The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 04, 1903, Image 8
UNCLE SAM TAKING
ENEGGETIG MEASURES
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Turkey Cannot Triflo With
. American Interosts.
HE HAS 3HOWN DAD FAITH.
It Is Believed that the American Na*
ai Demontli ation in the Turkish
/^jrs Will Cause Immediate Sst'
HI1 of Pendin9 Disputes. |
__ in I Sep*- 1?Th&'i>er<e ^
funan that
I I'uave been uiado at Beirut ]
I ction urilh the shooting which ;,|
o the report that William G.
the United States vice and
deputy consul there had been assassi- !
rated. The Turkish officials continuo I ,
to Insist that no attempt was made j
cn the vice consul's life, and .they reassert
that the. whole story originated
In a fou-do-Joie PreJ on the occasion 1
?f a native marriage and in accordance j
vnu.i.YM o. jiA?iEr.ssr;;f.
to customs. Mr. I.<?iseliman, how
ever. re!usps to accept such an explanation
wthcut conclusive proof Hint the ,
jiuilcial Investigation continues. ,
Burning of American College. !
The nttenipr to burn the Ainoricnn
college at Kharput corurred five weeks '
p.go an<i apparently was 'bo work of
an Individual who considered he had
& grievance against tbernll??ge author- '
ities. When Mr. T.eischman was informed
of the attempt he demanded
that the porto protect the American
institution, and as u consequence of 1
his representations. Instructions were
pert to the authorities at Kbarput to
try in the regular courts the charges
agaiu-t 50 Armenians accused of traf- '
Hiking in arms and engaging in other
seditious arts. Among the accused
ir. Professor Touched jian of the American
college, whoso treatment in pris- J
on pending his trial, was so ordered ,
to l)p improved. Mr. T.oi. chman is '
pressing for a definite settlement of '
a number of matters on which agree- ,
nion-ts were reached with flic Turkish [
authorities last year hut which, in
spite of frequent promises on the part
of the porto have nev. r boon executed.
For instance, ;? naturalized American
is still in prison at Tripoli, Syria,
although the porto has frequently informe
1 Mr. I.cischnmn that I lie authorities
at Beiint who have jurisdiction
over Tripoli had hecn ordered to liberate
him. Yesterday Mr. I.eischman
received a telegram from Rear Admiral
Cotton dated from Genoa. Italy, (
Sunday evening, announcing that the |
United States warship Brooklyn and ,
San Francisco woii! arrive off Beirut j
ftt the end of this week. j
Despatch of Warships. '
i nr nuirt u uu uii iriaib HfM'f* ai rnniltC I
tthe despatch of the warships to Turkish
waters nor solely to the Magelssen
.affair, hut to the general dissatisfaction
of the .authorities at WashIngton
at the non-fulfillment of the portr's
promise In regard to pending questions
and to the determination of President
Roosevelt to show Turkey that (
she cannot trifle with American repre .
scntationa. Diplomatic circles here
generally approve of the energetic ae- '
tion of the United States, which, it is j
pointed out. is amply Justified hy the (
had faith of Turkey and it is lelt here
that the appearance of tho United
States worships in Turkish waters
will lead to th* Immediate settlement .
rtf the pending dispute. Nothing so
impresses tho porte as a naval demonstration.
and tlic diplomats claim that
this will he specially noticeable in the
present ease as the Americans are not ,
fettered like other powers hy agree- .
ments regulating the international, po- .
lltioal affairs of Turkey.
First Official Dispatch.
Washington, Sept. 1.?The first official
dispatch coining dliectly from j 1
Beirut regarding tho Mngeis-on affair !
has boon received by Secretary Hay. '
It Is dated Aug. 31, and is slgnol hy j
Consul Ravendal. It says:
"The attempt an Magclsscn's life
failed utterly. A narrow eacane. but
tJie vice con*ul suffered no Injury." '
Died In His Pulpit. j J
New York. Sept. 1.? While reciting
ft prayer In the pulpit In SI. Paul's ,
church af In-wood, I.. I., Rev. Gilbert
Oombfi plopped in the middle of a pen- '
fence. One of the congregation hastening
to his el.ie, found the minister,
urfco wag 79 yearp of age, dead from j
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?MM?MM I I HI-IC - ?
