Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ > THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1 HE EDGER SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The 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 GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 86, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THE SCANDAL STILL HOLDS THE BOARDS Postmaster General Paraly zed by the Revelations. MORE YET TO COME OUT. KottenncHR in I’oHtoffice Department in Washington Still Coming to l.lglit Though it is Trying to be Suppressed—High Offi- cia\s Involved ami the Knd is Not Vet. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. C., Jun*-1!;"):—The icandal in the PostOffice Department is still holding the boards as the chief attra God in the nation’s capital. It report” that one of the assistant at torneys in his department has been urrested|for boodling. It is also sad to relate that the prisoner charged with the crime is a good republican and was vouched forby that good and great man, Senator Fairbanks. The good State of Indiana seems to be furnishing more than her share of these patriots for pelf discovered in the post-office scandals. THRODGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. * * * The republican postoffice stew is getting thicker by the addition of new ingredients almost every day. It is now reported that a United States Senator is mixed up in a charge of boodling in the interest one of the get-rich-quick concerns, for which he used bis influence. Evidently this is what the republicans call “running the government and country on a business basis ” ALL OVER THE STATE. * * * ttveuts that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Bnsy People. The C. & W. C. trestle over Little River near Lowndesville was set on tire by a passenger train and burned on Thursday, The Supreme Court lias dismissed mated revenue for this year will be about !|ii,000,000, aod the expenses | provided for in the last appropriation by the general assembly is $100,000 ' in excess of that amount. The state board of assessors, the comptroller | general and the finance committee of j the house* are expected to hold a meeting to devise plans for increasing ' the revenues. John Brownfield, colored, who killed Deputy Sheriff Scurry, in 1900 and who was to have been hiftiged at Georgetown Friday, killed himself in jail there Tuesday morning by taking poison. Brownfield had fought his case through every court to the United States Supreme Court and was finally sentenced last Tuesday to die ou the 26th. His arrest in September, 1900, for the murder precipitated a riot of negroes and the militia were called out. THROUGHOGT THE TAB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Scene of Pacolet Flood t'S »- ‘ JS :; 8S v :;!$ .Kr v W _ —. -'v \ if* V v V* . .. ’ ' : • * . ♦ . .4 . • • * ■ r4 Sheriff Buford, of Newberry, was notified recently that negroes living near that place had in their posses sion two watches which were found in the house formerly occupied by Elijah Edwards, colored, who is charged with the murder of J. Butler Kinard, and who is now a fugitive from justice. Sheriff Buford went to gee the negroes and they turned over the two watches to him. One is a brass wat3b, of small value. The other is an old style solid gold watch, and appears to be of considerable value. The watches are thought to be the property of Mr. Kinard, whose house was burned last year, he per ishing in the flames. Mr. Kims Wrecked. . Mr. VV. Henry Rose, the popular city clerk of Gaffney, started to the Cedar Springs commencement in a buggy Wednesday. He was accom panied by his necie, Miss Florence Holcomb. At a point near Cowpens the horse became freightened and ran away, throwing the occupants out and smashing the buggy. Barring a Interesting Items Concerning; Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers The editor and business manager of the Charlotte Weekly, published at No. 4 W es: Stonewall street in Char lotte—Masters Craig and Durant— have thought it best to suspend. A report is current at Spencer that work is to begin at once on the new shops ao Spencer and that cars and engines will be built complete at tint point. The plans and specification- for the new buildings have arrived. Mr. Jno. A. Brown an old soldier of the Carmel neighborhood of Mont gomery county, fell from his chair dead Tuesday morning. He had been suffering with the heat since Friday, but his sudaen death was a surprise. Mr. II T. McDuffie, Jr., of Fayette ville, has been notified by hij lawyers