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THE LARGEST (Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. — JThe Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. \ 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., FBI DAY, OCTOBER 16, 1903. $1.00 A YEAH. TILLMAN ACQUITTED BY LEXINGTON JURY Verdict Rendered Yesterday Morning. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. JURY OUT TWENTY HOURS 'Tweuty llourH After Caxe in (.Iveii tlie Jury .iaiiiPH 11. Tilliimii Founii Not Outlty of the Murder of Kditor M. <>. GouraloH-TilL- luan’a Krieuds are Jubilant. The following was received in the ■oity yesterday : “The jury has returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of J. H. Till man. The Staic.” Lexington, Oct. 15.—The jury in j the Tillman case announced at l<J:45j today that they found the prisoner not guilty of the murder of Editor ■Gonzales. , The jury was out tweuty hours. , After they made the announcement that they had reached a decision the defendant and attocneys|vere sent for and the verdict read. Tillman’s friends immediately gave vent to their feelings although the court had admonished the spectators to refrain from any demonstration. Tillman shook hands with the judge and left the room accomuanied by his friends and counsel. DATES AND EVENTS IN TTLLMi .N TRAGEDY. The first trouble betwen Tillman andjGouzales began in 1890 renewed during Spanish-Am ricau war in 1898, became violent in contest for lieutenant goveraor in 1900. The relations became absolutely strained in gubernatorial campaign in 1902 Tillman shot Gonzales Jan. 111,1903 Gonzales died Monday, Jan 19, 1903 Coroner’s inquest brought in charge of murder against Tillman Jan. 20, 1903. Application for bail made in Feb ruary, 1903, was refused. April 1903, term of court in Colum bia tr.al was postponed on account of absence of witnesses. Change of venue to Lexington county granted at June term of court. Defendent arraigned iu Lexington Sept. 21, 1908. Date ofjtrial fixed for September 28, 1903. Tillman pleaded not guilty Sept. 28, #’903. Jury secured and taking of testi mony begun Sept. 28, 1903. Prosecution closed Oct. 3, 1903. Defense begun, but court adjourn ed on account of illness of Juror Sharpe Tuesday, Oct. 6. Defense begun its testimony Wed nesday, Oct. 7, 1903. Tillman on stand Oct. 8 and 9,1993. Defense closed on afternoon Oct. 9, 1908. Rebuttal witnesses for both sides heard Oct. 10, 1903. Argument begun Oct. 12,1903. Jury charged Oct. 14 1903. DISPENSARY FIGURES. Chief Hammett MakeH Statement of Seizure and SaleH, [Greenville News.] Columbia, Oct. 13.—(Special)— Chief Constable Hammett has made a report, showing the comparative cost, value of seizure, amount of fines collected, and sales at the dispensa ries for the months of July and Au gust, 1902, and the same period for 1903. The cost of constabulary for July aud August, 1902, was $9,015.81, and for 1908, $10,352.45, an increase of $1,138 14. The seizures by the constabulary for these two months, 1902, were, whiskey 2.901 gallons, valued at $3,- 18650; for 1903, 1,754 gallons, valu ed at $2 031. Beer, 514 dozen, valu ed at $372 10, and for 1908, 1,294 dozen, valued at $798.70, a total de crease in value of goods seized, $228 90. The sales of the local dispensaries for July and August, 1902, were $320,748.17, and for 1903, $79,518.84. an Increase of $58,770 07. For the wholesale dispensary, the gales for these months last year were $285,280.44 and for 1908, $845,923 74, and increase of $00,637 30. The revenue department has adver tised the sale of the freight car and 500 gallons of whiskey seized Satur day by Deputy Collector Huggins, unless claim is filed with the depart ment within the next thirty days. The railroad will probably make claim for the oar, but is hardly prob able that the owner of the whiskey will appear^ , llroke Into IIIn House. 