The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 02, 1906, Image 2

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Oliver TW0 0PEN LITTERS mob APPLIED TORCH IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN TO NEGRO HOUSES — 1 0 Mrs. Mary Dlmznlck of Washington Mia V '** t * bl * B*- -i 0“ Negroes Es.alt Of'fhe Shooting Of White Man. It is with great pleasure we publish the following letters, as they convinc ingly prove the claim we have so many GUARD ORDERED TO OHECK RIOT times made in our columns that Mrs. Drunkenness a Feature of the Rioting. Feeling Was Intense and Rioters 6eemed Bent on Destroying Every | Negro House in Springfield. Visible Writing, Rapid Escapement, Superior Construction, Interchangeble Carriage. The Art Catalogue Tells All About It—Is Free on Requesl. J. E. Crayton & Co., Gen. Agts. Trust Bldg. Charlotte, N. C. July 30th-pd. Ladies' and Gents' Tailoring. Having secured the services of an ex pert Tailor .from New.York, I am now prepared to cut and make.Suits for Ladies an l Gentlemen|in the very latest styles. LADIES’ TAILORING A SPECIALTY. A full line of samples of the newest fabrics always on hand. Have your clothing made in your own town where you can be sure of a fit. All workfguaranteed. \ Give me a trial Clothing altered and’remodeled. J - V. H. Robinson. Upstairs over Settlemyer building IttEttHimEYCURE KMaaya aai Dewitt's vm Saba Pinkham. of Lynn, Mass., is fully quali* fiedto give helpful advice to sick women. Read Mrs. Dimmick’s letters. Her first letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham “ I have been a sufferer for the past eight years with a trouble which first originated from painful periods—the pains were excruci ating, with inflammation and .ulceration of the female organs. The doctor says I must have an operation or I cannot live. I do not want to submit to an operation if I can possibly avoid it. Please help me.”—Mrs. Mary Dimmick, Washington, D. C. Her second letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “You will remember my condition when I last wrote you, and that tb j doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I received your land letter and followed your advice very carefully and am now entirely well. As my case was so serious it seems a miracle that I am cured. I know that I owe not only my health but my life to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your advice. I can walk miles without an acne or a pain, and I wish every suffering woman would read this letter and realize what you can do for them.”—Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th and East Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C. How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and how little it cost her—a two-cent stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply! As Mrs. Dimmick says—it saved her life. Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands of just such letters as the above, and offers ailing women helpful advice. Springfield, O., Feb. 28.—Sheriff Al- : money at 12:45 a. m. wired Governor Patterson the following “Send all possible troops tonight and hold others in readiness for to morrow.” Sergeant Ceager, the policeman hit in the face with a brick, is in a serious condition. The mob is stoning and jeering the milita, but a shoy of bay onets lias sufficed so far to keep the rioters 6n the move. The rumor that out of town troops are *momentarily expected is having a quieting effect upon the mob. J2L Third Series Ready Now. The Cherokee Building and Loan Association offers every inducement to those who would save part or their earnings. : : : ’ : : : To The Renter. It is the medium through which you may quickly, and with little effort, own your own home. : To The Investor. Its stock is collateral at 100 cents on the dollar—and not many stocks are. : : : : You would do well to study the matter carefully. Cherokee B. & L Assocition. Chas. A. Jefferies, Prest. , W. h. Gooding, Secy, and Treas. a . —. ■-w* m if w i ’t* v $ V 3 P £ V v V V There’s M|oney In BANK T ^ The man of exper ience will tell you that the only way to save is to deposite it in a bank. When an account is started the saving habit grows and useless ex penditures are curtail ed. ' : : : 'I'Y i OexffYifciy tSt* v i Idn x i Lc Not only takes care of your money, but pays FOUR PERCENT. INTEREST on all deposits COMPOUND ED FOUR times a year.. : : : : : Springfield, O., Feb. 28.