The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 20, 1903, Image 3
HORRIBLE, IF TRUE.
CHICAGO RAILWAY STRIKE.
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Your Hair
“Two years ago my hair was
falling out badly, I purchased a
bottle of Ayer’s Hair Vigor, and
soon my hair stopped coming out.
Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111.
Perhaps your mother
had thin hair, but that is |
no reason why you must *
go through life with half-
starved hair. If you want
long, thick hair, feed it
with Ayer’s Hair Vigor,
and make it rich, dark,
and heavy.
t! M a bottle. All drbfgists.
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it- your iruf'pist ernnot you. I
aeixl'ua «o is tluilur and ve v I ox■ rex.
you :i Imtt.io. Ite sure and pive ilie n ime j
of your lie.irest express ollice. Add re ... \
.J. C. A YKK CO., ’.oweu. Ai. r s. |
Sllli.'.TiON ASSUMES '
A (lUITIGAL PHASE;
Relations Between United
estates and ooiombia.
REPORT TO WASHINGTON, D. C.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
Mas. Mary Thompson Howe, daugh
ter of f ' late Bishop Thompson, ol
Mississippi, and a prominent official
of the King’s Daughters, is dead at
her country home in Macon county
North Carolina.
The Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank
ait Camden, S. C., remained closed on
Tuesday pending an investigation
Other than this the death of President
Boykin and the suicide u' Clashier
Zemp had no result.
Democratic senators, as a rule
have no intention of allowing them
selves to be put in the attitude of ob
structing the construction of the Pan
ama canal. Senator Bacon says that
while he believes President Roosevelt
has acted illegally, yet the Democrats
Intend to urge the building of the
waterway.
As a result of the meeting of . Sea
board directors in New York the Blair
Ryan relief plan was adopted and s
new board of directors will be
named. It is said in New York tinan
cial circles that the new deal means
that Morgan and Southern railway in
terests are now in control of the Sea
board.
In the house Mr. McClellan, of New
York, speaking on the Cuban rociproc
ity lull made a bitter attack on the
■course of General Wood when the iat
ter was governor of the island. He ac
cused Wood of fastening a gambling
monopoly on Havana.
Representative Hardwick ha# In
duced the civil service commisKionerf
to reconsider the case of James M
Bverett, who, it is said, was deprivet!
■of his appointment as Janitor at An
gmsta in order that a negro might
get the place
Insurance companies of the Urdu ■
States have asked the senate to e-
tend the lottery laws so as 10 mai
them apply to tike concern* writ i n
fake insurance.
It is said Russia and Japan have v-
newer! negotiations with respect t
Manchuria and a peaceful outcome
expected
The Kent Keuiecly;for Croup.
I Front the A-Whisou, Rim., Daily Globed
Tbis is the season when the woman
who knows the best remedies for
croup is in demand in every neigh
borhood. One of the most terrible
things in the world is to be awakened
is the middle of the night by a whoop
from one of the children. The croup
remedies are almost as sure to be lost,
in case of croup, as a revolver is sure
to be lost in the ease of burglars.
There used to be au old-fashioned
remedy for croup, known as hive
syrup and tola, but some modern
mothers say that Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy is better, and does not
cost so much.
• I
fcdnuUr Lexa jJ.-e Preyed Strongly by
Ccd~r..Li ...i uovernment to Know If
I Uaiuju w.aiea propoaeo to Recognize
Repjbuc uv Panama.
| vVa»a.ii 0 iuii, .so/. 18.—It is learned j
here t.u:t the situation at Bogota has ;
assumed a critical phase as tar as re- ;
lauoi.s noiweeii me U lilted Rtates auu* j
j Co.o:i...) „ arc coiiCvined.
.Vi ri.-'’ a t'eaupre on the 16th instant i
■ wa 0 pre red stiongly by the Colombian
i go.e,iiuic.iL to known whether the
Cr.dc.l Strtes intended to recognize
tiie new republic of Panama.
tu is unueivtood that the roQuast
v-as-in suca .'•nape as to constitute a
mecMcc in the event that the recog-
nitum had been extended.
