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/HE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Nowspopor In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. ; SE1C-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AHD FRIDAY. Tin Nitiinil Bilk if Blffiif, S. C. Stats, County and City Depository. Everything of a banking nature en trusted to our cars receives our Tory best attention. We would be glad to have your business. Bank Closes Every Day at t P. ML Except Saturday, S P. M. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Beet Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. If, ISM. GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. ramiiT the PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A FINE CONCERT Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers- Alma Lumber Company, of Robeson county, the capital being $100,000. P. A. Fore is the principal incorpo rator. The Elk’s Home Construction Com pany was organized in Raleigh Fri day to erect a $25,000 temple for the Raleigh lodge. Work will begin on June 1st. The building will be up-to- date, four stories, with a roof garden. A charter has been issued for the Internal revenue officials in Raleigh Thursday sold to the Raleigh dispen sary 240 gallons of whiskey, that had been seized from John Blue, at Hoff man, Richmond county, being found hid out in the woods. The dispensa ry paid $1.15 a gallon. Governor Glenn is anxious to find H. A. Sledge or some near relative of his, to whom can be delivered a blood stained Testament, picked up on the battlefield at Fort Fisher in 18G4 by J. E. Reid, of Massachusetts, a Fed eral soldier. The Testament bears a valuable inscription. Mr. Lewis Taylor, aged about GO years, an employe of the Kinston Cot ton Mills, was found dead in the waste room of the mills Thursday afternoon about 6 o’clock. The man had been dead but a short while when found, and his death was apparently due to natural causes. He leaves a large family. The Thursday afternoon Seaboard local freight train was partly wrecked near Paw Creek. One car Jumped the rails and blocked the track, so that the mail train No. 132 could not pass. A special was sent from Charlotte, and brought In the passengers, but the mall and express did not get in until the wreck had been removed. NORTH. CAR. NEWS. David Holmes, a prominent Mason and prosperous lumber dealer of Jen nings, Mich., died Thursday morning about 7 o’clock while aboard the southbound train enroute to Wilming ton. His death occurred as the train was nearing Goldsboro, and was due to hepatic hemorrhage. Mr. Holmes was 50 years old and leaves a widow and three children. The officers of the Southbound Railroad have secured a corps of en gineers to go over and run one or the other, or both, of the proposed lines for the road, starting from Winston and going south. The surveyors are expected to arrive at Winston in a few days to enter upon their work. The purpose of these surveys is to ascer tain the cheapest and best line, and it will enable the management to more promptly complete the contracts for construction when the bonds of this and other communities are finally vot ed for the building of the road. The Eagle Manufacturing Company has recently removed to Charlotte from Jacksonville, Fla., and occupied quarters at 31 West Trade street, va cated the first of the year by J. M. Wood side. The new enterprise will manufacture and wholesale and retail candies from the cheap stick kind up to the fanciest and most expensive kind. It will also conduct a lunch counter, ice cream parlor and fruit business. The business will be under the personal management of Mr. C. P. Tinsley, a man of 20 years’ experience as a candy manufacturer. In an affray between H. L. Howie and N. S. Patrick, employes of the General Fire Extinguisher Company, In Charlotte, Friday morning, at the company’s warehouses on South Col- ! lege street, Patrick received a blow : from a solid piece of iron, which, with slightly more force behind it, would have proved fatal. As it was, a df'ep gash was cut in his head and it was necessary to take several stitches in the wound. The weapon was a two- j foot pleCv- of iron, larger than a man’s, finger. The young men work togeth er in the warehouses and store room. A dispute arose as to wfcere a truck load of piping should be placed, when Howie becoming infuriated picked up the weapon and struck Patrick. In court in Raleigh the Jury in the case of Cunnigham & Hinsbaw vs. the Seaboard Air Line, involving $21,000 damages for the burning of cotton In the Hamlet compress fire two years ago, returned a verdict Thursday, af ter being out 23 hours, the finding be ing that the fire was not due to any negligence on the part of the rail road company, which was not, there fore, liable. There Is another case, growing out of the same fire, that has been postponed to the next term of the court, in which