Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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unuMi*i?i?i?Humfl -1 i~ ? ? 3 UNION AND SUBURBS HAS j ^| -y -y y' 5>"'' y -1r W ^ vpa y y *y y y / " W 3 UNION AND SUBURBS HAS | Female Seminary, Five Graded *" , I -I I < ;? I {% T | 1m I ? I ? I lm / I J * Five Large Cotton Mills. Knitting B i.lSRWiariMrtaftS!! I * - I H *M 'II I \ I I m/l H s-:;r;il?I?,,nii gate capital of* (?50,000. Macada- ?t I ?.? I I B J B I \ juBmBMflfWHHB VI B B I ?/ B fl . . Oil Mill, t urnituro Manufai t tring & mixed etrouU, Population ? ' - " ^ J . ^ :i " Bi L W B^ y^ and Lumber Yards, Water Work?. B ? ? & ^ VOL. LV. NO. 40. ONIONTSO^^ #1.00 A YEAR: . Wm. A. Nicholson Union, South PAY INTEF Time Certificate V. ; UNKNOWN MAN Dies oe injuries : POUND NEAR RAILROAD ABOUT TWO MILES i BELOW UNION. J j< He was Brought to the': City and Given Medical ! .... . & Attention ? Died Erom '; His Injuries Monday!1 Morning at 3 O'clock. Sunday morning just after the j' nine o'clock train from Colum-' bia passed, a white man was | found by the railroad about two miles below Union, in an unconscious condition, a little blood was running from one ear. There was a small bruise on the right cheek and a terrible bruise on the top of the head He was brought to town and placed in the court house on a cot. Dr. J. H. Hamilton was called in And / that there was no fracture of the skull, but that evidently there, was a serious concussion^of the) brain; that ne CUUlU iiw vw?. actly whether the concussion1 was caused by a lick on the head I or a fall from some place to the ground." Dr. Sarratt, the county physician, was afterwards called in and attended the man, doing what he could for him until he died at 3 o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Frank O'Shields says that he was at Southern railroad depot Saturday night and while there talking to Mr. D. B. Fan! and J. W. Gregory, a strange; ran against him, and the strange i was evidently intoxicated. Mr ff O' shields says he looked at th man closely, and when he sa\ ,?t the man picked up Sunday morr <) ing he recognized him as th ? stranger that ran against hii ,..j " Saturday night. In the pocke of the dead man was found ' number of shipping tags with tl name of Jones; the business ? odu/: feather renovators W cto auiv I tised on the cards. A mem I randa was also found in 1 [ pocket with several names in t | book. Among these names v J that of L. M. Trevitt, Abingd< Va., with the words, "My i B dress is written above the name A bill from a doctor in Atla was also found addressed to 1 I Trevitt. Then the name of N L. M. Trevitt w?S on a piec< paper. The name of L. Trevitt is on some cards, g( to show that the dead man H L. M. Trevitt. Iflk Sheriff Sanders telegraphe H Mrs. L. M. Trevitt, 107 Mar street, Atlanta, Ga., who is posed to be the wife of the man. The name of Arthur Sb ley of Spartanburg was als H the cards and memoranda found in his pockets. A 1 from R. E. Eubanks w] from Columbia, S. C., to L Trevitt telling him of c< BB territory that he, Eubanks H secured for Trevitt to woi but does not mention the k work, but from these shi ? 4-a V I tags we suppose 11/ l/V ft. business of feather reno Coroner B. F. Gregor. panelled a jury of inquest day morning and the fol HH jf is the testimony of all th I nesses that are known ^B< coroner wlio know ar I touching the death or idei I the stranger. 1 I Dr. J. H. Hamilton ^B firat witness, die said called on about 10 o'clock ^B morning to see the injur ^B: & Son, Bankers, jj n M i Carolina, rr w ti lEST ON ? IV hIt :s of Deposit. J( fi f, ir He found him unconscious and n suffering: from concussion or S) compression of the brain. Dr. tl Sarratt, the county physician, ti was afterwards called to see the s man about 1 o'clock Sunday, b He testified that he found the f, man suffering- from a severe jr shock, which appeared to be 0 from a concussion or compression of the brain. Saw him after a about 2 o'clock and he was still b unconscious and never did rally. a The man died about 3 o'clock, i and the autopsy showed that the s skull was fractured at the base g of