Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Men and Women si. fetersbirs is VEHY APPREHENSIVE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE RECLAIMING WILD LAND who are In n«.*e<i of the beat medical treat ment should not fail to consult Or. Hatha way at once, as he Is recognised as the leading and most suc cessful specialist. Vou are safe in placing your case in his hands, as he is the longest estahllshi-d and has the test rep utation. He cures where others fail; there is no patchwork lor experimenting in ,,/his treatment. Pes- gasonal attention by Dr Hathaway, also @!>e cial counsel from his associate physicians when necessary, which no other office ha-,. If you can not call, write for free bookie-- an i question blanks. Mention your trouble. ,hv- erything strictly confidential J. Newtor. Hathaway, M. D. 41 Inman Bldg., 22% Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. Lively Scrap Between Franklin and Maple Brothers. Atlanta, Augu.-t 1".—Georgia jud 0 efi had $1,000 a ytar a ided to their sal aries yest rday by the vote of the aouse of representatives, but they were Situation at the Front Causes forbidden to accept or ride on free pat-ses or to receive telephone, tele- The Value of Drainage Near j Rothville, Mo. Uneasiness. FEARS FOR PORT ARTHUR DR. HATHAWAY. Japanese Occupation of the Wolf Hills, Before Port Arthur, Has Increased the Uneasiness at Russian Capital Regarding Safety of Fortress. CROPS WHERE FISHES ONCE SWAM Sutmiu Jxpfm; <( JV',.V . ^ W.'*:—= N & iLJ' S’ \) / 1 i? i v- GINNING MACHINERY B-E-S-T M-U-R-R-A-Y Made by Liddell Not only tap with tbo times, but meny years • Heed, it otKer systems ere modern. QUALITY - -end «* QUANTITY Get Particulars from G-I-B-B-E.-S COLUMBIA, S. C. Please mention this paper. The Up-to-date Market. The reason we say- up-to-date is, we kt ep every thing good to eat all at one place and handled by experienced men. We will men tion a few: Fine, fat Ileef, Pork, Sausage. Any cut desired. To boil: Cabbage, Irish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Reans, Peas. For pies: Can Peaches, Blackberries and the old time Huckleberries. They are elegant. It takes no sugar. Fine green Apples, Oranges, Onions and Onion Sets and Garden Seeds. When you want something good, just call No. 6o and it will soon be there. L. W. McGUINN. One Minute Cough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup* “tH*’* Early Risers The famous little pills* St. Petersburg, August 10.—1 p. m. ; —Nervousness over the situation at the front seems to be increasing since j j the occupation by the Japanese ol j the Wolf hills, before Port Arthur. It is admitted that the besiegers r/.ve an elevated position whence j emplaced guns can command the for- ! tress, and while still professing confl uence that General Stoessels will be able to hold out with his compara- i lively smaT. garrison against the enor mous number of attackers, and their I evident disregard indicated by the liseregard indicated by the reckless manner in which they stormed outer positions, the state of affairs ireates more apprehension than the war office or admiralty care to ac knowledge. Similar misgivings exist regarding General Kuropatkin’s position, the r vantages of the new Japanese base at New Ohwang in greatly simpli fying the problem of provisioning their army being fully realized. But it is the report that the Japanese are work ing up westward of the main Russian army, which occasions the greatest un easiness. The rumor that they are working upwards toward Sinslntin. a short distance west of Mukden, from New Chwang, is believed generally. The Japanese, cordon is tightening south and east ,and a column threat ening the Russian line communications graph or express franks under penal ty of impeachment. The house passed by a vote of 12 :o the bill by Senator Comas, which pas-ed the senate by a two-thirds ma jority last year and which provides for an increa.-e from $3,000 to $4,000 in the salary of supreme court judges and an Increase from $3,000 to $4,000 in the salary of superior court judges. The bill thus received in the house four vote more than the two-thirds majority necessary to make it a law. The session of the house '■as en livened yesterday by a genuine fisti cuff fight in which the participants were Hen. H. M. Franklin, of 'Wash ington. party of the first part, and Doorkeeper Albert Maples and his father. Hon. I. Maples, of Mitchell, ! parties of the second part. As the result of the fracas Mr. Franklin’s nose bled copiously, while the other beligerents came out of it | apparently without a mark. What further casualties there might have I been had not members of the house Interfered and stopped the contest, there is no way of telling. The trouble came about in this way: The house was In the midst of a vote on the bill to increase fhe