Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m THE LARGEST circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. Wt, GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Advci- 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. O., i RIDAY, MAY 8, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. UventM that Have Taken Tlace from One Knit of the State to the Other Called from Exchanges for (Julck Reading by Scores of Runy People. The annual meeting of the Win yah Indigo Society was held at George town in the library of the old brick academy building on Prince street. Late Saturday night at Netths Crossroads a few miles from Florence, Daniel Mullins, an old negro, and Joe Jordan, a young negro of notorious character, became involved in a diffi culty in which Mullins was instantly killed. The trustees of the Gibbes bequest bought at Charleston the site of the old Grand.Opera House on Meeting street and will erect on it the art institute which was presented to Charleston by the late James Gibbes. Mr. Gibbes left in his will more than iJilOO.UOO to the city of Charleston. Tuesday afternoon about 4 o’clock in Buckner Town near Greenville, Carrie Edwards was shot and probably seriously wounded by Frank Dial. Both parties are colored. Shortly after the shooting Dial ran from the scene of action but returned later in the afternoon, when he was arrested by Sherill Gilreath and placed in jail. Monday afternoon Newebrry was visited by a terrific hailstorm. The stones were very large and fell so thick and fast that the ground was completely covered. Young vegeta tion was badly damaged. The home of Mr. Tabar Hill just out of the city limits was struck by lightning. Part ( of the front porch was torn away and 9 a chimney thrown down. A large enterprise which has been chartered is the Saluda River com pany, to be located in Greenville county. The capital is OOU and the officers are R. E. Johnson of Seneca, president; II T. Krearaer of Williamsport, Pa, secretary and treasurer These officers, together with W. J. Kramer, also of Williams port, and D. E. Brown of South Car* .^olina, are the directors. The merchants of Sumter have en tered into an agreement not to sell any cotton during the coming year to export buyers unless they promise to have it compressed at the compress in that city. Most of the cotton brought to the town is first sold to merchants and from them to the buyers, so if they stick to iheir agree, ment thi-y can easily force the buy ers to do all their compressing there- Hoyt Hayes was committed to |jail in Walhalla Wednesday charged with the murder of his wife, who was shot and instantly killed on the morning of April 26. John E. Mason, Esq , of Oakway, committed Mr. Hayes upon affidavit of Mr. Crame. the fath er of the wife of young Hayes. It was currently reported that Mrs. Haves hadjeommitted suicide and had left a note saying why she had done so. Scarcely hai the convention of the city democracy of Charleston ad journed Monday when the report of a pistol rang out in the lobby of the Hibernian Hall. A rumor flashed through the building that a man had been shot. An investigation indica ted, however, that this was not the case. Policeman C. W. Cooper had an altercation with Policeman Collins in the course of which be drew his gun and discharged it. L. L. Copeland, postmaster at Be- tbune, a station on the Seaboard Air Line about 50 miles from Columbia, disappeared from his home on April 29 and since that time nothing hai been beard of him. Copeland left Bethune April 29, pujeashing a rail road ticket to Camden* When the train reached Camden he decided to come on to Columbia, paying the dif ference in fare. He was expected to return to his home on the same day. In the state supremb court was ar gued Tuesday the petition for a per petual injunction restraining the state treasurer from "writing off his books” the $37,000 of bonds of the old state bank. This is not a new matter. For years it has been agita ted. The state bank was wrecked during the war between the states. Some of the bonds of the state owned by this bank were captured by Sher man’s army as it passed through Camden, where the bank had been established tbmporarily. Tuesday night Sheriff T.J. Duckett, of Laurens, had an exciting en counter with a negro prisoner named Walter Lowe, who made a desperate attempt to break jail. Sheriff Duck* ett bad been upstairs to look up the prisoners and as he was returning Lowe, who had secreted himself in the darkness, made a dash for liberty. The sheriff seized him and in the scuffle the negro struck the door facing with his shoulder and dislo cated it. This disabled him so that he was soon overpowered and locked up again. Two attempts were made to wreck trains Tuesday night just south of Ridgeway. Freight train No. 81 passes that place about 10 o’clock and reported having knocked a crosstie oil the track. A few minutes later Mr. Lidwell reported having found two crossties on the track, one of which he removed, but left the sej- ond one on the track as he fearefl some one might shoot him. The police and several others from Ridge way went out and removed the tie from the track, but could find no one nor any trace of the would-be wreck ers. Saturday Policemen Johnson, Johns and O’Shield, of Union, raided the house of one Elmira Minter, a ne gro woman at that place, and found a gang of negro men in there gamb ling. As soon as one of the police men opened the door all ran out the other door and the police began shootinff, hitting two of the men, killing one, Columbus Jay, who went to Union from Aiken some time ago. The negro was shot in the back, about two inches below the spinal column, and the ball was cut out about eight inches bebow the right nipple. Around K/.ell. Ezell, May 6.