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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
Plans For 10000 Spindles.

The Manufacturers Record announc-
ed last week particulars regarding con-
tract awarded by the Dan River Power
& Manufacturing Co., for the construc-
ton of a $780, 900 dam and power-house
on the Dan river near Danville, Va.
The contractors-the j. w. Bishop
Company of Providence and Boston
are now preparing to proceed with the
work, and will push it to completion
as rapidly as possible. The Dan River
corporation has now about decided as
to the character and extent of the cot
ton-manufacturing plant to be built In
connection with these w~ater-power de-
v%elopments. 1t contemplates building
for $4,000 spindles, with looms and
ether machinery in proportion, but has
not definitely determined as to the
character Of goods to be produced.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
A $500, 600 Finishing Plant.

Last February the Manufacturers
Record announced particulars concern
ing the extensive finishing plant to be
established by H. ". Wheat, president
o. Gaffney Manufacturing Co., and his
associates ct Gaffoey, S. c. The con-
struction work has since been in prog
ress, and will be pushed steadily to
completion. Nicholas timer Of Atlanta,
Ca, being contractor for the main
building, a 100x35O-foot structure. 1t
has been decided that the Gaffney
Manufacturing Co. will own and ope-
rate the new plant. and It's capital
stock during the past week was in
creased from $500, 300 to 100000 in
order to pay for the plant. AS was stat
ed previously, this plant will contain
equipment for bleaching yarns and
piece goods, dyeing yarns, warps and
piece goods, printing piece goods, and
tor washing, soaping. tentering, caLen-
dering and finishing cotton goods by
the various processes in use. The Gaff-
ney Manufacturing Co. operates 5000
spindles and 1400 looms on plain print
cloth, and when the finishing plant is
completed will change it's product to
fancy dolby wcaves, dress goods,
waistings, ETC., in accordance with an
nouncement made last February.
Messrs. Lockwood, Green & Co., Of
Boston are architects and engineers for
this finishing plant.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
Anderson's New Road.

Anderson, Specialize secretary Of
State of Georgia has issued a charter
to the Tennessee, Georgia and South
Carolina railroad. This Is the new road
which is projected to run from Char
lesion, Tenn, to this city. It is learn
ed here that there has been a delay III
securing the charter in this State. The
South Carolina law provides that no
charter shall be granted to a railroad
unless at least one of the c%orporators
is a resident of the State. This require
ment was overlooked in the applica-
ton for a charter recently made to the
secretary of State, and the defect will
be remedied in another application
which is 1901 to be made. Mr.. W. B.
Frink Of Chicago, who Is one of the
promoters of the road, has been in
correspondence with Anderson parties
and writes that he will be here during
the latter part Of this month, and that
he is anxious to meet Anderson people
and explain his scheme fully 70 them.
He declares that the road will be built,
and says that work will commence on
securing the rights of way, making
surveys, ETC., as soon as the charter IL
secured.
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Against Child Labor.

Chicago, Special. Hampton Moore
Of Philadelphia was elected president
of the National League OF Republican
clubs by reclamation. The league plat
form as adopted endorses President
Roosevelt's administration, uphclds the
protective tariff, deplores the coal
strike and urges a speedy adjustment,
condemns combinations Of capital
whose purpose is self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
at the expense of workingmen Of the
public or to increase the cost of the
necessities Of life. The platform says:
"We depreciate the employment Of chill
dren Of tender age at prolonged and
exhaustive labor in mills, factories and
mines and in all %unhealthful vacations
as ar evil which calls for such legisla-
ton by the proper authorities as will
protect the young in their morals,
health and growth"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
From Across The Sea

Turkish troops killed So and wound
ed 112 Bulgarian revolutionists in
Macedonia.
Captain Sverdrup's Arctic expedi-
tion received a great welcome on its
return to Christiania, Norway.
Edmund Jellinek, the Vienna bank
officer who embezzled S1,150,000, has
been found dead.
United States marines continue TO
preserve free transit on the Isthmus
of Panama.
Manila, By Cable.-The American
column under Captain Persching,
which went out against the Maciu
Moros in Mindanao, has attacked the
enemy and captured three Of their
forts. The Moros stood but a short
time against the American artillery
fire. Twenty Moros were killed and
many were wounded. There were no
American casualties.
A section of French opinion favors
help by the Latin race to South
American Republics which may be
menaced by the United States.
Surgeon ]. C. Perry, at Manila, re-
ports to the War Department that
cholera was introduced into the Philip
pines in Chinese vegetables.
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How He Escaped.

