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COtJtrr DtX IDfcH MAYORALTY
coirraw in moclkllan 8
i?, FAVOR.
Mo
Court Dtreces
o Verdict for In
Now Torrn, June 30.?-Mayor Oeo.
l\ MoClellan'* title to the oftUo of
of Now Torn city war me.de
Oy the dec Utfort of Juttloe Lam
la the supreme court today when
he ordered a Jury to render a rordlet
that Modellen wee duly elected
enuyee to INI W. It Hearet has
boom eoataeUNj the mayor/e right to
Met eehcs seaetfteell) ever trace the
eketHeo and as a result of hfo charges
of hand hi the original count of
the legislature passed a law
a race sat Attorney Otn
eroi W. t. Jeoheoo then Instituted
pr ooeod Inas on behalf
of Use people, la which both Mr.
and Mayor Modellen were
' the'recount left Mayor McCtellen
a prareBty of l.ttl. whereupon
J. Sheem rip res on ting Mr.
Jechas a. alleejed that the ballot boxes
ho* boon scoffed and esaosstit the
eoawt to throw out the entire vote of
lit ctstltca districts In which "ho
chorgtl toot the be Hots found la the
the number of the
vote re. Yale, however, w
00 an laconsct Met of voters
etjt sahen the oorruot last was pro
too it today Mr fhearn tend that the
tar eater than the
Juetlc La sab art deoUaed to throw
oof aha toalieti ft districts ? Mr.
Mhsara thee) charted that the htapoc
toru hod lOgMtsOed an excess number
of Bassos hot said ho coald not prove
ysetlot then deelared that the
suite ae complete
as tho ooe saada In court and that
tho etidnoce showed no fraud as far
as tho ssattlen bet pesters were con
that If legal voters
so readily as
eat stautet hi that ease, this
of gauss a sains would otot endure
It tho Jury urore to return a
eerosA Mi amid Hot I
eosjai he dMwsssetUssd
Mayor MoClellan.
amid ho would not si?
lt to stand and he ordered d vor*
dtat to fasur of the ssayor. which
was rendered. The furore were al?
lowed Ittt tosh, having aat ?1 days.
Mayor MoClellan Issued a atato
ao night In Which, after defining
to tooard to tho
ho states that ho
force* to pay out MO.tto to tetowd
has auto, hot tootudtac spuneel feeei
ore efjff WvpakL Tho amayor
that 'the
a to* the toot
it of that enormous expenditure
tad .attention has
?y total veto and
official plurality by
ted ballots.'
MoOelle* says that he has
iierehs oe so the course ho pur?
t and that ho tools that the eon
?tot t
MMV< ^
ohaot its). ottapsi
tr > vet ay arm
o| sosottoa esatoiU at this sort in
tho future. He said that had ho
? tad thot his ejection was tho re
Jseeo
: of fraud ho would have acted dlf
Mm ON
A dsspstch from Columbia says:
Cola weit people who h"P close
track, of politics, but who occasionally
not ae close as they Imagine have
predicting all along that Cole D.
Bleats, of Newberry. would get about
SC.see votes In his campaign against
fioilrnor Ansel, who would gtt th??
remiilndsr cf the 100.000 votet In the
SMate. The/ hare beer: saying that
for two powerful ressont nobody
redd beet Ansel, he having made a
od Oovemor and the second-term
sentiment being Mtrong throughout the
MMtth
Mr. Bleast, who was here today,
however, says he's got good money to
oay that he will beat Ansel by a nest
majority Me says he will carry
thirty-six coutles out of a total of
*orty-two.
"' >. give the Governor s tittle more
margin than that." said your corre?
spondent, at a lolly.
"I'll bet anyone 11.000 against 1100
that I am the next Oovernor of this
?t?te. 1 was the reply. I've got 18.?
?000 on deposit at Newberry that Is
ready to talk Chat way. and I can
get plenty more to cover all such bets.
Put It In the peter that I said so. I
don't care. I'm betting two to one on
getting tlooted. And if you don't be?
lieve I'm going to carry a lot more
counties than a whole lot of people
think ssk any member of the cam?
paign party who has been sttending
the meetings."
la feats hi the Price of Peace.
?The terrible Itching and smarting.
