The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-06-08
State News.

Rachel RaEdal', c,lcred, was sent
toJn III t'r stealing a watch and chsin
from Mrs Tom Lipscomb, wife of the
we'll Known ,mmerci,l traveller.
hachei scheme was to enter a house
an steal what she saw was valuable. IF
ciught she pretended that she hal
ory entered the hous, in order to see
whether 'dey wanted a lady to hire"
in!s 'im' she got her bo,iy without
being detected, but the police later
arrested her aud iecovered the proper.
ty.-Coirnbia Record.
! --~ s'.... uOa.u u. .N.~.
meet this week and receive bids f,r
furnishing books. The patron, Of rho
-canoi would not welcome cb,,n.
- o''ks are now tho costliest part of
sc1ool for the patron. The fir q rent
change Of books is almost unbear.bIc
1t is reported that the V,rei,s-
Carolina Chemical COMPANY. Which
has lie South Carolina hearo ,Art,r,.t
Charleston, intends to m we ,b.ir
othces to Columbia before next se..
son s bu:incss begins Tne repo,t
comes ir'm a reiIoe sjurce but the
time the chtrSs will b, ma ie La, mot
been d, fiaitely deci led.
The S,aboari Air Line system Wa,
inaugurA,ed On Saturday evenin,
with great and ting spIendor bv tho
ce'ebra'i)n at Richmond. The H,,an
ing oil the system is an event IF verv
lerSe Importance to the South and
Mr. j1hn Shelton Williams, who
brought the ele ments of the sv,,em
toge her Ia The face Gf great natural
tnhG eh.Uss ~and cnnninpIv ds,;..J
Pvst.
Columbia, June -Sp,cial.--Con.
gresham Talbert has just succeeded
in getting favorable report on his
bill introduced in Congress on Decem.
ber 4, las', "to provide for the erec.
ION tt a monument to the memory of
Travis, B)nham ard Bowie at tho
Alamo"
The text of the bill now reads as
follows:
"Be it enacted by the Seuate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress
as ,embled That the Secretary of
War be, and ia hereby, authoriz 81 to
y contract for and secure the erection
Of monumenf in the town Of Slluda,
). c., to the memory Of William Bar.
rett Travis, James B IN ham and James
u Bowie, who perished at the Alamo
Oh March oh, 1886 and for this
purpose the sum of $4,000 is hereby
appropriated out tt any moneys in the
!, Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
u together Slooo annually thereafter for
!, keeping the same"
h To U)n. n. G.. Evans. of f lgefi ,ld
d is due the credit of the present agi'a a
|e tiol. Of the claims S,u,h Carolina ha,
J. against Uncle Sam by a resolution
;" which he introduced in the genera
G, assembly at the session Of 1898. A
ee the session of 1899 Secretary OF Stat
,st Cooper directed the attention of tn
chairman of several committees Of IN
le general assembly to the now famou
es. rubbish room of the State House, an
ort recommended small appropriatic
,ol, to put III order the valuable records
nd contained. Failing in this effort, /
employed u man for tie work, ccntin
;ill iug the work as long as his contingel
,ill fund as Secretary of State would pei
I'VE nit. Gov. M;Sweeney in his me
on, sage to the recent genera! a.sembl
Mr.. recommended that provision be MAJ
era. or a further examination of this rui
th. bsh room, stating that his belief tn
i've Mr.. Blacks report could be fou'
therein. This recommendation led
the discoveries which have been ma
Mr.. w. III. Yeldell has been work.
I. faithfully aad energeticallY for
month, and almost after all hope
fading the report of Mr.. Black b
With been abandoned, recovered it from
on pile of papers covered up in rnbb
the in one corner of tho room. lie
ary, serves much praise for his succest
the work. Edgefeld Chronicle.
'ars A. b. S.road, Granville Ga. wr'