—Farm work is pro gressing nicely at this writing, except where the ground is too hard to plow. We are needing a rain to bring up cotton, corn and other truck that is planted. Mrs. Robt. D. Scruggs was visiting in this section today. Mr. Nathan Byars was in our com munity today. Mr. H. A. Scruggs reports that he has some corn up; but cotton is on the late order. Small grain is look ing fine, and is some further advanced than usual for the time of year, but we can’t tell how it will hold out. The health of the community is very good at this writing. We had some littl carousing in this section Saturday night. We wish the boys would either get better stuff, or learn not to drink so much. Mr. Robt. Wyatt has mov d his saw mill down on Peters’ creek near Cowpens battle ground, and will soon be ready for sawing. Our efficient postmaster at Ezell?, Mr. G. L Martin, went to Gaffney to day on business. We notice that the road machine has done some good work up our road as fa. as the 8. A Stacy farm. Mr. John Gault, of Henrietta, N C., passed through this section today on his way to Clifton. We are informed that a R F. I). mail route will be put in operation, on June 1st, between Gaffney and State Line, with Mr. Edward Stacy as carrier. So good wishes to The Ledger and its corps of correspondents. Blue Hawk, Mr. Joseph Pominville, of Still water, Minn., after having spent over $2,000 with the best doctors for stomach trouble, without relief, was advised by his druggist, Mr. Alex. Richard, to try a box of Chamber lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. He did so, and is a well man today. If troubled with indigestion, bad taste in the mouth, lack of appetite or constipation, give these Tablets a trial, and you are certain to be more than pleased with the result. For sale at 25 cents per box by Cherokee Drug Co.; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Tuesday afternoon about 4 o’clock Dr. W. S. Davidson shot and killed a negro named Dan Neill, at Newton. Dr. Davidson boards at Mrs. Sallie Trott’s, and the negro man was work ing for Mrs. Trott. The doctor was out about the place and was on his way to the house, passing the negro who was at the wood-pile cutting wood. It is said that the negro had previously made threats against Dr. Davidson, and at this time cursed him and started toward him with an axe drawn, when Dr Davidson fired. The negro continued to advance when a second shot was fired. Davidson started toward the bouse and the ne gro lowered his axe. turned partly around and fell. He was dead when a physician arrived. Fretth Lot Just Received. We have just received a fresh lot of "Clifton” flour, guaranteed to be the best patent flour in the market, and will keep it in stock regularly in the future. Try a sack of “Clifton” next time. W. J. Wilkins & Co. —Hay,Corn, Oats, Bran and other feed stuff at W. J. Wilkins A Co. • NEW YORK SUN ATTACKS ROOSEVELT Scores Him for His Course Against the Trusts- TEDDY IS A POLITICIAN. Wc discontinue etwili subscription prompt ly at Its expiration. Ho watch your label and the date and renew before 'Us too late. The Attacks of The Sun Caused the Repub lican rolltlclans to Gasp as They Were not on the Inside of the Game and Did Not Know It was a Plan to Scare Teddy. tCorrespondence of The Ledger.! Washington, D* C., May 7:—Con siderable comment has been caused in political and official circles of Washington by the publication in the New York Sun of an attack upon Tresident Roosevelt for his course against the trusts. Beginning with the assertion that the President was above all other things a politician, and was bending every effort to obtain a nomination, the editorial proceeded to say that Mr. Roosevelt had, in his attacks upon wealth, exceeded the wildest threats ot populism The attack caused the administra tion republican politicians of the capital to gasp, for they were not on the ioside ot the game and they thought it meant war on Roosevelt and the administration from the com bined capital and Wall street interests and also war on the republican party after the nominations next year. They did not know that it was a part of the play by the tariff interests to scare Roosevelt and stop any further attack on the trusts by his administration Although his assault so fur on the trusts have been popgun attacks and have not in the least injured them, yet the trusts want him to let them severely alone and do nothing that will in any way attract attention to them whether they are hurt or not. In order to do this they are trying to frighten him and his friends. So far the attacks