Florence, Special.-Amos Singleton,
a negro convict, escaped from the gang
about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
having filed his chains while the guard
was sleeping. It was reported from
Sumter today that while fleeing he shot
Policeman A. D. Owens there Saturday
night. Singleton was sentenced to five
years on the gang for the shooting Of
Truluck, at Timmonsville, about two
years ago. He had served part OF his
sentence. He was a bad darkey, and
Owens, whose life has paid for his f1del-
ity to duty in trying to arrest the es-
capped convict, had been warned against
trying to take him. The story as told
the States correspondent was that the
policeman saw the negro and called to
him to halt, but the negro ran behind
a house and the officer followed him.
Just as he turned the corner the negro
fired, the ball taking effect instantly.
The negro had turned as oon as he got
behind the house and was waiting for
his pursuer. His home was in Sumter
and after his escape superintendent
Powell of the gang went over there to
look for him, but returned yesterday,
reporting that nothing had been heard
from him. Evidently the negro was
lying in concealment until Mr.. Powell
left.
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Miscellaneous Matters.

Members Of the American Fedora
ton OF Catholic Societies are signing
a petition to President Roosevelt to
use his good Offices to end the strike.
The American coal strike already
has made an impression on the Bril-
tish coal market, and if it continues
for another six months ~householders
in London will have to pay $40 a ton
for fuel, says q Tribune dispatch from
London.
After vain efforts to find some lam
guage which could be understood by
the unknown man who was recently
taken from the Bowery to Bellevue
hospital, where he was treated for
malaria, the doctors have decided the
patient is insane. He was taken to
the hospital on September 1st, and all
efforts to get him to talk have failed,
although fifteen languages were tried.
John Mitchell, in another statement
for the miners side of the coal strike,
answers arguments Of George B. Baer
and Abran s. Hewitt
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At The North.

Seven thousand mep are engaged
in the elaborate army maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
A special from Sylvangrove, in cen.
trail Kansas, says that place was
visited last night by a snow storm
which developed into a fierce storm
Of sleet.
William Cotter has been appointed
manager in charge Of operation Of the
Missouri Pacific railroad company, St
Louis and Iron Mountain and South
ern railway and leased operated and
Independent lines. He will make his
headquarters in st. Louis.
An attempt was made to wreck q
Philadelphia and Reading express
train late last night at Broakes cross
ing, a short distance below Potts.
town, Pa.
w. H. Tuesday, president Of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Is himself a sufferer from the coal
famine, says a Greenwich, Conn, dis
patch to The World. He Is said to have
offered a wholesaler in New York
$500 cash for 100 tons, and was re-
fused.
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LABOR WORLD.

