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. - V * V ' I i*v? v * t \ * UNION AND SUBURBS IIAS J yp | ^| ^WT ye?W" y -<mp y yr y^\ y^- y ~ ^ y y~- -y y? ?" - 5 UNION AND SUBURBS OAS Female Seminary, Fivo Graded I I I I J I I I m M 1^^. I I > I I^L / I J ' 9 Firo Uwrotton Mills, Knitting t ' i ?^'xi,rsr,?s? i 8 -H H 1 i\ II a \ 1 \ i N X : rr^r^TTrrr; * o gate capital ?,r $46J,UUO. Mu.uda- o I I I I J H 1 V W 9 I ?/ B I " iv Oil Mill. Furniture Manufacturing 9 int/.yd streets, 1'unulatluu l-\uu0. a J x _JL \ / ^ y J ^ and Lumber Yards, Waterworks. ? VOL. LVI NO 17. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27. IGftrt B I j WE PAY I I ON TIME D a] Win. A. NICHO | BANK THIRD EARTHQUAKE ONE PERSON KILLED I THE PARTLY WRECKED WAILS AND 1 CHIMNEYS WERE THROWN DOWN. jl Slight Excitement Caused by tiie SbOGk. ' Business Being Resumed at a ' sfr Rapid Rate and Conditions ) Generally are Steadily i ;/ Improvidg. s I Mp San Francisco, April 25.?An s ^earthquake shock this afternoon I toppled over several tottering y walls and cracked chimneys, left t by the severe shock of last Wed- r nesday and the fire that followed, a and killed one woman in her s home: The shock was not se- t vere but the partly wrecked con- t dition of walls and chimneys resuited in the upsetting of some y matonry. The shock was barely i> perceptible in Oakland and vicin- tl ity, and was not felt far from d San Francisco, according to re- c ports received tonight. w Today's earthquake caused ti slight excitement of short dura- tl tion among many nersons who c< have been wrought to a nign . state of excitement by the awful lc happenings of the last week but t( nnier. and assurance was soon re- tl stored. tl . This was a day of optimistic a reports from all sides, b "Conditions improving," was o the happy expression from those tl who have charge of caring for their less fortunate fellow townsmen during the last few days. In fact, no.v that the most im- j portant duty will hereafter be performed by the United States 1' army, that "of distributing the b food and supplies which have ^ been given lavishly, the citizens qi San Francisco have turned their jfttention to details of the v reconstruction of their business, c RESUMPTION OF BUSINESS. E There was resumption of busi- e ness to an astonishing extent to\ day considering conditions, ? throughout the residential quart- 1 er. Retail stores were instruct- *= ed to reopen and the municipal 1 government has established a 8 scale of prices for the most im- 8 portant commodities which even 1 is below that existing under normal conditions. Warning was c given retailers hat any effort on 1 their part to rge exorbitant ? prices would/ t in summary ' action by thy J>rities. Street car/ are promised fr>r 1 tomorrow morning and electric ( lights will be turned on tomor- 1 : - ~ tm .1. u.,;u < row evening. xiicwuiivui uuuuing and improving chimneys is ] proceeding rapidly, but it will be 1 some time before it is safe to al- 1 ^ low fires. ^ The preparation of the morn- < ing and evening meals, for San Francisco as a rale does not partake of more than that number at present, is a picturesque sight. In front of every house there is a small improvised furnace or a cookstove on which the food is prepared. * In some cases servants remain faithful to their employers and to them the cooking is entrusted: but it is no unusual thing to see the wives of men who a few days ago were the possessors of fortunes stirring . the porridge or deftly manipulating bacon and eggs. TO BED AT NIGHTFALL. San Francisco goes to bed at nightfall. While the extremely rigid rule concerning lights in houses has been modified, still the general situation is considered by the average citizen to be so unsafe at night that he retires without goi04 abroad, and in '> * NJFRFiT j_, EPOSITS. I LSON & SON, I !; ERS. I |f< OHBRStOnnBED^ many cases without showing a,r light in his house. Many reports S have been made during the last j n few days of shots fired into ! $ houses that showed a light and ; I few are disposed to take chances. . J Mayor Schmitz today took a! n mi siana against "citizens' pro- ' $ :ective committees'' organized in ' I* nany sections of the city by men i J vho undertook to regulate the IE ilfairs of their neighborhood, j 5 Many complaints have been made j E tgainst these ' committees.'" tesponsible citizens have been is