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ii nrrmaiirT ? CAPTAIN RUFUS WARING TINSLEY. A Gallant Soldier, a Sincere Christian, a Prominent Mason and An Exemplary Citizen. (From the Confederate Veteran, Nashville, Tenn.) Capt. R. W. Tinsley entered into rest at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. W. Pryor, in Chester, S. C., on May 24, 1912. He was a native of White Stone, Spartanburg county, and was oAi?nn r*f orro A f f O Allf_ OIAVJT -OVTCII JT V?i o v? M^V. > &v v??v? WM?break of the war, although only a boy of sixteen years, he promptly enlisted in the Confederate army, becoming a member of Company C, 13th South Carolina Infantry, commanded originally by Capt. D. R. Duncan and later by Capt. John W. Carlisle. On the battle field of Cold Harbor, July 27, 18G2, young Tinsley was shot through the body by a Minie ball which killed a man directly behind him, and he * was left for dead on the field. He remembered that in the near vicinity there was a small stream of water, ? and he worked his way to it, quenched * his thirst and dressed his wound. The next morning he was picked up by the ambulance corps. When he was bet ing lifted into the ambulance, he was ^ helped by a soldier getting around ^ on one foot, the other foot having 4 been shot off in the same battle. His mother dreamed that her son I was in a certain hospital badly wounded. So vivid was the impression that (she persuaded her husband to commence in the night preparations for the journey early next morning. The j- father went to the hospital and found I that the condition was even as the> anxious mother dreamed, the son bej ing in almost a dying condition. Mr. Tinsley was color bearer in the South Caolina division for years. He was first on General Davis's staff i and later, until his death, with Gen. i B. H. Teague. He was for years a I member of the Union County Pension i Board, and the veterans of the county j attended his funeral in a body, i Mr. Tinsley was a member of Grace ? M. E. Church and a member of the board of stewards. He settled in Union in 1866. He was a watchmaker and jeweler, and continued at the same business until within a few weeks of his death. He always took a great interest in all that helped to perpetuate the memory of the deeds of the veterans, and the Reunion at Macon was the first he had failed to attend for ten years., He also was a prominent Mason and the oldest mem? ber of the Union Lodge No. 75, F. and A. M.. He was always interested in the affairs of the city and had served as alderman. Golding Tinsley, of Revolutionary lame, was nis great-uncie and i^oi. William White, of the Revolution, was his mothers cousin. In July, 1806, he was married to Miss Sarah Rogers of Union, S. C., who died in 1906. Of this union the surviving children are: Mrs. S. W. Pryor and Messrs. Eugene and Theodore Tinsley, of Chester, S. C.; Misses Edna and Clarice Tinsley, Mrs. L. G. Meador, and" Mr. J. E. Tinsley of Union. The deceased was upright in all the relations of life and was highly esteemed. DEATH OF OLIVER McEACHERN Died Sunday Morning at His Home in Edgewood After a Short Illness?Funeral Monday. Oliver F. McEachern died at 5 o'clock yesterday morning at his residence in Edgewood. Mr. McEachern was 38 years of age. He was taken ill last Wednesday and gradually grew worse. About ten months ago Mr. McEachern opened a store in Edgewood and at the time of his death was conducting his business in this suburb. He had previously been in the railroad] service rising to the position or engineer. He quit the railroad and 1 <11 i 11 fll Ileal V. Ul KllU'ld, lUlt'I ll|IUIUII^ the store in Edfrewood. Mr. McEaehern married Miss Essie Waites and is survived by her and three children?Nellie, Frank and Emma. He is also survived by his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. ; Furman McEaehern of Wallaceville; ; two sisters, Mrs. Robert Broekin^ton of Elberton, Ca., and Mrs. H. Isabelle of Columbia; four brothers, John McEaehern of Longtown, Edward McEaehern of Rion, Clarence McEaehern and Walter McEaehern of Union. The iunerai win do neio nere ana tne interment will be in Elm wood cemetery. * Mr. MeEachern was a Mason and a Woodman. He was admired and respected by his friends, who grieve his death.?The State. Helps a Judge in Hah Fix. Justice Eli Cherry, of GillisMills, Tenn., was plainly worried. A bad sone on his leg had baffled several doc5 tors and long resisted all remedies. "I thought it was a cancer," he wrote. "At last I used Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and was completely cured." Cures burns, boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. 