Incident to certain skin diseases. Is
almost Instantly allayed .by applying
Chamberlain's Halve Prtos. 25c. For
stole by all drutjaiats
T.Vil rich brother
Newspaper Man Who Has Manipulat?
ed Candidate's Destiny.
In New York. In a quiet corner of?
fice of a high building which he owns,
with only a bookkeeper to keep him
company, you will And any day, when
he la not In New York looking at old
masters and porcelains, a quiet, slim,
white-bearded man. But for him
William Taft might never have gone
to the Philippines or become secre?
tary of war or a candidate for presi?
dent.
"Did we beat the Poet on the base
bail extra last night?" Charlea P.
Taft calls do wnstairs to the editor of
the newapaper which he owna. He
enjoys hie r ewspaper, which haa aa
lively headlines as any In the . Mid?
dle West Besball interests him
equally wltk. Oalnsboroughs and Sir
Joshuas. Ho owna a large Interest in
the Cincinnati Baseball Club, In the
gasworks and street car lines, In the
leading hotel and the opera house,
not to mention much real estate; or,
rather, ho and his wife together. Her
fortune he laaa multiplied.
Odo day the editor told him of a
amort young baseball reporter who
woo looking wistfully at a broken
down league team and sighing for
capital. "How much do you wont?"
Chaslee P. asked the reporter. "One
hundred thousand dollars." "Very
good!" said Charlea P., who had boon
watching that young man for a year.
"We'll go Into partnership" A bus?
iness man who makes business deals
In this fashion naturally needs only
a bookkeeper, and when he wants
o stenographer he can send for the
one downstairs In the editor's oAce.
Everything the "Herr Doktor." aa
ho woo called among his fellow Amer?
ican students at Heidelberg, has
touched since he came homo from
finishing his education In Germany
seems to have turned Into money or
art Ho haa been a Republican, most?
ly with the local boss, though some
times against him. On the hoardings
of the city he haa boon cartooned vil?
lainously as a sinister "Interest" and
smiled over it and bought another
china Jar. In matters of music and
art. Cincinnati agrees thai, he la her
foremost cltlaen. "How do you like
the Interior of the hotel?" he aaka the
visitor from out of town, for Charles
P. looked to the mural decorations in
person. They are deservedly praised.
In the evening he goes to an old
fashioned house, once the Long
worth's, whose domestic establish?
ment Is maintained for leas than that
of many houses occupied by a man
of one-twentieth his Income. But no
one of moderate means could afford
such furnishings. To be vulgar about.
It there are well over a million dol?
lars* worth of art treasures In the
Toft home.
Dealers eay no false masters or 1m
ffgetJon hawthorns hove been sold to
him. He has the dlsorlmnatlon of
the arias buyer and the taste of ths
connoisseur. Boated among china of
the Ming dynasty hs roads the base?
ball astro of his lively newspaper. He
never brings business homo unless It
Is William H.'s campaign. William
H?ls poor. Hs knows nothing of
fortune-winning. The only way he
could make money would bo by prac?
ticing low. ....
Charlea P. hi wil>tng to have fame
In the family, but It must all descend
on one member. From the day that
the elder brother saw the gift of
WU1 for making friends and for dic?
tating in an easy way a legal analysts
of a bundle of legal documents, that
younger brother has been a hobby
surpassing all the old masters. He
haa always been trying to show Will
the road to opportunity, knowing that
once Will was started he could do the
traveling himself.
When McKinley wanted to send
the younger brother to the Philip?
pines Will waa all for declining. He
wanted to remain on the bench.
Charles P. argued far Into the night
in favor of going. When Roosevelt
asked the governor to return and
take the secretaryship of war Will,
who may be "slow to take a new job.
but is a sticker when he is on it."
ssld he wanted to finish his task in
the Philippines. "Come home!" said
Charles P. in a chorus with the pres?
ident. Then Roosevelt said: "Get out
snd run for president. You're the
right man to carry out my policies."
"Get out and run." Charles P. re?
peated. But William H. did not. This
was something new and indefinite. He
did not exactly understand how, so his
sctlve friends thought. The only run?
ning he did was out and home to
look after all the unfinished tasks
that ths president had given him.
Then Charles P. concluded that If
William H. would not run he should
be run. One morning Charles P.'s
name actually appeared In hi* own
paper. Under his signature he an?
nounced that William H. Taft was a
candidate for president before the
Republican primaries in Ohio against
Senator Foraker for both senator and
president.
