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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29
The shnmrock shows Iaer Speed.

New York, Aug. 23.-Sir Thomas
Lipton's new challenger for the
Americas cup, the Shamrock H., had
her first trial spin in New York bay
yesterday, and although it only last
ed 81 minutes, it was a most salts
factory performance from start to
finish. Sir Thomas Upton and De-
signer Watson, both of whom were
on board the yacht during her trial,
expressed themselves as perfectly sat
islied with the result. In sailing
about eight miles direct to windward
against a two-linot tide, she covered
the distanace in 81 minutes, and the
reach back of six miles in 40 minutes.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29
Taken ont Alive.

Cleveland, Aug 2O.-Two men, Adam
Kest and John Eugine, who have been
in the tunnel ever since the fatal fire
at crib No. 9, were taken out alive at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. They
We're brought ashore in the tug Cham
berlain and taken to hospital.
The meT had undergone a terrible
experience. Since last Tuesday they
have been imprisoned in the tunnel
with nothing to eat and with foul air
to breathe. They were terribly ENACT.
ated, and it is miracle that they
were brought to the surface alive.
They may recover.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29
Arrangements Made by Daughters of
Xeternns and Naval Xeterans.

Cleveland, Aug. 21.-The headquar-
ters of the Daughters of Veterans
during the national encampment of
the Grand Army will be in Parlor c.,
the Hollenden. The room will be
open from a. m. to IL p. m. every
day from September 8 to 13 inclusive.
The convention will be held Septem-
ber IL and 13 in the Masonic temple
and will be called to order promptly
at 0 o'clock.
The National Association of Naval
Veterans will have its headquarters
at the Weddell, which will be opened
September 10. The naval parade will
form at 9:30 o'clock that morning and
will move at 10 a. IN. 1t will be re-
viewed by Rear Admiral Melville, rep
resenting the secretary of the navy;
Commander-in-Ch Chief Rassieur, of the
Grand Army, and others.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29
wouId-be Lynchers are Fooled.

Lebanon, Ky, Aug. 2I.-An unsnc-
cessful attempt was made Friday to
lynch Dan Hotten and Charles Shipp,
who are confined in the Marion coun-
ty Jail, charged with murder. The
mob called at the house of Jailor
Clayton, but his wife refused them
the keys to the jail. They then went
to the jail and began to batter
the door, when Officer Brent opened
fire on them. The mob returned the
fire, but no one was hit. They then
dispersed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29

Austin, Tex, Aug. 24.-The house of
representatives has refused to pass a
resolution to impeach State Treasur-
er Robbins for having a large amount
of the states money on deposit in the
First national bank of Austin when it
failed recently,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29

Constantinople, Aug. 24.-The
French ambassador, NJ. Constans, has
sent letter to the sultan informing
him that he would leave Constantine
pie with the entire staff of the em-
bassy if the matters in dispute were
not settled Immediately. The letter
is an ultimatum. 1t accords the sui
tan the briefest delay within which
to comply with the demands.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29
All Have Signed for Next Year.

Pittsburg, Aug. 24.-The Pittsburg
baseball club, which now leads in the
National league, has signed a.. of it's
players for next season. The first
official announcement of this fact
was made Friday by President Drey-
fus, in answer to the claim that
Beaumont, Lever and Wagner have
been captured by the American
league for next wear.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-29

Roanoke, Va, Aug, 24.-John Fu-
gate, a negro, u years of age, was
hanged at Wise, Va, yesterday, for
the murder. on June 6, of Martha
Wells, a colored woman. Fugate dis
played great nerve on the scaffold,
confeSsing his guilt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
The Doctors Indiscretiou.

= "There is no profession which calls
for the use of more discretion than the
profession of medicine remarked
a well-known physician of this city.
Just to give you an instance:
IS | came home late one evening after
a very busy day, and was told by the
Office boy that certain Mrs. S. had
called me up three times on the tele-
phone. AS her young hopeful had scar
tel fever, and I was afraid he had
taken a sudden turn for the worse, I
got central to connect me with her
house without delay.
g The misses has gone to bed, SIR
said the voice of a maid in reply
but she was SO anxious to know if she
could wash Tommy's face
80 =. called back that she had better
ask the nurse if it was dirty. Now
they have another doctor. New
York Mail and Express.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26

PlSGAH NEWS.