the brain, which was sufficient p to cause death. That he could s not tell whether the fracture was 0 caused by a lick with some in- ? strument or a fall. Joe Ellis testified that he was u coming to town and saw the man ? lying in the railroad cut below o aftpr mills Sunday morning 0 after the cars had gone ud and S he hurried on and called his sis- f ivK'f n Jenett Ellis saw some n white imen and called them. ? that he 3 fhfir RoJ>ins had started down ? the U. and G. s. raiimo^ ^. i_ ? them and said a white man was t lying in the railroad cut down \ below Monarch, that he and s Robbins went to where the man ( was, found him in the cut lying ( on his right side, face down, and some blood had been running from his right ear and nose, blood was dry on his face, was thin blood, ran across his face from his ear, some on his mustache. When he reached the , man there were two colored women and a colored man there \ looking atv.the man. They knew I ? nothing about how it happened r or how the man got there. They r could not see him from their house, he being in a cut. That 'e there were no signs on the ground v where the injured man was lying that indicated a struggle or scufe fie. Where the man was lying m was some grass and weeds and ts these were not trampled 01 TviasVipd down. The up passen * ' o/ ie ger train had gone on about 01 or 40 minutes when he and Rob ,r_ bins got to the man. Mr. Rob l0_ bins testified to abort the sam 1js thing Mr. Prope3 had, excep he that he understood one of th ras colored women to say to anothe >n one, that the man was lying ther afil before the up passenger can 2 ?> along that morning. nta Beulah Coleman testified th: Vlr. she lived below Monarch m Irs. near Southern railroad. Th a of last Sunday morning Janett El M. called her and said that a wh >ing man was lying down there was the railroad cut. This was afr the 9 o'clock train went up. T1 1 a nath led from her house to i ;u tv/ ? ^ ? ietta railroad, the injured man v sup- lying below the path near r dead road track in the cut. Jen lock- Shurly said she was called to o on the man. Mr. J. L. E. Jones of Spar1 letter burg came on the 11.37 tr ntten jje testified after seeing the c ' M. man that he was the same 3r?ai j that he had seen in Spartanl j, had Friday and Saturday. Thai jin? man was there talking to L< ind of about work; thinks his bus ipping waa feather renovator. >e the Jones did not learn his*nam vator. heard him tell Leitchthat h? y em" beat his way on the train ; Mon- Washington to Atlanta and lowing Atlanta back to Greenvill e Wu" from Greenville to Spartan to the That he knows Leitch gav lything stranger several meals, anc itity of j the man was under the inf | of whiskey every time hi was the I him. That Saturday night ii he was j 8 o'clc ;k he saw ine a*ui? Sunday; in a restaurant in Sparta ed man. and he was talking abouf ig his way to Ck>liAibi^^R^i g said he wanted to go'} ?1?at j eitch told him the besl; waya as to ride on the bKhJ' ttJwS ight on the passenger 'train.-) [r. Jones never saw him any lore until Monday in Union | here he saw his aead body at le Bailey undertaking establishtent. This also explains what le R. E. Eubanks letter to L. [. Trevitt about certain territory e could give him to work in Coimbia. After the testimony of Mr. ones several ?f the jury signied their being satisfied without irther testimony, but others of le jury were not satisfied and isisted that the engineer, fire lan and conductor of the pasanger train Saturday night and le train crew of the freight rain that passed through Union unday morning about 1 o'clock e summoned as witnesses, thereare the coroner adjourned the lquest until Wednesday at 2 'clock. The most plausible and reasonble theory reached after hearig all the facts up to time of djoumment was that T. M. 