The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-07
STATE NEWS.

avOwcd candidate for railroad COM
missioner.
Several local capitalists from Clin-
Ton propose to organize million dollar
cotton mill.
= The National Educational Asso-
citation will hold its next annual CON
vention in Charleston in July next.
= Charleston is interested in the
building of II sanitarium Mt Castle
Pinkncy, for which purpose bill is
pending in the Senate.
= Forty four Mormon elders held q
conference in Columbia last Sunday.
They claim to have 1900 members of
their church i'll South Carolina.
= Congressman Talbcrt has again
been made chairman of the South
Carolina delegation i'll the house, and
he is also IL member of the congrcssion-
nj campaign committee.
- Mrs. Montague, the mother Of the
president OF Furman University, was
burned to death at the home of her son
i'll Grccnville, her clothes catching fire
as she sat before the fire.
"A big lumber null and cotton
warehouse in Rock Hill have been
burned. $50 bales of cotton were de-
stroyed i'll the warehouse, and the
plant and lumber in the mill.
= Mr.. Pinckney Shockley, farmer
living at Barksdale, in Lnurens COun-
ty. on tho Grccnvillc 4 I4aurens Rail
road, was run over by train last Fri
day night and crushed to death.
The Greenville Convocation, Of
which the Episcopal clcrgymcn OF up
per South Carolina form part, will
convene with the church of the Epiph-
any. in Grcenville, February 2lst.
= Senator $. G. Mayfield has gcncr-
ously given the material required for
building new Baptist church ut
Friendship, Grccnvillc county. in the
neighbOrhood in which he was raised.
= Rev. J.. NJ. Roper, II native Of
Carolina and graduate Of Furman
University, but for the past four years
pastor of the First Isnptist church of
Canton, Ohio, has been called to the
First Baptist church in Spnrtanhurg
--.Last Friday fire burned for Fix
the city bonded warehouse of J.anrcns.
Much of it was destroyed. while all
was damaged by wafer and smoke.
The loss will not be known until an
inspection is made. The cotton is in
sured.
= Week after week we notice pa
pers in varius sections of the State an
nouncing that they will put up the
subscription price from Si.G0 to $3.50
and in some instances 10 $500 year.
the great advance in tho price of all
printing material has caused this adj
vance i'm subscription.
= The first term of the criminal
Court in Greenville for the year ended
last week with 30 cases disposed of and
81 cases continued. Of the 32 cases
disposed Of there were 10 convictions,
G acquittals, pleas of guilty and Z no
bills. There WAS conviction in only
one.Of thirteen murder cases before the
court.
= The correspondent from Jones'
vile to the Union Times gives the
following: "Mrs. Milton kcnnctt kill
ed hawk last Saturday with plow
handle. The hawk scOOpcd down upon
n chicken III Mr.. Kennett's yard and
while the hawk was tussling with the
chicken Mrs. Kenneth seized plow
handle and dispatched his hawksllip"
A charter in pcrpetuity has been
granted to Furman University. The
petition for the charter was signed by
Henry T.. McGhce and j. B. Earle, and
w. II. Lylcs, Of Columbia. Furman
University was originally incorporated
by an act of the general assembly, ap-
proved on December 20, 1850, the char
ter being renewed by an act approved
December 20, 1866, and renewed by IN
act approved February 1G, 1903.
The State Board of Control COM
pleted it's annual report last week. 1t
shows q etprofit for 1900 of $414,181,
the largest in the history of the insti-
tuition. Of this amount 1920, ,492. AS
went to the counties and cities and
100000 to the State. Within the
present month the Board has turned
over 100000 to the superintendent of
education for the school fund, this be-
ing the total amount asked for tho
present year.
- Mr.. Pin Casey, aged about 20 years,
who lives at EnGrce met with tragic
death. He was assisting his son and
another white man in loading wagon
OfwOOd in n forest near his home. His
son and assistant were busily engaged
cutting down q tree. and the old man
was paying little or no attention to
the progress of the work. When the
tree fell it went to earth in exactly the
opposita direction tJ that intended.
Mr.. Casey was not on the alert and the
tree struck him, crushinGhim to death.
- Some valuable and historic prop
erty as transferred when the South
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