Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BID FOR DISPENSARY. PEORIA WHISKEY DEALER OF? FERED TO BUY ENTIRE STOCK. Wm. E. Hall of the Famous Clarke Bros. & Co. Offered ito Put Up the Cash Money-Could Not Be Enter? tained. Columbia, March 14.-While the dispensary commission did little yes? terday except to consider the ac? counts of various whiskey houses, as to their regularity, a most stupendous proposition came up for considera? tion. The proposition was to sell out the entire stock at the State dispen? sary and continue the institution un? der private management asa blending and bottling plant. Mr. Wm. E. Hull, president and general manager o;*. Clarke Bros & Co., of Peoria, 111., appeared before the commission yesterday afternoon and submitted the proposition. He offered to take the entire stock on hand at cost price to the State and pay the commission cash for it, pro? vided the commission would rent him the State dispensary buildings and plant and permit him to continue the business. He would buy whiskey, syrups, etc., do his blending here and sell the goods to the county \lispen- ! saries or ship them out of the State, as they might see fit. As there is something like $650,000 worth of whiskey, wine, etc., on hand at the State dispensary,- it will be seen that this would have been a decidedly gigantic deal. It is said that the proposition appealed to one or two members of the commission i for the reason that it offered them a means of disposing of the enormous stock without any loss to the State from the purchase price and would have enabled them to wind up the afT fairs of the massive rum mill in short order. Hon. W. F. Stevenson, attorney for the commission, was not present, hav? ing been detained at Cheraw on ac? count of the illness of Mrs. Stevenson, but Attorney General Lyon was call? ed in ard co raited as to the right of the commission ic- make such a deal. Mr. Avery Pattin, .a member of the commissin had no authority to enter into any such contract as pro? posed, and on his advice the matter was dropped. Properly analyzed, this proposition r meant giving Mr. Hull a license to conduct a distillery, which the com? mission nor any one else has any right to do under the local option law. It would doubtless prove a bonanza to the gentlemen interested if they could have caried it through. Mr. Avery Patton, a members of the commission, when asked about the proposition last night said that it failed to appeal to him in the least and he was confident from the begin? ning that the commission had no authority to" enter into any such deal. "No doubt," said Mr. Patton, "this scheme would have given us more money for the stock than we will be able to realize from it selling it to the county dispensary boards, but we are expected to wind this State dispensary up, and that is what we will do." It is said that another proposition may be made to. the commission to? day offering to take the stock on hand and paj- spot cash for it, with? out any proviso as to continuing the business after the stock is disposed of by the purchaser. An offer of this kind is said to have been suggested by a prominent whiskey distiller, >oer dealer and capitalist of Ncvv York, who has been in Columbia for several weeks. While this would not involve the question of giving license to con? duct a blending and bottling business, as under the other proposal, it is doubted whether the commission would sell the stock to one firm and allow it to make the sales to the county dispensary boards. The county dispensary boards being forced under the law to make their purchases for at least 30 days after organization from the State dispen? sary, the question of the advisability of giving one of these whiskey houses the monopoly which the State com? mission enjoys arises. No claims of whiskey houses have been approved and it is not likely that any will be approved this week, there being an immense amount of work required in verifying the ac? counts. Mr. Stevenson is expected here to? day and hearings on claims will con? tinue until all are disposed of. In viost instances the bonds which have been submitted by the whiskey houses with their claims show local sureties. Each bond is for $10,000. Found at Last. .J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West Va., says: "At last I have found the perfect pill that never disappoints me; and for "the benefit of others afflicted j with torpid liver and chronic consti patton, will say: take Dr. King's New life Fills." Guaranateed at Sibert's j Drug Store. BAPTIST PAPERS MERGED. The Press Absorbed by the Courier of Greenville. Greenville. March 12.