Kansas farmers offer as high as $3.50
q day and board for ~harvesters.
All the miners in the White Oak dis.
trict OF West Virginia have returned to
work.
Sewer laborers at Chicago have
struck for an increase Of twenty-five to
fifty cents a day.
II is said that the Southern textile
mills employ $4,000 children under six
teen years Of age.
Farmers in Ontario, Can, find It
difficult to obtain help, even though
S1.75 a day and board is offered.
The strike of the Chicago City Rail-
way employees has been compromised,
the men, however, gaining many con-
cessions.
m e%ight-hour day, this to include time
taken for meals and in going to ard
from their work.
Among the working women in Bel
GUM there are 10000 who earn less
than thirty cents q day. Only 5000
earn more than fifty cents and only
800 more than eighty cents a day.
The work Of organizing the retail
drug clerks Of Baltimore into a union
to affiliate with the Federation Of La
Dor has begun. An e%ight-hour work
day will be demanded by the union.
There are now six cities in the Sheet
Metal Workers National Alliance,
which was formed recently. as follows:
Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn,
Pittsburg, Chicago and Atlantic City.
Unskilled laborers are very scare at
Cincinnati, Ohio. The wages have
gone up from $1.35 to 50 a day, and
ever to 1925. The city is paying SIZE
a day Of eight hours, and many jobs
have gone begging.
Workmen employed at the Cha de
Construcciones Metalicas, at the City
of Mexico, Mexico, went out on a strike
recently. The strike was made because
a demand for more wage and shorter
hours Of work was not complied with
b. the employers.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
A $4,000 Improvement.

The stockholders Of the j. NJ. Odell
Manufacturing Co. Of Bynum, N. c.,
held their semi-annual meeting last
week. Improvements were decided upon
to require an expenditure Of about
$4,000, and new stock for that amount
will be issued. The capital thereby in
creased from $4,000 to Sic, 900. The
betterments will be mainly the install
lation Of $50 looms $50 that the com-
pany car manufacture into cloth the
product of yarn from it's 5000 spindlesj
and the construction Of a new dam ten
feet high to replace the present four
foot dam. W. l.. London of Pittsboro,
N. c., was elected secretary and general
manager to succeed Clarence P. Emory,
lately deceased.
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At The National Capital.

The Secretary Of the Treasury has
issued a circular identically the same
as that given out Tuesday in New
York, with this addition: 1.-THE other
satisfactory securities referred to
must for the present be the State or
municipal bonds Of the character per-
mitted to be accepted by savings
banks under the laws Of such States
as have legislated on the subject"
A second operation vas performed
on President Roosevelt's injured leg,
the abscess falling to heal as sue
cessfully al was expected.
The total sum paid in government
pensions from the Revolutionary War
to and including the val with Spain
is placed at $2,900,S54,302.
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the town, they gave me trouble. "heir
father was a member of the council, an
elder in my church, and had favored
his boys as much as possible; but one
night, just before Christmas, they
broke into a hardware store and stole
a keg of powder and hid it in their
stable loft. They had planned to blow
up the %calaboose. The city marshal
(old Sam Stewart) found it and arrest
ed the boys and brought them before
me for trial. l put it off until next
morning. That night / went to see tae
father and mother. She cried, Of course.
and he choked up IS she talked. Mine
goot friendt-i has been Drayin' over
dis ting aEcrt niCe pcys and it seems
to me de goot Lord say mine poys is
goin' to queet. Dcy take it all from
ne. has been in de ~calaboose In
Stockholm a hundred tines. but Won
day ] oueet. shost queet rigt of all a
sudden. and / pe!ieve if you will try
my poys one more time dey will queet.'
And sure enough they did quit, and
grew up to a good manhood. One OF
them is the cashier of the largest bank
in Memphis, and the other the head OF
a hardware house in Louisville, Ky.
Sometimes l think that it is the hale OF
a mothers prayers that reclaims many
a maynard boy. If the young man
would only stop and ~think-think OF
the watches of the night when he was
a teething infant tugging at an empty
breast for milk while the poor, tired
mother changed him from side to side
and longed for the morning. l have
wondered how they survived II, and
why they would go through the ordeal
again. A man wouldn't, and not all OF
them will help and comfort the poor
rother when she feels for the first time
her first born's breath. But We must
not give up the bows. May be they will,
like the prodigal son, come to them
selves and "Queet." BILL ARP.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
kEWSY GtEANlNCS.