judges’ sal- I aries, and as it was an important measure. Speaker Morris had instruct ed the doorkeepers not to let any member to leave the hall until the vote had been completed. The roll r-aH had got down to Mr. Slaton, who was explaining his vote, when the mix- ap to the right of the speker’s chair was not* I. and voting was suspended for the time being. It seems Mr. Franklin went to the door on the right and started to go out into the room adjoining the speak- Hoxt e “Yankee Farmer''* Bought Swamp Land For Fifty Cents an Acre and Is Converting It Into Pro ductive Land Worth From Fifty to Seventy-live Dollars. i\l iziljMdB ffawe Rheumatism Hancock’s liquid Sulphur . ^ r H t 'r> .nr :utlis ffhe relief *'t once, quietiui? the pains ' o' K.iei mail, ni u ' Gout "1 he mlph'.rtreutn.t nt,external and iiiteri-.r . iv..i 4r.<», L> 1.1 <>; t lese t rri'.jle di*ea-es. but the sulphur must !■<- in form tlv t It .;n lie n! -orhed by the system. The only preparation olsu pu rev r uiaccvcrei hat can be absorbed by the skin and by the diges- live organs is One of the largest private enterprises in the west to reclaim waste land is now under way between Rothville, Mo., | and Dean’s lake, on the Atchison, To peka and Santa Fe railroad, says the ! Kansas City Star. The fire in the en gine operating the dredger is never banked, because the force works in two shifts throughoout the entire day and night. The tract comprises 9.0UO acres of swamp land, which a year ago was a sportsman’s Ideal resort for duck hunting and fishing. The owner is W. A. Rankin of Rankin, 111., who Is open ing the eyes of Missourians to the val ue of land they had long since given over to the fishes. Mr. Rankin was four years buying this big lake. It was sold by the county us swamp land . at from 5b cents to $1 an acre. The prices commensurate with high grade work. Try US. whole tract could not be acquired at It i* Xaturt'i *# '< !' xt Grrmicirie. Such a certain cure that v » guar'inler it to cure I-A.v.c:na, Av.e. Itch, Dandruff, i.iuif'.voi.ii. Prick..' H at, I'iphtherra, Catarrh, Cauc- r, Sure- Month a-d Throat, Cut?, ci.d i d cisc-jcs cf ihe scalp. For >'i(r by oil rrli'-b’e Hanccc!:’! Llc^d SiiSnhu? Ointment Prepared especially for Hums Scald®, bipea Son ®. Chafed Parts. Raw Surface*, Boils Piles. Koug-hne^s of Face and Ham s and a . t-ki:i Diseases. Write for booklet on the curh.r.-c ana toilet us- j o. suiv!* ,:r . HANCOCK LIQUID SULPHUR CO., Baltimore. Md. AH kinds of Job Work done at The Ledger office neativ and at ,i , . ,, . , i er’s room, where members frequent- the rear toward Mukden, the ap- * Good Time. The times are good and the best people have the best TIMEPIECE. Westrope Keeps All the best makes of Watches, Call on him when you want a good watch, or when your old one needs repairing. Thos. H. Westrope. Nice line of Jewelry always on hand. In | ly congregate to smoke. Doorkeeper Albert Maples refused to let him go | out. There was a dispute about Ihe matfer. which led to .blows, and the fight had gained considerable headway i when Mr Maples, of Mitchell, father of the young doorkeeper, rushed up and struck Mr. Franklin a heavy blow in the face, which brought blood from i his nose. Mr. Franklin sought to strike back, | but by that time some 20 or more j members of th ehouse, who were sit- whose influence on the ■ tIn 8 ntJar b y> rushed into the breach and soon separated the beligerents. Speaker Morris was all the while rap- pearauce of tho* Japanese on the other side of Mukden, would almost pocket ! General Kuropatkin, if he has resolved to accept battle with his whole army at Liao Yang. Shrewd military at taches are extremely doubtful wheth er General Kuropatkin could now with draw even if he so desired. Another alarming feature of the sit uation in connection with the Japa nese western column is the report thaf it includes many Chinese, who are Japanese subjects from the island of Formosa local Chines and the soldiers of Gen eral Ma and Viceroy Yuan Shikni is D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carroll, B. L. Hames, feared. KILLED HER HUSBAND. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. i heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guarantee*! to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and ma<e your es timates for nothing. 1^. B a 1c e r% Vice-President and Manager. FOR Building and Plastering Lima, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Parla, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. Daughter Handed Mother Gun To Slay Her Father. Golden, Colo., August 10.