25c at The Rice Drug Co. FORMAL OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL. Completion of Locks Likely to Delay the Opening?Tentative Date January 1, 1915?Already $322,541,468 Spent on the Great Work. Washington, Nov. 18.?Some time next summer or fall, no exact date being specified, a vessel will pass what is now the Isthmus of Panama which consequently must disappear from the world's geography and by the same human agency, the western Hemisphere will be divided into two continents. The vessel will not be ship, but will be one of the many small water craft in daily use by the canal buildings; and probably the only passengers will be Col. George W. Gothals, who for the past eight years has been carrying on the greatest engineering work the world has ever seen. It will bo fater than that, anywhere from six months to a year perhaps, before the formal opening of the waterway will take place and a naval fleet headed by the famous old Oregon will pass through into the western ocean, and the canal may be fairly said to be open to trade. January 1913, The Date These facts are not of official record as yet; the date of January 1, 1915, still stands for the opening predicted by Colonel Bothals. But that the opening will be anticipated to a great extent has been promised by the canal builders in unofficial statements, and now comes a clear intimation of their purpose to advance the opening date, in the annual report of the canal commission just published. It is disclosed whue the completion of the great locks by January 1 next will not be possible, owing to contract delays, within six month thereafter the channel will be finished, while to insure the safe passage of the locks, the contractor has been called upon to finish the gates in one flight first,1 so that if the rest of the work is in condition passage of ships can be permitted without waiting for the completion of the other flights. This statement will be understood, when it ;s known that the frvpnt lnrlts hpintv hnilt. in Jnn1i~ cate, side by side, not only to add to the capacity of the canal, but to insure its continuance in operation in case of a serious accident to a snip one of the locks. The report shows a most satisfactory state of progress of the whole great work, though in view of the fact that this dated September lo, last, the figures regarding excavation; placing of concrete, erection of dams and locks and subsidiary works are not as recent as those contained in the regular monthly reports. Naturally the most interesting feature of the report relates to the operations in the Great Culebra Cut. Here, great landslides, many ranking with an lpine avalanch in magnitude, have iUA 4. - e 2-?:_i cu mti t'usuu iiiu ciiuuuiit ui material to be excavated that were it not found possible to steadily reduce the cost a yard of dredging and steam shoveling through the growing expertness of the employes and Improved engineering methods, the total cost of evcavation would have been vastly greater than the estimates. During the last year nearly 16,500,000 cubic yards of earth were taken out >f this cut, leaving nearly 12,000,000 to be displaced before the canal can be operated. The damage caused by the slides may be appreciated from the fact that nearly 6,000,000 cubic yards of early excavation was so composed or nearly 36 per cent of the total excavation. The largest single electric sign in the world depicts a baby's face that alternately smiles and sheds tears on the crowd that throngs Broadway, New York. The smile is some twelve feet wide when it reaches its fullest development, and each individual tear is two feet long by ten inches wide. The sign itself is 85 feet high by 106 feet wide. It contains a total of 9,010 square feet of space. The child's head is 40 feet high. The sign weighs 80 tons and contains 4,050 electric lights. UNION PROOF Should Convince Every Union Reader The frank statement of a neighbor telling the merits of a remedy, Bids you pause and believe. The same endorsement By some stranger far away Commands no belief at all. Here's an Union case, An Union citizen testifies, Read and be convinced. W. T. Tracy, 61 S. Pinckney St., Union, S. C., says: "I took Doan's Kidnev Pills when suffering from backache and other troubles caused by weak kidneys and I received eomnlote relief. I reenmmenfl thic romo. dy as being just as represented." Mr. Tracy is only one of many Union people who have gratefully endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your back aches?if your kidenys bother you, don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?ask distinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that Mr. Tracy had?the remedy backed by hoihe testimony. f>0c all stores. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your Back is Lame?Remember the Name." Miss Julia .Smith of Yorkville is the guest of Mrs. P. R. Farr. THREE NEGROES CAUGHT AFTER HUNT IN SWAMPS Prisoners Name White Men a? Ac complices in Attack on Black, and Warrants are Issued. A Aiken, Nov. 17.?Bloodhounds from the State penitentiary scoured the Edisto swamp in this county last night, and after a man hunt which lasted for several hours, three ne* groes were' brought to Aiken this morning and placed in jail. Warrants have been issued for three men nahaec by the prisoners. A prosperous negro farmer named Berry, who lives about seven miles from Ridge Spring, >as driving home last night about 8 o'clock. When in about hailing distance of his home he was waylaid as he was crossing a dam at the edge of the Edisto swamp. In the darknoea V* i?vi n mimhaa a^ ?v4 aia Iicoo IIIII1 a VJ. All V1 4 suddenly appeared and opened fite upon him. Berry ducked, his mule and buggy receiving a load. A bullet passed through his cap. After another volley, which wounded the mule, the negroes disappeared, evidently believing they had succeeded in their purpose. Berry, however, was unhurt. Immediately, acting upon his own initiative, he got into communication with the State penitentiary and requested that bloodhounds be sent to the scene. The authorities would not proceed, however without a money guarantee, and as soon as Berry learned this was the cause 'of the delay, he deposited $100 with a citizen of Ridge Spring to defray the expenses. The bloodhounds were brought through the country in an au tomobile and the chase began. Three negroes, Vance Quattlebaum, Wash Kenner and Phony Gant, were run down and captured and brought to Aiken. The negroes arrested last' night have confessed and implicated nine other men, four white, whose prominence adds a deeper interest in the affair, which is still a little mysterious, and five negroes. The confession puts a different complexion on the whole affair. Warrants have been issued today for the arrest of Daniel Williamson, Ted F. DuBose and Arleigh Gregory and five negroes. DuBose was a candidate for magistrate last summer and Gregory is a nephew of Magistrate Giles Gregory.According to the story told by Berry he incurred the animosity of the negroes of his community some time ago when he informed the white men that a negro secret order which held its meetings at midnight hours was planning to exterminate the white people of the northwestern section oi the county and was maintaining at armory in its lodge room, gathering arms and ammunition for the intended attack. Berry claims the negroes attacked him for this reason. But there is another story. Berry owns a good sized place. Not so very long ago a roadway was opened through his land. He objected, and it is said, has threatened to close it to travel. Obstructions have been placed in the way of those who sought to travel that way, and several times of late, so it is reported, travelers along this road have been fired on at night. "Tells the Whole Story." To say that Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is best for children and I grown persons and contains no opiates tells only part of the tale. The whole story is that it is the best medicine for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis and other affections of the throat, chest and lungs. Stops la grippe, coughs and has a healing and soothing effect. Remember the name, Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, and accept no substitqtes. The Rice Drug Company. A barnacle-covered bottle has just been picked up by a trawler's net off Aberystwyth. The bottle contained a message written by Harvy Akken, of, of Rocklin, Cal., when he was on board the steamship Fenmore, Johnston line on April 5, 1911, when 900 miles from Constantinople. The message stated: "Whoever picks this up please notify me at once, for I have a bet of $500 that it will be picked up before 1915 inside of Elbe and Brest." A reward of $100 was promised the finder, fihmilH if hnnnon f^ Ka q lorlrr What Texans Admire, is hearty, vigorous life, according to Hugh Tallman, of San Antonio. "We find," he writes, "that Dr. Kind's New Life Pills surely put new life and energy into a person. Wife and I believe they are the best made." Excellent for stomach, liver or kidney troubles. 25c at The Rice Drug Co. Twinges of rheumatism, backache, stiff joints and shooting pains all show your kidneys are not working right. Urinary irregularities, loss of sleep, nervousness, weak back and sore kidneys tell the needjif a good rename Kianey medicine, foiey Kidney Pills and tonic, strengthening and restorative. They build up the kidneys and regulate their action. They will give you quick relief and contain no habit forming drugs. Safe and always sure. Try them. The Rice Drug Company. Fire of unknown origin broke out early yesterday morning in the Kershaw Oil Mill at that place burned the roof of the mill proper, a large seed house containing 25,000 tonB of seed and meal houses were completely destroyed. The los Is between $60,000 and $75,000 partially covered by insurance. A FIRE AT BAPTIST ORPHANAGE. Blum on Connie Maxwell Farm Totally Destroyed. Greenwood, Nov. 16.?The barn at Maxwell farm at Connie Maxwell orphanage was destroyed by fire Thursday. It caught from an engine used in driving the corn shredder. Splendid work was done by the boys in an effort to put out the fire, but it was not possible to do so. Besides the barn a quantity of corn, stover and other feedstuffs were burned, also corn harvester and binder. The barn was valued at $600 with $300 insurance. The taotal loss will approximate $2,000 with the $300 insurance loss to be deducted. Master's Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Union. