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/ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger 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., TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1903. 81.00 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. iCventa that Have Taken Place from One Bad of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. Seoator B. R. Tillman will deliver an address at Bisbopville, Lee coun ty, on July 17, on the leading issues of the day. Joe Friday, the negro who killed Stephenson in Columbia two weeks •go, was arrested last Saturday at Winnsboro and taken back to Colum bia. About midnight Friday night John /Wham went to Laurens and surren- jdered to Sheriff Duckett. His friends say that he did not flee from justice, but to escape trouble with the friends of the dead man, Ramage. Counsel for James H. Tillman stated Saturday night that be would be transferred to the Lexington jail on Monday. There is no special reasjn for this, it is stated, except that the prisoner wants a change. The affida vits and other papers in connection with the change of venue proceedings were shipped to Lexington today by "'express. Senator Tillman was in Co lumbia Saturday and called upon James H. Tillman. * Saturday State Constables Ew- . banks, Gideon and Seay made a suc cessful raid on the makers of illicit booze in the famous section known as the “Dark Corner,” in Greenville county. They succeeded in breaking up three large copper-stills, one of 100 gallon capacity, and the others-of 205 ^gallon capacity each. In addition to jthis, they destroyed 0.000 gallons of beer, 30 gillons of low wine, and 12 fermenters. About 8 o’clock Saturday night eastern freight train No. 88 ran over and'killed Foster Wood, a white lad of 12 or 11 years, within the corporate limits of Vnion. It is said that the boy was stealing a ride and, io jump- log from the train, was drawn under the wheels. His body was horribly mangled, portions of liesh and brains being scattered along the track for fifteen or twenty steps. Judge Townsend Saturday after noon,, heard arguments in a brought by a negro woman against Wood and Fleetwood, doing business on top of the other two. When the cars were lifted out no trace of the body was found, but by dragging it was recovered some seventy-five feet below. Then it was seen that the left hand was terribly mangled and the side torn away, making it probable that when be caught hold of the side, which was pivoted, the weight was shifted and his hand caught and held, dragging him to bis death. LAW BIDING LANCASTER. A Negro Narrowly Escape* Lynching In that County. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Lancaster, July 10—A lynching was narrowly averted in this county yesterday. Everything is quiet now, however, the party who had the close call, a negro named Ernest Blakeney, being safe behind the jail bars. Night before last Miss Dessie Stew art, the pretty and attractive daugh ter of Mr. J. Harvey Stewart, of the Tabernacle section, was awakened at her father’s home by some one trying to enter her bed room. The raising of a window bad aroused her, aud in looking in that direction she dis covered a man in the act of getting into the room. She promptly made an alarm and her brother, Mr. R. S. Stewart, coming to her rescue, saw a man running of! in the distance. He shot at the fleeing figure, but without effect. Yesterday morning Ernest Blake- □ey, one of the hands on the planta tion, failed to report for work and he was at once suspected of being the party who had attempted to enter the young lady’s room. Search was made for him and when finally found, in the course of an hour or so, he acknowledged to being the man. He also admitted that his purpose was an evil one, but be claimed that he had been prevailed upon by other negro men, naming them, to under-; take what be had attempted to do. He said that last Sunday afternoon, when Miss Stevart and two other young ladies of the community were taking a walk together be and the two negroes he named had a plan on foot to attack the young ladies, but for some reason their courage failed them. The brute’s confessions naturally aroused the indignation of the com munity, and there is little or no doubt but that he would have been lynched had not Mr. Stewart, Miss Deesie’s brother, earnestly appealed to the assembled crowd to let the law take its course. He reminded the excited, determined men of the fact that Tabernacle had always been a peace able, law-abiding community, and be urged them to continue to maintain oa8 ® that high reputation. Mr. Scewart’s words had the desired effect. In stead, therefore, of swinging the ne gro to a limb he was brought to town Littlejohn, Esq., will soon remove to Jonesville where he will be at the head of the oil mill company, now building built in that little city. J. L. s Colored Teachers Meet. The colored teachers of Cherokee county met at Dunton’s chapel Fri day and organized a teachers’ asso- through an agent at Columbia charg ng them with charging an illegal rate a n( j lodged in jail. .