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Volume 18.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, October 28, 1899.
Number 28
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1,oris of Keei'iit Engagements In
South Africa.
London - , Oct, 25. — A special dispatch
from Cape Town, dated 9:10 this morn
ing says there has been a battle at La-
dvstnith and that the Boers were re
puted. The British casualties were
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GENERAL SYMONS.
placed at four killed and seven wounded,
all rank and file.
Goueral White has telegraphed to the
war office from Reitfontien, under date
of Oct. 24, saving that in the fighting
near Ladysmith 12 of the British force
were killed and 89 wounded and that
five are missing, the casualties being
mostly among the Gloucester regiment.
A special from Ladysmith, dated Oct.
23, sr-ys the troop of the Eighteenth
buss ars, which got astray in pursuing
tile Boers alter the battle of Glencoe,
lias arrived at Ladysmith, the troopers
having fought their way-through with
the loss of three horses.
15.nl For L >r<l Wolsck-y.
T::r- commander in-chief, Field Mar-
fcal Lord Wolselev, has apparently been
now convicted of “doctoring” official
rejorts irom the front, and there is a
ttuous demand on all sides for a re-
ver,:.m t : the earlier practice, when tho
re Ports of General Sir Stewart White,
ike British commander in Natal, wero
given out rextnally as scon as received.
commander-in-chief : s summary
teat; iu the house of commons yesterday
E pciie of General White having fought
n successful action, whereas General
''kite’s own account puts an entirely
different complexion on the situation
a nd reduces the movement to its prope r
proportions, and shows that further ex-
c hiug intelligence may be expected
irom the same quarter at any moment.
It is quite evident that the war m
Antal has only commenced and that the
Boers are by no means discouraged at
losiug the first two battles, and many
Aperts are satisfied that General Jou-
kert is even now close to tli9 heels of
tke British, and that a decisive action
thny be fought today or tomorrow.
Natal May Be Annexed.
The main fact that the British were
forced to evacuate the Natal triangle,
which the Boers naturally rightly claim
a s a conspicuo us success and which they
may even emphasize by a proclamation
annexing northern Natal, is proving
an unpalatable pill to the public, whose
appetite has been whetted by the previ
ous successes, which had been assumed
to be greater than they really were, as
the determination and gallantry of the
Boers enabled them to quickly reorgan
ize and achieve desired objects by other
methods.
Later estimates of the Boer losses at
Elandslaagte give 300 killed. Their
coolness, bravery and good aim can be
judged from the fact that out of 17 or
IS officers with the half battalion of
Gordon highlanders four were killed
a u>i 13 were wounded, while the casual
ties among the rank and file were 27
Per cent, during less than three hours’
kgkting. Lieutenant Campbell of the
Gordon highlanders has since died from
kis wounds.
Bismark’s Iron Neryq.
Was the result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and tre
mendous energy are not found
"’here stomach, liver, kidneys and
h>\vels are out of order. If you
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hey bring, use Dr."King’s-New Life
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Killed and Wounded.
WOLSELKY AS DhiCSIVER
h reo State Troop* Rose.
A dispatch from Cape Town says that
General Whire has engaged the Orange
-'ree State Boers who were advancing
on Ladysmith about 7 miles northward
and that it was believed the advance
had been repelled. This is probably an
other version of yesterday’s fighting as
a.ready known.
General Whire this morning officially
notified the war- office that the bullet
had been extracted from General Sy
mons’ wound and that he was doing
well. 6
Other dispatches from Cape Town say
that a dispatch from Mafeking confirms
the statement that 50 Boers were killed
by the explosion of two trucks of dvua-
mno purposely sent out by Colonel
Baden Powell to draw .the Boer fire.
Tho offer of General Cron je, the Boer
commander in the vicinity of Mafeking,
to Colonel Baden Powell to exchange
prisoners referred to Captain Newbifct
and others of the armored train wrecked
at Kraaipan.
Some significance is attached at Cape
Town to the proclamation issued at
Pretoria by the Transvaal government
with the view to safeguarding British
property.
Dutch to Help Burghers.