8. Le Quinn, of Cavendish, Vt., was robbed of bis customary health by invasion of Chronic Constipation. When Dr. King’s New Life Pills broke Into bis house, his trouble was arrest ed and now he’s entirely cured. They’re guaranteed to cure. 25o at* Cherokee Drug Co. People Yon Know and People You Don’t Knon The following have been the vis iting attorneys here this week:J. Wright Nash, Solicitor Sease, John Gary Evans, Barber Hoke, Stanyarne Wilson, S. T. McCravy and 8. J. Simpsou, of the Spartanburg bar; G. W. S. Hart,of Yorkville, B. L. Abney, of Columbia, and Mr. Cothran, of Greenville. John Thomas Ruppe, of Maud, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit yesterday. J. R. Healan, a prominet business man of Blacksburg, was in the city Wednesday. Wade Pridraore, a merchant and farmer of Sarratt, spent sometime in the city yesterday. James T. Moorehead, a successful Gowdysville planter, was in the city Wednesday. Comptroller General Jones was in the city yesterday. Jessie Pinson, of Tbickety, spent some time in the city Wednesday. H. C. Tetton is spending the week at Converse. Richard Scruggs, an old and worthy citizen of Ezell, was a visitor in the city Wednesday. Irwin E. Doggett, a former citizen of Gaffney, but now of Greensboro, N. C., paid The. Ledger an apprecia ted visit yesterday. R. A. Westbrook, an over-tho-Broad farmer, spent some time in the city Wednesday. W. O. Lipscomb, a prominent rail road contractor of this city, now be ing in Knoxville Teon., looking after his large contracts in that state, is in the city among his many friends for a few days. Calvin Moore, a State Line farmer, was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. W. T. Poag of the Live Stock Com pany, who has been absent from the city some days on business, returned Tuesday. K. K. Belue, of Blacksburg, came to the city on business Wednesday. James W. Sparks, a merchant and farmer of Asbury, came to the city Tuesday on business. S. A. Sarratt, a young farmer of Dellinger, culled on us Wednesday ana subscribed. Lee Allen, a Bowliosville farmer, paid The Ledger a visit Tuesday and renewed. C. B. Turner, of Grassy Pond, was a Ledger visitor Tuesday. John H. Wilkins, of Gowdeysville, | was in the city Wednesday. H. 'A. Hicks, of Ezell, was in the l city Tuesday. John Smith, a prominent business man of Cowpens, was in the city! Wednesday. W. T. Love, of Love’s Spring, was a city visitor Tuesday. Luther Guthery, of Goucher, has been attending court this week. Mrs. Mautie Shell, nee Miss Mantie Maoomson, wife of Rev. J. H. Shell, has beeen visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Macomson at Mercer, and is now in the city visiting rela tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Smith, of Al- good, were shopping in the city Wed nesday. “Quit’’ Anthony, one of Cherokee’s most worthy young men, now a loco motive engineer on the Columbia and Asheville division of the Soutoern, is in the city visiting relatives and look ing after bis farming interests in the county. John R. Webster, of Cowpens, was in the city yesterday the guest of Judge J. E. Webster. W.O. S. Wood, of Goforth, came to the oity yesterday. Martin Roberts, a young and suc cessful Broad river farmer, was in the city yesterday. Robert T. Lawson, of Ezell, paid The Ledger a visit Wednesday. Church Notice. Services at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath at eleven a. m. Mr. 8. F. Parrott will be installed us a rul ing elder. No service at night on ac count of the meeting at the First Baptist church. The Synod of South Carolina will hold its sessions in Cheraw, beginning on next Tuesday at 12 m. Mr. J D. Goudelock will represent the church. ■ A Correction. In our account of the death of Mrs. Mollie MoGee in last issue, two small errors occurred. One was, “Cate” McGee, her husband, should have been Tate McGee; and the other, the remains were Interred In the family burying ground near Macedonia church, instead of Oakland cemetery, as stated. MROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. REPUBLICAN CLAIM IS A RANK BLUFF eight persons indicted by various I grand juries for complicity in the frauds and peculations in the Post ! Office Department, but not one has, so far, been brought on trial, and she chances are not one of the indict- TT ed will be as vigorously prosecuted as Unmistakable Signs of Alarm he deserves or be convicted in the in Ohio end. The distinguished politician who presides over the Post Office ♦ ! Department seems to think that his ALL OVER THE STATE. PROMISES ARE BROKEN has ground exceeding fine, and J \ that he has a fine mass of rotten mill „ ^ stuff to present to the people of the j country as the result of the labors of dventtf that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Hnsy People. While opening a box, J. C. Mount, of Three Mile Bay, N. Y., ran a ten penny nail through the fleshly part of hla hand. “I thought at once of all the pain and soreness this would cause me,” he says, “and Immediate ly applied Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and occasionly afterwards. To my surprise it removed all paiu aud sore ness and the injured parts were soon healed.