topped at night and made to ex- N ilain why they were abroad h ifter dark and even shots have h >een fired at persons who had a j si ight to go anywhere they pleased ! s< ,t any hour. It was one of the ! o-called "vigilance committees': ! hi hat is to be held responsible for I m he death of Maj. Tilden, who } cc /as shot while performing relief ; It /ork. The mayor today gave I as istructions that the members of in hese "committees" were to be j isarmed wherever found by the be ity police and if any resistance j ti: /as offered they were to be hi reated as looters, which means co lat they .are to be shot without pe eremony. Vvi X 11C " "?" " " . v'V >us problem. It was decided j ti' >day that still further restric-. to ons should be put on the use of j he water now available. Here-1 be fter until the water system has gi een repaired there is to be but j hi ne water faucet for each block hroughout the city.?The State. j at Death oi Dr. J. M. Lawson. i tV Dr. J. M. Lawson died in Co-11;, -V jmbia Sunday, April 22, and his gi iody was brought to Union Tues- . b; lay for burial. He had gone co j ^ he hospital for treatment, and j ^ yhile there contracted an acute ; t( ase of pneumonia which rapidly ?rogressed in severity and result- B id in his death. ^ Dr. Lawson was endowed with . l brilliant mind and was a ph.vs- .? cian of marked ability. He was 1 j, iducated at South Carolina col- I ege and graduated in medicine it the Baltimore Medical college, ifterwar.is spending one year in j he hospital in Baltimore. j ^ Dr. Lawson was early left an : J >rphan and was an only child. ? de was reared by his uncle,Mr. ' I. C. Shuttlesworth who resides n the Hebron neighborhood. His ^ father and mother were buried at " Padgetts creek. Dr. Lawson had P ixpressed a desire to be buried it Hebron. Here he was buried , >n Tuesday, April 24. The funeral exercises were conducted[ by Rev. L. M. Rice. A large number of friends attended the: burial. He was thirty-seven . years old. C Two South Carolinians. i D. Frank Houston, a native of i Darlington, South Carolina, was J inaugurated president of the university of Texas last week, and Samuel W. T. Lanham, a native of Spartanburg, South Carolina. who is now governor of Texas, . made an address. Mr. Lanham, ( served in the Confederate army, and after the war he moved to 1 Texas, carrying his possessions in an ox-team. Mr. Houston is a son of the post-bellum period. Though a poor boy, he has earned his right to recognition in the literary and educational world. It gives us great pleasure to thus present to the youth of today these two men of Carolina blood and birth, as examples of perseverance. industry, and nobility 'of character and lofty ideals? | The Baptist Press, | JONESViLLE G1TIZENS HELP SAN FRANCISCO SUFFERER: Memorial Service Held in Honor of ( B. Fowler?Protracted Meeting c laptlst Church?Memorial ServiGe to Be Held at Gilead Cemetery o May lOtlu / ' Jonesville, April 23.?(Special Last Sunday at the Methodis ihurch the Sundav school mad< lp $30.50 for the San Francisc* sufferers which was forwarder lirect. Following is a list o: hose that contributed, and tin imounts: W. H. S. Harris. $2.00 L J. Littlejohn, $5.00; J. P. A1 nan. $2.00: J. L. McWhirter >2.50, Mrs. J. L. McWhirter '5.00; Miss Marie McWhirter, 11.00; D. L. McLaughlin, $1.00 )r. M. W. Chambers, $1.00; W. . Weathersbv, $1.00; W. E. Alnan, $1.00: t)r. H. T. Hames, 1.00; Prof. H. A. Wise, $2.00; ). F. McWhirter. 50c.; J. D. effries, Jr., $2.5C; Dr. F. M. lllerbe, $1.00; A. L. Bassett, ()c.; W. B. Fowler. SI.00: Mr<j !. F. Kelley, 50. ^ At the Baptist church memoril services were held-in honor of Ir. G. B. Fowler. Mr. Fowler ad been a member of the church ere for a great many years, and iperintendent of the Sunday ihool for the last eight years. Protracted services are being eld at the Baptist church, coniicncing Sunday night and will mtinue t hrough the week. Rev. . J. Williams, of Greenville, is ssisting the pastor in the meetff. Mr. L. K. Littlejohn who has sen suffering with acute rheumastn for some time, went over to s father's home in Cherokee unty several days ago thinking trhaps a change from home RWld.hllnHri?