The rains still come but the crops
are in such shape that the plowing has
gone on. We are about a week be-
hind Crops have come out some,
but no estimate as to the probable
outcome can be made as yet.
Mr.. Oliver Mosely lost his baby and
it was buried yesterday at Mt. Olivet.
Miss Hattie Vinson who has been
visiting her brother, has returned to
Sumter to the regret of her friends.
The death of Mr.. Harry Ryttenberg
was received here with sorrow. He
has many friends who will miss him
when they 60 to Sumter. He was a
pleasant man to meet socially, and in
business. He discharged the duties of
Chairman of County Board of Equal
ization so we'll and pleasantly that he
was unanimously reelected this year.
The death of such a man is a public
loss.
Pisgah, June 25.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
EXCURSION TO the FOUNTAINS.
Two Days in Asheville.-.Round Trip

The Asheville Excursion is moving
along smoothly and the biggest crowd
that has ever gone from Sumter on
an excursion will leave for Asheville
on the morning of July 9th. The con
tract has been closed with the South
ern Railway for train Of five OF the
best passenger cars. or more if neces-
sary, and there will bes no crowding
and everybody will have seat. The
train viii leave Sumter at $50 a. m.
Tuesday, July 9th, and will run
through to Asheville as a special,
making quick time and will arrive at
o'clock o. m. Returning the train
will leave at p. m. Thursday, July
1lth. It will be a delightful trip and
the stay in Asheville is long enough
to allow ample time for the excur-
sionist to visit many OF the points
of interest in and near Asheville.
The excellent system of electric rail
ways extend TO all parts of the city
and to all the resorts within several
miles of the city. Transfers are given
on all lines, and the city can be COW
cred by sightseers at minimum ex-
pense. 1t will be great trip and a
cheap trip. Fare for the round trip
from Sumter So IS for adults, s1.S5 for
children.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
why THE DITCH WAS OPENED.
Explanation Made by Health Officer
Reardon.

Your article disappearing the digging
and cleaning out of bitches on Bart
lette and Council streets, necessitates
an explanation in behalf of City Coun-
Gil and Board of Health. The under
ground wooden drains in Bartlette and
Council streets leading to main outlet
at Cemetery Ave. and Graham street
were rotten and stopped up, and there
were several caves in the line of
drains. These two drains carried the
surface and underground drainage
from Washington, Sumter, Bartlette,
Dugan and Council Streets and from
the Graded school Easements. These
drains were not only too small but be-
ing obstructed banked up the water
during the excessive rainy spell, in
the yards of large number Of citizens
and flooded the streets and surface
drains with foul smelling and stag
nant water and mud and other refuse,
and also flooding portions of Graded
school basement. Complaints were
made to Health Officer and Superin-
tendent of Streets, L. E. White, who
tried to relieve the situation, but with
out success, and I disinfected the
drains and streets, but it was raining
almost constantly and the sanitary
condition became serious menace to
the public health. Dr.. J. a. Mood a
resident Of that section, concurred with
me in the belief that while there was
some danger Of fever in opening up
and cleaning the ditch at this season
of the year, that there was, however,
much more harm in letting the stag
nant and offensive water and refuse
remain for an indefinite time over
such a large and thickly settled por-
tion of the city. So I requested Supt.
of Streets to open up and take out
defective drains and let the water eff
with the result that sanitary conditions
in that section are much improved.
There were several cases of fever in
that immediate section before that
work was started, but no new cases
have developed since Every shovel
full of dirt was disinfected before and
after it was thrown out, as was the
entire line of bitches, and each day all
of the excavated earth was saturated
with powerful deodorizer and germi-
eide several times.
I was present during most of the
work and took all sanitary precautions
possible. The City Council and Board
of Health do not usually permit ezca
waiting of this kind of earth during
June, July, August and September,
except in cases Of emergency like the
present, when it is necessary to choose
between two evils-a temporary risk
by excavation or continued source Of
infection. The Graded school base
ment was water soaked in consequence
of this obtruction in the drain in
Warrington and Bartlette Street, but
I disinfected the basement and the
water has also drained off since.
E. l. Reardon,
Sectv. and Health Officer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
CROPS AROUND HAGOOD.