-of Interest for money lending. Judg- | ment had been obtained against the concern in magistrate’s court, and they appealed on the grounds that incompetent testimony had been ad- ’ mitted. Judge Townsend sustained .... -m the decision of the magistrate’s court, ciation with the following offisers: however, and the concern announces that they will appeal to the supreme court. The amount involved is only about $25. Two convicts at work on the state farm in Lexington tried to escape Saturday afternoon, and as a result one of them is dead and the other Both are ne- • dangerously wounded groes; one Ferry Hortons, serving a [five years sentence from Lancaster, who was killed, and the other George Mance, serving eighteen months from Greenville, who was wounded. The men naade the break in the afternoon - surprising the guard and succeeding .in gaining the woods. After the other convicts were locked up a searching party was organized and the men were tracked to what is known as the Swygert place, about six miles from Columbia in Lexington county. Here Mr. B. L. Swygert joined in the search armed with a double barrelled gun. Going through a strip of woods the convicts were seen rnnning and Mr. Swygert called for a halt. They kept running and Swygert fired both rels, killing Horton and woun Mance. / Mr. A. A. Brown, a young man aged ‘ years, of Hillsboro, N. C., was tilled at the works of the Catawba Power Company, near Rock Hill Fri day afternoon. He was engaged in superintending a squad of hands working on the side of the tramway wJAtb runs out ou the coffer dam and carries stone from the quarry to the dam. Three oars loaded with stone broke loose from the engine and ran 'slowly along the line toward the ter minus at the extremity of the coffer dam. The brakeman, failing to stop them, jumped off and ahouted to the men below to throw a scotch under tbs wheels. Brown ran to the track and putting his band on the aide of the second car, threw bis weight Mainat the car and tried to atop It. Toe .gars rushed on and it was seen kbff^e young'man was following an'nr».regarding*tbe shouts of those looking on to "turn loose the car.” This was thought to be due to bls^ex- eltsmsnt. Tbs first oar went over Into bs river; t be second, with the un- ortunate vi otlm still clinging to It, ollowed, an d the third oar plied up Rev. R. C. Campbell, president; Mrs. J. C. Jefferies, vice president; J. W. Speers, secretary; J. S. Bonner, as sistant secretary; Miss Eliza Little john, corresponding secretary; Miss M. L. Chambers, treasurer. Other teachers present were Misses Sadie Archer and Anna Littlejohn. A committee was aiso appointed to frame a constitution and present to the body of tea5hers at their next meeting which will be held at Dun- ton's chapel Thursday, July 16th, at 4 o’clock p. m. All teachers are re quested to be present as important business will be transacted. A Dummy Excursion, The Gaffney and Limestone Springs Railway Company ran a moonlight excursion to Limestone Springs last Friday evening. Quite a number of young people went down to spend an hour under ;.the shadows of the mag nificent oaks. Although it was said to^be a dummy excursion it is never- less a fact that the conversation arried on was anything but finger work, although a good part of it was in whispers. Mr. KuppeDead. Mr. James Rnppe died at his home in this city Saturday after a lingering sickness of several weeks and was buried Sunday in Cherokee church yard near Maud. The funeral ser vices were conducted by Rev. Jack Bonner. Mr. Ruppe was a member of that worthy family of Ruppes near Maud, and was a worthy and upright citizen. He leaves a wife and several children who have the sympathy of a large circle of relatives and friends, inolnd- ing The Ledger. Keappolutod. Judge W. H. Brawley has reap pointed and recommissioned G. W. Speer, Esq., referee in bankruptcy. The reappointment of Mr. Speer by Judge Brawley without any aolloi- tation from any one Is a compliment he richly deeerved. Who Is Mo? Who ie It that make* the Fewer- gallons; weari-longer paint? Interesting; Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings In Lower Section of the Connty Gathered Up by Oar Regular Correspon dent for Benetlt of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, July 10.—There will be preaching at Abingdon, Creek church on the third Sabbath of this month— the 19tb ins 1 If our people ever expect to do any good farming they must dispense with the extensive and adopt the intensive plan. Working the whole world to get half a crop of cotton or corn is poor business. We regret to learn that Mrs. J. K. Allison, of Hickory Grove, has ty phoid fever. Mr. J. E. Foster, we learn, will move his saw mill into the Wilkins- ville section soon. The marriage of Miss Sallie George and Coroner Vinesett was rather a sur prise to their friends in this commu nity. The unexpected often happens though. Our farmers are beginning to want rain since they have generally worked out their crops and are ready for it. We regret to hear of the death of Miss Lucy Whisonant, which took place at her home at Hickory Grove yesterday morning from fever. She was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Whisonant and a very estimable young lady. She was the very picture of health and beauty a od much beloved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances who will regret