The situation in the west is becoming
complicated. The Boer proclamations
ot annexation and the claims of a vic
tory at Glencoe are likely to induce the
Dutch to side with their countrymen
already in the field. It is said, for in
stance. that the Boer forces have evacu
ated Yrybnrg, which, it is added, will
be garrisoned by the iocal Dutch, among
whom are prominent Bundites and gov
ernment employes.
It is also Observed that the Dutch be
yond Griquatown are only awaiting en
couragement to declare for the Trans
vaal.
Advices from Philipstown yesterday
say that the searchlights of the Kimber
ley defenses were visible the previous
night and that therefore Kimberley is
still intact.
The latest dispatches from Kimberley
give details of the arrangements made
by tue British commander, Colonel
Kekevvicbe, for the defense of the town.
The meat consumption is limited to a
pound daily and a fire brigade has been
formed. Miles of barbed wire surround
the town. The Boers remain out of
reach of the guns.
Hot Debate Over Kruger.
Daring the debate on the second read
ing of the appropriation bill in the house
of eomimons today, James H. Dalziel,
Liberal, member of the Kirkcaldy dis
trict, expressed the opinion that one of
the greatest difficulties in arriving at a
settlement with President Kruger had
been that, rightly or wrongly, the pres
ident had believed Mr. Chamberlain,
the British secretary of state for the
colonies, and Cecil Rhodes were identi
cal. He added that Mr. Chamberlain
had given grounds for this belief by
suppressing telegrams, whereupon the
colonial secretary tartly intervened, say
ing:
“I have never suppressed telegrams.
I have not gpt them.”
Mr. Chamberlain also denied that he
had refused to see Dr. Montague White,
the agent of the Transvaal who, the co
lonial secretary added, had never ap
plied for an audience.
The speaker, William Court Gulley,
intervened at this juncture, and de
clared that all references to such mat
ters were out of order.
Boers In High Spirits.
.The London Standard’s special cor
respondent with the forces at Lady
smith, who was captured by the Boers
and released at the battle of Elands-
laagte, in describing his experiences,
says:
“Unsoldierly as the Boers might
seem, there was no mistaking their
physical fitness. Nearly ail of them are
strong, powerfully built men, while a
few are veritable giants.
“They were all in highest spirits; for
instance, on the night of our capture,
our field cornet was introduced to pre
side over an impromptu smoking con
cert. It was amnsing to see a Joban-
nesbnrger playing the piano with his
gun still slung over his shoulder, while
his more rustic comrades stood around
spellbound. They sang ‘Transvaal
Yolkslied’ with immense fervor.
“The one subject of their talk was
their resolute determination to fight to
the last for the independence of their
country.”
Armored Train Fired On.
A dispatch to The Morning Post from
Kimberley, dated Oct. 21, via Orange
river, Oct. 24, saj T s:
“An armored train was engaged this
evening. One of our men was killed
and two trucks of dynamite were re
moved from the town tor safety and
were blown up by the Boers. The Boer
loss is uncertain.
“The Boer artillery moved around,
trying to dra'w the force covering the
town. There was a small engagement,
bnt nothing of consequence happened.
“We are completely isolated, but as
safe as a bank. Not one man has left.
Rain is approaching.
“Our troops met the enemy, cutting
the line today, and a Maxim gun on the
train did good work and cleared away
the wreckers/ 1
FREIGHT RATE CASE HEARD.
Discrimination Alleged by Charleston
and Wilmington.
Washington, Oct. 25.—The interstae
commerce commission has been engaged
for the past two days in hearing argu
ments in the cases involving the freight
rates on the railroads running into Wil
mington, 1M. C., and Charleston, S. C.,
as compared with the rates on the same
lines into Norfolk.
Yarions railroad lines are involved,
including the Norfolk and'Western, the
Chesapeake and Ohio, the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Southern—in fact,
all the liues from Chicago, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville and other westj
ern points to the southeastern seaboard.
The charge is that of discrimination.
The Wilmington case was first heard.
In this case William A. Day appeared
for the city and Edward Baxter for the
railroad companies. Mr. Baxter also
represented the railroads in the Charles
ton case, and J. P. K. Bryan appeared
for the city.