--adu reia.ves here have been summoned i his bed side. Mr. George Rochester who has sen quite iii for some time, is *owing worse and it seems that s end is near. Memorial services will be held , the village cemetery at Gilead 1 the 10th of May under the ispices of the local chapter of le U. D. C., of this place. More tan sixty Confederate soldiers e buried there. Some of their raves have never been marked y thvir family or relatives, but lev have all been marked by a ?i i ii i? raiiiLu &Luiie piaceu mere uv uie aughters who -re* ever faithful > any and every good work. Mr. J. L. McWhir^er, Mr. A. . Hames and Miss Etha Hames, lessrs. H. S. Porter, and Geo. . Gault left here Monday mornlg for New Orleans. Mr. Mc/hirter, Mrs. Hames and Miss tames will go on to Texas to vis, relatives before they return. Mr. Thos. Murrah has put up wind mill and pump for Mr. J. . Littlejohn which lifts the wasr from his well, 150 feet deep nd puts it in a tank in the garet of Mr. Littlejohn's dwelling. In Progress of this week I see n old muster jroll of 153 names f the Browns Creek beat cornany of the year 1858 taken from he records of Mr. Wm. P. Parr, /ho was captain of the company t that time. Anthony F. Haney /as captain before Mr. Parr and o was James A. Price. I knew ivery man whose name appears in the roll and only nineteen of hem are now living. There are i* !- 1.1 t i lew errors in ine miiiais 01 some of the names. Long as it las been I can detect every erroi )f the kind from memory. Tht nuster ground of this compan\ A'as in a mile of where I wa: :>orn an4 raised and lived unti :he year 1875. Messas. R. W. Knox, J. F. A1 inan and J. W. Lipscomb hav< lately invested in real estate ii ihe prospective town of Stillman Ga., the lots were decided b; drawing the other day, am Mp?srs Almnn nrirl T.inepfiinKKni received deeds for their lots sup posed to he worth $100 each whde Mr. Knox received a chec for $255 for his lot. which th committee sold which they sa is lawful for them to do. Mi Knox don't understand how it" that they sold his lot and did m sell those of Messrs. Alman an Lipscomb, unless it is in th way: Mr. Knox drew a 20 aci lot while the other two were sma lots. They aU $25 each I their lots," and it would seem ; that they have ail made some money by the operation, while < Mr. Knox is $230 ahead. . Mr. Munro Whitlock had aten^ ant house burnt on his place last S week, and Mr. W. A. McWhirter n had a tenant house burnt on his plantation over in Cherokee county last week. Both these houses v were insured in the Farmers Mu| tual of their respective counties. Mrs. Sarah MeCubbins and e daughter. Miss Lunette Town-. | send, of Union, visited the fami-1 i ilv of Mr. Bob Smith this week, j While in the city of Greenville | last week attending (J. S. Court j ' I spent one night at the hospit- j .able horn* of that venerable old ; ' gentleman. Mr. Ibnrv'F i who is in?bis ninetieth year and i is still healthy*and hearty, but not quite as^active as he was a i half century ago. One feels; quite at home as th 3 guest of this good family Since writing ihe first page of my letter Mr Geo'ge Rochester has died and Jiis remains laid to rest. He a good Confeder1 ate soldier and in private life I ! have never herrd any harm ! charged to Geo Rochester. ! News from Mr. L. K. Little-'. i john states that lie is hotter. The Southern Railway is put-1 1 ting in a new siding four hun- \ \ frt d yards long, n ?rth of th<> | not. The siding is for storing i cars not in actual use. 1 Tfi ephone. , Beautify Your Premises. ![ ; k This is the time of year that al- 1 most every one feels the impulse t to turn farmer. .There comes the . desire to plant something, vege- ' | tables, flowers if we are hedged 1 ! in by close neighbors as we are t in towns and cities; wide fields i of cotton and cofn if we are out \ l urar?or. -r i'^ulsp.wvwfe.N i Nature's gloriously instruct, in the springtime appeals most 'strongly to this desire in our r hearts. Let us follow this im- r pulse and plant something. Even r with a very small yard we may j t by planting a few flowers add ; f greatly to the appearances of our 1 r houses. If you feel that you j cannot afford to sp md money to i ( secure plants there are neighbors < j who would gladlydivide with you. i' Many of the choicest plants have ] to be taken up and separated dur-1 j ing the year. A neighbor often I j throws away many choice plants [. by reason of this fact. Let all * such people look about for an op- < portunity to divide this over- : 5 product with some one less well \ supplied. The cultivation of flow- j j ers helps to