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ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING
EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Happenings All Over the State Taken
from Our Exchanges and Tersely
Told to Ledger Readers.
A shooting affray occurred at La-
them. in the lower part of Pickens
county. Sunday afternoon. Walter
Ellis, white, shot and probably la
tally wounded a negro. The negro
was disturbing the peace and drew a
knife on Mr. Ellis.
The Governor Saturday, upon the
recommendation, pardoned “^t
of Spartanburg, convicted of larceny
of live stock and sentenced to one
vear The negro is seventy years old,
and the solicitor thought that he had
been punished enough.
The warehouses ami their contents
belonging to A. Wtchman & Co of
Walterboro, were burned Wednesday
night At 10 o’clock a severe rain
and thunder storm raged and their
warehouses were struck by lightning,
which set them on fire.
R. L. R. Bentz, one the leading dry
goods merchants of Greenville, an
nounced Thursday that he was un
able to meet the demands of his cred
itors, and had applied to 1 nited
States Judge Brawley of Charleston,
for an order in bankruptcy.
Robert Wilson, colored, was shot
and fatally wounded at Lumber, Dar
lington county, Friday morning by
Robert Register, also colored. Reg
ister was arrested by Deputy R.. G.
Parnell and lodged In jail at Darling
ton. Further than this no particulars
have been learned.
*The secretary of State Friday char
tered the Summerville Hardwood
Company, of Summerville capital
ized at $5,000. The officers are: R.
B. Cuthbert, president, and W. M.
Richardson treasurer. The purposes
of the concern are to manufacture
articles from hard woods.
Mr. A. Cass Canfield, a prominent
New Yorker wintering at Aiken, died
at that place Thursday after an ill
ness of only a few days. Mr. Canfidld
was taken suddenly ill of stomach
trouble on last Friday, but his condi
tion was not serious until W r ednes-
da^ morning when pneumonia set in
aix^his death ensued.
Mr. R. M. Bateman, a prominent
business man of Spartanburg, died
at his residence, 445 North Church
street in that city Sunday morning
at 2 o’clock after a week’s illness.
He succumbed to a violent atack of
pneumonia. His widow, three sons
and two daughters survive him. Mr.
Bateman was a native of Maryland
and has resided in Spartanburg for
twelve years.
The Supreme Court Saturday
granted a new trial to James Dennis
Edwards, who was sentenced to life
Imprisonment from Greenville county
for the killing of Frank Neely, three
years ago. The attorneys secured
the new trial on the ground of error
in drawing the juries and the admis
sion of certain evidence. The decis
ion was handed down by Associate
Justice Jones.
An accident to one of the engines
at the power house of the electric
company in Spartanburg Thursday
night caused a temporary suspension
of street car service. All electric
lights in the city were extinguished
for about half an hour. The accident
was due to the breaking of a piston
rod and resulted in material damage
to the extent of several hundred dol
lars. No one was injured.
The news of the arrest of Scipio
Jenkins, colored, in Savannah, for
the killing of Frank Pinckney, also
colored, in the suburbs of Charleston
on Sunday the 20th inst., was re
ceived there Thursday and an officer
left Friday morning to bring the ne
gro back to Charleston. The negroes
had been gambling when a dispute
arose which ended in Jenkins shoot
ing Pinckney in the abdomen, caus
ing death a short time afterwards.
Appropriation has been made by
the Beaumont Manufacturing Compa-
A NEWSY LETTER
FROM ETTA JANE.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF
LOWER CHEROKEE.
Teddie:—“Stop your foolishness, Morgan! It’s bound to be.”
the attending physician, had Dr. O. B.
Mayer, of Newberry, meet him in
consultation, and after a conference
they decided that an amputation
would give no relief. When the mag
istrate learned the true state of af
fairs. although Yarboro had only a
few days ago been released on a $000
bond, steps were at once taken to
have him apprehended and early Fri
day morning the sheriff put him in
jail. Yarboro is a married man,
about forty >ears old, and has a
large connection in Saluda county.
Havird has always had some pecu
liarities, but was never regarded as
being anything like vicious. He is
not quite thirty years of age and has
a wife and children.
The N. P, I. S. S. Convention.
The North Pacolet Interdenomina
tional Sunday School Convention
met at ElBethel Saturday, March 27.