RECEIVED 128,000 BALRfc.
F'fl urcs at Colrmbus Show Rapidly
lncrc?Ging Business Area.
Columbus, Cla., Sept. I.?'Columbus
cotton receipts tv r She yeir were
12S.0!'i) hales. Of this cotton 00,425
bales wore received by the warehouses
and 08.000 by buyers and shippers.
Last year the warehouse receipts
were 57.97"', so it will be seen that the
warehouses received nearly 3.000 more
b?lo;; during the season ending today
than liming the previous fiscal year.
This is ilia to tho fact that the city's
cotton territory is being extended.
Of tho cotton received by the warehouses
31,uoo bale.-, were consumed by
the local cotton factories. All tho
factories here buy their raw material
from the Columbus warehouses, with
the exception of the Bibb Manufacturing
company, which uses Egyptian and
Sea I land cotton exclusively.
The warehouses now have .a stock
Df only six bales, something almost
unprecedented. Usually tho \warehous.es
heie receive several hundred
hales of inv rotton i August. This year
only a few bale., were received in Au
[just.
FOUND HANGING TO RAFTER.
Business Troubles Cans > Les County
Farmer to Suicide.
Rook mart. Ga.. Sept. 1.?Jack Loo,
a pio/porous farmer living 3 miles
from t liis place, was'found dead hangIns
to a rrVt'^c in his cotton house.
KvetytMr.g goes to show that it was
suicide.
it scents that Mr. I.ee had been
troubling about a damage suit which
ie filed against the Seaboard Air I.line
i short lime ago for alleged damages
lone to his plantation by the construeion
of their lino through it.
Mr. i.ee had a brother to commit
sue i '<> hv hanging himself about five
rears ago.
Tie is MP-vived by a wife and nine
rhildrer.
Sam 1 on, a prominent business
man of thi : > place, is a son of the deceased.
TEXAS' COTTON CROP.
Statistics Compiled For Year Ending
A ugusi, 1903. >
Galve~ton. Tex.. Sept. 1.?In its an- I
ana! trade edition cf So:*. 1. The Gal- |
reston Daily N'mvs pu-bllshed careful- j
y compiled sta?isti<s who wing the
intount cf the Texas cotton crop for
the year ending August 31. 1903.
The total, crop for the year just oIor0:1
is 2.040,215 bales, tbowing a decrease
of 01,0-14 compared with the
Texas crop for 19rtl-'02. The total
crop for the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
territories for the year Just
closed amounted to 523,23d bales, a doorcase
of 7.2C2. bales compared with
the crop for 1001 -*0-2. The total crop
for Texas and the tenitorles for the
past year Is 3.109,171 bales.
Mine Explosion Scatters Death.
Kncxvillc. Tonn.. Sept. 1.?An explosion
has occurred in a rock quarry
near Ilundridge. Tenu. Governor
Smith and Samuel Amos were killed
and Thomas Marine and George S.
Wilson sustained serious wounds. All
four are negroes. The men were attempting
to drill out a blast that failad
to fire when if was touched off last
Saturday. Tho drilling exploded the
?lrss?. with fota 1 consequences. Wilson
will likely die in a "few hours. Tho
men wore quarrying rook for paving
a new pike road.
Probably Lost at Sea.
Now York. Sept. 1.? Marshal Sod
rlons an 1 Charles Hendricks, two
young civil engineers who went on an
excursion In a 20-foot naptha launch
from tile Brooklyn Yacht club Sunday
?xpert!iig to return the same evening,
ire heiieved to have lost their Uvea
n the s nigh sea of that day. Seddons
Is the only son of Marshal L. Seddons,
ance a prominent turfman of Cincinnati,
who now resides in New York.
Honors Requisition.
Springfield, 111.. Sept. 1.?Governor
Yates today honored a requisition
rrom tho governor of Indiana for the
return of "Doe" Martin, wanted in
Bvansvillc on the charge of oonsplray
to provoke riots in that city July
5, which resulted in an attack on the
|aiI in an endeavor to lynch a negro
murderer. Martin Is alleged to have
iioon one of the ring leaders Of the riitem.
