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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Hundreds of Federal Liquor Licenses.

1t may be of interest, and no
doubt will be a shock, to some of
the good prohibition people to
learn that there are three hun
dred and twenty-six Federal
liquor licenses in the hands of so
many blind tigers" in South
Carolina. This astonishing fact
is vouched for by a correspond
ent of the Anderson Daily Mail,
who has made a very careful in
vestigation of the liquor question
in this State.
Of these 326 blind tigers only
twenty-nine are, according to
the correspondent of The Mail,
located in prohibition territory,
the balance, or 297, are located
in dispensary towns and cities.
There are 213 licensed blind tigers
in Charleston; % in Columbia,
and 18 on Johns Island. The
remaining 73 are located in vari-
GUS dispensary towns throughout
the State.
The article goes on to show
that these illicit resorts are stu
ated all around the State dis
pensary in Columbia and also
around it's branches in Charleston.
Even going so far as to purchase
portion of their supplies from
the dispensaries. The police
wink at them, the cities collect
license from them, the State
constables seem to be afraid of
them and all patronize them.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
BULLS PAVED EARTH,
BUT WOULDN'T FIGHT,
Ancient Sport st Thomasson's Cock
Pit Near Rock Hill.

An an Introductory to The
Times article about the proposed
cockpit for Gold Hill, the Colum-
bia Record has the following to
say of R. T. Thomasson and the
bull fight which he attempted to
pull off at his home near Rock
Hill some years ago:
1t is beginning to lock as if
Governor Hayward will again be
called upon to send the Rock
Hill military company after York
county's sportiest citizen, Robert
F. Thomasson by name, who a
few years ago attracted the at
tention of three States by having
the military company at Rock
Hill sent after him to suppress a
bull fight he had advertised he
would pull off near. Rock Hill on
a stated day. He advertised with
circulars through three States
and great gathering was prom
lsed. However, when the
sheriff of York, as commander
in chief of the military forces of
that section sent out under him
by direction of the governor, ar
rived on the scene, the crowd
that had assembled was confined
mostly to those living in the
immediate neighborhood who
came out Of curiosity to see
Thomasson suppressed" by the
military. The performance was
allowed to come off because it was
ludicrously tame. The two bulls
were brought and for time
they beloved and paved up the
earth after the manner of some
politicians, but on approaching
each other they made friends
without even locking horns,
licking each other affectionately
to demonstrate to the militia, the
sheriff and the crowd that the
joke was on the audience.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
State Democratic Convention in May.

The State Democratic executive
comittee held a quiet meeting in
Columbia Thursday evening and
issued the calls for the State and
county Democratic conventions.
Nothing of startling nature or
of unusual interest, except res
olution by Mr.. Magill denouncing
Thos. E. Watson, of Georgia, on
account of a magazine article in
which the Georgian said that the
proposed cut in Southern repre-
sentatiOn in Congress would make
little difference to the Southern
States, was brought up. Mr..
Magill's resolution was coldly re-
ceived and was later withdrawn.
Senator Manning submitted
resolutions that the convention be
held in Columbia at noon on May
16 and that the county chairman
throughout the State be instruct
ed to call together the clubs on
the 18th day of April for the
purpose of electing delegates
to county conventions, which
will assemble May z, for the
purpose of electing delegates to
the aforesaid State convention,
each county being entitled to
double the representation it has
in the general assembly. This
was adopted.
Twelve counties were without
representation in the convention.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
BIG COTTON CONFERENCE
INlWASHlNGTON CITY.
Delegates From All Parts Of the World
Will be There May IL.

