The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-22
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Yorkvllle is to have electric lights.
The indications are that Col. o. L.
Schumpert will be a prominent candidate
for gubernatorial honors.
Gov Ellerbe has issued his proclama-
ton in the usual form appointing Thurs
day. Nov %, as Thanksgiving day.
At meeting of the faculty of Erskine
College Wednesday evening it was decided
that there should be no more foot ball
playing by the students.
Col. William Perry Murphy of Charles
ton has made the definite announcement
that he is a candidate for congressional
honors from the First district
There is a rumor at Columbia that Chief
Clerk Derham of the controller generals
office is to be deposed and Auditor Brad
ley of Abbeville is to take his place.
Sid NJ. Williford of Rock Hill has a
citron or pie melon vine, which covers a
quarter of an acre. 1t has on it thirty
nine melons, which will average so pounds
in weight.
James Middleton, a 5-year-old boy of
Charleston, while playing with a cart
ridge Friday it exploded injuring his right
hand so badly that amputation may be
necessary.
Mrs Wade Hankinson, the lady who
died at her home near Low Town Wells,
Aiken county, on last Sunday morning.
Two of the children, little boys, survive
her.
Austin Cheeks, an elderly farmer living
near Enoree, was killed Friday. He was
driving spirited horses attached to a wag-
on loaded with cotton, when they became
unmanageable and ran away, throwing
him from the wagon.
The state Baptist convention will meet
In Rock Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 30. Free
entertainment will be given to delegates to
the Woman's Missionary Union, repre-
sentatives from the boards religious pa
pers and educational institutions.
The latest Charleston enterprise is a
new crockery company, commission for
the incorporation of which has been issu-
ed by the secretary of state, H. Lee Har-
yey, VIM. Perry Murphy and VIM. II.
WEIGH being named as incorporators.
Gov. Ellerbe has granted a full pardon
to Justina Brown, a little colored girl,
convicted in Magistrate Clements court in
Charleston of petit larceny and sentenced
to thirty days Imprisonment in jail The
pardon was asked for by the grand jury
of Charleston county.
VIM. C. whitney, who has been in Eu-
rope for some time, has ordered his house
in Aiken finished by Nov. 90 Mr.. Hines,
the contractors, is at work day and night
in order to meet this demand Mr.. wait
ney will be accompanied by some friends
from England, who will spend the winter
in Aiken with him.
Wednesday night Agnes Yeley. color
ed women. who lives in Millbrook town
ship, shut her three youngest children up
in her house and went off to attend pray
er meeting. During her absence the
house caught fire and was consumed, the
three children being burnt to death. The
children were 5, and y years of age
A commission for charter has been
issued to the Berkeley Chemical Company
of Charleston. The capital stock of the
Company is to be $4,000. The corporators
named are: William B. Chisholm, Will
lam II. Tucker and Robert G; Chisholm.
The company asks for the right to mine,
manufacture and sell all grades OF ferti-
lizers.
On she farm of Berry Finley colored,
six miles from Laurens Wednesday night,
Bailey Buchanan was killed by a pistol
in the hands of Joshua Frye. Both were
colored boys, friendly, and were playing in
the yard, after supper and scufhing, over
a pistol 1t was discharged, the ball taxi
ing effect in Buchanan's left breast and
killing him instantly.
The Congaree cotton mill, which for a
long time manufactured yarns in Column
bia. but which closed down some time
ago has been sold out by its Philadelphia
| owner. The principal trouble was that
| and the owner did not care to continue
| the business or to have the machinery
| shipped to him al Philadelphia.
Returning from prayer meeting in Rock
| Hill Thursday ngiht Mayor Hutchinson saw
a lamp explode in Kimbal's livery stable.
| The mayor rushed in. prevented the host
| lers from throwing water on the oil and
kicked the burning lamp in the street In
| doing so, however, his trousers got burn
| ing oil on them, and the mayor was for a
| time i'm a dangerous predicament, but sew
eral friends rushed to his assistance, and
extinguished the fire.
The superintendent of education has fin
ished his annual report and 1t shows a
decided increase in the enrolment of the
| schools of the state. The total enrolment
Is 25S,lS3; of this number 1902 are white
and 1S9, 1856 colored Spartanburg county
heads the list with a grand total of 15 979
= while Chesterfield has the smallest enroll.