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„■. > .... /HE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. —% SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY Gaffney, 8. C., State, County and City Depository, With resources March 31, 1905 of over $300,000.00, respectfully solicits your banking business. 1 A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. U, 1M4. GAFFNEY, 8. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. MIGHOUT THE PAIMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Gov. Ley ward Wednesday offered a reward of $150 for the arrest of the person who burned the barn of L. F. Stanford in Union county on the night of April 2nd. The offer of re ward was made at the request of So licitor Sease. Mr. D. M. Bedenbaugh, of Ander son, the young railroad man who was arrested a few days ago on a charge of embezzlement, has been released on a bond of $1,000, given by J. W. Ashley, of Honea Path. He has em ployed counsel and the case will come up for trial at the next term of the sessions court in May. In the warrant on which his arrest was made it is al leged that he misappropriated funds to the amount of $2,086. The people of Rock Mills township in Anderson county have voted an ad ditional tax of four mills for school purposes. Tvoio for the special levy was unan’raous, not a single voter having opposed it. Many of the dis tricts in the county have voted spec ial levies to supoort their schools, and the i iove uem for better educa tional facilities is steadily progressing. In one instance at least, in addition to the voting of a snecial levy, the principle of consolidation has been successfully carried out. there is nothing about his person which could positively tell who he is or where he belongs. Realizing the predicament of the police officials, when the man entered the station and asked that he be sent to the hospital for treatment, he suggested that he be called Harry Sinclair, but he added that this was not his name. His mind is perfectly clear about his movements since April 10, when he came to con sciousness in Savannah. He definitely traced his movements to Uharleston from that time, but still he cannot solve the mystery which surrounds his being. Ezell Locals. Ezell, April 17.—The old saying of “March coming in like a lamb, going out like a lion,” did not prove true by “a long shot” this time. In fact, we’ve had very little “lion-like” weather in March, not a bit of ice and very light frost, if any. The mountains are white with snow. Yesterday there was a snow storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning in the neighborhood of Cherokee Springs. This morning we had a big frost, and thin ice formed on still water; yet, strange to say, not anything ap pears to have been hurt. We noticed some beans, tomatoes and cotton that were exposed seemed all right; so we think the fruit crop safe so far. Mrs. Myra Simmons, wife of the late Capt. J. O. Simmons, of Henriet A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OP LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest. Wilkinsville, April 17.—If Mrs. Billy Wisher, of Kings Creek, will please excuse us we will say nothing more about “big fish.” “Man,” you may try it again or give the prize for the largest fish caught in Cherokee county to Mrs. William Wisher. By private letter from Craighead county, Arkansas, we learn that on next Sabbath, 23rd inst., Rev. Newt Osment will preach the dedicatory sermon at a new church just erected at Wood’s Center, near Dee, in that State. Many of his old acquaintances will gladly note that he (Newt) is now a prominent minister of the Bap tist church and a leader in that com munity. Our best wishes attend him in his new field of usefulness. If women were made to fit the fash- ta, N. C., died at the home of her son, ionable dresses of today what wonder- •T. G. Simmons, of Henrietta, April 2. i ful deformities they would he. While She was eighty-three years of age and : nothing is prettier or sweeter than a for the last four or five years has J well dressed young lady, been almost entirely helpless. Death I This week the chain gang will work on the road from Thomasson’s mill to Wilkinsville. Thank you, Mr. Su pervisor; better late than never. Some people are so self-conceited and self-important that they w-ould rather be the head of a mouse than to her was a friend and she looked for its coming as a blessed release from this world of trial. She leaves two sons and three daughters, and a host of friends and realtives to mourn their loss. She was buried at Floyd’s Creek church. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” Mr. C. Cash and several others of this community have sold their cotton. Somewhere near 100 bales have been sold recently. The price received was eight cents per pound. Several of the young folks have the The rails in the new railroad con necting Union with the Seaboard Air Lino are now being laid rapidly. A large force is already at work without the corporate limits of Union, and the I marrying fever and it sterns .to be rails would be run right into where the | ca t c M n 8-” following couples have been recently married by Mr. H. Z. Hicks, N. P.: Mr. George Cash and Miss Christine Overcash; Mr. Com modore Scruggs and Mrs. Polly Ruppe; Mr. Elijah Byars and Miss Edna Rodg ers. We wish them all a prosperous journey through life. L. right new station will be located were it not necessary to. build a trestle in the rear of L. G. Young’s residence. This trestle will be an especially heavy one, about 45 feet long, and will require about two or three weeks to be com pleted. For several days Capt. D. J. Griffith, a railroad contractor, who has been grading out for the new r railroad yards, has been working ahead of the track gang in order that the roadbed would be in first class condition. Harley, the young white man who shot a negro at Harleyville, Dorchester county, is still at large. Gov. Heyward Tuesday received a letter from Mr. M. S. Connor, of St. George, a promi nent lawyer, who conveyed official in- tVdligence of the shooting. Gov. Hey ward communicated at once with the sheriff of the county. Mr. Connor says in his letter: “Last afternoon I re ceived the following telegram from Magistrate J. W. Cummings, of Harley ville, this county: ‘Inform Gov. Hey ward that one W. G. Harley is wanted here for the shooting and cutting of two men. Sheriff without assistance. Have failed to arrest him. He has de parted with a single-barrel, breech loading shotgun and believed to be gone to Charleston or in that direc tion.’ From what can be learned here Baseball. « A very interesting game of ball was played at Jefferies’ park last Tuesday afternoon betw r een the Graded School team and a picked team known as the “Down Town” team. Some nice plays were made on both.sides, and for a time it looked as if the score were go- ing to mighty close, but the Graded ; jng the Russian-Japanese campaign School went up in the air and the old- 1 - - - the tail of a Hon. They must be the mastodon or nothing. Whoever the shoe fits may put it on. Mr. Dick Harris is ditching for us. He says he never could work by the ring of the bell. Petitions are out asking the board of control not to allow the establish ment of the Jenkins distillery or the manufacture or sale of whiskey in Cherokee county in any way or under any name whatever. Every voter who wants ten cents for his cotton is invited to sign it. A person who examined the eggs of one of our setting hens found an egg pipped at the little end. Is it' possi ble that the chick is coming out at the little end? Man’s chief end nowadays seems to be to humbug people by keeping up appearances. A few historical facts may not be out of place and interest some of our readers, especially when they surpass anything on record, not even except- it seems that Harley shot a negro at Harleyville Tuesday and defied arrest j Down Town: .. 0300020 3 0 and took to the woods.” j Graded School. 10000002 1 It is probable that Isadore Thompson ' of Greenville, will have a hard time j In the Pennsylvania campaign dur ing the late war between the States, Gen’l. J. E. B. Stuart marched a por tion of his command ninety-six miles in twenty-four hours in order to join Gen’l. Lee at Gettysburg, and Gen’l. Pleasanton, of the Federal army, marched his cavalry seventy-eight miles in the same time to take part in that great battle. Gen’l. “Stone wall” Jackson marched his command from the valley of Virginia at the rate of four miles an hour to join Gen’l. Lee in the seven days battle before Richmond; while the majch of Longstreet’s corps from East Tennes see to meet Grant at the Wilderness is unprecedented in the history of ancient or modern warfare. Gen’l. Halleck, in his work on military sci- Fir«* ru u m * ence states that Caesar marched his nr F 8t ® aptlst 9 hu , rc * Notes - Legions from Rome to Sierva Morena. Dr. Hamilton arrived Tuesay after-, i n Spain, at the rate of sixty miles Hill fl Tlrl its M ft T Tt 1 it rr FL/'t. 4- /-v , __ *■ timers batted out a victory. The following was the line-up: Graded School:—Robbins, Byars, Johnson, Spake, Campbell, Little, Bell, Duff, Curry; Down Town:—Lolly, Walker, Humphries, Brown, Snead, Little, Pryor, Destaffino, Stacy. Lolly and Walker were the battery for the Down Town, while Byars and Duff held the points for the Graded School. Features of the game ^ere the playing of Brown and Bell, at first, and Campbell in the field. All the others played well, but the Graded School was weak at the bat. Score by innings: 123456789 —8 —4 terest of the Cherokee county orphan age, which we are glad to learn is getting along