Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i it ??i cou. JOB 8UMTXB WATCHKivK, JCttftbUslied April. 1850? Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Conntry's, thy God's and Trnth's. THE TBUK SOUTHBON, KcUbllflbod Jone. IS63 ?esolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1903. New Series-Vol. XXII. No. 49 Five Dollars I HAVE ONLY ONE HUNDRED OF THESE HACHINES, \ But while they last they will go for Five Dollars each, six records to go with every ma? chine. This is the genuine Columbia Graphophone, and every record bears the Columbia trade mark, as well as the machine itself, which is of the latest design. Do you work hard all through the hot summer days ? A little recreation and amusement in the evenings will cheer you up and make happiness in the family circle. As you are not to enjoy a thousand years' so? journ in this land of flowers you may as well pick up a few lines of pleasure in passing, espe? cially when the cost does not exceed the five dollar mark. I am not living ten thousand miles away from you, and have the goods for sale, open for your inspection ; come and see them. T. 33. JEISTKUSTS, Xr. Selling New Home Sewing flachines, Columbia and Cleveland Bicycles, and a high-class line of Sporting Goods. ?sS?fe?.ed agery VedaasAay, 33^ C?-. Osteen9 SUMTER, 8. C. $1 -50 per an nc cs-in advance. AI'TlBTIBIHlCr: Ose S?mre first insertion.......$1 00 l>ery sabs?qrtent insertion ~. 50 Contracts for three mont?t, or longer will oe made at reduced rates. AH comxaanic&tiocs which subserve private interests will be charged for'se ad versements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be afc&rsed for. HE BIPBIH8 6IRLS. A Kansas Editor's Exhortation to Their Bftotbers. The mothers of this town have had <& lesson-hut it doesn':s seem to have .done them any good. There are just as many frills gadding around town ?iter school now getting their mail irom private boxes in.1?be postoffice, as there were ten days aga Two years ago the Gazette went after the^mothers of Emporia for neglecting their daughters, and the result was that half a dozen private mall boxes were discontinued, and 4& lot of little giris that were in the habit of gadding too much were kept in for a time. These girls are now developing into fine young women, but another crop of gadding girls has come on, and the .Gazette hopes no one'? modesty will be rshocked by saying that these little hussies ought to be spanked good and red? They -axe between 14 and 17 years old, and are just so ever lastingly boy struck that they can't sit still. If their mothers ?new the type of boys and mc?-young human pups-these girls are running with, their mothers would throw fits, But their mothers ?snow nothing of the situation. They think their little giris are so pure and sweet that noth? ing can harm them. The truth is that these children are made of the same ?ind of mad that ?re are all made cf, and they are jost as liable to tem? ptation as older people and a thousand times less experienced. And their mothers let them gad Commercial street afe:r school and ?irt with all kinds of men, and then their mothers wonder how the devil got them, and think the girls must u'take after" their father. There are just two things that will keep gsrls straight at "that age," one is plain clothes and tile other is home duties. The girls who make fools of themselves; in Emporia are invariably overdressed. They wear dudds that women of thirty should heistate about wearing. A little girl with too many and too costly clothes on her back gets self CQnscious and vain and loves admira? tion-and yon grown up women know the next step. A sim ple, pure heart? ed girl who has a place in a home, home work and home duties, has her heart there, and no boy can steal it. Only when maturity comes and when a real man comes and a real affair of her heart comes will such a girl leave home, and then only after heartaches> and rending. But a girl whose place in the home is at the table and in bed, won't love that home. Word makes thiiigs sacred. The child whose home memories are not hallowed by work, who is not needed and does not feel tie need, will not ' love home. And if she doesn't love the home of her girlhood, she will love no other. She will go anywhere for anything. Home will mean noth? ing to such a woman, and if she is respectable .she will only lack the op? portunity to be a bad woman and is good only through circumstances or by the necessity of an ugly face. She will curse any mau she marries. The mothers of this tow? who are responsible for the girls who gad Com? mercial street, should stop and think what they are doing. These girls are no longer children. They are at the impressionable age. Where will you have their impressions come from-.'from the riff-raff of the street or from home? it is for the mothers of town to settee the question.