Hagood, June 24.-Here it is the 24th
of June and some people are not yet
through chopping cotton. Who would
have thought it? No wonder the farm
ers are gloomy. l hear that some are
returning their stock to the mer-
chants. The other day took trip
around the country and saw plenty of
grass, and small cotton. Mr.. ". j.
Young of Remberts had the best cot
ton crop, W. J. Mcleod the best corn
I saw. If the outlook for cotton
crop in other places is like that of
Sumter County it is poor prospect. [
hope no fellow, who wants to make
''good pull'' on his lien, will blame
me for the above.
Optimists and pessimists have their
use. was in company with one of
the former the other day, and feeling
very blue when he said. "Some years
ago I was farming in Marlboro coun-
ty, and things were looking just as
gloomy as now, but: l harvested one
of the finest crops l ever made" This
man is fine farmer. There is no
use to ''cross the bridge before you get
to it, Let US do good and trust in
God and all will come out right. By
far the greater amount of peoples
troubles are the creatures of their
own imaginations. \ fellow said his
hair stood on end one night, and his
heart was in his mouth when he saw
a huge grisly form in the path just
before him. Almost paralyZed with
fear he went up to it, for he could
not turn back, when he found only
bush. Plenty of people have vivid
imaginations that they see ghosts in
the day time, great, frightful fellows
that are too discouraging. The wise
Man. tells US the sluggard says a
lion is in the way: we laugh at him
and say it is his laziness.
What is our lion? Not laziness may
be. but no more real than his. Do not
cross the bridge before you get to it, "
it will not help you, but unfit you for
duty for life, and steal away the pre-
sent happiness. God is over all.
Much sickness in the community.
Eddie, the second son, bright little
fellow, of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jack
son, has been quite low, but we trust
his recovering under the efficient care
of DR.. Mclaughlin.
Mr. G.. L. Emanuel's youngest boy
has been very low but is out Of danger
now.
In spite of the wet, farmers are keep
ing the grass down.
Very truly yours, Civis.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
Old Folks Home For colored People.
Pisgah, June 25.

Lowry Institute and Industrial
School, Mayesville, S. c., June p,
1901. On the 9Th inst, an Old Folks
Home was organized, under the care of
the Lowry Institute II was also de-
cided that they would make an appeal
to the generous public for this Insti-
tuition. And that they will not at
tempt to take the old folks in until at
least 8, 600 are raised for said pur-
pose. And that all funds be placed in
the Bank of Sumter, Sumter, S. c.
w NJ. Boley, Prest.
DR.. W. c. Strother, Secty.
Alfred Mayes, Treas.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
NEWS FROM BiSHOPVILLE.

Bishopville. June 24.-We can
chronicle rain, occasionally we miss it
"a hours. It takes men of valor to
face this crisis, which is now upon ag-
riculturists. They will fight on, some
will surrender, but the bottom will
not be allowed to drop out, too much
revolutionary vitality is in rs yet to
allow that. We are weakening,
though, year by year and none there
are to encourage US, NO one solely and
only striving for the betterment Of the
farmers.
AS to sudden matrimonial CO.
partnerships formed in this section
during the current year, we could
mention ". H. Hem and Miss Baker,
A. o, Bennett and Miss Emma Beas-
ley, Willie Stewart and Miss Brad
ley, Lemon and Miss Magnolia Col
lins.
Credit and honor should never be
withheld from the Catholic Church
for the firm and consistent cause they
have practiced and advocated during
their whole history in the matter OF
divorce. We have been whether we
admit it or not, Influenced by them
and even go so far as to refrain from
licensing persons to marry. We
should tho have system Of recording
marriages, births and deaths at a
nominal cost, and the next Legislature
might arrange it so the humble could
have little history recorded.
Grass is overrunning cotton within
300 feet Of our Opera House.
DuBoses bridge is twisted, or at least
the approach is washed away. No such
high water has ever been known.
Scarborough Bros had s acres. of
cotton covered with the yellow water,
Samuel, son of W. R. Remington
who has been sick with fever for some
weeks is improving.
Rev. Mr.. Tarbeau returneud mis-
sionary of the NJ. E. Church, South,
accompanied by his family, is with
Rev. Mr.. Walker.
Elder Moore, of the old North State
preached yesterday morning and even
ing in the Primitive Baptist Church.
From the luck the work which is
being done by our chain gang has of
washing away it might be suggested
that hereafter all work be laid off by
a competent engineer before underta-
ken. 1t is next to the impossible for
a man without instruments to perfect
ly ,lay out work while 80 hands are
idly waiting.
Miss Wilson of Baltimore is visiting
her Brother, Rev. a. P. Wilson.
Miss Wilson attended services at the
Baptist Church last afternoon and
greatly helped in making the singing
attractive.
There is strong talk of erecting a
Masonic Temple.
Mr.. J. Wesley Stuckey is building a
dwelling house on Dennis avenue.
There is talk of the National Master
addressing the Grangers Of Sumter
County in the near future. j.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
Means Business.

