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

ShS bSi ioSiSS JAIL
The Citadel Cadets are now in
camp at Orangcburg.
= The capacity of the cotton mill
at Greenwood is to be doubled.
- The trust has bought the Bald
win fertilizer works ut Port Royal.
Counterfeit silver 5O-ccnt pieces
are in circulation in various sections
of the State.
- Major FAINT, 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 vaccinatcd
G.. w. Whitman says that he is
a 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 dog is property,
and if you steal one you can be pun
ished.
- The epidemic of meningitis is
about over in the State Penitcntiary
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 Grecnville notifies the Secre-
tary of State that its capital stock
had been increased from 800, 900 to
$3.50, 900.
- 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
prisonlaent.
= 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
$50, 900 towards the Carlisle chair of
mathematics in Wofford College. Sen
ator Archer is the leader in the move
ment there. He gives 81, 900.
The Columbiu Electric Street
Railway, Light and Power Co., haz
been sold by the local owners to Bal
timore syndicate for $257 900. 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 q majority oi
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 Q
waffle iron. She ran from him and he
fred both barrels Of his gun at her
Flynn escaped.
- Gov. McSweeney has granted hi,
! first pardon. 1t was to Whitfield
Murrel, of Edgefeld. who was sent u,
for life for the murder of Yonce il
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, a New
jrrist, has just purchased Kalmia,
beautiful suburb Of Aiken, g. c., upor
which he will erect residence Shicl
will be second in the South only t
Mr.. George w. Vanderbilt's palace
Biltmore, near Asheville, N. G..
- The State of South Carolina, i.
likely, after hiding up several ball.
Of red tape, to get the return Of tht
| supplies that were furnished to com
panies of the 1st regiment. It will b,
remembered that the State loaned ths
volunteers all the tents and supplies
on hand, and that it has since tha
time been whistling for the return Of
the articles.
- Deputy Sheriff B. r. Moss, oI
Otonee county, came over this weel
to restore Clara Foster, aged 2 years
TO her mother, who had taken out {
writ Of habeas corpus. Columbus e.
Foster and 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 its
mother at Seneca. The case will bt
heard by Judge Gage at Anderson OF
the 27th.- GreenuiWe Mouutaineey.
= The comptroller general has re
ceived from number Of the clerk ci
court in various portions of the State
letters asking him to furnish revenu.
stamps to be attached to the checks
sent out for the pensioners. Mr. Der
ham requests the statement made te
these inquirers that checks drawn By
public officers on public funds are moi
required by the war revenue act te
have revenue stamps attached. They
were sent out in accordance with the
lag.