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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY by thf UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Flood Times Huh.ding. J NO. R. MAT II IS, Editor, L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postofllce in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 m: ? - KCi />ont.Q Oil II1UI11/113 ? ? ? ? vv w.?v?; Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, flrst insertion - - $1.00. Every ubsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at cents^a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of re pect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., MAY 30, 1902. Col. F. W. Wagoner has our thanks for his beautiful, neatly printed and fully illustrated pamphlet "Charleston and the Exposition." An air ship which was making an experimental trip exploded when 1,500 feet above the ground and the two occupants were dashed to the ground and instantly killed last week. Watch the date that appears on the label and you can see at what date your subscription expires. H it should not correspond with vour last receipt notify us at once and we will make correction. King Edward has sent 25,000 francs as his contribution to the fund being raised for the relief of the sufferers from the Martinique disaster. Mt. Pelee is reported to be again in eruption. It would be advisable to leave thai vicinity. Delinquent subscribers may find their paper coming up short some time. This is a gentle reminder that to get your paper regularly you must pay lip your oubaori j_/biou. It oomo times happens that wo run short by Spoiling papers in printing, then we Cut oil those in arrears, so that all who are paid up may get their copy. The remarkable statement is made fey J. C. Boyles, Ph J)., in the Philadelphia Times, that he secured some grains of wheat which were enclosed in the cerements of a mummy of the period of the Twentieth Dynasty About 1288 B. C., over 11,000 years Ago, and planted them. In due course the tall stalk shot up and bore fruit. It was the red wheat variety, probably the wheat of the chaldean plains. How this grain retained the germ of life unquenched for all these Centuries is beyond the compreheneion of ordinary mortals. We bog to acknowledge receipt of a beautiful and most artistic program of the closing exercises of the famous Industrial college for young men, "Clemson." Compliments of Mr. Jas. Hen Tinsley, of Union, one of the members of the graduating class In chomistry and agriculture, whose thesis is "Cotton Culture." Under the course of mechanics and engineering we notice the names of three Other of our boys: Messrs. John I). Meador, T. Hamilton Munro and John M. Rodger. The exercises will . take place Friday, June Gth, and ' Will.continuo to Sunday, at which time the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. J. Walker Daniel, D. D. We hope to be able to attend. The Senatorial Circus and the State aggregation opens up on June 17th. i The Senatorial campaign begins in Columbia, while the State harangue begins in Sumter. This will ( give two campaign days for each < county. The campaigns will both J close on Angust 21st. The trip ahead ( of the candidates will include a travel I of about 1,700 miles. The Senator- I ial campaign meeting will hold forth | in union on Tuesday, August 12th. t The Stele campaign on Monday, July 21st. This arrangement will give | the candidates for Senate more time | to talk to the people. We think it 1 an improvement on the old plan of v jumbling the whole thing together. ?, The candidates could not heretofore \ do justice to themselves or to their hearers. r No candidate can be assessed by c the county committees who has al- 1 ready been assessed by the State j* Committee. TORNADO STRIKES UNION. Three People Killed on Knitting Mill Hill and a Number Injured. School House and Two Residences Torn to Splinters. Many 11 ti iIdi tigs IIlo wn Do wn Th roug h the County in the Track of the Storm. Several People More or I,ess Injured. One Person Killed at Pacolet and Three in the I.owcr Portion ot the State. On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, a fearful tornado visited Union and played havoc generally, ic was ine first thing of the kind in the history of the town. A number of bad storms have passed through this county, but owing to the peculiar locatiou of