I have removed my grocery and
fruit business from Liberty street to
Main street and can now be found at
the store formerly occupied by julius
Edwards, barber shop. i have clean,
fresh stock and will be glad to serve
all my old patrons and the public gen.
orally. Prices low as the lowest :;
goods the best quality on the market.
EDMUND R. MURRAY.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
BIsHoPvlLLE NEWS ITEMS.
Teachers and Bank Officers Elected
Personal and Crop News.

Bishopville, June 25.-At a meeting
of the board of trustees. OF the Bish,
opville Graded school which was held
here yesterday afternoon sthe following
teachers were elected for the ensuing
year: Principal, Prof. j. B. Atkinson
of Chester, assistants Mrs. May
Hughes of Chester, Mrs. Annie Lane,
Misses Louise Walker and Lima Brad
ley of Bishopville.
Owing to the excessive rains which
still continue, the crops aresssmall and
in bad condition and the farmers are
blue over their present prospects. 1t
is reported that in many places where
the lands are low that the cotton has
not been chopped or plowed since
planted, but under the influence OF the
warm sun which is beginning to shine
bright today cotton may recuperate.
Corn which is being laid by in places
is small and bids fair to yield only
one-third or one-ha1f crops.
R. o. Purdy, Esq, of Sumter spent
last night in town. He is one Of the
directors of the new bank which is
being established here, and came over
last night to attend the first meeting
of the directors of that institution.
Rev. Mr.. Phillips of Lynchburg fill
ed ssthe pulpit in the Baptist church
last Sunday afternoon. He has accept
ed call as pastor and his regular
appointments will be the End Sunday
in each month in morning and 4th
Sunday in the afternoon.
Rev. Tarbeau of the Brazil mission
preached an excellent sermon at Metbo-
dist Church last Sunday morning and
again at night.
Rev. a. J. Moore, of North Carolina
held services in the Primitive Baptist
Church last Sunday, preaching a very
forcible sermon in morning and again
at night.
Miss Elizebeth Wilson, of Baltimore,
is visiting her brother, Rev. A. P.
Wilson.
Misses Fannie and Berta Williams,
two OF Eastover's charming young
ladies, are spending few days with
their friend Miss Amy Kelly.
Miss Ollie Holmes, Of Gainesville,
spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. ". D. Carnes has improved and
has gone to the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. a. Galloway, at Ionia,
to recuperate.
The bank officials who were elected
last night by the board of directors
are as follows:
j. F. Woodward of Bishopville,
president, J. S. Corbett of Bishop
Vile vice president, W. R. Scarbor-
ough of Bishopville, cashier and 4.
O. Purdy Esq, of Sumter, attorney.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
Don't Let Them Suffer.

Often children are tortured with itching and
burning eczema and other skin diseases, but
Bucken's Arnica Salve heals the raw sores,
expels inflammation, leaves the skin without
scar. Clean, fragrant, cheap, there's no salve
on earth as good. Try it. Cure guaranteed
Only CSC at FW DeLorme's.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26

\ letter to the daily Mail, dated
Cape Town, June ), confirms the Pro
Boer report, and says the invaders
number anything from seven to ten
thousand; that they are swarming all
over the eastern and midland districts
and getting recruits and horses.
The Daily Mail remarks that confr-
nation of these assertions is needed,
but if this information is correct the
country has been entirely misled re-
garding the extent CT the invasion.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
Discharged for Doing His Duty.