-Em peria (Kan. ) Gazette, At Quitman, Ga., sewerage is de? posited in a well bored 136 feet deep. At that point the augur struck a hol? low place and dropped down several feet. The capacity of the cavern seems to be unlimited. MUKIGIP?L OWNEHSHfP. A Growing Demand Thai Water Works Systems Shall be Owned hy the Public. From the Engineering News, June 25. Municipal ownership of water-works in practically all the large cities of the United States bids fair to be the rule a few years hence. Memphis, Tenn., has just acquired the plant owned for some years past by the Artesian Water Company. This re? duces to nine the cities of the United States of over 100,000 population whose water- wc ?ks are still under private ownership. The nine cities, in order of their size in 1900, are: San Francis? co, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Den? ver, New Haven, Paterson, St. Joseph, Omaha and Scranton. Two of these, New Orleans and Omha, are already committed to municipal ownership and for years there has been a strong movements in that direction at San Francisco, Agitation to the same end was a&so very much in evidence at Indianapolis and Denver a few years ago. The ci'cies of 100,000 population or over numbered thirty-eight in 1900, of wfeich twenty-nine now own their water-works. In the same year there were ninety-seven cities with popula? tions ranging from 100,000 to 30,000, and ?f those nearly seventy own, their works, while a number of others are making more er less rapid progress to? wards municipal ownership. Unless the tide turns, and there certainly is no in? dication of it, twenty to twenty-five years hence will show but few cities of 20,000 population supplied with water by private companies. Why are changes to public owner? ship so common and why are they so moen more numerous m the case of water-works than in any other classes of (public utilities? The answer to both these questions is that a water sup? ply is so essential to the general pros? perity of a community and so closely related to the comfort ?nd health of every citizen as to give rise to an even stronger feeling that its supply should not be entrusted to those whose pri? mary object <is profit As an abstract proposition this cannot be successfully disputed. HQMESTOD EXEMPTIONS. An important Ruling Made in the U. S. District Court by Judge Brawley. In the United States District Court on Saturday ?essrs. W. N. Graydon and F. B. Gary were heard in the matter of Nicholas M. Benson bank? rupt and Judge ?rawley made a ruling in the question od homestead exemption which may be . of ?onie general interest The bankrupt was a farmer and un? married and the question came up on the report of J. Fraser Lyon Esq. referee in bankruptcy holding that the. Act of the Legislature extending the homestead exemption to unmarried per? sons to other property than that enumerated in the Contitution was : unconstitutional android. This ruling of the referee was sustained by the Court-but the Court also held that the exemption to an unnaarried person of " tools and implemmente of trade" should be extended to farmers that the word "trade" as used in the Con? stitution should be construed to mean any business employment or occupa? tion which is carried on for subsistence or profit and "tools and implements of trade" included such instrument? alities and agencies as were needed to enable the party claiming the exemp? tion to fulfil or carrying into effect to accomplish the work in wiaich he is engaged and that under ?his con? struction any tools and instruments used in making a living such as ploughs, harrows, mowers, wagons and work animals could be claimed as homestead exemption.-News and Courier. Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for persistent and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equalled. Joe Golobick of Colusa, Calif., writes "For fifteen year3 I endnred insufferable pain from Rheumatism and nothing relieved me though I tried every? thing known. I came across Electric Bit? ters and it'3 the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me." Just as good for Liver and Kidney trou? bles and general debility. Only 50c. Sat? isfaction guaranteed by.J. F.W, DeLorme Druggist. CHIRLES M. SCHWAB RETIRES. Nominally He Remains President of the Great Steel Trust New York, June 30.