Much has been written of the
great cotton conference which is
to be held in Washington City
May 1-2. Representatives will
attend from the great cotton as
sociations of this country and
England, from the large cotton
exchanges and those orpani-
cations which are directly or in
directly interested in the growth
or handling of the staple. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by the
foremost cotton experts of the
world. Subjects will be consid-
cred which are of vital interests
to the trade in all of it's branches.
The program which follows will
give some idea of the scope of
the conference.
The sessions will be held in the
New Willard Hotel, in Washing
ton, May l and 2, from 10 to 1
o'clock in the morning and from
2.3O to $50 o'clock in the after
noon. Delegates will be present
from the following named bodies:
The American Cotton Manufac-
turers' Association, the New
England Cotton Manufacturers
Association. the Southern Cotton
Association, the National Ginners
Association, the National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers, the New
York Cotton Exchange, the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange; the
Arkwright Club, Boston, Mass,
and the international Federation
OF Master Cotton Spinners and
Manufacturers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Counting the Rural Mail.

1t is learned that an order has
been issued by the postoffice de-
partment at Washington to the
effect that beginning April 4th,
all mail must be carefully counted
for the three months, April, May
and June, on rural routes
This is done as it appears, for
the purpose of determining a
very important matter to the
people living along the routes
to ascertain whether the service
shall be continued or not.
According to the report all
routes that do not made a showing
of 1000 pieces of mail per month,
may have the service taken away
from them. The result is not
announced as positive but is to
find out how much mail is being
delivered on the various routes,
and if the average is under 1000
pieces per month, then the de-
partment will decide what will
be done.
There has been good deal of
talk from Washington for some
months about curtailing the rural
mail service of the country and
this new order appears to be an
outgrowth Of this move.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Dethroncd Prophet Up in Arms.

John Alexander Dowie, with
his fighting instinct aroused to
the highest degree, will make a
last desperate effort to regain the
control wrested from him by the
administrative body of his church.
Dowie sent a telegram from his
mountain retreat in Mexico di-
recting Deacon V. V. Barnes, his
general counsel, to cancel Deputy
Overseer Voliva's power of at
torney and appointing Fielding
II. Willhite in his stead.
Willhite is Dowie's only friend
in Zion City. Voliva and his
followers do not believe that
Dowie will be willing to go into
court and suffer exposure of the
details of his private life. Voliva
and his adviser have made plans
which they will not disclose to
offset Dowie's efforts to regain
control.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Thornwell College Commencement.

A number of parents in this
section will be intesested to know
that the commencement exercises
of the Thornwell College for
Orphans at Clinton will be held
on the 17th-20th of June. The
baccalaureate ssermon will be
preached by Rev. Richard Orme
Finn of Atlanta; the baccalau-
reate address, which will also be
a dedicatory address of the new
Carolina Memorial chapel, will
be made by Rev. S. M. Smith,
ID. D., pastor of the First Presby-
terian church, Columbia, on the
10Th.
The board of trustees of this
institution is composed of seven
representatives from the synod
of South Carolina, five from the
synod of Georgia and three from
the synod of Florida. This body
will meet on the 10Th of June at
3 o'clock p. m.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Program For State Reunion.

The special committee of the
Columbia chamber of commerce
appointed to arrange for the
coming reunion there on the 18th,
18th and 18th of next month,
had a conference the past week
with the result that the outline
of a general programme was
agreed upon, the details to be
worked out later.
Wednesday night, after a re-
ception from 5 to z o'clock to the
sponsors, will be devoted to
welcome addresses and responses,
which will be followed Thursday
morning by a business session, at
which the chief grafton will be
delivered. Thursday night there
will be an address to the spon-
sors and responses following the
street parade beginning at 5
o'clock that afternoon. A busi-
ness session, followed by the
telling of anecdotes and stories,
will be the attraction for Friday
morning. Thursday night a
spectacular war drama will be
enacted at the theater by local
talent and Friday night there
will be a demonstration at the
theater in the nature of repre-
sentatives of camp scenes.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Steele Creek Dirt Changes Hands.

