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GENFRAL NEWS NOTES. items of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Senator Gorman gave out an int-r view last week iav,)rii-g sending un instructed delegations to the St. Louis convention. The democratic !tate co nve11,in of Indiana instructed its thirty deletates to the St. Louis convention ti,owa for Judge Parker f,-r the presidentlai nomination. A Coast line freight Jumped the track near Fayetteville. N. C.. on Tharsday evening and was wrecked. the engineer being killed and the cul ored fireman being hurt. The Japanese lost their tirst -hip of war while re: :n mines from Kerr bay, when a torpedo boat was destroyed. The ecalties -cre seven killed and seven wounded. Steve Pace. a negr.. was hanged at Birmingham. Ala.. on Friday for the murder of Jesse Simmons. also colored, in 1896. Pace is the fifteenth murderer hanged by the same sheriff during the last four years. In a prize fight in Fresno, Cal., on Friday night, Johnny Bryant was pounded into insensibility by Walter Robinson. a negro. and received in juries from which he died in a few hours. Joseph Newnan. of Wilmington. N. C., a traveling salesman for a Cm cinflati distillery. committed suicide at Detroit. Mich.. on Thursday. It is said that grief over the death or a brother led to the act. Miss Clara Barton has resigned the presidency of the American Red Cross, and has been succeeded by Mrs. General John A. Logan. who has heretofore occupied the o .ice oi vice president. A passenger train was wrecked at Rockfish trestle. in Virginia. last week. The engine and six coaches left the track and twc Pullmans were left ianging over the trestle. Pas segers and crew escaped unhurt, but two negro tramps riding on the top of a Pullman were killed. The republican convention of Illi nois. after two days of fruitless bal loting on a gubernatorial candidate, on Saturday took a recess until yes terday afternoon, when balloting was to be resumed. This is the most re-1 markable convention in the history of the party in Illinois. Frederick Beach. a well known so ciety man of Chicago was led by an eloquent sermon to a confession oi embezzlement, and was placed under arr6st and is now awaiting trial. He may also be tried on the charge ot bigamy. He had left Chicago and haa settled in Dallas, Texas. He was taken back to Chicage The French line steamship La Lor aine sailed from New York for Havre on Thursday with $9-3oo-ooo inl goa bar.s and specie in her strong. room. the most valuable shipment .of gold which has ever gone out from New York. The ship is worth 54,000.000. the general cargo $1.ooo.ooo. and these items. added to the sum represented by the gold, made the La Loraine the most valuable steamship which has ever put out from New York. A famous Zaw suit in the New York courts has been decided by the con clusion reached that Charles Fair died before his wife. It will be recalled that Mr. and Mrs. Fair were killed in- an automobile accident in France in 1902. Mr. Fair leit an estate valuea 1at $7,ooo,ooo which was killed to his wife and hence the difficulty arose. At. the session of the forty-ninth convention of Southern Blaptistis. at Nashville on Sat':rday. contributtions aggregating $52.9 were made to the endowment fund of the Theological Seminary at Louisville. There were several gifts of S5.ooo each, one com ing from a Boston tnan and one from an Atlanta woman. - Fire at Batson. Texas. on Friday afternoon destroyed eighteen der ricks, five drilling rigs and twenty two tanks, containing 13,ooo barrels of oil. Tom WValker mounted a lad der in an effort to ctut off the flow of oil. but fell into a mass of burning oil and timber. and was slowly roast ed to death while the spectators look ed on. helpless to reach him. Prof. D)anton. the Hungarian high diver. 10.: his life at R;leigh. N. C. .m T'rida- nigt. iIe w.h one of the attractions of the carnival at that place. and iII making his tIo-foot dive into a tank o. water below he made a slight miscalculation and his head and shoulder.e cane in contact with the side .4 the tank with such violence that he died .o0 afterwards. Mayor Allan A%. Moss. of Newport News. Va.. who I! a candidate for re election. \Villian T. olss. a pr mi ient attorney ani brother ,f the maVor. and Robert \\. Perkins. one of the managers .