After devotional exercises by the
chaplain, Rev. Simpson Blanton, the
president, Bro. Strain, took up the
business of the convention. The roll
of schools was then called. Of the
twelve schools four sent in reports.
The rest of the schools have not gone
out of winter quarters yet.
The following were the delegates:
Salem—Sam Strain anl Leslie
Blackwell.
Mt. Moriah—Wallace Foster, Roy
Sparks and John R. Jefferies.
ElBethel—E. G. McCulloch, Z. R.
Phillips, M. Becknell and Mrs. E. G.
McCulloch.
The first query was then taken up
and discussed. A general conference
of Sunday school work was then
taken up. Bro. Strain and Bro. Wm.
Jefferies made talks.
Next query, “What has the spirit
of commercialism and socialism done
for the church and what are they
likely to do?” was discussed by Bro.
Strain, Bro. Littlejohn and Bro. Mm.
Jefferies.
Next query, “‘Does the exclusive
use of the lesson hielps assist or hin
der in the intelligent study of the
scripture?” was discussed by Bro. J
A. Hamer, Bro. Strain and Bro. Whis-
nant.
Next query, “Does the cause of
temperance impress its importance
on the average church member?”
was discussed by Bro. Wm. Jefferies
and Bro. T. M. Littlejohn.
Miscellaneous—The time and place
of next meeting was then discussed.
Gethsemane was chosen as the next
pliice of meeting. Two delegates were
then elected to attend the State con-
THROUGHOUT THE
TARHEEL STATE
RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
H. E. Jefferies,
Secretary.
Unclaimed Letters.
List of unclaimed letters in the
ny to make an enlargement of their
mill in Spartanburg to more than vention—T. M. Littlejohn and J. L.
twice its present size, and only cer- Strain—with C. W. Whisonant and
tain conditions remain to be met to p. s. Webber as alternates,
assure the enterprise to Spartanburg.
The company desires to erect the mill
adjoining its present plant within the
‘i/'Jty -limits, provided an exemption
' from taxation can be secured for a
reasonable term of years. The cham- Gaffney postoffice for week ending
her of commerce lias endorsed the Marcli 28th. 1904. Please call for
proposition of the Beaumont people. “Advertised” letters.
Arrangements have been made for _ Mrs. lylm r Damms, Miss Sarah
the reception, care and entertainment [* auren T ; ' 1|KS Pearle fernandefl, Miss
•of the old soldiers on the occasion of ^ r ; ^J ss Velio Jones, Miss
their annual reunion in Charleston Littlejohn, Miss Hardenia
next month. A meeting of the com- Simpson, Miss Lizzie Smith, Miss
mittee, which invited the veterans at Mayre Young, Bud fowler,- Frank
the Columbia reunion last year to go
to Charleston, has been held and
the committee organized for the ac
tive work of co-operation with com
mittees of the camps of veterans
which will have control of the reun
ion. Charleston intends to make the
Mabry, tom Pyatt, Rev. G. W. Young.
G. E. Wlnten.
One cent due on each of above.
A. It. N. Folger, P. M.
Rheumatism.
Sore Muscles or painful Joints, may
stay of the old soldiers in Charleston “m" ai riSi nK x, atta , C ^°!l rh Z'
very pleasant and arrangements are ,, , ' t ri ! * l | i, i 8 B
t. Aoedliiir on this line Liniment, rubbed on the affected
pi .•«euing on this nne. parts will relieve the pain and sore-
It is reported that Pope B. Havird, ness, and prevent rheumatism. El-
of Saluda, who wis shot a week ago Mott’s Emulsified Liniment for all
by John Yarboro, cannot possibly soreness, stiffness and lameness of
live, blood poison having set up in Joints or muscles,
the wounded arm Dr. J. J. Kirksey, Gaffney Drug Co.
Items of Interest Concerning Our
Neighbors in the Old North State
Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers
The postoffice authorities report
that W. J. Terry, ex-postmaster at
Roberdell, is held by the United
States commissioner on charge of
trafficking in postage stamps and
making false returns.
Lee Stirwalt, a young man of Ca
barrus county, who almost shot his j
arm off a few days ago, died Thurs
day night. Drs. Young and Rogers
amputated the arm but the injury
was too great to effect a recovery.
Tom Heatherington, nearly 80
years old, is confined in jail at Co
lumbus charged with unlawful co
habitation. The alleged crime will
be ventilated in the approaching term
of court, which convenes there next
week, witli Judge Shaw on the bench.