He threw down the gauntlet smart?
ly. Then he went to Columbus for a
day, and when he returned he told
the bookkeeper that he had engaged
Arthur I. Vorys and rented a set of
? ?fTk---.- for the Taft campaign,
??Vorye?" gaepe \ th< politu lana
'He's no political organizer!"
Possibly Hitchcock still thinks he
is not. But Brother Charles P. got
the presidential delegation from the
State of Ohio early enough for the
other States on the fence to see, and
William H. is started on a fresh
journey, where, of course, he must do
his own traveling as he has before.
If Brother Will is elected, as
Charles P. sits among his Gains
boroughs, Sir Joshuas and black
hawthorns, he ought to chuckle over
that triumph as heartily as he does
over beating the deadly rival on get?
ting the baseball extra Into the su?
burbs.?Collier's Weekly.
GREATEST DEFICIT IN YEARS.
Government's Balance $#0,000,600 on
Wrong Side of the Leder.
Washington, June SO.?The state?
ment of the government receipts and
sxpenditures for the deal year ending
today shows a marked falling oft in
the receipts as^ compared with the
laat fiscal year; and a large, Increase
In the expenditures. The excess of ex?
penditures over receipts for the year
will approximate 9f0.000.000, which
haa been exceeded only twice alnce the
civil war.
In 1894 there waa a deficit of
9ff.80S.000. and in 189? there was
another of a little over 889.000,000,
and In each of the four intervening
years the receipts fell considerably
below the disbursements. Again in
1904 and 1905 there were shortages
of 941,770.000 and 923.000.000 re?
spectively.
GAME COCKS TAKE TWO MORE.
Defeated she Burghers In Both Games
of o Double Header at Festive Dor
llngton. I
Darlington, July 8.?Sumter took
both gamea from Orangeburg today,
winning the morning event by a 8 to
1 score and the afternoon game. 2 to
1. The first game went only five In?
nings on account of rain. The fea?
ture of the day was the brilliant pitch?
ing of Cowell for Sumter, who yield?
ed only three hits and fanned more
than a dosen In the afternoon game.
Batters, first game: Orangeburg.
Avesrett and Sturtevent; Sumter,
Long and Stephens. Second game:
Orangeburg. Roberta and Sturtevent;
Sumter, Cowell and Stephens.
SERVED IN MEXICAN WAR.
? ? ? i ?
R. L. Logon Dies at Manning fat His
flat Year.
I
, Manning. July 8.?Mr. Ransoms L.
Logan, the oldest man living in this
vicinity, died today In the ?1st year
of his age. He waa a native of Cam
den, but had lived in this county for
0 number of^years. Mr. Logan was
both a Mextemn and Confederate was
veteran, and up to last week was aa
active and vigorous aa a man of much
younger years. He waa twice mar?
ried, and leaves his second wife,
four sons and two daughters. The re?
mains of ths deceased will be Interred
in the Manning cemetery at 11 o'clock,
tomorrow. . . .,? (Men*'.
MILEAGE HEARING CALLED.
Railroad Consmkeiton Summons Rail?
way Officiate to Meet Drummers
July to.
Columbia. June 30.?The railroad
commission this afternoon Issued a
summons to ths passenger officials of
the Seaboard. Southern, Cost Lino
and the Charleaton and Western Car )?<
Una roads to meet the traveling men
and others finding the new mileage
arrangements burdensome for a con?
ference here on July 20 on the ques?
tion of changing the present require?
ments or doing away with them alto?
gether.
FOUR MILLS TO CLOSE.
200,000 Spindles WU1 be Idle In
Spartanbunr for IS Dn*s.
Spartanburg, June 30.?Following
the suggestion of the South Carolina
Cotton Manufacturer's Association at
its annual meeting at Glenn Springe
recently, It is announced today that
four of the largest mills in Spartan?
burg County, the Whitney, 8partan,
Pacolet and Arkwright will close down
to-morrow for thirteen days. This
stops for that length of time about
two hundred thousand spindles. It
Is understood that others will give
their employees a lay-off of two weeks
later In the summer.