Counsel for the cities based their pleas
upon the general charge that the rates
from the west to Wilmington and
Charleston were unlawfully higher than
those to Norfolk, Richmond and other
Virginia cities receiving the Norfolk
rate.
Replying for the companies, Mr. Bax
ter contended that the rates were
neither unreasonable, unjust nor un
duly preferential.
The first critical period in a
woman’s life comes at the pass
ing - of her girlhood. How to
preserve the daughter’s health
at this crisis is the problem
that confronts every mother of
girls. Mrs. J. M. Riggs, of Car-
terville, Mo., solved the prob
lem. - She says :
,‘ < 2& dau £ hter Josie during the winter
pt 189,-98, suflered a complete .breakdown
in health. She was thin and pale, had
no appetite, and was so weak that 6he
was unable to walk to school. Those who
knew her condition said that 6he was in
the first stages of consumption. Shortly
after school closed, on the advice of a
neighbor, we began giving her Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. The
effect on her condition was marvelous.
Before she had taken half a box her
condition was improved, and she kept on
gaining appetite, strength and tiesli until
she was entirely well.
“She took three bottles of the pills
and to-day there is not a healthier, more
robust looking girl in Carterville. She is
fleshier and healthier than ever before in
her life.” Mrs. J. M. Riggs.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me, a Notary Public, this 15th day of
October, 1898. Wm. Wolcott,
Notary Public.
JFrom the Journal, Carterville, Mo.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
contain, in a condensed form, all the ele
ments necessary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are an unfailing specific for such dis
eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis,
St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia rheu
matism, nervous headache, the after-effects of
la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions, all forms of weakness
either in male or female.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are never
sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in pack
ages. At all druggists, or direct from the Dr. Wil
liams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y., 60
cents per box, 6 boxes $2.50.
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
LONG NEWS STORIES REDUCED
TO A PARAGRAPH.
Fire at Milton, Fla., destroyed 3,000,-
000 feet of lumber owned by Chaffin &
Co. and worth about $35,000.
Serious storms, accompanied by floods,
prevail iu the southern districts of Italy,
working widespread damage.
It is stated that John D. Rockefeller,
the Standard Oil company magnate, is
about to increase his mining to a large
extent on Texada island. B. C.
General Jiminez has been elected
president of Santo Domingo.
J. Skelton Williams has been elected
president of the Florida Central and
Peninsular railway.
Dock Robinson and James Jones,
farmers, fought a duel to the death with
knives near Huntsville, Ala.
Secretary Long has issued an order
assigning Admiral Dewey to special
duty at the navy department.
The North Carolina board of agricult
ure has made an appropriation to secure
a creditable state exhibit at the Paris
exposition.
The census office is sending out a
large number of letters and circulars
President Lonbet has pardoned Emile
Arton, who in 1896 was sentenced to j intended to perfect the work of makin
eight years’ imprisonment for complic- 1 a complete census on dairy products,
ity in the Panama canal frauds. * | Lolldoa authorities have decided upon
At a meeting of the board of directors j ^he novel municipal step of devoting
of the Nashville and Decatur railroad, | £io,000 to the erection of a building to
the lease of the road for 99 years to the j shelter families whose houses are iu
Lonisviiie ana Nashville railroad was [ p roce ss of disinfection after outbreaks
ratified.
Ten former Spanish soldiers, who
were captured by Filipinos and for a
time acted as officers of native artillery,
determined to surrender. The plot was
discovered by the insurgents, who killed
seven of the conspiritors, the other three
escaping to Manila.
§ Y §
Spaniards are emigrating to Cuba,
and Havana believes 200,000 will arrive
within a lew months.
William Appleton of the publishing
firm of D. Appleton & Co., is dead at
his home at Riverdale, N. Y., aged 85
years.
William Bennett, one of the oldest
and best known furniture manufac
turers in the country, has filed a deed
of assignment at Louisville.
The United States transport Thomas,
the finest troopship afloat, sailed Irom
Cramps’ shipyard for New York, where
she will go into drydcck to be painted.
Chicago medical students threw bot
tles of ammonia and other missiles at
Dr. John A. Dowie, a “divine healer,”
and the police with difficulty saved him
from serious injury.