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Nancy Ann Bentley, et al, Plaintiffs. Against Mary Gregory, et al, Defendants. In obedience to an order made in the above stated case I will sell at Union during the legal hours of sale, before the Court House door, on Salesday, Monday, December 2nd, 1912, the following described land, towit: Tract No. 1, known as the home tract of the late James C. Jenkins, containing 119 acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Davis Gregory on the North and East; by the public road, and on the South by land of D. B. Fant and tract No. 2. This tract contains a dwelling house, barns, ginhouse, cribs, and tenant house. Also Tract No. 2, lying immediately West of tract No. 1, containing 117 acres, more or less, bounded by tract No. 1 on the East; South by land of Wm. Gregory; West by F. M. Adams and North by S. C. Crosby. A large pasture, just fenced with the best wire, runs across both tracts. Said land shall be sold in two separate tracts, and then as a whole, the sale or sales, realizing the larger amount to stand as the legal sale or sales. Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance in two equal annual instalments, the credit portion to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises. Said bond and mortgage shall contain provisions for the payment of a reasonable atorney's fee, if they are not paid at maturity. R. C. WILLIAMS, 4G-3t. Master. Master's Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Union. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Mrs. M. L. Scott, Plaintiff, Against F. B. Scott, et al., Defendants. In obedience to an order made in the above stated case I will sell at Union, during the legal hours of sale, laefore the Court House door, on Salesday, Monday, December 2nd, 1912, the following land, to wit: All that certain tract of land, lying being and situate in Pinckney and Jonesville Townships, County of Union, State aforesaid, containing one 1 4. 4. uuuuitru t&uu iwcniy-iwu acres inure ur less, and known as the home place formerly belonging to Mrs. M. E. Scott, and bounded on the North by lands now or formerly belonging to R. N. Sprouse; on the East by lands now or formerly belonging to T. J. H. Smith; on South by lands now or formerly belonging to N. C. Belue, and on the West by lands now or formerly belonging to Clarissa Gault. Also, all that certain tract of land, lying, being and situate in Bogansville township, County of Union, State aforesaid, known as the Gist and Hammond tracts, formerly owned by Charles W. Scott, and containing to getner two hundred and twenty-seven acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands now or formerly belonging to E. Frank Vaughan; on the East by.lands now or formerly belonging to J. H. Sartor and C. R. Roberson, on the South by lands now or formerly belonging to Geo. W. Barnett, and on the West by lands now or formerly belonging to E. Frank Vaiighan, C. W. Whitlock and E. B. Bailey. Terms of Sale: One-third cash, balance in one and two years from date of sale, with interest at the fate of eight per c .nt per annum from day of MUe, secured by bond of purchaser or purchasers and a mortgage of the premises sold; purchaser or purchasers to pay for papers and recording same and to have the option of paying all cash. The above tracts will be sold at the risk of the former purchaser. R. C. WILLIAMS, 46-3t. Master Union County. 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Brown, the merchant whose store near Gantt is alleged to have been robbed on Sunday night, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. This action is said to have preceded a petition II which the creditors of the merchant R I were preparing to file. |U Removal Notice! I have moved my lum- ^ ber yards to location Ra near the Power House. _ I carry a full supply of D1 best Lumber and all W kinds of Building Ma- ? terial, always ready for 01 delivery either vcbel _ or phone orders. Your ? patronage is solicited. I and Satisfaction Guar- U anteed. Respectfully. ps Lawrence Smith. 4 Phone A 3fc. L", itter Stock I I Great Values in T DS. > N AND BOYS, OTIONS X trading at our store. > T fery purchase. Every X Uall and be convinced, OlVf i IEET. f 5TES STAND. V cing That Old lie Figuring! en cents a day for a year. >n fuel alone. YEAR AGO IT WOULD F BEFORE THIS. ion in using a stove you n't burn your baking and len the stove has paid for the way of fuel and food fou will get from its use i id we save you money on i Oil Stoves and Fireless \ ,E Y UMBER CO. . ?THE? IIXIE CAFE IS NOW SERVING FRESH 9RF0LK OYSTERS w, Stewed or Fried. Raw Oysters Sold in Bulk. EGULAR MEALS 25c PEN DAY AND NIGHT ' k mm mm ^ m mm mm IIXIE GArE Phone 72 ILLOS & BEUSSARY, Props. t r. James Jeter, a student of ClemCollege, is spending some time at' lome in Zantac on a sick furlough. -SS %. i w? ^ t* ../-V Ay rtjj' -vfL*3' .L.1 F ' U- tf-Sl? u&- i. < 1 ' " 'd f Sir-. &M ll*' :*;