The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-14

larceny; George W.. Harrison, sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary from
Spartanburg, on the charge of man.
slaughter.
w. W. Perry committed suicide at Lam
caster Wednesday by drowning himself in
Bear creek. He was the clerk of the court
but his finances are in good shape. No
cause can be assigned for the deed except
he had been suffering from nervous pros
tration and lack of sleep for two months
or more.
A commission for charter has been is
sued to the Security Real Estate and In
vestment Company of Charleston. The
corpora tors of the company are James
Robertson, ]. Lamb Perry and w. I.
Thompson. The capital stock of the COM
pany is to be 100000, and the company pro-
poses doing a general real estate, broker
age and investment business.
At Spartanburg Friday Magistrate Con-
ME Fowler filed himself with dispensary
booze and walked into the residence of
Miss Lula Miller on Main street. pulled out
his pistol and fired into the sitting room,
where were seated a number of women and
children The ball barely missed the head
of a 10-year-old girl. Fowler then walked
out on the front piazza and fired three
shots in the house. He has not been ar
rested.
George French Scruggs, the S-year-old
son of Seth w. Scruggs. clerk of the state
board of control was badly burned at CO.
lumba Thursday. The little fellow and
his elder brother were in the yard playing,
when the elder one struck a match, which
ignited the dry grass in the yard. The
burning grass ignited the clothing of
George. The little fellow was very badly
burned, especially about the shoulders and
neck, but it is thought it will not prove
fatal.
The one hundred and twentieth annual
communication of the grand lodge of An-
cient Free Masons of South
Carolina was in session at
Charleston last week and elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
Grand master, j. i. Barron of Columbia;
deputy grand master, B. j. Witherspoon of
| Lancaster; senior grand warden, Orlando
Sheppard Of Edgefield; junior grand war
den, w. M. Whitehead of Charleston;
grand treasurer, Zimmerman Davis of
| Charleston; grand secretary, Charles In
| glesby of Charleston.
At Kingstree Wednesday night, when
Jailer Henry Britton went to feed his
two prisoners one of them, desperate me-
| SEOs ldHlGQ IICAAy JOllUSB hAONhSA MN
to the floor and tried to choke him to
| death. Mr.. Britton cried for help, and
meantime had a hard battle for his life
! with the desperate criminal. Finally help
| came, and the negro was overpowered.
| The other prisoner in the Jail got out Of
his cell and tried to escape, but, fortu-
| nately, the jailer had locked the doors
below. Mr.. Brtton was very badly used
up by his assailant.
Marion will have what will practically be
a new mill. The property of the Marion
Cotton Manufacturing company, which in
cludes a small spinning mill completely
equipped but not regularly operated of late
| has been purchased by A. M. Price, of
Lincolnton, NJ c.. and T. A. Blythe, of
Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Price is to take
| charge Immediately, and at once overhaul
the mill and put in new machinery, etc,
to the amount of $4,000 to $4,000, and start
the plant up as soon thereafter as possible
and operate it regularly and on full time
in the future. MIR Price says that it is also
his intention to add complete knitting
mill outfit to the plant at an early date.
Charleston News and Courier: A very
strange and gruesome incident happened
on King street about $50 O'Clock Wednes-
day night. There were many people on
| King street at that time and when loud
report as thaL OF q pistol Was heeru lHOHl
the corner of Beresford and King there
was a great rush of every one in that di-
rection to see what was the matter. A
white cloud of smoke was rising from the
street opposite Beresford. AS the crowd
reached the spot four negro men walked
| through the smoke carrying large coffin
covered with bright metal stars The
men walked up the middle of King street
in a slow and solemn tread and as soon
as the curious crowd realized what they
were gazing on it broke up suddenly and
departed in all directions. A reporter
stopped the procession and asked one OF
the dusky bearers If there was body in
side mo sah," was the reply The ent fl
am we takum back" The coffin had been
sent over to James Island and as 1t did
not suit either the corpse or the mourning
relatives the men were taking it back tc
the undertaken. The islanders could not
afford to hire a wagon and so they march
ed up the middle of King street with the
coffin to return It, The report was made
by a cannon cracker which some mischiev-
Gus person flung in front of the procession