Congressman Champ Clark of Mis
souri, in an inierview, predicts that
Bryan and McLean will head the Dem
ocratic ticket in 1900 if McLean wins in
the Ohio campaign this fall.
$ * $
The British channel squadron has
been ordered to proceed to Gibraltar
next Tuesday.
The firm of Mitsui & Co. of Japan is
considering a plan to establish a new
transpacific steamship line.
A report from an authoritative source
says Sir Thomas Lipton, the cup chal
lenger, will invest $500,000 in tea cult
ure in South Carolina.
The plans for the three new battle
ships authorized at the last session of
congress will provide for the largest
and most formidable vessels in thenaty.
Advices from Bogota, Colombia, say
that a Liberal revolution has started in
the department of Tantander and Toula.
Military law has been established all
over the republic.
After a two day’s session of the di
rectory of the Pullman Palace Car com
pany in Chicago it was announced that
the Pullman company had absorbed the
Wagner company.
Question Answered.
Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civiiized world. Your mofhers and
grandmothers never thought of us
ing anything else for indigestion or
biliousness. Doctors were scarce,
and they seldom heard of appendi
citis, nervous prostration, or heart
failure, etc. They used August
Flower to clean out the system and
stop fermentation of indigested
food, regulate the action of the liver,
stimulate the nervous and organic
actiou of the system, and that is all
they took when feeling dull and bad
with headaches and other aches
You only need a few doses of
Green’s August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious the matter with
you. Sample bottles at H, B. mcmas-
ter,,Waynesboro, Ga., and H. Q.
Bell. MilleD, Ga.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
Tbe famous little rills.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles. Scalds, Burns.
of infectious disease
§ § §
Sir Thomas Lipton announces that he
will try for the America’s cup again in
1901.
William P. Lord of Oregon has been
appointed envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to the Argentina
Republic.
Emperor William will exhibit the
Frederick the Great collection of curios,
literary treasures and French paintings
at the Paris exposition.
E. P. Ingham, United States district
attorney under Harrison, and H. K.
Newitt, his assistant, have been con
victed in Philadelphia of conspiracy to
aid counterfeiters.
Governor Candler has called on Sur
geon General Wyman of the marine
hospital service to protect the towns of
South Georgia against the yellow fever
refugees from Miami, Fla.
The Alabama Boys’ Industrial school,
chartered and endowed by the last state
legislature, will be located near Bir
mingham, and bids for erecting the
main building have been asked.
§ § §
The people of Marion, S. O., have
presented Lieutenant Victor Blue with
a loviDg cup.
Leota, a lion tamer, was severely bit
ten on the thigh by one of three beasts
she was training at Atlanta.
The Tennessee conference, Methodist
Episcopal church, south, has raised its
total subscription to the twentieth cen
tury education fnnd to $10,000.
The Forty-eighth volunteer infantry,
now at Fort Thomas, Ky., has been or
dered to proceed to San Francisco
preparatory to embarking for the Phil
ippines.
The Kansas City and Eldorado rail
road has been sold to the Missonri, Kan
sas and Texas railroad company for the
amount of its bonded indebtedness,
$225,000.
The governor of Mississippi has -par
doned Charles O. Summers, the noted
express robber and ex-Pinkerton de
tective, who voluntarily returned to the
prison several weeks ago to serve out an
unexpired sentence.
New Road to Coal Lauds.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct il.—Frank
Edwards, engineer of the Southern rail
way, is in the city providing himself
and his corps of surveyors with an outfit
for an engineering expedition prepara
tory to locating a line for an extension
from Parish, Walker county, to the
Warrior river. The distance is about
25 miles. The purpose of the branch is
to reach the rich coal lands that lie
along the route. It is understood that
the extension will be built at once.
Yacht Columbia a Victor.
New~York, Oot. 20.—For the third
time the defender Colnmbia today de
feated the British challenget^Shamrook
in the international yacht races for
America’s cup. This concludes the se
ries and the highly prized trophy will
remain on this side of the Atlantic for
at least another year. The American
boat crossed the finish line two-thirds of
a mile ahead of her rival.
President King, Farmer’s Bank,
Brooklyn, Mich, has used DeWHt’s
Little Early Risersjn his family for
years. Says they* are the best.