the town the storms strike one ridge or the other and are turned away from the town. This time it seemed that there were two storms, one from the north and one from the southwest, and the two met iu this vicinity. Several roofs were lifted from houses in and about town, but the center of the storm seemed to strike Knittiug Mill hill. Two hoeses situated upon the hill southwest of the mill were struck and literally torn to pieces. The first house was occupied by Misses Sallie Hart and her afflicted sister and Miss Annie Lawson. Seeing the storm coming and fearing their house would be struck these ladies ran to the next house occupied by the Sims families and Mabry family for refuge, but in going there two of them went to their death Their own house was totally wrecked and so was the house in which they had taken refuge. There were in the Sims house when the storm struck it, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sims and daughter,Mr.and Mrs. Maxwell Sims and little daughter Vera, Mr. Vernon Mabry, wife and child, Miss Sallie Ilart and sister end Miss Annie Lawson. Miss Sallie Hart and Miss Annie Lawson were instantly killed when the house collapsed liy the chimuey and timlx?rs falling upon them. Mr. Lee Sims received a very ugly gash in the forward and another behind the ear. His wife was badly cut iw the face. Mr. V. Mabry was badly hurt by timbers and the hot stove falling on him. His shoulder was fractured and his leg badly burned Ijefore he could be released. Mrs. Maxwell Sims received injuries from which she died at 4:20, in half an hour after the occurrence. Mr. Maxwell Sims escaped with a dislocated linger. His little child, Vera, received severe injuries aixmi uie neau irom wiuuu sue was not expected to recover, but we are glad to say that the doctor reports good chances for her. The other occupants received only slight injuries. Mr. Mabry's infant was uninjured. When one views the complete wreck of the house he caunot help exclaim what a miracle that any occupant escaped alive. Nearly every physician in town were soon upon the scene. Drs. Lawson and Going possibly arrived first, and were busy at work when we arrived upon the scene a f^w minutes later. Everything possible was done and done at once for the relief of the sufferers. The dead n'ora oarriod to friond\> liouaes White li)0 injured were taken to the closest bouses. President Emslie Nicholson and Manager Gault soon arrived and took charge of affairs and by the help of the police endeavored to keep the crowd out of the rooms where the sufferers lay. Everyone seemed anxious and willing to lend any assistence in their power. The two next houses on the line with the wrecked ones were partially wrecked. The storm then jumped across the street, missing two other houses, and completely wrecked the school building. The roof of the knitting mill was taken off. A feather lied was blown from one of the demolished houses to a hillside 300 yards away, while plank was blown half a mile or more away. The damage to the knitting mill property will probably reach $3 000. Mrs. J. It. Anderson while attempting to leave her bouse thinking it was going, tV.e others going out ahead of her through u side door, had t he door jerked out of lier hand by the wind breaking in the front door, the door slammed shut catching her inside the house. The side of the building was immediately blown out, however, and she rushed out through the opening made and escaped uninjured. TUP! WORK OP' THE STORM ELSEWHERE. The stores of Bailey A Copelaud and C. G. Humphries were unroofed, The store doors of the I)isj>ensary and of Morgan ?fc Wagnon were blow n open. The front of the livery stable of (J. Whitlock was torn off. The ceiling of Meng's store was split from the wind through the stove flew. The loof was blown off W. E. Ray's steam mill. The two pest houses were blown down and wrecked. The negio houses on the Cohen place were blown down and a negro woman seriously if not fatally injured. The chimney of Mr. P.O. Whisenant's house was blown throiurli t.h? roof and broke through the eeiling barely missing the occupants of the house. Kvery bouse that was damaged was soon flooded with water as a heavy rain was pouring down. Mr. Jesse Jolly's house was damaged, a part of the side being t'?rn out. A negro house near Mr. \Vhi tenant's was lifted and warpped ami the chimney broken