-The Baptist Courier of this city has purchased the Baptist Press, which has been pub? lished at Union by Rev. L M. Rice and Rev. V. I. Masters The last issue of the Press will appear tomorrow, after which the paper will be consoli? dated with the Courier, which is pub? lished in this city by Keys & Thomas. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Both Agreeable and Effective. ?Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has no superior for coughs, colds and croup, and the fact that it is pleasant to take and contains nothing in any way injurious has made it a favorite with mothers. Mr. W. S. Pelham, a merchant of Kirksville, Jo wa, says: "For more than twenty years Cham? berlain's Cough Remedy has been my leading remedy for all throat trou? bles. It is especially successful in ca?-es of croup. Children like it and m> customers who have used it will not take any other." For sale by DeLorme's Pharmacy. ?Ml Ul ll' ll 1 Til I III lilli IIIIIIMMCO RAPIST TAKEN TO RALEIGH. Later the Negro Will be Carried to Columbia-Some Doubt as to His Identity. Columbia, March 13.-According to news received here last night from Latta the negro who is supposed to be the criminal guilty of the assault upon Miss Pitxman, near Dillon, is now in prison at Raleigh and will later be brought here for safe keep? ing. Yesterday Gov. Ansel was in communication with the governor of North Carolina, after receipt of a telegram which stated that Nathan McClean*. who is supposed to be the party wanted had been captured in North Carolina. Gov. Ansel request? ed that the negro be taken to the 1 Raleigh penitentiary and arrange? ments were made to do this and af- ! terwards bring him to Columbia.* A j long distance telephone message from Latta last night said that the .people j in that section were very much excit- I ed; but no violence was feared and that the report that a speci?l train j had been asked for of the Atlantic Coast Line authorities in order that' the negro might be lynched was not true. There| is also some doubt as to the identity of the man captured. The State received two specials from Fayetteville as follows: Taken to Fayetteville. Fayetteville, March 12.-A negro. Nathan McCleary, who says he is from Sumter, S. C., was brought here today charged with having outraged a Miss Pittman, a school teacher at Mallory, a small station on the Atlan? tic Coast Line railway, between Latta and Clio, S. C. The following steps were taken to prevent mob violence: The governor of South Carolina re? quested Gov. Glenn of this State to remove tuc culprit to the State pen? itentiary for the present and he was carried through the country to Ral? eigh today by Sheriff Watson of Cum? berland county, N. C., accompanied by Deputy Wiggins of South Caroli? na. *1 special train was asked for in the neighborhood of the crime to come to this city, but it was denied by railroad officials. The manner in which *" e culprit was arrested and removed reflects credit on the officers of the law and the two governors and no doubt prevented a lynching. No one can be found in the city who knows Nathan McCreary, the ne? gro who was arrested in Marion county on the 12th and held as a sus? pect in connection with the attempted outrage Monday afternoon. On Sat? urday, March 2d, a negro who said his name was Nathan attempted to obtain a suit of clothes from the D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. on a forged order from Mr. R. P. Stackhouse, of Dillon, who has a large plantation in this county and is a frequent visitor. The negro failed to secure the suit as the forgery was detected and he was promptly arrested. On the fol? lowing Monday he made his escape from the Recorder's court while the room was crowded with Saturday night drunks who were on trial. He slipped out unnoticed, stole a bicycle and made off. It is said that he went toward Marion county, where he is supposed to have come from original? ly. Some people surmise that he is the negro who is accused of the attempt? ed rape in Marion county, and the surmise may be correct. The Marion County Rape Fiend Was Raised Near Oswego. Mayesville, March 13.