A commercial grade of gas is being
made from corncobs, hay and other
vegetable matter at Beatrice, Neb.,
for lighting and fuel. It is sold at
91.19 a thousand, the lowest price of
gas in Nebraska. In quality it is said
to be as good as coal or oil gas. Ab?
solutely nothing is said to be used in
manufacturing the gas except farm
refuse. Because of the cheapness of
the raw material, the gas can be
manufactured and sold at much lower
rates than coal gas.
SeVd us your Job work.
THE NEWM1 iPl n
It Is a Great Business and One That
Will.Be Developed Even Further_
The Business End of It.
Newspaper making;, like government
Is first of all a business. Statesman?
ship ig the ability to make compro?
mises; government Is regulated by
the necessities even more than by the
Ideals of the people. Newspaper mak?
ing Is no better and no worse. Ideals
are essential to a proper grasp of
newspaper's possibilities, as well as
of its limitations, but plain business
sagacity, well-directed hard work, and
comprehensive recognition of the
demands of the public make the
nation's newspapers what they are,
the great power In the national life,
says a writer In Appleton's Magazine.
The American people form the
Jury that passes on all newspapers,
the Jury that every newspaper maker
and every business man has to meet,
sooner or later. It may be said that
newspapers print much matter that
may be uselees and worthlese. Any
newspaper doing this soon finds It?
self behind In the race of competition;
the people decide what they wish,
and will hare it Newspapers simply
meet the demand of the age, in site
and quality, as the shoe manufacturer
meets the demand of the public when
he puts out his leading style of shoes.
The people know what best fits their
own feet.
The value of a paper's advertising
depends upon the character of its cir?
culation, that Is, whether it Is a home
read paper, or one read only in street
cars and other public places. The
most prosperous papers In the Uni?
ted States are those that go into the
home. The women of the household
are the buyers of the family supplies,
If not actually their ideas prevail.
To reach them is the aim of every
newsaper advertiser who has any?
thing to sell which can be used in the
home.
This reaching for home circulation
on the part of publishers and adver?
tisers has the important effects of
raising the tone of the papers. The
advertising columns of a newspaper
are a public place, which a man
may enter by paying a fee. It la
the aim of the average editor to keep
objectionable . advertising out of
his paper; and the public would
scarcely believe how large a quantity
Is excluded.
As evidence that the cleanest ad?
vertising pays best, one may consider
who are the largest advertisers In the
great olty dallies. They are the great
dry goods merchants. Their adver?
tising Is as ttmely and fresh as news,
and Is as much a legitimate part of
the paper. Their returns are com?
mensurate with their outlay; other-,
wise they would not spend as high as
ft,0frO for a day's advertising, for the
merchant Is no philanthropist In his
advertising.
Having attained his circulation by
conducting a clean and able paper,
and having gained sufficient advertis?
ing business to make the paper psy
the publisher has achieved one of the
moot difficult feats In modern busi?
ness. He must make his goods as
well as sell them, and upon hit man?
ner of making them, or dressing up
the raw material depends hit success.
First of all he must be fair. He must
always assume there are two sides to
every story, atnd that the under dog
may have some rights. He must be
careful to print no piece of news that
might Injure an innocent person. He
must give equal prominence to the
statements of both parties in a po?
litical contest and to reports of
the meetings of both sides, and the
utterance of both candidates. The
most successful newspapers In the
country are along those lines. The
day of the party organ has passed.
$100 a Day License Demanded.
Chester, July S.?The city council
at a special meeting Monday after?
noon granted the Johnny Jones Car?
nival Company license to show here
for one week, beginning July 20, but
the county authorities have demand?
ed a license of 1100 a day for the car?
nival, In accordance with the law of
the State on the subject: and it le
likely that the show will be called c.
in consequence.
Mrs. Lanliam Dead In Texas.
Spartanburg. Jul>2.?A telegram
was received here today telling of
the death of Mrs. Lanham, wife of
Ex-Governor Lanham, and formerly
Congressman, of Texas. The bereav?
ed husband is a former resident of
this county and his friends and rela?
tives were grieved to learn of the
death of his wife.
"The late Bishop Fowler," said a
Buffalo Methodist, "had the happiest
knack of Illustrating, with one lumi?
nous sentence, traits of character,
faults, villainies. Once I remember
talking of gambling-houses and the
little mercy shown to ruined players,
Pishop Fowler, with a grim smile,
s:\id: "The men who took Jonah's
money were the same, remember,
who threw him overboard. Things
like that stilt happen."?Indianapolis
News.
rhe IbKurdlti ??! Ute Hod fscare
The following; article, which was
published recently by the Christian Ad?
vocate, is reproduced by request. It
condenses into a minimum space prac?
tically all lof the so-called arguments
against a reasonable and proper re?
straint of dogs.