-Reports pre? valent for months past that Charles M. Schwab would retire from the presi? dency of the United States Steel Cor portation culminated today in the ap? pointment, as an assistant to the presi? dent, of W. R. Corrie, president of the Carnegie Steel Company. The formal announcement was made by Richard Trimble, secretary of the finance com? mittee, in the following form : In consequence of the continued ill health the president has required the appointment of an assistant to perform the active duties of the presidency, and at today's meeting of the finance committee W. Ri Corrie, president of the Carnegie Steel Company, was ap? pointed to the position. The announcement of Mr. Corrie's appointment occasioned no surprise in I financial circles, where it has been a matter of common knowledge that at least one important change was pend? ing in the personnel of the Steel Cor? poration's affairs. The finance committee of the Steel Corporation is dominated, according to popular belief, by Mr. Morgan and his friends. None of the officials of the Steel ?Corporation would discuss Mr. Corrie's appointmentor the causes that led to it. Lynched for the Ussal Crime. Scotsboro, Ala. June 30,-Andrew Diggs, a negro,, was taken from jail last nig&t and hanged by a mob. The negro was arrested on Sunday for an attempt to assault Miss Alma, the nineteen year-old daughter of Dr. 6. Smith, The sheriff seized two pistols when the mob arrived and, mounting the stairs, said he would kill any one who attempted to -come up. The threat was met with a wolley and the sheriff emptied his revolver in reply. One shot took effect ic the sheriff's right leg and the other in his pistol arm. The daughter of the sheriff ran to her father, and wasrat once covered by a pistol in the hands of a member of the /mob and made to deliver the keys to the cell in whech the negro was confined. One of rt&e masked men summoned a doctor, who responded promptly and dressed the wounds of the sheriff, which are rcot dangerous. The negro made concession to the brother-of the young .lady and others who visited the jail after his capture. t?lae Disaster in Wyoming. Hanna, Wyoming, Jaine 30.-Pro? bably the worst disaster in the history . of Wyoming occurred here today, j when a terrific explosion of fire damp in Union Pacific Mine No. 1 shut off the means of escape of 500 men, who were working in the pit. The fire : was started immediately defying all j efforts to escape and there was slight ! hope of saving any of the men. j Twenty-eight bodies of those working near the mouth of the mine have been j brezght out, all of them horribly man gled and some still showing slight j evidences of 2?fe. I The scenes at the mine are iieartrend? ing. "The Union Pacifie Railroad Company, which owns the mine, has a large force working to reach the imprisoned men. The flamee seem to be abating and there is hope ot getting most of the bodies ont by saorning. So tense is the excitement that no one seems able to say how the disaster occurred. The supposition ic that a careless miner a?lowed his lamp to come in contact with the fire damp. --m>~+1 - ? A Death Sentence Commuted. The Governor on Tuesday commu? ted the death sentence .of Hnghs Campbell, colored, of Greenville, to life imprisonment. Campbell killed his paramour, but he appears to have been a negro who had the sympathy of the white people, who in a numerous? ly signed petition pointed ont extenu? ating circumstances. No Pity Shown. "For years fate was after me contin? uously" writes F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala. UI had a terrible case of Piles caus? ing 24 tumors. When all failed Buck len's Arnica Salve cured me. Equally good for burns and all aches and pains. Only 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. ANOTHER BUBBLE BURST. The U. S. Shipbuilding Company Goes Into the Hands of a Receiver. Newark, N. J., June 30-Judge Kirkpatrick today announced to coun? sel representing complaining bond? holders of the United States Ship? building Company that he has read all the papers in the case and had de? cided that the corporation is insolvent and that its directors have failed to take groper steps to protect the bond? holders and seemed to be without abil? ity to raise funds. Therefore, in the interest of the bondholders, both those who appear here as complainants and all others, he said he would ap? point receivers, and hear counsel as to whom they may desire to name. It was agreed that the order should be signed immediately, and counsel would have until tomorrow to agree on asu i table person for the appointment bpi if no agreement is reached the Court will name the receiver at 10 o'clock. MR. NIXON WILL RESIGN. New York, June 30-Directors of the United States Shipbuilding Company met today, the stated object of the meeting being to act on the resigna? tion of President Nixon. For reasons not given out adjournment until to? morrow was taken without action. Desperate Shooting Scrape, Rhine, Ga., Jnly 1.- An impromptu fight at arm's length took place on the street here yesterday by Henry Lan? caster and John D. McRainie. Pistols of heavy calibre were used. Each man emptied his revolver. All five ?of Lan? caster's bullets struck, one in the chest, one in the side and three in the arms. McRainie will die. Lancaster was strack only once, a glancing shot on the side of the head. His wound is only of the scalp, though it is an ugly one. Both men ?are prom? inent and well to da The difficulty grew out of McRarnie's testifying in Court against Lancaster. They met outside the Court room, began quar? reling, grabbed each other's ?eft hands ac? 