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FARM LANDS. LOANS. Before You Buy or Sell any Kind of Real Estate, or Business, * Write us your wants. J. Y. Gaklington & Co., Laurens , S. C. VOL XX. LAURENS, Toys, Dolls and Christmas Qifts ?AT? Palmetto Drug Co. I .aureus, S. C. C. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7. 1904. NO. 18 ANOTHER FIRE VISITS CLINTON Blaze Originated in Phin ney & Co.'s Warehouse STARTED FROM A 8TOYE Mr. Watt s,Broker, Lost Entlrer Stock? Adjoining Buildings were also destroyed Clinton, Dec. 5.-On Friday morn ing about seven o'olock the warehouse owned by J. H. Phinney & Co. was found to bo cd llro Mr. Wat a, a broker who occupied the building, h?d tjone home for Lrea^f^t-t and the ?up po.ickn is that tbe fire itarwd from the stove during l.li absence. Ail of Ids stock was lost. The buildings owned by Bailey Br is. and A. B. B aaely were also destroyed. Nearly all the goods in the two last buildings were removed, badly damaged. Mrs. Camp, of Morganton, N. C, is spending sometime here with her sis ter, Mrs. Thomas Jacobs. Madame? J. A. Bailey, John Robert son and J. Q Phillips and Miss Agatha Davis attended the reception given by .Mrs. Jack Davis last week. Miss Mary Mllam left latt week for a visit to relatives in Union. Miss Eunloe Wofford entertained a party of friends last Thursday evening in honor of her guest, Miss Besiie Aus tin of Monroe. Mrs. C. M. B<*iley will return this week from a visit to V irginia. Mrs. U. S. Bean returned la=t week after a month's stay in Augusta with her sister, Mrs. Landon Thomas. On Tuesday evening Miss Bessie Austin was the guest of honor at a tea given by Miss Margaret Parrott. Those present were Misses Katherlne Copeland, Eliza Horton, Eunice Wof ford Bessie Austin, Marion McC-ary and Elizabeth Bean. Rev. J. B. Parrott spent last week In Chester attending tho Baptist Conven tion. Miss Bessie Austin of Monroe, N. C. is visiting Miss Eunioe Wofford. A PROGRESSIVE COMPANY. 'The Great Business Being Done by the Uibbes Machinery Company. Elsewhere in this issue our readers will find the advertisement of the Gibbes Machinery Company, of Co lumbia, South Carolina. This concern is one of the largest machinery houses in the South, doing an extensive busi ness in this and nearly all other South ern States. They have representatives in all the principal tov:ns, and their traveling men constantly cover their respective territories. Their line is quite comprehensive, embracing, as it does, machinery for almost every branch of industry. A brief list of their specialties Is as follows: Slide valve, automatic, soriiss, Irao 1ion, portable, hoisting, gasoline and kerosine engines; stationery, portable, vertical and "new era" boilers; con ensers; feed water heater?; complete inning outfit?; the Murray cotton ele ating system* the Murray oleaning eder; boss cotton presses; Liddell di et-acting steam cylinder pressep, sin gle and double box; the Dederiok line of hay presses; saw mills and saw mill machinery: edgets; trimmers; bolters; lath and shingle machines; drag saw machines; lather;; spoke and handle machinery; planers and matchers; re saws; band saws; rip raws; chain mort isors; swing saws; live rolls; wood split ters; circular saws; mandrels; Insulator pin, bracket and cross-arm machinery; crate, box, barrel and stave machinery: ?excelsior machiuos; wood working ma chinery generally; grist mills; feed mills; . threshing machinery, grain cleaning machinery; rioe hullers; brick machinery?clay and sand-lime; hot air pumping engines; steam pumps, power pumps, machine tools of every descrip tion. In addition to the large and improved shingle machlnrs they handle, the Gibbes Machinory Company are build ing the Gibbes self-feed portable shin gle machine, which they claim to bo tbe latest and most improved machine of tho kind on the market. The popu larity of this little machine lias sur passed thoir mo^t sanguine expecta tion. Tho Gibbes Machinery Company is now giving particular nttentlo-i to the installation of complete equipments for crato, box, barrels and excelsior a ctorio8. Th*y have recently furnish ed equipments for several largo enter prises of this nature, the most import ant of thorn being tho Southern Manu facturing Company of Savannah, Ga., which concern uses twenty-eight of their improved excelsior cutting ma chines, steam power excelsior press, etc ; and the Meridian Mattress Faotory of Meridian, Miss, using twelve of their excelsior cutting machir.es, press, etc. In thoir advertisement they are of fering to send users of machinery either a pocket atlas or a calendar, and they do this merely in order to keop them selves before the machinery-using pub lic. An atlas orcale. d ir will bi sent without cost to those who use machin? ery or expect to buy machinery of any kind, and