—At 9 o’clock Tuesday night mob violence was threatened here as the result of a shooting in the railroad yards, early in the morning, in which M. M. Davis, a brakeman, was perhaps fatally shot by two negroes, Preston Ladd, of Belle Fontaine, and Edward Dean, of this city. Ladd, who was wounded, was taken to the hospital, where he lies in a ward adjacent to his victim. Dean was taken to Dayton after a hurried conference of officials. A mob of 1,000 men and boys formed and marched to “The Jungles,” a local ity inhabited by negroes, with the an nounced purpose of burning that sec tion. Mayor Todd shortly after 9 o’clock asked that companies B and E of the Third regiment, Ohio National Guard, be called out. The mob soon reach ed “The Jungles," and battered one house to pieces with stones and posts used as battering rams. A general fire alarm was sounded. The sounding of the gongs served to fill the streets with people and the feeling in the crowds was intense. At 10 p. m. the mob entered Kemp- ler’s saloon on East Columbia street, quickly looting It. Kempler and his wife fled, leaving their three chil dren asleep in a room over the sa loon. The saloon was riddled with bullets and stones, and ty was only by the hardest efforts of the police and firemen that a way was forced through the mob and the children rescued. After pillaging the saloon, drunk enness was a feature of the riot. At 11 o’clock members of the mob broke through a cordon of police and set fire to a house in “The Jungles” which was quickly burned down. Sergeant Creager, who had charge of the squad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and seriously wounded. A request was sent out at 10 o’clock for the Xenia military company. At midnight six houses which had been fired by the mob were burning fiercely, and the police had apparently lost control of the situation. Only sir memebrs of the local militia respond ed to the mayor’s call, and the Xenia company, which was expected, had not yet arrived. At 12.16 a. m. the city authorities succeeded in assembling parts of com panies B and E, of the Third regi ment, Ohio National Guard, which are stationed here. The total force num bered about 75 men. They were on the scene of the fire, and pushed the mob back both ways in Columbia street, east from Water street and west from Foster street. Just as the troops arrived one more building was fired. ar?S no efforts was made to save It from destruction. WILL MAKE REPARATION. Por the Kllllrg of French Jesuit Mla- scsonaries. Pekin, Feb. 28.—The government has instructed the governor of Nan Cheng, province of Kiangsi, where, on Feb. 25, six French Jesuit missionaries and four British subjects were killed, to punish severely all paRicipants in the massacre and declares its will ingness to make without question any reasonable reparation demanded. Many foreigners at Pekin know the governor of Nan Cheng, and consider him efficient and friendly. They be lieve his version of the troubles and credit his statement that he was un able to prevent the disturbances. American, British and German and British gunboats are proceeding to the nearest possible point to Nan Cheng. The Yang Tse is seldom safe beyond Po Yang lake. British and German gunboats have been stationed at the lake for the last t\yo years de spite frequent Chinese protests that it was an infringement of China’s sov ereignty. Peabody Refuses to Talk. New York, Feb. 28.—“I decline to discuss Mr. Astor’s aflairs in any form,” said President Peabody, of ■■lie Mutual Life Insurance company, when asked as to the truth of the re port that William Waldorf Astor had expressed his displeasure at Mr. Pea body’s attitude in the Mutual Life- Illinois Central controversy. While Mr. Peabody would not make a statement on the subject, it was said at the Mu tual Life Insurance company’s office that no such communication had been received by Mr. Peabody from Mr. As tor. Mr. Peabody is the New York business representative of William Waldorf Astor. Fortune Await* Girl. Spartanburg, S. C., Feb. 28.—Pauline Webster, the yomig South Carolina girl who created a sensation in Kan sas City by marrying a woman and being arrested on the charge of biga my, but who was relased after a legal battle of several days, passed through here enroute to her old home at Gaff ney. She was met at the station by her brother, J. E. Webster, probate judge of Cherokee county. Miss Web ster had been missing from her home for ten years, and her relatives thought her dead. She will fall in to possession of about 610,000 worth of property upon her arrival at Gaff ney, S. C. Express No Apprehension. New York, Feb. 28.—Banking institu tions in this city doing business with China express no apprehension over tne disquieting news from the em pire telling of riots. It Is not be lieved by well advised persons here that the uprising that are local disturb ances will become general. One house received a cable dispatch from its representative at Shanghai saying that no general disturbance is feared. An official of the company said he be lieved that the present troubles were caused by the conciliatory policy of the United States toward China. Flying Clamps Caused Death. Valdosta. Ga„ Feb. 28.—An unusual and fatal accident befell Owen Thomp son, the young son of James Thomp son, a prominent farmer living 4 miles east of Marven, in Brooks county. Young Thompson was assisting his father and another man in putting up a wire fence.