The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 14, 1905, Image 1
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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
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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.