'revitt missed the 9 o'clock pasenger train Saturday night and ot on the freight tram that assed through Union 5 o'clock lunday morning and either fell r was pushed off at the place /here he was found. Mr. Jones aid he heard Trevitt say that he ad lost a great deal of sleep for he past week and heard a man ay that he saw Trevitt sitting n the railroad track near the' lepot in Spartanburg Friday fternoon asleep and woke him, r he would have been killed by . train there and then. Sheriff J. W. Sanders tele-v rraphd tojto*. elographed, "That ta "X1"">and wire particulars. In an wer to this Sheriff Sanders teligraphed that L. M. Trevitt was iead and body embalmed, wire what to do with body. Fire in Anderson. ^ . i n Anderson, UctODer ? opctiui A fire, which started on the sec ond floor of the Townsend build ing this morning, caused a los estimated at $26,000 to $30,00C The Acme Drug Company, whic occupied the adjoining building was the greatest sufferer. Th firm carried a stock valued i $44,000 and about two-thirds ( this was practically destroyed 1 fire and damaged from water. The origin of the fire is u i known. It started in a roc used for plunder and so far as - known no one has been in it f ) some time. The other losses are: Sav - Cafe, $1,000; Mrs. Deanes i e Studio, $500; Snipe's Photogra t Gallery, $250. All these loss e are partially covered by ins jr ance. The office of the And e son Oil and Phosphate Compi le was in the burned building, the papers were saved with s lt ous damage. ?News and Coui at Two Bold Robberies InChes lis it? Special to The State. in Chester. Oct. 2.?Cheste - - M ahead of Columbia, wnue .capital city has had several 1 ? ups of late in the night 1 Chester had one Saturday a ' noon in broad open daylighl negro came to town, sold a of cotton, and on retumir his wagon, preparatory to tan- ing on the trip to his home ain. strange negroes stepped i lead him, placed a j2run at his man j and demanded his money, s ">urcr, at once proceeded to 4 'deli " u: u the the amount taken irom m eitch (ing $51. The robbers iness! their escape and have no Mr. ! caught. but I On Saturday night th< b had ! dence of Mr. Louis Samue from 1 entered in the absence from family and robbed of tl e and tents of a trunk filled wit burg, linen. Besides linen, a ] e the of articles of wearing I that and other things were car luence, There is as yet no clue e saw! perpetrators of the bole ; about which must have been coi e man at a comparatively earlv nburg, the family returned be t beat- o'clock. 1- SHOALS. PER PLANT JUST MPLETED. in Every Detaily iderful Possibilities? Great financial Economical EnteraK power plant at K al Shoals ha&st been finished. It is a mffpel of mechanical construetioBmnd a financial enterprise k th?s practical and paying, be ThSfiis an old saying?in Union qi theflKas strength, but the crea- pi tiojjf the Neal Shoals plant has se tranBormed this old saying into 12 -iiflttnion there is power. ai Twee years ago the spot where g( tne seat aam ana tne power- TJ houOT^ow stand was an uninter- B estinglptretch of hills and swamps bordtting along the placid Broad w riverT>The rocks jutting from fc the surface of the sluggish stream tl were the only features that made oJ the place p?, /ninent or different ol from others. ir Now, the entire aspect of the b place.has been changed. A tremendous/Aam, 600 feet across, h< spans the river, and beyond is w tne large and capacious power le house. All around are tempo- u rary buildings and several dwell- c< ing Rouses have been erected, w The silence of the place has been broken by the sound of the ham- n met and the mighty heart throbs o< of powerful engines. The river a th&toncd meandered idly by now tl da^ws uL imprisonment against ti the^tolidparapets of the mighty tl been naturally suited g up lrcaK- .. - ^tq whic^it has sj aoes not spreaa : if J adjoining territory as^ might if the land on each side Were more 1 16 The great dam, on which work t has been going on for months, is < complete in every detail, it is about thirty-five to fifty feet from ; : the base which is under the water - level to the top. The lower - structure is wholly concrete and s of rock, quarried from the side i of a neighboring hill. The top h most layer is of strong cement, r The dam starts on one side and > f ? ? le runs aimost to the other wnen it | it curves off and leads the water to >f the power-house units where it >y turns the wheels that send the power to Union, ten