nicely. Yesterday morning frost in some places did damage to vegetation fruit, etc. Our people planted their melon patches last week. There will be no Easter services at any of our churches next Sabbath that we know of. Our friend, Mr. Morgan Millwood, has bought him a covered wagon, in which the sun or rain can never touch him. “Morg” is the first of our citizens to take watermelons to market. The man who beats him raising them, either in size or quality, hasn’t made his appearance yet. “Morg” was a gallant soldier in Com pany F, 15th S. C. Regiment, during the war. Little Archie Strain was taken right sick yesterday evening. Mr. James George was in this sec tion with Rev. W. D. Hammett last Sabbath evening. It’s a pretty sure sign to see a young man riding ’round with a preacher. The chain gang is working out the road leading to Howell’s ferry. The tongue of the road scraper was brok en yesterday. j. L. S. AT ANTIOCH. to get a pardon. In 1903 he killed Arch i noon a !u i j„ w n i nf , nnc+nr Tr. tun ' , 1 v a „A ne rate ° r sixf y miles Sullivan in Greenville and was sen-j reviva i lnee tw The imnression hp i a ,lay - In 1800 Mao,lonalfl - wishin S to tenced to serve the rest of his life fn bas madTon the nmnlr hv hil fiit i ,reve l nt , "} e ^ape of an enemy, prison. A petition stating the case sorv j coc has beon a „ ood 0 ^ 0 H ! I ? arched 1118 command forty miles a very strongly in favor of the prisoner f ree f rom c]aDtran mpthnd | ' ,a> ’ crossing many rivers and moun- has been received. Acting upon his mi^.. Ii „ ,1 x. : r _ a,ns - Clausel, after the battle of usual petition who Greenv endorsement the at least a sentence for manslaughter, as there was little in the case to rec ommend a pardon. It is declared in the petition that Isadore Thompson killed the man who seduced his dnugh- j ter, refused to marry her and then went about bragging of what he had done. However, the jury seems to have thought that there was enough in the case to have the accused sent to the penitentiary for life. We have so far had an unprece dentedly favorable season for farm John E. Smith, a former citizen of Pickens county, is in serious trouble. He has deserted the Uid' ’ .-‘Hates army. He was capture ) eight miles east Cross Roads secti near his former years in the army reenlisted. He Marshal John Gritti.i and Mr. H. A Nealey, of Pickens, vim will receive a reward of *50 for his capture. Smith’s story is that he never de erted, as he had a dispute with an officer in Atlan ta whom he told he was going to leave. A dispute arose as to the payment of car fare from Atlanta to Fort McPher son, Smith claiming that the govern ment should pay the fare and the of ficer claiming that, it was a personal claim. Smith says he knocked the of ficer down for insulting him and left, thinking that all that was necessary ■was to tell the officer that ho was go ing to leave. He could not then, In his opinion, bo termed a deserter. The police and cttv ho pital authori ties of Charleston have a problem in their hands in ascertaining the Identity and treatment of a man who presented vislyto pray and to seek a blessing. Set \ ices will also be held in the ^ work, and it has generally been taken College chapel at the morning hour, | advantage of. as he may be able to attend. It is hoped that a work of spiritual power may develop. Certainly those who bear Dr. Hamilton will be helped it they follow the Word and the Spirit. Evervhody is invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blackwell went to Gaffney last Saturday on a shop ping tour. Mr. Jeff Hughes made his trip to ! ! nion last week with chickens, eggs .and butter, and returned Saturday. It will not be long until we can i d .. .■ n ; have home raised strawberries. I iu r h\ r, !7 ,a °uT ] '™ n WOrk ‘'' vis ^^ this" slate forborne time" i.j tl , wl * , i . i . \ , J i i expects to start for her home in Eta Farmers Beginning to Plant Cotton— Personal Items. Antioch, April 19, 1905. Mr. Editor:—Please allow me space in your good paper to give a few dots from the section around about An tioch. The farmers are beginning to plant cotton; but we think they had better wait until after winter breaks, or they will not have to reduce the acre- a £e the frost will reduce it for them. Sunday night there was a frost in this part of the county, which killed ev erything green. There is not. a peach, apple or anything else left on King’s creek. It would be better for the farmers if onothalf of the cotton would get killed, as it seems as if they are trying to put everything in cotton, and forgetting other things. They are too greedy for their own good. One will say: “Well, others are not going to plant much; so I will beat them and get ten cents.” Nearly all of them are in the same notion and they try to see which can plant the most; and if something does not happen they will have to take five cents for their ten- cent cotton. Mr. E. B. McSwain, manager of the (trover telephone system, has started an extra line to Blacksburg, which we hope will be completed soon. He also is preparing to run one to King’s Mountain, which will be of great ser vice to the people at Grover. A large crowd of young people from £”“ 06h ar e going to Bethany next fifth Sunday. Mrs. Hughes, from near Yorkville, is visiting friends here this week. Mr. E. L. Hardin has received his bee hive. He is going to give the busy bee” something to do to fill up all he has. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hambright vis ited Mrs. L. E. Hambright Sunday. Mr. B. O. Jenkins says if he has to move his still any more he will t6 trover and ship if'away. I hat will be the best thing that ever happened. Mr. Carl J. Hambright and Charlie Hardin will attend Clemson College ihis fall. We wish them success in their studies. It looks as if fall were here The leaves are falling off the trees, which night.- ki,led Sunday aml Monday M ishing The Ledger and its readers success, c jj Buford Street Church Notes. Sunday school at 9.45 A. M.; preach ing at 11 A. M. The sermon Sunday morning will be appropriate to the Easter occasion. There will be spec ial Easter music. No evening service owing to the revival services at the First Baptist church. A cordial invitation is extended to all strangers. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Cheated Death. Kidney trouble often ends fatally but by choosing the right medicine; D- H. Molfe, of Bear Grove, Iowa, cheated death. Ho says* “Two years ago I had Kidney* Troubles i at t , ne preHmInary investigation Wed- which caused me great pain, suffering; n <? sc1ay - ,° a th e warrants, the names and anxiety but I took Electric Bit-1« severa ^Utmians and South Caro- ters, which effected a complete cure i - ns , W6r e endorsed by the commis- I have also found them of great bene-! I s , ner for sab Poenas as witnesses for fit in erenorni HoKtm,. i (he government. Items of Interest Concerning Oui Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers George Williams and Will Tucker, dsperate negroes of Goldsboro, were bound over to court Monday in a $200 justified bond. They had robbed an old colored man who was standjng on a corner counting his money. ~ They grabbed his money and jumped on an outgoing passenger train, but were captured and taken back to Goldsboro with the above result. Plans have been completed for the third annual May music festival to be held at Greensboro, beginning May 18th. Besides the best vocal talent of that city, such eminent vocalists as Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson, of Baltimore, and Anita Rise, of New York, will aid in one of the concerts. The chorus will consist of 100 singers from Greens boro and nearby cities, and a large number of these have been training on the “Messiah.” Handel’s matchless oratorio, ever since November. The date fixed for the corner-stone laying of the Crittenton Home, situ ated on the corner of McDowell and Ninth streets, Charlotte, is Easter Monday, April 24th, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Cfias. Crittenton will be nresent and participate in the exercises on this occasion. Many Charlotte people who remember Mr. Crittenton and the great meeting that he conducted there a year or more ago, will doubtless be present, togeth er with a large number who have not yet had an opportunity to see the site and the commodious building now nearing completion. Telegraphic reports Tuesday night to The Carolina Fruit and Truckers’ Journal, from many points in the strawberry and vegetable district of North Carolina, indicate that the dam age by the cold weather and frosts of the past two days is general throughout tlW belt. The old berry plants suataii&d but little damage, but those of last year's planting were rather hard hit. the damage being es timated at something like 25 per cent. The average injury up to the present is estimated as follows: Strawberries, 15 to 20 per cent; Irish potatoes, 35 to 40 per cent.; beans, peas, etc., 50 to 60 per cent. A year ago the stockholders of the Modena Mills, at Gastonia, authorized the president of the mills, Mr. J. D. Moore, to build a new mill. Friday afternoon the directors met and de cided to build the mill at once. It will be known as Mill No. 3. The building will be 75 by 150 feet, and will be two stories high. It is to be built of Fort Mill brick, and will acommodate 10,000 spindles, 8,000 of which will be put in at once. The two old mills have 216 looms and 9,072 spindles. When the new mill is completed, the three mills together will have a little over 17,000 spindles. Then night work will stop, and only day work will be done. This new mill will give employment to