Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. - - j - .-. - * ?": ~ '. .. < )! * * ? . - W " JP ?*- ' : 1^' ! ! ? ? UNION AND SUBURBS HAS pr ^ -mr -y- TT T "W T "T" /^V H" "Y* >I fTT^T HT Ty W r ? UN,0N AND SUBURBS HAS | I Hh I \ II 1 \r 4' I I VI H X ? (fuk capital of $360,000. Macudu- I I I I 1 H I H V W f H m/ I I < m Oil Mill, Furniture Munulucturlnp A g miztd Street#, Population 13,000. ^ ^ J J ^ ' $ ' aJL* -J k. ? und Lumber Yards, Work*. 2 11 '-.3 - Pterk of Court T? " - ? ST" VOL. LV1 NO. 3.* . - - * UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA,-FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR.3JS 11 CENTS Makes the Farmers happy place to deposit your surpli The best Safe that Money protected against Burglary r / large Firm and Individual protect our customers) ms ^ 4 lutely secure. We solici Wm. A. Nicholson BRICE ACT HOLDS GOOD THE BRICE ACT STANDS TEST IN THE onnnrur rniinr auritLPiL tvuiw. Nothing Unconstitutional in the Measure but the Provision that Dry Counties Cannot Share in Dispensary Profits. Ail of the Temporary . Injunctions Dissolved. Columbia, January 12, "-The Supreme Court tonight unani-jAw. jn?u8ly decided that he Brice P fkct is constitutional. It dissolved all the temporary injunctions. The decision was even more sweeping and more'hurtful to i the dispensary than the oppo-1 nents of the ^dispensary hoped xor. It sa^s that the only thing in the Brice Act that is unconstitutional is the penalty clause put -in by the dispensary advocates, which sought to penalize the counties which voted out the dispensary of their share of dispensary profits for schools. The Court, whether intentional or not, has, heartily responded to the wv voice of the people. favorable decision to those oprosed to the State dispensary System. The decision goes so far asto say that all counties are - - ' * - i-V.o.5*. oViarft of the entitled CO UlCIl surplus from counties maintaining dispensaries. The following is the full text of the decision, for which there has been such great anxiety and almost impatience ! The State of South Carolina in the Supreme Court, Novembe term, 1905. W. W. Murph, petitioned ' against B. G. Landrum et al, r< spondents. Louis B. Cox, petitione against James Hodges et al, r spondents. Joseph W. Coward, petitione against J. H. Blackwell, et z respondents. , _ John A. Weir, petitione against F. P. Walker, et al, i spondents. Robert E. Lihon, petition* against F. H. Burris, et al, spondents. Pickens County, petition against A. W. Jones, as Cor troller General, respondent. Oconee County, petitior against A. W. Jones, as Coi troller General, respondent. Adam L. Aull, petitioi against A. W. Jones, as Co troller General, respondent. - _i?t ^v,QCO pases broi Un eacn ux VllVMV in the original jurisdiction of Court the question is raised i the constitutionality of the commonly known as the I A$t approved February 25, ! amending Section 7 of the eral dispensary law, appr March 6, 1896. After careful consider this Court is of the opinior said Act is not unconstitu on any of the grounds all except in so far as said 4 Act" declarrs that 44any c voting out a dispensary sh.* thereafter receive any pj the surplue that may remj the dispensary school fund; the deficiencies in the > county school funds hav< made up as provided by While the Court consicU provision unconstitutionj Court, is of the opinion ' from the rer 19 ttiSpciiOMAv ? [fjj?;.|. | / of the Act, and that si &' { . stands as constitutional v $ provision treated as stril (JjtoK This conclusion ren< necessary to set aside tl porary injunction grant* \ *arst five above entitled * ijL> . atraiwnjf the closing of COTTON and prosperous. A safe us is with* THIS BANK, can Buy, which is also by Insurance, and our Resources (all of which ike'your deposits absq- v. t'VOUR business. * " ^ i> \ r & Son, Bankers, A BOLD COW THIEF. White Man Steals Cow From Colored Woman in Broad Daylight. Friday morning, Lou Haney, a very respectable, well-to-do colored woman, who lives on Mrs. John McNeaep's place, 3 miles north of thfs <jity,> came to the city in & one horse wagon to get a load of