These famous little pills cure con
stitution, billiousness and all liver
and bowel troubles. H. B. mcmas-
teb, Waynesboro.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.
NINE STATES REPRESENTED,
Southern Commissioners of Agricult
ure Meet I11 Atlanta.
Atlanta, Oct. 24 —When the con
vention of commissioners of agriculture
of the southern states was called to or
der here this morning Louisiana, North
Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Georgia and Texas were repre
sented, while Commissioners Atkinson
of West Virginia and Koiner of Virginia
were expected during the day. The
gathering was presided over temporarily
by Commissioner Stevens of Georgia,
who originated and called the conven
tion to meet here. Its objects ate to
discuss the cottop situation and to at
tempt to bring about snch legislation as
will be beneficial to the farmers and to
effect a plan for uniform classification.
Governor Candler cf Georgia was in
troduced and welcomed the delegates
on behalf of the state. He spoke of the
condition of the farmers of the south
and said the Georgia farmers will wel
come any movement along the line
which the convention proposes to act.
Mayor Woodward of Atlanta wel
comed the commissioners on behalf of
thd'city.
The addresses of welcome were re
sponded to by Commissioner Leon Jas-
tremski of Louisiana, who represented
Governor Foster and the agricultural
department of that state. He said the
convention should pass a resolution
looking toward preventing the business
disturbances which arise every year
over the wild and unreliable estimates
published from time to time regarding
the cotton crop.
Temporary organization was effected
by the election of Commissioner Jas-
tremski as chairman andvRoyal Daniel
of Georgia as secretary. The conven
tion adjourned until 10 o’clock tomor
row morning.
M’SWEENEY ASKED TO ACT.
People of Yt-mitssee Think Fever Has
Appeared There.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 24.—A letter
from Yemassee reached Governor Mc-
Sweeney last night from a reliable citi
zen of that town, situated on the
Charleston and Savannah railway,
where it is crossed by the Port Royal
and Augusta road, that it was believed
yellow fever had appeared there.
Clint Stevens, a young white man of
that place, who has been in the lower
part of Florida, returned home sick a
few days ago and died soon afterwards.
His little sister was taken ill and has
died. The people there think it is fever
and Governor McSweeney was asked to
take some actiou.
The governor, impressed by the char
acter of his informant, immediately tel
egraphed Dr. Stewart of Beaufort to
proceed to Yemassee by the next train,
investigate the case and wire him his
report. If it proves to be yellow fever
immediate steps will be taken to pro
vide protection.
Bewar of Ointments for Catarrli that Con
tain Mercury.
As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it through the mucous
suifaees. Such articles should never be used
except on paeseriptions from reputable phy
sicians, as tlie damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall’s Catarrli Cure manufactured by
F. J. Cheney* C’o,. Toledo, O.. contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol
the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in
ternally, and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J.
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
£@"Sold by druggists, price 75. per bottle
In Full Swing.
Our lumber business swings father
every day.
We sell more lumber to the same
customers and sell to more customers
than we did a year ago.
We have built up our lumber busi
ness upon the principal that a dissatis
fied customer is the worst kind of ad
vertising we can do.
We have no dissatisfied customers.
* h any man who buys our goods
thinks he is dissatisfied, we buy the
goods back and give him his money,
and he is just where he was before.
This would be a ruinous policy for
us if we were not selling lumber so good
that few people want their money back.
Our lumber is worth more to the
people who buy it than the price of it.
We make our guarantee, not be
cause we think people will want their
money back, but because we know they
won’t.
This is the way we have built up a
large paying and lasting business” in
selling lumber and manufactured wood
work.
Your smallest order will be appre
ciated.
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Western Mules For England.
New Orleans, Oefc. 25 —The Canard
steamship Corinthia sailed at 3 o’clock
yesterday afternoon with the third con
signment of pack mules for the British
army in South Africa. She carried
1,400 animals, 200 more than was orig
inally intended, and Major Fallen, the
veterinary officer, expressed himself as
highly pleased with tho arrangements
on board. He said that there would
probably not be more than 1 per cent
loss. — .
Germany to Keip Hands Off.