—Mrs. Ida Stabbins, of Pueblo, has shot and ki ed her husband, Albert Stabbins. They had been separated for two years and the husband sought an in terview with the woman at the ranch near here, where she was employed. On being refused admittance to her room, he threatened to break down the door. The woman thereupon fired through the door, the bullet lodging In Stabbin’s brain. A young daugh ter of the couple handed the mother the gun with which she did the shook ing. The woman was arrested. CHECK FOR MRS. NATION. Temperance Advocate Receives a Lib eral Donation. Chicago, August 10.—A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Richmond, Ind., says: Carrie Nation, the temperance ad vocate, while passing through Indiana, has been mailed a check for $1,100 tc the home for Wives of Drunkards at Topeka. Kans., as a personal gift. Mrs. Nation maintains her activity and she, still carries marks of the re cent encounter with sa oonists in Ken tucky when she was assaulted with a chair. ping for order, but it was some min utes before it was restored. As soon as order had been restored and the members had resumed their seats, Speaker Morris, without preju dice to his part in the matter suspend ed Doorkeeper Maples until the mat ter could be investigated. Mr. Evans, of Washington, stated that his colleague, in the event it was considered he had violated the digni ty of the house, stated he was ready to make public apology. Later a resolution was adopted pro viding for fTie appointment of a spe cial committee of five ••calm and col lected’’ members to investigate the af fair and report what action the house should fake In the matter. A STRANGE STORY. Son CARROLL A CO., Telephone 67. Lessee*. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at|the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, 8. C. Driven From His Home. Victor, Colo., August 10.—John Harper, former president of the Victor Miners' union, and late manager o tho Miners’ I’nion store in this city, one of the band of deported unionists who returned to the camp, has been seized at his home by a party oi masked men and driven out of the district. Mr Harper’s son. Ritchie, about 21 years of age, was also com pelled to accompany his father. Young Harper, however, was brought back about an hour after his father had boon taken. Two of the masked men were detailed for that purpose. Sher iff Underwood and Chief of Police Naylor started in pursuit of tho de porting crowd. For Fifteen Years Mother and Lived Hermit Life. New York. August 10.—Mrs. The- ressa Born. 84 years old, and her son Paul, 40 years old, have ben removed to a hospital from a back room in a Bleecker street house where they had existed 15 years, without having set foot in the streets. The son saw a trolley car for the first time on his way to the hospital and became greatly excited when he was carried to a room there in an ele vator. Fifteen years ago Paul fell sick. H‘ was attended by his mother and when their means failed they were sustain ed by agents of various charitable in stflutions and by neighbors. Recently the mother was stricken with paraly sis, and her condition lapidly grew worse. Neighbors notified the author- itfes who removed the InviMds to the hospital. once, aud the Investor waited patiently until he could obtain a tract the size 1 he wanted. The people smiled at the Illinois man’s poor Investment and felt sorry for him. They are not pitying him now, because they see tiiat Mr. Rankin was wiser than they knew. Mr. Rankin’s dredgers have been at work about a year. Here and there where the water has been drained off are small patches of corn, hay and oats. Their advanced condition now clearly Indicates the remarkable productive ness of the land. The main canal running through the center of the swamp will be four miles long and twenty feet wide. It will empty into Yellow creek, which in turn loses Itself In the Grand river. There will be lateral ditches leading to the main canal. With the water removed i aud dangers from floods reduced to al most nothing by the drainage ditches, the tract will rise into high class Mis souri farming lands—from to $73 per acre. Mr. Rankin has already In vested $30,000 in the drainage work aud intends to place us much more be fore he has his system perfected. He employs every ablebodied man at from $1.50 to $.3 a day, but it is noticeable that most of the workmen are strau- gers in the community. The reason Is that Rothville laborers have an aver sion to working in the mud. It is not | a clean Job, and the man who under takes it must face the necessary condi tion of soiled clothes as If he enjoys It. There is no more fifty cent laud in these parts. Mr. Rankin’s enterprise has sent prices skyward. Those who own swamp land, but haven’t the means | to convert it into productive fields, will wait in the hope that another million aire investor may start their way. It would be useless for the owner of a few hundred acres to attempt any marked improvement on his own ac- 1 count, because water from adjoinlug lands would nullify his efforts, but many small landowners