The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-07-24
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Three men wers drowned BY; tile
wsecking Of taSfshingsboa off Pensa.
cola, Fla., on Monday.
.The safe in5 the Southern RAILWAY
ticket office at Macon. g a., WnB robbie d
OF s40O on Sunday night. 5ljI ,s-ss5- ,5.
Mrs. Eliza Stick. aged 70,ot II oank !,
Conn, drowned herself on Monday
nlght4in Mystic river. Il tis ~
Z An explosion in a powder mill near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Monday killed
three meen and seriously Injury sew
'eral others.
Maude Jordlne, aged IL, of Bloom
ington, III, was arrested ON NIondoy
on the charge Of having killed her
tw'l-ycar-old sister.
A freight. train ran away on Mon.
day down the steep grade near Saluda,
n. O., aud II cars loaded with coal
we're smashed to pieces. i5s
The New England cotton mills have
agreed that they will close down until
some time insOctober rather than buy
cotton Mt present prices.
Frank Long, q Macon. Ga, grocer,
has made this season, according to the
Atlanta Journal, upwards Of SIS, 900 on
40 acres Of canteloupeS.
Adnah Rogers and his wife, aged 75
and IA, Of East Brcwston, Mass, were
run over and killed by.a train on Mon
day while they were driving in a
buggy.
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Gov. Lanham of Texas has issued Il
proclamation Offering $500 to any
person who will discover and furnish a
pratical remedy for cotton boil wevil
in Texas.
Mary McDonald; described by the
Journal as u "a pretty young woman y
was fined s25.75, by the recorder or
Atlanta on Tuesday for ''cussing" a
young man over the phone.
II Geo. Is. Hiss Of Charlotte, N. c.,
president Of the American Cotton
Manufacturers association, thinks
there will be 10000, 900 idle spindle s
by the first Of September.
J. T.. Cato, well-known buthcr Of
Fort Valley, Ga, committed suicide
on Monday by shooting himself in the
head with pistol. He left wife and
SIX children. No cause for the deed
is known.
Georgians are evidently fond Of
children. There was Il Tusl1 CT offers
in Atlanta the other DAY to adopt a
l3-year-old kid who declared that lis
mother was in the asylum and his
father on the chaingang for COW
stealing.
Gen. Clement a. Evans Of Georgia
says there are sufficient funds in ha, q
to begin the erection Of the BATTLE
Abbey" at Richmand, Va. The funds
of the Confederate Memorial assoca-
tion for this object are now stated to
be 1904 40.
Mrs. Minnie Cummings, on trial for
killing her fourth husband in April
last, was convicted in St. Louis, Mo-,
on Monday AMI was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary. She is to be
trled next week for killing her third
husban, Edward Harris, in 1901.
Gen. Nelson A.. Miles rode. horse
back from Fort Hill, |. II. to Reno,
Otl., distance Of 90 miles on Tues
day in nine hours and tn minutes.
changing horses several 3, mes along
the route. The general, olc the ride
to prove that; thoug ghsneat V 65 he is
still hale and heart sss,.
Mrs. Carrie Luce $ is Suing &. g w.
Wood worth s. Co., propriefors Uf a To-
cent store 10 Richmond,iS; Va. for
$4,000 damages Tor gettiug her .leg
broken in a crowd while {attentiing a
bargain sale" in their st6re. She con.
tends that the proprietors should not
have permitted such large crowd to
come in.