The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-19
STATE NEWS.
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Judge Charles H. Simonton haa
returned from his European trip much
improved in health.
= Mr.. Noah Y. Wilson, Of Lexing
ton, was accidentally killed by rail-
road train at Winnsboro. S. c.
= Work has been begun on the oil
mill at Bennettsville and its size and
capacity will be the second in the
State.
= The State Board Of Control has
set apart twenty-five thousand dollars
Of the Dispensary profits for school
purposes.
= An old Confederate soldier at
Gaffney has piece Of shinbone cut
from yankee that he killed while on
the picket line.
= Ninety six car loads Of melons
we're shipped from Columbia to the
North over the Southern Railway or
Saturday morning.
= The Baptist college Of Orange
burg has received gift Of $4,000
from a well-known citizen who does
not give his name.
James F. Thompson has been
lodged in the Spartaaburg Jail, charg-
ed with beating his little six-year-oM
step-daughter to death.
= The postofice at Easley was
broken into Thursday night. Seven
dollars in money was taken from Post
master Folger's desk. No trace Of
the robbers has been found.
- The domestic shipments of phos-
phate rock from the port Of Charleston
since September lst, '9S, to June 80,
'99, aggregated S9,977, an increase Of
S,197 tons over the corresponding
period last year.
- Jesse Kohn. negro, shot and
killed his wife at Timmonsville. Kohu
is consumptive and was in bed at
the time of the shooting unable to
take care Of himself. 1t is said he
was crazed with jealousy.
j. T. Cunningham, Bell tele
phone lineman, met with an awful
death in Columbia last Saturday by
falling from high pole on which he
was stringing telephone wires. He
broke his neck, and death was instau-
taneous.
! = During a storm in the Harris
Greek section, Edgefeld county, on
Mr.. Samuel Miller's place, Lucy Roper
! was killed by lightning. She lived
alone and was in the act Of cooking
her evening meal when struck by
lightning.
Gov. McSweeney has refused
TO pardon Jones, the murderer Of the
Presley family in Edgefeld. Every
governor in recent years has been i'm
portuned to pardon Jones and all Of
them have acted just as Governor Nc
Sweeney did. Some of the petitions
have been strongly backed.
= The Southern Railway has let
the contract for building three large
warehouses at their water terminus in
Charleston. The floor room will
cover nearly two acres and 7Rill be
large enough for present needs. When
completed the road will be able to
handle big shipments for foreign
ports.
= An artesian we'll in Marion, S.
c., has been giving people fever. The
town authorities sent on samples of
water from their shallow wells and
from the deep we'll to New York
chemist. He pronounced the shallow
wells all right. but said that the dead
ly microbe had polluted the water
from the deep we'll.
= Mr.. Thomas Marrett and wife,
living in the South Union neighbor-
hood, were badly burned on Sunday
night, July End, by the explosion of q
kerosene lamp. The flames enveloped
Mr.. Marrett's head, shoulders and
arms, burning his beard and the hair
of his head off, while his arms and
hands suffered terribly. His wife,
too, was badly burned on her arms
and hands. The timely assistance Of
Mr.. S. NJ. Crawford, who was near at
hand, prevented what otherwise might
have proved fatal accident to both
parties.
= Colonel George McDutfie Miller
died at his home nea- Ninety-Six last
Wednesday night and was buried on
Thursday afternoon. He had been
sick for several weeks. He succeeded
J. Foster Marshall as colonel Of Orr's
Rifles, and served throughout the war
and was wounded four times, twice
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