.,ir. Beaupre was instructed by this
goveruir ut to agaiu inform the Co
lombian government that such recog
nition hail been extended to the new
republic, of Panama by the United
St:u.-,s. but simply in the interest, of
humanity and civilization and in ex-
ci tition of solemn treay pbligations
; ircl-ing upon the United States. He
also was instructed to tender to the
Colombian government the good of
fices of the Unit./l States to effect a'
sottltment of the difficulties between
Coicmbia and Panama.
I’m* issue is awaited wih some anx
l?ty here.
Bvbeved Wentz Was Burned In Coke
Oven by ’Shiners.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 18.—According
to a well known unwritten law of the
Kentucky mountaineers to take “an
eye for an eye” or "a tooth for a
tooth,” tiie people of Stone Gap be
lieve Wentz has been cremated in a j
coke oven.
The story from Big Stone Gap is
this:
During the summer a Kentucky
mountaineer got into a difficulty at
Stone Gaji, where the Wentz interests !
have two miles of coke ovens. Police
Officer King was shot by him and died
almost instantly.
The mountaineer being badly
wounded, was removed to the Wentz
hospital. He remained in the hospital
for some days and disappeared.
Friends of ihe miss-ing man came to
learn how he was getting along. When
GOLD WAVE STRIKES
PORTIONS OF SOOTH
At Seme Points ihe Mercury
Dropped Below Freezing.
CONTINUED COLD PROBABLE
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Prophesied that a Further Drop In!
Temperature May Occur and an Ex
tension of Cold Wave as Far South
as Jacksonville, Fla. . _
Under Police Protection Cars Moving
With More Regularity.
Chicago, Nov. 18.—The Chicago City
Railway comipany has effected plans
opening up three more of its trunk
lines before the close of the week.
’I'he general
Itching Skin
Distress by day and night—
That’s tiie complaint of those wh«
are to unfortunate a-- to be afflicted
v:5*h E'-zerna or si nit klieum—and out
ward applications do uot cure.
plan of proceedure! They can t. . . . ,
, “ ,. ( u„ m;in . The source of tiie trouble is m the
drawn up by the police and the man b - 00(i _ IM; , kf> . uul this scal-
i agement provides for the starting oi
itching skin disease will
b'ood
, . , ing, burnii _
the Indiana avenue electric cars today, i ^appear.
the Halstead street tomorrow' and the .*i viis taken with an itching on my
Stale street cable trains on Friday. j arms which proved very disagreeable. I
Passengers have begun to take the
Wentworth avenue cars in such large
concluded it was salt rheum and bought.a
bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla. In two days
after 1 begun taking it i felt better and it
numbers that the police no longer fear was no' Ions before I was cured. Have
riots along this right of way. I never bad any skin disease since. Mrs.
Atlanta, Nov. 18.—A cold wave
which swept over the southwestern
and gulf states last night was respon-j
sible lor heavy falls in temperature—
the mercury dropping below' freezing
point in several states
in southwestern Texas, southern
told lie was gone, they asked for his Mississippi, southern Louisiana and
body. Of i-ourse it could not be giv-: Centra] Alabama and Georgia the mer-j
en them. They asked why and re- cury went below 30.
ceived no answer satisfactory to them. The temperature dropped 30 degrees
Then they jumped to the conclusion in the lai-r 24 hours in ithis city, and
entirely absurd, that the people in J reached a minimum of 28 degrees,
charge of the hospital had put their! The forecast for today prophesies!
friend in a coke oven.
continued cold, a further drop in tem-
The story is told, they are thought
by many to have found young Wentz
at a lonely spot in the mountains ol
Wise county and did to him, according 32 degrees,
to their custom, what they believed j
had been done to their friend who had :
been in the Wentz hospital.
perature, and the extens^n. of the cold !
wave as far south as" Jacksonville, j
Fla., w here the mercury may reach 1
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
HEW PANAMA REPUBLIC.
