The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-11
STATE NEWS.

Percy Ellis. about twenty wears of
age, was drowned in creek near
Grccville last Monday
The City Council of Grccnvillc
has adopted an ordinance to prevent
splitting on the sidewalks.
- ~ negro. who stole several hun
drcu chickens i'll the city of Grccnvillc
and suburbs, was arrested there Mon
day.
Charleston is preparing to enter
tain the executive committee of the Ma
tionl Educational Association in royal
style.
- DR.. Lewis Griffin. who was sur
gcon of the End South Carolina in
Cuba, will be appointed surgeon in new
Philippine regiment.
Secretary of State Cooper has
granted the Charleston Air Line rail
road, which is to connect Charleston
and Augusta, Il charter.
: An unknown white man commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through
the head with u pistol at the depot at
Denmark last Thursday.
Charleston has now three candi-
dates for mayor-.J. Adgcr Smyth and
James NJ. Scignous. democrats. and Il.
barker Jones, republican.
- The Rosemary knitting mills ut
Barnwcll are now turning out about
1000 pairs of half hose weekly and be-
mind with their orders, too.
The South Carolina delegation to
the Dewey celebration had Il royal
time in New York, being accorded
marked distinction at many points.
- Master John Dover, the 14-ycar-
old son OF MIR. Jack Dover, of York
county. was accidentally killed Il few
days ago by having his head crushed
III Il mOlaSscs mill.
= DR.. a. i. Fikc. Of Enorcc, Spar
tanburg county, has written the gov
crnOr that there is IL suspicious bodily
eruption prevalent in the community
and he thinks it is smallpox.
The number and value of the
premiums offered by the State Fair
success of the Fair of '99 promises to
surpass all previous records.
- AT Chester the store of ID. T..
Calvin 4 Co. was broken into. the safe
successfully drilled and blown open.
The burglars got about 5000 in cash.
Nothing else was taken from the store.
There is no clue.
- An 1S-mOnths- old child Of Mr.. Joe
Wright. in Abbcvillc County, was
drowned in a spring. y barrel is sunk
around the spring and it is supposed
the little child leaned over to drink
and tnmblcd into the barrel
- Last Friday night, John Green
shot and Instantly killed Bud Lnrke,
both cOl0red, ut Mr.. COx's place about
two miles from Woodruff. This is the
third negro to be killed in that COM
munity within the last six weeks.
- Congressman Latimer has sent n
check for SIP for payment for the
book case lie got from the penitentiary.
He said he never had been able to get
among the bOndsnien who had paid it..
The farmers of South Carolina
seem to be more interested in tobacco
planting than those in any adjacent
State and the annual output this year
and vicinity alone contributed 1900, 900
pounds.
- The Southern railway has finally
determined to build its new passenger
depot at the foot of Main and a Assembly
streets i'll Columbia and will invest
about Si00,000 there in erecting mag
niticent depot. facing ON n park n.,nnt
500 feet square.
Gen. Wade Hampton paid busi-
ness trip to Washington last week.
He says that the democratic party will
win iii tile great national contest next
year. He believes that Bryan will be
renOminatcd and that the Southern
States will all send solid Bryan del
cgations to the next national conven-
ton.
A horrible crime was committed
in Darlington County last Sunday
afternoon, in which Il young lady WA,
fearfullyg, mangle.! by three black
brntes. Two of the nssailantS were
caught and after an all night and tlcs-
perate flight the officers finally landed
the negroes in Jail. There may be Il
lynching.
Wearc informed that senator Till
man has been urged, in order to "savc
the dispcnsary," to resign the senator
ship next year, get himself elected
governor, straightcn out the tangled
SNeln or the great moral institution
and ut the close of his term re turn to
the senate in McLaurin's plaec.-Co-
lumbid State.
= The citizens Of Easlev and of the
surrounding county are wild with joy
over the assured fact that thev are
soon to have u 5000, 900 cotton factory,
The people there feel under many OBJ
legations to Mr.. John NJ. Gcer and
Otner spirited gentlemen OF the town
for their untiring efforts in securing
this enterprise.
: Mr.. Walter IIudgens, manager Of
Il ginnery ten miles from Laurcns, was
caught in the shafting and .icrkcd and
mangled i'll a horrible manner before
the machinery could be stopped. lie
fingered in great agony for several
hours. MIR. liudgcns was twenty eight
years Old and leaves Il widow and three
children. This is the fourth fatal ac-
cident in cotton gins in this State
since the season opened few weeks
ago.
= Superintendent Griffith. Of the
penitentiary, states that the State
prison is little short on c0nvicts at
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