cotton seed hulls and meal. As'-'she was returning home with her load she met a neighbor who tQld' her that a white man, a stranger, had stolen Lou's cow and was seen going in the direction of Union. Lou then drove her wagon in front of a neighbor's house and i left it and hurried back to Union. Upon ?her arrival after some search and inquiry she found her cow hitched with a small wire around her horns to the hind wheel of a wagon on the vacant lot next to the beef market of Mr. H. G. Bailey. She claimed ife iiuu -wny cow a few hours before and paid him $12.50 cash. Mr. Bailey ' ? AM/4 tirnnt" then got a policeman anu nvi.v ' in search of the man who sold him the cow. They were not long in locating him, in the ten pin alley, and he was at once ari rested and searched and $12.10 . in money taken from him, he I having spent 40 cents in the ,' game. He gave his name as C. r N. Harper from Gaffney, but be I fore that he had told some on( I,! that his name was J. F. Johnson ?- He was immediately lodged ii jail and a warrant was swori r, out before Magistrate Johnsor e- Lou Haney got her cow an went home rejoicing, and Mr. E r, G. Bailey is only the loser of tl il, small sum of 40 cents experiem money. Mr. Bailey says Harp< tr, in talking to him about the co re- said that he had two cows ar this cow was not giving over 11 2r, gallons of milk a day and w re- poor, that feed was high and could not afford to feed t< er, cows, this is why he wanted np- sell this one. This is the bold day-light cow stealing we hs ler, ever known, taking the c up- from a pasture near the m public road leading from Un ler, to Jonesville, and leading mp- down the road towards Un! passing houses of people who lght thief might have known w< this recognize the cow. He was is to dently hard up for money. Act - n?naaries therein mentioned. iW4, hv?gen also that the temporary inj oved tion Slanted in the remai three above cases, entitled ation straining the Comptroller Ge i that from drawing his official wa tional f?r the several sums arising eged, the surplus of the dispei 'Brice fund as therein mentioned :ounty dissolved and the Compt all not General left free to disbun art of 8aid fund as it would have ain of disbursed before the enac 3 after of the said Brice Act, anc various 80 adjudged, i been The reason for these cc law." i?ns will be stated In an c irs this hereafter to be filed, al, the Y- J- Pope, Chief J that it Eugene B. Cary, Associa nainder tice; C. A. Woods, Associa lid Act I tice; Ira B. Jones, Associa rith this I tice. ten out. This order will at one 3ers it'the dispensaries in Gre he tern- Spartanburg, Anderson ai sd in the counties where they ha ;ases re- kept open by temporary the dis- -"News and Courier. WILL DEMAND 15 CENTS, W9RK OF SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION AT NEW ORLEANS. Delegates were Enthusiastic. * Reply to New York and Wall Street Rumors. Will Reduce Acreage by Diversification In Crops,. Southern Farmer; ..Have Money to LetiMm# Can Jiold their Staple. jLl Si New Orleans, JanuaYy 12. That the sum of work or the Southern Cotton Association was tn hp a rTpplaratinn for 1 fw?PTits cotton with reduction in the font of diversification was practically settled at the afternoon session of the Convention, when Chairman Dancy, of the committee or holding, in advance of the presentation of its report, announced that the committee had unanimously decided favorably or that proposition. The announcement provoked the Conventior to a whtrtotind of cheering. v?fiDhe:^pre?ffcature emnouncemenl ^f^rfegpckisions or the committed wasforced by advices froir NeW York to the effect that newspaper dispatches and street reports printed and cljxu lated there indicated a lack o1 harmony among the element* making up the Convention, ant dissensions over the 15c proposi tion. President Jordan brought tHI matter before the Convention; He referred to the report* which, he said, appeared in at the New York papers, as "beai dope,'' evidently manufacturec by agents of the speculators who were sent to mingle witl the delegates of the Convention The report that the Conyentioi did