offense to shoot birds between the first of April and November 1. The sportsmen should bear this fact in mind and put up their guts until next season. Mr. David M. Madden, an engineer of the Southern Railway, who lives on John street in Greenville, died sud denly Friday morning of neuralgia of the heart. He made the regular run from Columbia the day before, and was suppised to be in usual health. A petition was circulated a few days ago at Fort Mill asking that the town council take charge of and keep in proper shape Confederate Park. Near ly ali of the business men attached their names to the petition and the council will act in the matter at its next meeting. Dr. G. B. Moore, of Greenville, has gone to Richmond, Va., where he be comes the manager of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, and his work in the temperance cause will be charac terized by the intelligence and per severance with which he has wrought in South Carolina for the last 20 years. ) The Rev. Lacy Little and wife, nee Miss Ella C. Davidson, missionaries to China, who have been stationed at Klaning for some time, left Hang Chow on March 14 on their way to Yorkville on furlough on account of the ill healch of Mr. Little. They will stop in North Carolina visiting rela tives of Mr. Little. The tnnual commencement exer cises of the Medical College of South g Carolina at Charleston were held Thursday night, when the degree of doctor of medicine was conferred up on twenty men and ’:wo women, doc tor of pharmacy on one candidate and diplomas of graduation in phar macy on twenty-two young men. The Greenwood graded school build ing, valued at $5,000, was burned Friday morning at 2 o’clock. The in surance was $3,000 The library and furniture valued at $1,000 were not insured. The school session will con tinue in temporary quarters. There will.now be built an imposing, mod ern and up-to-date brick and granite building, the pride and ornament of the town. In a cutting scrape between Ned Thompson and Joe Wingate, two ne groes, at Florence, both received se rious wounds. The negroes had been quarreling all the morning over a debt of about $12 which Thompson owed Wingate. Thompson was the aggressor of the fight and now is in a critical condition as a result of an artery being cut in the scuffle. Win gate was seriously cut in the leg. Wednesday while coupling cars at the depot in Rock Hill Jim Reynold, a very worthy employee of the South ern Railway, met with a pitiful mis fortune. In some way not explained his right arm was caught between the bumpers and was so seriously crushed that amputation was necessary. This was successfully performed a short while after the accident, the arm being taaeu off above the elbow. The unfortunate man suffered a great deal before the operation. He is from Co lumbia and has a $1,000 accident poli cy. Tuesday night two cows suffering with hydrophobia on the farm of Mr. Ed. Anderson, near Harmony in York county, were shot and killed. 0 They were seriously affected with the disease, and were very nervous and bit at everything in sight. They had not eaten anything, nor bad they drunk auy water since 28 days after they were bitten by a strange dog that escaped and passed out of the neigh borhood. The yard dog was bitten at the same time and was killed at once, the stray dog never having been heard of afterwards. An accideut occurred in Columbia Thursday afternoon about 3 o’clock wfvhicb may terminate seriously for one of the victims. While working on a scaffolding on the house which Is being erected by M. A. MoManm, two tinners were thrown to the ground, a distance of 85 feet, by the collapse of the platform ou which they stood. One of the men, E. C. Crews, was found to be badly hurt about the spine and head. He sus tained a number of other painful bruises. His companion, Walter Waites, was absolutely unhurt—a striking comparison to the effect of Crews’ mishap. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. There was a considerable frost in low places Sunday morning. There was a big crowd in the city Saturday and all seemed busy. The Sunday School at Providence church will be reorganized next Sun day. Rev. W. T. Thompson preached at Brown's Chapel near Pacolet Mills Sunday. The county commissioners met in the supervisor’s office yesterday and transacted a quantity of routine busi ness. Teet^ Brothers mammoth railroad show is billed in the city for an exhi bition here on Saturday, the 11th inst. Parker it Tolleson have moved their bicycle shop into one of the J. J. Brown building opposite their old stand on Limestone street. While unloading sheet iron from a car yesterday one of the pieces slipped and severely injured an arm of a ne gro man. The arm was treated promptly and it is hoped he will speedily recover. Messrs. S. M. Scoggins. Jerry Wright. Joe Gaffney and Frank Browning went to Cowpens yesterday to begin work on the new Baptist church at that place. L. Baker of this city has the contract. The “Poverti Soshul” given by the Ladies’ Aid sojiety of the Presbyte rian church last Friday evening in