The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-22
STATE NEWS.


year ut Orangcburg. beginning Dec. &.
Il. w. Mitallam, Waterloo. is
making efforts to organize Il company
to build $200.000 cotton mill in tie
town.
- In the Democratic primary in
Charleston last week Mayor Smyth
was rcnominated by a handsome
| majority.
= The handsome residence of Gen.
j. Walter Gray i'll Grecnville was de-
stroyed by fire last Monday afternoon.
Partly covered by insurance.
= Magistrate j. w. Peterson. of
I!aurens. was found dead III his chair.
lie had been i'll good health. and death
is said TO have been caused by npo-
plexy.
= The new organization known as
the ,Woman's Christian Temperance
Workers Tan OffshOot OF the w. C.. II.
u.) held Its first annual State cunycn-
ton in Columbia, S. e., Nov. and 10.
= William Walker. II colored boy
about twenty years old. fell from his
bicycle at Eta Jane while riding Mt a
rapid rate, and broke his neck. Death
was instantaneous.
- The Clemson foot ball team, will
piaytile Georgia chronological Institute
ut Grcenville, S. c., on November 3Oth.
interesting game is anticipated.
= Ibzan Bell, of Due West, died
from the effects of nj r-dosc Of NOR
phinc: He was middle aged man.
son OF MIR. Marion Bell, and leaves a
widow and several children.
- The new Presbyterian Church at
Greenwood was dedicated at Green
wood last Sunday. The de.licatory
sermon was preached by Rev. w. w.
Moore, ID. d., of Richmond, VA. The
building cost $4,000.
Two negroes will be hanged in
harrington county this week for rape.
or so ago near Dillon will he recalled.
This will be the first legal hanging for
that crime that has probably ever Oc-
CURED i'll this State.
:. 1t is expected that Admiral Dewey
and bride will spend part Of the
winter i'll Aiken as guests Of Hon. w.
{. Whitney. Mr.. Whitney is having
eight rooms added to his residence
and everything put into shape for his
| occupancy.
w p. Powell. OF Uconcc county,
who was convicted Of violation Uf
the dispensary law, will be partlOncd
as soon ns the proper papers can reach
Governor McSwccney. Bad health is
the reason for the pardon.
= There are over three and half
millions of acres of swamp land in the
lower part of South Carolina. and some
enterprising speculat0r rshOuldOrganize
company and drain these swamps.
Then South Carolina would become
the great corn State of the South.
& Gov. McSweeney has received n
appointing him member of the COM
mittee on the national celebration of
the establishment Of the seat os gov
einhcnJ i'll the District of Columbia.
The first meeting of the committee
will be held in Washington on Dec. 21st
next.
= At Rock Hill last Friday an aged
negro woman was heard calling for
help from her cabin. Persons on going
INTO the house fonnd the woman sit-
ting on the fire III the chimney. She
had got out of bed to get some water
| and had fallen into the fire and was
unable to extricate herseif. The doc
tors say the burns will be fatal.
:. The milking contest at the State
fair was quite interesting. Mr.. J. II.
Wharton won tbe first prize with one
of his jersey cows, which milked 81
pounds of milk in day: The second
prize -as won by MIA. 2. Haskell,
chose cow MIXED 20 9.4 pounds: It
allowed TO the gallon of milk.
letter from a farmer at Gaddy sug-
gestin9 that he recommend to the
Legislature to establish State KeeIey
institute for drunkards. He is q great
believer in the treatment and thinks
1t such an institution is conducted
something like the asylum great good
would be accomplished.
= Nelson Rogers, bad negro, and
one who has made q anumber of enemies,
Main street ct Bennettsville. He had
been. dubbed into insensibility and
his Skull fractured in several places.
The assault was made shortly after
dark in front Of the Adams house,
where people arc always stirring. The
affair is mystery.
-J.J. Tinsley, cx-clerk to the board
or county commissioners of Spartan
6urg county, who. was arrested in
Spartanburg and taken before the
special committee of the grand jury,
before whom he made clean breast Of
everything. lie was locked up in the
county jail. The committee is very
retlccnt as to the number Of Irregular
ltles or the amount involved.
The farcical enforcement of the in
come TAX law IL Dclng emphasized
every day by the returns that are
coming in from tho settlements that
arc being made. The Ncws. ard Cou-
rier has been looking into the matter
and finds that there is no record of the
money received from the income tax
other than that from the settlement
sheets and from that source the follow
ing figures have been derived: Able
vile, nothing; Aiken, SliS; Anderson,
1924 ~; Cherokee, SH,17; Chester, $43,-
20; Darlington. $9s.05; Horny, nothing;
Kershnw, nothing; Lancaster, $23. .72;
Laurens, nothing; Lexington, moth
ing; Marlboro, $32; Ncwberry. $24;
Oconee, nothing; Orangeburg, $30,66;
Pickens.. nothing; Sumter, $70.26;
Union, $40; Williamsburg, $16; York,
$188.
= The committee that was appoin-
ted at the Chester cOnventio of Con-
federate veterans last SIMMER to sug-
gest changes aud amendments in the
nanciOv 1ovro Of Coyy<3, rorul;co ~,