will write the Gibbes Ma chinery Company so stating. A 700 acre farm ':>c>ted In Marion oonnty nve miles from a railroad was recently sold for $28,000 c?th. %=)JL^m 1? O X J\. . Boar* Uli ^J^^^^^ jgffl ^oug>>! i INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR NEGRO YOUTHS Jeff I). Pitts Prime Mover in Plan. A HOME PURCHASED. Will be Modolod After Two or the Lead ing Negro Industrial Schools of the South. Jeff I). Pitts of Maddens Is interest ing himself and his friends in a plan looking to the < s'aMlshmf at of a home and industrial lohool for colored Loys and glrln. Tho site for tho propo:cd home and school is a 400 aero tract, looa'ed about a mile from Maddt-us and s known as the Henry place. This tract has b on bought by Pitts from Col. Shaw at $8 an acre. There are one or two settle ments and a three horse farm open on the place. Pitts has had this schemo in view sevoial months and during this time ha has had considerable correspond ence with Bookor Washington of tho Tusosgeo School and College and Rlohard Carroll of the Industrial Home for negro youths in Hichland county, near Columbia, concorning tho building of such an institution in Lau rens. Both of these colored leaders have given Pitts valuable information and much encouragement. It is the pur pose to model the new home and sch ml after the plan of Washington's and Carroll's institutions. A capital of something liko $0,000 will be required to make some needed improvements, equip the farm and to establish some smtll industries, such as brick yards, wood shops, etc Pitt? owns land, farm i successfully and is a worthy and responsible negro. He has enlisted the moral and finan cial susport of numerous white citizens as well as that of his race who are de sirous of seeing their boys and girls trained to work and prepared for livos of use'ulness. The home and school will of course bo interdenominational but tin relig ious and moral welfare of tho institu tion will not be neglected. Application will be made to the Sec retary of State for a commission to or ganize and secure a charter for the Company just as soon ai the details of some business matters have been ar ranged -_ Death of a Child. The nuraeious friends throughout the county and State of Mr. ?nd Mrs. D. C Smith of Waterloo will greatly regret to hear of the death of thoir lit t'e son, Harold Smith, at Waterloo last Friday, aged two years and one month. He was sick about four weeks. The funeral servieoj, conducted by Rev. R. R. Dagnall, were held Satur day morning in the Waterloo Metho dist Churoh and the interment was at the Wa'erloo cemetery. ROYAL ARCII MASONS. Rising Sun Chapter No. <> Elected Officers. At a regular communication of Ris ing^Sun Chapter No. 0 RoyU Arch Ma sons hold last Friday evening, officers for the ensuing year wero elected as follows: G. P. Smith, high priest: H. B. Humbert, king; F. M. Smith, scribe; W. P. Caine, 6ecroUry, W. W. Dodson, treasurer; M,* L. Nash, captain of the host; C. M. Miller, principal sojournor; J. S. Machen, royal arch captain; R. F. Jones, master of tho third vail; W. B. ! Sloan, master of tho second vail; A. ffSbha; >r, m??9t-.r >f the first vail; W. a, Gilkerson, Jr., sentinel. Immediately atter tho election tho new officers were duly installed by the proper oHiclals. Chapter No. (> is in a flourishing con dition with a membership increased from about 20 to 80 within four years. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Dr. Len G. Broughton at the opera house to-night, Deo. 7. Hoar him. Mr. W. W. Grumbles of Itapley wari in the city Monday. Dr. J. R. Culborteon, of Owings sta tion was in town Salesday, Miss Fronde Kennedy and Miss Lib* bie Spencer of Clinton vbited Ml-s Willou Bojd la*-t Friday an I Saturday. You have often oxpr-csed a desire to hoar Dr. Broughton, the distinguished Atlanta divine. Tho opportunity will be given you to gratify that wish to-nigh'. Mr. It. 10. Babb, worshipful master of Palmetto lodge No. 10 a. F. mm will represent his lodgo at tho meet ing of the Grand Lodge in Charleston nost week. Mr. J. F. Bolt of tho First Methodist church will leave Friday for Darlington for the purposo of attonding the South Carolina Methodist Conference next week. Rev, W. H. Duncan and Kev. J. G. Huggin will not go down before Monday. Ilargalns nt 0 11 Simmons Company One lot now style Oxford coats* I. t?"