not have in its purposes ?mercnBiT OT every uaimv. present, he declared to be abso lutely without foundation. Alexander H. Smith, of Green County, Ga., urged the sendin of a telegram announcing ths the South needed no money froi Wall street, but had it to lent He said the five banks in h , county were pledged to absolu i support of the farmers, and th; not another bale there would 1 1 sold under 15c. a T. E. Massengale, of Georgi moved that the president be i ^ structed to send a stateme a through the Associated Pre , that the bankers, merchants a (j farmers were in perfect unk j of thought, and that he corr the statements to the contrj ,e circulated by Wall street b lr operators, who were doing all ^ their power to break up the < 1(j ton growers' organization. ' _2 resolution was adopted. Mr. Goodwin, of Georgia, i ciS - ? he it was evident that j\ew i w0 was beginning to anticipate f t0 the construction of the Pan est: Canal the transfer to New lve leans, Galveston and Mobile ow supremacy in the rich trade ajn the Orient. "When these pe jon find they can no longer co her us,'' said Mr. Goodwin,4 'thej ion try secede from this Go1 ment, and I pray to God V ^uid W*N ^ve long enough to help evj_ them back into it," a senti which provoked the Conve to amusement and cheers. Mr. R. Dancy, chairmanand holding committee, then unc- that in view of the reports ning had been circulated in th< I re- of dissension in the Conve neral he desired to announce i rrant vance of its report that th -munimnug in from mittee wua una... nsary cision to ask the conven 1, be stand by the proposition tl roller Southern farmers hold th< 3e the ton for 15 cents. Furtl } been said it was decided to a tment committee on acreage to 1 it is in another plan for ten p | reduction in acreage in tl rnclus- of diversification, and a ?pinion cent reduction of fertil: j the older states, ustice;! The enthusiasm wit! te Jus- the announcement was ite Jus- left little doubt of the sc ite Jus- of the convention. I Chairman Walker, of e close Ga., who presided over t enville, ing of the bankers tod? id other announced that the ban ve been enthusiastically adopted orders, lowing resolutions: I The Southern Banker Officers and Salaries of Cotton Association. New Orleans, Jan. 15.?The executive board of the Southern Cottop Association held its an> nual business meeting today with almost a full board sitting. . Harvie Jordan was reelected . president and Richard Cheatham j was reelected secretary. F. H. 1 Hyatt of Columbia, S. C., was elected treasurer and George T. Jbste**of Cofsicana, Texas, was chosen vice president in place of i Mr. Peters of Texas. The salary t of the pr&ddent was fixed at i $5,000 a ye&r. Secretary Cheathi"am's salary was raised from r $2,500 to $3,000 a year. The i salary of the treasurer was fixed pt $500 a yfear and the vice presii uent is to serve without salary. The Salary of the general finanl ciat agent and organizer, E. D. Smith, who Was elected, accordi ing to the- suggestions of the mass meeting; was fixed at $5,i 00o a year. " ; 4 New Railroad for Spartanburg. i Carfcon, Esq., has set^3?|red a charter for the new w&r^aiTT5o?^n? We?fern railf Svft?A ?? W1^ connect s ??"ti1 wpstern at a S^Vurtr ,i?3./rom Spartanburg :ph the North Carolina line. The | ?T?'?tT of this ? road k j^ rG>V Cfrter, J. N. Powell, and r WV*Mnf ,R" K- Caeaon i Sr tSi-Y"' ^hds. Over $500 I VS/S^t^ been subscribed alr ih?ru ?n ol?stn,ction of the 1 SiI b w'Hgive Spartanburg - SS!?f * * if and from the ; mountaigg .,f North Carolina. i the Southnizing that the interests of the farmers, bankers and business e men of the South are inseparable, ? therefore, be it resolved, First, That we, the represen J1 tatives of Southern banks, here . by renew our pledge of mora ,1S and financial support to th ? Southern Cotton Association i a their efforts to carry out thi 3e purpose; and second, we urg the importance of a better an ia' more complete system of wai n" housing and caring for cotton, 'nt w p. G. Hardinj IT X CSlU^uv ... _ _ ~j of the First National Bank, < ; JJ Birmingham, Ala., spoke ( ,on Farmer, Banker and Wa