-f the campaign f,-r Samuel R. lhxti..n. the mayor's 'p pinent. were arre.ted fir fighting in the street. The 1ght grew 'ut ot the inav-r calling Perkins ti acc4punt f,r alleged nalic-us slander. It has inst cInte t. light that the lat e E.. L. \\'em;z. thle yo ug milli<m - re Vilo diappeared si myster10115 :e "Ine time ag. and wh11e body was found near Big Stone Gap. Va.. recently. niv a few dav previ.us to is death exect ed a will in which he left his entire f.-irtune to Mrs. D. It. \\entz. wife of the brther with whom he was ., cl)sely associated through the years oi their residence at Big Stone Gap. This will. dated on!v a few days before his tragic death, lends a color to the theory or suicide. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. - Col. J. H. M. Clinch, an uncle of Governor D. Clinch Heyward. died at his home in Savaninah on Saturday. aged 8 years. It has been announced that the con tract has been signed for building the trolley line at Neal's Shoals. on the Seaboard railhva. to Union. Constable M. S. Davenport. . 0! Greenwood. whro killed a negro at Ninety Six. has been granted bail in the sum of .!.oo. State Senator J. \V. Ragsdale. of Florence. has announced his candi dacy for congress in opposition to the incumbent, the Hon. Robert B. Scar borough, of Conway. The Anderson Telephone company. hich manufactures instruments, has increased its stock from $16.ooo to $30,000. Everything in Anderson seems to be prospering. The police force of Charleston ar rested forty cows running at large on Thursday morning. By midday the greater portion of the cows had been redeemed by the payment of $2 in each case. Former Governor Sheppard. of 1Edgefield. says that he will n.wt i e mi !hc race for congress in the Second district this summer, as has beer re ported in several quarters. Congressman Johnson has secureai or nyve exConfedlerates in this state who had hor'ses taken awvay from hem by federal s 'ldiers after the srrendler of the Confederate armies. viuchers for reimbursement. John \Williams.,ec.>lired, was given a preliminary hearing at Fort Mill on Thursday on the charge of having committed a criminal assault upon Rose \Vhite. a -To-year-old colored girl. Williams wvas committed to jail to awvait trial. It is reported in the News and Courier that since the lawv requiring all fires of a supicious nature to be re ported to thg comptroller* general went into effect the're hiave been an average~ of about ten fires reported ev'y day at his office. While attempting to arrest two tun known negroes late Saturday after noon. Magistrate Win. J. Cox, of Greenwood county was shot and killed. The negroes whom he at tempted to arrest were supposed to be trasporting contrabrand liquor. Robert Sanders. a negro tenant or near Aiken, wvas shot and killed on Wednesday enight. Henry Gray, a white miller, is charged with the crime- Sanders' wvife stated that Gray shot her htusband on account of a dis pute abouitt s .me corn which had been stolen from Gray's mill. Ravmond Brown, the 14-y-ear-ola son of Mr. D. F. Brown. the keeper of Elmwood cemetery. Columbia. w~as lrwii'd on Thtursday in the canai. near the C.. N. & L. railwvay trestie4 Three oif the young man's ciompanionls mit the"e in time to see him (drown. Tah attmpted to save him: hi: their efforts were futile Tie. h-mvisnme home of C~apt. A\. 1-1. Fuster. at nion. was totally de str(iyed by ',ire on Friiday morning. 'he 14oss being between SI;.000 and S.zo.ooo. which was partially iir-ure(j. PracticalIV the inly thing 'If value SaVed was the large portrait of Ge' rge \\'ashingt' ni given Fo ster's grandfather by \VasIhington him.i-. \\.alter \lil l .. was shi-t and kiiled h Earle Riivcheer, near Seneca. ,n Tliirsdav. B th tIe par:ie. xwre y white 111n Ln1 farmer'. The tr. oble is -ripp, i-ed it haVe arisen ve r a c, INV. .ill claiming that Richee had :.h t his c,w. R -ceIc-ter su'!rrenI ,r..\ lill * leave, a wife anl small chil!ren. It is rep.irted fr,,tm Greenville that a .ce n the Anderson side f ic the line. in which Maggie Pres-ley. yer, of age. an -,rphan girl. wa whipped and criminally assaulted by six ying men. has beeii conmpr' im i-ed. It is Said the affair took place In fte aftern-win and that all the sC-11un drels acco,1mplished their hellish pur pise. That night the girl bz,d mn violent convulSi_IIs. and it Was thought she 'vould die. but she recox - ered. The sudden termination 4't the case without prosecution has been bitterly denounced, and it is like Ilv that citizens will demand an in Svestigation. Buying A Tie. "I don't know just what color I do want." said the young man to the girl who presided at the tie counter. "What color would you get if y:u were me.' "I