The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-07-24
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Three men wcre drowned By tile
W5,eclking ", Il1 of5a ashlnRs boat off Penss.
cola bla. on Monday
The safe inS tho Southern RAILWAY
ticket office at Macon, g O., I, wns; robbie d
OF S40O on Sunday night. ~ ~ = 4
Mrs. Eliza Stick, aged Ocot N oank !,
Conn, drowned herself on Monday
night in Mystic river .s.5f:Esi 8 fssa 5.;ass a
An explosion in q powder mill near
WilkeSbarre, Pa. on Monday killed
3 three meen and seriously Injury sew
eral othcrs. s s. ii..,.
Maude Jordlne, aged Ii. OF Bloom=
ington. I'll. was ARE Sted on Monday
on the charge Of / having killed : her
tw,-ycar-old sister. 4s s
A freight train ran away on Mon
day down the steep grade near Saluda,
Il. g., and II cars loaded with coal
were smashed to pieces.
The New; England cotton mills have
agreed that they will close down until
some time In nOctober rather than buy
cotton Mt present prices.
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Frank Long, a Macon. Ca, grocer,
has made this season, according to the
Atlanta Journal, upwards Of S5, 600 on
40 acres OF canteloupes.
Adnah Rogers and his wife, aged rs
and IA, Of East Brewston, Mass, were
run over and killed by.a train on Mon
day while they we're driving in n
buggy.
Gov. Lanham Of Texas has issued a
proclamation Offering $50, 900 to any
person who will discover and furnish a
pratical remedy for cotton. boil weyil
In Texas.
Mary McDonald; described by the
Journal as Il "a pretty young woman" !"
was Tim S25.75 by the recorder or
Atlanta on Tuesday for ''cussing" a
young man over the phone.
Geo. Il. Hiss OF Charlotte, N. c.,
president Of the American Cotton
Manufacturers association, thinks
there will be 30, 900, 600 idle spindle S
by the first of September.
J. Il. Cato, a we'll 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 rush or offers
in Atlanta the other day to adopt a
13-year-old kid who declared that lis
mother was in the asylum and his
father on the chaingung for COW
stealing.
Gen. Clement a. Evans of Georgia
says there are sufficient funds in hal d
to begin the erection Of the Battle
Abbey" at Richmand, Va. The funds
OF the Confederate Memorial associa-
tion for this object are now stated to
be S2O4,470.
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
tried next week for killing her third
husban, Edward Harris, in 1901.
Gen. Nelson a. Miles rode horse
back from Fort Hill, ]. IT., to- Reno,
Okl., distance of 40 miles on, Tues
day in nine hours and s5t & minutes,
changing horses several ines along
the route. The generally oll the ride
to prove that though neat u 65 .he is
still hale and hearty y -
Mrs. Carrie Luce is Suing b. w.
Wood worth & Co., proprietors of a 10.
cent store In Richmond ,s Va, fol-
$4,000 damages for getting her aleg
broken in a crowd while Eattending q
bargain sale" in their store. She con.
tends that the proprietors Should not
have permitted such large crowd to
come in.