miles away, n- The total cost of building the >m dam alone was $400,000. A is large force of workmen have 'or been steadily at work on its construction, oy The river, when the gates aw ^.rt closed, goes over the top of th< iph dam in one long and beautifu ess fall. The water is governed ty ur- el.ven gates?five of them ar ler- sand gates and the others are th any gates which admit the water t but the wheel pits where the power i eri- first generated. The sand gat? ier. prevent the accumulation of sar against the gates which adm \Pr the water to the units. They a * in Hont.h. about eigiiL xwi ... v.? The dam is almost level on t . and it can therefore be easi r 18 traversed by a pedestrian. Und th? the federal law which provid hold- that every dam shall have loci time, these have been built in one p< ifter-1 tion of the dam so that rr t- A j navigation may not be prevent bale . The law, which seems usel to an(j which is here wholly impr start-1 ticable, is thus responsible ? ^w0 , the weakest point in the di UP to which however is strong in si head Gf itself, ind he The power-house itself is Is iver," and roomy. It is about 13? : m l3?- long and about 30 feet wide. F mad? . the upper platform, are oper; t been the switches which turn or . 1 off the power used in Union e resi- ( Buffalo mills. Just a twi 'Is was the wrist, a quick shifting o of the j switch, and tne mills many 1 J? | away cease running as i h [table magic. The power is tran number ted over strong aluminum apparel which is sustained on pol< 1 size and mat ricu wii. | t||tj uiuiuw.^ ! to the : The insulating differs, how 1 theft, ! from that used on telegraph mmitted | which is glass. On these hour, as I porcelain insulators Are ifore 11 . The aluminum wire is us account of its great lightne F. M. FARR, President, X 13 Merchants and Plan' Successfully Doing Busin mmm is the OLDEST Hank in I B hns a capital and surplus fl is the only NATIONAL I B B hns paid dividends nmoi B 9 pays FOUH per cent, in B is the only Hank in Uniui B fl has Burglar-Proof vault, B pays more taxes than A L WE EARNESTLY SOLK ;cause by reason of that very j lality it is easy to handle and j it up on the poles. The power ( snt over the wires amounts to 1,200 volts nearly, for a slight t nount is lost by resistance in < >ing over so long a distance. ( here are six lines?three to ( uffalo and three to Union. x Connected with these three ires at each mill are three trans- ( >rmers by which the mills may ; lemselves regulate the amount ^ f power wanted. They can t>tain the^e a maximum or miniturn of power without operation y the power-house. The ground floor of the power- i ouse is of strong concrete which . ill soon be smoothed over and ' tvelled down. Tunnels run nderneath, and through these lurses the water of the river j rhen the units are not in use. Two exciters-which are conected to two small water wheels ccupy the front space. They re each of 105 horse power and ] tic speed of each is 225 revoluons per minute. Near by are le generator reostats. The next machine is a Lombard overnor and it regulates the peed and action of the power Four gl gai j u,. >-< ook like great wheels fiU there nainder of the room. They are ;he alternating current generatDrs The inn*r portion of the wheel is called .ne revolving field sg'!?~pcr*"l 17 feet across. The field alor.e W The3 armature is the outer sheath of the revolving field. The bottom half weighs IE> ton. and the upper weighs 15 tons. The bearings at each side o these four great machines con tain oil to be used in the lubrica tion of the great wheels, eacl bearing holding eight gallons o 01 The horse power_olr each altei nating current gci iCiavvA J machines?is 2,000. The shaf i make 133 revolutions per minut 1 The voltage of the machine / 13,200 and the amperes of ea< e 57. e Overhead is a crane the c o pacity of which is 15 tons, is was indispensable in the erecti *9 of these machines. Close to t id ground floor are windows wi it iron shutters, weighing es re about 500 pounds. They i closed tightly when the wa op outside goes up. The pow ly house is practically waterprc ler The power is generated