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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09
BRAUN.

Braun. August 7.-Mr Ives, our
mail carrier, has just finished some
improvements OIL his dwelling house.
M. Lician James. afl": spcnling
sometime in the neighborhood. left
Friday for a visit to friends in Sum
ter.
Mrs. Spann Vinson and little son
are spending few days at the Isle
Of Palms.
Mr.. Peter James was in Camden
G.: Saturday.
Mr.. Jesse Hurst, one of the boys
of the neighborhood, tired of the
farm life, left last week for Augusta,
Ca, where he has secured a position
Mr. George McManus and little
child are both quite sick.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09

What the Kaiser said to the Gear
may have been similar to what the Gov
ernor OF North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina, but no.
body knows.-Fhiladelphla Press.
The President recently paid visit
" "incog'' to childreu's hospital at
Coney Island. But be took the preca1-
tion to take little Jakey Riss and his
megaphone along Jacksonville Times
Union.
The furniture car famine at High
Point is largely akin to the refrigera-
tor carssshortage in the strawberry dis
trict last Spring Traffic in some parts
Of North Carolina has simply cutgrown
the facilities of the railroads; that is
al.-Charlotte Observer
A special from Wilmington to Ihe
Charleston News and Courier. under
date of July 29th, says it is author
itatively stated there that Governor
Glenn is considering the proposition
to release Howard and Hawley, tie
gold brick men. on payment of IS, 600
each. This sounds impossible Ill view
of the fact that the Governor recently
declined to interfere with the sent
ences of these men, which were, bv
the way. light enough in the begin
ning.-Charlotte Observer.
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SALEM.

Salem, August 1.-The saying that
rain on the first dog day means rain
for 40 days following has panned out
very nearly correct this time in these
narts. While we have escaped show
ers on two days so far, still we claim
xhree showers for last Sunday, which
gives as one for each day and one ex-
1ra thrown in. Our Sundays show
ems were accompanied by some WIND
and hail, which did little or no dam
ase, but the heavy rain at that time
mas injured cotton ito some extent
u. Most farmers have weed enough &c
make bale per acre and have a good
Acrapping, but the matured fruit is
mot on it. Still the plant is very full
m forms, which we hope viii mature
! ny and by.
Fodder pulling has begun in places,
nut not general, while in other places
sene plowing is still being done to
.aate corn. After this week, the shovel
and the hoe will be laid to rest, and
fhe rake and pitch fork will be in
demand.
Watermsions are plentiful and
some Of eur good neighbors have not
been by any means selfish with theirs.
There is considerable fever around,
mostly typho-malariaL
Mr.. w. s. Chandler succeeding in
capturing the thief who stole his
horse sometime ago and had him
placed IN the Sumter jail on satur-
Day evening.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09
sMITHynLE "a ITEMS.

Smithville, August 5-Dr. G. S.
B1itton and family returned from
chester on last Monday They had
Aeen there for several days on a
uizit to relatives. Misses Eva and
1uciie Britton stopped for a few
days with Mrs. Emmy King at Nc
Bee.
DIR. Foxworth's baby has been quite
iii this week, so much so that it was
aaken to the infrmary in Sumter. We
aearn now that it is little better.
Rev. S. II. Booth spent this week
ri Beulah, where he has been holding
revival services. He holds a meeting
at Salem church next week.
Mr.. w. +. Smith went 20 Comden on
last Monday, and again today, on
business in connection with his livery
stables.
Mrs. vi Grassland, of Bennetts-
vile, is visiting relatives here. She
is accompanied by her infant daugh-
ter. Margaret.
Rev. Geo. NJ. Hoyerton passed
through here on last Tuesday. He is
soliciting subscriptions for the pur-
pose Of building a parsonage at Be-
Hume, to be the property Of the sew
s.ral churches Of which he is pas
tor.
Mr.. Oregon T. Andrews, Of Boston,
aaass., spent several days Of last week
-zEifh mis- old Confederate comrade,
Capt. Aleck Moseley.. These two vet
erans had quite an enjoyable time
talking over war times, after being
separated for goodly number of
years.
Mrs. j. r. Ksrkley returned home
From Orangeburg on last Wednes-
aay.
Miss Lottie DesChamps has return
I'D to her home at Wisacky.
Our roads are now being put in
good condition. They have been
needing work badly for sometime.
Mr.. T. C. Robertson is the overseer
FOR this place.
The unfortunate affair of the shoot
Sing Of Miller Sessions by G. A Muir
ray several years ago, is again being
revived and will be brought into the
courts. This is something of a sur
prise to everybody, for it was under
stood that everything was settled AMI
that a trial by court would be unnec-
essaTy The outcome is being await
ed with considerable interest by the
friends of both sides.
nAPK CORNER
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THE WATCHMAN AND soUTHRoN AUGUST 9, 1905.
MIR. Albert Bradley spent Sund

