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

avowed candidate for railroad COM
Several local capitalists from Clin-
ton propose to organize million dollar
cotton mill.
The National Educational Asso-
ciation will hold it's next annual con-
vention in Charleston in July next.
- Charleston ia interested i'm the
building of g saiiitHrum at Castle
Pinkney, for which purpose bill is
pending in the Senate.
- Forty four Mormon elders held Il
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 in the house. and
he is also Il member of the conyression
al campaign committee.
= Mrs. Montague, the mother of the
president OF Furman University, was
burned to death ut the home of her son
i'll Grcenville, her clothes catching fire
as she sat before the fire.
A big lumber mill and IL cotton
warehouse i'll Rock Hill have been
burned. $50 bales of cotton were de-
stroycd i'll the warehouse, and the
plant and lumber in the mill.
= MIR. Pinckncy Shoc'.ley, a farmer
living Mt ISarksdalc, in .aurens Coun-
ty, on tho Grecnville 4, Luurcns Rail
rOO6 xyoo rur, rvn,. I,x, ., +r,;,, 1,o4 IT,:
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 Grcenvillc, February 2lst.
= Senator S. G. Mayficld has gcncr-
ously given the material required for
building new Baptist church at
Friendship, Greenville county, in tho
in wiich he was raised
- Rev l.. NJ. Roper, native of
Carolina and II graduate OF Furman
University, but for the past four years
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Canton, Ohio, has been called to the
First Baptist church in Spnrtanburg.
Last Friday fire burned for six
hours i'll 1000 bales of cotton stored in
the city bonded warehouse of Laurens.
Much of it was destroyed, while all
was damaged by water and smoke.
The loss will not be known until an
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 $1.0O to $3.50
and in some instances to $500 year.
The great advance in the prize of NIL
material has caused this ad-
vance in subscription.
= The first term of the criminal
Court in Greenville fer the year ended
last week with 32 cases disposed of and
"a cases continued. OF tho 32 cases
Of there were Is convictions,
3 acqnittals, pleas Of guilty and Z no
bills. There was Il conviction in only
one of thirteen murder cases before the
court.
- The correspondent from Jones'
Vile to the Union Times gives the
"Mrs. Milton Kenneth kill
ed n hawk last Saturday with Il plow
handle. The hawk scoopcd down upon
I chicken in Mr.. Kennc it's yard and
while the hawk was tussling with the
chicken Mrs. Kenneth seized plow
handle and dispatched his hawkship"
- a charter in pcrpc;uity has been
granted to Fnrman University. The
petition for the charter was signed by
Henry =. McG hee and J. b. Earle, and
w. IL. Lyles, of Columbia. Furman
University was originally Incorporated
Dy 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 an
lct approved February 16, 1903.
- The State Board of Control COM
pleted it's annual report last week. 1t
shows q net profit for 1890 of $414,18l
the largest in the history of the insti-
tuition. Of this amount 1920, ,402. As
went to the counties and cities and
BIOS, ,690.49 to the State. Within the
present month the Board has turned
over 100000 to the superintendent Of
for the school fund, this be-
ng the total amount asked for tho
present year.
= Mr.. Pin Casey, aged about 20 years,
who lives at EnOrce met with tragic
lcath. He was assisting his son and
another white man in loading Il wagon
If wood in n forest near his home. His
son and assistant were busily engaged
cutting down n tree, and the old man
" as paying little or no attention to
tho progress of the work. When the
rec fell it went to earth in exactly the
direction to that intended.
Mr.. Casey was not on the alert and the
rec struck him, crushinGhim to death.
- Some valuable and historic prop
,rty VAS transferred when the South