The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-14
STATE NEWS,


- People of Ninety-Six are talking
of 100000 cotton mill for that place.
- The sales of the Columbia dispen.
saries during fair week was moro than
$4,000.
The Daughters of the Confedcracy
will hold their annual convention in
Rock Hill on the 9th and 7th of Dcccm-
Der.
"A dispenser in Grcenvile. who
wns lately convicted of defaulting, has
very recently heen arrested fay running
Il blind tiger.
- Major Thomas, n white carpenter,
was run down by Southern passenger
train ON the Congarec bridge ut Co.
lumbia and killed.
= A company with Il half million
dollar capital is being formed in Co
lumbia to connect NIL tho independent
telephone lines in the State.
John Jacob Astor, OF New York,
will spend the winter in Aiken. Sew
eral houses IL Aiken have been rented
for the winter for from 81, 800 to s2,-
400.
- The breaking out of smallpox in
Laurens and Orangeburg counties
ought to be warning to oil parts of
tho State to act in time against the
pest.
Section Master Boyd and two
hands were killed on tho Seaboard
about thirty miles from Cheraw by a
Cur breaking loose and running into
their hand car.
- The rofOrmatOry for Juvenile Of
tenders which tho penitentiary direc-
tors are having erected across from Co
lumbie in Lexington county will be
finished by January.
- At Society Hill in Darlington coun-
ty negro working at brick yard ac-
cidentally atepped into the feeder and
before the machinery could be stopped
one of his legs was ground to pieces.
- The State Supreme Court will CON
vene for tho November term" on the
9th of this month, and will be in scs-
sion until the last Of January. The
docket of the seventh circuit will bc
disposed of frst.
- In his annual report Second AS
sistant Postmaster General Shallcn-
berger says that the box delivery of
mail on star routes in South Carolina
has worked satisfactorily and contracts
hereafter will provide for such SUI
vice.
= Tho Sellers Haselden shooting af-
fair which occurred in Marion County
last winter, and in which it is sallcged
the Hassldens wore breast plates, will
be tried in court in few days. All
parties have been indicted by the grand
jury.
- Miss Juliet Poole was committed
to Jail in Gaffney by Probate Judge
Webster for lunacy on November end
and during tho afternoon she tore the
waist string from loose wrapper she
wore, tied them to. ether and hanged
herself ~
Several incondiary fires have oc-
CURED near Beech Island, Aiken Conn
ty, lately. Stealing has been preva-
lent also. Rev. v. I. Masters in the
News and Courier says moro mission
ary work and shot guns arc needed in
that section.
= There are about dozen embryo
candidates for United States Senate.
Friends have been talking about j. C.
Sheppard, Governor NJ. B. MeSwecney,
Col. j. e. Evans. Congressman Lati-
mer, Wilson and Talbert rs proper men
to succeed Senator McLnurin.
Tony Smith, the negro watchman
at the Oakley Phosphate mines, near
Charleston, killed himself on Thurs
day while playing with forty-fou
caliber pistol. The pistol was discharg-
cd through careless handling and the
ball entered the abdomen passing
through the liver.
= 1t is stated tho. every member of
the South Carolina Conference, NJ. E.
Church, VIII attend the annual confer
ence - chester, which meets on the
9th. Bishop Hargrave will preside.
Homes nave been found for all comers.
The Methodists nave lately finished q
$4,000 church in Chester.
II York county preacher attacked
certain business block in the town of
Hickory Grove from the pulpit, char
acterising it rs disrcputable. A young
man doing business there went to the
preacher on the streets and told him to
apologize or fight. The preacher was
gamo and fought but he was licked and
hereafter he will be less specific in his
charges.
= The reports Of the various State
officials arc now being made up and
the officers are busily preparing them.
AS indicating the progress made in the
State. the Secretary Of States Office
will show that about $4,000 has been
turned over to tho State Treasurer on
account of fees received for charters
and commissions issued during the
year. The largest amount collected in
recent years never went over $500.
- There ia n strange concidenca con-