The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-13


dent, J. J. Weseoat; secretary and treas
urer, II. Lee Harvey; manager W. Z. Nc
Kee, and solicitor, W. p. Murphy.
Dr. w. A. Dunn of Pomaria,, his wife,
nephew and child were thrown out of a
buggy at Newberry Wednesday. owing 10
the horse running away. Mrs Dunn was
severely injured about the head and face.
The others escaped with few injuries
In the court of common pleas at Charles
ton Friday the jury in the case of Elliott
L. New VS.. the Charleston and Savannah
road returned a verdict for $1,000. The
case was suit for recovery of $4,000 in
juries sustained while in the employ of the
road as conductor.
Postofice Inspector Gregory arrived at
Florence a day or two ago and had a war
rant issued for three white men at the
Jacob hotel, Allen, Smith and Gibson.
They are supposed to be three men want
ed for breaking open and stealing from the
postottice at Maxim, n. c. They proved
innocent
Frank Schiller, one of the trustees of
the Aiken library. has loaned the library
valuable edition of Shakespeare's works
in twenty-one volumes. 1t was published
in 1903 and Is known as the johnson, Steev-
house from which subsequent editions
have drawn their material.
Monday morning a coIored girl about y
years old, living on the farm of r. L.
Courtney, was so badly burned that she
cannot live. In rushing about the room
she set fire to a cradle in which an infant
months old was asleep, and the babe was
burned to death. The mother was near
out could render no assistance
A commission for a charter has been
issued to the Carolina Benevolent Asso-
citation. The corporators of the company
are; s. b. Alexander, T. B. Womack, w.
j. Peele, D. E. Boney and S. Nv. Pryor.
The company proposes doing a general life
insurance business on the cooperative
plan. The headquarters of the company
will be at Rock Hill
Assistant Attorney General Townsend is
preparing the report of the special COM
mission, which recommended the payment
OF $1,000 to ex-Judge r. j. Mackey for his
work in pushing the claim of the Citadel
Academy before congress. The state went
INTO regular contract with Mr.. Mackey,
ana the commission recommended the
payment of the money. On this report it
Is understood, Mr. Mackey has borrowed a
part of the money the state is to pay him.
-Four women and one man were landed
in Jail at Anderson Friday charged with
receiving stolen goods. Some of the goods
We're Identified by l.. A. & T. H Brock
OF Honea Path, whose store was burglar
ized last Tuesday, and some of them were
Identified by c. s. Minor of Anderson as
his property. The parties arrested are
Laura Washington, Lou Simmons, Alice
Bozeman, Annie Jones and viii Jones, all
coIored. They are members of a wen
organized band of thieves which has been
operating In that vicinity for some time.
Wednesday the celebrated "understand-
ing" clause of the new constitution of the
state goes out of existence and South Car
olina from now on stands sQuarelv on an
educational and property qualificat ton for
It's voters. Hereafter any one to become a
registered voter must be able to read und
write or have 5000 worth of property in
his own name. There has been consider
able talk about making a fight on the
new constitution in the federal courts, but
nothing has come of this talk, and 1t now
appears to be too late. The only place the
new constitution has had any effect has
been in congress, where all of the contests
from this state are now based on the new
suffrage clause
convention of cotton growers, held at
Anderson day or two ago, indorsed Col.
ID. K. Norris for congress. This is in Con-
gresham Latimer's district, the sincerity
of whose self-constit uted leadership of The
representative farmers of the county in
this movement is seriously questioned as
the opposition say that his extravagant
claims, when calling the cotton growers
convention, that the Liverpool market had
advanced twenty-four points as a result
OF the preliminary meeting held in Column
pla, was either gross ignorance on his
part or presumption of ignorance on the
part of the farmers. In either case they
did not care to have him as their leader
Latimer left on the first train for Wash
ington, and his friends, very much cha
grined, are attempting to make capital
out OF the fact that Norris is a cotton
mill president. The sentiment of the meet
ing was unanimously in favor of the cur
tailment of the crop.