The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-19
STATE NEWS.

professor.
- Two young soldiers at Port Royal
drank blind tiger bitters few days
ago and died.
- Since January lst fifteen lunatics
have teoI sent TO the State Hospital |
for the Insane from Sumter County.
- It is announced that Mr.. NJ. r.
Cooper, now Secretary of State, will
be candidate for governor next year.
Tbs Il year old son of S. 0. |
Hurst, of Camden, while bathing some
days ago, was seized with cramp and
drowned.
= A commission has been issued to
the Mollohan Manufacturing Co. of
Newbcrry. This is to be $500, 900
cotton mill.
- The railroads pay one seventh IF
the taxes in the State The full value
of railroad property in the State is
now nearly SIT, 900, 900.
Ex-Governor J. G. Sheppard has
been elected vice director of the su-
p7eno lodge, Knights of Honor, in
convention in Milwaukee.
- Jim McGrath, Jr., young white
man, fell from the top of freight car
in Greenville Friday and received IL
juries from which he died four hours
! later.
- The State farm i'll Sumter suffer
ed great loss by recent floods. Two
hundred and fifty acres of oats were
destroyed aud 700 acres Of corn were
much injured.
= The young lady graduates of
Winthrop college are in demand as
school teachers. Thirty three gradu.
atcd, and nearly every one has posi-
tion for next year.
| - Winthrop College will open again
on October 9th. The trustees of the
institution have decided to put into
operation complete canning outfit.
An effort at poultry raising will also
be made.
= 1t is interesting to note that j.
Q. Sims, formerly of Lancaster county,
but now of California, has been sug-
gested for governor Of that State. MT.
Sims was Secretary iof State under
General Hampton.
- The April aud May planting of
rice in Georgetown County have suf-
fered very severely, first from cool
changes and then from freshets. It's
estimated, at this time, that 40 per
cent. of the early planting was lost.
= A fly wheel Of the Gas and.Elec-
trio Light Company of Charleston,
weighing about IL tons, broke into
many pieces the other night. A piece
weighing about ton was hurled $50
feet into cabin and killed colored
woman.
Mr.. Ike Hughes, Laurcns
school teacher, has been convicted of
assault aud battery in magistrate
court. It was proved that he punish
cd q 14-year-old pupil outrageously
beating her with stout switches. The
school teacher has appealed the case.
| - A novel theft occurred in Cher
okee county near Wilkinsville few
nights ago, when thief entered on
the premises Of Mr.. B. s. Weaver and
stole beegun, full of honey. The
gum and the bees we're found on the
roadside some distance from the house
the next morning.
= DR.. Jas H. Carlisle has consent
ed to remain president Of Wofford Col
lege for another year, at the urgent
solicitation Of the board of trustees.
The doctor has been connected with
the College since its foundation in
1854, for the last 26 years as President.
He is now 76.
= George w. Syfan, the oldest To-
comotive engineer in the State, died
at his residence in Abbeville on Sun
day, 9th inst, aged 80 years. He
hauled the iron and laid the track of
the Abbeville branch and ran as engi-
neer on the road until few years ago,
when he retired on pension from the
Southern.
- Governor McSweeney has par
doned Greenville woman who was
sentenced to nine months imprison-
ment on the charge of adultery. She
has served FIVE months of her term,
aad says she wishes to &c home to take
charge of her seven year old child by
dead husband, and to care for her
mother. Solicitor Boggs recommend
ed the pardon.
= One of the remarkable cases Of
ambidcxterity is Senator B. II. Till
mans ability to write with either
hand-or with both hands. He can
use his left hand as we'll as his right,
and he can use his right very we'll. 1t
is said that once when he was Govern
or he had great number of official
papers to sign. He used both hands
then, signing his name twice at the
same time.
In Sumter last Friday Frank H.
Winn was shot and killed by Edward
Edwards. Both are young men, popular
and we'll connected. Charles Smith,
who was acting as peace maker, was
wounded by stray shot. The killing