Mr.. Albert Bradley spent Sunday
in Sumter.
Mr.. Marvin Weldon and sister,
Irene, spent Sunday at Mr. A. K.
Weldon's.
Mrs. T. NJ Bradley has returned
from a weeks stay in Sumter.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Robinson spent
Saturday in the neighborhood.
The baseball fever has struck ou:
quiet neighborhood and we have had
some match games near, here, which
have all been we'll attended.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09

Melon growers down on Carolina
Central railroad, in the I4aurinburg
and Maxton section. have had splendid
success with their crops and every
body in that part of the country is in
high spirits The watermelon and
cantaloupe crops in that belt have
been very good this year and the grow
ers have made good profits on every
shipment they have made. North
Carolina planters are learning more
and more each year that successful
farming means diverslfcation of crops.
The soil of this State will grow al
most anything and the farmers should
raise almost everything on it.-Char-
lotte News.
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Attcnlpt to Break Jail.

Bishopville. August 3.-A daring
attempt to break jail was made here
on Monday by Willie Wilson, prison
er held under sentence for six months
in the county jail at the last Court
for .housebreaking and larceny" He
had removed the bricks in the wall of
his cell, making hole IS by 20 inct-
es, and only leaving one tier of bricks,
when be was discovered by Jailer John
Gardenr. He was placed in another
and safer cell and will be watched
more closely in the future.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09
REMBERTS.

Rembert, Aug 81 hear a great
deal of complain that the new road
opened two years ago from Remberts
depot to Pisgah, that there was so
much controversy about, is in deplor
able condition. The chain gang open
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loose at both ends, and this scribe
and poor Elic" are the sufferers.
Dave Davis, colored, freight han
dler, &C., at this depot, says somebody
has been "hubercating' his character
what a pity.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09
COUNTY Correspondence.
HEWsY IETTERS FROM OUR SPE.
cIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Exens Of interest From all Parts OF
sumter and Adjoining Counties.
NOTICE. 70 CoRREsPoNDENTs.

Maa your letters so that they will
reach this Office not later than Tues
dry morning. When the letters are
received we dnesday it is almost an
anpossibiaty to have them appear in
The paper issued that day.
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;. .LYNCHBURG.

Lynchburg, August All that
was mortal Of Mr.. John F. Hawkins
was placed in its final resting place
in The Lynch hburg cemetery this morn
ing at 10@ o'clock, by his brother
Knights Of Pyhias. Their ceremony
was solemn and impressive and about
the entire ladge turned out to do
honor and pay the last attention to
their departed brother, whom they
could never see again this side OF
eternity. Mr.. Hawkins was very i'll
only a few days, but for the past
three days there was really very little
hope for his recovery, as he was
desperately i'll, and all the time no
ticeably growing worse.
Yesterday afternoon about
O'Clock, surrounded by ali his family,
he fell asleep to wake no more. The
deceased had entered his 42d year.
The bereaved ones have the SYM
pathy of many friends.
Mr.. R.. j. House is still quite sick
and there are fears that he may de-
velope typhoid fever.
Mr. J.. T. Mcneil has, after a long
stay, returned from Greenville, ac-
companied by his brother, John D.
|. Mr.. w. Ernest Mcintosh has joii.-
ed his brother, John F., at Gleni,
Springs.
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\ Horrible Accident.