Berlin, Oct. 25.—The Tageblatt de
nies the statement of The Eclair of
Paris that Germany, after promising
assistance to France and Russia for the
purpose of intervention in the Trans
vaal. seems now to withdraw it. The
Tageblatt declares: “We believe we
are well informed when we state that
the German government did not par-
ticipate in any combination for inter
vention. ”
General Symons Is Better.
Cape Town, Oct. 25.—Intelligence re
ceived here yesterday from Natal says
the bullet has been extracted from the
wound of General Symons, who was
struck down while leading his troops
at the battle of Glencoe, and that the pa
tient is cheerful and doing well.
Removed the 31 igistrate.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 25.—Governor
McSweeney has removed Magistrate G.
McD. Barrett of Snmter county for
failure to turn over certain sums col
lected by him.
WHITES AND BLACKS FIGHT.
Little Town of Searighf, Ala., a
Scene of Terror.
Searight, Ala,, Oct. 24.—This town
was a scene of terror early yesterday
morning. The negro employes, of the
turpentine stills were paid off Saturday
night and hundreds of them, both then
and women, came here to get drnnk and
take possession of the town.
Finally a row started in Falk’s .bar,
and dozens of pistols were fired. Then
bedlam reigned for an hour or two.
The white men got togeiher, armed
themselves and scattered the negroes,
who subsequently rallied and started
back. They were met near Dnnsten’s
stable and a partial engagement ensued,
the whites finally succeeding in forcing
the negroes hack to the camp.
Three negroes are reported shot. The
tacks are still in the swamp and the
white men are, with determination,
awaiting their return.
Two Indicted For Assault.
Darlington, S. C., Oct. 24.—Indict
ments have been returned against two
of the seven men accused of assaulting
a young woman here two weeks ago.
Ed Lucky and Thomas Mitchell were
the chief criminals. Lucky has con
fessed, and it is expected that the young
woman will not Have to take the stand.
. The other-five were accessories, bnt how
gnilty has not been developed. The so
licitor is holding their cases off until the
others are disposed of.
Vance Statue For Raleigh.
Raleigh, Oct. 24—Artist Elliott of
Washington, who is making the statue
of Senator Z. B. Yance, informs the
committee that it will be completed by
March or ApriJ. The unveiling will oc
cur here on May 20, North Carolina’s
state holiday. It is proposed that all
the national guard of the state shall
parade and that there shall be a large
body of Maryland and Virginia troops
and of confederate veterans in attend
ance.
SENSATIONAL DAMAGE CASE.
DEWEY UNABLE TO COME.
Controls Fertilizer Output.
Charleston, Oct. 24—A deal was
closed today whereby the Yirginia-
Carolina Chemical company acquires
the Edisto Phosphate company for $200,-
000. The Virginia-Carolina company
now owns all bnt one of Charleston’s
fertilizer companies, and by the recent
acquisition of properties in Savannah
and Colnmbia, practically controls the
fertilizer product of the south.
No Bight to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely in face
form and temper will always have
friends, bnt one who would be at-
ractiye must keep her health. If
she is weak, sickly and all tud
dowu, she will be neryous and irri
table. If she has constipation or
kidney trouble, her impure blood
will cause pimples, blotches, skin
eruptions and a wretched complex
ion. Electric Bitters is the best
medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to
purify the blood. It gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety
skin, rich complexion. It will
make a good-looking, charming
woman of a run down invalid. On
ly 50 cents a bottle at h. b. mcmas
ter’s drug store.
Affidavits Filed by the Seaboard’s
Lawyers In Raleigh.
Raleigh, Oct 21.—Five years ago an
ice factory, the property of the Hygienic
Ice company of Charleston, S. C., was
burned. Last year the company brought
snit against the Seaboard Air Line,
claiming the fire was caused by sparks
from one of irs engines. Last summer
the superior court gave a verdict for
$20,000 and costs against the railway.
The case is before the supreme court
and today £ great sensation was caused
by the filing of affidavits that the
negro engineer of the factory, John
Branch, set fire to it. One affidavit is
from the engineer’s brother, that he
went with him and saw him set fire to
the building, the engineer saying that j
he would be well paid for it. The en
gineer is now dead.