the old warehouse, was a great suc cess both from a social and financial point of view. Everybody enjoyed it and the ladies realized a neat sum for their trouble S. M. Littlejohn is maturing plans for an up-to-date business house on his lot on the corner of Limestone and Birnie streets. It will be two stories with pressed brick and plate glass front Mr. Littlejohn will be gin work on it abcut the middle of June or first of July. We are glad to learn that Capt. J. S. Phelps (Yankee Phelps), one of the oldest and most popular engineers on the S. C. and G. Ex. railway, has been given charge of the engine operating the train on the Gaffney branch of that road. Come in to see us Captain, when you are in the city. Mr. W. A. Harvey, late of Pacolet, mo/ed last week to his beautiful home in the eastern part of this city which he bought recently from Mr. James Brown. We welcome him and hrs family to our city and congratu late him on having the largest boy in the State of his age. His son Henry Grady is nine years old and weighs 190 pounds. Saturday was fair and fine and considerably colder than several preceding days. In a number of places the plows were running, but many farmers still said the ground was too wet and held off for yesterday, when there was a general move to the front by all plowmen; and if the weather stops suitably the farm work that will be done in the county this week will almost astonish the workers who did it. On Wednesday and Thursday nights of text week the people of Gaffney will have the opportunity of hearing two helpful addresses by two prominent Baptist clergymen. Dr. W.D. Hubbard, of North Carolina, will speak on Wednesday night and Dr. L. M. Roper, of Sartanburg, Thursday night. Place of meeting, the First Baptist church. Hour of services, 8 o’clock p. m. All are cordially welcomed. A verdict of.acquittal was found in the case of Ensign Ward K. Wortman in connection with the explosion on the battleship Mssaachnsetts. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green’s August Flower for the cure of Indigestion Dyspepsia, and Liver Trouble that has not been cured—and we also mean their results such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habitual cos tiveness, nervous dyspepsia, head aches, despondent feelings, sleepless ness—in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liver? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing. If so, something more serious is the matter with you. The 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 oeuts. At all drug gist. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J. A TIDAL WAVE AT NAM Big Warehouse Swamped and Boats Overturned. MANY PEOPLE DROWNED. The Warehouse was Situated on a Kiver and Catastrophe Occnrred As a Steamer was Unloading Passengers—The Strug gling Natives Destroyed. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Chinkiang, China, March 10.— China and the Chinese are still dis cussed, cussed and then discussed again, the object of discussion being indifferent to the whole proceeding, and the sphinx only winks while we discuss him, and goes on the same old way without the discusser know ing any more than he did at first. You must not expect to knov all about the Chinese because you have a missionary lecture, or see a letter in the paper telling "all about it,” or read a book by some one who has vis ited the East. The more you unravel the Chinese mystery the more there is to unravel. A short time ago some thing happened in Nanking which shocked everyone who heard it, and really was a terrible matter. I wish to tell you about it and draw some of the lessons from it. What happened was this: On the bank of the river was a large godown, cr warehouse for stowing goods for shipment by one of the river steamers. This warehouse had been recently built, and had stowed in it a large amount of goods. It was just opposite the landing stage of the steamer leading to a pontoon. One morning just about daylight the up steamer had just come alongside the pontoon, and a large number of Chinese coolies and others were in and about the warehous and on the landing stage ou their way to and from the steamer, when all at once without warning the great warehouse seemed to shiver, and breaking up ‘‘like a pack of cards,” as an eye wit ness described it, sank bodily into the ground, carrying along with it every thing, coolies, passengers, baggage, landing stage, and about three hun dred feet of the shore line, in a mo ment’s time simply dieappeari 3g be neath the waves of the river! The great rush of waters overturned la.ge numbers of small boats, and set the pontoon to rocking dangerously, and was seriously felt in the steamer itself. When the waters had covered the place there was nothing to be seen but some struggling people, overturned boats, and dead bodies The whole house had sunk straight down about sixty feet, and is simply lost. There was fearful crying and calling for help, and the scene was awful. One would have thought that the boats in the vicinity which were not swamped by the tidal wave, would