Several days ago an electric light
wire was broken in Newbern by a
team passing through the city. The
wire was left hanging to the pole and
Friday night at 8:30 a young colored
man by the name of Boss Cobb lean
ed against the pole, when he came
in contact with the wire, killing him
instantly.
Quince Mitchehll, of Alexander
county, died in North Wilkesboro
Wednesday evening. He leaves a
wife and famhy of children to mourn
his loss. He was in F. D. Forester &
Co.’s store at that place about one
hour before he died in his wagon.
There was a coffee pot of liquor
found in the wagon where the dead
man lay.
Edwards P. Bailey, a leading citi
zen and for a quarter of a century
president of the Wilmington Iron
Works, in Wilmington, died Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock after a brief
illness with congestion of the brain,
lie was a prominent member of the
Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pyth
ias, Elks and other orders. He served
the city one term as an alderman and
has occupied other public positions.
He leaves a wife and two children,
E. P. Bailey, Jr., a cadet at the A.
and M. College in Raleigh, and Miss
Virginia Bailey.
The State charters the Hudson
Cotton Manufacturing Company, at
Hudson, Caldwell county, to spin and
weave, capital stock $80,000, with
leave to increase to $125,000, J. J.
Moore, of Gastonia, J. L. Nelson, of
Lenoir, and Charles J. Reid & Co.,
of Philadelphia, being the largest
stockholders; also the Purity Ice
Company, of Elizabeth City, capital
stork $100,000; W. T. Old and others
stockholders; also the Gate City Ice
Company, at Greensboro, capital
stock $50,000, J. R. Barnell and oth
ers stockholders.
The officials of the Southern Rail
way are making extensive prepara
tions to present their side of the
question at the union depot hearing
to be held before the Corporation
Commission In Charlotto today
(Tuesday). Mr. J. S. B. Thompson
the general agent of the Southern
has been in Charlotte for the past
few days conferring with leading
business men and other railroad of
ficials, and lie appears to feel sat
isfied that he and his associates will
be able to make a good showing for
their side at the hearing.
Philip S. Henry, the wealthy New
ZealanUr who recently purchased
the Hazzard place on Beaucatcher
mountain, and the O. D. Revell place
known as “Zelandia,” near Ashe
ville, Wednesday through his attor
neys applied to Judge Long for an.
injunction against the city of Ashe
ville and the Warren Brothers’ Bitu-
lithic Paving Company, restraining
the paving company from doing any
more blasting at the city’s quarry,
on the side of the mountain east of
the city and close to Mr. Henry’s
property. Judge Long granted a tem
porary injunction, and the notices
were served on Mayor C. T. Rawls
and the Warren Brothers’ Company
by Sheriff Reed.
The incorporators of the Atha
Chair Company, a corporation re
cently formed and which bought the
plant of the Key Furniture Company,
at Statesville, met in the bank build
ing at that place Friday night and or
ganized. Messrs. H. C. Cowles, W.
A. Thomas, J. B. Shelton, Geo, H.
Brown, A. P. Barron, C. M. Steel, H.
C. Wilson, L. C. Wagner, W. T. Kin
caid and F. A. Sherill were elected
directors. The directors elected W.
A. Thompson president; H. C. Cowles
vice-president, and J. G. Shelton sec
retary and treasurer. The officers of
the new company, except the direc
tors, are the same as those of the
Statesville Furniture Company.
Mr. Jesse L. Kennedy, a prominent
citizen of Lenoir county, while
testifying on the witness stand in
Kinston Thursday in his own behalf,
fell from the chair and died in five
minutes. Mr. Kennedy was being
tried for shooting and disabling for
life Mr. Ed. Hughes, of La Grange,
who was attending court there about
a year ago. The last words uttered
before it was noticed he was weaken
ing were that Hughes walked up be
hind him with a knife and struck at
him; then he (Kennedy) drew his
pistol to protect himself. Hughes
made another pass at him, and the
shot was fired. The judge ordorod
the jury withdrawn, and court ad
journed for the day.
K. S. Finch arrived in Raleigh Fri
day morning from New York to an
swer to the charge of conspiracy
against the State in securing the re
ceivership of the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railroad, jointly with V. E.
McBee, who is now under bail.
