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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1904
Page
4
A Chicago theatre fire killed or injured hundreds as gas from the reservoir and a curtain blast swept through. Witnesses described people trapped at doors two and three, with women and children among the dead. Firemen found a wall of bodies in the doorway, corpses strewn across stairs, and massed in aisles, yielding a harrowing scene of suffocation and trampling.
In Charleston on December 20 the Circuit Court required Olympia Mills of Columbia to file a bond within 15 days securing plaintiffs Leonard Phinizy and Alice Hull for their interest until full merits hearing. A receiver petition decision is reserved. Reorganization may proceed. A separate pact between Pauline and Eugenia Dearing and Olympia Mills and Granby Mills aims at amicable claim adjustment. The court signed an order allocating 15,000 dollars for the mortgage claim of Granby Cotton Mills and 875,000 of new first mortgage Olympia bonds for Richland Mills claim.
A vintage ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a solution for dyspepsia dizziness headaches liver or bowel trouble. It promises gentle yet thorough relief and lists J F Mackey Co Crawford Bros and T Eugene Funderbark Drug Store as merchants.
Will Gaddey a 33 year old mill worker was run over and killed Monday by Southern Railway switch engine No 44 in Columbia. The tragedy occurred near the railway yard as he attempted to cross the tracks, leaving the community in shock. Local authorities are investigating the incident and notifying the deceased’s family.
The Lancaster County Auditor's office sets January 1 to February 20 1904 for taxpayer returns. Persons holding property must file by law or face a 50 percent penalty. a one dollar poll tax applies to males aged 21 to 60 except maimed or Confederate veterans. The notice lists local auditor stations and dates across towns for convenient filing.
A frightened horse ran through the street injuring nobody but prompting calls for a reliable salve. The ad promotes Boeklen's Arnica Salve to ease burns cuts sores boils and piles, available for 25 cents at H R Mackay & Co Crawford Bros and T Eugene Funderburk.
A daring Kiowa bank raid 16 miles south of Fort Worth ends in a fierce clash between 4 citizen posses and robbers. About $28,000 was in the bank. most of it destroyed by an explosion and much of the paper currency ruined. One robber is said to be injured as the bandits fled southward.
A Fremont New York resident, B E Bass, reports severe kidney trouble relieved by Electric Bitters after other medicines failed. He claims total recovery and cites neighbors also healed from rheumatism neuralgia liver and kidney issues and debility. Bargains offered by Crawford Bros Mackey Co and T Eugene Fenderburk Druggist. A New York banker financing a North Carolina chewing mill plans to import workers from New York tenements.
The article lists train schedules and routes involving Chester and Lancaster areas with connections on Southern and Leroling railways. It names stations and times from Charlotte to Gastonia, Yorkville, Columbia, Fort Lawn, and Bascomville, noting officials A McLure and Leroy Springs.
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