to hear of her death. Truly death is no respector of persons. Only one year ago her deft-fingers helped to prepare the burial costumes of one very near and dear to the writer. Thus, we are impressed with the solemn admonition ; “Therefore, be ye also ready; for in su;h an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” She was buried at Bul lock’s Creek church. Yesterday we made a trip to Skull Shoals on Pacolet river. One who has not been there can hardly imagine the changes made by the recent flood. It somewhat resembles the valley of Jehosaphet as outlined in Bible his tory when we see the immense de struction wrought by the river. We hope the two counties—Union and Cherokee—will soon take steps to re build the bridges both at Skull Shoals and Grindall Shoals, as, in our judg ment, they are indispensably neces sary for the convenience of the citizens of both counties. Mrs. J. L. S. has gone into the blackberry business—making up the different kinds ofjnick-nacks in which they are used, inducting wine for summer use. Notwithstanding the many backsets we have had on the farm and gardens, we have had more vegetables this year than we have had any one year in twenty, perhaps. Farmers in this community are anxious for a thrasher to come along and put out their wheat, some of which is very good, though most of the crops are small. Mr. Frank McCluney was in this section this week on business. Cotton blooms are plentiful now. Though the crop is late the prospect is about as good as it ever is. If frost will stop off until the middle or last of October there will be a good cotton crops made provided other conditions are favorable. Mr. Maurice Moore, of Union, and his sister, Mrs. Linder, came up to look after their Cherokee farm yester day and see their many friends on North Pacolet. Mr.Moore is engaged in the banking business with W. A. Nicholson & Son, of Union. Mischief-makers are trying to dis hearten those who took cotton and cloth out of the river, by telling them that the mill owners wasn’t going to pay them for it. That man is an enemy to his country who is trying to get up discord in any such a way. * That the owners will pay for every bale of either cotton or cloth saved and returned to them, we haven’t the least sort of doubt. i.ut it’s|unreason- able to expect that they would pay a price far beyond the value of the labor necessary to save their property. And, besides, if they are rich corpora tions it’s no reason why their proper ty should be confiscated by those finding it in the river or stranded along the banks where an Almighty hand had placed it. From those who have been in the employ of the mill companies for a long time we have the assurance that they are honest In their dealings to- warns their operatives and not only that, but are as humane as any other olass of men we find. Mr. Wade Prldmore’s family have whooping cough. Madame Rumor says that T. M. THE INDIANS AT SHELBY. Editor Hoey’s Account of the Ball Game on the Glorious Fourth. [Cleveland Star.J The glorious Fourth was generally observed in Shelby in that the whole town and all our visiting friends went to see the ball game in the afternoon, and it was the topic of absorbing in terest. The morning train from Gsff- ney City brought about two hundred people, including the ball team. The game was called at 4:30 p. m. and both teams were confident of vic tory. Gaffney was first to the bat and made three runs in the first in ning, and set our boys going. How ever, from that time until the seventh inning it was pretty ball playing. In the meantime Shelby made three runs and the score stood 7 to 3 in favor of Gaffney. The Shelby team pulled itself together and made some fine plays, doing good work, and at the close of the ninth inning the seore stood 6 to 9 in favor of Gaffney and a hotly contested ball game came to a close. Mr. R. M. Wells umpired the game and gave general satisfaction. The game was greatly enjoyed, and with exception of a few costly errors was played in a manner worthy of professionals. Several men on both teams played great bail. Gaffney has a wonderfully fine battery, and a good all round team. Shelby’s team does good work on the diamond and with some little changes could have been greatly strengthened. The boys are gritty; they don’t let defeat dis hearten them. The gate receipts were $97.00. THROUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. largely of a routine nature. The re port of the secretary and treasurer, Hon. Dan Hugh McLean, showed the receipts for the year to be $2y0,620.