The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-13
STATE NEWS.

lh state campaign opens at
Orange 0trg tomorrow.
= There are 74S census enumerators
now at wol:- in South Carolina.
Good rains ha We visited every sec
ton OF the State during the past week.
Laurens will have stock show
and agricultural exhibit next fall.
Next year the South Carolina
College will be one hundred years old.
= The irrepressiblc G. Walt Whit
man has filed his pledge and paid his
assessment rs candidate for governor.
The eighty acres of corn at Glenn
son, it is reported, "is marvel to be-
hold. 1t promises yield of 20 bushels
to the acre."
The new hotel at Grcenville will
be located between the post office and
the court house, will be five stories and
will cost 100000.
= There was whole sale Jail deliv-
cry in Laurens OH Saturday. Half a
dozen prisoners sawed out of steel
cage with an old case knife and got
away.
= The Democratic County Executive
Committee of Newberry County, at q
recent meeting, decided to have Master
and Magistrates Of that county chosen
by primary election; also. to have a
separate box for the vote on the liquor
question.
There is only one pauper, an old
colored man, at the Greenwood county
poor house, Notwithstanding that the
institution has been in operation for
nearly six months. 1t is doubtful if
any other county in the State can show
30 clear record.
= The dispensary OH Jcrvais street
in Columbia which was recently burn
ed is now said to BIO short in its ac-
count, but it is supposed that the short
age can bo explained by the fact that
all records of the business done were
destroyed by fire.
- negro preacher in Sumter Coun-
ty ravished 10-yenr-old negro girl
Saturday and attempted to rape an
other young girl. He had narrow cs-
cape from lynching by q crowd of
negroes, but was finally lodged in jail.
He confessed the crime.
julie Gibson shot, killed and bu-
ried his brother, Perry Gibson, In Dar-
lington county, June 1. The grave
was discovered, suspicion was aroused.
the crime detected, the slayer arrested
and he confessed, claiming to have
acted in self defence. Both colored.
Rev. A. T. Jameson, Of Camden,
who was elected superintendent of the
Connie Maxwell Orphanage at the
meeting Of the Baptist State Conven-
tioR last December, took charge of tie
institution on the 1st inst, and is now
doMiciled with his family ut the or
phanage.
= It is reported that the Virginia
Carolina Chemical company, which
owns practically oil the fertilizer fac
tories around Charleston will consoli-
date their works and shut down all
but one plant. This will throw out OF
employment great number of men in
that section.
- In G pile of rubbish at the State
Capitol Clerk CAN'T ran across an in
teresting copy of the South Carolina
and American General Gazette, of
Charleston, bearing date of Friday,
March 2. TIT. 1t is Vclame Xxx, No
9ze. Etoonfains come valuable in9or-
nation for students of history.
At Hugh Falls, ten. miles from
Walhalla, and near the Georgia line,
William Cannon was slain by his broth
er, Tom. The men were both married
each having two children, and they
were among the most prominent far
mers in Oconee county. There were
no witnesses. The killing was done
with large pocket knife, several ugly
wounds being inflicted on the victims
head and just over the heart.
- Senator Tillman has returned to
his home in Edgefeld. It is likely
that he will be at the opening cam
paign meeting at Orangeburg, and it
may be that he may attend some
OthCAcI UuC uo VIII uOC make CI16
rounds" He expects to 60 to South
Dakota and make speeches in favor
Of Senator Pettigrew, whose scalp the
Republicans are after. He will also
make speeches in different States in
the interest of Bryan during the presi-
dental campaign.
- A horrible accident is reported
from the Peniei section, five miles
from Timmonsville. Mrs. p. r. Bowen
was scalding a pot in the house and
TUNED quickly and threw boiling water
out Of q window. Her little child, who
had perched in the window nnknow-
ingly to it's mother, received the entire
confenta &c ::a.:s p0tt. Tne water struck
the little fellow squarely in the face.
Itwas horrible moment for the :..st.;:: ::...Ssss
or, iOr sne knew that it was death to
the child. The child lived only q few
hours and suffered agonies. The de-
voted mother, ii is said, is crazed nigh