The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-16
STATE NEWS.

"' NreeuWoOu yesterday was most
Interesting and profitable meeting.
Reports fr'm Charleston say that
the fertilizer trust is about to get hold
OF all the large plants in that section.
Army worms have appeared IT,
Cherokee County. They are numer-
Gus and eating up everything greer
in their path
There arc now l,0l5 inmates in
the State Hospital for the Insane in
Columbia, the largest in the history
of the institution
An S-ycarold son of Jas. Vaughn,
Il we'll known Grecnvillc County farm
cr, was kicked to death by horse at
his home last Saturday.
- Capt. T.. NJ. Lipscomb and his
two sons, Durrctt aud Lewis, Of
Ninety Six, were poisoned from cat
ing beef, it is supposed.
DR.. j. c. Maxwell, the founder
Of the Connie Maxwell Orphanagc,
died at his home in Greenwood last
Saturday night, aged 62 years.
Miss Lille Clardy, handsome
young woman Of Pickens County, was
accidentally shot and killed with a.
pistol in the hands Of her brother.
= President johnson, Of Winthrop
College, says he has received 600 ap-
plications for entrance, but at least
200 of them cannot be accommodated.
John Short, white man on the
chain gang in Columbia, was shot
twice with shot gun last week as he
was attempting to escape from the
guard.
- The Orangeburg City Council has
stirred up lawsuit by fining the en-
gineers for making unnecessary noise
in blowing whistles. The engineers
paid the fines under protest.
- At recent meeting Of the trus-
tees of Clemson College P. T. Brodie
was elected professor of mathematics,
{. B. Waller assistant, and John
Simpson instructor of mathematics.
Columbia is going to build the
largest cotton mill in the South. w.
B. S. Whaley is president and they
start out with a million and half
dollars stock. That ought to give
them 100000 spindles.
Mrs. Lucy Pickens, widow of
Governor Francis W. Piokens, died at
her home in Edgefeld Tuesday morn
ing, 9th inst. When young she was
said to be .he most beautiful woman
in TIE South. She was great favor
itc wherever known.
= Claude, the ten year old son Of
S. 7. Rush, master mechanic in the
machine shop at Enoree, 8. c., Cotton
Mills, last week, in some careless way
happened to let his hand come in COZ
tact with little circular cav that was
running, and his hand was cut of.
= There are fourteen cases OF small
po4 reported in Union County. DR..
james Evans, Of the State Board Of
Health, recommended that Dr.. G.
Terrence be appointed medical inspec-
tor to suppress the disease, and che
Governor made the appointment.
When it comes to prolific
breeder in the way Of COW, Mr. j. L.
Cooksoy, who lives near Clifton, is
the possessor of Durham COW Eve or
six years old, which, perhaps, has an
unsurpassed record. This animal has
given birth to five calves within the
last three years, twice bearing twins.
All these calves are living.
w. G. Perry, formerly with the
Piedmont, S. c., Cotton Mills, but
now with the Enorce, S. a., Cotton
Mills, has projected new cotton mill,
the site to be just beyond Seneca,
S. c., on the Southern Railway. There
is said to be little doubt that his en-.
terprise will be fully realized.
= The governor and the attorney
general are busy each day looking into
the investigation. 1t is very volumins
Gus and it was stated to-day that no
decision had yet been reached as to
what course Of procedure is to be
taken. So far as has been learned
Colonel Neal has not yet paid up the
amount he acknowledges himself to be
short Columbia Record, 14M.
! = The Railroad Commission has
promulgated the new local tariff on
cotton, which is Of great Importance
not only to railroads but cotton ship
pcrs and growers as we'll. The rates
are reduction Of from 25 to 80 per
cent on rates formerly existing in this
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