China will not secure mint experts
from the United States.
Japan has ordered a complete armor-
plate mill from q Sheffield firm.
The rainy season in Nicaragua has
started, but is four months late.
New Zealand has purchased n Of
the largest coal mines in that country.
Major-Genera Corbin declares that
the German Army is among the best in
the world.
\ music trust is reported from Italy
to do away with the great number Of
publishers.
Since August so there have been
;235 cases of cholera in Egypt, with
G651 deaths.
The French Government proposes in
the coming budget to reduce sugar tax
alton by $S,O00,000.
The big lioness Sultana, Of the Paris
Zoo, has been successfully operated
upon for appendicitis.
An understanding has been reached
by German steamship lines which puts
an end to competition III BraZlllan
rates.
A new rich gold field has just been
discovered in Northwestern Arizona,
but lack Of water hinders develop
ment.
So many matched roofs in the Trans
vaal were burned during the war that
a boom in American galvanized iron is
expected.
The agricultural and pastoral indus
try Of the Argentine Republic is in a
critical condition in consequence of
ng-continued drought.
The New Zealand Government has
invited tenders for a direct monthly
freight, passenger and mail steamship
service from New. Zealand to South
Africa.
King Edward has approved the issue
OF q second South African war medal,
bearing his wv effigy. 1t will be
granted to troops which participated in
the latter phases Of the a
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest In
Short Paragraphs.
The Sunny South.

tom" Clark, a negro who con
fessed to several murders, was
burned at the stake at Corinth, Miss.
Rev. ]. VIM. Jones, Of Chapel Hill,
n. c., has been elected secretary OF
the Confederate Memorial Associa-
ton, vice Gen. John c. Underwood.
Application has been made for g
charter to build an electric railroad
from Cleveland, Tenn, via Benton to
D%ucktown, Tenn. Estimates are made
that it will cost 100000.
Pine Bluff, Ark, Special.-Walter
Sullivan, a young negro, was lynched
Wednesday at Portland, Ashley coun.
ty. Sullivan was charged with shoot
ing D. ]. Roody, a white man, in the
back.
The stockholders Of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad were called to
meet in Louisville, assembled In the
rooms Of President Smith at noon.
Without transacting any business, ad-
tournament was taken until November
5. None Of the Eastern directors were
present.
Atlanta, Special.-After n OF the
most bitterly contested campaigns I n
this city's history Evan P. Howell re-
ceived the nominating vote for mayor
in the city primary Mr.. Howell was
one Of the founders Of The Atlanta
Constitution. His opponents were
former Mayor James G. Woodward
and Alderman Harvey Johnson.
Representative w. B. Berry, Of
Coweta county, Ca, is very Ill at his
home at Newman, and it is hardly prob
able that he will be able to take his
place in the legislature when the ses-
sion meets here next month. He was
taken suddenly i'll several months ago
and has not been able to leave bis
bed since that time.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
VIII Not Name Delegates,

Philadelphia, Special.-Mayor Ash
bridge has declined to comply with
the request Of Mayor Maybury, Of De-
troit, to appoint a delegation Of citi-
zens to attend a conference to be held
in that city on October 9 to devise
ways and means for obtaining a reas-
enable supply Of coal from the mining
regions Of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia. The mayors reply is as follows:
Governor of Commonwealth, clergy
men and citizens are actively working
for settlement Of strike in coal fields
in this State. My judgment is differ
ences will be adjusted and work re-
sumed before date of conference nam
ed"
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1000 Hore Nav Strike,

Birmingham, Ala. Specialize the
orders of the officials of the United
Mine Workers are obeyed 4,200 miners
in the employ Of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron & Railroad Company will be idle.
The strike inaugurated several days
ago on account Of the failure Of the
company to deduct 81 from the minera'
wages without a written consent from
each miner, has extended to the Bloc
ten and Blue Creek fields. TIE Tennes-
see Company will make an effort TO be-
gin work at Blue Creek Monday morn
ing, but the result is p~rohleIaticcl.
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RIOTS in. new YORK
Strike of Street Car Men Threatens
Serious Consequences.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT
Street Car Windows Smashed and
Non-Union Conductors and rotor-
men Stoned.