don't know," replied the girl, doubtfully. looking at him. "You've got blue eyes. but you're sort of dark complected." "Your eves are brown. ain't they?" The girl dropped the lashes over them. effectively. *I think a blue would be real becoming," she said, ".but you could wear a red one just as well." js Red siits you." said the young I man admiringly. "How would this do?" asked the girl. "What's that?" -Forty-eight same os the others." "I mean what do you call the tie?" "Oh, that's as ascot." "I'd have to tie that myself, wouldn't I?" "Sure." "Then that lets me out. I never could tie a tie and I haven't anybody to tie it for me. That's pretty hard luck, isn't it? Have you got a bow?" "I don't know as it's .any of your business," said the girl. "I meant a bow tie. Course I knew you had a beau-a dozen of 'em. When a lady's got your looks she ain't going to be undersocked with beaux." "-You're a jollier. ain't you?" saia the girl. "Not so's you'd notice it. I would n't try to give you a jolly, anyway. I wouldn't give you anything but the straight goods." "I don't knowx.' said the girl. wit a somewhiat softened manner. "I'd hate to trust youi. Hoxv wvould this boxy do?" "I'll take it if yotu say so. If votu think it's all right, it's all right for me." "Was there anlything more?" "You don't keep these matrimonial ties, do you?" "You'll have to go around to the court house for one." said the girt: "we don't carry them. Customers would be bringing them hack al1 the 'time and wanting to exchange 'ern for something dise. .Ca-ash!" "You ain't so slow, either," said the young man. .Our Bad College Spelling. Leslie's Weekly.I .\lnch is said in the newvspapers about college English. The people~ ithin and without college wxalls dIe care that students write badly. But there is a thing more fundamental than their poor English style'. it is te matter of thleir spelling. Many, college mien. as proved by essays. cnno(t s.pell. They freqttently make the' mistakes o4f transforming writing into wxrittinig and of dining into din ig'-an echii probably of the noise of a college dining room. Butt pooir spelling is not conl lnedl to college sttudents. College profess ors are not free from the blame. A letter lies before the writer in whiich the disiinisi'ed head ot a most im p .rltm (depa rtmilent in a:n Amer'icani e..llge dIecl are' thIat a cert ain calld: iconpetent. A . New England co-I lege profe:sr ha. recently Said that III niaking application for a place in Engli-h Aeveral candidate,, wrote of the sa!ery. Of i curse. al-'. a mao may lack c,ltre and spell c,,rrectiv. Speiling i- mwre ,r le-s of an arbitrary hit -f knwedge. 1But whatevcr ma he he psychldogical relatwi. .f 'he airt. thle :.ch,el shhl teach boys~ a:ivI! -irh '. 1, . By iinc-rrect spell Ing tIhe h;,gher raiges learning arc English Hotel Rates. L.a-, winter Mlr. and \rs. \\hiting Allen -taed a few days at a hotel at )xifird. Enigianid. says th.': llr cc klynt Eagl1e. \\hen the bill we p:ent ed i: .k Mr. Allen'- breath. to -ty PERFUM FERY AS LONG AS We have Just r( LazeI's Fiq and one dozen I mizers and as lo 2 We Will Give Oni to each customE ounce or more tracts at the regi cents an .ounce tracts will please your money bacl POPULAR ODORS: CRAB APP RUSSIAN \ JAPANESE CARNATIO FIF11 Gp!der, Weel !THE RIGHTED IThetLeadinglI Ring up No. 74 for + STORE. Orders + ANSWERED ( Prescriptions from * berry filled at any h *We sell three boi article for $2.50. + We carry the best + at very lowest prices |Wmn. E. PELI . Reliable Prescri; * Newberr le'thing of most of is ready money. "Y oun't have to have ma:., ,uests at that rate. do yo,.?" he asked. wvith a t-uch of sarcasm. "Sir." said the landlady. haugh,iy.. -this hotel is ;oo yeras .ld. "Yes." MIr. Allen repon1e( qui'etiv, b-t we haven't been here all that im. viu know." Thlin .Mrs. Allen pi-t on the finish ,g :.,d by a -ding in an oiocent "I th..ught that bed mus, have een .ce: pied ab, -ut that . ing lb ardIr- I think th i chicker ai tmst have been namied Ann. .andlady--\\' iat miake(-- y(u think iB-rder --It's age - :::certain T.gn T pics. ATOMIZER EE .. . THEY LAST. 3ceived a lot of I Perfumes Perfumery Ato ng as they last i Atomizer Free r who buys one of Lazell's Ex ilar price of 50 .o Lazell's Ex you, if not get (, LE BLOSSOM, 'OLET, ROSE, N, ( GENTS AN OUNCE is & Hunter, RUG STORE. Pharmuacists PELHAM'S DRUG over telephone PROMPTLYa any Doctor of New our, day.or night. tles of any $1.00 + S medicines and sell lAM it SONj tiOn Druggists,0 -y, S. C. I0000.0.