could com bine and organize u drainage associa tion under the laws laid down for that purpose. There Is talk of doing tills since observing the admirable results of the Illinois man’s system. Mr. Rankin employs between sixty and seventy men. They live In tents located on the high land. The dredger eats its way through the land, the wa ter following behind in the completed canal. No retracing Is required. The waterway is finished up to the point where the dredger stands. The people of the neighborhood of Rothville call Mr. Rankin ’’the Yankee farmer” be cause be came into a wilderness that nobody wanted and with ids strange looking craft is driving out the fish and water moccasins and turning it into a laud of promise. It is Yankee-like,: they say, to do those things. Pays Four Per Cent. All Deposits. Gaffney Savings Bank. Capital Stock Paid In Thousand Dollars. J. G. Wardlaw. Yice-P. Directors. J. N. Lipscomb, R. M. Wilkins, W. C. Carpenter, I). C. Ross. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. William Jefferies, J. G. Wardlaw, O. E. Wilkins, FURHAN UNIVERSITY, OREENVILLE, S. C EDWIN McNEIL POTEAT, President. Courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) and .>1 aster of Arts (M. Llbrary Heading Boom Laboratories, Large and Comfortable Dormitories. Expenses reduced to a Minimum. Next session begins Sept. 14. For rooms apply to I’rof. H. T. Cook. For Catalogue-or in- rt-ss. The Secretary of the Faculty. J uly Uli. 29, Aug. 2, 5.9,12. formation, add re s COME! COME TO SEE US. are Sacrificing Colored Wash Goods How the Cape Was Cut. A little girl who made frequent use of the word ’’guess” was one day re proved for it by her teacher, who said: ’’Don’t say ‘guess,’ Mary, say ‘pre sume.’ ” A few days later, says the Cleve land Plain Dealer, one of Mary’s i friends coming up to her remarked: ! “I think your cape is pretty and my mother wants your mother to lend her the pattern, because she is going to make me one like it.” “My mother has no pattern;” was the prompt reply; “she cut it by presume.” Edwards Defeats Hunter. Louisville. Ky.. August 10.—Dis patches to the Evening Post up to 11 o’clock today indicate the nomination of D. C. Edwards for congress over Dr. Godfrey Hunter, by the Republic an primary in the eleventh district. Mr. Edwards’ majority is figured at 264 with two counties in a remote part of the district missing. These twe counties are said to be strongly for Edwards. Mr. Edwards claims his election by 1.000. The eleventh dis trict is Republican and the nomination there is equivalent to election. Forest Fire Raging. Lander, Wyo., August 10.—A forest fire is raging in the Wind river moun tains between this place and Thennop- oils and already is reported to have destroyed a large area of timber. Th* fire is working eastward and a num ber of ranches and mining properties are directly in Its path. The inbah Rant of the forest ranges have turned out to fight the flames. No man holds a principle unless it is the principal thing he holds. Taken With Cramps. Win. Kirmse, a member of the bridge gang working near Littleport was taken suddenly ill Thursday night with cramps and a kind of chol-1 er*. His case was so severe that he had to have the membe; s of the crew wait upon him and Mr. Gifford was called and consulted. He told them he had a medicine In the form of Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy that he thought would help him out and accordingly several doses were administered with , the result that the fellow was able to 1 be around next day. The Incident speaks quite highly of Mr. Gifford’s: medicines.—Elkader, Iowa, Argus. This remedy never falls. Keep It In your home, it may save life. For in Batistes, Lawns, Nickers, Zephyrs and many other lines in summer goods. It is our intention to clean up a;ll summer goods. All remnants at greatly reduced prices. :: Ladies’ and Misses’ Summer Hats at your own prices. :: :: :: :: Men’s Straw Hats at cost and below cost. Men’s Slippers and some broken lines of Sun day Shoes at prices that have touched the lowest mark. :: :: :: :: See us for your Children’s, Misses’ and La dies’ Slippers. Prices will be cut deep on most every line of these in our house from this time on. • • • • Railroads Having Bad Times. El Paso. Tex., August 10 —The ran road’s in the southwest are having a — - _ „ terrible time with washouts Repairs sa,e by Cherokee Dru S Co - Gaffne y: are fast being made, but rains are L ’ D ’ Allison, Cowpens. washing out the cribbing in many ol n jg uY> to a man to mend his ways tho places as fast as It is put in. This when he stumbles over obstacles. is the worst situation the railroad* j have faced for a long time in t»is sec Foley's Kidney Cure will cure all ..on, .nd trains .re rnnn.n, ute Drug Co. w See :us, see us! We will save you money. Wilkins Gaffney, S. C.