The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-05


Erskine college, has been given rest
His physicians say he needs complete
rest for awhile.
= Spartanburg does not alloy the
railroads to blow their whistles within
the corporate limits Of the city. Two
engineers have been fined $50 each
fOr violation of the act.
- Greenwood city bonds 20 the
amount of $4,000 have been taken by
Jones & Company, Of New York. The
money will be used to erect water
works and an electric light plant.
j. G. Younger, of Abbeyille.
raised 50 good hogs this year. He
raised two extra fine hogs aS home
which weighed 1000 pounds net.
They were only eleven months old
- The cotton exchange in Spartan
burg has retired from businesc. The
city council placed on all the bucket
shops license of $500. and the cx.
change retired from the field in consc-
quence.
- One man was killed and two
others fatally injured by boiler cx-
plosion at Townsond's s woodward in
Charleston. Buildings in the vicinity
were badly shaken and valuable prop
erty destroyed.
- Drayton Jones. the 13-ycar-old
son of Policeman Jones CT Sumter.
had one of his hands blown to pieces
by the explosion of cannon cracker
which he was holding in his hand,
The little fellow will have to carry
his arm in sling for several weeks.
- The city council of Charleston
has agreed to appropriate annually
the sum of ST 800 for the maintenance
of five scholarships in the South
Carolina Military academy. on con-
dition that the State Legislature con-
tinues it's appropriation of $50, 600
year
r. At Orangeburg negro boy met
death in rather peculiar way. He
improyised Christmas cannon out of
a bic, lie pump, and having filed it
with powder, he held it in his hand
and touched it off. The explosion of
the powder drove the pump through
tho boys body and produced instant
death
- MIR. B. i. Abney, who has for
several years been assistant division
counsel for the Southern Railway, has
been promoted to division counsel
to succeed the late Judge Cothran.
He is still young man, but already
recognized as an able attorney. His
| jurisdiction extends over the State of
South Carolina.
~ Mr.. L. p. Funderburk, who
lives several miles southwest of town,
h=s e hais Jersey Gov from which ne
has sold during the past twelve
months $40 pounds Of butter, aver
aging 49, cents per pound, making a
total Of $42, go he has realized from
the sale Of butter during the year. In
addition Mr.. r. has supplied his own
! sablswith butter Lancaster Ledger.
l. No arrests have been made vet
for the $40, 600 robbery of the express
Office at Columbia. Assistant Gen
eral Superintendent Leyry says the
robbery was committed by one of
| seven employees in the Office but he
does not want any reflections cast on
the six innocent ones, but he expects
to have his hands on the thief before
he leaves Columbia.
Isham Kirby, an operative at
Clifton No. 3 cotton mill, near Spar
tanburg, was run over by an engine
and killed Christmas day. He was
leading his COW out to craze and
attempted to pass over the track just
as passenger train came by. The
engine struck him and his remains
were horribly mangled He leaves a
widow and several children.
Joe Jenkins, a Negro who was
arrested in Columbia on Tuesday on
the charge of being drunk and dis
orderly, turned out to be regularly
commissioned dispensary constable,
! whom. Governor Ellerhe explained,
had been employed to do detective
work in the country. jenkins has
since been dismissed from the service.
- Henry Speed and Sam Wilbenks,
two young white men of Ooonee
County, got into difficulty at a.
/ Christmas tree on Christmas Eve
night and Speed was killed by Will
banks. Speed received an ugly cash
in the throat and was then shot in
the left side, from which he died i'm
mcdiately The Coroner inquest
failed to throw much light on the ur
fortunate affair. 'Wilbanks surrender
ed to the sheriff.
- DR.. Hext NJ. Perry has in his
possession a very valuable and inter
esting antique which he has lately
/ added to his collection. It is a
Stradivarus violin, said to have been
made in the year 100. DR.. Perry
secured the violin in Charleston some
time ago and he has been able to trace
its history back for nearly hundred
| years. Among DR.. Perry's relics, he
prizes very highly o watch once owned
/ by his grandfather and which had
been in the family. for ninety eight
| years when it was bequeathed to the
| present owner over thirty years ago.
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