damage is being sued for on account of the burning of Mr. Wilson, bookkeeper In the office of the compress. The continuance was ordered before the case Just disposed of came up, and the verdict Just ren dered may result in the abandonment of the Wilson case. Given at Limestone College by Mem bers of the Music Faculty. This fine concert given last Friday night by the four members of the mu sic faculty of Limestone College, was one which will be long remembered by those who attended. It is seldom that a college has a faculty of such splendid musical ability. A splendid programme well balanced and mag- nificenty rendered, delighted the large audience. Every number was ren dered with a perfect mastery, such as one seldom hears. Mr. Scherubel in the Beethoven son ata revealed the true understanding of the artist, and play ed with much ar tistic expression this difficult master piece, showing an execution and speed that was wonderful. Mrs. Scherubel’s sweet and powerful soprano voice de lighted the heart of all. bringing tears to many eyes. Mrs. Scherubel has that rare faculty of singing a song and making the hearer understand all the words. Her selections showed a fine range of voice, possessing both sweet ness and strength. Miss Steedly once more, with her brilliant pianism, showed her complete mastery of the piano, delighting every one present with a fine rendition of the Moszkowski waltz. Miss Dew proved that since gradu ating at Limestone College a few years ago she has not been idle, but has been improving her time, in study and practice. Her playing of Liszt’s 12th rhapsody showed power and tempera ment. Limestone may well be proud of such graduates. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. SPARTANBURG’S NEW DEPOT. Final Inspection Made by Architect Milburn—A Modern Structure. Spartanburg. March 9.—Mr. Frank P. Milburn, the architect of Spartan burg’s new passenger station, made a final inspection of the construction and equipment of the building recent ly, which was satisfactory in all re spects. The new passenger station cost $25,000, and is modern in the fullest and best sense of the word. It is a handsome building of pressed brick and granite, comfortably tiled flooring, red tile roofing, thorough ventilation, comfortably equipped with steam heating, and the sanitary arrangements are adequate and con venient. The entire work is first class, and the people of Spartanburg appre ciate the Southern’s good turn In building such a nice depot here. When the lights are installed and the fur niture placed In, the building will be ready for service. The furnlti i e equip ment will consist of Flemis.i settees, invalids’ chairs, stretchers and cus pidors will be placed on the neat tile flooring. A contract for placing a commodious cement flooring all around the depot will be given in the imme diate future. King Leopold, of Belgiun, Is mixed up In another social scandal, and be has pased the chloroform age, at that. The Lipscomb Descendants. Editor Ledger:—Wm. Lipscomb, Sr., moved to what is now Cherokee coun ty about the year 1755, settling near the mouth of Limestone Creek on the east bank of Thickety creek, where he and his wife lived until 1810, when he died and was buried near the home. His wife survived him for several years and was laid by his side at her death. No stately shaft or monument marks the place, but to supply the want of large oak tree spreads Its protecting arms over them, characteristic of the man and as a family tree. I should like, if it meets your ap proval, to publish in The Ledger from time to time such legends and tradi tions as have come down to us about the man and his children, the social and political condition of the country, &c. No one has ever written a history of the early settlement of this part of our State, who lived on the ground or was directly acquainted with the coun try and people who settled It; so that what we know of these pioneers has come down to us orally. Our young people know little or nothing of their forefathers who carved out a noble inheritance for them in this land of ours, and I am heartily in sympathy with our friend W. R. Lipscomb by reunions to build up and cherish the virtues of the an cestors in the children. T. M. Littlejohn. Gaffney Boy Wins Medal. Clem son College, March 13.—On Thursday evening, the 9th Inst, the Calhoun literary society celebrated its eleventh anniversary in the college chapel. The programme was as fol lows: Declaimers:—J, V. Phillips, Gaft- n v, subject, "The Sioux Chiefs Daughter”; W. H. Taylor. Clemson Coh>ge ( subject. "The Character of the Puritans"; J. D. Graham, Sumter, subject, "Old Bell’s Christmas Story,’’ Orators:—E. E. Porter, Blacksburg, subject, “The End;*’ R. F. Gooding, Blackstock, subject, "The Decay of Nations.” Debate:—"Resolved, that Japan shall win in the now existing war.” Affirmative:—A. R. McAlllly, Ches ter; negative:—A. P. Dubose, Camden. The winners were: Deolalmer’s med al, J. V. Phillips; orator’s medal, R. F. Gooding; debater's medal, A. P. Du bose. The evening was most pleasantly spent. A shoemaker at Connellsville, Pa., has just Inherited $25,000 and feels reasonably well heeled. A good way to make trouble Is to go out and look for it Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop* ular People and Short Itema of General Interest. Wilkinsville, March 10.