The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-08-16
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

tOih GNU OSOliSC COuIlIlCo dlC pre-
pairing to vote out the dispensary.
Today at Anderson Senator Tillman
and Col. w. j. Talbert will engage in
joint debate on the Dispensary.
Twenty thousand bales of American
cotton was burned in Kobe, Japanese
port, last Thursday.
Mrs. j. L. Sease, of Newberry,
mother of Solicitor 7. S. Sease, died
last Wednesday, aged 70 years.
The city council of Greenville will be
asked to rescind it's action in raising the
mayors salary from 5000. to $500.
Editor Simpson of the Greenville
News says that Spartanburg would
have voted out the dispensary last
week to 1.
Seven hundred voters in Saluda county
have signed petition asking for an
election on the dispensary or no dispen-
sary question.
Archbishop l.. P. Chappelle, one of
the most distinguished prelates of the
Roman Catholic Church died Of yellow
fever in New Orleans last Wednesday.
Cotton is opening rapidly in the lower
part of the State and a number of new
bales have been put on the market in
Orangeburg and other places.
Forty three freight cars were smashed
into kindling wood in wreck on a
spur line of the Southern road near
Spartanburg Monday morning.
Bishop A. Coke Smith of the South
ern Methodist Episcopal Church is Sc
riously i'll at Asheville, N. G. He is a
victim of consumption.
Hon. Geo. b. Cromer of Newberry
has addressed an open letter to Senator
Tillman, protesting against the intro
duction of factionalism into the pres
ent dispensary fight.
A negro was burned at the stake in
the court house square at Sulpher
Springs, Texas, last Friday, charged
with criminally assaulting 14-year old
white girl.
Mistaking him for burglar, Mrs. w.
II. Cobb, of Royston, Ga, shot and
mortally wounded her husband, prom
inent citizen and politician, who was
returning homo late at night.
Mrs. Horace l.. Bomar, nee Miss Lu-
cie Montgomery, daughter of Mr.. ".
M. Montgomery, died in Spartanburg
Wednesday afternoon after a brief i'll
ness. She was married to Mr.. Bomar
little less than year ago.
AT Rome, Ga, mistrial was ordered
Thursday in the case of V. T. Sanford
charged with the murder of George
Wright, local ticket agent of the South
ern. The jury was out six days. San
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alleged intimacy with the former s
wife.
John Is. Johnson, member of the
Greenville Light Infantry, was knocked
in the head with a cue while in pool
room with party of his comrades in
Greenvile Monday night. His skull was
crushed and there is little hope of his
recovery.
Because of the failure of the Spar
tanburg delegation in the General As
sembly to insert a special clause in the
Act providing for the disbursement of
the net profits from the dispensaries,
the school fund of that county loses
one fourth of such profits.
The Grccnville News editor fresh from
the Spartanburg investigation nominates
j. Fraser Lyon of Abbeville for Cover
nor; Ncils Christensen Of Beaufort,
lieutenant governor. Why, what's the
matter with Avery Patton for the first
place.
One life insurance police of $l5, 900
has been paid to the estate of r. K.
Dargan, the late president of the Inde-
pendent Oil Company and the Darling
ton Trust Company, both of which
failed sometime ago. 1t will be recalled
that Mr. Dargan committed suicide un-
der very singular circumstances and in a
little while stories were printed in some
papers to the effect that the suicide
theory was a hoax, that Dargan was
not dead and had left the country. Evi-
IDENTIFY the insurance companies have
proof positive that the insured is dead.
Another policy of $25,00 is yet to be
paid, making total of $1,000.
MAY BE ENJ0INED.