have exerted themselves to do ail they could to save life. An eye witness told me that she saw people struggling in the water, and boats filled with men busy gathering up wreckage and such like, passed right by the people with white upturned faces calling on them to save them, and in not a sin gle case did they try to save one of tiiem. Along the shore were many people looking on, and there were many in the water struggling to get out ou the bank, and yet there was not a band lifted to help them or save. The steamer boat was got out quickly, and it saved a good many lives, but the natives themselves would do nothing. If a relative or friend recognized some one in the water, they, it is true, would try to help them, but do one else. By some means the current of the river had undermined the shore line, and the extra weight of the warehouse and the great number of people bad broken the crust, and it simply disappeared. You asked why it is that the Chi nese did not try to save their fellow beings when they could easily saved man. It is this question which is hard to answer. When you come to know the many ratifications of the Chinese family, and society, perhaps it would help to explain. If a Chinese should save a Chinese who was a stranger to him, most likely the saved man’s friends, instead of being grate ful, would come ou to the one who saved him for heavy damages, feeling that because interested himself enough to save him he must have some counectiou with causing the trouble. To prevent lawsuits, quar rels, aud endless trouble, the ordinary Chinamau says, "Have nothing to do with it.” Then again, the general cheapness of life. A life is not counted for much here. The family is much, but a single life, especially if it is not connected with the extension of the family, Is not to be considered to be worth much. The heathen religion seems to engender this kind of a feel ing, and together with it a callous,un merciful disposition which makes it possible for them to do very cruel things sometimes. The divine law of mercy and true unselfishness seems never to have penetrated their minds at all. One thing is absolutely cert tin, that the Chinese society has in its very heart a rottenness of which we in a Christian land know little and can scarcely conceive. The whole fabric of China is like that warehouse, sitting on a crust, with the great gulf berieath, and a little more weight of sin and wickedness will send it shiver ing through the crust into destruc tion, if there is not a saving hand. The only hope is the Gospel, even as the only ones who went out to save the drowning were those in the foreign boat. Let the foreign boats come to the rescue, and that speed ily ! I want to call your attention to the RESURRECTION POWER OF CHRISTIAN ITY. Dr. Bryan has just visited Pe king, and he says that the Christian ity which the whole power of China made such a great effort to destroy there has has come up from the wreckage mightier than it ever was. The churches are larger, the enquir ers more numerous, and the congre gations are bigger, and the Christian institutions are flourishing as they never did before. What about the temples of the idols that were de stroyed? They are still crumbling and the idols are, some, of them, head less, some of them without feet or hands, and the places are delapidated, the plaster peeling off the walls, and no one to build them up. Jesus said, "I am the life,” and it is life which the Chinese need more than anything else. Here in Chinkiang I believe there is a moving which promises good results. There is far more in terest than there has ever been be fore, and the crowds are always pretty large that come to hear the Gospel. Our church has just called a native pastor, and the situation in the coun try work is very good, I think. I am planning to open a Bible school to teach the native helpers. You know we have no theological school here and the Chinese have to be taught if they are to know anything about the Bible. W. E. Crocker JESSE NANCE DEAD. ‘ An Old and Worthy Citizen of Cherokee Gone to His Reward, Mr. Jessie C. Nance died at his home three miles south of the city on Wednesday, the 1st instant, after a long and painful illness which he bore with a fortitude that was char acteristic of his sterling, manly and Christian life, and was buried at Corinth on Friday in the presence of a large gathering of sorrowing rela tives and friends. The funeral ser vices, by request of Mr. Nance, were conducted by Rev. W. T. Thompson assisted by Rev. C. F. Feimet. The pall-bearers were Messrs. R. M. Wilkins, J. R Tolleson, H. F. Prid- more. A. N. Wood, J. Eb. Jefferies and D. A. Thomas. Mr. Nance was a native of Union counoy and was born near what is now Adamsburg in that county on the 30th of August, 1881, which made him at the time of his death nearly seventy-two years old. In his early manhood he married Miss Minerva Brown,of Gowdysville, who, throughout their long married life, proved to him a "helpmeet” in fact. They had born to them ten children, eight sons and two daughters. They are