The approach of "dog days" brings
with them the periodic mad-dog scare
and a consequent senseless and brutal
usage of the most faithful of man's
brute friends. To the honest man
the special dog tax is fast converting
the ownership of a dog into a luxury.
Owing to the special premium offer?
ed in some towns for the catching of
stray dogs or to the value of the city
furnished dog collar, no man's dog,
however tax protected, Is free from
the sneak thief who owns a collarless
dog or covets the public premium.
And all this cruelty., the penalizing
taxation, and incitement to thievery
grows out of an almost baseless panic
?a fear as little likely of realization
as death from a falling brick-bat or a
lightning stroke. For the comfort
and restraint of our readers we print
herewith extracts from several lead?
ing papers of the North and West.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: "There Is a
danger of hydrophobia. It amounts
to less, however, than the danger of
being kicked by a horse. Yet no one
proposes to farmers that horses be de?
clared a public nuisance, to be swept
off the earth. Why cannot we dis?
play the same common sense about
dogs N
Boston Herald: "The most amia?
ble house dogs are so treated by It .at
law the the wonder Is they do not go
mad. There Is no need for this alarm.
Well authenticated cases of deaths
from rabies are exceedingly rare, so
rare that the disease Itself Is still
questioned. But delusions do not die
easily."
Detroit Free Press: "We can't get
along without Fido. His suceptlblllty
to rabies Is serious, but not necessari?
ly fatal to his race. England and
Oermany haye checked It effectively.
Even In our own country rabies has
become a rare affliction. There are
far too many dogs who live and die
without going mad to wipe out the
entire race for the fault of a few."
Pittsburg Gazette-Times: "It Is a
fact that dogs are no more likely to
be Infected with rabies in the sum?
mer than In the winter, and the 'dog
days,' as all Intelligent persons know,
have nothing whatever to do with
the spread of the disease, but It is
also a fact that popular fear of rabies
Is at Its height In the warm weather
and this Is the time when many ner?
vous persons suffer mentally on that
account."
Learn to Smile.
If half the girls knew how silly
they looked and sounded when they
constantly giggle they would stop It.
Learn to smile; not giggle.
Nothing is more Infectious and
charming than a good laugh; but
very few people know how to laugh,
It Is as rare in life as it is on the
stage.
A giggle usually comes from ner?
vousness. A girl wtll giggle when
she cannot think of anything to say
or when she Is trying to be at ease
In company. .? ?
She will glgle when a boy meets
her and says "Good morning." She
will giggle when he says "Good-bye.'
She Is only nervous, but she appears
silly. ? .is
It Is no wonder that young men
speak with utter scorn of this gig
e'.lng girl. They seem to think her
the least attractive maiden on earth;
It Is trying to attempt to hold any
kind of conversation with a girl who
giggles.
It Is hot always possible to know,
at first thought whether or not you
are one of the girls who giggle. Stop
and think about it. Watch yourself
the next time you are with any one
See whether this senseless trick is
a part of your social equipment. If
It Is take any heroic means to stran?
gle that giggle until it is dead.
Far better be silent; you may then
get the credit for wisdom that you
have not got. Better than all, if
you don't know how to give a cherry,
musical, spontaneous laugh, then try
your best to learn how to smile.
Do not let yourself give a weary
'smile, for that is the result of effort
and self-consciousness; but anything
Is better than a silly giggle.?New
Haven Register.
Cleveland Leader: "If the dog
Isn't worth his cost in hydrophobia,
and a large margin above It. then a
solitary human life, here and there,
outweighs a prodigious amount of
self-denial and loss by mankind."
St. Louis Republic: "The bite of a
healthy dog causes no Infection of
the blood. Its only injury is i' pain?
ful, lacerating wound. Dog bite is
to be avoided, to be sure, but the suf?
ferer from it need not be stricken
with a hydrophobia panic."