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. The Gaffney DurgCo. has a com- R lete assortment of Nail Brushes, lall polishers, Nail files, Nall clippers etc. Drop In and look at them. Geo. W. Burbage, of Greenville, was accidentally shot Monday evening with a 32 calibre revolver, the ball piercing his right ear twice. Mr. Burbage is painfully but not serious ly injured. The State fair is now but ten days away. Tne big carnival will begin Monday afternoon, Oct. 20th, and the annual State fair will commence Tuesday, continuing until Thursday. The carnival will continue through out the week. Governor Heyward has commanded Judge Tyler to hold special court at Orangeburg beginning October 30 to try William Jones, a negro charged with assaulting a white girl. The date is set for October 30 to allow time for drawing a jury. Jos. A. McCullough, of Greenville, and C. F. Martin, of Anderson, as at torneys ior Charlie Johnson, the eight-year-old son of W. J. Johnson, who lives near Pelzer, have filed a suit for $7 500 against the Southern railway. The boy was injured very seriously last August at Pelzer by a train while driving across the track in a wagon. I. W. Hay wood.a youug white man, has been lodged in the Spartanburg jail for attempting to pass a raised bank note at Cowpens. The commit ment, issued by Magistrate Potter, of tbat.towu, charges defendant of for gery, but the case will come up in Commissioner McGowan’s court at Spartanburg as it is a violation of the United States statutes. Haywood “raised” a five-dollar note to $50 and attempted to puss it on L. N. Moore, a merchant at Cowpens. Fire late Monday afternoon dam aged the store room and stock of goods of the Sullivan Hardware oom- panv of Anderson to the extent of $2,000 or $2,500. The loss fs covered by insurance. George Jolly* one of the clerks, was iu the cellar drawing eome liquid aspbaltum from a barrel and had a uegro holding a lighted candle. The gass or fumes from the aspbaltum exploded, covering both the men with flames. Both were badly burned but will recover. Lee Hardin, the negro who killed Belle Watson in Yorkville recently, is still at large, and the officers of the law have no knowledge as to his whereabouts. Sieaking of Hardin the other day, a prominent citizen of Yorkville. who knew him well, said: “Hardin was a good uegro when he was sober, and it was seldom that he took a drink of whiskey. He got drunk usually about two or three times a year, and when he did drink whiskey i>t all, he went completely wild.’* The railroad commission completed its report on the wreck at Fishing Creek in York county, which will be submitted to the legislature at the next session. The report also bus attached the report of Col. J. H. Averill, the expert engineer who was employed to inspect the road. In the report the testimony of the wituessess examined at Rock Hill and of the officials of the road ex amined in Columbia is reviewed and srveral valuable suggestions are made to the legislature. An aged lady, Miss Nancy Robert son, living ten milei above Laurens, was burned to death in her home Monday night. When the fire was discozered the building was almost destroyed and no rescue could be made. She was seventy-five years old. The fire is supposed to have originated from a lamp, a large quan tity of battlrg becoming ignited ac cordingly while she was engaged in quilting. Miss Robertson lived a'one. Her nearest neighbor lived about 100 yards from her bouse. She was poor but highly respectable, belonging to a'prominent family of that county. Her bones were dug from the debris Tuesday. Saturday night at Vaughnville, about 18 miles from Newberry in the upper part of the county, Clarence M. Brooks, aged about 17 years, son of Mr. C. A. Brooks, sbos and in stantly killed Raymond Sizer,colored, at his father’s store. The two sons of Mr. C. A. Brooks slept In the store and this negro came there and called them up and Clarence went to the door. The negro made some pur chases and when he was leaving he cursed and gave Mr. Brooks some im prudence, and Mr. Brooks told him to get out of the store and instead of going he picked up a weight and was about to strike Mr. Brooks when he shot him. Subsoribe for The Ledger. will Have Over a Hundred Tliounaud l\la jorlty In Ohio- Hanna and Uitt Ship Sub- sidy Scheme—I’oHtotHce Frauds. fOorreaoondenc* of The Ledger.) Washington, D. Oct. 15.