all the present night hands. Work is in progress on the building and will be completed by cold weather. Postoffice Inspector Hardy Gregory Tuesday night at Greensboro swore out United States warrants against the wounded men held at Wadesboro as suspected postoffice robbers. One warrant was sworn out against Charles Cross, alias Charles L. Blackburn, alias Missouri Charley, and is for a postof fice robbery in Gordonsville, Va.. March 28th. The other is against James Fisher, alias James Shaffer, alias James Vincent, alias James Vi- yen, alias “Connecticut Shorty,” who is charged with robbing the postoffice at Latta, S. C., Feb. ?5th, 1904. The latter was badly shot when the pur suing party captured him, but has improved sufficiently to stand his trial at the preliminary investigation Wed BLACKSBURG BUDGET. People Going and Coming Beyond tha Broad. Blacksburg, April 20.—Miss Mary Pollock is visiting her friend, Miss Edith Redwin in Greenville. Mr. M. H. Morrow made a business trip to Spartanburg Tuesday. Mr. N. M. McDill, of Hickory Grove, was in town a few hours Tuesday. Mr. J. B. Blalock and son, Boyd, spent Tuesday in Gaffney. Mr. J. W. Reid, after spending a few days at his home in Catawba, N. C., has returned to his work in this place. Mrs. M. H. Morrow and her sister, Miss Lucy Pollock, went to Gaffney Wednesday shopping. Mr. W. J. Moorehead day in Hickory Grove. Colonel T. B. Butler, was in town Tuesday. Miss Mable Ramseur day in Gaffney. Messrs. J. B. Shiver and C. L. Whisonant left last night for Camden where they will attend court for a few days. Dr. J. T. Darwin, of Gaffney, was in town Monday evening. Mr. A. Osborne, of this place, spent Wednesday in Hickory Grove. .Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Whisonant, ol King's Creek, spent Monday night in town with their son, Mr. A. Whiso nant. Mr. J. F. Jenkins, of Grover, was in town a few hours Tuesday. Dr. W. E. Anderson spent Wednes day in Gaffney. F. B. spent Tues- of Gaffney, spent Tues- A UNIQUE OPERATION. Skin Gratfed Upon the Foot of Mr Frank Jones. Mr. Frank Jones, son of Comptrolle General Jones, of Columbia, is out o the hospital again after having expc rienced a painful but successful or eration. Some time ago a part of hi: foot was cut off by a train on the Sea board Air Line. The wound neve healed successfully and the youni man was taken to the Columbia hospi tal where skin was taken from unde his arm and grafted on the wound The operation was successful and tin skin is growing over the wound. Ravenna Notes. Ravenna, April 17th. 1905. Ed. The Ledger:—We have ha some right bad weather recently an all rhe farmers are behind in the: work. There is no corn nor cotto planted yet. and c omo grounds arenc fixed for planting. We had some snow here the firs of April, and my parents say the never heard of such a thing in thei lives. It thundered and lightened a the snow fell. The prospects are good for lots c apples and peaches, and just plenty c cherries this season, if the caterpillar do not destroy them. I never knei of a caterpillar being in a cherry tree but there are more of them this yea than I ever saw before. Wheat crops are very fine and s are oats. My father has the bes wheat this year that he has had i: years, and he says he never will pu cotton seed under his w’heat. agair He intends to use guano. I am glad to say that gardens ar doing finely. We have beans and Irisl potatoes up and radishes and kai large enough to eat. We have beddei our sweet potatoes, and some an sprouting. Onions and turnips ar' looking w r ell. I have been going to school. W< have a fine school and a fine teacher Mr. Tom G. Clyvlk. He certainly is i good teacher, both in the school am Sunday school. We have one of th< best Sunday schools in the country and I go every Sunday. “Ravenna’ is my name, and if I wmre to miss Sunday school one Sunday, the nex week would seem like a month t< me. We have six Sunday schoo classes; the teachers are Mr. John B Brown. Mis? Sallie Chalk, Miss Addi< Brown, Miss Rossle Foster. Miss Bes sie Mathis and Miss Pauline Pettit. Mr. John B. Brown is quite unwel with a very bad cough; and his wife is very ill, too. We miss them verj much from our Sunday school. Chickens are hatching well now and the little chicks are growing fast. W« have a yard full of little ones. Wishing all The Ledger’s friends good luck, A kittle Blue-Eyed Girl. debility and nerve trouble, and keep them constantly on hand since, as I find they have no equal. Cherokee Drug Co., druggist guarantees them at 50c. H . S . „ , w,fh t, '° rosu,t as k. R. Black out the ball out. Jim will struck near stated The wound was treated bv the railway company’s surgeon, Dr. S. D. Crawley, and the county physician, Dr. J. N. Nesbitt. The patient is re ported to bo getting along ns well as could be expected. A Daredevil