in 1 les way: the water flows into <s, wheel pit and turns the ? wj or- wheel which turns the shaft /er operates the exciters. These ed. citers supply current to the ess volving fields of the generat ac- The water wheels which are for nected to the generators am, started up before any powe pite generated which is transm over the wire to the mills i irge away. feet Messrs. Gadsden Shand o ? m rom lumbia and G. U. remit ated Spartanburg were in chars i or the construction of the and The powerhouse was buil st of G. E. Shand & G. O. Tenney f the superintendent of the elec miles construction and hereafte f by superintendent in charge i smit- Ben J. Foster, a gradua wire Clemson and later connecte as of the General Electric Comp ,erial. Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. rever, is a Union boy and his i poles and practical electrical poles, edge have been strikinglj used, fested in the care and cc ed on thoroughness with which ss and thing has been set up ? J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. E lers National Bank, ess at the "Old Stand." Jnion / of utn.ooo, ' lank in Union, niitinfc to $300,400, itorost on <lt?posits. 1 inspected by an olliccr. [J and Safe with Time-Lock, L the Ilnnks in Union combined. I v CIT YOUR BUSINESS. I anged. He is ably assisted by VIr. J. H. Clark, who is an electrician. It has been difficult to describe ;he plant, for technical knowledge and familiarly with technical terms are essential to the complete understanding of the vork that has been accomplished it Xeal Shoals. To see is the anly way to really understand and to comprehend the vast power that the plant generates. It is a revelation in itself. Hidden power has been wrested trom mother nature and applied to man s own uses. Out of a barren hillside and a sluggish stream has sprung a giant power which with lightning speed and wizard force turns the wheels of far away factories and 3ilences the roar of far away engines. Ihe surging river flows through the veins of mother nature, passes on to the plant, her brain, and miles away, the touch of her electric arm responds to the distant impulse and thunders its powerful message of obedience. J. R. McK. THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP. PlCKCtl wit uv),.. _ , 25th. Washington, D. C., Oct 2.? The census bureau today issued a bulletin showing the quantity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1905, to September 25, to be 2,358,031 bales. These figures were compiled , from telegraphic reports of special agents of the bureau, who f have canvassed the ginneries of - the various States and Territories, ' and the report is one of a series ? which will be issued regularly hereafter until the completion < f r- the ginning of the crop of 1905. 1: 4-V.rt.-t onv 5e The report is earner uiai. gS made in 1904 rendering compariig son impossible. The report by ch States gives the following result: State Bales. Alabama 330,308 Arkansas 9,352 ?n Florida 18,864 .J1? Georgia 600,212 Indian Territory 14,695 lch Louisiana 44,794 ^re Mississippi 98,617 *:er Missouri 245 e]*" North Carolina 121,243 *** Oklahoma 8,825 L/J]s South Carolina 329,882 the Tennessee 3,255 lte^ Texas 777,446 and Virginia 293 ex" In this report two round bales re" have been counted as the equiva:ors. jent one SqUare bale. The con~ number of round bales included ai? is 72,196. :r 18 , . ? nUes President Harvie Jordan's Address. f Co jy of Mr. Harvie Jordan, president re of of the Southern Cotton Associa-1 J Jn A f _ dam. tion delivered an aaureso ... **., It by lanta, Ga., just after the ad. The journment of the meeting of the itrical executive committee in Asheville, ;r the N. C. He urges all cotton grows Mr. ers to stand squarely to the reeote of lutions adopted by the committee, d with He gives good reasons for holdany of ing cotton at 11 cents as the minFoster imum price to be taken by the abilitv farmers for this years crop. He knowl- says that there can be no doubt r mani- that the cotton is short, and can>mplete not exceed 10 million bales. We every-1 regret we cannot for lack of ind ar- space publish the entire address. s ?