Mr.. c. w. Cathey has sold his
farm in Steel Creek to Mr.. Beat
tie Ferris, of York county, S. c..
and bought a 165-acre tract, near
Croft, from MIR. j. B. Alexander.
He got $50 an acre for his place
and paid $5, 600 for the Alexander
farm. The deal was made
through Mr.. Parks Brown, of the
Southern Real Estate, Loan &
Trust Company, of Charlotte.
Mr. Cathey is one of the leading
young farmers Of Mecklenburg
county. observer.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Meacham & Epps' Opening.

The spring millinery opening
Thursday at Meacham & Epps
was perhaps the most elaborate
and embracing of any seen in
this establishment in years.
Everything in the millinery de-
partment seemed to harmoniZe
with the prevailing shades and
styles. The general arrangement
of the stylish Partisan creations
together with the efficiency of the
force seemed to be an added at
traction at this establishment.
Miss Warlick, the accomplished
milliner, exhibited a distinctive
and well-worth-seeing array of
millinery furnishing.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Leading Lady in "The Clansman" Dead.

Times readers who witnessed
the Rev. Thomas Dixon's "The
Clansman" play and got so much
worked up over it, will regret to
learn of the death of the pretty
leading lady, Miss Georgia Welles
who gave such an able interpre-
tation Of the part of Elsie" the
daughter of the Northern philan-
thropist, whom the negro Lieu
tenant Governor Lynch coveted,
but who fell in love with the
leader of the Ku Klux Klan. She
died of appendicitis in a New
York hospital last Friday, hers
being an emergency case which
had been neglected too long for
a successful operation.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
ENTIRE CITY BURIED
BY VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
Mount Vesuvius Again Active. Rivers
of Molten Lava and Ashes Descend
Upon Surrounding Territory. Much
Property Destroyed, bat No Lives
Lost.-Panic Pervadcs Naples.

An associated press despatch
Sunday from Naples, Italy, says
that the hope that Mount Vesu-
vius was becoming calm was dis
Sipated today when the volcano
became more active than ever.
The panic has spread to Naples.
Two strong earthquake shocks,
which shattered windows and
cracked the walls of buildings,
were experienced Sunday. The
entire population rushed to the
StreerS in terror.
No trace remains of Boscotre-
caz, a commune on the southern
decivity of the mountain, where
up to 48 hours ago 10, 600 persons
lived; and Tore Annunziata, on
the shores of the Gulf of Naples,
one mile to the southwark, is
almost surrounded by the in
vadlng lava and has been evacua-
ted by its 30, GOO inhabitants. The
people were brought to Naples by
trains, street cars, military carts
and steamships. Similar means
OF transportation are being en-
ployed to bring away the people
from Tore del Greco. The police
and carbineers are guarding the
abandoned houses and several
members of the government also
are there.
AS yet it is impossible to count
the craters that have been opened
and from which streams of lava
have flooded the beautiful, pros
porous and happy land lying on
the southeast shores of the Gulf
of Naples. The atmosphere is
heavily charged with electricity
and now and then the flashes of
lightning are binding. while
the detonations from the volcano
resemble those of terrible ex-
piosions.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Meeting Of State Medical Association.

The 58th annual meeting of
State Medical Association will
convene in Columbia on April 18,
will continue for two and proba-
bly, three days. The house of
delegates, the executive body of
the association, will meet on the
day preceding the opening of the
session and will transact all mat
ters of an executive nature to be
disposed of before the opening of
the meeting proper.
1t is expected that the attend
ance will be large.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Electric Lights For Clover.

The city government of Glover
are taking steps to light the town
with electricity. The power will
be obtained from the Catawba
Power Company and will be put
in operation soon. The town
will put in arc lights in the
main streets and there will be
incandescent lights in the resi-
dences and stores.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
Millionaire Swift Dead.