Ride often ends In a id acrid* nk To he il accidental Injuries, use Bteklen’s Arnica Salve. “A deep wound In my foot, from an accident,” writes Theo dore SchueJo, of Columbus, O., “cans- himself Tuesday morning at the police od me great pain. Physicians were station. It Is a case not of ciDtabe helpless, but Bucklen’s Arnlea Salve but of what might be termed unknown , quickly healed it ” Soothes and heals T.c at Cherokee identity. The man’s mind Is nn nb >• bums like magic, lute blank fin every mailer which Drug Co. might Identify him. He has forgotten his name, residence, relatives ami Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. not likely be aide to work soon. It’s (h*‘ old song—women, whiskey and pistols—the delectable trio that has done more to promote crime than all other agencies combined. Nothing has as yet been done that we know of to bring the pftrties to trial. A healthy court prescription ’d iced in the hands of Capt. Dick Jol’.v would doubtless restore the country to its former quietude. Prof. H'Ut Hallman could perhaps locate (he germ of the disease, or, at least P event its recurrence. We hope he will make the effort to do so. It’s about time the clerks of court’s arse nal was being recruited. Rev. W .D. Hammett filled his pul pit at Abingdon Creek church last Sabbath and Sabbath night. Rev. L. K. Gaines was also present In the in- An advertisement that doesn’t ad vertise is not a good advertisetnent. He Kept Up in the Race. James S. Barron, President Man chester Cotton Mills, Rock Hill S C writes: “In 1883 I painted my residence with L. & M. It looks better than a “reat many houses painted throe years ago.” Don t pay $1.50 a gallon for linseed oil which you do in ready-for-use paint. Buy oil fresh from the barrel at 60 cents per gallon, and mix it with Longman & Martinez L. & M Paint. It makes paint cost about $1.20 ner gallon. Wears and covers like gold. Every Church given a liberal quan tity when bought from Smith Hard ware Co., Gaffney: Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. Hall & Willis Dissolved. I he law firm heretofore existing b i (wen W .S. Hall, Jr., and J. A. Willi under the name of Hall &■ Willjs* - h? been dissolved. Mr. Hall still occ pies the offices in the National Ban building: Mr. Willis is in Barnwe now, and it is not yet known whethf or not he will remain in Gaffney. —Cultivate your crops with a cul tivator at one-half the expense by buy ing your cultivators of Lin°rnnib, Goudelock & Co. Special prices on Negligee Shirts and big lot to select from at J. I. Sarratt’s. Asheville witnessed a touch of law lessness late Saturday night and early Sunday morniug, that resulted in the killing of a negro named'Butler .Max well, on Mountain street: the serious and perhaps fatal wounding of W. M. Atkins, a white man. on Southsfile avenue: the attack and serious injury Last Hope Vanished of another negro on Valley street, and I When leading physicians said th the shooting of two women and a ne-1 W. M. Smithart of Pekin la h gro hoy on “Greasy Corner.” Three of incurable consumption his 'last” ho the crimes, including the unprovoked j vanished; but Dr Kind’s New C killing of Maxwell, are believed to covery for Consumption. Cough- a: nave been committed by two white | Colds, kept him out of his crave I men, non-residents of Asheville, who savs: “This preat specific c- mpl* t went looking for trouble and who afte ■ I ly cured me. and saved mv life Sim finding a succeeded in evading Jfhe j then. I have used it for over 10 year consider it a marvelous thro and lung cure.” Strictly seiontil cure for Coughs. Sore Throats i Colds; sure preventive of Pneumoni Guaranteed, 50c and $1.00 bottles Cherokee Drug Co. Trial bottle f-e police and malting their escape. The | and killing of Maxwell was the last of the desperate acts of the men and occur red shortly after 1 o’clock Stinlav morning. Mac Brooks and Walter Barber, two white men of the Avery’s Prec*k section of Buncombe county, have been arrested, charged with Max well’s murder and the stabbing of At kins. Brooks was arrested late Sun day evening and Barber Monday after noon. Both men have been identified .as parties seen on Mountain street a few minutes before the homicide. The coroner’s jury refurend a verdict find ing that Barber killed the negro and that Brooks was his accomplice. —Keep the llicg out by buying screen doors, windows, etc., at Lip scomb, Goudelock & Co.’s. —Nelson, the Star Clothier, is r ceiving big shipments of new goo* every day preparatory to Inaugurate a big ten days’ sale, which he Intent to begin next Friday. He wants tf or twelve extra clerks to help hi during the sale. —I have a lino of samples fro Globe Tailoring Go. S'^e them ar have your measure taken for a sprlr suit. J. I. Sarratt. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a yea