Convention to Meet to Formulate Sys
tem of Government.
N’niv York, Nov. 18.—Fredico Boyd,
a member ot th-e commission to this \
government from the new republic I
of Panama, which has just arrived 1
from Dolon, says that in a few days
a constitutional convention will meet
to ionmilate a system of government
which will fellow closely the lines of
the United State# constitution. In
dusenssieg the revolution, he was ;
askeu:
“What assurances, if any, did you !
have from the United States In refer
cnee to it:; attitude toward the upris
ing?”
“We knew, of course,” he replied
“that American men of war would be
thereto sei that the traffic across
the isthmus was noi interrupted by
fighting, and we knew for that reason
that Gie landing of Colombian troops
would not hr permitted. Outside of
that, we had no assurances. What
we did, we d.-l on our own responsi
bility, and we depended upon the jus
tice of our cause for recognition."
question of the proposed annex
ation of the isthmus of Panama to
the United S-tateu had not been talked
about.
“The sentiment of the people of Pan
ama.” Mr. Boyd added, “is to wake the
isthmus what it seems destined for
from its geographical position—a link '
binding together the two Americas and
a gateway between two worlds. Tint
building of tbe can a.’ now lies with
the United States.”
Bride Travels From Kentucky to Meet
Groom.
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 18.——A. mar
riage tinged with romance w’as cele
brated in this city.
The contracting parties were Miss
Susie R Dickerson, of Bowling Green,
Ky., and Professor C C. Houston, of
this city. Cold 'n Ohio.
The bride came from her Kentucky Clew,and, Nov. IS. The cold wave
home to meet her fiance here, reach- i that has prevailed throughout the west
ing the city at an arly hour on Sun
day morning. She repaired to the 1
Zero Point Reached.
Chicago, Nov. 18 —The cold wave
continued today with undiminished se
verity over the western and centra!
states. In Montana the temperature
has fallen still further, a minimum oi
26 degrees blow zero being reported
at Havre. In Minneapolis the tem
perature has reached four above and
at Chicago 14 above. The indications
are that the cold weather wilj contin
ue for several days.
Within a few days a similar e'-ndi-1
tion is expected in (.’outage Grove
avenue, which was opened up yester-;
day. lit tie or no trouble is looked
for in Indiana avenue, but the manage-:
ment dreads the effort of sending out
cars_ in Halstead and State streets.
.: i While negotiations for peace were
pending a third line of the company's
strike boul.T cars was put in
tion under police protection
cars on the Indiana avenue electric
line were started under guard of pa
trolmen drawn from the Wentworth
and Cottage Grove avenue lines, where
trouble had apparently subsided al
most to the point of disappearance.
A greater number of trains were put
in commission on Cottage Grove av
enue than were operated yesterday,
w'hile the services on Wentworth av
enue was restored to nearly its normal
status.
Ida E. Ward, Cove Point, Md.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Pills
rid the blood of all impurities and cure
all eruptions.
Plan to Make Fort Monroe an Island.
With a view to making extensive im-
n opera | p,. ovomon t s to the military reservation
F’* ve I at ]r 01 -t Monroe, Va., the government
has purchased forty lots between the
fort and Buckroe Beach and has also
condemned about 200 feet of land
owned by Major McGinnis of the ar
my. who refused to sell it to the gov-
ernment. It is proposed to cut a canal
across the peninsula which connects
the reservation with the mainland, the
effect of which will be to make an is
land of the reservation. Various im
provements are contemplated, includ
ing the establishment of a signal sta
tion for range finding.
BURNED FIVE VILLAGE'S.
Mussulmans Take Revenge on Bulga
rians.
Constantinople, Nov. IS.—The Mi
sulmans in the district of Kirk K
iseli. Tiave burned five Bulgarian v
1-ages in revenge-for an attack mu-
by the Bulgarians on the Mussulman
village of Zarara.
residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Henley, on Lee street, where the mar- !
riage ceremony wag performed by El
der L. J. Jackson.