He is under arrest in Chicago.
Appointed Arbitrator.
The Hague, S'?pt. 1.?Professor ?
Lammasch, of Austria, lias been ap* i
lAintoil ran r? /?f this arliliioloru '
w. v... <? i/ivi niv/a n Ul HlfT
^lalni of the allied powers for preferential
treatment In the settlement
urith Venezuela. Dr. Zorn, n pro'essor
at the University of Koonigsuirg.
represents Germany before the |
irhitration court.
Telegraphers' Demands Granted.
Chicago, Sej)t. 1.?'Negotiations j
vhieh have been pending since May |
1 between the Illinois Central railway
ind the Telegraphers, slight bodlfled, |
*ere granted. Tlte average ineroasa \
In the salaries is 15 per cent.
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Iron and Steel Institute.
Bartow on Furness, Kngland. Hepf.
- The autumn conference at The Iron
ind steal Institute oi>ened here today
uder the presidency of Androw Cara?- I
Kie.
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Collieries Close Down. J
Shamoklri, Va., Sept. 1 ?In aecor- 1
tlance with orders last week four col- I
lieries of the Union Coal copany <wer? '
closed for an ludvPHiW t*
TORCH APPLIED TO !
CHRISTIAN^ VILLAGES ,
Three Hundred Insurgents J
Killed In Moiiaotir. j
PEOPLE FLEEING FROM TOWNS. !
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It Is ijot Known Whether Bulgarians 1
A
..or Albanians Are Perpetrators of |
th? . Numerous Outrages?Porte Is- i
sues Note.
I
OJ.iotantinoplc, Sept. 1.?Ofllrlal reports,
say thnt 300 insurgents .were ?
klllod or wounded during the fighting 1
which occurred last. week in the vila- I
jot of Monastir. I I
The jiorte has sent a memorandum 1
to th? Austrian and Russian aiwbaiwa- i
dcrs hore uointlne our that nt Ihn pp. i
w " " *",v' I
cent mass meeting of {Macedonians in !
Sofia, Bulgaria, it was {decided to send
fresh hands into Marcfcloria and also 1
calling attrrth n to the fact that com- j
mitteo3 in Bulgaria mo o supplying I
the insurgents with aims and am muni- |
tlon by means of ships which land , 1
their cargoes on the coast, in the vi- ,
einity of Iniadn. . i
Consular dirpa'ches from Prlshtina,
near the Servia frontier* rorflrms the 1
reports that nearly all the Christian |
villages in the districts of Bibra, 5 !
miles from MouaMir, and Oicevo, have j
been pillaged and burned anj that j '
the inhabitants have fled. It Is not
slated whether Aibp.aians or Bulgari- j 1
ans were the perpr: rators of the outrages.
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In spite of tlie< gravity of the genoral
situation, optimism prevails in
Turkish circles. In the course of the '
audiences which the German ambas- '
sador, Baron Hirrehal Von Biebcr- :
stein, and the Russian ambassador, M. '
Zine.viefT. have bad with the sultan .
for t.he purpose of recommending more
energetic aetiun and entrusting to the
Turkish commander In chief full di
reetlon of the military operations, the 1
sultan replied that he preferred to retain
control nt. Constantinople.
VILLAGE ATTACKED. !
Turks Massacre Entire Population at
Storlovoi |
Sofia, Sept. 1?A strong force of
Turkish Infantry, cavalry and artillery
recently attacked the village of
Sterlovol. northward of Malkoternovo, 1
which had been occupied by inaur- J
gents. The latter retired after which
the Turks entered the place, massa- !
cred tho entire population and destroy- ;
ed the village.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has
arrived at Kuxinograde, Bulgaria,
where he has been joined by Premier .
Petroff. Tbe prince is expected to ,
remain there for some time
CONTEST OVER ESTATE.
Three-C'ornered Fight Over Bedford
r i upoi l/.
New York, Sept. 1.?As a result of
the com plications arising over the
property left by Gunning S. Bedford,
of this city, who diod last February
In 'Paris, a three-cornered fight has
begun in the supreme court.
