The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-10
STATE NEWS.

Carolina last year.
= Darlington will double the capac-
lty OF her cotton mill.
- The issues in the State campaign
will be made up during the session of
the Legislature
= During the month of November
the Spartanburg dispcnsary made over
$2, 900 in profits.
= Tho Court of General Sessions for
Greenville County will convene ON
Monday, a2nd inst
The Secretary of State issued
sixty -onc charters last year represent
ing capital amounting to sos 1000
= Citizens of Simpsonvllr in Green
willie county are enthusiastic on the
subject of building Il S,oO.O0O cotton
mill
| - Col. r. Barker Jones. II white
Republican OF Charleston. will oppose
the Democratic nominee in il. tl>:
District for Congress.
! = Smallpox has appeared Il, sixteen
places III this State and in eight cnun-
ties. The State Board of Health. has
bundled $500 eases this year.
= superintendent Griffith, OF the
State Pcnitentiary, has turned over to
the State Treasurer, $4,000 rs the
profit of the rrnitcmtnry for The asst
year.
= Col. Wylic Jones OF Columbia has
been appointed Commander of the
South Carolina division of the AsSocia-
ton OF veterans of ihr Spansll- Amcr-
can war.
- Ncwlrrry wants an observatory to
attract visiting astronomers who will
have to look ut the eclipse Of the sun
i'll May. lis newspapers say--it will
make Il big rifle for the observatory.
= Eight negro men died during
Christmas week in Beaufort County,
S. c., from whiskcy drinking 1t is
thought that "thc liquor had been
tampcrcd with or was not chemically
pure"
= The new mill at Glover. S. c., will
be i'll operation by March 1st. 1t will
spin only five Egyptian yarns. The
first shipment of cotton for these has
been purchased and is now on its way
~ way VI 1)OStOIl, nluSS.
-"Coot" Robinson,.a IA colorcd youth,
has been arrested ut Laurcns for slay-
ing his father, Henry Robinson.
"C0ot" claims that he acted in self
defense, shooting his parent when he
was attacking him with knife.
= The bonded indebtedness Of
Grecnvillc county is $1GG,OOO. OF this
amount SH5,000 is in Air Line bonds,
$49,5 in Grccnvillc and Lalrcns rail
road bonds and $4,000 in recent is
sue of bonds for past Indebtedness.
= Saturday conductor cn branch
line Of the Coast Line killed negro
at PincwOod, in Sumter county Ac-
cOriing to the testimony the killing
was in selfdcfensc, yet the negroes
became very much stirred up about it.
| Mr.. Tom Jones, brakeman on the
Southern Railway, while standing on n
box car when the train was running,
near Union became unbalanced, and
fell to the ground, breaking his neck
and crushing his skull. He lived at
| Saludn.
= The citizens Of Ehcrlarlt in Bam-
! berc county are petitioning for tho
removal of the dispensary there. They
| say that they havo changed their
] minds about the States great moral
institution and that it is q dead ex-
pcnse to the town.
= Mr. Caes Ellerbc, brother OF Gov
ernOr Ellerbe and administrator of his
estate, has settled with the State for
| the amount due by the late Governor
Ellcrbe to the penitcntiary. The in-
| debtcdness was ascertained by the in
vcstigating committee.
- Rufus Sartcr, who some time ago
was connected with whitccapping
case in Union county, and on trial
turned States evidence, heard IL noise
i'll his yard last Saturday night and
opening his door fired pistol in the
air, whereupOn two shots were fired mt
him, one penetrating his heart.
= That South Carolina is prospecting
and progressing is shown by the state
ment in Secretary of State Cooper's
report that commissions were issued
in 1892 to the coporators of 277 com
panics. with All aggregate capital of
$10,375,l50 as against 135 companies
in 1893, with All aggregate capital of
So, $50.
During the past year the insurance
companies of all kinds doing business
in this State have done an enormous
business, to judge from the summar-
lied statement made up by the comp
trollcr general for his annual report.
The statement shows that the increase
has been close to 81 900, 900 as compar-
ed with last year.
"A granddaughter and grandnicce
of General Robert L. Lee dincd with
500 other poor children at Charleston
at one big table in Masonic temple last
week. They are the children of Henry