The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-28
STATE NEWS.

- Three 'apancsr cotton mauur,c-
'nrcrs nave been visiting the cotton
mills of this State.
= There will be II grand reunion of
the alumni Of Woilnrd College at com
in June.
= An epidemic of smalIpox is ~
ported ut lcmasscr. Beaufort county.
Forty or fifty eases in l.r harllwooIs.
- Some northern truck men have
leased Il large tract of land near CO.
lnnbia and will run lalsn on anrx-
tcn>lvc scale.
- The state Democratic Executive
Committee is called to meet at Colum-
bia April Nth. 1t will fix the time fer
the State Convention.
me acreage in watcrmrlons will
br.largcly Increased in Hampton coun-
" TINS year. The raising of water
melons paid handsomely last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Sanders of
oc"Icc County, are NOW blessed with
new baby boy. II has been % wears
since they have enjoyed Il blessing like
this.
= There will be nine murder eases
at the spring term of the court in Co.
lnmbia. and more criminal cases ON
the docket than has ever been known
before.
= The Consolidated Street Car, Gas
ANA Electric Light Co., Of Charleston,
earned Sl40000 the first ycar-cnough
t" pay of fixed charges and leave a bal
ancr i'll the treasury.
- The third annual convention of
he South Carolina Federation of Wo-
mems clubs will be held in Charleston.
by invitation Of the City Union Clubs.
Arlil Eth To 10Th. inclusive.
= The citizens of Liberty, in l'ickcns
county. have already subscribed $40
ooo toward Il cotton mill, and several
thousand more are said to he in sight.
The capital stock is to be >:l5O,oOo.
= The town of Union has inst sold
T'o,o00 worth Of 10 year bonds, with
the option of retiring them ut the end
OF 20 years. These bonds bear pcr
cent. interest and were sold for $a1.-
80.
= The State House Commission has
about decided to go ahead and com
plctc the State House. Another meet
ing is to he held early in April, when
plans and specifications will be adopted
and bids invited
: The 7. w. Poe Mfg. Co., ofGmcn-
vile, has decided to increase it's capi-
tai stock from $250,O0O to $5OO,0OO and
double its present capacity. The new
mill will be Il duplicate Of tho present
one. which is stories high and con-
tains $4,000 spindlcs and 75O looms.
- Mad dogs have caused panic in
several localities of the Pee Dee sec
ton. Samuel Nelson, of Statesbcrg,
bitten six weeks ago, has died Of ly-
drophobia, after suffering in thoyworst
forms. Another man, name unknown,
is reported to have died in Sumter
county.
= Rcccntlya a prisoner was received
at the State pcntentiary whose career
has been an interesting one. His
name is Allen and he came from {; good
family. lie was school commissioner
OF his Enthusiastically to the
time he got into the trouble which Has
made hima convict. He was convicted
OF forgery and has entered upon the
service OF sentence often years. The
fellow is Il man Of Intelligence, but is
one Of the Z" fell by he way side class.
-J John Coleman, Il cOlOrcu convict
working in i.aurcns county, ovcrpow-
cred the guard took his pistol and
escaped. Sheriff McCravy and John
ID. Mills with hounds pursued and
overlook him, when he shot Mr. Mills
in the arm. but was shot in turn with
IL shot gun and captured The same
day in Columbia five convicts beat Tie
guard, IIarlin2. and took his gun, but
lIarling drew his pistol and killed one,
subdued the others except one who cs-
capped.
"A Mrs. Bates died at Pee Dee on
the 14th instant Of what the physicians
pronounced hytlrophobia. y peculiar
ity about the case is there were no per-
ccptible lesion or abrasion of the skin
through which the poison may or must
have entered the system. There was
no evidence of any Kind from any
source, AMI how 10 account for the hy-
drophObia without this is the mystery,
for the doctors are agreed that the dis
case does not originate spontaneously
and is not communicated by swallow
ing the poison. The patient had all
the symptoms Of hydrophobia and was
attended by two skillful physicians,
who concur in pronouncing it case Of
unusual interest to the medical profess
sion.
Very few people here arc aware
that there is an old lady in our town
now in the 1Osth year of her age. She
recently moved here withl.hcr sons