The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-07
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Gaffney's military company has grown to
about sixty memte.s.
The capital stock for canning factory
at Williamson was quickly raised Thurs
day. Fifteen hundred dollars was raised
for the stock. 1t will be in working order
| in a short time.
The Baptist State Orphanage of Will
| liamston is another institution to obtain
which the citizens will put forth every
effort. A meeting will be held in a short
time in the interest of it.
Thursday night Frank D. Harris colorsd
man 22 years old, living on the northern
| edge of Columbia, procured 10 cents worth
of trough on rats" made tea with it and
drank it. He died Friday.
DR.. A. A. Kibler's dwelling at Prosperity
was burned Saturday about s p. m, with
nearly ell his household furniture. The fire
was caused by defective fiue. The loss is
| $4,000. TIE insurance is about 500.
The cotton seed oil mills of Columbia
have shut down for the season. They have
consumed more seed than last year. but the
business has not been as satisfactory, owing
to the higher price of seed and the lower
price of oil.
| The fourteenth annual session of the
| Grand Lodge of the Knights Of Honor of
South Carolina will open in Columbia on
| April 1G. The attendance is expected to be
|
mitteemen. The order has III members in
| Columbia, and about 5000 in the state.
There are plenty of shad in the Congaree
| and Broad rivers. The fish-plantng policy
| of Commissioner Butler is indicated upon
| these streams. A great many fish are said
| to be collected in the lake formed by the
canal dam. and various parties are catch
ing shad very readily there with cast nets.
The Waunamaker & MURRAY Company of
~, III IL.
| insurance companies having risks on their
property injured by the recent fire. The
| damage on the stock was nearly SD, 900,
| and the Wannamaker & Murray Company
took $4,000 and the damaged stock in settle
ment.
H. Tanner and LeBar, two Mormon
! elders, were taken from the house of J. A.
Gordon, at Gaffney, on Friday night by
twelve disguised men and beaten, rocked
and ordered to leave the county at oace
AS the elders ran off several shots were
fred at them. IL is said that several of the
raiding party are known.
The Bank of Allendale has opened its
doors for business. with c. NJ. Hers as
president, w. v Gill, vice president, and
X. Z. Searson as cashier, and J. l.. Tobin,
attorney. The capital stock is $500 in
shares of 800 each, and up TO this writing
$4,000 has been taken, the majority of this
|
A commission has been issued for the
formation of the Southern Electropoise
Company of Charleston. The corporators
are Albertus S. Brown of Sumter, and
David b. Anderson of Charleston. The
company will have capital stock of 81, OOO
in shares of 500 each, aud proposes to deal
i'll electrical instruments for medical pur-
poses, etc.
At Oakley last week Isaac Browo, after
warning, persisted in using rotten boat
and was drowned. This is an uniuckv
crossing spot. Brown is the seventh man
who has lost his life there. Three men were
drowned there some years ago from the up
setting of boat, three more from fiat be-
ing run into by sloop and the men beng
knocked overheard, and now Brown. the
victim Of his own obstinacy.
Senator Bntler has sent to the mechanical
department of the university at Columbia
pair OF navy bronze steam launch pro-
peilers. This generous contribution was
sent from the New York navy ward by
order OF the secretary of the navy. The
propellers are Of excelent design, superior
workmanship, and of approved pattern.
Gradually there are baing received by the
department many valuable models aud
machines fer the use of the mechanical stu
dents.
AT Washington Saturday Representative
Dibbls had another interview with Secre-
tarY Window in relation TO the bill now
pending before Congress for opening Con-
cord Street through the custom house
grounds at Charleston. The secretary will
call upon The collector OF the port Of Charles
ton for his views on the bill, aud the secre-
tary'S report 90 congress will be based upon
Collector Johnston's recommendations Mr.
Dibble is confident that the desired permits
sion will be granted.