For assisting Sheriff Merrill of Car
roll county in reprlsing the mob
which sought the life of Ike Williams,
the condemned murderer, on Friday
last, at Carrollton, Mr.. L. z. Fletcher
was discharged as clerk in the store of
J. G. Bass. Fletcher, as a good citi-
zen, could not do otherwise than aid
the sheriff: besides, he boarded at
the residence, and in protecting the
jail he was protecting his family.
Bass ought to be boycotted and ostra-
cised by every good citizen of ECarroll
county.-Dublin Courier Dispatch.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26

sk,n affections will readily disappear by
using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Lock
out for counterfeits. If you get DeWitt's
you will get good results. 1t is the quick
and positive cure for piles S Puebson L
q
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26

Spartanburg, June 24.-This after
noon at $50 o'clock, Will Thompson,
colored, was cut by white man, Her
belt Harrison. Both had been drink
ing. The negro's head was almost
severed from his body There are con-
hicting tales as to the cause Of the
difficulty. The negro's jugular vein
was not severed, but he will hardly
recover.
Cradock, Cape Colony. June %
The detachment of the Colonial
Mounted rifles which was attacked by
the Beers at Waterkloof June 20, was
pursuing Commandant Malan, when
Gen. Kritsinger surprised the Rifles
camp at Waterkloof while the Colonial
troopers were saddling up. The fight
lasted two and a half hours.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26
Meteorological Record.

The following is report of observatioos
of the weather taken at Stateburg, by Dr.. W.
W. Anderson, for the pas. 63 days-from
April Is to June l6, 1901:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-06-26

Montgomery, Ala, June 22.-The
Constitutional convention today COM
pleted the article on executive Office.
The most interest during the day
attached to the section providing that
when a sheriff allows a prisoner to be
taken from his custody and lynched
the governor shall Immediately in
stitute impeachment proceedings
against the officer, and he shall be
suspended from Office during his trial.
The plea was made that as the con-
vention was about to take from the
negro the right of voting, the State
should show to the world that he
would be protected by the law. The
section passed.
Cradack, Cape Colony, June 23.-In
an engagement at Water Kloof, June
20. the British lost eight men killed
and two mortally wounded and had
four men seriously wounded In addi-
tion, so men out of the Cape Colony
Mounted Rifles were captured. Capt.
Sandow is reported to have. been
wounded and one Boer was killed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-08-24
A Plain Talk to Men.

You do not have to 60 any other town any other
store to buy anything you wear for we have every
article in mans toilet from sock to whole suit OF
clothes
New, new, new, new Socks, new Suits, new Shoes,
new Hats, new Shirts, Neckties, new Collars new
Cuffs new Suspenders They not only new but they
are up date the most sensible Styles and you guar
anteed your moneys worth in anything sell you. We
msrresent goods and is as good as
our bond.
No one else sell you good merchandise for less
money than and few for the because we buy
for cash the bulk of goods direct from the manufac
turer the producer the first hands, and you don't have to
pay any middemans profits; that's why give you
better values for the money and the same goods Tor
less money than competitors
We handle the best goods made because they are the
cheapest in the long rum for then you get style in the
makeup perfection in the h and full satisfaction in the
comfort and service you get out of them.
Knowing these things, why look elsewhere?
We have just received direct from the factory at
Brockton Mass, 300 pairs "Packards $350 Mems Fine
Shoes in all the styles and shapes The stock is the
finest tannage of Chrome Calf, Veuer Calf Glazed Calf
Vici Kid Glazed Kangaroo Patent Enamels and Patent
Leathers These shoes contain fully fifty cents pair
value than put into any $3.50 shoe before
and for service and comfort have no equal You don't
have to break them in, they easy from the start.
We also received this week two hundred suits OF
the famous K N & f. Co. clothing, which is of the
best lines of clothing made careful inspection OF their
S1O $3.50 and SIS suits will convince you they have no
equals for style, service and satisfaction
We also have new bargain suits so cheap that you'll
wonder if we stole them. mans whole suit, heavy
fall weight cloth only $780, genuine heavy weight all
wool, black diagonal worsted suit only $3.50
We would respectfully invite an inspection of our
exceptional values before you buy your fall suit.
1.-THE Best Merchandise for the Least Money"
J. M. COOPER & CO.'S.
cHAc MORE F. MANAGER