—It j comes to this political nerve center i in a pretty straight line from the Ohio hustings, that the republican claims that they will have over one hundred thousand majority in the election to be held in that state in November, is a game of rank bluff. There are unmistakable signs of alarm over there since Hanna was trapped into defending his ship sub sidy scheme that would cost the peo ple of this country $10,UU0,00<) a year and benefit solely a shipping trust in the East. In order to make his little gift enterprise apply to the State of Ohio. Hanna used what would, at first blush, appear a cogent argu ment, to wit, that shipping on the lake and all trade had increased won derfully in the past few years. With childlike innocence in all matters that do not appertain to his own pocketbook, Hanna forgot that no provision of his ship subsidy scheme related in the slightest degree to the lake vessels. All the conceded de velopment of traffic on these vast in land waterways cost the United States Treasury not one cent. None of the interests engaged in it ask any share in Mr. Hanna’s generosity with the money of the people that he in tends to give to the eastern ship building trust. The farmers of Ohio have been asking questions about this matter and have begun to do some thinking for themselves. In consequence thereof the republican leaders have requested Mr. Hanna to either revise his subsidy argument or else shunt it off the boards during the remainder of the campaign. The outlook for defeating Hanna for Seu- atorship is growing better every day, and altogether things are not as lovely for the ’•epublieans in Ohio as they could wish. * ¥ * One spellbinder, whom Chairman Dick hoped to have on the stump over in Ohio has flatly refused to take part in the campaign for the re-elec tion of Hanna. Delegate Rodey, of New Mexico, says he was shocked by the action of Hanna on the floor of the Senate last January when he re pudiated the republican platform promise to the territories, and that he cannot conscientiously take part in hie re election. If that were the only platform promise the republican party has ever repudiated, that party would still be entitled to the distin guished consideration of the people, but the platform promise concerning the territories is only one little venial sin compared to the mountain of ini quity justly chargeable to the repub lican party. The republican national platform not only promised statehood to the territories and then went back on the promise, but it also promised reciprocity not only with Cuba, but with other countries. The reciprocity treaties negotiated by McKinley have never been ratified. And yet the pro tective duties of the Diugley bill were purposely placed so high that the concession made to foreign countries under the treaties negotiated would still leave ample protection for the trusts. But the trusts demanded all the swag that the tariff bill gave them, and their influence with the republican Congress was sufficient to prevent the ratification of the reci procity treaties. The promise in the republican platform to favor legisla tion that would prevent monopolies “to limit production or to control prices,” has not been redeemed and never will be until the republican party and its present leaders are re tired from business, for the trusts and monopolies furnish their bread of life—campaign funds. The prom ises of the republican platform to labor have not been redeemed. The republican platform declared, “we are in favor of a more effective re striction of the immigration of cheap labor from foreign countries.” That this promise has not been kept is plain to every man on earth from the fact that the present immigration ex ceeds that of any other year in the history of the country. It is quite unnecessary to go on piling up in stances of|repubiicau platform prom ises repudiated. The above are amply sufficient to show that the re publican platforms are like those of the passenger coach, made to go In on and not to stand on. Redeemed republican platform promises are the exception and not the rule. Repub lican promises are