—We have read with much interest the address of Col. John C. Cary, president of the Lockhart cotton mills, delivered before the cotton growers’ convention in Co lumbia week before last. Col. Cary is a broad minded man and his views are the most logical we have yet heard or seen In the solution of the cotton problem. Coming as they do from a manufacturer of cotton goods by which the world’s supply must be fur nished they strike us with the ring of pure metal. In order to get and main tain fair prices for the raw material we must have an outlet and market for manufactured goods. The farmer and manufacturer must each bear a proportionate part of the burden in or der to reap their respective shares of the profits. It is not to the interest I of either that cotton should be fifteen cents at one time and six cents at an other—today up and tomorrow down —just as a few speculators in New York or Liverpool may direct. In the first sentence of his inaugu ral address last Saturday, President Roosevelt rises above the average chief magistrate when he expresses the thought, which more than all the flambeau of the national pageantry as sembled does him and the occasion honor. He said: “No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ! our^ and this is said reverently, in ; no spirit of boastfulness in our own i strength, but with gratitude to the ; Giver of good, who has blessed us with the conditions which have en abled us to achieve so large a meas ure of well being and happiness.” Rising above the lines of political domination and strife he asserts a measure of moral courage seldom, If ever, seen In the chief magistrate of a nation. When the Delaware troops marched by the grandstand, their band playing "Dixie,” the president said to the by standers: “That is one of the best tunes in the lot.” Then again, when General Joe Wheeler, the great cav alry bearer of the Confederacy, passed he was given a cordial greeting, the president clasping his hands apd shaking them enthusiastically. Surely such scenes as these are enough to teach us that the war Is over and ours Is once more a reunited country. More than all that has or can be said of | the man this demonstration of pa- i triotism places Theodore Roosevelt among the greatest Americans of his j day. He is greater than his party and i greater than the country over which he presides. He is the first president of the United States (since the war I at least) who has had the courage to take up the cause of the people against the trusts and combines which have for their object the grinding out of the life of the toiling and consuming mil- ; lions who need and have needed such intervention. Truly righteousness ex- alteh a nation; but sin is a reproach j to any people. Mr. J. G. Kendirck is sick with 1 srippe. Mr. F, A. Goforth is also in bed with the same disease, and, be- sides, is nursing a sore head from in- : juries he received while using an axe. Mrs. “J. L. 8.” is also confined to her bed with an attack of cold and grippe. Mr. V. C. Comer is better. He is up and about again. A few farmers are plowing—sowing oats and breaking up land. Several of Mr. John A. M. Estes' : family are either down with grippe or ! complaining. Miss Bonnie McCluney dismissed school yesterday, being too unwell to teach. Yesterday was the fiftieth anniver sary of the windy Friday in which the whole of the Coaling-ground sec- : tion of York county was burned over , and many dwelling houses with their contents were burned together with thousands of cords of wood. Among the rest Hopewell church on King’s creek was burned, too. We spent two days in Gaffney this week fnd stayed all night with Dr. M. W. Ss^th, of the city. The^yisseg Kendrick, of Sarratts, are SMmg the best gardeners in Cher okee tffiunty. They never fail to have a good garden and plenty of vegeta bles in ILmost of the year round. They have onions large enough to use now. The roads are good now and travel is not so difficult. Mrs. Mamie Strain had a quilting yesterday and finished two quilts. Messrs. W. G. Fowler and W. C. Blackwell went to Gaffney this week on business. The Hoey ford on Gilkey creek' Is washed out and Mr. T. Jeff Hughes got in there and got his horse crippled last week. Most of the farmers in this section will cut down their cotton acreage for this year’s crop. Some of them have cut more than one-fourth. The extension of the time for pay ing road tax has been a great accom modation to those who neglected