-Nathan Mc Crfc?ry, the negro arrested at Dillon on the charge of attempting to com? mit criminal assault, is a native of Sumter county, and is well known here. His father formerly lived on Mr. R. P. Stackhouse's farm near Oswego, and removed to Dillon a few years ago to work there for Mr. Stackhouse. Nathan, the suspected rape fend, was seen in this town a few days ago by several persons who knew him well. Mr. S. H. Revill, who has charge of the Scarborough farm near here, says that Nathan came to his house Sunday afternoon and asked for something to eat, and when he did not receive it he went to Mr. Kelley's house, on the same place, and asked Mrs. Kelly for food, telling her he was going to begin work on the farm Monday morning. Mr. Revill, who knew Mr. Kelly wa^ not at home, seeing that the negro had gone there, followed him to Mr. Kelly's house and made him leave, as he ?id j not like his looks. He left the place j when ordered off, and has not been seen since in that neighborhood. Some of the negroes here, when told of the trouble into which Nathan had gotten himself, said that he never did have good sense-that he was half crazy. M?CLEARY CONFESSES. * Negro Taken to Penitentiary From Raleigh Admits Crime in Marion County. Columbia, March 14.-Nathan Mc? Cleary was lodged in the South Car? olina penitentiary this morning at 2.30 o'clock, having been brought here from Raleigh on the Southern train by special Deputy A. H. Wig? gins of Dillon, by order of Gov. Ansel. He will remain here for safekeeping McCleary made a confession to Mr. A. J. Bethea, the governor's private secretary at the penitentiary of hav? ing attempted the assault upon Miss Pittman, the Marion county school teacher. He talks of implicating oth? er darkies in the crime.-The State. NOT THE MAN. He Had Confessed the Crime But thc Marion School Teacher Declares That McCleary is Not Assaillant. Miss Pittman of North Carolina ar? rived her? yesterday and pa company with Mr. T. B. Stackhouse went to the State prison to see if Nathan Mc? Cleary was the negro who had of? fered her indignity inst Mo?day. Miss Pittman stated positively thru McCleary is not the man! The negro confessed to Mr. A. J. Bethea, private secretary to Go. Ansel, Wednesday and also to a reporter o Cthe State. It was published in the State at the time that the negro is an imbecile. This appears to be verified by Miss Pittman's statement, for she says she had never seen th? negro before. McCleary will remain in the peni? tentiary until the authorities there re? ceive instructions from Marion as to what to do with him. He is a dark brown, low browed negro, with thick lips and cocoanut shaped head. He talked freely with a representa? tive of the State and while admitting that he "ketched hold" of the hand of the "white lady what teeched school in the little blue school house," it was observed that there were many in? correct statements in what he said. For instance, he insisted that he was near Timmonsville-only a few miles from there-and seemed to know very little about the country around Latta or Oak Grove. It may have been that Nathan had heard parties dicussing the affair and gathered what facts as were con? tained in his "confession" from that source. There were no signs to indicate that he recognized Miss Pittman when he was brough before her. In fact the whole affair does not appear to have impressed him as being of any unusual consequence. On no oc? casion since his arrest has he shown any excitement or seemed in the least anxious about what the results might be. Some steps may be takenN to have McCleary committed to the Hospital for the Insane.-The State, March 16. Do Not Crowd the Season. *The first warm days of spring bring with them a desire to get out and enjoy the exhilirating air and sunshine. Children that have been housed up all winter are brought out and you wonder where they all'came from. The heavy . winter cloth? ing is thrown aside and many shed "heir flannels. Then a cold wave comes and people say that gnp is epidemic. Colds at this season ar.i even more dangerous than in mid? winter, as there is much more dan? ger of pneumonia. Take Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy, however, and you will have nothing to fear. ' It al? ways cures, and we have never known a cold to result in pneumonia when it was used. It is pleasant and safe to take. Children like it. For sale by DeLorme's Pharmacy. NO SUMMER SCHOOL. Will Probably Not be Held This Year. Columbia, March 14.-Mr. j O. B. Martin, State superintendent of edu? cation, says that there will probably be no summer school this year, as a result of the abolishment of the State dispensary. The dispensary, he says, yielded $1,000 a year for the State summer school and $5,000 for the county summer schools? This sum is not available now. The couty superintendents, how? ever, have made special provision for the school money, and hope to open the county summer schools as usual this year. ?The winds of March have no ter? ror to the user of of Dewitt's Carbol ized Witch Hazel Salve. It quickly heals chapped and cracked skin. Good too, for boils and burns, and un? doubtedly the best for piles. Sold ?ere by druggists. GERMAN MINE DISASTER. At Least One Hundred Lives Lost in Accidents. Berlin, March 16.