Greenvillc, August 3.-Suddenly
losing his grip while at work on the
Southern Railway trestle over the Sa-
luoa River at 80 P NJ. today, P. S.
Seary, an employee OF the American
Bridge Company, fel! :soin the edge of
the high structure, striking bed of
rocks in the middle nl the river, SIS
feet below, and was IL: lsatly killed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09

IynchburS, August up TO Ten
days ago, go where you would, and
the topic Of conversation was the
cotton market-"futures and
''spots''-and may be when this was
talked to prices, and the listener be-
gan to yawn, to grow languid, and
cast aside his old stub Of cigar,
(Which had burnt so close to his
mustache as to endanger its safety)
the cotton warehouses, or cotton
growers association was talked
threadbare; but it was just cotton,
cotton, with a little change Of dress
from early morn till close of day."
But what a change in the past five
days! 1t is now rain, rain dry
weather, crops gone to pieces, &C.,
&c. Cotton market, futures,
.'spots," E. D. Smith, Harvie Jor-
dan and warehouses, all getting need
ed rest. But it's a fact, nevertheless,
that the brightest prospects, for the
ton, are suddenly blighted. The
showers this correspondent reported
on the evening Of the 29th, ult., We're
too light and disappointing, and We've
had no rain since. Yesterday ana
today are more trying on vegetation
| than any days of this season.
Miss Carrie Joye, OF Sumter, and
Miss Rothall, of Darlington, are
spending sometime at Col. ]. \.
Rhame's.
Mr.. P. r. Mcintosh and J. R. Will
son, Jr, are at Glenn Springs with
John and Ernest Mcintosh.
Mr.. Jno. F. Mcintosh, soon after
returning this week, will leave for
New York, \. Y, to buy goods for the
Lynchburg Mercantile Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. e. Betts, of Ches-
ter, S. c., are visiting at DR.. E. F.
| Darby's. Mrs. Belts, prior to her
marriage over year ago, was most
pleasantly and we'll known here as
Miss Kate Melton, and she looks quite
pretty little three months old babe
| looks odd-it does
Mr.. R. j. House is much better.
Miss Mamie, daughter of Mr.. j. T..
Mcneil, has fever.
Mr.. Price is blue over hfs once fine
cotton, and he has company.
Friend Frank Potts tongue seems
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
CLOSE KANSAS AVENUE.
w. F. Schoch Says 1t May Be
Done.

What if the street commissioner
some day should close Kansas avenue
to all traffic." remarked w. F. Schoch
today. What would happen then?
"The merchants on Kansas avenue,
who are paying rent for the buildings
they occupy, would demand from their
landlords that the avenue be opened to
traffic. At first glance this suggestion
might be seem ridiculous, but, beneath
BILE concrete base. This base is serious
ly damaged by traffic when the asphalt
covering is worn away. This might be
reason enough for the street commits
sioner closing Kansas avenue. Then,
too, the big holes in the pavement are
dangerous. When there is a hole in a
bridge the street commissioner has
authority to close the bridge. The prin-
ciple is the same and why should he
not close Kansas avenue.
The holes in the Kansas avenue
might be injured in an accident result
ing from these holes is not impossible.
Some one might even step into one of
these holes and fail and break a leg,
then bring suit against the city for
damages. The city could only say we
did not have the money with which to
make the repairs, but the city has full
charge of the streets and this excuse
would not stand and the city would be
liable for damages.
Under the present conditions the
property owners can stand back for .
hundred years and say they will never
petition for the repaving of Kansas av-
enue. In Illinois there was great
trouble over this point and a law was
passed that for repaying streets the cost
should be born by the entire city"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
HUSBANDS FATE.
Story From Pratt County of Wife's
UnfaitIfulneSs.