Glens Falls, N. Y, Special-As a re-
suit Of new activity Of the striking mo-
tormen Of the Hudson Valley Electric
Railroad Company, soldiers Of the Ma
tional Guard are again guarding the
peace of this town and, though Sunday
has seen no rioting, an uneasy feeling
prevails. The militia company Of this
place, which had been dismissed to It's
armory Thursday last, was called OUT
again Saturday night, and is now pro-
tecting the power house and Other
property of the railroad company at
Glens Falls. A squad also Is guarding
a bridge at Sandy Hill, having beei
sent there following a report that n
Of the canal bridges was to be blown
up. The riotious mob which held pos
session of Glens Falls for four hours
was composed Of sympathizers OF the
strikers, and the police force wa pow
erless against it.
A mass meeting called by the labor
organizations to express sympathy TOT
the strikers was the origin Of the dis
turbance. II was planned to have the
mass meeting in Bank Square, and
when permission was refused ill-feel-
ing resulted. Headed by a band the
strikers and labor leaders formed In a
parade through the principal streets,
the ranks OF the paraders being aug
mented by sympathizers and boys who
at the first opportunity created distur.
Dances. The riot was precipitated by
the arrest of a mar who made insult
ing remarks to one Of the non-union
employees and each car passing was the
object Of a demonstration. At Coofs
Switch, four cars were stalled at one
time. They were o o abandoned, tne
non-union motormen and conductors
placing themselves in the hands OF the
police for protection, or DESERVING TO
the strikers. The car windows were
smashed and a fusilade Of bricks and
stones thrown at the cars. Conductor
Currier, Of Brooklyn, was so badly IT.
jured by rough handling and being hit
in the head with missiles that he is
in the hospital in a serious condition.
The last car from the north which
came into town about II o'clock car
ried mail sacks, which were removed
to the railway offices. About this time
a company OF the National Guard un-
der Captain Mott made its appearance,
and, marching to the jail, took the me-
tormen and conductors under its pro
lection. In marching to the cars de-
:nonstrations were made and the mill
tia used the butts Of their guns and
threatened to shoot several times. I'm
der heavy guard OF soldiers the seven
stalled cars were run down toward the
power house. followed by a mob. IN
the outskirts of the city riotious de-
monstrations, were made. and stone
throwing INDUCED in, to which the SOL
diers responded by volleys Of bullets,
shooting in the air, however.
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PALMETTO NEWS BRIEFS.
Items of Interest Cleaned From ALI
. Parts of the State.
Found q Baby Boy.

Found a Baby Boy.
Chester, Special.-There was great
excitement in the n~eighborhood of the
Southern depot early Saturday morn
ing occas:oned by the finding Of a nice
" dressed, apparently six weeks old
white baby boy. 1t was found lying
or the warehouse platform last night
9 O'Clock by Ellen Price, an old darkey
living near the depot. She was pass
ing along by the warehouse and heard
its faint and lonely cries in the dark.
She was overcome with excitement
at the time. but summoned u courage
enough to care for it, and take it into
her cabin for a nights lodging. Earl%
this morning she reported the matter
to police headquarters, and all day
people Of both races have gone to the
Price house to look at the baby
stranger without home and parents.
The baby was comfortably wrapped up
and supplied with three changes Of
clothes and the following note was left
beside it: This child l leave in TIE
hands of some dear one, trusting that
1t will be cared for, as / am not able
20 care for i.myself. | leave it here IN
the sight Of the Heavenly One, Christ
Jesus" Unless the city authorities can
find some home for it here it will be
sent to the county poor house. The
police are working on the case and are
trying to find whence the child came.
The supposition is that it was brought
here on one of the n%orthbound trains
of the Southern railroad.
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Declaration Of Peace.

washington. Special.-A dispatch re-
ceived at the Colombia legation from
Bcgota, an official declara-
ton of peace in four Of the depart
u,ents of the republic. Preparations are
making in Columbia for the election OF
a Congress to deal with the Panama
Canal and ether important subjects
and the official announcement OF peace
is a preliminary step to the election
of members of Congress.