Edward c. Swift, the Chicago
millionaire beef packer, died in
Boston early Thursday morning.
He had fingered between life and
death for the past few days,
suffering from pneumonia.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Petitions are being circulated
in Charlotte asking for an election
to decide whether that city shall
cut out prohibition and go back
to barroomS. That would be q
blow to the drug store saloons. =
Rock Hill Record.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Statistics show that Georgia
and South Carolina are now using
more commercial fertilizers than
were used by the whole southern
states ten years ago. -Edgefield
Advertiser.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

At the rate the dirt is flying at
Panama we of this generation are
quite as likely to enjoy the mil
lenium as to see the completion
OF the canal. Times and Demo-
crat.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Between cheap liquor and
patent medicine it seems that we
will be damned if we drink or be
damned if we don't. .-Bamberg
Herald.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

1t is. a toss-up which VIZ the
longest Senator Tillman's S mani
festo or the answer of the Column
bia State thereto. 1t is * fact
that some people butt in where
angels fear to tread. We believe
Tillman will still be able to sit
up and take notice. Rock Hill
Record.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

The women's hats this season
are smaller than they were last,
and there is something to be
thankful for in that. News and
Courier.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Mr.. Carnegie has generously
put it up to the friends O. Am
herst college to raise $75, 600.
Then he will see the raise. 1t is
the regular Carnegie game.
Boston Herald.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS.
Every man wants square
deal in life. Also a good deal.
-Somerville Journal.

There is not so much in having
a surplus of brains as in knowing
how to use the little that one has.
-WaXhaw Enterprise.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

" Polk Miller and the ''Old South
Quartette" at the town hall We'd
nesday evening, April 18th.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

The statement that producer
is fond of his own product is not
always true. No man likes to
eat his own words. Washington
Post.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Somebody has discovered that
church hymn books are full of mi
crobes and likely to spread dis
ases. Why is it that nobody has
ever found any microbes hanging
around the poker table and door
knob of the individual whiskey
locders in the various clubs. -
Times and Democrat.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Mr.. A. H. Merritt of Upper
Fort Mill, who has been seriously
i'll, was on the streets Saturday
for the first time in several
weeks.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12

Goodbye, the juicy plum and
the toothsome peach! Goodbye
for many a long day! And as we
pen the words, our tears roll
down in torrents, Niagara is but
a ill compared to them! And oh
God! spare us now the seedy and
ungenteel blackberry and the
desultory and delusive apple.
And we would be immeasurably
thankful for even the haw and
the may-pop. Remember, oh
Lord, that we are going to have
hot and burning summer
that Ben Tillman is going to con-
sumo our inmost vitals with dis
pensary fire-that we shall have
no X, Xxx, XXX-to moisten our
parched tongues. Woe is upon
us! This morning, March 2lst,
the ice is a furlong thick in
Edgefeld, and the earth is spewed
up yard high. Lord have mercy
upon us, and vouchsafe unto us
the blackberry and the may-pop
and the stringy collard and
the watery squash. -Edgefield
Chronicle.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
End of Grsen-Gaynor Trial This Week

The famous Green-Gaynor trial
at Savannah, Ca, on Monday en-
tered its fourteenth and probably
last week in court.
Arguments for the defense will
perhaps be concluded by today,
Immediately after which Judge
Speer will deliver his charge to
the jury. 1t is expected that the
jury will conclude it's delibera-
tions and report it's findings be-
fore the week ends.
The Monticellonian., 1906-06-21
Found Dead in Box Car.