The groom holds a professorship in
tbe Jackson Bible schoifi in this place,
and ha# made a great many friends
during la' short residence here.
His bnde is a verj talented lady,
esteemed for both- beauty of person
and mind ?
during the past few days, spread over
Ohb. last night. The mercury was
reported as low as 13 degrees above
aero at various points.
TOOK $1,800 IN JEWELRY.
The revolt in the vilayet of Yem
Arabia, is extending southward T ,<
Ottoman troops advancing on iiond d
ada were determinedly opposed by i
-evolted tribes, and were compelled
retniat. Another attempt to advan a
from Mokha failed, the Turkish troc
being defeated.
MANGLED IN COTTON GIN.
Boy Meets with Horribtj Accident In
Alabama.
Lafayette. Ala., Nov. 18.—Willie, the,
Ifi-year-old son of Zach Andrews, who;
li\es about 3 miles west of Lafayette,
met with a most horrible and tragic |
death at his father's gin near his home
on Monday afternoon.
Tiie little fellow was working around !
the gin and in some way hip hand was |
caught in the gin and he was drawn
into if. His arms, body and head
were horribly mutilated.
Physicians were immediately sum
moned and did all jn their power for .
him. hut he died at an early hour on
Tuesday morning, concussion of the |
brain having set in.
Mar, and Woman Work Smooth Game
In Chicago
Chicago. Nov. IS.—A fashionably
dressed couple, the woman wearing
furs and jewelry, the man of refined
appearance, have stolen jewelry and
diamonds valued at 81,800 from the
residenceof Mrs. Katherine Smith.
Tl>' couple appeared at the house
and a.-ked if they could rent apart
ments there for the winter. After
some conversation Mrs. Smith took
them :,o the second fioor to show then
some rooms. The first rooms not
proving satisfactory, Airs. Smith led
her callers to the rear of the house.
It was then, the police believe, that
the man slipped away and entered
Mrs. Smith’s room. Returning to
the parlor the rooms were soon en
gaged, the young couple departed,
promising to return.
There is no clew.
It is undersood that, unless t’ - 1
Turkish reply ti the Russian-Austr . n
reform scheme is received Ni.v. 2(i
Baron ven Calici. the Austrian Mun'-u- 1
rian ambassador, and M. Zinov: -IT. the
Russian ambassador, will demand an
audience cf the sultan, with the view
of insisting on iis acd etance.
Wlipn the Wood* Are Tarulu’ Brown.
Lots of folks have left the country,
Th v have hurried into town,
K<>r tin- days are growin’ shorter,
Ai -I the woods are turnin’ brown.
Ti: > i in't see no beauty In it;
Those town folks are blind’s a bat,
When tin-y'd rather have the city
Than the woods as looks like that.
I jest love them giant oak trees
With their arms a-hangin’ down,
And the acorns droppin’, droppin'.
As the woods are turnin’ brown,
Ai d 'die erows among the branches
(’ailin’ out. from tree to tree,
Make me wonder if they're cawin’
To each other about me.
N'»w there ain’t no use a-sayin’
That ail nature wears a frown,
Jest l-eeause the grass is yeller
And the trees are turnin’ brown.
No such thin?;: they're only smilin’;
'Tis tin ir way to Sing a song,
’('a! e they've kept the birds and flowers*
In tln ir shade all summer long.
1 have walked through half the country,
Rut there’s nothin’ 1 have foun'
Quite so comfortin’ and restful
As tiie woods a-turnin’ brown.
I’ve grown old within their shadow,
Old and purty nigh as gray.
But there's nothin’ that 1 know of
That’s as dear to m • .
—Edna Berry Booth In ' rid For
October
BOILED IN LARD VAT.
KILLED BY HIS OWN PISTOL.
CHARGE WAS GROUNDLESS.
Washington Propped Gun and Bullet
Pierced His Chest.