half in two. Another was swept away. Mr U. F. Hart's cook room w;u blown away. Mr. II. (r Bailey's buggy house was blown down and his buggy and ice wagon damaged. The roof was taken [iff Aetna Cotton Mill, a possible damage if four to live hundred dollars. Mr. [rraham's store near Aetna was badly :,wisted and came near going. Mr. (iraiam'? family wli ? live, in the re?r of the iiiiWhng were badly flighted, the store >art left tlie pillars and the goods were tno'.ked aboui over the lloor, while the >las eiiug of lie t cadence was partial y orn off Messrs iVllen At Oault's store was vro-ked on the interior in a |ieMiliar nauner, showing that two storms must iave struck it about the same tin^e. Phe shelving on both sides of the sto^e vere torn from the walls and were ,it>.l.^.l o..; 11: ? . i.. .11 i .... ..... .... nnm, .-i|rilllllK llin KINKI.") <111 III i fearful mem all over the floor. There vere hats, shirts, kerosene, molasses, hoes, notions, glassware, cuffs, collars, :andy and tobacco all mixed together. Pheir stock roust at least a 75 per :ent. loss. The atrauge part of it was hat the house apparently remain* intact md uninjured. There is no evideuee of ( is having l>een moved on its foundation. A Mrs. Turner who was standing near her door during the storm Has knocked down on the floor by the door being blown violently open. She was in a delicate condition and it is feared the ; injury may result seriously. Monarch Cotton Mill had a email l>ortiou of its roof torn off. A lady and her son were standing in the middle of the floor of their house near Union during the storm. The house was blown away leaving the floor intact with the two standing on it uninjured. The 11 rst words those who hurried to the scene heard the lady say, were ' do see if the horse and cow are gono." NKWS FROM THIS COUNTRY, lieports in from the various sections of the country show considerable damage wrought by the storm to property, but few were seriouslv iDiured. Mrs. Dora Powell's residence was damaged by chimneys blowing off, buggy shed blown away and stables damaged, while a negro house on the place was unroofed and the orchard ruined. Several n^gro houses 011 Capt. A H. Porter's lieaty place were blown down. The cotton house, stable, carriage house and a negro house on Mr. J. C. Edward's place were wrecked by the storm while the residence was slightly damaged. His orchard was badly torn up and a large tree in his yard blown down which barely missed his house. Several negro houses near were more or less damaged or unroofed. A part of Mr. C. C. Sartor's giu house was blown off and the wagous blown out from under the shed, and many trees down. The convict camp and the traveling photograph gallery, both on wheels, were blown o/er and more or less demolished. Our Santuc correspondent reports that there are some twenty small houses unroofed and otherwise damazed between Union and his home, some miles below Santuc, and that several persons were more or less bruised but no one seriously injured. Some of the house tops were blown three or four hundred yards, Mrs. Harris Henderson's house was blown down and she was slightly injured while many of her things were blown entirely away. In a negro cabin which was demolished a negro child was badly injured. The crops in the Santuc section are badly damaged by the wind, rain and hail. The storm was traveling from northwest to southeast. The Methodist church had a narrow escape, liked a few inches of leaving pillars, while the congregation was inside. Several negro houses in the Dawkins settlement, live miles lielow Santuc, were blown down. It if said there was not a dry house in this section. Every house leaked badly and much damage was sustained from this cause. The orchards are badly damaged. Mr. Andrew Mitchell lost two stables and his cotton house and two mules had a close call. Both of them were fastened by the roof which had fallen in on them, but they were uninjured. * Our .Jonesville correspondent reports that there was very little damage done by the storm in Jonesville. Mr. J. J. Idtilejohn lost a considerable number of lieea in liia timber lauds. Some few small houses were damaged and a cotton house and two stables belonging to him were blown down. The report circulated that a telegram had had come to Miss Lawson after she was killed saving one of her family at Jonesville had been