The affidavit says the ice company did
not bring snit until after his death. An
other affidavit is that the negro, who
was a witness for the ice company, was
paid for his services in that capacity.
Physician Advises That He Abandon
His Southern Trip.
Washington, Oct. 21.—By advice of
his physician, Admiral Dewey has can
celed his proposed trips to Philadelphia
and Atlanta, and wiil accept no more
invitations.
The following official statement on
the subject was made at his office here
today:
“Acting on the advice of his physi
cian, Admiral Dewey finds that it will
be necessary to cancel the engagements
he has entered into to visit certain cities,
and to decline ail invitations for the
present. He finds that the mental
strain incident to snch visits is seriously
effecting his health. ”
It was said by one of Admiral Dewey’s
friends that this is not to be taken
as an indication of any alarming condi
tion in the admiral’s health, bnt that to
a man of his temperament, the excite
ment and mental strain incident to the
various public functions in which he
Las been a participant have proved mi*
usually trying. He will remain as quiet
as possible for the balance of the winter,
and it is hoped by next spring he will
be able to take a short trip south and
visit some of the places whose inhabi
tants have been so anxious to welcome
him.
The invitations for his Philadelphia
and Atlanta trips were cancelled by tel
egraph today and the situation was ex
plained to the Charleston delegation,
which was anxious for him to include
South Carolina in his southern journey.
The admiral’s indisposition will have
no effect on Lieutenant Brumby’s visit
to Atlanta- • ,
KILLED IN HIS OWN STORE.
A Pistol, Ga., 3Ierc>iaut Accidentally
Slain or 3Iurdered.
Washington, Ga., Oct. 21.—John
Lovinggood, the junior member of the
firm of Ramsey & Lovinggood, at Pistol,
Ga., was killed in his store by the dis
charge of both barrels of a shotgun.
Dillard Herndon of the same place was
the only one in the store at the time.
Herndon stated that the gun was
lying on the counter and Lovinggood in
moving something strnck the hammers
against an upright piece of counter,
thereby causing the discharge of both
the barrels into the bosom of the store
keeper. On the other hand Lovinggood,
before bis death, said Herndon shot him.
The victim died within half an hour.
He leaves no family.
After the affair Herndon leisurely
went to his home. As yet there has
been no inqnest or arrest. Both parties
are prominent citizens of northeastern
Wilkes. There is g.-at excitement at
that point.
NEGRO BURNED AT A STAKE.
Five
f Fiend Who Himself Cremated
Put to Death.
Canton, Miss., Oct 20.—The little
town of St Anne, 20 miles east of Can
ton, in Leake county, was last night the
scene of a horrible tragedy—a sequel to
the burning of the Gambrell family the
night before. Joe Leflore, a negro, who
was captured by a posse, confessed that
he, in company with other negroes, had
tied Mrs. Gambrell and her four chil
dren to the floor of her house, saturated
the surroundings with kerosene and
burned the unfortunate people alive.
The negro, after the confession of hia
awful crime, was promptly roped to a
stake and burnednto a crisp while the
citizens looked on in grim silence. An
other negro, Bob Anderson, was saved
just in the nick of time, as some doubt
existed as to his guilt.
“When our boys were almost
dead from whooping cough, our
doctor gave One Minute Cough
I can’t say too much in its Cure. They recovered rapidly,”
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cures coughs, colds, grippe and all
throat and lung troubles, H. B. mc-
Master, Waynesboro.
His Life Was Sared.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citi
zen of Hannibal, mo., lately had a
wonderful deliverance from a fright
ful death.-^Jn telling of it he says:
“I was taken with typhoid fever
that ran into pneumonia. My lungs
became hardened. I was so week I
couldn’t even sit up in bed. Noth
ing helped me. I expected to soon
die of consumption, when I heard of
Dr King’s New Discovery. One
bottle gave great relief. I continu
ed to use it, and now am well and
strong.
praise.” This marvelous medicine
is the surest and quickest cure in
the world for all throat and lung
trouble. Regular sizes 50 cents and
$100. Trial bottles free at H. b.
mcmaster’sDrug Store: every bot-
guaranteed.
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im