The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-31
STATE NEWS.


Of for Abbeville.
Both Rock Hill and Chester have
q case Of smallpox.
There are $500 delinquent poll
tax payers in Richland County.
= The convention of Women's Clubs
will be held in Chester June 1916,
inclusive.
The dispute as to the boundary
line between Greenville and Spartan
burg goes on.
Rural mail deliveries will be es-
tablished both in Greenville and Spar
tanburg Counties.
The States pension list for 1899
shows 1904 pensioners against 6,694
for last year, an increase Of $40.
= Mrs. Matte A. Hughes, charged
with the murder Of her husband, will
be tried in Greenville this week.
John All, a Hampton County
miser, has been robbed Of 81 300, the
savings Of thirty years as farm Ia
borer.
Two hundred and twenty odd
lots and tracts Of land are advertised
for sale in Beaufort county under tax
executions.
The consolidated street railway
of Charleston handled more than 2O0,-
6OO passengers during the reunion and
there was not single accident.
- Near Hardeeville a terrible trag-
edy occurred. A two-story frame
dwelling caught FIRE and man, his
wife and seven children were burned
to death.
DR.. C. B. Cowan, Of Due West,
has probably the smallest COW in the
country. She is about IS months old,
weighs 300 pounds and gives two gal
Ions Of milk per day.
A burglar entered the home Of
DR.. F. D. Kendell in Columbia, ad
ministered chloroform to him and his
wife and stole $1,000 worth of dia
monds and other jewels.
Comptroller General Derham,
who has been quite sick at his home
In Horny county, is expected to return
to Columbia soon. He has been i'm
proving for the last week.
= The Sumter Cotton Oil and Fer
tilizer Company has decided to in
crease its capital stock to 100000.
This has been made necessary in view
of the increased business Of the mill.
Things are working we'll just now
fof the commencement Of the govern
ment work upon the deepening Of the
channel of the Congaree river, so that
steamboats, may be run from Columbia
to the sea.
The dwelling houses of j. F.
Wideman and G.. c. Bradley, at Troy,
were burned last Saturday night. No
furniture was saved from either house.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, with
no insurance.
By the will Of Mr.. Jas. Gibbes,
Charleston gets 100000 to found an
art school and ladies library. Rooms
are to be provided in which art stu
dents may work. It is great thing
for Charleston.
Mr.. G.. Marshall Moore, who is
a tutor in the Bamberg Fitting School
at Bamberg, while engaged in a game
Of base ball on the school campus, fell
and broke his left leg between the
knee and ankle.
Application for bail for W. H.
Metze, who killed Alexander Cart
ledge in Columbia about two months
ago, was made to the supreme court,
but the motion was refused aud Meetze
must stay in jail.
The postmaster general has de-
cided to send special agent to Lake
City, S. c., for the purpose Of exam
lining the situation there with view
Of determining whether OF not post
Office shall be reestablished there.
= Mr.. B. B. Evans, brother of ex-
Gov. Evans, who was formerly in the
insurance business in Columbia, is
now holding an excellent position IN
the postoffice department in Havana.
The news comes that he expects a
promotion shortly.
The smallest colt in Greenville
county, and very likely the smallest
in the State, is that owned by r. Y.
Hellams, at his farm few miles north
Of the city. At four days old the
colt tipped the scales at "a pounds.
The stock is Shetland.
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