Ridgeway Sells and Mills Plans Shaped in State Dispatch
A multi item State Dispatch notes an attempted suicide near Ridgeway by Sam Morgan with an 88 calibre pistol, ongoing life saving, and a brother who earlier took laudanum. Orr mills to double size costing $400,000 with 25,000 spindles and 25,000 to 30,000 more spindles planned. A Rock Hill overalls factory by T L Johnston begins December to operate January 1 with 50 machines and rising to 200. Samuel Willimon shot by an unknown negro near Greenville. two different accounts of the incident. A separate fatal shooting at Air Line Station in Greenville leaves Juba Stevens dead. B F Rush released on $500 bail. Mullins reports seven million pounds of tobacco sold at >10 cents per pound. Samuel Atchison receives a letter from presumed dead James Lindsay in Cleveland. A new $10,000 Presbyterian church to be built in Union.
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Ridgeway
Simpson’s
Sam Morgan
Morgan
Rock Hill
T. L. Johnston
Thghland Park
Greenville
Samuel Willimon
Willimon
Gilreath
Juba
Stevens
Southern Railway
Rush
California
Mullins
Girl Loops Away From Clifton Home Father Offers Reward
Miss Lola Turner, about 19, has not returned home from Clifton since yesterday. Father C. A. Turner, a man of means, offers $100 for information leading to her whereabouts. No foul play suspected. Several saw her ride an electric car toward Spartanburg, where she often shopped. She is 5 feet 2 inches, 115 pounds, with light hair, blue eyes, and a scar on her upper lip.
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Observer
Spartanburg
S. C
Lola” Turner
Clifton
C. A. Turner
Mies Turner
Aye
South Carolina Pensions See Rise in Payouts
Charleston reports Comptroller General Derham shows this year’s Confederate pensions total 260247.09 dollars for 7750 pensioners. Eighty seven veterans received 1999 dollars combined for artificial limbs. The growing pension rolls threaten future budgets as costs outpace funding.
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Charleston
US. C
Derham
King of The Belgians Fired on in Street
In Brossele on November 15 three shots were fired at King Leopold as he walked toward the cathedral for a Te Deum honoring Marie Henriette. No injuries occurred. An Italian named Rubino fired. the other rounds were blanks. He confessed intent to shoot the king and cited anarchist beliefs.
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Brossele
Marie Slenriette
Bank of
Brussels
Rue Royale
Rubino
Leopold
Law as to Trespassers Posted for Hunting Fishing
Article reproduces the 1898 law on trespass entries after notice from owner or tenant. Entry after notice is a misdemeanor with fines up to one hundred dollars or up to thirty days hard labor. Posting in four places plus weekly newspaper notice proves notice against violators.
Electric Bitters Cured Blacksmith After Ten Year Pain
A. T. Headley of Tilden Indiana, once crippled by ten years of rheumatism, reports two bottles of Electric Bitters cured him completely. The tonic purifies blood, regulates kidneys, relieves neuralgia and nervousness, and aids digestion. Available for 50 cents at J. F. Mackey & Co. and Crawford Bros. drug stores.
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A. T. Headley
Tilden
Ind
J. F. Mackey & Co
Crawford Bros
Woman takes morphine to end life in Spartanburg
In Spartanburg South Carolina on November 15 Josie Davis a young white woman known to frequent a bad locality ended her life with morphine during a personal crisis. She had been in a state of intoxication for several days and grew reckless. Physicians were summoned but could not revive her and she died at noon.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Josie Davis
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Qulumbin State
Ridgesway
ORR Mills
Neoko
Wiila GO
Air Line Station
B. F
Black
Court House
John T. Stevens
A. H. Dean
B. A. Morgan
Watts
Newberry
Samuel Atchison
Whitmire
James Lindsay
Cleveland
Grove
Lancaster Vercantileo
Qures
Bood BalmCo
Atlanta Ga
South Carolina
KE. W. Grove
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