Pratt, Kan, Aug. 16.-Mrs. Harvey
Mcpherson Null, charged with murder
IN the first degree in having, it is al
legged, poisoned her husband, a we'll to
do farmer, and H. c. Kelly, a farm
hand, charged with aiding and abetting
her in the crime, have been arrested
mere. Mrs. Null was released on bond.
Kelly, who is several years her Junior
was unable to furnish bond and has
been remanded to Jail. Warrants were
issued following the report of the
coroner's jury.
The Null family was known in this
county as an industrious and prosper
Gus one. The estate is estimated as
worth at from $4,000 to $4,000. I'm
til two years ago the home life of the
Nulls appeared to be cDntented and
happy one. Kelly, who was employed
by Mr.. Null. made his home with the
Nulls. Rumors of unbecoming con-
duct of Mrs. Null and Kelly caused
estrangement between husband and
wife. An application for divorce was
filed by Mrs. Rosa Null July 13. This
suit was to come before the court for
trial In the November term of court.
In the petition she asked for alimony
and a restraining order enjoining Mr..
Null from disposing of any of the
property.
Harvey Null plowed all day on one
OF his farms near Cullison, August 5.
He went to his home to supper. He
appeared in the best of health. After
supper he went to the postoffice for his
mail On his return he was taken
| sick. He grew worse and worse and
died the next morning. The stomach
was sent to the Kansas university for
analysis. The university authorities
! found twenty-four grains of arsenic in
| the stomach.
The Nulls ate at the same table
through all their disagreements and
| troubles. They rarely spoke to each
other, however. The food was well
cooked and prepared by Mrs. Null or
under her order and direction. 1t is
asserted that Mrs. Null purchased at
Dr. McElwain's drug store in this
place, two ounces of arsenic about two
weeks before the death of her hus-
band. Mrs. Null is a comely and young
looking woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
BUILT LIKE A SHARK.
New Style Submarine Invented by a
Cleveland Man.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-A special from
Cleveland Ohio, says:
Luther c. Thompson has invented
submarine boat which the United States
government is examining with view of
adapting it to the navy department. The
invention looks like a shark and that is
the name Mr.. Thompson have given the
vessel.
Il have studied the actions of the fish
for twenty-five years and my boat is
constructed to sink just as fish does,
by means of diving blades,'' said Thomp-
son. THE present steering gear used on
the submarine is not adapted to the
kind of work that vessels of this class
are expected to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
KEEP FILES REPORT.
Investigation of Government Printing
Office Is Completed.

Oyster Bay Aug. 16.-President
Roosevelt entertained at luncheon to-
day Baron Hengelmueller, the ambas-
sador of Hungary, Senator
Dryden, James NJ. Beck, formerly an
assistant secretary of the treasury. and
partment of justice; Charles H. Keep,
assistant secretary of the treasury, and
Robert Bridges, the author and maga-
zine writer. Ambassador Hengelmuel-
Ter desired to take up with the preSl-
dent a matter concerning immigration
which is pending between the two
countries.
Senator Dryden and Mr.. Beck are
here to discuss insurance problems
president of the Prudential Insurance
company, and the latter one of the
lawyers of the Equitable.
Mr.. Keep, chairman of what is
known as the Keep commission, ap-
pointed to inquire into the Organiza-
ton, personnel, system of accounts,
methods of correspondence and pur-
chases of supplies and other matters,
pertaining to the condition of the gov
ernment departments, came to oyster
Bay to lay before the president the
result of his inquiry into the printing
office.
The inquiry was made with special
reference to the letting of a contract
for the purchase of seventy-tWo type
setting machines. When it was an
to the Lanston company, the officials
of the Mergenthaler company made a
protest to the president. He directed
that the contract be held up until the
whole subject could be investigated
and then gave directions to the Keep
commission to conduct the inquiry. The
investigation occupied many days,
voluminous testimony being taken. The
conclusions are contained in the report
filed today by Commissioner Keep with
the OrPSideOt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
RUSSIANS REPULSED.
Three Separate Attacks Reported by
the Japanese.

Toxic, Aug. 16.-An official report
says: Early on August IA, in the di-
rection of Changtu, a Russian force
consisting of a battalion of infantry.
two sections of cavalry, eight field
guns and six machine guns, attacked
our position at Erhshiplipa, eight miles
north of Changtu, but was Immediately
repuIsed. Our casualties amounted to
one, and the Russians lost 35- Stimuli
taneously three companies of infantry
and two squadrons of cavalry attacked
US eight miles northwest of Changtu.
This attack was repulsed at 2:30
O'Clock. the Russians retreating north
ward, leaving ten dead. The Russians
also made a small attack on Wei Huan
Paolen, which was repulsed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
STERNE SPEAKS UP.
Shows How City Could Save With Own
Asphalt Plant.

