The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-01
STATE NEWS.

Scs 10 DC large.
Only two OF three persons were
shot the other day in a colored cxcur-
sion from Spartanburg to Asheyille.
= Coal has been found near Green
Vile in what is believed to be paying
veins. Some attempt may be made to
dig it.
There are OF convicts who belong
in the State penitentiary. About 600
are at work outside of the institution
on the State farms and elsewhere.
= The State Fair premium lists have
been printed and copies of the same
can be secured by addressing Col.
Thomas w. Holloway at Pomaria, S. C.
- The Fall meeting of the South
Carolina Holiness Association is to be
held ut Leesville, beginning Tuesday
night, Sept. II, 1900, and continuing
one week.
- A negro boy fifteen years old is in
Jail at Newberry for attempted assault
upon Myrtle Farrow, little white
girl. The young coon narrowly es-
capped lynching.
= At Ulmer, Barnwell county, j. G..
Compton, of Buford's Bridge, was shot
and killed by Magistrate n. w. Week
ly. The coroner's jury rendered a yer
dict of self-defense.
= The quarterly report of the opera >
tions of the State dispensary shows the
net profits to be about $4,000. The
constabulary cost over $4,000 and the
seizures amounted to n little over
$1,000.
There were $50 teachers in atten-
dance on the summer school at Rock
Hill last week. OF these five were
from other States. Dorchester, Pickens
and Oconee counties were not repre-
sented.
- Citizens of Chester are raising a
fund for q monument to Miss Maggie
ROsborough, who lost her life while in
the act of snatching n colOred child
from before a locomotive at Lewis
turnout.
- Because Joe Huger, Is year old
negro boy, threw baseball too hard
while playing a game Walterbo1 q.
Bob Jiveur, another negro, 1s years
old, shot Huger, killing him almost
instantly.
Some kind of an insect is destroy
ing the cotton in the vicinity of Bates
burg. The authorities have been re-
quested to send the bug killer from
Clemson college to check the ravages
Of this new pest.
= The scarcity of candidates in the
primary race in Charleston may be ac-
counted for by the high price Of en-
trance, the assessments ranging from
$500 for Congressman and Sheriff down
to S5 for the country magistrates.
= DR.. c. L. Clawson, of Chester, who
owns the geld mine located FIVE miles
north of Fort Mill, now that ore therein
is worth 1928 per ton, has decided to
purchase the necessary machinery to
begin work in earnest in the mine at
the earliest possible date.
- The State Alliance held it's thir-
teenth annual session in Columbia last
Wednesday night. Fifteen counties
were represented. The proposition to
the $4,000 exchange money
was voted down and the alliance ex-
change is to be continued.
= Within the next few days another
brave South Carolina soldier will be
upon Chinese soil. An order
was recently issued moving one of the
of the 7th infantry, of which
Lieut.. Ben Tiilman, Jr., is raukin:
Lieutenant, from Alaska to China. He
is son Of George d. Tillman.
In Laurens county State Constn-
bic Copeland ran afoul Of full fiedged
distillery. 1t was Il complete plant for
Of "blue steel.n They
caught three men working with the
mandatory and lot Of whiskcy,
besides 4 quantity of beer. The still
had been operated for Mt least a year
William Parker has surrendered
to the sheriff in Laurens county for kill
ing his wife. There were no witnesses.
Parker says he had occasion to criticise
his wife for something she did, and
that she became infurinted, attacking
him with an ak. He was in the yard at
the time, and to save himself, seized
hoe, with which he split her head.
= Congress having appropriated five
thousand dollars to be used by the
agricultural department in tea ex-
one of the government
stations will probably be the one at
now conducted by DR..
sheppard and another somewhere near
Augusta. Aiken is suggested, as tea
las been successfully grown there
Senator Blakely has written Gov
'rnor McSweeney an earnest letter in
'egard to the smallpox near Kershaw,
insisting that the State Board send an
Expert there Immediately as there are
low several other cases. 1t seems that
he State Board instructed local ply
iviuu W look after the case reported
1t Kershaw some time ago and the