Messrs. J. T. Nance, J. W. Nance, Rufus Nance, Lemuel Nance, C. F. Nance, and Mrs. Lizzie Mayfield and Mrs. isallie Parks, of this county, and Messrs. J. C. Nance, Jr., F. M. Nance and W. T. Nance, of Houlka, Mis sissippi, who are worthy people and who have a standard of high Chris tian citizenship left to them by their father which should be an inspiration to them through life. With the exception of four years spent iu the Confederate army, where he served iu Company F, 7th South Carolina Cavalry, Mr. Nance farmed all his long life and by bis industry and good management he bad ac cumulated a competency of this world’s goods. He was a devoted husband and father, a citizen above reproach, a patriot who loved his country, a Confederate soldier of the best type, cool, brave and an ar dent fighter, who loved the cause for which be fought and through his long life gloried in its righteousness. He was a member of Corinth Baptist church, was a Christian gentlemen, lived up to his professions and died comforted by his faith. Would-be Wreckers Indentlfled. Wa learn from au authoritative source that the parties who attempt ed to wreck the fast mail train No 97 ou the Southeru last week near the knitting mill at Blacksburg,have been identified and that they have skip ped. Every effort will be made to arrest them. The parties were white men. It was a most depraved act and we sincerely trust that the mis creants will be caught and receive the severest penalty of the law. The State Department is hopeless of any fruits coming from the pro posed Alaska boundary arbitration. THROUGHOUT THE TIBI HER STATE. From the Mountains to .The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Oar Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Frov* Kntertainlng Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers, The Winston warehousemen sold 187,259 pounds of leaf tobacco last week for $15,075.40 an average of over 8 cents a pound. Congressman W. W. Kitchin has been asked to deliver the annual ad dress at tne graduating exercises of the Charlotte graded schools. Col. W. J. Croswell.divis.o i super intendent of the Southeru Express company, with headquarters in Wil mington, died iu that city Friday with Bright’s disease. The remains whre taken to Greenville el. C., for interment. The fact was disclosed in Asheville police circles Saturday that a num ber of Asheville ministers who are eudevoring to reform the social evil, iu conjunction with the Anti-Saloon League campaign, had adopted Park- hurst methods ot obtaining data by going slumming. Ephriatn Barnhardt, who has been on trial for his life charged with the murder of Brayton Williams a few weeks ago, was acquitted at Mocks- ville Saturday. V\ itnesses for the de fense testified that deceased attempt ed to stab defendant whereupon Burn- hardt shot Williams. Chief H C. Irwin of Charlotte re ceived a telegram Monday night from M. J. J. Laugan, captain of the de tective Bureau of the city of New York, stating that the owner of the jewelry, found in the possession of Claude Ingram, had forwarded the commission demanded dy Mr. W. 8. Orr. The letter containing a check for $154 arrived in Charlotte Tues day night. A tenant house on the land of I. H. Kearney, about two miles west of Franklin was destroyed by fire Friday night, The house was occupied by Rufus Daniel, colored, hij wife and seven children. Four of the children who were sleeping up-stairs were burned to death. The roof was fall ing in before the occupants of the lower room were awakened. There were no windows in the upper room and the children being cut off from the stairway were suffocated. A brutal assault with a knife was made by Walter Hess, white, upon Frank Hal!, a negro hackdriver, in Salisbury about 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The provocation for the assault, if any was given, is a matter of uncertainty, owing to conflicting statements by eye-witnesses, one of these alleging that Hall had struck Hess before the latter made the at tack on him. It is undisputed that Hess was lolling in Hall’s back and took offense on being asked to get out. The question of the eligibility of a deputy sheriff to hold the position of city alderman has recently attracted considerable attention in Raleigh. In response to an inquiry by Mr. H. H. Crocker, a deputy sheriff and also an alderman, Mr. Fab. H. Busbee of that city says it is his opinion that a deputy sheriff is competent to hold the position of alderman and that there is no reasonable doubt upon the point. Mr Busbee says the deputy is the mere agent of the sheriff and holds no office or place on bis own account. Photographs of the two alleged postoffice robbers now in jail at Char lotte, charged with cracking the safe at Mt. Olive, were sent to Rutherford- ton Wednesday by a postoffice in spector to Postmaster McDaniel. He took them to Mrs. C. W. Watkins, two miles from to* n, who with others identified them as the two men who ate dinner at her house the afternoon before the oostoffice was robbed at Rutherfordton. She says she is pos itive