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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1904
Page
1
Greenville dispatch reports burglars cracked the Harrington Barber & Co. safe in Winterville about 2 am and escaped with over 200 dollars. Other items note a hunting death near Seneca, tobacco acreage changes in Florence county, and a man’s suicide in Worcester Massachusetts.
Burlington Iowa locomotive fireman W Bellamy described a near collapse from sickness but recovered after taking Electric Bitters. The testimonial claims the product restores strength and vigor for weak and run down people. Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co and T Eugene Funderburk guarantee satisfaction. Price fifty cents.
In Columbia on Friday the House voted 52 to 48 to kill the committee bill for ten circuit courts, and 66 to 36 to defeat Debrabs bill separating civil and sessions courts. The Magill ten circuit plan also failed 52 to 48. Senate rejected postponing Senator Warren’s phosphate commission resolution with a vote. A salary raise for judges to 3500 was favorably reported, and many routine measures were advanced. Adjournment to Tuesday was agreed as salesday approaches.
In Spartanburg on January 29 the body of an unidentified white man was found wedged between cotton bales in a second section box car of freight No. 74, which had caught fire in the Southern yards. Coroner’s verdict cites death by suffocation and burns. no clear identification found besides a New York express receipt bearing Austell Georgia. The deceased is described as about 35, olive complexion, black curly hair, powerful build, with evidence of hard manual work. The body will be buried by the Southern Railway Company.
Washington January 30 The house unanimously struck from the urgent deficiency bill the second payment of mileage to senators and representatives and then passed the bill. The vote followed a heated debate over whether this session was continuous and who could authorize mileage. The final tally was 167 in favor and none against as the bill moved through without division.
The Beaufort Board of Trade met in Beaufort on January 20 and passed a resolution urging the legislature to grant Governor Heyward favorable consideration. The text of the resolution cited support for the governor’s pleas and related measures.
William M Williams of Morganton, 60, was struck by the Palm Limited northbound train on the Southern near the Southern Seaboard junction this morning about 9 am. He fell before the engine and was thrown several yards, his head crushed and body wounded on the left side.
A. B. Baxter & Company a New York incorporated broker with offices at 61 Broadway declared an assignment for creditors. The firm led by A. B. Baxter and Felix Lipp faced cotton margin shortfalls and temporary embarrassment with a claimed capital of 300000 and many Southern branches.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve relieves cuts burns bruises and sore feet and joints while curing piles. Available for 25 cents at Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co T Eugene Funderburk’s Druggist.
Robert Duppnt Cater of Charleston died in New York from pneumonia after a botched hospital wedding attempt to marry his second cousin Anna Carter. Cater, son of Julius M. Cater and grand-nephew of General Francis Marion, had come to New York two years earlier to work in newspapers.
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