The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-04
STATE NEWS.

dluatcs 1Or County Offices.
= Lice are doing serious damage to
cotton i'll some parts of the State.
A Spartanburg farmer this year
made 524 bushelf of wheat from one
acre of land.
Farmers i'll the eastern part Of the
State have begun curing tobacco. Their
crop is not very good.
Allen Grey, South Carolina boy,
is one of the poineer American editors
in the Island of Luzon.
- State Summer School for teachers
will be held at Winthrop College from
July 18th to August 14th.
- DR.. E. II. Murfee of Tuscaloosa,
Ala, has been elected president of the
Greenville Female College.
= The monument that is now being
erected to the Confederate dead at
Edgefield will be unveiled in August.
- The State Reunion of the Confed-
crate Veterans will be held at Green
wood August 1st. A big crowd will
attend. =
= The new superintendent of the
Connie Maxwell Orphanage at Green
wood is sending out special appeal
for -four.
- Forty bills for, violations of the
dispensary law were brought in Char
lesion ut this term of the court and
were all thrown out.
= At the commencement exercises
of the Citadel Academy in Charleston
last week nineteen young men were
given their diplomas.
= Charleston is wide awake, and 10
one can now doubt that the exposition
will be great thing for Charleston,
the State and the South.
Whiskey caused George Eubanks,
aged 81, to shoot and kill Will Evans,
aged 10, in Lancaster. Both young
men were mill employees.
w. w. Sharp has found an mex
haustable deposit of peat on his plan
tatiOn near Princeton in Laurens coun-
ty. Peat is valuable for fuel.
- The Greenville Ners points ont
that there has been rainfall there of
0.40 inches during the month of June
against an average in past years of only
81 inches.
-R. L. Lee, merchant of the city
of Darlington. has been indicted for
violating the postal laws by sending
profane and obscene language through
the mails.
j. L. -aargle, of Columbia, went
into closet, put a bullet through his
head and then made cut at his throat
with razor. He was bent on self-de-
stt--;uotti0I.
- Carolina's hero, Victor Blue, is
now flag lieutenanttc Admiral Kempff,
who has charge of our fleet in China.
He may have another chance to distin-
guish himself.
- Miss Ann Semple, daughter of a
celebrated Virginia Baptist preacher,
died in Greenville last week from the
effects of dose of arsenic which she
took by mistake.
"A lady near Estill, in Hampton
county, tried to shoot her step sons
dog and he, in trying to get the pistol
from her, was the means of its prema-
ture explosion, which killed the lady.
- The chemical works of the Green
vile fertilizer factory were destroyed
by fire last Friday, and two negroes
were seriously burned. The loss is
about $4,000, which is covered by in
surance.
= One Of Uncle Sans new protected
cruisers Is to be named Charleston, in
honor of the grand cold city by the
sea-" The old war ship bearing that
name was wrecked some time ago off
the Philippine Islands.
a PiCkens correspondent says that
but few wheat crops have been saved
in that county. AS rule the wheat
has sprouted until the shocks are green
from top to bottom and wet and musty
from centre to circumference.
A subscription is being taken in
Chester for monument to the young
lady. Miss Maggie Rosborough, who
lost her life recently while attempting
to save child from being crushed by
locomotive. Such heroism deserves
to be commemorated.
- The Edgefleid Democratic Execu-
tive Committee has recommended the
election of dispenser by tho primary.
The Executive Committee Of Newberry
County went step further and recon-
mends that the members of the Board
of Control also be nominated in the
primary.
- The U. s. Government has entered
suit against the State of South Caro-
lima for about $3.50, ZOO, which amount
1t is claimed this State owes the nation
oil Government fnr cid -s- 3sL:a.
South Carolina holds counter-claims
against the United States for much
greater sums.
- By the explosion Of boiler to