fjJ Houseman." An address on "The New in PaPer anc* Relation to t ' Southern Cotton Associatioi p, ' was made by Mr. H. Y. Brool of Luverne, Ala., and th j Chairman J. H. White presenl nrk reP?rt ?f the committee vT foreign trade relations. It ami doused that made by the sta q ing committee. The lat1 ? of s'&ned by Ex-Senator McLau wifv! as chairman, said the commit , met President Roosevelt i ntrol cabinet officers in Washinp Twill after the last convention and ' plained to him the desire f J commission to enlarge the co ?,??;? trade in foreigh countries. "The President was ,, flia enpatcr , presseu, ration tf\e fact that the prop commission would be of f of the vaiUe in opening and develc said new cotton market, and pror which hjg unqualified support, whi< e East bas since lost no opportunh ration, J give. He has issued speci in ad- gtructions to the consuls in e com- various districts to put its de- special effort in furnishinj tionto people with any inforn nat the which would be of value eir cot- creasing our trade in th ier? J]e spective markets." ^sk the The committee gave a join it list of commercial and >er cent bodies which had endorse le form pr0posed appointment of ten per mittee to go abroad an izers in mitted a resolution whic , . , adopted, endorsing the 1 1 which Senator Overman, of received Carolina, and Represe " ' ? MoKomn. mtiment Richarason, ui ress was asked for ea Sparta, favorable action, he meet- Mrg# Webb, of Mis! ay, then wag heartily cheered w1 ikers had ha(j completed the readi the fol- p0em in honor of the As: and a recess was then ti s, in con- tii night. F. M. FARR, President. T Irl Merchants and Plan I Successfully Doing Busin ammm is the oldest nanu in i p hus a capital ami surplus ri a is the only NATIONAL I H has paid dividends -'inoi Cji n pays KOUIt per cent. Bj Li is the only Hank in L'nhn 3 n has Hurjrlar-I'ronf vault, IS I pays more taxes than A L WE EARNESTLY SOLI f TO PROSECUTE HASTY. J Paper Tells of Work Now on to Raise I Money?Employ Gaffney Lawyer. That the Actors' Society of New York is making a great and j determined effort to secure the 1 conviction of the man Hasty at Gaffney for the shooting of two 1 actors some weeks ago, is evi- r denced by the manner in which c the society has started to work t in the metropolis raising funds. The story appended, taken from the New York Telegraph, ? will be of considerable interest 1 here and at Gaffney: 1 The Actors' Society is still j doing everything in its power to , aid the authorities of South Caro- ' lina in bringing George Hasty, who shot and killed Milan Ben- J nett and Abbott Davison to jus- \ tice. i A committee has been appointed and books opened for subscriptions to a fund to pay the 1 expenses. Already $570 has 1 been received from the following < sources: The Actors' Society , - 1 . Members of the committee wish it to be distinctly understood that thev do not doubt the integi i y ' or ability of. South Carolina officials but in a case like tnis, where many of the witnesses are 1 theatrical people who may be e wfdely separated at the time of n the trial, it will be. necessary to ? some urovision for them O e while they are in attendance, d It is not quite true that a New e York lawyer has been retained to aid in the prosecution. Le ?, Barbier, was consulted as to the of proper method of procedure here. )n Special counsel will be engaged re by the committee to aid the commonwealth's attorney, bul rs- such counsel will be a resident ot he the county in which the crim< n" was committed, ce, The company is composed o len the following well known mem ;ed bers of the profession: on William Courtleigh, president en- J. K. Hackett, secretary; Mar nd- Ellsworth, Harold Hartsell, E ;er, McWade, W. D. Stone, Maid rin, Craigen, Bessie Taylor, Mai ttee Shaw, Ralph Delmore, B'rar and Burbec, George G. Mclntyre, ] ;ton F. Mackay, E. R. Nawso ex- George C. Etaley and Aust or a Walsh. tton . Let lis Have the Ref^matory. im said, We hope the legislature v osed not adjourn without providi ?reat, for a reformatory for youth >ping criminals. In our opinion, th is nothing that demands tl 1 I IOVU uh he attention more tnan inis t'Al ty to liquor legislation and the qi al in- tion of taxation. For years fa their ful women have labored for forth establishment of such an inst g * our tion in the State, and at the nation session of the general asser in in- it looked as if the fight vvoul eir re- won, but nothing was d Quite a number of our pa , long have been urging the favoi other consideration of this questio 2d the our lawmakers. In our coli v*ouo nnblished several si a com- vvv ji?.