The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-26
STATE NEWS.

will meet in Columbia OH Dec. 81 and
JAM.
Members of the Legislature arc
finding great difficulty in securing
boarding Accommodations in Columbia
the Government engineers arc on
the ground and the work of opening
tho COngaree river to steam navigation
is progressing.
49, United States Senator Don Came /
ron of Pennsylvania is spending sea
son ut st. Helena by y-the-Sca, IL miles |,
from Beaufort.
The State bocrd of railroad com
missiOners will Gor,l issue domurrage
rules for the guidance of tho railroads
aud consignees.
DR.. A. z. Montague has ALREADY
raised from his visits to Baptist asso-
ciations over half of tho $4,000 for Fur
man Univcrsity's new dormitOry.
- Rev. G. Il. .Greshman, Of Manning,
has compiled n directory of Claren-
don county giving alphabetically and
by color the taxpayers of the county.
At McClclianyillc, between Char
lesion and Georgetown, they have m
artcsian we'll which is only O3 feet deep.
1t is an overflow we'll and the water is
said to be excellent.
= DR.. S. B. o. Landrum's "History
Of Spartanburg County has been pub
lishcd in the last few days. and it will
be valuable addition to the local his
tory of tho Piedmont section.
- Another terrible tragedy has been
enacted in Fairfield county. Mr.. Stake
p. Martin, near Rocky Mount, answer
ed knock to the front door and was
fired upon by an assassin and instantly
killed.
= Con. Wade Hampton and Col.
Thomas Taylor, Of Columbia, are back
FROM deer hunt in Georgetown, where
they were guests of tho hunting club.
General Hampton is now looking bet
ter than he hns for q long time despite
his S3 years.
= In ork County James Broom, the
1s-ycar-old..son of Mr.. S. A. Broom, was
killed last Saturday by tree falling
on him. His skull was crushed, his
neck broken, leg was broken and his
body otherwise crushed. The affair was
purely IN accident.
= Recently while aparty of men from
Lexington county were on their annual
hunt in Richland county, Simon Mathis
and Arthur Sharpe, two young men,
eagaged in wrestling match, when
the former threw the latter. Arthur
received fatal injuries from which he
died in about 8 hours.
= Rev. w. A. Cuddy, of Washing
ton. has been arrested in Charleston
for disorderly conduct. He is editor of
paper called the prophetic Alarm
He says when his trial is over Charles
ton will be destroyed, having already
been punished and admonished by fire
and earthquake.
- At Greenwood few days ago Sam
Jones, q negro fireman on IN incoming
freight train on the &. g. w. c., fell
head foremost from the cab of his
engine while the train was going at
pretty good rate of speed striking
rock on the side of the track, and
splitting the rock in three pieces. His
head was skinned I'D little.
- DR.. Thomas p, Crawford, who
has lately returned from China, is at
G. A. Norwood's in Greenville. He
and his wife willprobably locate there.
He is 80 years of age and first went out
in 1851 under the auspices Of the South
ern Baptist Convention. He escaped
from China during the Boxer troubles.
- The annual report of tho board of
trustees of the South Carolina College
for the scholastic year ending July I,
1900, and the fiscal year ending Dec. 81,
Is now in the hands of the State super
intendent of education. This report
shows that this has been the best year
of the college since it's re- organization
in 1890. Attendance has been greatly
on the increase. although co-educa-
tion there is on the decline.
A white man named Russ is in Jail
at Florence charged with shooting into
q train and otherwise creating distur-
bance. When conductor j. .. Hinton,
of the Wilmington local freight asked
Russ for his fare the man refused it.
and showed n pistol into the conductors
face. Mr.. Hinton got help and return
ed. Russ displayed his pistol again,
but was nevertheless hustled off the
train. When the train moved off he
fired shots.
The executive board Of the Bap-
tist State convention is composed as
follows for the ensuing year; C.S. Gard
ner, president; w. c. Lindsay, vice
president; H. Il. Cook, auditor; T. NJ.
Bailey, Cor. Sec. and Treas; j. M. Geer,
e. L. Wilkins, w. T. Tate, B. j. Wood
ward, w. w. Keys, Rufus Ford, c. T.
Scaife, j. H. Bolridge. E. j. Forester.
This board has charge of the mission
ary and colportage work in the State,
wish haad-nuartara in GreenXilla. and