The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
capt. A. A. Pollock Of Cheraw died Fri
day.
Anderson's new court house is almost
completed.
The state Dental Association will meet
at Harris Lithia Springs, July z.
spartanbnrg is to have an auditorium
with a seating capacity of 1000 to 1900
The State Teachers Association is in
session at Harris Ldtha Springs, and will
continue until tomorrow.
Chester is TO nave a new cotton mill, the
Eureka. The caIital stock is TO be $1,000
with The privilege of increasing it to $780,
600.
Typhoid fever is said to be prevailing in
Yorl1ville to an alarming extent. There is
said to be several serious cases in the
town.
Last Friday aftei noon while engaged in
hauling wood in Union county, John
Johnson. a 21-year- old negro, was killed
by a bolt of lightning.
The Beaufort County Interdenomina-
tional Sunday school convention will hold
its annual session in Port Royal on the
evenings of the 9th, 18th and Sth of July.
The State Press Association meets al
Greenville this week, and the members
will go from there on a visit to Washing
ton, Baltimore and Old Point Comfort
The attendance at Winthrop College
last session was 451. The next session be-
gins Sept. IS. Already $50 applications
have been sent in, exclusive OF resident
students.
The Hon. Edward Henry Strobel, who
! was United States minister to Chill during
| The Cleveland administration, has returned
! home, and is visiting his relatives al Innis-
| fallen, in Oconee county.
! ]. Dean, a baker. reports that his wife
! and only child litcle boy or years
! old, disappeared fror1 his home in VIII
! lamston on last Thur sday night and since
that time he has heard nothing of their
! whereabouts.
! The professors of the South Carolina
! College have consented to deliver series
of lectures in the various portions of the
state summer and the superintendent or
! education Hon. w D. Tnaytield, has sent
! the schedule of the lectures to the various
| county superintendents.
The Planters Bank at 'Greenville, a pri-
vate institution, managed by b. M. Nc
| Gee, went into liquidation Thursday, and
| closed up It's affairs, going out of business.
! This fan the bank will be reorganized rs
a dime savings bank under the same man
agement.
The sale of the O. r. and c. Railroad is
to take place at the depot at Marion. n.
! c., on the first day of August 1898. No bid
of less than $4,000 win be received. and
no bid of any amount villa be considered
! until after the bidder has deposited a GER
titled check for $4,000.
Gov Ellerbe announces that he will
| promptly put in Jail any hotel dispenser
who attempts to reopen under the recent
| resolution of the state board. The pro-
! gramme is to have the hotel dispensers
open up this week to make a test case
| and throw the quarrel between the gov
ernor and board into the courts for set
! Element.
At Izlar, Orangeburg county. Wednes-
day. during religious services at Emanuel
/ Colored NJ. f, Church, MaXcy Mosley.
Frank ard Andrew Mcmillan got into a
quarrel over some gossip concerning a
woman Mosley drew his pistol and shot
Andrew Mcmillan dead Mosley then
shot Frank Mcmillan i'm the head and his
case is very critical The murderer made
his escape.
Miles Nix, near Hillsville, from FIVE
bushels of wheat sowed made 1l3 bushels;
r. S. Massengale, from four bushels made
90 without a particle of manure; James
Lanford, from one bushel and a gallon
and half, made 2Si2 bushels 1t is moth
ing unusual TO hear of man making
| twenty or more bushels TO one planted.
There is now more wheat in the country
than known for years.
5 Thursday morning a barrel of alcohol In
the back room Of the drug store of Davies
4 Mullins of Greenvile, took fire The
: flames spread. setting fire to a key Of ether
, and a jar Of chloroform. A terrible expio-
sion resulted the flames extending
r through the room, igniung everything. MIR
Davies was In the room, and was caught
, in the explosion. His face, hands and
arms were seriously burned.
4 There was never such enormous wheat
= crops known in South Carolina
as this year. Jerry Lee. near
. Rich HILL sowed seven and hall
u bushels and made 100 Fred Oliver near
= | Charlotte, n. c.. made an average yield
= of IS bushels of wheat on go acres OF
= land. Before the war the largest yield
of wheat ever made in Spartanburg coun,
~ was by a Scotchman near Cherokee
Springs, and who mace - bushels pei
acre from four acres.