'began shooting with the right. The Congo Free State. Washington, July 1.-?Bec&use Pres? byterians in the Congo Free State e?a?n they do not <enjoy all the religi? ons liberty coming to them mnder pro vieians of the Berlin treaty, the Rev. Mr. Livingston, of Georgia, -and other representative Presbyterian?, called at the State department today and left a statement of the facts, wish the re? quest that the Washington Government take ap the matter with Belgium and call her attention to' the reported violations of the Berlin troaty. The course of the department ie not yet in? dicated. Working Nig&t and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr King's New Life Pills. These pills chaoge weakness into strength, listlessness icto energy, brain? fag into mental power. They're wonder? ful in building up the health. Only 25c per box. Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. London, June 30-The war office to-1 day received a dispatch from Col. Rochfort, one of the British officers serving with the Abyssinian forces in I Somaliland, which says the Abyssin ians, May 31, after a series of forced marches, struck the Mad Mullah's forces near Jeyd, surprising them at dawn and killing 1,000 spearmen and capturing almost all their cattle and sheep and 1,000 camels. A Surgical Operation is always dangerous-do not submit to the surgeon's knife until you have tried De Witt's Witch Hazel salve. It will cure when everything else fails-it has done this in thousands of cases. Here is one of them : I suffered from bleeding and pro? truding piles for twenty years. Was treat ed by differeut specialists and used many remedies, but obtained no relief until I ?sed DeWitt'.s Witch Hazel Salve. Two boxes of this salve cured me eighteen months ago and I have not had a touch of the piles since.-H. A. Tisdale, Summer? ton, S. C. For Blind, Bleeding, Itching and Protruding Piles no Remedy equals Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by J. S. Hnghson & Co. THE MILITARY ENCAMPMENT Columbia, Greenville and Anderson Capture The Soldiers. Columbia, July L-Charleston was left out altogether in the militia en? campment scheme-Columbia, Green? ville and Anderson being the places .selected. The field officers met at noon and were in session until after 6 o'clock, with an interval for dinner. The question of railroad rates and other expense was thoroughly gone into and the United States appropria? tion will be none too mnch. Repre? sentatives of Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Anderson and Rock Hill were on hand to urge their respective claims, nearly all of them asking for the whole business. The encamp? ments were divided, however, it being decided that CoL Boyd's regiment, the 1st, will come to Columbia on July 20 to remain through the 27th of July. This regiment is composed of up? country companies. The 2d regiment, CoL Herbert, Orangeburg, will go to Greenville, on July 27, remaining through to August 1. CoL Schachte's regiment, Charleston, will go to Anderson, August 3,' remaining through until the 8th. The Isle of Palms was a favorite place with the officers, but Gen. Frost says that the objection urged to it was that the tide would be too high at the time of the daily evening parade and that would interfere with it. Besides this, the cost of trans? porting an up-country regiment there would be too great. The railroad transportation under the present scheme will cost $10,000, and a re? solution was adopted that hereafter a central point be selected for the regi? ments to camp at in succession. This will minimize the cost of transporting regiments across the State. It was decided that no company should have more than sixty men in the encamp? ment. They will receive subsistence for full seven days, but no pay for the two days consumed in going to and coming from the camp, thus giving them five days of actual pay. This was done in order to come within the appropriation. It has not been decid? ed what is to be done with the cavalry, as arrangements will have to be made for transportation and feed of horses. The opinion was expressed that this brandi would go to Pawley's Island, and the colored troops to Beaufort. Greenville, July 2.