- The wire was being stretched *ery tight when it slipped and threw the clamps attached to it with such force backward, that strik ing the young man on the side of the head that he died 12 hours afterward He never regained consciousness af ter the accident. The Gaffney Savings ] Bank, ijj Office in The National Baukrof Gaffney. The Gaffney City Land and Imp.o 'unent Go. qfftjrs fur sals Huildluy Lots lo ibis ttourlstiitiK town. Oaltnsy; also Karin- u-mi by and In reach of the Soliooln of Liruestoiu; Sprintr* AU d of this place i i lou of . to 100 at:res n liberal time rates: also Agricultural Lands to rent for Karin ouro>*. t> Kur 1 part t'urs apply to Exciement Has Subsided. The excitement following the riot ing scene has subsided with dawn and the city was generally quiet Wednes day morning. The district known as “The Jungles.” is guarded by mili tia. No lives were lost In the riot. The result of the mob was the destruction of six negro houses, one saloon and the damaging of several others. The casualties are the injuring of Sergeant of Police Greagor, who was hit with a rock. His injury is not serious. No further trouble is ex pected. As long as the military is on the ground, all saloons will be closed. They all closed promptly at 9 o’clock Tuesday ni^it. Much interest cen tered Wednesday in the condition of Martin Davis, the Big Four brakeman who was shot by the two negroes whose actions was the cause of the trouble. Davis lies at the city hos pital. his life hanging by a thread. Treaty Reported Favorably. Washington, Feb. 28.—The senate committee on foreign relations today by a party vote agreed to report fa vorably the Santo Domingo treaty. A number of amendments were made to the treaty before it*was reported. Will Meet May 1st. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 28.—Notices have been sent out by the Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to all sub-lodges, noti fying them that the annual convention will open at Cincinnati May 1 and re questing them to send resolutions re garding any changes in the wage scale or working rules to the national head quarters before March 31. An impor tant matter to be taken up aside from the wage scale, will be the unionizing of the eastern plants. Will Make Wireless Tests. New York. Feb. 28.—Wireless tests are to be made for the next thirty days by officers in charge of the vari ous stations established by the navy department to determine, if possible, the cause of the many failures to re ceive and to send messages at sun rise and sunset. Repeated tests have shown this is the case, and it is said that the navj operators were the first to make the discovery of this strange and important phenomena. J. V. SAREATT, Agent. H. b.—All person* are forbidden to ontor on. walk or ride Uirougb or over tbe land* of t' e •oaipany.cuttlu* and ri-tnovlnK timber or H*hlnir bunting, under penalty of law. Spreckles Seriously HI. San Francisco, Feb. 28.—John D. Spreckles Is seriously ill at his home in this city, suffering from an attack of lagrippe. He is said to be in no iuuuediat* danger. Denies King’s Illness. Vienna, Feb. 28.—Dr. Ott, King Ed ward's Mari^nbad physician, has tak^ en the occasion of his return from his visit to England to publicly deny the rumors of the king s ill health, 'these, Dr. Ott declares, are malicious inven tions possibly with political motives. He says King Edward was never in better health than at present. American Postmaster Jailed. New York^ Feb. 28.—A Havana dis patch to the Herald said that it is re ported that an American, acting as postmaster for the territorial aspirants in the Isle of Pines, has been arrested and confined in jail. xcrcaoc’VoiuViclJ^ Per Acre' s'* v • 4 .* • : - i'-.i''.- v-. ^.inj UiJI"]ly jDiJiru.1!** L , I V 'T ' I ■ •• S ’ * By Way Of Comparison ] A* 'he ‘x-ttnm is a picture of a farm on which our fertilizers were not uw U. Notice uie \ ery poor growth ? At the top, there is a photo graph of the field of a planter who believes in the liberal use of only Yirginia-Carolina Fertilizers. See the good, even stand, and tall, luxuriant plants ? You can see many other interesting picturesof farms like these on which the crops of poor and good yields are compared, in our large, pretty almanac. Ask your dealer for it,or send usoc. in stamps to pay the cost of wrap ping and postage. “Increase your yields per acre ” by using Virginia- Carolina Fertilizers. Buy no other. Virglnia-Carolina Chemical Company, Richmond. Va. Norfolk, Va. Durham. N. C. Charleston, 8. C. Baltimore, Md. Atlanta, Ga. Savannah. Q a. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. ** ^ 4* ** a* + J * • With Combined Capital, Surplus and Profits of i ;$ 120,344.80 . . With'Deposits of $316,078.25 and # With Resources of $450,923.05 Tfie Nationaf Banft of Gaffneu — A NO . Tfie Gaffney Savinas Banfc Respectfully Solicit Your Banking Business Assuring, You That Their FaithfuPand Untiring Service is at • \ Your Command. A i A Gaffney Hardware Co.. Is making a Special run on cook- ing Stoves this week. We have a ^ fine selection, and anyone want- ing a first-class Stove can be ^ pleasedjn quality I.and price at 3 our store. Our remnant stock of HEATERS and GRATER are go- ^ ing at COST. We urge you to ^ see ours before buying. : C Gaffney Hardware Co. ^