in Washington City that the govern ment has granted to him a patent on his automatic gas light extinguisher, an invention which he has devoted much time and skill in perfecting. Mr. Frank D. Brown, of the Depart ment of Commerce of the United Stares, is at Kinston, collecting data of the resources, etc., of Lenoir coun ty and the town of Kinston, for a statistical report by the department to show the wealth of the United States. A special from Bellbaven, Beaufort Wright, of Raleigh, was slightly hurt. The engines and cars were not great ly damaged. The track was blocked for eight hours. A deal has been effected by which tbeie will be a change fn the manage ment of the Fountain Mills at Tar- buro. The controlling interest in thi se mills has been acquired within • he past few days by John F Shackel ford, G. M T. Fountain and a few others. Mr. Shackelford and his par ty obtained control by purchasing outright all the Baltimore holdings of the Fosters. Powell and others, pay ing 50 per cent, of the par value. The Greensboro Record is authority for the statement that the Greensboro Female College grounds and buildings will be purchased by a syndicate of wealthy philanthropists and donated to the State for the purpose of erect ing thereon a State capitol. Editor Reese says that since it has been dis covered that the buildings at Raleigh are so totally inadequate for housing the State officers, the ta'k of making Greensbore the capital city has re vived. Charlotte people have received in vitations to the annual celebration at the Guilford Battle Ground, near Greensboro, on July 4th ^he unveil ing of a monument to the heroes of King’s Mountain will make this veal’s celebration of particular interest to people in that section. The address of the occasion will J>e delivered by Col. W. A. Henderson, the head of the legal department of the Southern Railway, whose subject will be “Heroes of King’s Mountain.” W. H. Green, one ofJCharlotte’s col ored lawyers, was in Washington Monday and saw President Roosevelt to ask for a pardon for Hampton Abernathy, a colored soldier in the Third North Carolina Regiment in the Spanish-American war. While Abernathy’s regiment was at Macon, Ga., he had trouble with another soldier named Guthrie Parnell, which Scene at Pacolet Flood v A •V v; i' courtesy of ] [ t ttion Progress SCENES AFTER THE RECENT FLOOD AT PACOLET MILLS VIEW FROM SOUTH SIDE i. End of cloth room, 2. Eddy in which negro was drowned. 3. Roof of submerged warehouse, 4. Another warehouse 5. Company store, 10 feet of water in basement. 6. Green’s Hotel. 7. Reservoir liefore break. o "* 4 y f im* m has grown to such proportions that f 'jtne of the republican politicians are beginning to gasp and to ask where it will end and who will be the next vic tim to land in the toils. ’J’he outcome of this thing has verified all my pre dictions anent the rottenness that would come to the surface, it it were pursued to a logical conclusion. Ever since the return of the Postmaster General, who was paralyzed by the revelations that confronted him, he has been doing his level best to cover up the investigation and to suppress it. The top has only been scratched and the people do not know one-tenth of the corruption that lies beneath. More and bigger scandals are yet to come out, involving officials of high degree, provided they are not sup pressed by the administration. It is not likely that the whole truth will ever be known, for even If a congres sional investigation wen ordered it would be in the hands of the repub- ' licans whojare interested it: suppress ing the facts t hat could be unc tvered The railway mail service offers a line 1 field for exploration, and if some of the renorts are true that are opening talked in Washington, the worst scan dal bv far has not yet been developed. The Star Route frauds, of malodorous memory, would never have been un earthed, if a democratic Congress had not been elected and the whole truth about present conditions will lie con cealed until the voters conclude to give the democrats the opportunity to clean out the Augean stables. Fraud and corruption are rarely uncovered by the political friends of those guilty of the crimes Aside from this there are so many cmigressmeu either directly or indireclly involved that greatfiressure will be brought on the boudrc men to let up tor “the good of the party.” The truth will • be brought out only by the intervention of democratic investigators. The people know how to get them if they want them . * * * *v? • The manner in which clerk Gilmer was