In the name of Eugene T.ashhan and
Stephen Flske. trustees, action has
been brought *o determine the rights
of all persons interested. Including the
widow. The latter was detained in
London a few" months ago, charged
with attempting to foist a child on
the estate. The infant is reported to
have died in Fraiyee recently.
While the estaUe Is not great, there
Is a large trust fund Involved which '
should pass to Bedford's heirs.
SLASH E"D WITH KNIFE.
Tennesseean Slain In Dispute at Limestone
Cave.
Knoxville. Tenn., Sept. 1.?A special
to The Sentinel from Johnson City
says I.outs Buchanan and George
Preston, two well known citizens of
I'imestone cave, became involved in
a dispute over domestic troubles. Preston
drew a knife anil elaahn/ I
an across the right leg Just below the
hip.
Buchanan fell and died in a few minutes.
Preston escaped to the mountains
nearby.
FLED WRATH OF WIVES.
Youthful Bigamist Requested To Be
? Looked Up.
Now York. Sept. 1.?Joseph Lauer,
20?years old. has astonished the Brooklyn
lrolice with a request that he be
lookod- up.
"I have got two wives." he explained.
"Both are looking for me with
a wan-rant and I think I'd rather spend
the night here than go home."
The police readily accommodated
hlnn.
Convention Foresters.
PhladeVphia, Sept. 1.? The eleventh
biennial convention of the Companions
of the Foresters of America begun today
in Odd Fellows' temple. There
were present about 450 delegates representing
719 circles throughout the
United States. This order of the woman's
branch of the Foresters' jof
America was organized in Detroit in
June, 1X83. Until recently it was gov
orned by tho parent organization, but
it is now entirely In the hands of its
own members. Four years ago there
wero but two circles, but during that
time the ordeT has grown rapidly, ton
new circles having been instituted during
the past year. There are now
a Wat 60,000 i* t&?
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BRTTHH OUTLOOK FOK COTTON.
3aln In Condition Notod by Journal
of Commerce.
New York, Sept. 1.?The Journal of
3ommerce publishes Its September
:rop report, which shews a gain in
:ondItlon of 2.9 points over August to
r9.?. Tills is 8.6 |M>lnts better than
Joptoniher, 1902, and 9.4 ba'ter than
September, 1901. As August is usually
a month of deterioration the improvement
is the more striking. The
rrop has re-covered fully one week of
the backwardness reported a month
ago and is now generally from two to
three weeks late. l.ast year at this
time the crop was early.
Complaints of boll weevil are freinent.
particularly in Texas, which li
the only state of consequence showing
a decline in condition, the drop
hero being .2.9 points. Picking will
lie general September 1. Out of 783
replies 55 aie now picking (average
into Aug. 24). 29S will begin picking
Sept. 1. 63 on Sept. 5, 155 on Sept. 10.
166 on Sept. 21. 87 on Sept. 29, and 47
between Sept. 25 n-id Oct. 10.
In ..'orth Carolina the improvement
!n condition during August is 3.8
points, to 83.3; South Carolina is 4.5
higher at 78.5; Georgia 3.3. higher at
i'.i.o; Aiaoama z.< nigncr ai r.n>; Mississippi
5 higher at. 82.8; Louisiana
1.3 highe" at so.!); Arkansas 5.2 higher
nt 78.6; Tennessee 7.4 higher, at
85.8 and Oklahoma 10.3 higher at
80.3.
The only two states showing declines
are Florida and Texas, the former
showing a reduction of 2 points
to 80.6 and the lotto.- at 3.0 points to
73.88.
MEDICAL SKILL BAFFLED.
Fever Woroe Than Yellcw Jack Prevailing
In Cuba.
New York, Sept. 1.?'Menaced by a
disease which has baffled the best
medical skill of the island, the health
department of Cuba have appealed to
the authorities ef Columbia university
and Jefferson Medical college of
Philadelphia for aid in determining
the nature of the disease. Most eminent
pathologists and bacteriologists
of those Institutions are working, says
The World, In conjunction with the
medical authorities of the marine hospital
and public health department of
the United State? government 'in an
effort to determine the nature of the
disease.
