The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
of the dispensary law.


The new state board of control has
elected Col. JOHN T. CASTOR superintend-
ent Of the state dispensary for another
year.
The Finlayson hosiery mills at Cheraw
have placed their orders for the necessary
machinery and expect to be in operation
soon.
Senator Tillman win be in evidence out
west next week. He will speak by in
vftation in Denver. Col, Wichita. Kan.
and Pertle Springs. Mo.
A Confederate Veterans Camp has been
organized at Bradley and named 1.-The
Ebert Bland Camp in honor of the late
Col. Ebert Bland of Edgefield county.
Negotiations are now in progress for the
erection of a $4,000 cotton mill at Cal
houn Falls. ON the lands Of the Carolina
and Western Land Improvement Com
Pany.
The Lutherans of North and South
Carolina arer contemplating erecting a fe-
male college at an early date. Columbia,
Charlotte and. Asheville are trying to get
the school,
The state whisky constables notified
those who had been selling cider and
cherry bounce" that they would not be
allowed to sell anything of the kind after
the 18th inst.
Saturday evening at Swansea, a younger
child of Mrs. Josh Starley was killed by
his brother: the children had gone to the
woods to gather wood, and there the trag-
edy occurred.
Near Florence there will be no decrease
in cotton acreage, but tobacco acreage
will be increased at least 100 per cent. Two
new tobacco prize houses will soon be
erected in Florence.
The work in the interest of securing a
subscription from citizens of Columbia TO
be offered as a bid from that city for the
establishment of the Lutheran college, is
being pushed in a satisfactory manner.
The result of saluda's first county seat
primary was: Emory, 652; Red Bank, $50;
Mickler, 397. This throws out Miclxler, and
leaves Emory and Red Bank to fight 1t
out The next election Will occur to-mor-
row.
w. A. Hefner of Rock Hill has recently
invented and patented gate hinge which
makes gates to which it is adjusted close
automatically. He is at present negotiat-
ing with manufacturers for the sale of the
patent.
President e. H. Aull and Secretary C.
C. Langton of the South Carolina Press
Association have issued the official pro-
gramme for the annual meeting of the
association, which is to convene in
Charleston ON the sd of April.
Greenville News: on account of the APP
preaching dull season the Huguenot mills
viii suspend night operation, beginning
with next Friday. VIM. S. Toler, one of
the fastest weavers IN the country is
night operator in the mill In thirteen days
he turned out 4,74S yards of checks.
Two prominent organizations are to
meet in Rock Hill the present year. The
state grand lodge OF Knights of Pythias
with 200 or more delegates will assemble
on May 10 and 20; and the State Teachers
association composed of 800 members will
convene June 30 and be in session until
July 3.
Near Gaffney, twenty miles from Spar
hamburg Tuesday morning, two farmers,
Cole and Husky, got into an alteration,
in which Husky received knife wounds in
the abdomen from which he died in a few
moments Cole was arrested. The men We're
neighbors, and fell out about a land trans
action.
Rock Hill has organized the third build
ing and loan association. 1t is called the
Peoples Building and Loan Association.
Its authorized capital for the first series
will be $4,000, and charter has been ap-
piled for. The corporators are Thomas L.
Johnson, w. ]. Roddey, V. B. McFadden,
/ j. e. Roddey, John A. Black, w. B. VIII
son and.J. II. Miller
The Presbytery of South Carolina, en-
bracing the counties of Pickens, Oconee,
Anderson, Abbeville, Newberry and Edge
| field, will meet in the Presbyterian church
| in Seneca. 1t is expected that there will
! be from GO to 70 delegates present. This
/ Presby terry originally covered the whole
state, hence its name, but there have been
/ presbyteries cut off until there are six
/ presbyteries in the state.
Augusta Herald: Josh Johnson, a ne
gro detective of this city. has just re-
turned after having worked up a sensa-
| tional case in Carolina. Certain citizens
| OF Lexington, S. c., wrote here for a
competent colored man to investigate an
| important case, and johnson was sent.
! He reports that as a result of his efforts
/ w. z. Bowers, a prominent and well-to-do
white farmer residing twenty miles from
/ Lexington in Lexington county is now
/ in Jail in default of $1,000 bond to await
1 preliminary trial. Johnson says several
/ houses and barns in the vicinity had been
/ burned and the people suspected that
1 Bowers had incited traInps to do it; but
! could never get satisfactory proof Then
! it became known that Bowers had tried
! to bride negroes to murder several neigh
/ bOrs 1t was to work UP this charge that
/ johnson was employed. The Augusta ne
/ gro turned up at the Bowers place one
! day as a tramp. He asked for work and
i said he knew all about SaW-mills haV-
ing heard that Mr.. Bowers intended put
/ ting up one. Bowers became very friend
/ ~ and Johnson also got confidential, say
1 ing that he had left Georgia because of
a crime committed there. This seemed
/ to please Bowers very much. Finally
1 one night he whispered TO Johnson that
/ II he would Kill G. 5. Matthews, John
| Tricks and VIII Mears he would make
! him independent for life. This star
/ tiled Johnson, but he kept his nerve and
! agreed to do it Then Bowers told john
( son to go down into the river swamp for
| a week and come back ready to do the
/ work. When he returned he set a tran
for Bowers. On dark night Bowers un-
/ folded his plans In fun TO the supposed
/ tramp, and also gave him the cartridges
! with which TO commit the murders Lying
/ in the dark a few feet away FIVE or siX
/ citizens overheard the conversation. one
of them being Matthew's. Bowers arrest
/ followed and Johnson came back home
All the men whom Bowers wished nut
| out OF the way are related 10 him.