W. e. Sterne, an extensive owner of
Kansas avenue property and who was
at one time agent in Topeka for the
Barber Asphalt company, says that if
Topeka would install a plant for the
preparing of asphalt for paving that
the streets can be resurfaced with a
two and a half inch layer for from so
to IS cents per square yard, the cost
of the plant included.
The city of Detroit last year paid
$3.50 a ton for asphalt. The city plant
cost SIG, 600. The city resurfaced streets
with a three inch layer and counting
in the cost and wear and tear Of the
plant the work was done for S5 cents.
This year Detroit pays $3.50 a ton for
asphalt. So if Topeka resurfaced 21z
inches thick, which is the thickness of
the Kansas avenue pavement the cost
would be go to IS cents a yard, and if
the coating was but two inches thick
it would be less. The contract with the
Barber company for asphalt is $1.s5.
Detroit was only paying $1.10 when the
city put in it's own plant There are
1874, 900 square yards of asphalt paving
in Topeka. Sixth street, with con-
crete foundation, could be resurfaced
with asphalt.
IF taxes paid by Kansas avenue
properties into the permanent street
improvement fund were used, as it is
paid, for four years, or so, the cost of
resurfacing Kansas avenue would be
taken care of. The Kansas avenue prop
critics have paid into this tax since Kan
sas avenue was paved Is years ago,
enough to resurface several times.
'I think that a mixing machine and
two cookers could be put in next to the
city electric light plant, the power and
heat be taken from that plant, and the
cost for an asphalt plant in Topeka
would be a good deal less than $4,000.
The cost to operate would be 800 a
month for a superintendent and the
pay of laborers and teams.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
ROOSEvELT'S LETTER.
Read Before Annual Meeting of the
Negro Business League.

New York, Aug. 1.-two hundred
eolored men openea the annual ses-
sion of the National Negro Business
league here today. The object of the
league is to bring together the negroes
who are engaged in business for them
selves for mutual help and support.
Booker T. Washington has, been the
president of the league since its incep-
ton.
A Letter from President Roosevelt
was read. 1t follows:
Oyster Bay, Aug. 12.-My Dear Mr..
Scott wish all success to the. Ne
gro Business league. Your. organiza-
ton is absolutely out of politics and in
stimulating activity among your people
and working to increase their efficiency
in the industrial world, it is also doing
far reaching work in the way of giving
sponsibility as citizens and power to
meet these responsibilities. L need
hardly say that l put moral better
ment above physical betterment. But
it is absolutely impossible to do good
work in promoting the spiritual inn
foundation of material well being,
because this foundation necessarily
implies that the race has developed
the root qualities of thrift, economy
and business sense. 1t is as true of a
race as of an individual that while
outsiders can help to a certain degree,
yet the real help must come in the
shape of self-help. The success of
your organization and the development
among our colored fellow citizens of
the very qualities for which you stand
will mean more for the solution of the
efforts merely from outside could pos
sibly do. Wishing you all success,
am sincerely yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
THIS IS THE HOTTEST.
Seasons Weather Record Is Having
Hard Time Today.

Well it has happened. Today is the
hottest day of the year or it is very fair
to presume that it will be. for at 2
O'Clock the United States weather man
reports that he>has a rock on the ther-
norneter and that the mercury is
trying to get above it's old mark of 80
made on the 18th of July. With the
mercury standing at 50 at o'clock to-
day and hardly a breath of air stirring,
one can't help but envy their Little
Brown brothers across the sea who are
untrammeled by the exactions of Soc1-
ETY. relative to their wearing apparel,
for it is oh, so hot. and getting hotter
every minute. If sunStrokes and heat
prostrations were as popular in Kansas
as they are in New York now would be
the time to spring them, for every
breath that arises from the sun cooked
pavement seems like a breath from the
furnaces of Topeka.
The maximum for yesterday was "a,
while the minimum for today was 69
and a five mile an hour is said to be
blowing from the south, sut # it is
blowing is not noticeable in this par
ticular location. Clear and slightly
warmer weather generally prevailed over
Kansas and western Missouri TINS
morning. Showers have occurred IN
southwestern and southeastern Kansas.
The highest day temperatures occurred
in the central and central northern
counties.
The maximum and minimum temper
atures for the "a hours at o'clock this
morning from the various stations over
the state were:
Baker "a, 6S; Concordia sS, 6S; Dodge
City "a. 81; Fort Scott "a, 66; Macksville
"a go; Manhattan SO, Sc: Usage City 9S,
Sc; Russell 96, 60; Sedan 80, 72; Topeka
"a. so; Toronto So, 81; Wichita 80, TO-
The hourly temperatures as recorded
as reported by Director Jennings for to-
4