lend variety to the : j dull monotony in the life of the !, housewife, whether in city or j j country, There is added an air 1 j of peacefulness and sweetness to . j the surroundings that more than j ; compensates for the labor ex- 11 ! pended. There are only a few i rules necessary to produce most satisfactory results in our plant1 ing, spade deeply, fertilize high! ly and work carefully and fre: nnontKr uiirl vam urill hn itiava I VjUVIItlJ t "1IV4 J V7U TV 111 UV/ 11IV1 V j than satisfied with results. Old Maids Convention. | The Old Maid's Convention and ' Statue Poses came off in the op-' era house on the date advertised and was repeated Tuesday night. I ' The monument fund was increas, ed seventy-five dollars net and the j Methodist Parsonage Aid fund was increased twenty-five dollars1 . net. Miss Anna L. Dunkel who got up these entertainments is from Watsontown. Penn. Shei studied in a Philadelphia school j1 of expression and has marked ability to conduct these enter tainments. She will probably re" turn to Union in October and carry out another program that will 11 be entirely new. She expressed herself well pleased with the peo\ i pie of Union, and made many friends for herself during her (e short stay, k Dr. I. E. Crlmm. Eye Specialist. e y Dr. Crimm is coming to Union, r. His office will be in the Hotel h Union parlors, instead of Dr. >t Austell's office as advertised. (1! Dr. Crimm has had great success is in fitting glasses. He will re e main in Union from April 30th ill to May 5th, and at some later x day expticta to locate m Uaioa. I F. M. FARR, President, n t i-: g Merchants and Plan 1 I Successfully Doing Busin he 8 S9BVB Is tin; OI.DKST Hank in I Rj "J has a capital ami surplus W jji H Is t ho Oil I v N VTIONAI I H M jS has paid <1i viilcnil* inn 5 | | pavs FOUIt per emit, it fj Cj Is tho only Mank in I'nlni I 9 H n has lliii'irlar I'rmif vault, | B n vi pays nmi' taxes than A I. P WE EARNESTLY SOLl< RECENT TRIP TO If EAST COAST FLORIDA jj A STAY IN "THE LAND OF FLOWERS" i! AND LAKES. !f Mr. R. W. Hamilton Recounts to Tito! tr Times Editor Further Experiences of.,{ His Recent Trip to Cuba?The Wonders of the Alligator Farm?A Gigan- \ 'tl| tic Railway SGheme. | t ! ? The great work of Mr. M. j Flaerler for Fn?f - 'n ? i iv#i iua is II I 11 story of abiding interest. He ! 1 has a beautiful home at Palm ! j( Beach, Fla., that cod; one mil-j V) ion dollars. Here he spends | ai nost of the time of his stay in ! he South. Mr. Flagler is to the j "c south what James Hill is to the^(( Northwest. He has made all hi the Eastern coast of* Florida a sa perfect winter garden. He has vv nduced his wealthy friends of i U1 he North to 1 ai Id homes alljVT. dong Indian River, on Lake | [n ^orth and the Biscan Bay. All! a i icar tne aou-i, ... ? >wn boat house. Several of these ich men have house boats. ;ir They remain only a few months se luring the winter. They leave'as heir places in the care of serv- ep ints the remainder of the year, I eh The yachting in Lake Worth and , ar Biscan Bay is said to be the fin-1 pr >st of all the resorts in the ] ni South; there is good depth of sc .irntov nrirl ao ct rulo vow emAAfli (V> Fishing in both the bay and lake of s exceptionally fine. It is the; th home of the red snapper. They ' w ire caught of all sizes from 2 to by 20 pounds. I spent one day my- gr self fishing in Lake Worth. The hi sensation of drawing in even a w five pound red snapper with oneitr liundred yards of line is very ex-! ar liberating. Yachting now is mostly done in gasoline steam tli launches. While the fumes of < \ the burning oil is a little dis- 1 agreeable, yet with the excite- ar ment of ^ high speed, one entire- i m ly forgets it. I made a trip from uj Miami to the breakers and re- c?i turn. This run is considered hi one of the most enjoyable out- u] ings in the world, especially in In the evening, and with a full si moon shining. The excursion sj from Miami up the Miami river a to the jungles and then into the p everglades is also very interest-1 r< ing. The Miami river flows into ft the Biscan Bay about ten miles y from Miami and is navigable for ct flat-bottom launches for quite a L distance. The scenery along T this river is wonderful indeed, fi The lands are very fertile, in j si fact the richest lands in Florida, n The West side seems to be higher F ground, and has many fine groves t.l of garden fruits and vegetables. V On the Eust side is the begin- s ning of the everglades. 