The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-12
STATE NEWS.

Dispenser Troy, of Columbia. is
reported to lie SILL short in his ac-
counts
The Grand Lodge Of Odd Eel
lows meets in Columbia on the 26,h
instant
- Columbia, not satisfied with two
telephone lines, is preparing for a
third one.
- Columbia i citizens are talking
Of tiremcn tournament to be pulled
off this spring.
= Boston capitalists have bought
the Highland Park property Of III
acres in Aiken and will build Il 200
room hotel this summer.
= The thirteen men charged with
lynching the negro postmaster ut
Lake City, S. c., are being tried in
the United States Circuit Court in
Charleston.
Gov. Ellcrbe has pardoned Sam
Wilbanks, of Oconee county who was
convicted of manslaughter and sen
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary, in July, 1893.
= President II. s. Iiartzog. Of Glenn
son College, has accepted the invita-
ton to deliver the annual address be-
fore the literary societies Of Furman
| University at the June commence
mcnt.
Recently the grand jury of Rich
land county brought in true bill for
murder against Constable Crawford
who killed Mrs. Stuart. The cases
against the other conStablcs will be
thrown out of court.
= The citizens Of Cherokee arc pre-
pairing for grand rally at the Cow
pens battlefield May 27. They have
formed an association and appointed
committees and are working for 4 large
and interesting meeting.
- Judge Watts, at the court in Co.
lumbia, held that an Indictment must
contain the name Of the person indict-
ed. 1t would not do to bring an in
dictment against Mrs. John Doe, but
her Christian name must be given.
- Constable Crawford, who killed
Mrs. Stuart in Columbia, has been
granted q change Of venue by Judge
Watts, and he will be tried in Ker-
shaw County. The defendant claimed
that he could not get fair trial in
Columbia.
- York county is not left behind in
the matter Of curiositics. The latest
thing is twin colts. Mr. Meek Robin
son. who lives three miles from York
vile on the Charlotte road, has fine
pair, one mare and the .other horse
colt
= The board Of directors of the
pcnitentiary have passed stringent res
olutions regulating shc superintendent
and banking arrangements, and noti-
flying the banks that it would not
recognize endorsements Of the super
intcndent and the like.
Mr.. ID. A. Philips, of Bamberg,
committed suicide by taking two and
| half ounces of laudanum. After
taking the dose he sat down and wrote
three letters to his son, daughter and
friend, giving instructions as to ar
engagements for his burial.
The first batch Of war claims of
the State against the Federal govern
mcnt have been approved by the
Treasury Department, and the money
with which to pay them forwarded to
Governor Ellerbc The remaining
claims will be acted on soon and before
long will be paid.
= The race riot at Edgetield. S. c.,
seems now to have subsided. Both
whites and blacks implicated in the
affair are quietly following their Gus
tomary vocations. The testimony at
the inquest shows that three pistol
shots were fired into the whites before
they replied at all.
Samuel Wortheim. a business
man Of New York, committed suicide
by cutting his throat in Charleston.
lie had come down to Summerville for
his health but grew worse and became
insane. He broke pane of glass in
the Office Of his friend, G. NJ. Pullir-
zcr and ran his head through the hole
and cut his throat with the broken
glass.
= The Daughters of the Confeie-
racy of Charleston decided at meet
ing held last week that they would
present the Veterans with flag. The
flag will be Of the best silk, one side