made only to fool the people. How much longer will the people be fooled? * * * Up to date there have been twenty- his insppctors. Ht* is now congratu lating himself and the country that the end has been reached and that the official reports will soon be forth coming; at least they will soon be in THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. the hands of thePresident, who will give them tothepubiic if he sees fir. lo do so, andif be 1 does not the people can go to j and there you are. As I said above, not one man has been brought to trial, aud if the United States Courts keep up the record they are mtikiog none of them will ever be brought to trial or convicted after they are brought to the bar of justice. Beavers is fighting like a Turk over in New York to keep from being tried and the court is helping him. It not only has postponed his trial st-vtral times at the instigation of his cout • sel, but it has summoned the United States District Attorney to come in and show cause why he should not be sentenced for contempt of court for refusing some plea set up by Bea vers. The courts seem to be fighting for the accused grafters, and if things keep on as they now are going not one of the gang of thieves will be con victed. The republicans here are congratulating themselves and one another that the end of the investiga tion is in sight aud that the attention of the country will soon be taken off their misdeeds by the assembling of Congress. The end of the investiga tion is in sight because they want it to be and not because there is not plenty more things to investigate if they wanted to. They have only scraped the surface in the Post Offica Department. They have not touched the bureau where the mail contracts are made with the railroads for carrying the mails. Chakles A. Edwards. Hickory HappenlngM, (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Hickory Grove, Oct. 12—Our little town is still quiet, and cotton is sell ing some notwithstanding the low price—9£ is the best today. Our school has opened with about fifty-eight pupils. The principal teacher is Miss Luiy Thornwell from Culpeper,Va. jassistant is Miss Annie V. Miller, from New Port, 8. O. These ladies have come highly recom mended and so far both patrons and pupils are satisfied. The orphanage is getting on finely, Rev.John Simpson superintends and Miss Edna Castles, of Blackstocks, is matron. There are at present seven teen male and female inmates, about equally divided. A new livery stable has gone up here erected by Whisonant Bros. They expect to sell and buy every thing in their line. May they pros per in their new home. Ran, Saves Two From Death. “Our little daughter bad au almost fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis,” writes Mrs. W. K. Havilaud, of Armook, N. Y., “but, when all other remedies failed, we saved her life with Dr, King’s New Discovery. Our niece, who bad Con sumption in an advanced stage, also used this wonderful medicine and to day she is perfectly well.” Desper ate throat and lung diseases yield to Dr. King’s New Discovery as to no ofher medicine on earth. Infallible for Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00 bottles guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Trial bottles free. Business depends more ou keeping faith than on keeping books. Htonmch Trouble CaiiHes Heart Trouble. Heart trouble is almost always caused by stomach trouble. The stomach fails to digest all the food, and the residue ferments, forming ex cess of gas, distends the‘walls of the stomach, causing a pressure on the nerves and arteries that lead to the heart. This causes the heart to pal pitate or skip a beat occasionally, or both, which Is usually very alarming, causing grave apprehensions. Ry- dales Stomajb Tablets will prevent this trouble. They digest the food and prevent gass from forming in the stomach. If there is no gas in your stomach your heart will not trouble you —Gafiney Drug Co. Klnnr Higher. Thb late government report makes the wheat crop thirty-five million bushels less than last year. This means very much higher flour until another harvest in 1904. All flour is higher now, but the advance on Bransford’s “Clifton” has not yet been as great in proportion to other flour. However, it is a mighty good time to buy a supply before it goes still higher. Fresh flour constantly received. W. J. Wilkins & Co. Dr. Parker Prav’s Diamond Nail Enamel—The quickest most brilliant and lasting nail polish, fragrant per* fume. aSc a box.