Finch’s lawyers, W. C. Maxwell and
W. S. O’B Robinson, said he had no
statement to make, as he came there
under charges as a prisoner. Infor
mation secured led to the belief that
Carl Duncan, a large private stock
holder of the Atlantic & North Caro
lina road, had paid $2,250 to Ed.
Chambers Smith, from whom Finch
bought the stock of that road, to
bring the suit, but Finch’s attorneys
say the money came from Greenville,
S. C., to W, H. Day, one of Finch’s
attorneys, who gave it to John W.
Hinsdale, another of his attorneys,
who paid it to Smith.
The fast vestibuled train on the
Seaboard Air Lino, No. 31. known as
tin* Florida Limited, ran into an open
switch at Henderson Thursday morn
ing and was badly wrecked. Notone
of the fifteen passengers on board
suffered injury. Engineer Tucker,
who stuck to his engine, was fatally
injured, both legs and both arms be
ing crushed. Other members of the
train crew are reported to have sus
tained injuries. Conductor Westly
was unhurt. The Florida Limited is
due to pass Henderson shortly af
ter midnight, hut does not stop there, j
The train entered the town at high i
speed and plunged into the open
switch, colliding with a shifting en
gine which was standing on a side-!
track attached to a Durham & North
ern freight. The wreck caught fire
from the overturned stoves and two j
Pullman sleepers and two box cars |
were burned. Three box cars were!
smashed into splinters and the two
locomotives were entirely wrecked.
Blacksburg Budget.
Blacksburg, March 28.—Mrs. D. D.
Gaston and Miss Luna Young spent
Friday at Cherokee Falls.
Miss Mayme Gaston came over
Friday from Spartanburg and re
turned to that city Monday.
Mr. Charlie Duncan left Sunday
night for a trip to Vermont.
Miss Nettie Hammersley is visit
ing friends at Catawba Junction.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M .Bridges and
their son Tom are in North Carolina
visiting relatives.
Messrs. Fred Turner and Julius
Weathers were in town Sunday.
Mrs. Scott, of Atlanta, Is here visit
ing her mother, Mrs. M. E. Deal.
Mr. Grover Baber, who has been
attending school in Charleston, is at
home for awhile.
Miss Gertrude Little, of Greenville,
stopped over here to visit relatives
and friends Friday on her return
from Baltimore.
Mrs. A. R. Holmes returned here
Saturday after an extended visit to
relatives in Charleston and Cottage-
ville, S. C.
Miss Jennie Elliott, of Waco, N. C,.
was in town Friday.
Miss Beulah Herndon, of near Gro
ver, N. C., was in town Friday shop
ping.
Miss Hope Gibson returned Friday
after spending several days with rel
atives in Marion, N. C.
Messrs. C. A. Stewart and Norman
Whisnant left Thursday night for At
lanta, Ga.
Mrs. Wm* Borders and her daugh
ter, Miss Lula, were up to attend the
services at the Baptist church yes
terday.
Mr. A. C. Lee, of this place, went
over to Greenville Sunday.
Miss Grace Lee left Sunday for a
visit to friends in Spencer, N. C.
Mrs. George Webb and children
spent Saturday night in town and
left for their home in Spencer, N. C.,
Sunday morning.
Mr. Ed Smith, of Spencer. N. C.,
was in town Sunday.
Messrs. J. C. Plonk and R. P. Rob-
i erts, of Cherokee Falls, spent Sunday
in this city.
Messrs. Jim Blalock and Max Dun
can went to Grover Sunday sporting.
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Climatic Cures.
The influence of climatic conditions
in the cure of consumption is very
much overdrawn. The poor patient,
and the ricli patient, too, can do much
better at home by proper attention to
food digestion, and a regular use of
German Syrup. Free expectoration
in the morning is made certain by
German syrup, so Is a good night’s
rest and the absence of that
weakening cough and debilitat
ing night sweat. Restless nights
and the exhaustion due to
coughing, the greatest danger
and dread of the consumptive, can
be prevented or stopped by taking
German Syrup liberally and regu
larly. Should you be able to go to a
wanner climate, you will find that of
the thousands of consumptives there,
the few who are benefited and regain
strength are those who use German
Sryup. Trial bottles, 25c ; regular
size, 75c. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney;
L. D Allison, Cowpens.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop-
ular People and Short Items of
General Interest.