Dothan, Ala., Nov. 18.—R. C. Wjush-
ington was killed by the accidental
disc harge of his pistol, which fell from
his pocket. The hall struck him i&
Did Not Intentionally Take Impor
tant Papers.
New York, Nov. 18.—Edward Mo
Sweeney, of Boston, foi*mer!y commis
sioner of Immigratjin at Ellis Island. the ,iK,u side hjs ohe8 L passing
appeared before United States Com- i through and death was almost instan-
mlssioner Shrields. for examination tenco,IS -
He was the only son of W. H. Wash
ington. general superintendent of the
compress here, and was a moral, up
right young man. He was about 30
year* of age, and leaves a wife and
three children.
on a charge of having stolec Tmportant
government documents. Witnesses!
were present from all parts of the
United States and Canada.
It is charged that. Mr. McSweeney. j
It causes the patient' 011 living office, had official letters 1
to '‘throw up the phlegm” quicker. and °ther documents belonging to the i
and gives relief in a shorter Utne. ! government, packed up with his per-
Glve this remedy as soon*as the Bona ^ papers. The documents were
croupy cough appears and it will pre-; ]p advi ' rtf ‘ ntl y mixed with his private I has charged the grand jury in the Unit-
vent tbe attack. It never falls and Papers and were of no use to him or i ^ States court, but it is a Tight ,ses-
is pleasant and safe to take. For others.
sale by Cherokee Drug Co; L. D
Allison—Cowpens. Kings Go Pheasant Shooting.
London, Nov. 18.—King Victor
Take care of your enemies, and Emanuel and King Edward spent the
your friends will take care of them- morning shooting pheasants in the
To Prob*e Alleged Scandal.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 18.—Judge Speer
Shocking Accident To Five Workmen
In New York.
New York, Nov. 18.—Five workmen
have been injured by he collapse of
a huge lard rendering vat in a West
Fortieth street establishment. Thref
of them will probably die.
The men were at work in the base
ment when the bottom of a tank con
taining many gallons of scalding
grease suddenly gave way and the me
were literally boiled. ^
Instantly the grease became ignited
ajul soon the basement was in flames.
The cries of the men could be heard
by pedestrians In the street, and aid
was quickly rendered by the police
and foremen, but three of the men
hal almost been boiled alive before
they could be rescued. The others
were very seriously hurt, but prob?
bly will recover.
COSTLY WORKiNGMLKy CL’
Building In New York Will Cost $203.-
000—Funds on Hand.
New York. Nov. 18.—This city is 1
to be the home of the most costly club
for workingmen in the country. The
plans for the structure, which is o he i
in East Eighty-fourth street, near Third
avenue, have been filed with the city i
authorities for approval and it is ex-
pected that construction work will be 1
started early next spring.
The club house is to be five stories
high 100x102 feet in area, and is to cleanse and invigorate your stomach,
cost $200,000. and regulate your liver and bowels.
Facilities for mental and physical Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
culture are to be tbe best obtainable. Cherokee Drug Co; L. D. Allison—
•he Workingmen’s Educational and Cowpens.
Home Association of New York, which I
will carry out the project, was organ
JUST WHAT YOU NEED.
Chiimberliilii'it Stoumc-h uimI Liver
Tablets.
When you feel dull after eating.
When you have no appetite.
When you have a bad taste in the
mouth.
When your liver is torpid.
When vour bowels are constipated.
Wnen you have a headache.
When you feel bilious.
They will improve your appetite,
ized in 189(5, and now has more than
1,400 members. Through entertain
monts and other meanS, funds were
raised to purchase the property.
The Kearsarge, in crossing the At
lantic enroute for Kiel at a rate of
10 03 knots an hour, beat all records
for battleships.
PISTOL AND STILETTO DUEL.
RUSSIAN-JAPANESE SITUATION.
selves.
A Remarkable Case.
One of tbe most remarkable cases
of a cold, deep-seated on tbe lungs,
causing pneumonia, is that of Mrs.