—The Gaffney Drug Co. IiitereMttnj; IteniH Concerning Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which JVIny Prove Entertaining; Keadiuic for Hundred* of Ledger Header* The State board of pharmpey in Greensboro Monday examined 20 ap plicants for license, among the num ber being three negroes. Work on the survey of the Raleigh A Pamlico Sound Railroad has prog ressed so rapidly that one of the of ficers says it will be completed in 60 days. A negro woman named Sheppard, living near Raleigh, shot her husband Tuesday because he was cruelly beat ing their child and refused to stop when she entreated. The State Tuesday chartered the Cabarrus Land, Lumber and Mining Company, of Concord, capital stock, $15,000. J L. Peck, W. A. Smith.and I H. M. Caldwell, stockholders. A big reunion of native North Caro- i linians, who reside in other than the jOld North State, was held at Greens- j horo this week. The attendance was large and the city of Greensboro en tertained the exiles in royal manner. The jury in the trial of Ernest Haywood, for the killing of Ludlow Skinner in front of the postoffice in Raleigh February 21, last, retired at 12:30 Wednesday and in 15 minutes returned with a verdict of not guilty, i entirely acquitting the defendant. David Ide, the 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ide, of Salis- burj - , was bitten by a vicious horse Monday afternoon and his left arm required immediate medical atten tion. The lad was feeding the horse when it turned upon him aud bit his hand. One bone was broken and the 1 wrist was gashed. At the Catholic Orphanage, near Raleigh, Wednesday, a little girl pu- pil from Magnolia was badly injured. ! She wat in the laundry, and both hands were caught in a roller which ! is used for ironing, the roller being kept very hot. Her hands and arms, half way to the elbow, were badly bruised and burned. An inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, in Raleigh, Pickett by name, and from the county of Orange, wandered off Friday and has not since been heard from. Pickett has a delusion on one subject. He said a day or two before he left that fifteen men were after him, to kill him. There is no fear that has come to any harm. Governor Aycock has respited Hen ry Holaman, of Greene county, who was under sentence to be banged at Snow Hill to-day (16th.) The respite is until December 17. Holaman was convicted of burglary. It is said that the only identification of him was of his voice by a woman. The respite is granted at the request of the Jbdge who tried the case and with the con sent of Swift Galloway, Esq., the prosecuting attorney, in order to have a more full investigation of the case. In this case no appeal to the Supreme Court was takeo. The case was a very close one and some con sidered it very doubtful. Mr. Green W. Brown, who lives at Cballybeate, Hamette county, twenty-six miles from Raleigh, dropped dead Monday morning at the depot just as he was about to take the Raleigh and Cape Fear train for Raleigh in company with his wife. He was apparently in good health and was standing talking to some friends when the sudden summons came. He suddenly threw up his hands and expired without uttering a word. His body was taken up by friends and removed to his home, only a few yards distance. He was a man about sixty years old aud a con- f-istent member of the Missionary Baptist church. The Norfolk and Southern passen ger train, bound south, was wrecked at Elizabeth City Tuesday at a switch that had been thrown open, owing to opening of a drawbridge. William Seay, the* engineer was killed. Seay was in charge of passenger train en gine No. 2, southbound, attached to a caboose car, and as he rounded a curve near the drawbridge be saw that the latter was open, the red signal-being bidden from him owing to the curve. Seeing that unless be stopped his engine at once it would strike the derailing switch intended to throw a train from the track rather than let it plunge into the creek while the drawbridge was open, Seay commanded bis fireman to jump and reversed his engine and ti.rew ou the brakes, but was unable to keep bia locomotive from leaving the track. The engine and a coboose car at tached to it were badly wrecked, and the track waa torn np for some dis tance.