-Two mining disasters, which it is feared will en? tail a loss of nearly a hundred lives, are reported today. An explosion of fire-damp in a mine at Kleinrosseln, in Lorraine, caused the death of 65 miners and the injury of 12. An elevator in a mine at St. John dropped 1,000 feet killing 22 occu? pants. Given Up To Die. *B. Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia Street, Evansville, Ind., writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and bladder affections which caused me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entir>Jy. I had three of the best physicians who did me no good and I was practically giv? en up to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the first bot? tle gave me great relief, and after tak? ing the second bottle I was entirely cured." Why not let it help you' Sibert's Drug Storo. THE DISPENSARY COMMISSION" No Whiskey Claims Will bc Taken Cp Until Attorney Stevenson Can Attend-Mrs. Stevenson 111. Columbia. March 14.-Only routine business was transacted by the State dispensary commission at its meeting today. The commission will be un? able to take up the $500,000 or more of claims against the dispensary by whiskey houses, until its attorney, Mr. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, is able to attend and give his advice. Mr. Stevenson is detained at bis home by the serious illness of his wife. Mrs. Stevenson lu:s pneumonia of an acut.- type and considerable anx ietv is felt ov her condition. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Ksve Always Bought Bears the Signature; cf Opportunities for Home Capital. " The purchase of estates in George? town and Beaufort counties, respect? ively, by L JE. Emerson and H. O. Havemeyer, Northern capitalists, is by no means objectionable; it is rath? er gratifying that South Carolina is attracting immigrants of this class, even if they do not spend their whole time in or become citizens of the State, but it ought to point a lesson to South Carolinians. These wealthy men bring money into the State and they will hasten the development of South Corolina recources, but their investments emphasize the advice of The News and Courier to our own people to buy lands. Lands which are chiefly desirable now for hunting pre? serves will be valuable for plantations in a very few years, and shrewd "Yankees" (we employ the term with affection) know it. They know that with the whole country advancing with astonishing celerity, there can be no possible danger of loss on purchases of real estate at the trifling prices that it now commands in many parts of South Carolina. What we would urge is that our own people recognize the opportuni? ties that the Emersons and Havemey ers, and others who have boght lands in former years have seen, and they that act upon them. Twenty years ago wealthy men were uncommon men in South Carolina, but now there are many hundreds whose fortunes amount to from $100,000 to $1,000, 000. They live in Charleston, Spar tanburg, Greenville Richland, Marl? boro, Orangeburg, Sumter and in all the counties. Any man who has such a fortune can afford to invest in land, and the man who does will secure for his family a kind of property that cannot be lost by mismanagement or by any kind of disaster known to this part of the world. The man in mod? erate circumstances must, as a rule, confine his real estate purchases to properties to which he can apply his own business direction and industry, but the wealthy man, even if he do not receive a return from land pur? chases sufficient to pay the taxes, will reap large profits in the enhancement of values, which is as sure to come as that sunrise shall follow sunset. We are saying this simply and sole .ly because we would like to see our own people, '.ri preference to stran? gers, obtain the large rewards that are in easy reach. We bear no grudge towards outsiders who were wise enough to come into South Caro? lina and buy timber lands; they have helped the State and they are excel? lent citizens, but the same opportuni? ties are offering even now in land that were offered in timber a few years ago, and if South Carolinians do not take advantage of them, they will have themselves to blame. We should like to witness a gen? eral movement on the part of capital? ists of Greenville, Spartanburg, Co? lumbia, Charleston