of the administration on the trusts have been confined to the beef trust and to the northern securi ties merger. To show that neither has been effective of good to the pub lic it is only necessary to remind the people that the northern securities merger decision has h en so modified that they are still enabled to pay divi dends to the stockholders, and the beef trust, after paying some fines, has advanced the price of meats from $2 to $5 per 100 pounds and the pub lic will have to pay the fines in the and. Whether or not these "feeble” attacks on the trusts cease, there is no disposition on the part of the il legal trusts to support a democratic ticket. The Washington Star, a re publican organ, gave t h at snap away when, in speaking of this attack of the New York Sun on Roosevelt and the possibility of the financial inter ests of the East preferring a conser vative democrat to another term of Roosevelt said: “The only trouble would be that the election of a demo cratic president might carry the elec tion of a democratic house and some democratic state legislatures. The big industrial corporations are Dot ready to risk even half a democratic administration soon again.” That tells the story in a nutshell. The criminal trusts are not going to have a democratic administration if they can help it. They know who are their friends and they will stick to the re publican party. The present admin istration may make bluffs at them that brings them into unpleasant pub licity, but it will never do anything that will permanently injure their graft on the people. Knowing this they will stand pat. If the people desire to stand with them and con tinue to be robbed, that is their look out. If they sincerely desire to curb the aggressions of the trusts they will assist in kicking out an administra tion that treats symptoms but never the disease, and elect a democratic administration. * * * When President Roosevelt was about to leave on bis western trip he was called on by a delegation of the prominent members of his party and was compelled to revise his tariff and "trust busting” speeches to be de livered on the trip, or take the conse quence of defeat or attempt at defeat in the next republican national con vention. The revision was made at their dictation, and, inasmuch as he had not time to rewrite ail his speech es he used some of the warmed-over speeches that were satisfactory to the tariff barons. The speech that he de livered at Minneapolis on April 4 is almost verbatim the speech delivered by Secretary of War Root at Cooper Union, New York, last October. If any man doubts it let him get them and make the comparison. This sim ply shows how thfl President is being dominated by the trust inter* st of the country and what a hollow mockery is all this hue and cry about “bust ing the trusts.” Charles A. Edwards. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. InterentinK RarugntpliM and Recent Ilap- peniiiKM In Lower Section of the County Gathered I/p by Our Regular Correspon dent for Heueiit of Ledger Readent. (Correspondence of The Ledger.! Etta Jane, May 6.—Farmers are as busy as they ever can be. Every thing that can or will hold or pull a plow is now at work. There are no surplus hands to hire and those who farm must necessarily depend upon their own muscles to do their work. We are sorry to report Miss Avelona Webber as still very unwell.* Mrs. “J. L. S.” is visiting Mrs. Laura T. Estes today. She don’t go often, buj when she does go they generally put the big pot in the little one. From the Yorkville Enquirer of the 2nd instant we clip the following: “Mr. W. R. Carroll, of Yorkville, went over into Cherokee county one day recently and bought a lot of 39 bales of cotton at 10cents. The peo ple of the neighborhood are unable to understand how a buyer can go so far from home and take this cotton from under the noses of buyers in Gaffney only a few miles away.” Neigh >or, that is easily understood. The York county buyers simply give more for it. But Gaffney, we under stand, has been leading the other markets during the last season. Since the resignation of Mr. J. M. Mathis Mr. L. M. Rice has assumed editorial control of the Union Times The Elbethel Memorial Association will meet next Saturday to decorate the graves of the Confederate soldiers buried there. We are glad to hear from our friend “Bachelor” again. His letter on love matters, usual, has the ring of pure metai and sincere heart, and we honestly feel that some dear, good girl is making the mistake of her life in not cultivating a love for him. The entertainment comes off at Miss Clara Flemming’s shcool to night. We hope to give our readers a report of it. The Ninth Commandment forbid- deth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbor’s good name. Do we call this to mind when we are asked to give an opinion on a matter in which there is nothing at stake but the good or bad name of our fellow man? Some people think they are und r much obligation to keep their neigh bor’s faults published to the world while his virtues go unnoticed. That “man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,” is a fact the world can’t disput. Farmers are wanting