- 63, disbursements 288 508 68, balance $2 111.77. The finance committee reported that they bad examined all the books, etc., and had found every thing in first-class condition, After the directors’ meeting the annual meeting of the private stockholders was held. ConteMtants for Wlnthrop Scholarships. Fourteen yomg ladies contested before the county beard of education for scholarships in Winthrop College. They were Misses Mary Pollock, of Blacksburg; Lois McCluney, Wilkins- ville; Julia McArthur, of Gaffney; Lucy Pollock, of Blacksburg; Minnie Wessinger, of Gaffney ; Mary Huggin, of Lawn; Florence Porter, of Blacks burg; Mignan Walker, of Gaffney; Rosa Wessinger, of Gaffney ; Bernard McWhorter, of Grindal; Bell Gault, of Gowdysville; Daisy Rogers, of Gaffney ; Louise Jefferies, of Gaffney ; Ola Stacy, of Gaffney. The examination papers made by these young ladies have been for warded to Winthrop College when the faculty will examine them and award the scholarships. We hope to be abe to give the names of the success- full contestants in our next issue. A Sudden Death. Mr. Wm. E. Allen died suddenly at his home in the eastern part of the city Sunday morniag about 9 o’clock. Mr. Allen was in usual health Satur day night but woke Sunday morning about 3 o'clock and told Mrs. Allen tbat.he did not feel well, but little was thought of this. He took a cup of coffee for breakfast and soon laid down on a lounge and had not been there long when Mrs. Allen’s at tention was attracted to him and be died in a few minutes, it is supposed of heart failure. His remains were buried yesterday morning at 10 o’clock in Corinth cemetery. Rev. W. T. Thompson conducted the ser vices. Mr. Allen was a quiet, industrious man, a devoted husband and a good citizen. He leaves a wife to mourn her loss, to whom the sympathy of a host of friends goes in this her hour of trouble. Died. On the evening of July 5th, 1903, in the 23rd year of her age, Viola, daugh ter of Mrs. Mary Bridges, of Boiling Springs. Although as frail as a lily she dwelt with us until her pure life reflected radiance in many hearts, then death claimed her and bore her away to her home beyond the tomb. Belst years which embody all that was pure and holy io her life. Fond memory will often recall her earnest walk and innocent life and prepare our hearts to bear the sorrow caused by her early death, and now the pitless grave holds dear Viola and there is □otbing left but a mound of earth to answer back the longing heart’s cry for— “A touch of the vanished hand" “A sound of the voice that Is still" “Too pure to live mid scenes of grief aud woe” "Heaven smiled on thee and gave a home above” "Where vernal showers fall and crystal waters flow." • • * • Yet sad, Oh, sad unto our human hearts Is such a stroke even If In mercy sent. How hard to say, Otiod thy will be done, Alas tls boneless grlet—we must relent. Bhe's'now In Heaven, has Joined the angles, And waits her love ones on the other shore. Good Everywhere Used. 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 wbat the American people need for their dally 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 & Co. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers It is very probable that Raleigh is to have a dispensary. Oxford is still growing as the as sessed value of property has increased $60,000 ovtr last year—making.it now $1,005,000. At the-closing session of the south ern newspaper circulators at Ashe ville W. VV. Moore, of the Asheville Citizen, was elected president. The county commissioners at Wil son refused to grant license to Geo. T. Morgan to operate a whiskey still in the corporate limits of the town of Wilson. The first load of tobacco of the new crop arrived at Raleigh five days earlier than last year. It was grown by 8. L. Cooper, of Holly Springs, Wake county. The Fayetteville District Confer ence, M. E. Church, South, will meet in the Methodist church, Siler City, on Thursday 23rd inst. Rev. J. B. Hurley, the newly appointed Presid ing El ler, will preside. Captain Venable is making a success raising truck at Wilson. He has sold this season $1 300 worth of lettuce and shipped 150 crates of fine toma toes, for which he realized a good price. Mr. Frank Bell, of Poplar Grove, Dublin, caught 27 large rats in bis barn one day last weea and after the big haul, he caught 18 more at dif ferent times making a total of 45 These were all caught in a hollow log which Mr. Bell placed in the barn for that purpose. Friday a petition was circulated at Raleigh asking that an election be ordered in Raleigh township on the issue of $35 000 of bonds in aid of the Raleigh <fc Pamlico Sound Railway, aud over 250 business men have al ready signed, only one having refused to do so. Between 8 and 9 o’clock Friday night Mary Ellison, a negro woman was burned to death at Durham and the fire department was call upon to stop the blaze as a result of kindling fire with oil. The accident occurred at the home of Mrs. L. McCain, on West Main street. The adjutant general has received application for the acceptance into the North Carolina naval reserves of a company organized at Beaufort. The company embraces of [forty-five. There are now only five companies in the naval reserves and the state is al lowed eight, so the Beaufort company will doubtless be accepted. The preliminary survey of the pra- posed railroad from Pittsboro to Greensboro is completed and the sur veying party has returned to headquar ters at Gulf. Mr. Spence Taylor, who has been on the survey, returned home oc las; Monday and says tbit a good route has been secured. The chief engineer and his assistants will now make out a profile of the route and prepare estimates as to its cost. Mrs. W. S. Hartsfield while in bath ing at Wrigbtsville, was knocked off her feet by a breaker and would prob ably have lost her life had it not been for Mr. Walter Lancaster, who rushed to her assistance. Mr. Hartsfield