The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-15
STATE NEWS.

| 81 AL Il NEWS.
= The Lancaster cotton mill has
increased its capital stock to 81 900, 900.
= Arrangements are said to have
been perfected for the erection Of Il
cotton mill at Pickens.
Tho State campaign closes in CO.
more meetings will be held.
- Both Clemson and Winthrop have
more applications for rooms from pro-
spective students than can be csupplicd.
- Monument to the Confederate
dead ut Edgetield was unveiled We'd
nesday. Gen. Butler and others made
speeches.
- MI. James A. Moore has withdrew
from the race for Attorney General
leaving the incumbent, Mr.. Bellinger,
n free field.
| - The executive committee of the
Laurens County Fair Association have
appointed October 4th and 5th rs the
dates of the fair.
- The carpenters in Charleston have
joined the Augusta carpenters i'll n
strike Oil Il demand for ten hours pay
for nine hours work.
The Olympia cotton mills, nf Co
iumDia, will issue shortly S25O,OO0 OF
preferred stock. This will increase it's
capital stock from $780, 600 to S1,75O-
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- Mr.. A. J. Tindnll, Jr., young
farmer Of Clarendon, has u COW 22
months old, which has never had a
calf, and Is now giving 10 quarts Of
milk Mt milking.
L.. Rcv. J. r. Copeland. pastor of
Bethany Circuit, in the Sumter Dis
trict OF the S. G. Conference, is laid up
| Wi y q, hrotynv, 10 ~vh oh koI
q bicycle accident.
w. b. Rowell advertises in tue
Florence Times as follows: "All per-
cigarette to my son, Willie c. ROwell,
who is now sick from excessive s;n0k-
| ing"
= Rev. Robert c. Perry died in Ch.s-
ter county last week. A. few mon tbs
| ago he got q verdict for $4,000 fol in
iurieB sustained by the Senboard Air
Line: The. railway appealed Which
case is pending.
Julius Wyles, negro bricklayer,
working on the new city hall at flor
ence. fell from scaffold to the. ground,
cd no injury whatever. After resting
q few minutes. he walked home, dis
tance of mile and half.
| When she was awakened by his
presence In her bedroom, and began to
scream, q Greenville lady was slapped
In the face several times by n burly
negro. who then escaped and has not
been seen since. Tho lady's husband,
n railroad man, was away.
The work OF rcmodeling the mnin
cell building at the State Penitentary
is to proceed at an early date, and it is
expected that the new quarters will be
t>xr%H %Hn Qvrok "a kh4
contract has been let and the work is
| to be started just as soon as the neces-
sary preliminary arrangements can be
| made.
"A declaration has been filed in the
Office Of Secretary of State for issning
o commission to tho "Twin City Power
Company" to develop water power on
the Savannah near Parksville in Edge
field county, and to build mills and
are at the head Of the enterprise.
shower which came upon them sud
denly, near Rock Hill, two laborers on
the farm of Major A. III. White were
struck by lightning. One Of them,
Sam White, was instantly killed as was
the mule upon which he was mounted.
The other negro. Geo. Meacham, was
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= The Southern railway has allowed
Charleston is to be made port of
concentration and substitution for
cotton" This change will affect the
season about to open and by putting
this place on an equal footing with
other Atlantic ports, will no doubt
greatly increase its business and pros
perity.
Charleston is rejoicing in the dis
| cOvery made by recent sOundings that
her Jetty channel shows depth of 2S
feet at high water, with a width of so
to 100 feet. The Ners and Courier says:
elf everything goes we'll, as it is going
now, within less than two years Char
lesion will be the finest deep water
port on the Atlantic coast"
The 0ntrucI Tor completing the
State House has been signed by Gov.
sion, and Mr.; Unkefer, representing
the McIlvain, Unkefer Co., which viii
do the work. The contract calls for
the completion of the work by Oecem-
Der l, 1901. and it is provided that the
contractors must forfeit 800 dey for
every day over that time that the
building remains incomplete.
The supreme court has rendered o
decision reversing former one in re-
ference to foreign corporations. 1t is
now held that tho home of corpora
ton is in the State where it is charter
ed, and the State law demonstrating
such corporation is unconstitutional.
1t means that when n suit is entered
against railroad or any other corpora
ton not originally chartered in this
United States courts, whatever the
amount involved may be.
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