The description of the disease furnished
by the Cuban physicians show
that it presents the worst symptoms
of yellow fever, Triack fever and spotted
fever.
It is in death that the disease presents
its most horrible phase. The
victims' pulse rate rushes to 160, a
heart heat which is deemed almost -impossible,
by physicians of experience.
The respiration counts 58. These organic
disturbances, together with a
tompernture of 107 and l'?S. do not
cause instant death, but the high fever
generated goon burns out life.
The disease always* attacks persons
who have suffered from intermittent
malarial fever.
BUYS BIG LUMBER TRACT.
Actress Will Engage in Cattle Raising
In Georgia.
Boston. Mags.. Rent. 1?'Pnllv flnr.
mnn, prima donna of the "Prince of
Pilsen" company, now at the Tromont
theater, has invested her fortune in
cattle and lumber interests in the
south. She spent her vacation at
Manitou. Colo., and while there the
Beckwiths. Senator Elton and Edward,
the largest firm of cattle men in Colorado,
told her of the possibilities of
cattle raising in the south. They
explained that the grass git>wing In tlio
vast pine forests is as nutritious as
alfalfa, and rattle can be fattened for
market with little rare. Miss Ouzman
and her brother have leased a
tract In the Carolinas. They have
also leased a Georgia lumber tract
25 miles square.
DROWNED IN SEWER.
Thriae Men Caught by Unexpected
Overflow.
Milwaukee, Sept. 1.?Three men
were drowned today In a sewer. They
are R. J. liinke, contractor, and Superintendent
Srhunke, of the water
company. An unknown man waa
also a victim.
Contractor Tlinke and his men were
at work lowering t/he sewer in North
avenue under the newly depressed Chicago
nnd Northwestern railway tracks
and were caught by a sudden and unexpected
flood of water nnd wero
drowned before they could go tout.
Several others had narrow csrapes.
"Little Bobe" Not Coming
London, Sept. 1.? Although Field
Marshal Lord Roberts Is still hooked
to sail for Boston on the Mayflower
Sept. 23? It can now be definite!} stated
that he Is not going to the United
States this autumn. The alteration
In his plans was necessitated by the
postponement of the British army maneuvers
until the middle of Sept. because
of the had weather which has
retarded the harvesting of the crops,
and the situation Id Somaliland, the
war office not wishing Ixml Roberts
to he absent while the new Last African
campaign is In preparation.
To Corner Brazilian Coffee.
New York, 8ept. 1.?The Journal do
rVimmorr Ia nnAitnoo? *- ? T* -?1J
WW?.?IW v.w; ?um?UUVOD m/B {L I H1I Hid
dispatch from Rio Janeiro, that a syndicate
of American capitalists is about
to purchase the whole stock of Bra
ailtan coffee.
'FIRES Of REVOLT I,
1 ABLAZE ON ISTHMUS
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Largo Quantities Munitions T
of War on Move.
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^ GENERAL HERERA IN COMMAND. 1
There Is a. General Muclering In the 0
j Mountain Villages Preparatory to r
Joining Organized Revolt Caused by v
, Rejection of Canal Treaty.
Now York, Sept. 1.?'Travelers from c
Panama report the Isthmus allglvt
with fires of a new revolution, according
to a Time's dispatch from San Jose,
Costa Rica. The Indians fiavo 'been f
an.l the late followers of General Ren- li
jamln Hernm are mustering into the r
moun-tnin villages preparatory to join- I
ing an organized revolt caused by the 1
rejection of the Panama canal treaty. J
j Hundreds of stacks of arms confls- r
cated by tho Colombian government t
at tho close of the late revolution have 1
reappeared from some mysterious c
source. With the arms goes ammunition
fresih Ircm factories, showing
the movement is not spasmodic, but
carefully planned. (
Travelers from Panama to 'Pucnta a
Arenas say that in Panama it is rc- j
ported that General Herera has disap- t
pcared from his home near Bogota and i
he hs presumed to he on his way to r
the isthmus. If this is true Herera t
probably will again assume command t
, of the revolutionary forces and cast I
ids lot with the isthmian people, as g
was his intention had the late revolution
terminated in favor of the liberal
party.