1 saw is many "dug-outs," little Indian v boats, tied up along the banks at t the landings. These boats were n used by the Seminole Indians, u You can often see Indians stand- r ing at their landings, but they I disappear as you approach. They f. are extremely shy of kodaks, t .They are quite friendly, how- t ever, when one has the good for- 1 tune to get a near acquaintance. Jf But only a few of their trusted; 1 agents ever leave their homes to j 4 .) U tU? ?.f fVw? * nauc vvitu iiic luuuaio at tuc y surrounding towns. It is said < ! r hat they own their farms, do < i some little cropping, but mainly } depend on their hunting and pre- ; paring skins for the market. ] In the season when the deer is hunted they kill thousands of , theu; aud leave the carcasses U> ; $1.00 A YEAR. ? J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. B t E I iters National Bank, | ess at the "Old Stand." Union, If-. nisio.ono. n (link in I'nlmi. fj iiiitinir lo $\M0 400. ij itiTfsr mi w 11 inst-ecti-il liy nn nUircr. rJ nn?l Siif'o Willi Ti'vc l."ck. . I. tho Hanks in ITiiinn I'liniliin'-d. * H CIT YOUR BUSINESS. | le?ay. They arc not a meat eatntr people. The doer is killer] nore to jret its hide than for ood. These Seminole Indians re friendly, yet they will resent ny encroachment of the "pale ace." There are millions of cres in these everglades. The overnment has never been able > take a census of these people, s it is worth a man's life to jro mon.tr them for any purpose that ley would suspect of frcnclimv his is just a remnant of the old eminolo tribes. At the jungles I was very luch interested in what is known s the "Alligator Pond." connoted and owned by "Alligator ae." lie has enlarged his farm ltv much in the last few years, id is making- a great financial iccess of raising alligator. ITe lis them after they are one >ar old, up to any size that he its an order. He now hatches s "'gators" in incubators. I vv one thousand in one pen hich was built in the water >on a mound of earth in thi ntre. The mound was for th ; gators" to sun themselve-'. an adjoining pen I saw quite number of the breeders, some lone- as fourteen feet, ligator are suitable for food, id is very fond of them himIf. He has them for breakfast commonly as we use lien's rg's for breakfast. It is his loice food. "These "'gators" e sold to tourists at fancy ices and are carried in great imbers to the North to the hools and to families, mostly r children to pet. They are ten turned loose in pools in ie yards. Some of these pets, hiie yet quite small, are caught r cats and destroyed. The eatest traffic in the alligator isiness is the tanning of skins, hich are used to make shoes, a veiling bags, purses and such tides. Along the Western coast of ie Atlantic and the Gulf is the rer-tht-sea-railv ay. Mr. Flagr is the head of this railway id the survey is now being ade and construction eoine- on ion the Key West end. You in see strips of land for several jndred miles along the coast [ion which this railway will be Liilt, and their long stretches of lallow water which will be canned by trestles and fills. At distance one ?ees the high laces along the coast and they ^semble the walls of buildings. Ir. Flagler thinks that in two ears there will be an all-rail onnection from any point in the Inited States to Key West, his will shorten the distance rom Columbia to Cuba thirty^ ix hours. It is only ninety files, about six hours, from Ley West to Cuba. In making he journey from Miami to Key ^est there is great danger from hoals and sand and the channel ! nt'tfin nnifo nari-rvur TUic. will v* vv?l ^uivv IIUI ? V?T. X I I I r? i rtll" :ay will obviate these difficulies. A pilot not thorougl.v faniliar with conditions would be inable to pet throuph. This ail way enterprise of Mr. Flager's is considered by expert engineers one of the most pipantic ailroad undertakings of modern imes. It is even preater than VIr. Hill's spanning the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This railway uns throuph the Everglades, ind with the development of hat vast swamp will give to commerce a great impetus, besides civilizing the remnant of Seminoles that now inha' it the Everglades. With this accomplished. our commercial relations with Cuba will b~? increased, and will he well worth all the cost ia v taoaey