~ d sub- editorial utterances on the :h was ject from our exchanges. Dills of hope this important matter North not be treated with indiffe mtative by our lawmakers. It is ti Cong- stop wasting time over so trly and trivial measures, and get I to work and do something sissippi, is far reaching in its be hen she Give the young crimin ng of a chance to reform apart fr sociation influence and example < aken un- hardened and vicious.? ville Mountaineer. J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. lers National Bank, ess at the "Old Stand." Jnion. of $10\000, tank In I'nion, iintinv to $a00.400, crest on deposits, 1 inspected by an officer, and Safe with Time-Lock, I. tlic Itanks in i'nion combined. CIT YOUR BUSINESS. I BEAUTIFUL ORTHODOX MARRIAGE. Hiss Anette Emanuel Becomes the Wife nf Mr PhiHn Rprlin nf Thk fltv vi i iii limp ltvi a in VI i ll 1*J vilj. Mr. Philip Berlin, of this city, ind Miss Anette Emanuel, of L)es Moines, Iowa, sister of Mrs. facob Cohen, of this city, were narried Sunday afternoon at 4 )'clock at the residence of Mr. racob Cohen. The ceremony vas conducted by Rabbi Rubin>tine, of Columbia, assisted by Mr. I. L. Emanuel, father of the iride. The house was beautifully decorated with ivy, palms ind ferns. The entire ceremony was strictly orthodox, and some of :he lessons taught by it are worthy of note. Before the ceremony was pronounced the groom entered the bridal chamber and placed a veil jver the face of the bride-to-be, groom aUauv,enuSRl^leiftvv,9/ ing a staff upon which they supported a canopy, then the bride and groom were placed by escorts under this canopy. This is done in imitation of Boaz, who threw the skirts of his robe over Ruth. After this the Rabbi took a glass of wine, and after having blessed God "for the creation of man, and woman, and the institution of matrimony," handed the wine to the bride and groom i to drink of. This was repeated 1 three times during the ceremony, ; then the residue of the wine was f thrown on the floor as a declara2 tion of their joy. The glass vessel being empty, the bridegroom f threw it upon the floor, breaking i- it to pieces. This lesson teaches that their mirth may give them an idea of ?- j?4-u ttrVin rititiViPs them to pieces ^ uuani, uv/ V4mo..W? d like brittle glass and teaches la them not to be proud and self y conceited. ik After the ceremony the guests F. were conducted into the dining n, room where an elegant feast was -in spread. The bride wore a gown of white dotted silk mull en train with veil. The couple left on the 9 p. m. ,V1" train for some southern points, ing To Change Inauguration Day. In making its report, the Naies_ tional Committee appointed '0 ith- consider a new date for the inthe auguration of our President itu-i recommends the last Thursday last April. It will make no new nbly date for the assembling of Cong* . voad The committee consists of (I DG 1 V/u?" one fifteen residents of Washington pers anc* the governors of the states able an(l territories. Thirty-one of n 5v , the governors were in favor of a irons change of date. In fact there :rong was practically no opposition to : sub- moving the date forward, al\Ve though some difference of opinion will was expressed as to how late in rence the spring the day should be. me to The general desire is to fix a date many when the weather in Washingdown ton will be more settled than it which usually is on the day in March nefits now officially designated for the als a event. History has shown that om the inauguration day in March is alof the most sure to be an unpleasant Green- one? so far as the weather is concerned. ? ? ? 71