General Viclorinano I.oronz, who
, was banished to Cocoa after the Liberal
toi/."os last December has escaped
and presumed to be in the
marshes making his way back to the
isthmus. Lorenzo had 7.000 Indians
in liis following, and it is believed
he will have little difficulty in rallying
the old forces if he succeds in making
his way back to San Carlos or to auy
contiguous point. From Chorrera
comes the report that he is in the lo- J
entity mustering the Indians. (At s
Boujouka Colonel Arcoura is in* com- 8
niand of weli mcbilizod forces. 1
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Confessed to Big Steal. ?
j Chicago. Sept. 1.?With a confession t
implicating himself and naming Gust
tav Malatesta, an ex-convict, as leader
to the raid. John Slrnler, a prisoner
at the Englewood police station, is
j said by Captain Shippy to have told
a complete story of the $3,000 robbery
and double murder at the Chicago city
railway's receiving office early Sunday
morning.
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Having bought the
L. N. McNeacc we wil
stand on Sept. 1st.
Our buyer is now if
wh'-re he is buying a lar,
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Dry Goods,
Shoes,
And in a ghort while o
full of the tare^t birgai
WE ASK IS TO SEE
BUYING. We are <
bought of Ij. N. McNeac
make room for our large
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WANT STATE RAILflOAD.
Proposition to Lcace Atlantic and
North Carolina.
Raleigh. N. C.. Sept. 1.?Governor
Lycock has received from p"ivato par*
ies a proposition to leare the Allanic
and North Carolina railway, tho
apital stock of which 13 $2,000,000, the
tate owning twe-thirds. The proporllen
Is for a 50-ycar lease, the Interst
increasing according to the length
f time, hut averaging 2 per cent.
It 13 believed that one of the big
niiway sj-stems la behind the offer,
rhirh will hardly he accepted, though
he property has never'paid over 2 per
em dividend and generally 1 per
ent. ,
Fatal Explosion of Genzlne
Pittsburg. ' Sept. 1.?While mlglng
alnts in the shop of Joseph Muklcs;ey,
at Homestead, Pa,, today a large,
an of benzine exploded, killing Adam
.oncey, aged 21 years, almost instanty.
and fatally burning Sinus W&tley.
Virion Con dusky, a mill man, wa? selously
burned while attemptng to exInguish
the flames The building was
>urned to the ground The cause
4 the explosion is not known.
Steamer Disabled at Sea.
Now York. Sept. 1.?The North
lermnn I.loyds liner Prince Wiilhelm
irrlved here today from Bremen roiorts
on Aug. 30 In latitude 45.3 long!ude
50.10 she signalled the company's
steamer Barbarossa from Bre- ?
ncn for New York, which reported
hat she had broken her starboard
allshaft an! was proceeding under '.
?er port engine hut required no asilstance
North 8tate Crop Report.
Raleigh, N. C.. Sept. 1.?The North
Carolina .agricultural department has
jlven out ItR August crop report,, baaed
>n returns from 1,600 correspondent.
3rosent conditions: Cotton, 33 per*
cut; corn. 84; tobacco, 882; peanuts,
ttl. The report says that the yield
>f wheat this year was only 50 per .
'ent; oats. 53. and rye, 72.
Eeighty Embryo Attorneys.
Raleigh. N. C., Sept. 1.?Eighty
xmng men have been examined by the
uiprcime court as applicants for license
is attorneys, this being by far the
argest number on record, 5 having
>een the previous top notch figure. The
supreme court room could not cojjaln
them.
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? >' t Fatal
Mine Cave-In.
Victor, Colo., Sept. 1.?WesJeflr
dcChcsnle was instantly killed an| 5,
Vrchle I/emontague probably fatally
njured by the caving in of a. alone tH' 82
i mine In which they were working
near Cameron.
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New Firm,
>oods.
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>wer,
>west.
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stock and good* of Mr.
II open up at bid old
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i the Northern market
and complete line of
, Notions,
, etc.
ur store will be. chock
ins in the land. ALL
OUR LINE BEFORE
dfei^flg the goods we
e at "any old price" to
lb e of
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joods.
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