24 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1901
Page
1
Doubled stock on many items with special prices in grocery department. Purchases highlight cost saving and every item available in stores. Stores aim to be the best trading price in this part of the state.
We call special attention to our greatly enlarged grocery department with improved selection and prompt service. Orders for quick delivery are given top priority and include a wide range of produce and staple items at current prices.
Lancaster Mercantile Company notice fragment shows a local business listing or legal notice with unreadable OCR text. This item likely references a corporate entity in Lancaster and may involve notices to customers or creditors or a sale or change in status.
The Island flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet on the Victoria Skagway run struck an iceberg near Dougla Island Alaska. Captain Foote and about 65 people perished as boilers exploded. The liner had just carried a record number of passengers and crew, many awakened by the impact. Debris and distress followed as lifeboats were launched while others went down in staterooms.
In Sadieville Kentucky locals praise Dr King s New Discovery for a long suffering bronchial case and a grand-daughter s whooping cough cure. The ad notes guaranteed 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles and trial bottles free at Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co druggists Lancaster Ohio. It mentions Woolford s Bantary Lotion and a 30 minute cure claim.
The governor is asked to offer a reward for the capture of a suspect in a murder near Dawkins or Blair's in Fairfield County on the Asheville division of the Southern. Magistrate D. Blair reports Sam Farrow, a black man about 5 feet 10 inches, 150 pounds, slightly crippled, who shot his wife, then wounded his father and another woman before escaping by boat on the Broad River. Farrow had been acting as a Southern railway flagman and returned home Tuesday with a Winchester rifle. The posse chased him through the night but he escaped.
Paducah Ky August 20 Seventeen and perhaps twenty two lives were lost in the wreck of the steamboat Golconda at Cottonwood bar four miles above Paducah last night. The boat's register has not been recovered leaving a complete dead list unavailable. An official investigation will be held as it appears gross culpability caused the catastrophe.
A mob of about 300 in Whitesboro Texas captured Abe Wilder accused of murdering Mrs Caldwell. He was hanged from a tree, a fire built beneath, then coal oil applied to finish the death. The outrage occurred near Red Ranch, with details reported tonight.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a positive remedy for constipation with guaranteed cure. It markets genuine tablets at 10 cents and notes they are never sold in bulk.
Death toll rises after a gunfight in Reynolds ten miles north of Water Valley Mississippi during a seduction trial. Otto Johnson was wounded with three bullets while Len Smith and his father were struck. four men were wounded overall with three believed fatally. Witnesses Senator Earl Brewer and J G McGowan provided accounts. All involved are farmers and the incident occurred in a packed courtroom.
Editor S A Brown of Bennettsville South Carolina recounts his wife’s struggle with dyspepsia and loss of strength. After four bottles of Electric Bitters she recovered fully and can eat anything. The tonic is praised for stomach liver and laxative benefits. Available for 50 cents at Crawford Bros and J F Mackey & Co.
A premature explosion of a seven inch projectile in the Sixteenth battery injured seven others and killed Private Watson when the unit was practicing at Fort Riley Kansas. A defective fuse was blamed for the blast. Victor Wilson, son of Rev J B Wilson of Anderson, drowned Saturday in White Horse river at Jocaswee North Carolina in Cashier's valley.
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