and can testify as to both. It is thought they are the men who cracked the Asheville aud Glenwood safes last mouth. A North Carolina officer carried to Wilsoo Saturday John Green, the mao alleged to have married Miss Sadie Davis of that place in a mock ceremony iu which a 'saloon-keeper acted as e'ergyman. There was a re ward of $200 on Green offered by Gov ernor Aycock. The girl’s father hearing that Green was iu the locality of Norfolk went there and located Green on an oyster schooner. He was taken before Justice Smith and com mitted to the Norfolk county jail. Green denies the charge against him. He says he is not afraid of a trial aud will easily prove the charge false. He says he has a family living in Laurinburg, and never passed as a single man in Wilson, as charged. O. D. Revel’s barn on Beaumont, the high mountain east of Asheville, was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The great volume of flame which leaped high above the windswept mountain made a spectacle that was watched by hundreds of people down in the city. The barn was not in itself a structure of great value, but scores of handsome vehicles were burned,which constituted the mate rial loss. A fine pair of horses were taken from the building with diffi culty. Mr Revel, the only man on the place at the time, injured his hand in trying to save one of the horses. Mr. Revel estimates bis loss at something like $100,000. Because she had grown tired of life and wanted to end her existence, Lovie Horne, a young white woman living in Hickstown, three miles from Durham, drank ten drahms of laud anum Wednesday morning, and for six hours was in a dying condition. She swallowed the drug about 8 o'clock and it was 2 o’clock in the af ternoon when she regained conscious ness. "Becauie I wanted to die,” said the young woman when asked why she drank the laudanum. Be yond that she would say nothing, and said that no one would ever know what caused her to make the attemot on her life. The young woman is 20 years of age and lives with her uncle, Page Horne. It is said that her|fath- er has lived In Orange county. Tuesday night at the Navassa gu ano factory, four miles north of Wil mington, Herbert Ross, a young ne gro employed in the nill was shot down while at work by another negro who at once boarded the Carolina Cen tral tram and escaped. The negroes had a difficulty earlier in the day but had apperently made friends. At about 10 o’clock Ross’ adversary walked into the factory with a shot gun and filled the man’s leg with the contents of the weapon. Ross was taken to Wilmington and sent out to the hospital where it was ascertain ed that the bone was so badly shat tered that amputation would be nec« esary. The wounded negro fired at his assailant five times with a pistol which he carried but as he was fall ing at the time the balls went wide of the mark. MISSIOJN RALLY. Mission Rally at Macedonia Baptist Chnrch Next Sunday—A. C. Cree to Speak, In accordance with the plans laid by the mission committee of the Broad River Baptist Association, a number of mission meetings will be held throughout the association be tween now and the meeting of the association in August next. During the past two years there has been a great advance along mission lines in this association and the prospect bids fair to put the Broad River As sociation io the front ranks of the Baptist associations of the State. There will be a mission rally at the Macedonia Baptist church next Sun day. Rev. A. D. Davidson, the pas tor, will preach a mission sermon at 11 o’clock. Dinner will be Served on the ground at noon by the people of the community. The afternoon service will commence at 1:30 p. m., and at 2 p. m. Rev. Arch C. Cree, of Gaffoey, will deliver an address ou "The Mission Out!oook of the Twentieth Century.” All are cor dially invited to attend these ser vices. The Veterans Meets. Jake Carpenter Camp, U. C. Vete rans, No. 810, held its annual meet ing Saturday which was well attend ed, and several new members joined. The meeting was called to order by the commander, when on motion an election for officers for the ensuing year and delegates to the general and State reunions was held, which re sulted as follows: D. A. Thomas, Commander. Moses Wood, 1st Lieutenant. W. G. Austell. 2nd Lieutenant. N. C. Snead, 3rd Lieutenant. W. D. Camp. Adjutant. Dr. Wm. Anderson, 8argeo r ’. B. F Bonner, Chaplain. I. G. Sarratt, Quartermaster. C. T. Bridges, Commissary. Thompson Eubanks, Color Sergeant. C. P. Huggins, Treasurer. Delegates to New Orleans—I. G. Sarratt and 8. R. Thackston. Alter nates—W. D. Camp and Wm. R. Lipscomb. Delegates to State Reunion—H. P. Griffith and C. T. Bridges. Alter nates—J. Pinson and D. A. Thomas. The commander was authorized to select a sponsor. Cherokee is fa mous for her pretty girls and the old commander’s well-known good taste along that line a assures the camp that its sponsor aud her maids of honor will be beauties for the camp aud county to be proud of. The office of Director of the Census has been offered to Mr. 8. N. D. North, of Bostou.