and other cities to investigate the lands of the State and which would result in large pur? chases. It goes without saying that the man in moderate circumstances and the poor man are not advised to sell their holdings, bu' we wish that those lands owned by persons who cannot afford to hold them longer could be bought by our own people. Meantime, we welcome the coming of the rich Yankees, the more the better, for they sharpen the demand for lands; which makes it easier for the poor to retain those that they now have, but our own wealthy men, who are on the ground, who know the State, should "get into the game" with them; for the profits are certain; there is practically no element of speculation in it. Why do not our prosperous planters, cotton mill pres? idents, bankers and lawyers form real estate ccnmpanies in all parts of South Carolina Why do they slumber while great, rich slices of South Carolina territory are slipping away-given away? News and Courier. ?You should be very careful of your bowels when you have a cold. Near? ly all other cough syrups are consti? pating, especially those containing opiates. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup moves the bowels-contains no opiates. Conforms to national pure food and drugs law. Bears the en? dorsement of mothers everywhere. Children like its pleasant taste. Sold by druggists. The attorney general has held that the petition ofr the proposed Edisto county movement, the county to be formed from portions of Aiken, Or? angeburg and Lexington counties, is defective in that it does not state the distance from the proposed lines of the county to the old county seats. Back Gives Out. Plenty of Sumter Readers Have This Experience. Yon tax the kidney?-overwork them The) can't keep up the continual strain The back gives out-it aches and pains ; Urinary troubles sets in. Don't wait longer-take Doan's Kidney Pills. Sumter people tell you how they act. J. A. Burgess, clerk and bookkeeper, resid? ing at 3l7W. Liberty Street says: "My back bas been in a bad condition for a number of years. At times it \\-:>s so weak I could not gel about and there was a constant dull pain across tbe loins. The secretions from the kidneys were all out of sorts, very ?lark ami contained a brick dust sediment and were too fretiuent i;i action, disturbing roy rest at night. My eyes watered terribly and pained considerably. I saw Doan's Kidney Pills and heard them spoken so highly o? thai I pro? cured them al Dr. A. J. China's drugstore. I ?nay >:iy that the result ot their use very much plea*,.,! me. for I tell a hundred per cent, better, the pain in my back left, niy eyesstopped watering and roy eyesight im? proved while the kidneys were regulated and I could sleep all night withoiit bavins to get up. Doan's Kidney Tills at*ted like a ..harm on me and I can recommend tbcim"' For N.-tle by ?di denier-.. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buiffiilo. N. V.. sole agents for t be United States. Remember the oanie Doan's-and take no other. *5 J?V^f^b?clTcparatkmforAs similatiriguteT tingues tomad IS ,m H1LDKKN ?TD?nof?sT^^fionjCimfuh ii?ssandB^LCofllaifls neither Opium iMorpintt? cor?teial KOT NARCOTIC? ?bcJkanm* ?bdttSeml * fimmast .?. m?uioBaitSUm* WrmStcd Gg?md Sa?ctr. w?i?s[7?7w/r Fiara*. * Aperfect Remedy for Constipa? tion, Sour Stomaeh.Diarri?oea, Worms ?Cormdsionsjeverish aess and Loss OF SLEEP Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. Afb months old J5 DOSES-33C E NTS EXACT COFTUFTTBAPFEB? For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hays Always Bought Bears the In Use For Over Thirty Years YHE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW TONK CITY. Another Car Load of Booth Live W. A. BOWMAN, Pres. ABE RYTTENBERG, V. Pres P. G. BOWMAN, Sec. & Treas. The Sumter Banking & Mercantile Company, Capital Stock $50,000????^ Wholesale Grocers, Fertilize ersand Farmers' Supplies. So^e agents for the celebrated brand of Wil? cox & Gibbs Fertilizers. We are prepared to quote the very closest cash or time prices on all lines of Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers' Supplies, And invite your investigation before makin64 your arrangements for another year. Come to see us. We will save you money, and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking I Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, 2d|dcor from the Postoffice. Sumter, S. C. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., Dentist, S18 WEST LIBE HT Y STREET. UP STAIRS HOURS: 8:30 TO 1. - P. M. 2 TO 6. OFFICE PHONE 30. HOUSE PHONE 382.