The morning news., 1890-06-02

John Dean, a young white mechanic, had
bis leg broken at Spartanburg, on Saturday
night, by jumping from bridge. He and
a friend were passing over the bridge about
them. He leaped from the bridge in order
10 avoid being shot, ana tie fail Broke mis-
leg.
The announcement Of Gen. Bratton as a
candidate for governor does not create
much surprise at Spartanburg, as it wGs
expected after the action Of the twenty-one-
conference in Columbia. 1t is expected
that Col. II. l.. Farley will announce him
self very soon for the offics of adjutant
and Inspector general on the Tillman
ticket.
J. Walter Gray, Noah f. Carpenter and
Joseph ". Robinson have received COM
mission for the Incorporation Of the Ian
drum Hotel Company of Spartanburg
county. The company. of whica the capital
stock is $4,000, divided into 100 shares of
800 each, proposes To buy and sell, rent
and lease real estate, and also do a general
hotel business.
Robert Bradford, a farmer of the vicinity,
was at Hickory Grove Tuesday, and while
there drank too much liquor. He started
home in drunke stupor and was run
over By belated train. His body was not
discovered until Wednesday afternoon after
another train had passed over it. Save for
one foot IL was an unrecognizable mass and
was collected into a box with shovel
Bradford leaves a wife and five or six
children.
Sunday afternoon a tenants house on
Judge w. S. Thomason's farm, near Spar
tanburg, was struck by lightning and COM
pletely demolished. The chimney was
knocked down and three sides of the house
torn down to the sills. The bedsteads,
tables and crockery were all broken. An
old woman and four children were in the
house at the time, aud none of them seemed
to suffer from the shock. The old woman
was bruised on the head by the falling
timbers.
A commission has been issued by the sec
rotary of state to-day for the organization
of the st. Matthew's Manufacturing and
Warehouse Company of st. Matthew's,
Orangeburg county. with a capital stock Of
$25, 900, in shares of $25 each, and the right
to increase to $780, The company pro-
pose to operate cotton seed oil mill, q GIN
merry, fertilizer factory and a grist mill,
to erect warehouse for storing cotton, and
to manufacture agricultural implements
and vehicles.
The following is list of losers bv Thurs
day nights fire at Sumter: John Reed, two
wooden buildings, insurance $1,000, loss
$4,000; j. j. Muller, saddlery aud harness,
insurance $4,000, loss $500; Miss Addie
NeHueuy, ooOhs anu stationery, insurance
5000, most of stock saved; Mrs White &
Miss Miller, millinery, insurance 81, 300, 10 S
covered. The fire originated in the store of
j. j. Muller, who says that he has not had
even a lamp lit in his place tor several
months past. 1t must have been the work
of an incendiary.
Last winter Napoleon Wilson, white
man, living near Magnolia, Sumter county,
induced the wife of j. NJ Morris to leave
home aud 60 away with him. Some diff
Guilty ensued, ana after a few weeks Mrs
NJ iris returned to her husbands home and
was reinstated On several occasions since
then the two men have exchanged hot
words and sometimes exch hanged shots. A
few days ago another quarrel took place in
which Morris shot and killed Wilson. Nor
ris went to Sumter Court House, aud, Goa
Tossing the deed, surrendered himself to
Sheriff Carson. lie is now in Sumter jail.