reduced in salary and placed in such a position that he could no longer stick his inquisitive nose into : the business of some high officials 1 who wefc interested in a graft, will be a lesson to other government clerks to keep their eyes and ears closed. They must never see or hear anything that is crooked. That is peculiarly a republican method of teaching hon esty In public office. <» ¥ * The Postmaster General "regrets to The manner in which Mark Hanna deftly placed President Roosevelt in a hole the other day is caus ing amusement here among democrats and consternation among some of the administration republicans. The very next day after the President has is sued his official statement that he had never asked any man for help to be nominated, Mark Hanna comes out with the statement that the President telegraphed him that he wanted Ohio’s indorsement, and thereby causes him to withdraw all further op position to such a move by the Ohio state convention. Hitherto no Presi dent has made such an open bid for votes, but precedent seems to have no charm for Roosevelt and be no check to his remarkable method of doing things. A citizen of New York, albeit he is President, dictating to the leaders of another state concern ing their political action is a new move in politics, and the implied threat that he would cousider as enemies those who did not forward bis ambition is much below the high plane upon which the President of the United States should stand. What is the meaning of this anxiety to se cure delegates ho long in advance of the national convention? The Presi dent’s action is simply the “eccen tricity of genius.” No wonder Hanna is in a HaUtdied frame of mind ver the turn of affairs; he has forced the President to throw the ethics of Civil Service Reform to the four winds. And yet, we are told that such didoes are making the President popular. Well, let it go at that. ¥ ¥ * With the Post-Office investigation nearing an end, the Iowa idea dead as hector and the President’s nomination cinched, it begins to look as though the average Washington correspon dent would have to go to work. ¥ ¥ ¥ I wonder how the old soldiers of the country will feel about it when they know that the present administration of the pension office at Washington is kicking out all the old soldiers who have been employed in that office and replacing them with young men? Charles A. Edwards Uood Everywhere tlaeil. Bransford’s ‘Clifton” is guaranteed by the maker to be the best flour in the market. It is carefully milled from sound wheat, making bread that is pure, wholesome and nutritious— just what the American people need for their daily food. Besides “Clif ton” is an all-round flour, being as well adapted to making cake and pas try as it is bread and biscuits. W. J. Wilkins & Go. the appeal in the case from Hampton of H. G. Box, convicted of n unslaugh- ter, and Box, a farmer of some stand ing in Hampton will serve his een- teuce in the penitentiary for the kill ing of J. H. McCreary. Pickens is to have a first-class, thoroughly equipped cottou oil mill Every cent expended in building will be borne by local capital. Already two-thirds of the stock haf been taken and no trouble whatever is anticipated in getting up the remainder. In a thunder storm in Marion coun ty last week a barn belonging to J. W. Holliday, at Gallivant’s Ferry, was struck by lightning and burned to ti e ground, fifteen mules and a hoise and cow perishing in the flames, the loss being about $6,000, without insur ance. mM T:'* ' * 5W J 'sr -wfc -<1 m. m* v T Chas. L. Hall wounded and cap tured a large eagle near his home, two and 0 half miles below Ivh, in Ander lly courtesy of] son county. The bird is of the grty variety and measures seven feet from tip to tip of its wings. This is the i- Where Mills Nos. 1 and 2 second one captured near Iva in the last few years. _ Henry Gilliam, convicted of the murder of his wife, Rachel Gilliam, aod sentenced to life-time imprison ment in the penitentiary at Columbia, has been denied the privilege of anew trial. The State Supreme Court has overruled all of the exceptions made by Gilliam’s lawyers. SCENES AFTER RECENT FLOOD AT PACOLET MILLS VIEW FROM NORTH SIDE stood. 2. Cloth room of combined mills. 3. Slasher 5. Company store. 