> One lot now stylo Tan coats $2.00 Ono lot fine up-to-dato Tan coAts, worth $0 50 to $7.f>0 now only 14 7? See us lor all wool Blanket*, tho best in Laurons for tho price For Ohrlstmas a full lino of Gloves, Ties, Umbrellas and Furs If you want good Shoes see our great line New Millinery a?rivlng overy few days. See us for the latest. I And Now mi PI for . i. We have had a grand season's business so far, and now we are pulling ourselves together for a "wind up" with the greatest Christmas trade in the history of this house. December Shoes Nothing but good shoes can give necessary protection to the foot from the bleak winds and frosty Decem ber mornings. We have them. If you wan't shoddy shoes don't come to us; but if you want the good kind of shoes at what you pay for shoddy ones, just give us a look. All styles, all weights, all qualities in good shoes. Ladies Shoes, Children's Shoes, 48c to $3.50 iocts. to $2 Men's Shoes, Over Shoes, 98cts. to $4.00 25cts.to 85cts. CLOAK? t CLOAKS! Our Cloak business has been surprisingly large, and on the decline in prices, which always takes place as the season advances, we have made heavy purchases, and for those who have yet to buy their Cloaks we have some eye-opening values. We now offer: Lot of Tan Jackets, plain but very neat, and of very good quality, $2.90 Lot of Tan Jackets in the new box cut, trimmed in velvet and new buttons with belt, looks like a five dollar coat, at $3.50 Lot of good quality, new style Jackets, the newest style, seven and one-half dollars material in them, December price $4.75 Lot of handsome Satin Lined Jackets in Light Tan and Black, with straps over shoulders, elegantly made, and would sell for eight and one-half dollars, our price now $6.50 Lot of neatly trimmed, up-to-date m cut, Oxford Coats, easily worth three and one-half dollars, at $1.95 Mid-Winter Millinery We do not buy at the beginning of a season all the Millinery we think we can sell and thus bar ourselves from buying the Novel ties which come out later. Our Millinery Parlor will be replenished every few days with the very latest, and you can depend on al= ways finding the latest in our Ladies' Headwear Department. Our Dress Goods and Silk Department are of the newest and best. VERY SPECIAL Lot of Dark Dress Outings in good style and quality, and full width, 8c; Lot of Dress Outings, 5c; Fine soft finished yard-wide Bleaching, 6 l-4c; Androscoggin 4-4 Bleached Homespun, 7 l-2c; Good yard-wide Sea Island, 5c; Big line 10-4 and 11-4 Blankets, 65c up. We keep our store comfortably warm during the winter and invite visiting ladies to make them selves at home with us. O. B. SIMMONS CG TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN DARLINGTON. Wife and Brother-in-La>v Killed by James. AND POSSE KILLS HIM. Desperate Man Barricaded in Ills House Fought Sheriffs Posse Eight Hours Before Being Killed. Near Hartsville, Darlington county, last Friday night, Madi son James, a fanner fifty years old, shot and killed his wife, murdered his brother-in-law, Mr. Sid Kelly, about 9 o'clock Satur day morning and was himself killed by a posse, headed by the sheriff, at 4 o'clock Saturday af ternoon. Two years ago James was sent to the asylum and had been liber ated only about seven weeks. It is not known what led to the killing of his wife, except that he had threatened to murder his mother-in-law the day before. His wife was shot to death early in the night and the rest of the family, his two half grown children and his wife's mother, fled at once. Sid Kelley, brother of the dead woman, went immediately to the James house and endeavored in every possible way to get James to come out and give up. James refused and warned Kel ly that he would kill the first man that attempted to come in. Kelly stayed about the house all night and early Saturday morn ing he sent word to his friends at Hartsville to come out and ad vise with him. Again he approached the house and tried to induce James to come out. He succeeded in getting the man to hand him out a ten dollar bill borrowed from Mr. Kelley Friday. Kelley's idea was to grab his hand when he presented the money, but he failed to do this. Finally Kelley told James he was coming in anyhow. He had a gun across his shoulders and was standing on a box at the window. Just as he turned to step off the box James shot him through the neck, killing him instantly. Sheriff Scarborough and posse surrounded the house. The sher iff and others tried to induce the desperate man to surrender but he would listen to no prom ises or inducements whatever and shot at everyone getting in his range. Three young men were wounded and the Sheriff narrowly escaped being shot. The officer and his men rea lized that they would have to re sort to desperate means to get their man. The battle opened and was waged for nearly eight hours. The whole end of the house in which James was bar ricaded was shot to pieces by the 300 men composing the posse and James was wounded several times before he was killed. Many say that James was not crazy when he murdered his wife, but was angry with Kelly for having him sent to the asylum. STATE AM) HEX Kit A I, NEWS. | Lewis P . Redmond, a nephew of the notorious outlaw of North Carolina by the same nnme, was arrosted in Green ville last Wednesday charged with kid napping a 11-yonr old girl of Anderson county. Seven negroes wero arres-tod at I.owndesville, Wednesday, ohnrged with stealing about $.">00.00 worlh of goods from the stores of that. town. Foster ?tawson, of Prosperity, died last week from a gun shot woun 1 re c jived accidentally Thanksgiving day while hunting. (ireonvillo is to have a now $30,000 depot. The contract; was signed by t he Southern Railway Company ia?t week, and the work is now under way. A petition his b.?en tiled in tho Gov ernor's office asking for iho (Stabilst)? mont of a now county to bo known as lleyward county, and to bo carved out of Aikon and KiUelield with tlo county seat at North Augusta. 