The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-07-21
PITHY NEWS ITEMS.

The Marlboro Mill Co. capital $25,-
600 has been incorporated to operate
at Bennettsville, S. G.
George Nj. Trenholm has purchased
the Royal Fertilizer c. plant at
Charleston, $. c., for 81 .S,lOo.
Another artesian well 70 being sunk
at Florence, S. G.
Abbevillc, s. c., parties have leased
the Monroe IN. c. Foundry and Ma
chine Works and will operate same.
The college buildings OF the Rich
mond (Va.) Female Insttute will be
remodeled and enlarged
A new 80 room hotelhas been finish
ed at Edgefield, S. @.
The Monbo IN. O. Mig. Co. have
put in another Foster cone winder.
Prof. Collins Denny, ofyirginia, has
refused the I residcncy of Trinity Col
lege, Durham, n. c.
Nearly 10000 Christian Endeavor
delegates met in Cleveland, O., in spite
Of the strike.
Cobb Bros. have commenced the
enlargement of their ho4ery mill at
Suffolk. Va l.
The Lockhart Shoals Is. C.) Cot
ton Mills, now erecting, will put in the
wonderful new Draper looms.
The Bessemer City IN. c. Cotton
Mills, erected last winte~, will be filed
hy machinery this fall. and give en-
ploymeut to 500 hands.
Ststesvillc, N. c., ,hasits fret colored
physician. DR.. Bryant. of Tsrboro.
has located there for the practice of
medicine.
At Edgowater, Va. the Hilton
Woolen Mills, owned by Waugh, Per
kins n Co, of Hilton, N. c., were
6uIncd. Loss so, 900; uninsured.
They will probably be rebuilt.
The Altnmahaw Cotton Mills. Bur
lington. N. c., are raising their
dam 3 feet higher. When they get 1t
completed they will add some new
looms.
The Buena Vista g., Cashmere
United T States goyern% "% ut for ,f'n 10, ,ooo eOe
yards Of blue navy gooSs.
The Odell Mfg. Co., Concord.
n. c., have contracted with the D. A.
TomPkins Co, Charlotte, for electric
pumping machinery. The water will
he brought one-fouith nile.
ii. ID. Wheat, ofthe Gaffney Is. C.)
Mfg. Co, has Ecen Elected treasurer
and general manager OF the Tuscapau
Cotton Mills, now building at Well
ford, Spartauburg cor gdy, 81 S.
me esumaJes made by u most
careful tobacco men is that there is
not over three -fourths of an average
tobacco crop at mostin Virginia, North
and South Carolina.
The Pineville, N. c.. Cotton Mil is
now to be put into operation.
Hydraulic engineers have made sur
veys for water supply at the new In
dustrial School for Girls at Rock Hill,
) G.; also Mt Agricultural d Mechan-
ical College, Raleigh, n. G.
Victor Taylor shot and killed Char
ley Stuart near Catawba Station, ". c.,
Saturday night. 1t appears to be a
case of self-defence; both were full of
whiskey.
One hundred and ninety six fresh
cases of cholera were reported at st.
Petersburg Tuesday and 10 more
deaths have been recorded.
A special from Burlington. Boone
county, o., says n mob of 90 masked
men took Louis Lnfcrdette from iail
shortly after midnight Monday night
| and hung him. Laferdett was a trsmp
and had murdered farmer named
William Wheeler.
The umbrella trust. with headauar.
ters in New York and capitalized at
81, 900, 900 has gone into the hands OF
receivers.
A boiler at the Reckle a Parma.
lee Lumber Association Mills, Jack.
sonyilie, N. c., exploded Saturday
night, killing three colored men in
4tantly and fatally injurmg a fourth.