Gertrude E. Fenner, Marion, Ind ,
who was entirely cured by the use of
One Minute Cough Cure. She says:
“Tbe coughing and straining so weak
ened me that I ran down in weight
from 148 to 92 pounds. I tried a
number of remedies to no avail until
I used One Minute Cough Cure.
Four bottles of tbis wonderful remedy
cured me entirely of the cough,
strengthened my lungs and restored
me to my normal weight, health and
strength.” Sold by Cherokee Drug
Co.
It’s the worker who succeeds in
life—not the fellow who is worked.
: great park at Windsor. Queen Hel
ena and Queen Alexandra visited
Queen Victoria’s tomb at Frogmore,
on which Queen Helena deposited a
wreath. There will he 150 guests at
the state banquet tonight at St.
George’s hall. Windsor castle. Only
two toasts will be proposed—King
Edward and King Victor Emanuel
toasting each other.
sion, and there is little business be-1
fore them. It is reported that they i
are examining into the complaints that I
have been made in this district of the j
sale of He publican official indorse !
ments for federal jobs, and if the law |
authorizes, may spring a Senator Die- j
trleh case in this territory.
Former lmp«tient at Latter’s Expedi-
ents to Gain Time.
New York, Nov. 18.—'Forty arrests!
have been made at Krasnnopatisk, i complicity in the crime,
western Siberia, in connection with
the revolutionary movement, the head
quarters of which are in European
Russia, according to a Herald dispatch
from Che Foo. A member of the staff
A Scientific Ubicovery.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does for the
stomach that which it is unable to do
Men In Chicago Have Fatal encounter for it8elf * even when but slightly dis-
Old Enemies. ordered or over-loaded. Kodol Dys-
Chicago. Nov. 18.—A duel between P e P 8ia Cure supplies the natural
men armed with pistol and stiletto j uice9 digestion and does the work
was fought in Archer avenue i aS f the stomach, relaxiog the nervous
night. When tffe battle ended bo(h : tension, while the inflamed muscles
the participants had received wounds ° U l bat t . or « a 1 n ?, re allowed ^ to re f aod
which were pronounced fatal Kodo1 D y 8 P e P 8ia C*™ digests
Frank Russo. 18 years old and Fer- you eat and enables the stomach
dlnand D. Vinento, 21 years old. ^ digestive organs to transform all
in frnnf nf -m, u ,0 °d 1D to rich, red blood. Sold by
n front of Russo s room. They had r-herokee Drue Co
long been enemies, it is said, and with-1 CheroKee AJrog O0 ’
out a word of warning they rushed at There were no dentists in the days
each other. Vinento fired as he ran, of the Spanish Inquisition, but they
and Russo stabbed him as he himself bad instruments of torture just the
fell- ' same.
Anthony Russo was
White to Hang on January 8.
Ringgold. Ga.. Nov. 18.—James! of the NoNV1 Kral has been arre8te d
White has been sentenced, by Judge
A. W. Fite here to hang on Jan. 8, 1
1904, for the murder of Bob Shipp, in
this county, on April 12 last. White
was convicted at the August term.
at Port Arthur, where arrests are said
to be numerous, but the police con
ceal everything.
Despite the cheerful tone of the Rus
sian press matters are most serious,
arrested for I Anxious MomentH.
! Some of the most anxious 1 ours of
a mother’s life are those when the
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty. little ones of tbe household have the
Washington, Nov. !8.—The main > croup. There is no other medicine so
features of the Hay-Bunau Varilla effective in tbis terrible malady as
treaty providing for the construction Foley’s Honey and Tar. Itisahouse-
of an isthmian canal by the Pena hold favorite for throat and lung
ma route have been agreed upon and | troubles, and as it contains no opi-
the rough draft of the convention is
in preparation. No date for the sign
ing of the treaty has yet been fixed.
The Panama minister and Secretary
A Policeman'* Testimony.