6. Reservoir after the break. / nionf'rogress room. 4. Cotton warehouse. Monday afternoon about four o’clock the little daughter of Bailey Strange, who live-a-several miles from Woodruff, in Spartanburg county, was struck by ligbtoing during a thunder storm and was instantly kill ed. Tne little girl’s grandmother who was near her at the time was also shocked. The six-year-old daughter of C. M. Scott, of Columbia, while visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Ben Kenedy, near Jouesville, was bitcen in the face and oo the nose by a dog that belonged to Mrs. Kenedy’s sons The dog had shown no signs of rabies before it bit the child, but afterwards it did and hit a dog and a cow. It is learned in Greenville on un questioned authority that the South ern Railway, the Blue Ridge Railroad and the Anderson Light and Water Company, which would suffer tremeu- dous damage id the event of any serious break in tht Toxaway, N. C., dam, will send engineers to the Sap phire country to make a careful ex amination of the structure. South Carolina Is spending more money than she is making. The esti- few^bruiscs on the side ofj Mr. Ross’ head and the breaking of the buggy, no further damage was done. Mr. Ross telegraphed to Gaffney for a man to come after tha horse, while he and his necie boarded the train at Cowpens aud return* d to the city that afteruooc. A Fishing Frolic. John Alexander, R. O. BaDenger, , W. H. Ross, “Doc” Ross and Lee Little weoton a fishing frolic to Broad river Tuesday. They went to Chero kee ford and spent the afternoon. Fishing was good and the crowd had a gay time chasing the finny tribe in the waters of the Broad. The fish were cooked on the bank, coffee was made by a kind lady in the neighbor hood, while the boys carried bread, bacon, etc., with them. We do not v inch for the veracity of the story but they do say that R O. is the only man who indulged in the etc. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment, and when applied to cuts, bruises and burns, causes them to heal without maturation and much more quickly than by the usual treatment. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.; L D. Allison, Cowpens. The cobbler and the blacksmith never get paid for shooing flies. Wo discontinue each subscription prompt ly at Its expiration. 80 watch your label and the date and renew before ’tls too late. coun’y.Tuesday said the employees of the William Sbutte Lumber Mills at that place still refused to go to work and said if any one attempted to take thoir plac« there would be trouble. About 150 men are out. They de mand a weekly pay-day system. The company heretofore has been paying off once a month. The Whitney Reduction Company, ; of Salisbury, has struck a phenome nally rich paying streak in the Bar ringer gold mine, in Stanly county, and already has taken out six tons of ore that assay $20,000 to the ton. This *s one of the greatest finds iu the history of mining In that country and 1 proves effectually that gold mining in North Carolina will pay. A serious accident happened to J. T. Dillehay, of Southern Pines, Tues day at 10:45 o’clock as he was re turning from a drive to the wreck. His horse became frightened, ran away aod threw Mr. Dillehay out, ! knocking him almost unconscious for a while. On reaching town the horse ! ran against a telegraph pole and broke its neck. It was a fine animal, valued at $175. A head-on collision between two Seaboard Ait Line freight trains oc-1 curred Tuesday morning between Vasa and Southern Pines. Engineers 3. D. Stewart and W. P. Wall, both of Raleigh, were instantly killed, and Fireman Walter Barns, of Concord, dangerously hurt. Fireman J. F. resulted In Abernathy killing Parnell. He was tried and sentenced to 15 years in Fort Leavenworth, where he is serving bis sentence. It is claimed in Abernathy’s defense that Paroell had pursued him for a long time and had tried to kill him ; also that Aber nathy acted in self defense when he killed Parnell. The Mmalleat on Record. Gaffney has the distinction of ha ing issued the smallest money ord< on record, so far as we are awar Some days ago a seedy looking ii dividual with a coarse voice appeare at the money order window and calle for an application blank. It wi handed him and Postmaster Folgi was astonished to find that the ord< called for one cent. It was mac payable to a member of a well know Atlanta printing firm. The ord< was mailed, but sometime after M Folger receivod an enquiry from H Atlanta postmaster to know what 1 do as the order had never been pr sented for payment. That Throhhlnic Hcadachw Would quickly leave vou, If y< used Dr. King’sNew Life Pills. Tho sands of sufferers have proved tht matchless merit for Sick and Ncrvo Headaches. They make pure blo< and build up your health. Only cents, money back if not cured. So by Cherokee Drug Co.