killed was false. No telegram came and there was nothing of the kind hapi>ened. It is reported that there were about eleven houses at and hear Pacolet destroyed or unroofed, and one negro girl was killed who lived on Mr. It. C. Coleman's place. Mrs. W. D. Brown and her son were badly injured by falling timbers. The houses of Zack McKinney and Chailey McWhiiter, also a barn of Mr. Soleby were blown down near Spartanburg but no one seriously injured. The storm s'ruck a pertion of Charleston doing considerable damage. The Pee Dee Oil Mill Company's property was wrecked and damaged to the amount of $10,000. Columbia na? rowly escaped. At East-over,v a nearby town, houses were blown down, also many trees, and crops were utterly ruined. A house in which Washington Hughes was living was blown down and three of his children were instantly killed. It therefore appears that the storm was not c.online.'l to TTnion mnnt.v Knf. a-r tended from the upper portion of the State to the coast, causing a property loss of many thousand dollars, to sav nothing of the crops injured or destroyed along its path. The property loss in Union county alone will foot up many thousand dollars. It was a heavy blow to Union, an 1 wljile it was certainly bad enough as it was it may have been very mijch worse, and we are all thankful that it was no wors< than it was. Joncsville News Notes. Jonktville, May 27.?The cyclone Snnday evening rather gave Jonesville the ??6-hv fllld t.h*?PA la r>r\ r.na n ? that objects. Union has the sympathy of our town in their loss of both life and property. This correspondent was over in Georgia last Sunday where it was calm and serene. I was on my return from a trip out through (Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, passing through the towns of Atlanta, Anniston, Birmingham, Columbus and Greenville, Miss. The trip covered a line of (>(>8 miles nearly all of which was traveled in the day time. From the Tombigby river to the great Mississippi river, more than one hundred and fifty miles, is a fertile try and is now lined with fine crops, principally cotton. I would say that not more than ten per cent, of the land in cultivation was planted in wheat and oats, and these crops were sorry About twenty per cent, of the land is planted in corn and balance in cotton. Some corn is knee high and some still abovo that and looking well, while the cotton is anywhere from large enough to bo ginned to square down to just coming up and some of it is quite grassy; the land is so rich it makes the grass grow in a hurry even when the weather is dry. There had been rain all through the Mississippi bottoms, while Georgia and Alabama were in most* localities very drf# Atlanta, I BAF I l-l t. It is a real treat t< and see the many at goods every day, th< every time you com WE riENTI All-Wool 40-inch Mistrcl, 1\1 Or>lr O ?>ATrr nr/MMr/% uiuvaj n tic 1* TTCiVVC, TCI y light weight, a very stylish fabric, per yard.... 60c 38-iuch all wool Venetians, very pretty for walking skirts, new shades, per yd 50c Crepe de Chine, silk and wool, 44-inch, beautiful soft weave, new shades and black, per yd $1.25 Silk and Wool Voile, 44 inch, very light weight, makes a very handsome suit or skirt, per yard $1.0C Ladies' black mercerized underskirts with accordeon pleats, etc. Prices 50c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.5C Heavy Yard Wide Bleach, smoothe finish, value 7he only 5c A visit to our store w had and our prices are t MUTUAL 1 Opposite Hotel Union. Anniston and Birmingham are all in a healthy condition and there is much life in all these cities. Columbus and Greenville, Miss., are both pretty quiet little cities of about five or six thousand inhabitants each and are steadily growing. When one passes Atlanta he sees no more cotton mills, I did however find a small knitting mill in Columbus, Miss., owned and operated by a relative of mine, consequently I visited the mill and found it was well constructed and doing well. I may have more to say about my trip West later on. A number of our people are going to Charleston today to take in the city and Exposition before it closes. Dr. Chamber's new residence is looming up and will be quite an addition to the looks of Main street in that sec^iop. Mr. R. A. Whitlock has caqght the inspiration of improvement and will overhall his dwelling soon. Misses Mildred Lindsey, Marie McWhirter and Hellen Littlejohn came home from Chlcora College, Greenville, yesterday. Mr. F. P. O'Shields has been supplying our town with fine strawberries and shipping some to other markets. His berries are fine. A close inspection shows that the frait crop In this section will be very light; cause?cold spring, hail storms and wind storms. Telephone. ?