Correspondence of Tne l,edger.i
Etta Jane, March 26.—For several
days farmers have been hindered
with their plowing on account of
rain, but they have been building
fences, cleaning out ditches and do
ing other work necessary on the
farm.
Mrs. Betsy Hartford, a very old
and decript lady of this- neighbor
hood, is not getting along very well.
She is failing fast in strength and
her eyesight has about gone.
From what we learn of the school
district survey it will take a much
larger area than was first mapped out
to give the legal number of square
miles. It will necessarily call for
more than one school building to ac
commodate the children, too.
We are told that Tom Lanier (one
of Lon’s boys) laid a wager with
some parties at P. S. Webber &
Son’s store at Wilkinsville that he
could eat sixteen boxes of potted
ham and crackers in proportion. The
bet was taken and the potted ham
and crackers were purchased and
placed before Tom with the under
standing that if he ate them all the
parties were to pay for the repast,
but if he failed to do so he was to
pay for them and the bystanders
were to eat what was left. T(*in went
to work and ate ten boxes of the ham
and twenty-five crackers before he
stopped. He said he could eat the
other six boxes but was afraid they
might make him sick. He topped
it off with four glasses of cider, and
our informant tells us Tom was not
the least inconvenienced by the little
snack. Tom. however, paid for the
outfit and turned the other six boxes
over to his friends to finish up.
Next week the World’* Interna
tional and Interdenominational Sun
day School Convention will meet in
the city of Jerusalem. That sounds
odd to the average newspapar reader.
But, nevertheless, it's a redemption
of the promise, “Ask of me and I will
give thee the heathen for thine in
heritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession.” Yet
some people don’t see any good in
foreign missions, they say.
Mr. Joe Estes is very unwell with
a sore leg and foot. He is threat
ened with blood poison.
We regret to learn that Mr. Or
pheus Inman has a very sick child.
Messrs. G. A. Byers and C. F. In
man are laying off terraces on the
Jackson place.
Mr. Jeff Estes, of Hopewell, came
over to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. M. Estes, one day this week.
Mr. Wm. Webber has a very sick
child.
County Supervisor J. V. Whelchel
has been looking after the roads in
this section. In some places they
need work badly, but they generally
are in good condition. At the Hoey
ford, on Gilkey creek, there could be
great improvement made by causeway
ing the road across the swamp or by
buying a road bed from Mr. S. M.
Littlejohn and turning the road
round by the foot of the hill, thus put
ting It in good firm land.
About half a mile this side of Wilk
insville there is 150 or 200 yards of
road that needs about three times
that number of loads of rock put in
it. The mud is very deep and It’s
difficult for a team to pull an empty
wagon through it at times.
Mr. A Frank Smith has In his
possession some old Confederate rel
ics that would be quite an acquisition
to the stacks of mementos In the
Limestone museum.
The tank of the Wilkinsville oil
mill is circular and holds 8,000 gal
lons of oil. It is 14 feet deep and
lacks 18 inches of being full; what
is the diameter of the tank and how
much more oil will it take to fill it?
Miss Mattie Estes is getting some
better and is able to be out again.
We regret to hear that Mr. Thomas
Scott is very sick at his home at
Cannon’s camp ground, in Spartan-
burg county. Mrs. F. A. Goforth,
his daughter, has been spending
much of her time at his bedside.
There will be preaching at Salem
on the first Sababth in April at 11
o’clock a. m., by Rev. W. H. White.
Our nimrod, Levi Wood, colored,
caught another otter yesterday out
on Thickety creek that weighed 16
pounds. Levi is a Ledger subscriber.
J. L. S.
THE LADIES favor painting their
churches, and therefore we urge ev
ery Minister to remember we give
a liberal quantity of the Longman &
Martinez Paint toward the painting.
Wears and covers like gold.
Don’t pay $1.50 a gallon for Lin
seed Oil (worth 60 cents) which you
do when you buy other paints in a
can with a paint label on it.
8 & 6 make 14, therefore when you
want fourteen gallons of paint, buy
only eight of L. & M., and mix six
gallons pure Linseed Oil with it,
and thus get paint at less than $1.20
per gallon.
Many houses are well painted with
four galons of L. & M. and three gal
lons of Linseed Oil mixed therewith.
These celebrated Paints are sold
by Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney;
Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg.
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