to pay before the 1st of March. We don’t suppose another extension of the time will be necessary. Miss Louise Fowler, of Kelton, who has been spending some time with rel atives and friends in tble county, visit ed the family of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Goforth last Wednesday. She Is much improved in health since she has been drinking the water and breathing the pure air of Cherokee county. There is some cotton in this section to gin yet. Mrs. Amanda Lee spent the day with her sister, Mrs. “J. L. S.” yes terday. At a recent meeting of the church session J. L. Strain was elected to re present Salem church at the meeting of Enoree Presbytery at Union April 4th. Mr. W. R. Walker, who has been looking after his farming interest in Cherokee county returned to his home in Union this week. Since our last report the following members of Camp Jefferies U. C. Vet erans have paid their camp dues for the present fiscal year: G. W. Mc- Kown, O. S. Co. 15th S. C. regiment; J. D. Jefferies, 2nd Lt. Co. F. 15th S. C. regiment; Wm. Harris, private Co. G. 18th S. C. regiment. The camp is called to meet at Elbethel church Sat urday, April 1st, at 11 o’clock a. m. to’elect delegates and sponsors to the Louisville and State reunions. Mr. and Mrsj J. T. Bigham, of Sha- ran, are both sick. A ’phone message this morning states that Mrs. Bigham is dying. We hear of a few cases of small pox in the Hickory Grove section of York county. We regret to learn that Mrs. Su- song. mother of our esteemed friend Mr. Gregg Susong, of Star Farm, died at her home in Green county, Ten nessee, one day last week. J. L. S. Freight Wreck on Coast Line. Another freight wreck occurred on the Northeastern Railroad Thursday morning, and the track was blocked for more than 12 hours. The wreck occurred at Santee Canal sixty-nine miles south of Florence on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line sys tem. Train No. 35,the fast West In dian limited, was held at Florence for more than three hours. It was finally decided to disaptch this train south via, Sumter, Creston and Pregnall’s, over the Coast Line and then into Charleston over the Southern Rail road. All other trains were held until the wrecking crew, which was sent out of Florence shortly after the wreck occurred, could clear the track. Train No. 82, a freight from Charles ton to Columbia, had stopped at the top of Simpson’s Hill. The engine was cut loose from the train to go to Bonneau’s for water, and when the engine returned and attempted to couple up the jar from the coupling started the cars to rolling and down this steep grade they went at a rapid rate. At the foot of the hill extra freight engine No. 64, which had been flagged down, was waiting for No. 82 to get out of the way. As the train of cars from No. 82 came down the hill they ran into the extra engine and the wreck was the result. No one was hurt. From a Little Friend. Clifton, March 4.—Your bright and newsy paper is a welcome visitor to our home and we all like to read it. I and my two little brothers are going to school. The Misses Landrum are our teachers. We like to go to school. We have a dear little brother in our home of whom we are all very fond. Aunt Mary Hill, of Alabama, is vis iting us. She will go home some time before long. We hate to see her leave. I wish I was able to gather some news to interest your readers. Mill No. is running on full time. Sickness among the mill people makes hands scarce now. Rev. Mr. Harrison is our preacher. We have a good Sabbath school at the Baptist church and It is very well attended when the weather is good. I will write you again if this letter escapes the waste basket. Your little friend, Archie Sparks. Buffalo Brevities. Buffalo, March 11—For the past week the horny handed sons of toil have been busy making preparation to plant another large crop of cotton. What will southern people do when they get into the kingdom of heaven if the good Lord deprives them of the pleasure of raising cotton? He can’t keep them from raising it In this world. Miss Guss Brohawn closed her school at Buffalo today. Nearly two years ago a young lady working in the knitting mill at Blacks burg wrote a note and put it in a pair of hose, and a few weeks ago she re ceived an answer to it from a young man in New York City. Bachelor. Fell Down Stairway. A young child of Mrs. Porter’s, who occupies rooms on Limestone street, Just across from The Ledger office, fell down a stairway in the house Sat urday afternoon and broke one of its little legs In two places. Dr. Nesbitt wa« hurriedly sent for, and he set the broken limb and made the child as comfortable as possible. The little one was following Its mother down the steps at the time, when It lost Its balance and fell a con siderable distance. Chaingang Moved. The county chaingang moved yes terday from near Clarence Turner’s, in the upper section of the county, to the lower section of the county, near Davis Folwer’g, of Sunny Side, six teen miles from the city, where they have a large fill to make, caused by a large gully. Only five men are on the gang force. One who was a trusty made his escape from the gang Fri day. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad. Blacksburg, March 12.—Miss Pearl Crawley, of Gaffney, is visiting Miss Bessie Reinhardt. Mrs. Healan and daughter. Miss Edna, left Friday night to spend a day or two with relatives in Charlotte. Mr. A. A. McFadden, after spend ing a few days in town, left Sunday for his home in Charleston. James B. Dickerson, of Yorkville, after several days in Washington, D. C., and New York City, spent Sunday in town on his way home. Ed Blalock, who is attending school at Greenville, was in town Saturday. THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors In the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers A petition for a pardon has been re ceived in behalf of Ponman Gosnell, W. C. Wilburn, of King’s Creek, was of Greenville, who was convicted of in town Sunday. selling liquor and was sentenced to Dr. W. C. Anderson and Mr. John three months on the gang. He is 65 Byers, of Cherokee Falls, left Mon day for Savannah. Mrs. Randall and daughter, Miss years old and unable to work, so he has been serving a term of impris onment in jail. The petitioners think Katie Lou, returned Friday after an: he has been sufficiently punished. No extended visit to Alabama. Macon, Lathan and Luther Blairs- ville left this morning for Spartan burg. Mrs. A. E. Woody left Monday for a i visit to Patterson, N. C. action has been taken on the petition. An American negro, named John Wells, from South Carolina, on being refused admittance to a dance In Co lon, Panama, Wednesday night, drew Mrs. W. C. Rippy died Thursday at f revolver and shot and killed a po- e home of her daughter. Mrs. John * lcema B & n <l wounded two other per sons. The murderer was arrested the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Bell. She was sick only two weeks —-— — before the end came. She was a con- an< ‘ w “ probably be sentenced to «» sistent member of New Hope church term imprisonment in Chiriqui jail, at Earl, N. C., and a good, pious Chris- p S t* iere is no capital punishment in i tian woman. She leaves a devoted ” anama - husband, three sons and two daugh- Greenville county is to have an In ters, and a host of friends to mourn vestigation of its financial condition, her departure, but their loss is her The comptroller general has reported | eternal gain. The bereaved ones have finances in that county to be In j the sympathy of the entire community. P re tty bad shape, and a resolution was adopted by the legislature for Picnic at Antioch, Antioch, March 11.—Please allow me to give you a few dots from this ! section. On Saturday, the 25th of March, the the appointemnt of a commissioner for that county similar to that of Richland. The Greenville delegation Thursday recommended that the gov ernor make the following appoint- Antioch school will give a picnic and nients: Avery Patton, S. A. Towneg, all are invited to attend and bring well A- S. Peden. filled baskets. We are looking for a A heavy rain, accompanied by wind fine time. We have been requested to lightning and terrific thunder, occur-’ invite Prof. "W. L. Walker and the red at Hagood Thursday afternoon, editor of The Ledger to attend and This was the first rain and thunder make us speeches. We will have sev- storm of the season. The rain was eral games to interest the visitors, the hardest that has fallen in some Remember the date. Saturday. March time. Lightning struck a tenant house i 25th. Let us all go and enjoy our- on the farm of Mr. A. K. Sanders and selves. did considerable damage. The house Miss Bessie Hambright, a popular was occupied at the time by some ne^ ! young lady, has returned home from goes, but strange to say no one was 1 a visit to her sister, Mrs. Plaxico, killed. It was simply miraculous how near Yorkville. they escaped. The rain will put a | Messrs. G. D. and T. A. Hambright stop to farm work, already backward, ! went to Gaffney Thursday on business, for some time. < ?n, Je v kinShaslieg '! nt0 ^ 0ve Several miles above Edgefield Mr his old still house near the Kings Lemuel Corley was Thursday forced Monnta 1 !) batrleeroiind. We ,11 hope to klll , pe c ro mU Jta $5? he will have to move it still further Mr. Corley is one of the county chai£ ', _ gang overseers. He was approached Miss Lena B. Love, the Antioch by said negro saying he wanted to see school teacher, returned home on a one of the convicts. He was armed V ^ r t r r ?? e ?. t ^ f „ 0 . .. ! with a shotgun. Mr. Corley asked Mr E. B. McSwaln, the manager of him what the weapon contained; he the Grover telephone system. Is prfc answered by raising the gun and say- pairing to run a line to Clover, and to' ing