J. N. Patterson, night policeman j
If Nashua, la., writes, "Last winter
I had a bad cold on my lungs and
tried at least a half dozen advertised
cough medicines and had treatment
from two physicians without getting
any benefit. A friend recommended
Foley’s Honey and Tar and wo-
•birds of a bottle cared me. I o on-
ltder it the greatest cough and ung
medicine in tbe world.” Gberloke
Drag Go.
Sentenced to Five Years.
St. Louis, Nov. 18.—Judge Adams in
the United States district court today
sentenced John P. Dolan, chairman of
the Democratic city central commit
toe and Policeman Frank Garrett, con
victed of participating In naturalize
tion frauds, to five years’ imprisonment
In the penetentiary and each pay a
fine of $1,000. Sentence on Thomas
E. Barrett, former marshal of the St
Louis circuit court of appeals, was de
ferred pending other trials.
19JI3, of Catoosa superior court, and the rorres P onden t declares, owing to Hay will have another coifference fe-
his case was taken to the supreme
court and the judgment of the superior
court was affirmed The ease will be
taken before the prison commission
and executive clemency asked.
the impatience of the Japanese at the garding the treaty.
Russian expedients to gain time.
ates or other poisons, it can be safely
given. Cherokee Drug Co.
Some men are so easy-going that
after a while they cease to go at all.
Civil War Veteran Dies.
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 18.—Colonel R. M
Sanfls, who commanded the Third A.
abama regiment in the war between
the states and participated with hb
’•ei.iment in a number of the fiercest
battles, is dead, at the age of 78 year?
Colonel Sands was general administra
"'r at the time of his death.
Macon Has Serious Fire.
•Macon, Qa., Nov. 18.—Fire last night
practically destroyed the big furniture
store of Lowe. The entire fire de
partment of the city was called out
and at one time a serious conflagra
tion was feared. The building was
gutted from basement to roof.
Action Again Deferred.
New York, Nov. 18.—Action was
again deferred today by the Seaboard
Air Line directors on the Ryan-Blair
financing proposition which was to
have been acted upon yesterday. It
Is understood that attempts are be
ing made to harmonize all interests
and that this is the reason for the ad-
i Journments.
Peculiar Illness Among Students.
Wllliamstown, Mass., Nov. 18.—A pe
culiar illness accompanied by high
fever has prostrated a number of stu
dents at Williams college. Ten arc
in the Infirmary. The college author
ities are endeavoring to ascertain the
cause.
Cooperage Association.
Memphis, Nov. 18.—The National
Cooperage Manufacturing association
continued its sessions today, trade sub
jects being under discussion. It is
the general opinion among the dele
gates that prices will be downward
by the first of the year. The reports
of committees were also heard today
U. S. Abyssinian Epedition.
Jubital, French Somaliland, Nov. 18
I’byHiclaii* Prescribe It.
Many broad minded physicians pre
scribe Foley’s Honey and Tar, as
The United States Abyssinian expedi- i the y have Dever foUDd 80 8afe and re
tion headed by Consul General Skin
ner will leave tomorrow by rail for
Adis Abeba, the capital of Abyssinia
The government will give a dinner
and reception tonight in honor of the
Americans.
Tri-State Medical Association.
Memphis. Tenn., Nov. 18.—The sec
ond day’s session of the Tri-State
Medical association was held today.
The convention will adjourn tomorrow
liable a remedy fer throat and lung
troubles as this great medicine.
Cherokee Drug Co.
Tbe world suspects that a man is
in love before he knows it himself.
Next Encampment.
Louisville, Nov. 18.—The next ei
campment of the United Con feeler at
Vetorars will be held in Nashville
Teun.
W. A. Herreu, of Ficch, Ark ,
writes. ‘I wish to report that Foley’s
Kidney Cure has cured avertible case
of kidney and bladder trouble that
two doctors had given up.” Chero
kee Drug C<v
It is better to collect your thoughts
than to borrow other people’s.
There is no cough medicine so
popular as Foley’s Honey and Tar,
It contains no opiates or poisons and
never fails to care. Cherokee Drag
Co.