Recently at Fort Smith, while Fris- co employees were breaking up train of empty cars which came in the even ing before, they discovered the body of a man, evidently murdered, in one of the box cars. The entire right side of his head was crushed and beside the body was an iron bar with which the killing had been done There was q pool of blood on the car floor near the door and then a streak of blood to the spot where the body lay in the end of the car. The supposition is that the man was killed while near the door and the body dragged out of sight Three handkerchiefs, one soaked with water and another wet with water, were found near the body, indicating that an attempt had been made to wash the blood from the wound The location of the wound indicates that the fatal blow was struck while the man was asleep. In pocketbook was found a miners travelling card in the name of C. Mundowski, which was is- sued from the secretary of the local at Gowan, I. T. There is no evidence upon which to found q theory as to where or why the murder was commit ted. The condition of the mans cloth ing did not indicate that his pockets had been searched.
The Monticellonian., 1906-06-21
Jirr1rny's Wife By T. JENKINS HANS Author of Wind hammers, Cruise of
 the Petrel." Etc
By T. JENKIN
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowlesl

We were about 50 miles south of Cape Horn, ho,e-to in a high, rolling, northwest sea which made the main deck uninhabitable.
 In the dog watch the carpenter took mercy on Gantline and myself and all lowed us to share his room in the for ward house for an after-supper smoke. We had started forward when the man on lookout hailed. Through the gloom of the flying drift and twilight a shadow bore down upon the ship, grey-white above black. Then there suddenly loomed out the shape of a great ship tearing along under t'gal- lant sails dead before the gale.
 Then in an instant she was gone. The drift had closed upon her as she swept astern before anyone could read her name. She had vanished as quick ly as she had appeared passing on in to the dismal sea behind us like a salt-streaked mystery.
 We stood gazing at the whirling drift in the gloom astern for some minutes, and then we followed Chips into his room. Gantline could not re call the vessel by her shape or rig and asked the carpenter about her.
 Do l know her?" he hissed fierce ly. Would I be apt to forget her?@ And he thrust out an arm, pulling up his sleeve until a long livid scar showed clear to his elbow. It isn't
The Monticellonian., 1906-06-21
.FOR
 THE CORONATION
TRoNDHJEM, NORWAY, IS CAPT.
 TAI FOR THE NoNCE.
ANCIENT CITY IS CROWDED
T Monster Demonstration By the Fisher Fleet at Aalesund, Led By The Royal Yacht Humdal
 The King Pleased

Ghristiana, Norway. Trondhiem. yesterday city of fishers. today Is d capital. Many of those who will par tcipate in the coronation of King Haakon have already swelIed the population, and others are crowding north by steamers and trains. The galety over the confirmation of the country's new independence will reach its full tide Tuesday, when King Haa. Ron Queen Maud and the baby Crown Prince Olaf reach TrOndhjem All over the eounry flies the flag of Nor. Way-the white bordered blue cross upon field of red-testifying to the fealty of the people
 King Haakon Queen Maud and Crown Prince Olaf are continuing their journey northward along the coast. Sunday was spent in the vi entity of Mold where their maiesties were gwen banquet al night
 A Great Demonstration.
 Sunday began with demonstration t5 the fisher fleet al Aalesund. Nine ty steamers, 90 motor boats and scores upen scores of small craft pafticipat- ed Tne royal yacht Heimdal at first steamed through the fleet and was wildly eheered. and then the fleet formed in two long columns and steamed up the ford, the Heimdal Ss'ading. The families of the fisher men flied the boats. The crowd afIoat numbered 5000. At the con. esasion Of the parade all the vessels passed Ill review before the HeimdaI. King Haakon expressed his pleasure al the honor conferred upon him and at the pieturesqueness of the marine parade.
The Monticellonian., 1906-06-21
CONGRESSMAN LESTER
 DIES 0F HIS INJURIES

Washington D, C.-The fears expressed that the injuries received by Representatives Rufus E. Lester. of Georgia, who fell through the sky light of the Cairo apartment house. last Friday night would prove fatal. were only too well founded He died Saturday evening. The members of his immediate family were with him. The remains will be taken to his old home in Savannah for interment.
 MT Lester was 6S years old and had represented the Savannah (GaD district in the lower house since the beginning of the Fifty-frst congress. serving through most of his time as one of the democratic members of the rivers and harbors committee. He was confederate veteran and had served as president of the Georgia state senate and as mayor of Savan- nah