The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-06-21
STATE NEWS.

Six prisoners have escaped from
the Berkeley jail.
: The Citadel Cadets are now in
camp at OraDgeburg.
The capacity Of the cotton mill
at Greenwood is to be doubled.
The trust has bought the Bald
win fertilizer works at Port Royal.
= Counterfeit silver 5O-cent pieces
are in circulation in various sections
of the State.
Major Fant, of Union, has given
81 900 to endow scholarship in Fur
man University.
= The State Hospital for the In
sane will now take only patients who
have been vaccinated.
&C. W. Whitman says that be is
candidate for Governor again. He
is certainly hard to satisfy.
Seven colored women graduated
as nurses at the Hospital and training
school in Charleston last week.
= The Supreme Court Of this State
has decided that a dog is property,
and if you steal one you can be pun
ished.
= The epidemic Of meningitis is
about over in the State Penitentiary.
There have been twenty-eight cases,
seven of which have proved fatal.
DR.. j. W. Norwood, one Of Green
Vile oldest and most prominent citi-
zens, died last Thursday, after an ill.,
ness of three weeks from Bright's dis
ease.
= The Mills Manufacturing Com
pany of Greenville notifies the Secre-
tary of State that its capital stock
had been increased from 500, 900 to
$3.50, 600.
= Gov. McSweeney has decided to
have the cannon that was captured in
the Spanish-American war placed in
the State House grounds. That is the
place for it.
= General rains have fallen through
out the Piedmont section during the
past few days, and crops are very
much revived.
= Two negro boys convicted at Con-
way, Horny county, Of attempting to
rape two white girls, several months
ago, have been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
= Nearly every town in the State
Of any importance is doing something
to keep themselves in touch with the
great industrial movement that is
moving over the South.
= Spartanburg alumni will give
$4,000 towards the Carlisle chair of
mathematics in Woford College. Sen
ator Archer is the leader in the move
ment there. He gives 81 900.
= The Columbia Electric Street
Railway, Light and Power Co., has
been sold by the local owners to Bal
timore syndicate for 1851 900. 1t is
said the property will be greatly i'm
proved and enlarged.
= The Bradley Fertilizer Syndicate
Of Boston has purchased about 5000
acres of land on the Ashley and
Edisto rivers. This land contains
high grade rock and is majority Of
the unmined land left in the State.
= Dozier Flynn, who lives in Oar
lington County, became enraged with
his mother. and threw her to the
ground and beat her severely with a
waffle iron. She ran from him and he
fired both barrels Of his gun at her.
Flynn escaped.
= Gov. McSweeney has granted his
, first pardon. 1t was to Whitfield
Murrel, of Edgeield. who was sent up
for life for the murder Of Yonce in
that County in 1889, and who was re-
fused pardon by Gov. Tillman. Muir
rel is said to be dying Of consump-
tion.
= Judge George Beckwith, New
York millionaire banker, merchant and
jrrist, has just purchased Kalmia, a
beautiful suburb of Aiken: s. c.. upon
which he will erect residence which
will be second in the South only to
Mr.. George w. Vanderbilt's palace,
Biltmore, near Asheville, N. c.
= The State of South Carolina, is
likely, after hiding up several balls
of red tape, to get the return Of the
supplies that were furnished to COM
panies of the 1st regiment. It will be
remembered that the State loaned the
volunteers all the tents and supplies
on hand, and that it has since that
time been whistling for the return of
the articles.
Deputy Sheriff B. R. Moss, of
Oconee county, came over this week
! to restore Clara Foster, aged 2 years,
to her mother, who had taken out a
writ Of habeas corpus. Columbus e..
Foster aud wifi, had parted and Foster
brought the child to this place, where
he is employed at the Mills mill. The
deputy sheriff carried the child to it's
mother at Seneca. The case will be
heard by Judge Gage at Anderson on
the 27th.-GreenuiUe Mouuto'ncer.
= The comptroller general has re-
ceived from number of the clerks of
court in various portions of the State
letters asking him Tn furnish revenue