25 CENT COLUMN. NOTICE? All porsons are forbidden to hunt, li-h or otherwise tr-. spass on my land. Dr. W. H. Dial. FOUND in Kentucky, at a bag .In, a line lot of harness and saddle horses. They are now on sale at Pi't's stablos, Clinton, S. C. 2t TrbSPASS noticr?All porsnns are hereby warned not to bun', llsh or otherwiso trespass on my lands. W. Z Ram., Lanford, 8. (\ RESTAURANT?I am pre pared to furnish meals at all hours; oysters a specialty. 3t. J. Y. Wallace. Wantkd -A young lady for assistant marker and aesorter. Apply toLaurens St- am Laundry. 17 2t THREE MENTAL ANGUISH SUITS. Western Union Telegraph Company, Defendant. SPECIAL TERM ENDED. Jury ('uses Occupied the Common Pleas Court, Which Was in Session Two Weeks. The special term of Commoa Pleas Court which was called November 21st, with the Hun. Ellis O. O'aydon, of Groonwood, an Special Judgo, presid ing, was adjournod la?o Saturday af ternoon, having been in f-ets'on two weeks and Judgo Grnydou and Stenog rapher Tadioek, of Columbia, returned homo. During th3 last four days the Court was engaged ;n hearing three separate suits against the Western Union Tele graph Company, which wero brought under the mental anguish law of the State. The Plaintiff In the first cas3 heard is Mr. Eugene Langston of this city. Damages to the extent of $1,900 were sued for, because of tbe alleged failure i f the Defendant Company to trans mit and deliver promptly a telegram beut by Mr. Langston to Iiis mother, Mis. A. A. Langston at Johnston, con voying tho news of tho death of the Plaintiff's wife the night before. Tho telegram was not received by Mrs. Langston in time for her f> come to Laurens for tho funeral and burial of her eon's wife. At that time the Plain tiff was a comparative stranger here and in consequenoa of tho failure of his mother to reach him, ho was deprived of the natural sympathy and consola tion which ouly a mother's love ould have brought, to him during this try ing ordeal. The ea?o was bard-fought through out and its progress was closely fol lowed by many interest! " .spectators. Tbe jury ebarged with tho trial of the eauso failed to agroa after deliberating several hours and tho Court ordered a mistrial. Jeff F?lle'*, colored, was the Plain tiff in tho next case given a hearing. As in tho Langston case tho non-do llvery of a death message sent from tho Laurens office to Asbevillo was the oausi ot aotlOD in which $1,500 dam ages wero c aimed. A verdict for $25 was icturncd for tbe Plaintiff. The third and last case of a like character was brought by Clarence Tinsloy, a younj* negro, who until re? ceutly resided at Lanford. Some months ag.^his baby died and he de? termined to take its remains to Mount ville for burial. At 0.30 a. m., Maroh 7th last, he had tho Wostern Union Agent at Enoreo to write a telegram addressed to a party at Mountvllle, asking him to meet tho funeral party at Cole Point shortly after two o'clock that day. On account ot* the condition of tho wires tho message was not sent from Enoree until one o'clock and It was sev eral hours after before tho addressed received the dUpatch. Tinsley and bis wife, accompaylng the corp.e of their infant, arrived at Colo Point in due time. Here they had to wait until nearly sundown before a WS gen came from Mountvllle for them. They hnd iotendo i to bury the chl'd that afternoon, but as it was night when Mountvilie was reached and no preparation had been made for tho burial it was necessary to postpone the interment until tho next day. A verdict was found in favor of the Telegraph Company. A now trial, however, was granted and tbe caso will come up again. For Sale Four tracts at Fountain Inn containing 42, 10, 3, 29 acres respectively, all desirable property. 116 acres at Power's Shop, Dials township. 121 acres 3 miles north of Laurens. 70 acres close to town of Fountain Inn. Fine Rock Quarry at Gray Court. Hous and Lot at Fountain Inn. 171 acres one mile from Gray Court. 8 acres at Fountain Inn suitable for residence lots. The above can be bought on reasonable terms. J. N. LEAK Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer, Gray Court, & C,