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

s1n, 900 hotel.
1t is probable that W. J. Bryan
may speak in Spartanburg in May or
June.
Dispenser Troy, of Columbia, is
reported to be SAIL short in his ac-
counts.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows meets in Columbia on the Goth
instant
Columbia, not satisfied with two
telephone lines, is preparing for
third one.
= Columbia ) citizens are talking
of fremen's tournament to be pulled
off this spring.
Boston capitalists have bought
the Highland Park property of Ia
acres in Aiken and will build 200
room hotel this summer.
The thirteen men charged with
lynching the negro postmaster at
Lake. City, s. c., are being tried in
the United States Circuit Court in
Charleston.
Gov. Ellerbe has pardoned Sam
Wilbanks, of Oconee county, who was
convicted Of manslaughter aud SEN.
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary, in July, 1898.
= President H. S. Hartzog, Of Glenn
son College, has accepted the invita-
tion to deliver the annual address be-
fore the literary societies of Furman
University at the June commence
ment.
= 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 constables will be
thrown out OF court.
The citizens Of Cherokee are pre-
pairing for grand rally at the Cow
pens battlefield May p. They have
formed an association and appointed
committees and are working for 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. It 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 change of venue by Judge
Watts, and be 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 curiosities. 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
penitentiary have passed stringent res
olutions regulating the superintendent
and banking arrangements, and noti-
flying the banks that it would not
recognize endorsements Of the super
intendent and the like.
Mr.. D. A. Philips, Of Bamberg,
committed suicide by taking two and
one-half ounces OF laudanum. After
taking the dose he sat down and wrote
three letters to his son, daughter and
a friend. giving instructions as to ar
rangements for his burial.
The first batch of war claims of
the State against the Federal govern
ment have been approved by the
Treasury Department, and the money
with which to pay them forwarded to
Governor Ellerbe. The remaining
claims will be acted on soon and before
long will be paid.
= The race riot at Edgeield. S. G.,
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 fred into the whites before
they replied at all.
Samuel Wortheim, business
man Of New York, committed suicide
by cutting his throat in Charleston.
He had come down to Summerville tor
his health but grew worse and became
insane. He broke pane Of glass IN
the office of his friend. G. NJ. Pul!it-
ger, and ran his head through the hole
and cut his throat with the broken
glass.
The Daughters Of the Confeds
racy of Charleston decided at a meet
bol1 l.ct wcak that they would