he would shoot him, thereuon Mr Blacksburg. He says he Is not going Corley, quick as a flash, shot the ne- to have any phones on either line. He gro dead with his rifle. Of course is going to get connections with Shel- this was the most justifiable killing by and King s Mountain. that could occur. inJ\ e hea™with°thl h ir S work^huYto^y da ^ J^sec^etTrY T f hUrS ‘ «reSe SO ' nS '°'' Set 10 for tSe s2uda River 6 Poire? There .111 be preachlos at Antioch 1 Alester ^ Furman an A H church Sunday morning and night at i w a vnfcw.o.lv. Ster G ‘ Fur “ an and H - the annointed tim* J. Hajmesworth are named as corpo- the appointed time. Hoping success to The Ledger, Chit. rators. The capital. stock will be $300,000. The finances of the concern are all satisfactorily arranged and the property along the river has been ob tained. The site for the dam is only The Banner Township. The banner township, according to /hr fonr M° r n C ' im „ S 0 °'J 16 tax hnnks La Tw-t™,vni 0 about four miles from Greenville, and Mp b opi?' 'o-rar^j^T “Tr? win tax and fifty-nine cents for polls. We p UrDOge8 fn YhY^Htv^ indus ^ nal are willing to gamble a little that toYS * surroj Q dl °S there Is not another township in the i XT . State that can touch these figures. . . ews has been received at York- A DANGEROUS HABIT. Gladstone’s Physician Gives Warning Against a Growing American Custom. The growing habit among Ameri cans of taking a mint tablet or some other so-called digestive after eating a hearty meal. Is something that Sir Andrew Clarke, Mr. Gladstone’s phy sician advises strongly against, say ing: “It is absolutely dangerous to take into the stomach remedies which are popularly supposed to aid in the digestion of food.” There is nothing known to the science of medicine that can per form the work of the human stom ach. Drugs do not and cannot digest the food. They simply decompose It. What can be more revolting or dis gusting than the thought of taking something into the stomach that Is going to turn the good food you have ‘eaten into a mass of corruption? The only way to overcome indiges tion and its evil effects Is to remove all irritation, congestion and inflam mation from the stomach, liver and intestines, and Mi-o-na Is the only agent known that will do this. When a Ml-o-na tablet is taKen before each meal every trace of Irri tation and inflammation is removed from the stomach and digestive sys tem, and those organs will extract from the food all that goes to make good( rich blood, firm muscle, steady nerves and a sound, healthy body. If you suffer with headaches, indi gestion, flatulency, spots before the eyes, vertigo, or dizziness, palpitation of the heart, sleeplessness, or any stomach trouble, get a fifty cent box of Mi-o-na from Gaffney Drug Co., one of onr most reliable drug firms, whose faith in the remedy Is shown by their offer to return the money If Mi-o-na does not give complete satisfaction. —Rubber* for everybody at prices, at J. L Sarratt’s. dose Subscribe for The Ledger, only $1.00 ville of the death of Lieutenant Pal mer Tilton in Baltimore last Sunday. Lieutenant Tilton will be remembered as the husband of Miss Rhetta Cald well, formerly of York county, they having been married about a vear ago He entered the army in 187C,‘ and re tired from active duty after twenty- two years of service, because of lu- | juries. He leaves an Infant son, Pal mer Tilton, Jr. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon, the re mains being interred in the national cemetery at Arlington, near Washing ton. The supreme court on Monday ren dered a very important decision as to the liability of bondsmen of dispen sary constables. The case aaose from that of Wieters, a blind tiger dealer in Charleston, who alleged that con stables in making search of his place assaulted him. He sued them for damages in the sum of $10,000 each and when the case was called the state, through the attorney general, demurred. The case was taken to the supreme court and the effect of the decision is to hold the bonds men liable In such cases. The prac tical outcome will be that the case will go back to the lower court for trial and for the assessment of dam ages, if any be allowed. No Clue to Robbers. A phone message from R. R. Ray, secretary and treasurer of McAden mills, Thursday, said that there was no clue an to the robbers of the safe at McAden mills Saturday night. Mr. Ray thinks that the robbers did the work early in the night and had time to walk some distance before day, and they did not throw away thfe papers they could not use till they had made an examination of the papers. He thinks the robbers watched the night watchman and did their work while the watchman was in the rear of the building. This would have given the robbers something like three quarters of an hour. The robbers took valuable papers that they must have intended to use some time in the near fntnre.