to see a Mght warm shower of rain to bring their cotton up. Many of them have har rowed their land and are getting poor stands of cotton. A good deal of both corn and cotton are yet to plant. Our champion watermelon raiser, Mr. Morgan Millwood, says his water melons are doing no good. The plants are dying. He has planted about an acre and will plant more later in the season. Mr. Millwood has the secret of raising more ard better melons on the same land than any one we know of. He is nsually the first man to market with home-raised melons in the county. We find, too, that Mr. C. F. Inman has the reputation of being a first-rate watermelon raiser. He doesn’t care particularly about getting good land to plant, if he has a sandy soil. We bear less talk of rust on the wheat now than we beard a week or ten days ago. This spring we have heard of an unusual amount of fishing on Sunday and the better class of people have set a determination to break it up or enforce the law against offenders, and we trust they will have the coopera tion of all good citizens throughout the country. For the benefit of those who may not know it, we give the law against such: Sec. 502 R. S. “No public sports or pastimes, as bear- baiting, bull-baiting, football play ing, horse racing, interludes or com mon plays, or other games, exercises, sports or pastimes, such as banting, chasing game, or fishing, shall be used on the Lord’s day by any person or persons whatsoever; and every person or persons offending in any of the premises shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be)subjeot to affine not to exceed fifty dollars or imprisonment not to ex ceed thirty days.” The boys keep up their debate every Saturday night. Dr. L. R. Black was in this section this week on professional business, i Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Duncan, of Sharon, visited relatives in this sec tion last Saturday. Mrs. Dr. T. B. Whitesides, of Blacksburg, attended the communion meeting at Salem last Sabbath. Her many friends were glad to meet her. Mr and Mrs H. B. McDaniel, of Hickory, with their children, came over to attend the meeting, ton. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. J. Rufus Poole, of Suonyside, is and has been quite unwell for sometime with grippe. The son of our friend, Mr H. F. Horton, of Bullocks creek, who was so badly burned las winter, we are fe lad to learn is getting on very well and it is thought he will finally get well. Mr. T. Jeff Hughes passed day bo- fere yesterdayjwith a load of chickens ou his road to Union. He usually takes a load there each week. J. L. 8. Light Great Secrets of SuccesH. [London, Ky„ Echo.l A certain feliow who answered ad vertisements in cheap story papers has had some intere sting experiences. He learned that by sending $1 to a Yan kee he could get a cure for drunken ness. And he did. It was to "take the pledge aud keep it.” Then he sent 50 2 cent stamps to find out how to raise turnips success fully. He found out—‘Just take hold of the tops and pull.” Being young, he wanted to marry, and sent 34 1-cent stamps to a Ghi- cago firm for information as to how to make an impression. When the answer came it read: "Sit down on a pan of dough.” It was a little rough, hul he was a patient man, and thought he would yet succeed. The next advertisement he an- swert-d read: * H ev to drublc your money in six monhis.” He was told to convert hisjmoney into jbills, fold them, and he would see his ’money doubled. Next he sent for 12 useful house hold articles, and ne got a package of needles He was slow to learn, so he sent $1 to find out "how to get rich.” "Work like the devil and never spend a cent,” and that stopped him. But his brother wrote to find odt hov to write without pen or ink. He was told to use a lead pencil. He paid $1 to learn how to live witbeut work, and was told on a pos tal card, "Fish for suckers, as we do.” Ready to Flay Rail. The Gaffney Baseball Club is now ready to play ball and to invite the clubs of neighboring towns to friend ly combat. The club has been prac ticing and getting in shape for some time and is anxious to “do” or “be done” by Shelby, King’s Mountain, Yorkville, Blacksburg, Union, or Spartanburg. Send along your chal- leges and the Gaffney team will do the rest. The following is the line-up for Gaffney: Arthur Hopper, pitcher; Clarence Webster, catcher; H. M. Fairy, first base; Dever Little, second base; Leo Little, third base; Tom West moreland, short stop; Brossie Byars, left field ; Arthur Brown, center field ; Jim Mosely right field; Ed. H. De- Camp, manager. Healthy North Carolina Folk*. The New York Times gives Senator Pritchard credit for the following story: The Senator, while telling how healthy his section of North Carolina is, remarked, "A mountaineer, aged 92, and his wife, aged 90, were re turning from the funeral of their old est child, who had died at the age of 71. They were both deeply bereaved. As they were discussing their lot the wife said, ‘I always told you, John, that we|would never raise thatjchild.”’ (julck Arrest, J. A. Gulledge, of Verbena, Ala., was twice in the hospital from a severe case of piles causing 24 tumors. After doctors and all remedies failed, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve quickly ar rested further ioflamation and cured him. It conquers aches and kills pain. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. John Scott, who lived at Greenleaf, about two miles from Goldsboro, was found dead Tuesday afternoon about 3 o’clock. He went to Goldsboro Sat urday apparently in good health. Later he obtained a key to a room over the bar of Mr J. L. Dickerson and went to bed. No one had occa sion to go in the room until Tuesday afternoon, when Mr. Dickerson found him undressed on the bed with his arms folded across his breast. His death was probably due to heart fail ure. Mr. Scott was the son of a prominent cotton buyer of Goldsboro and was never married. Towel* Without Oo«t. Every forty-eight pound sack in which "Clifton” flour is packed will make two good towels, the regular towelling goods being used in the manufacture of the sacks. Ask for “Clifton” In the towel sack. W. J. Wilkins k Co. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Heyond the Line Which May Fro*e Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader* Five new cases of smallpox have de veloped in the last few days at Caro- leen in Rutherford county. Traffic was delayed several hours Tuesday night by a rear-end collision between two Southern freight trains at Jamestown in Guilford county. An engine was considerably damaged and Engineer Godfrey sustained slight wounds in jumping Thursday, May 29th, will be Farm ers’ Day at the Reidsville carnival. On that date Col. John 8. Cunning ham and other prominent men will be there to address the farmers and to organize a Farmers’ Protective Asso ciation of Rockingham. The Fayetteville police had a strange case in custody Tuesday—a white man, hailing from Michigan, and giving his name as L A. Kinney, who was wandering in a dazed, aim less manner about the suburbs of the eitv, and whom nobody had ever seen or heard of before. The Anti-Saloon or reform ticket swept Durham in the municipal elec tion. J. F. Freeland, who was endorsed by the Anti-Saloon ticket, defeated Mayor McCown by a majority t of 311. Every candiaate on the reform ticket was elected by majorities ranging from 100 to 300 votes. Tuesday J. A. Jernigan, a brick- mason at work on the walls of the block of office buildings on Donald son street,Jin Fayetteville, fell toithe ground, a distance of fifteen feet or more, landing on a pile of bricks. He was picked up and carried home, bad ly but not fatally injured. The Statesville Training School for Nurses, which has been operated in connection with Billingsley Hospital, has awarded diplomas of graduation as trained nurses to Misses Karcner, Moose and Davidson. Dr. H. F. Long presented the diplomas. Miss David son won the medal which was offered by Dr. Long for the best examination in anatomy. Mr. Geo. VV. Fisher, of Concord, has just returned home from New York city, where he has been for about six weeks. While away he took steps to renew prosecution of bis claim against the United States for property seized in St. Louis during the civil war. The property was worth probably',$18,000, and was ruth- leesly seized. On the farm of J. L. Yelton, near Golden, in Rutherford county, there is a vein or pocket which its owner, Mr. Yelton, works by panning pro cess for gold. The find is in a com paratively level table land under the side of a swag where water sometimes runs, and sometimes does not. The gold is distributed in sand and gravel; and Mr. Jones says every panful will average ten cents worth of gold. The “Morally Stunted” of Greens boro got another jolt Tuesday, when the county commissioners ruled that the whiskey dealers there must give in their purchases for taxation at their actual values. This increases the amounts given in by the 11 sa loons from an average of $400 and $500 a year to something in the neigh borhood of $5 000 in each case, or a total increase of over $40,000. The early risers around the voting precinct in Reidville Tuesday morn ing were witnesses to an exciting little fisticuff between two of the town’s most prominent people. The belliger ents were the town tax collector, Mr. J. E. Lambeth, and ex-Sheriff R. W. Huccherson. Officers standing near by rushed up and soon had the com batants separated, and all excitement had subsided and the workers re turned to the task of convincing the “dear voters” that this man or that was the most popular and should be made town commissioner. George Vann, colored, was shot and killed Monday night about 11:30 o’clock on an excursion train running from Newbern to Wilmington. It seems as if Vann was accused of shooting a young white man early in the evening, and as the train started a search was made by the police offi cers for Vann and they found him on the train and put him under arrest, but while they were taking him from the cars some one shot him twice through the head, killing him instant ly, and Officer Dixon also received a bullet In the leg. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that Vann came to his death at the bands of an un known person or persons who were attempting to prevent his arrest.