ac companied his wife into the surf and on seeing her danger, started to her aid, but was separted from .her by a breaker which carried Mrs. Hartsfield rapidly outward. The county commissioners at Kin ston awarded to the B. F. Smith Fire proof Construction Company, of Washington, D. C., the contract for putting in fireproof vaults in the reg ister of deeds’ and the clerk of the court’s offices, their bid being the lowest, $4,700. They also bid to furn ish the two offices with metal furni ture for $600 (and were awarded that contract. The contract calls for the completion of these improvements by November 1st, 1903. The Meckleuburg County Fair will be held this year during the last week In October, and the prospects for a successful event are very bright. In fact, the management confidently ex pects the biggest fair in the history of the association, if not the biggest fair ever held in North Carolina. The farmers throughout the county are exhibiting a deeper interest in the fair, and more of them will make exhibits this year than heretofore. The ottnr attraotlons will be dp to the standard. The annual meeting of the board of dlreotora of the North Carolina Rail road wae held at the Benbow, Greene- boro, Thursday. The business was BLACKSBURG “JINERS." They Had a Delightful Time Last Tuesday Night Blacksburg Masonic Lodge held their regular meeting last Tuesday night, when work in the second de gree was done. We haven’t been told how the poor blind candidate came out, for they never give the se crets away, not even to their wives, but we do know that they had a de lightful time after the exercises. To the thoughtfulness of Junior ^Warden Phil Freeman the bretheren are due their thanks for au elegant lunch and other refreshments. E. K. Belue de lighted tha gathering with a concert cn his “funnygraph.” There was a good attendance of the local members and also quite a number went over from Gaffney for the occasion. It is now up to Junior Warden Paul Gaff ney, of this place, to follow the ex ample set by the genial Phil. Spirit* of the Pre**. Down in Alabama the colored people do not know that slavery has been abolished. In Delaware they not only have slavery abolished, but are trying to abolish the negro also.—Quincy (111.) Herald. Gambling is treated as a felony in the State of Washington. The same kind of a law should be in force in every State It is not so important that the gamblers themselves should be saved from loss, as the man who loses in games of chance gets his just deserts, but innocent and dependent ones who are made to suffer should be protected by the luw as much as possible from the harm that follows such practices—Salem (led.) Demo-- crat. We would like to say something about the looting of the postffice and other departments at Washington, but the story is too dirty.—Salem (Ind.) Democrat. In Tennessee the mob shoots the sheriff and in Delaware the sheriff shoots at the mob, but in neither State is Mr. Outrager benefited. It is highly desirable that lynchings should be done away with, but the negroes themselves more than any others can help to do away with these burnings and bangings by becoming law-abiding. It is not because they are negroes that they are lynched, but because they are fiends. If a negro was to commit such an outrage, accompanied by the wanton cruelty which is usually an accompaniment ot this crime, on a female of his own race, then members of his own race would build his funeral pyre, and they would execute vengeance on him impelled by the same reasons that impel the white mob; not because he is black, but because he is a fiend.— Houston (Tex.) Post. In Missouri a man was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for participating in a lynching. It is now up to Illinois, Indiana and Dela ware to take action. —Waterloo (la.) Courier. The opportunity to do mischief is foupd a hundred times a day, and that of doing good but once a year.— Voltaire, New* from Ezell*. E/.ells, July 9.—The hot days have come aud farmers are laying their crops by up here, with the exception of late corn. Crops generally, within the last two weeks, seem to haye been trying to make up for lost time, es pecially cotton. Watermelons will be almost or quite a failure unless the late planting does well. The heavy rains damaged the vines and the bugs about finished them. There seems to be a fatality among the horses and moles around here, Mr. Black Scruggs’ mule was found in the stable with its bind quarters appar ently paralyzed. A Mr. Elms bad bis mule choked to death by an apple, Mrs, Fannie Scruggs, (ool.) bad her horse to fail dead in the plow. It la hard for them to lose their stock now, not having finished plowing. Mr. H. Z. Hicks has a “bran new” baby girl at bis house, and Mr. Eddie Scruggs a boy at his home. Joe. Tour Gne*t* Will Pral»« It. Why not try a sack of Bracsford’s “Clifton?” You will never know how good It is until you use it. Your neighbor finds it the best flour in the market, and your borne people as well as your guests will praise your bread, cake and pastry If made of “Clifton” flour. W. J. Wilkins & Co. We discontinue each suljscrlpUon prompt ly at Its expiration. Bo watch your label and the date and renew before ’tls too late. ■id,