The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-24
STATE NEWS.

Berry Allen, negro man, was
found dead near Seneca one day last
week.
The Neal investigating commit
tee will meet again June 13. Glenn
Springs is suggested as the place for
meeting.
The railroads carried $1,000 pas
sengers into Charleston and home
again during the Reunion without a
single accident.
= The medical examinations before
the State Board Of Medical Examiners
in Columbia last week resulted in Civ
ing the State 48 new physicians.
The Carolina Midland Road has
been purchased by the great Southern
Railway system, which recently bought
the South Carolina and Georgia Road.
= The indications are now that
there will be nine or ten candidates
for governor and five or six for the
United States senate in South Caro-
lima next year. ~.
Bishop j. S. Key, Of Kentucky.
will preside over the next meeting Of
the S. G. Conference NJ. E. Church,
South, at Orangeburg, beginning De-
cember 9th. 1899.
Mr.. Eugene Loeb. most excel
lent young man of Charleston, who
has been attending the South Carolina
College, was drowned last Thursday
near Columbia while bathing in a
pond.
Gen. Wheeler Indignantly denies
that he was snubbed at Charleston.
On the contrary, he says 81 was
never more royalty entertained, both
by the citizens and veterans, in my
entire life
- Application has been made for a
charter for the Cowpens Battle Asso-
citation, Of Gaffney. The object is to
collect historical data relative to the
famous battle, and make efforts to
have a national park established at
the battle-ground.
"A meeting Of the county trustee
stockholders Of the Farmers Alliance
Exchange of South Carolina will be
held in Columbia on the 9th day Of
July at $50 p. NJ, to consider ques-
tions connected with the business Of
said Exchange.
= Last Sunday night, in Horny
County, a row occurred in which
Walter Rowell, 18 years Of age, shot
and killed two brothers, Brogdon and
Won Ellington, aged Is and 20. The
boys were on their way from church
when the difficulty occurred.
= Mr.. E. H. Hit, Of Greenwood
county, has an invention which, if it
accomplishes what he claims for it,
will land him in the ranks Of those
who enjoy fame. The invention is
nothing less than solution of the
perpetual motion problem.
Lieutenant G. B. Smith, a we'll
known member of the editorial staff Of
the Columbia State, who enlisted and
saw service in Cuba with the Second
South Carolina regiment, has been ap-
pointed to a lieutenancy in the regular
army and assigned to the 9Th infantry
now stationed at Havana.
"A ten-year-old colored girl was
killed by an extra freight train on the
S. u. & G. railroad on last Saturday
afternoon below Glendale station. The
train was moving at the rate of fifty
miles an hour round sharp curve
when the child was struck and in
stantly killed. An inquest was held
and the railroad men exonerated from
blame.
President Henry S. Hartzog, of
Clemson College, has secured the SER
vices Of Mr.. j. c. C. BTunson, Of
Florence, one Of the best tobacco farm
ers in the Pee Dee county, as lecturer
at the Farmers Institutes, to be held
the coming summer, on the cultiya-
ton, curing and marketing Of the fra
grant weed.
- The Altamont Bible Institute
7ill be moved from Greenville to CO.
lumbia this fall. The friends of the
institute claim that while their pres
ent situation is advantageous for quiet,
hard study, it does not present th, Sc