The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-17

committing the murder and has not been
heard from until a few days ago.
A commission has been issued to the Cit
liens Building and Loan Association of
Columbia. The corporators named are: J.
5. Muller. r. w. Shand. w. d. Melton and
Robert Norman The company proposes
doing a general building and loan bust
ness, and has been capitalized at $500, COO.
The Denmark Times says the probabili-
ties are that Denmark Will have another
enterprise in operation in the near future.
Howard Bros. of BlackYille were in town
yesterday, and il they receive proper en-
couragement they will remove their ma
chine shops from Blackville to this place.
Greenville Mountaiueer: An unpleasant
rumor was afloat on our streets this week
to the effect that our hoped-for electric
railway is after all our anticipations not
likely TO be realized. The failure to secure
the privilege Of lighting the city is as
signed as the reason for the failure of the
scheme.
Flattervile has just been called upon
to mourn the loss of one of its Oldest and
most respected citizens, David Roe Cole
man, Jr., who passed peacefully away on
the morning of the 9Th inst, in the Goth
year of his age. Mr.. Coleman came of
a long line of honored ancestors, the first
Of whom emigrated to this country from
Switzerland in 1875.
John l.. Thompson, a prominent young
man of Yorkvile, left home Sunday night
at about $50 o'clock, saying that he would
be back in a few minutes, and has not
been heard of since. The door of the
store in which the young man was work
ing was forced open Monday morning and
this added to the mystery. Suicide or
foul play is suspected.
The secretary of state has issued a COM
mission to the Vuelta Abajo Compania of
Charleston, the object of which is toplant,
grow, cure, buy and sell tobacco and
manufacture the products of the tobacco
plant. The capital stock is to be $500, 900,
divided into shares of 500 each. The cor
porators are r. NJ Warning, John B.
White, and r. S. Whaley, all of Charles
ton.
John Cooper of Sandy Flat section, has
been arrested, charged with an attempt to
Kill Oscar Mitchell and also with stealing
mule and buggy belonging to Mitchell.
Mitchell and Cooper were in a buggy to-
gether and stopped at "Oakhurst' to buy
some rabbits. Cooper drew a pistol and
ing to kill him he jumped in the buggy
and drove off.
A few nights ago the store of Baston &
Bate at Marietta was burglarized. In the
store was located the postohice. Coey Jor-
dan, son of a former prominent merchant
of Greenville, and Thomas Robinson, a
negro, have now confessed that they
broke open the store and committed the
crime. Jordan is only 10 years old. The
burglars confess to taking about IS worth
of goods and also about 60 cents from the
postoffice drawer.
The last will and testament of the late
Viola A. Neblett has been probated at
GreenVille. After bequeathing to various
personal friends and women's institutions,
5000 in all, she constitutes the "NebIett
free library her legacy and leaves it the
remainder of her estate, about 5000. With
some 1000 volumes already on hand, the
additional legacy will provide funds
enough for the purchase of enough books
to equip one, Of the best libraries in the
state.
Williamson and I1onea Path, in Ander-
son county, have conflicting interests.
They both want to be county seats for
new counties in their vicinity They have
different ideas about the territory that
ought to be used in making up a new
county. Gov. Ellerbe will try and fix il
so that both sides can get a vote, and
might make the election for both coun-
ties on the same day. If both plans car
| ry the general assembly will have to set
| tie the question. Residents of Lee coun-
ty also want to hold an election on the
| question of forming new county. Lee
county proposes to drop about fifty square
| miles that were in Salem countys plans,
| about thirty-five square miles of this ter
| ritory being In Darlington county, and
| in place, wants to add about seventy-five
| square miles now belonging to Sumter
| county. In the aggregate the new coun-
| ty will take eighty-three square miles
| from Darlington, seventy-fve from Ker-
| shaw and 254 from Sumter making Az
| square miles.