># Put Ub to the Teat. We back up what we say al>out "Clifton" flour. Back it up, first, with our goods, and second, with our guarantee. We have said a good deal about "Clifton" in the last few years and especially in the past six months, since we enlarged our capacity and improved our plant. We have made some pretty strong statements about the quality of Clifton flour. If we can prove all we say you can haidly afford not to us* "jClitton " Come in under our guar.u tee and put us to t lie test. Bhansfohd Mjli.s, Owensboro, Ky I Teachers' Examination. Officio of Co, Sup't Ki>U(!'n, Unoin, 8. C. May 27, '02. The regular examination tor teach ers'certifieates will be held on Friday, June lHth. The State board has also decided in order to encourage applications for State certificates upon examinations to permit applicants to stand for State certificates at examinations conducted by county hoard. The applicant!* for Stale certificates will stand on the first grade questions and on addition questions more advanced and more professional. The County Superintendent's office for whites, and Court House for colored applicants. D. B. Fant, 22 2t County Supt, Ed. 16 A -EVERY DAY A1 MU1 > go through our lai tractive lines of go erefore we have sc e. ON BELOW A F Clark's Machine Cotton, warranted 200 yards, black and white, Nos. 8 : to 70, two spools for t 6 Spools Basting Cotton ? for I One lot ladies' fine Linen Ilaud kerchiefs, colored borders, worth 10c, 13c ' and 15c, your choice at.. ? New lot ladies' Belts, the latest fads in elastics, etc. ) Prices 25c, 50c and $1.0 Ladies' Bleached Gauze Vest with tape in neck, > only [ I New lot pearl buttons, all sorts and sizes, per dozen 5c, 10c and 11 ill convince you that we 'ight. Full line of Butte MY ROODS r Tit is what you save that mak1 There are 365 days in a i it will leave 313 working da) working day the following am years have if deposited in THE PE3QI 5 cts per day for 5 years 10 " " "5 years 15 " " "5 vfiRrH 20 " " " 5 years 25 " " " 5 years 80 " " " 5 years 40 " " " 5 years 6Q " " '* 5 year? 75 ' " " 6 years 1.00 " *' 5 years 1.25 " " 5 years 1.50 " "5 years 1.75 " "5 years 2.00 " "5 years Did you ever have that feelinj and see your balance gr If not start c THE PEOF a. F, AF&TF Lovers of Gi ns The Freezer that Freeze! and most delicious Ice Creair No crank movement, no labc lower in price than ordinary THE XXth OEN Is wonderful yet simple. It Five sizes, $1.50, $1.75 UNION HAR Hardware Leader*, INS : 1 11 u fUAL o rge department store ods. We get in new >mething new to show EW THINGS: [T7-inch Heavy Checks and Plaidworth 6ic, only.. 5c VTI . /-V t ? ^ w nite urganay, very sbeer, 32 inches, big value, worth 35c, our price only 20c >c 66-inch French Organdy, V very sheer, 5 yards to a dress, per yard 50c jc Persian Lawns, new shipment just in, very soft and sheer, at 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c and 50c O , Men's all wool nobby suits, well made, at $5.00, $6.50, $8.00, $10.00 and $12.50 )C Boy's Suits in wash material, woolens, etc., at $1.00. $1.50. $2.00 82 OO >c| up to $10 and $12.50 carry the best goods to be rick patterns kept in stock. COMPANY.' . P. HARRY, Mgr. i, NOT WHAT YOU EARN, ^ WFAT TH T T univ I At* pear. Take out 52 Sundays, and '8 in a year. If you save each ounts, you will at the end of five BANK; AMOUNT INTEREST TOTAL DEPOSITED EARNED AMOUFT 78.27 C.49 84.74 156.50 12.98 169.47 284.75 19.46 254.21 818.00 25.94 888 94 891.25 82.42 428 68 469.50 88.95 508.41 SIS 22 5L88 (i77-88 ^ jss its ,a J'??-22 12970 i,6M.w 162.18 2,118.88 Q 194 55 2,542.05 2,788.75 226.98 2,965.78 8,180.00 259.40 8,889.40 gof having A BA NK ACCOUNT >w a little larger each week? >ne at once with )T C7C A ATTr ?) ?3^IN -ts., *"-* fU R, President. (tod Ice Cream Here's Something Worth i Reading. * 5 itself, that makes the sweetest i will surely interest all of you. >r, less salt required and even Freezers. TIJRY FREEZER freezes while it stands still. I, $2.00, $3.06 and $4.00. DWARE CO., Union, 9.0. %