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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1900
Page
4
RF Wylie attorney at law states Honey to Lod made arrangements with New York bookers to finance an improved farm property. First mortgage for five years at seven percent interest per annum. Brokerage and abstract inspection costs are borne by the borrower.
A fragmented notice discusses tax and property issues in Lancaster and Amery areas, with references to debtors, creditors, and administrators. It also includes a long winter farming advisory urging overhaul and maintenance of equipment to ensure ready spring work. The text mentions historical figures and places in the United States, touching on a large Revenue bird description and a cotton mill charter application.
The readable portions describe a rustic scene with mystic imagery and scattered names. It references gestures toward a jewel like object and a maiden, with lines suggesting dialogue about a broken instrument and an overlooked task. The fragmentary nature preserves few concrete facts or context.
In Charleston on January 5 Charley Wilson and Zachariah Singleton were executed for murder. Wilson killed Private TP Godfrey of Anderson's Heavy Battery, while Singleton murdered Christopher Benedett. The execution was rapid and uneventful with both men dying minutes after the trap was sprung.
Tweendiaries in Miami reports a 4 am fire at the Budge building corner of Avenue D and Twelfth Street. By 7 am three fine business buildings lay in ruins with losses of 60,500. The blaze is deemed incendiary and traced to a gang long active in the area.
Public notice highlights the claim that De King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds has donated over ten million trial bottles to aid the needy. It asserts cures for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat and lung ailments and invites readers to Crawford Bronch ats for a free tin bottle with a money back guarantee on regular size bottles priced at one dollar.
Yorkville Enquirer reports two men, Glenn and Alison, seek the whereabouts of Dd Wil son or a Davis, who owned a horse and baggy stolen December 2. The thief, a mechanic, hired the horse for work then disappeared, last seen near Shelly on Tuesday, believed wanted in Southern Pines for similar theft. The stolen horse is a large black 16 hands high, about 1100 pounds, with an end spring haydock cart.
Enquiry of members of the board of health confirms five active smallpox cases in Greenville with two recoveries. The disease is mild with no deaths. Two cases are at the city pest house, two miles out, and nine cases at Poe mills pest house, while the mill village remains quarantined to prevent spread.
News from London Kentucky reports a general fight on Otter Creek in Clay County. Involving Live Techs and Gen Muay, six killed and four wounded. The melee followed a court adjournment during a trial at an academy where a suspect faced an Ag Hawk official. Four injured men were sent to Manchester and later jailed. Lewis, brother of ex-Sheriff Duc Lewis, among the dead. Honea Path plans a 300,000 cotton mill with J A Brook as president. Governor pardons John Walker of Bulwberg for manslaughter. Greenwood farmers vote to skip commercial fertilizers. A cotton gin trust forms with $2,000,000 capital.
New Orleans January Heser's statement lists the actual average weight at 4,791,549 bales for the cotton crop, including port receipts and overland shipments for four months to December. The average per bale stands at 510 79-100 pounds, down from 518 11-100, a decrease of 7 100. Regional averages include Texas 527 18-100, Louisiana 514 65-100, Alabama 503, Georgia 492 35-100, South Carolina 497 75-100, North Carolina 505 87-100, Virginia 498, Tennessee, Memphis, St. Louis and overland at 504 41-100.
Daily except Sunday schedule in effect from September 11 1898 shows westbound and eastbound times. Stops include Chester Ly Richburg Bascombville with morning and afternoon departures listed as AM and PM.
A early morning fire on East Ninety second street, New York, left three dead and seven injured. Victims include Mrs. Mary Sutherly, her 9 year old son Frank Sutherly, and 22 month old James Sutherly. Capital stock reported at 50000, Laurens to have another peak.
Rufus Salter a negro farmer living near West Springs was shot through the heart by a mob of white men who visited his house early Sunday. Destructive fires in the area, including barns and a store, had aroused suspicion of an incendiary, but Salter was killed before his identity was confirmed.
A Civil War ball struck GB Steads of Newark Michigan causing lasting pain and infection for twenty years. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve reportedly cured him. The ad claims cures for cats bruises boils felons corgs skin eruptions and more at 25 cents, sold by Crawford Drugists.
Secretary Hay announced reception from the Italian mission confirming support for an open door in China. The accord shows full power consensus and upholds the open door policy. In Spartanburg county near Huntersville, Max Anderson, a black man, was killed with an axe by Sam Thompson, a white man, on Friday afternoon at William Fowler's farm.
The advertisement touts Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming it treats the disease constitutionally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars to any code it fails to cure and invite readers to request testimonials.
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