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

half-acre in Charleston.
Col. ". B. Gruber will be a candidate
for the state Senate from Colleton county.
Nathan Willis (colored) was hanged at
the county jail at Conway Friday for the
murder of young Stevens.
A train of wagons passed through Aiken
! on Tuesday laden with about forty-five
bales of cotton, bound for Langley.
The Sumter and Wateree Railroad will
be built, and unless some unforeseen diff
Guilty arises the work will begin on May 1.
A white man, w. Barlow James, was
convicted at Darlington of the murder If
a negro, and sentenced to five years in the
penitentlary.
John Mitchell, a white operative in the
mill at Bath was killed by freight train
at Horse Creek on Saturday while return
ing from Augusta.
1t is rumored that an experienced hotel
man from the North is now at work with
! good prospects of forming a company to
rebuild The hotel at Aiken.
South Carolina raised s,O61, 600 bushels
of sweet potatoes last year. This would
be about three bushels to every man, wo-
man and child in the state.
The grading on the Carolina Midland
road from Severn has been completed, and
the iron is being placed on the last six
miles leading into Batesburg.
AT Charleston Friday night the 1O-year-
old girl of Luther Williams, oolored, was
so badly burned by lamp overturning in
he hot CHI fo1 Go
The South Carolina State Press Associ-
/ alton will meet in Greenville July ST.. Prof
George b. Cromer president of Newberry
College, will deliver the annual address.
A number of the license dellnquents at
Sumter have paid up within the past few
days and the sheriff will have fewer exc
| cutions to serve than was at first expected.
| new afternoon paper to be called tho
Evening Spartan, will make its appear
ance at Spartanburg to-day. Capt Charles
| Petty, for many years editor of the Caro-
| lima Spartan, will be the editor of the
new paper,
| Guckenheimer & Co. of Savannah, who
have had sixteen original package stores
in South Carolina, have announced to Com
missioner Vance their intention of with
as they can close up their affairs.
The two original package agents in Che
raw have asked for permits to ship their
liquors back to the owners The business
was not profitable one. In some towns
the original package stores fourished,
while in others they are a complete fail
ure.
Two workmen in the Long Creek section
of Ocouee county, while drinking from a
small stream, found lying in the stream
the half-decomposed body of white man,
upon which vultures had been preying.
The body was identified as that of w. II.
Reid of Macon county, North Carolina.
In view of the fact that there is no pro-
hibition organization yet effected in the
county of Georgetown, Chairman Chids
and Secretary LaMotte of the state prohi
bltion committee have issued and sent 10
that county call for a county convention,
of those favoring prohibition, to
be held on April 4, at the county court
house, for the purpose of electing delegates
TO the state convention.
At Greenville Thursday five young men
were placed on trial for murder. On Dec.
20 Ellie Turner, Jesse Young, Jesse Ward,
Charlie Morgan, lump Hawkins and Ar
son Heatherly, near Lima, and called for
Burton Heatherly with whom one of them
had had fuss some time previous They
entered the house and the trouble began.
Burton Heatherly was shot and killed.
C. c. Johnson, a colored physician, has
reported three cases of smallpox in Co
lumbia Chairman Robinson of the city
board of health has reported the cases 10
| ACT al Of hOa RI
and the City Council has been called to-
gether for a special meeting to provide
money to handle the cases. \ number OF
cases of chicken-pox are reported The
city has been pretty we'll vaccinated on
the previous scare and the community is
accustomed to such scares.
A special from Rock Hill says that
capt. Fred Nobley of the Catawba Rifles
will contest the election Of Maj Newman
to lieutenant coloneicy of the Palmetto
Regiment on the ground of irregularity.
Hazelwood Rifles and Rdgeway Rifles
were not notified TO hold an election. The
Lee Light Infantry was not notified until
after the call for returns were made" In
the official returns the vote of each Of the
companies named is recorded. The only
two companies not voting were the Poma-
ria Rifles and FIT. Motto Guards
Inc tOllOWlnB commissions nave been
issued To the Peoples Building and
Loan Association of Columbia; to the
Brooks Manufacturing Company OF
Geers. The company proposes to handle
and manufacture the products of cotton
seed; TO the Aiken Club Of Aiken.
Its purposes scia and liter,
airy; to the Carolina Life Insurance and
Investment Association of Yorkville The
company is TO be run on the assessment
plan; to the Faum-Crutchfeld-T olleson
Company. The company proposes to deal
in drugs and other merchandise com
mission has also been issued permitting
an election for granting a new charter 20
the town Of Conway.