?One application of ManZan Pile
Remedy, for all forms of piles, soothes,
reduces inflammation, soreness and
itching. Price 50c. Guaranteed. Sold
by Slbert Drug Co. 7-l-2m
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KOUTIfKK* ROAOH AMD CO V
Have the Railroads of This r
Formed a Comprees True'
A dispatch from Washington
that charges have been filed wi
department of justice and with the
Interstate commerce commission te>
the effect that "the railroads of the
South have completed a monopoly,
which threatens to control absolutely*
the cotton market of the country and
dictate cott >n prices both at home
and abroad." This looks like an ex?
treme statement which is not likely
to be sustained by the actual charges,
the text of which is not given; but
certain fact* are stated on the author?
ity of some of the complainants
which, if authentic, would Indicate a
combination in restraint of trade and)
one would think that by this time the
railroads would be chary of entering:
into any such arrangements. They
have no right to complain of hos?
tility" and legal restrictions so long
as they persist in violating or evad?
ing the law which forbids discrimina?
tion.
Ths substance of the statement la
that "the railroads"?what particu?
lar railroads are not specified?havn
gained control of a chain of cotton,
compresses running through the*
principal centers of the cotton grow*
lng States from Georgia to Oklahoma,
through the Atlantic Compress Com?
pany, whose stock they are said to
own. This is said to have a capital
of $1,000,000 and to control 67 com?
presses, having forced the smaller
competitive plants into bankruptcy
and then leased or destroyed them.
Another charge is that they take cot?
ton free to their own compresses*,
charge 8 1-2 cents a hundred pounds
for compressing It in the bales for the*
market, and include that charge In
the rate for carrying to the seaboard.
This charge being made a part of the
carrying rate, it must be paid by the
planter or owner of the cotton, even
If it is compressed at an independent
plant, besides which cars will not bo
promptly or regularly supplied at tho
plants of independent concerns. The>
result is to freeze out these concern*
and monopolize the business of com?
pressing thus practically controlling
the marketing of the cotton crop.
If this kind of combination had
gone to the extent described, more
would surely have been heard of it.
but charges would hardly be filed ,
now if there was not some substantial
ground for them. It is said that tho
"independent interests," apaprenthr
including some railroads not In tho
compress "combine." are to attach:
the alleged combination along three
separate lines, one by complalat to
the interstate commerce commission*
under the "commodity clause," ono
by petition to the attorney general
under the anti-trust law and one by
prosecution in the State courts. An
the railroads are not alleged to bur
or own the ootton. we do not buy or
own ths cotton, we do not see hoar
the "commodity clause" has any appli?
cation, but If the facts are as state*
they may be construed aa pro vine*
restraint of Interstate trade. Wheth?
er prosecution In State court win
avail depends upon State law and i*V
administration. *?>.???1 m^^k?)
In any case, If the statement* pub-*
lished are true in substance, the rail?
roads of the South have adopted n
very foolish course in thus provoking?
renewed attack which will be sure of
popular sympathy and support. Per?
haps they may have denials or em
planatlont that will put a different,
aspect upon the matter, but union*
they have they would be wise te>
withdraw from the cotton comproaav
business and cease discrtmnatinc
among shippers of cotton both to
and from the compresses.?New Yorhv
Journal of Commerce. i ^4a\\*r ffc.
China, a Collection of Nations.
Samuel Meriwin, in Success Magazine.
China is not a nation in the sense
in which we ordinarily use the word
If we picture to ourselves the coun?
tries of Eurooe, with their different
languages and dirTtrent customs,
drawn together into a loose confed?
eration under tK? government of n
conquering race, we filial] have some*
small conception of what this Chinese
"nation" really is. The peoples of
these different European countrlea
are all Caucasians; the different peo?
ples of China are all Mongolians.
These Chinese peoples speak 18 or.
20 distinct languages, each divided
into almost innumerable dialects and
sub-dialects. They are governed bj?j
Manchu. or Tartar, conquers who>
spring from a different stock, wear
different costumes and speak among,
themselves a language wholly differ?
ent from any of the 18 or 20 native,
tongues.
Fire in Cotton Warehouse.
Lancaster. July 8.?Wednesday af?
ternoon Are was discovered In a.
warehouse filled with cotton at tho
Lancaster cotton mills. About 50
bales were scorched, but little other
damage was done, prompt work by
the fire department preventing fur?
ther loss. The origin of the blaze la
unknown.