The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-14
STATE NEWS.

About 30 cases of smallpox have
been reported from the vicinity OF
liarlecvillc.
= The State Democratic Executive
Committee will meet in Columbia on
April 18th.
= Donnalds wants cotton mill and
an effort will soon be made to form
company for the erection of one.
- The Carpet Mill at Gaffncy has
plans completed for cnlarging its
building and doubling its weaving
capacity.
= Former President Cleveland is
again i'll South Carolina, for rest and
sport, having come for IL visit to
Georgetown, which is favorito haunt
OF the great statesman.
: Another big cotton mill will be
organized i'll the State. a charter has
been applied for by the Woodruff cot
ton mill company of Woodruff. The
capital stock is to be $25O,OOO.
= The supreme court has lodged tho
issue i'll the former jeopardy appeal in
the case of murder against Mrs. Matte
a. Hughes and. she will be tried fourth
time next May in the circuit court in
Greenvillc.
= Among ether things that come
under the ban in this State, by recent
legislative enactment, is the barbcd
wire fence. 1t is now unlawful to
erect II barbed wire fence within 90
feet of the public highway. The pen
atty for the violation of this law is
800.
= Mrs. Susan Teirlkeld, aged sixty
three years, of Grcenvillc County, COM
mittcd suicide by jumping into Recdy
river Thursday morning near her
home, two miles below Recdy river
factory. Ill health is the cause assign
ed, and it was found she had several
times spoken of destroying herself.
Columbia has on handa sensation
al case of husband poisoning. The
victim was j. w. Graddick, who kept
n small store in Bridge street, and he
died i'll January. A cOroners Jury,
acting OH the report of chemist and
other evidence, finds that he died from
arsenic administered by his wife, Mrs.
Belle Graddick. She is in jail.
- Governor McSwcency has refused
to grant pardon to Patton Evans con-
victed in Abbeville county in 1894 OF
murder and recommended to mercy,
getting life sentence. The prisoner
was 1G years old at the time and shot
an antagonist, killing his cousin. So
licitor Ansel declined to endorse the
petition, hence the governors action.
= Probably the youngest telegraph
operator in the United States is little
Willie Barr of Kingstree in this State
who is only eleven years old. Little
Willie is quick and ready operator,
and, in addition to taking the mes
sages correctly, he takes them down
on the typewriter which he has learn
ed to manipulate with the skill of an
experienced operator.
= DR.. Ferrata, director of music at
the Greenville Female college, has
just patented an invention of q piano
attachment that may revolutionize the
use of the great instrument. The at
tachment combines in one instrument
Tor one player, the violin, the viola,
the violincello and the piano, by means
of second set of etr;HSs placed In the
piano and operated from q second bank
of keys, the strings Coming in contact
with bow made to move horizontally
across the piano just above the strings
by means of fourth pedal.
1t is reported that Senator Till
mans slate for the Kansas City con-
ventiOn is, first, B. r. Tillman, Gov
ernor McSweeney, j. c. Sheppard and
Congressman Latimer. They are the
"big fOur' who are to represent the
State at large. 1t is also said that the
district delegates will be slated be-
fore the convention. AS the State is
sure to go for Bryan and there is no
money to pay delegates, it Is not
very desirable office for laboring
man.
= Burglars went into several stores
in Jonesville, Union county, last
Thursday night, blew open safes and
got the contents. Then breaking open
the railroad Toulouse, took out the
lever car stationed there, and escaped
without leaving any tracks. The car
had not been found at last reports, and
it is not known whether it was dump
ed off in a stream OF not. A man
travelling as q professional hypnotist,
who had spent several days in the town
sca purchased ticket to Union, ten
miles, is suspected of being the head
of the gang of cracksmen.
= On Tuesday night, 9th met, Lu-
ther McBee, farmer living three
miles fTpin :Ireenyiiie, shot and il
stantly killed Pilm Hill, q negro. Hill
cooked for McBee, who lives by him
n Is r.