-The board of trade committee has declined the offer relating to the encampment of the Second regiment here, as the require? ments were too numerous, including j water, lights, fuelj drayage, camp I site and parade grounds. CoL Her? bert bas been notified and it is hoped that Anderson will get the two regi? ments assigned to the up-country. THE POSTAL SCANDALS. Machen and the Groffs Arraigned and Plead not Guilty. Washington, July L-August W. Machen, against whom three indict? ments have been found for accepting a bribe in connection with the Govern? ment contracts for letter-box fasteners, was arraigned today before Justice Pritchard, in Criminal Court No. L He waived the formal reading of the indictment, pleaded not guilty, and was given until July 20 to file a de? murrer should he wish to do so. The Groff brothers, who wer9 indict? ed with Machen, appeared in Court and pleaded not guilty. It was an? nounced that Machen and the Groffs would be tried at the fall term of the Court, Jtheir cases being taken up in the regular order. The fall term 'be? gins in October and continues several months. Night Was Her Terror. 4iI would cough nearly all night long," writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexand? ria, Ind., 4,and could hardly get any sleep, j I had consumption so bad that if I walked < a block I would cough frightfully and 1 spit blood, but, when all other medicines t failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King's i New Discovery wholly cured me and I ( gained 58 pounds." It's absolutely guar- ? anteed to cure Coughs, Colds, La Grippe, I Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Trou- f bles. Trial bottles free at J. F. W. De- J Lor me's drug store. ? WHITECAPS IN ANDERSON. An Old Negro Man Killed and Three Negro Women Whipped Near Piedmont, in Anderson County. Anderson, July 1.- Reub?? E?rod, a respected old negro, who lives near Piedmont, was shot and killed in his own home abont IO o'clock last night, and three negro women, who were oc? cupants of the same house, were given a severe whipping. Details of the af? fair aro meagre. Magistrat9 Bowen held an inquest over the body of the dead negro today. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death at the hands of parties unknown. The women, who testified at the inquest, said that about 10 o'clock last night a crowd of. about fifty white men came to the house, and after shooting and killing Elrod gave them a severe beafc j ing, and warned them to leave the country. The women said they did not re? cognize any of their assailants, but that they did not live in that com? munity. This is all that is definitely known. The general supposition is that the women were objectionable to the peo? ple of the community, and that a posse of citizens went to the house to chastise them and drive them away, and that Elrod resisted them and was killed. THE WYOMING MINE HORROR. 235 Men Out of 282 Killed. Hanna, Wyo., July 1.-According to the best information obtainable today 235 men out of 282 who were in the mine were killed in the explosion here yesterday. The majority of the vic? tims are Finlands and negroes. A small army of rescuers, spurred on by the frantic appeals of wives, mothers and children who gathered at the mine, worked with desperate ener ergy all night. They tell of pitiful scenes at the 117th level, the lowest point reached'dnring the night. Some of the survivors were driven insane and fought furiously against the rescuers. Dazed, listless surviv? ors were found sitting on cars or lying on the floor, careless of whether they lived or died. N^ar the 17th level 201 bodies were found strewn over a pile of debris which the men had striven ta surmount before they were overcome by the deadly fumes. Some were seared and blackened by flame, but all had died crawling toward fresh air. The ll rescuers who penetrated thus far were too weak to bring out a body. Bamberg Wants No Court. Columbia. July 1.-The Governor has received a petition from lawyers and citizens of Bamberg, asking that the regular July term of Cortrt be> "called off." There are only three prisoners in jail and it is said that they are willing to remain until December until cases are disposed of. They are negroes. The real reason is that the county is in debt and wants to get rid of the court expenses if possible. The Governor will consult with the Judges, the solicitor and Attorney General before acting. A Town in Flames. Raleigh, N. C., July 1.-Greenville,. N. C., is on fire. The flames started at a quarterjto 1 o'clock and the tere is now under full headway. No corree? estimate can be made of the losses, but it is believed that thev are alreadv about $200,000. Friday, July 10th, has been fixed fe r holding the competitive examinatioEs for Winthrop college. This examina? tion will also serve as an entrance ex? amination for those students who de? sire to enter the college without com? peting for a scholarship. Catarrh of the Stomach. When the stomach is overloaded ; when food is taken into it that fails to digest, it iecays and inflames the mucous mem? brane, exposing the nerves, and causing he glands to secrete mucln, instead of the latural juices of digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. For years I suf? fered with Catarrh of the Stomach, caused >y indigestion. Doctors and medicines ailed to benefit me until I used Kodol dyspepsia Cure.-J. R. Rhea, Coppel, Tex. >old by J. S. Hughson & Co.