The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-10
STATE NEWS.

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be established at Prosperity.
Cotton mills, banks and other
corporations in Spartauburg county
paid $238, ,438 in semi.annual divi-
dends the 1st.
= The first prize for South Caro-
lima for embroidery work at the Pan
American Exposition was awarded to
Mrs. Z. +. Pechman of Johnston.
- Congressman j. VIM. Stokes died
:: :iiS home near Orangeburg last Sat
urday morning, after brief illnoss,
aged Aa years.
- Arthur j. Knight of Bcnnetts-
vile has been appointed postoffice in
spector for rural mail routes with a
salary of 81 200 and So day for cx-
penses.
- Jones Fuller, of Ninety.Six, a
graduate Of Wofford and Vanderbilt,
has been elected professor of English
and French in Hendrix college, Con-
way, Arkansas.
= Tillman and MoLaurin will be
invited to sneak g. Sa.uda on july.
18th, at the fifth anniversary Of the
laying of the corner stone of the Court
House.
= 1t is reported that the Hon. w.
+. Stevenson, Of Cheraw, the present
speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives, will be candidate for attorney
general.
- Revenue officers destroyed five
illicit distilleries and thousands of
gallons of beer in the dark corner of
Greenville county last week.
- 81. P. Galpin, of Ninety Six, made
920 bushels Of wheat on 80 acres.
His tenants made 600 bushels. His
oat crop will turn out 1900 to 1900
bushels.
= The report Of the State dispen-
| sary shows that for the months of
| March, April aud May there was $780,
600 worth of liquor sold TO the citi-
zens by the State.
- Six railroads controlled by the
Plant system were consolidated at
Charleston on July into one road, ,
to be known as the Savannah, Florida
& Western.
- Rev. j. w. Tarboux, missionary
to Brazil, who is on visit to his old
home in Georgetown, will preach the
| sermon for the Woman's Missionary
convention of the Methodist church
in Nes berry the 18th.
- DIR. G. S. Gardner, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Greenville.
has received call from Grace church,
Richmond, Va, which he will prob
ably accept. His leaving Greenville
would be big loss to that city.
= Florence, Darlington and Ches-
terfield counties have decided 20 bring
suit against the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad for back taxes on the Cheraw
and Darlington road from 1888 to 1898.
The Coast Line claims the road was
exempt.
- Eliphas Dawkins, negro preach
er and politician who poured kerosene
oil on his wife and held her in the
fire until she was burned to death,
was tried for the ofense at Gaffney
and found guilty Of murder With a
recommendation t. mercy. just
where the element Of mercy comes il. /.
is hard to see.
- An attempt to wreck the south
bound Seaboard Air Line train was
maize last Thursday morning near
Abbeville. The fish plates Of one rail
were removed. It remained in place
till struck by the sleeper, which was
deralled. No one was seriously in
jured. The authorities believe re-
Gently discharged employees from the
Abbeville shops did the work.
II Last Friday afternoon in Spar
tanburg John D. Collins, proprietor
of the Bee Hive store, was mor.slly
wounded by Clifton Gholston, a boy
nineteen years of age. Gholston
went to the store for settlement. He
ned been working for Collins. A row
ensued and Collins tried to put him
ont. Gholston fred once, the ball
striking Collins just below the breast,
making fetal wound.
&C. Frank Bamberg has curios
ity at his stable. It is mare colt
whose mother is mule. This is q
freak Of nature which is very rare.
The mother Of the colt was bought in
the west by Mr.. Bamberg last winter
year ago, and the following April
gave birth to the colt. The colt is q
soTrei mare and can be seen at the
stables any time.-Ban,berg Herald.
| - The State reformatory for youth.
fal convicts has been completed and
occupied. The new institution is
located upon the States Lexington
farm, about FIVE miles from Columbia
in the Dutch Fork" near the banks
Of tho Broad river. While the build.
ing is not costly one it is most con-
veniently arranged, and the boys are
more comfortable than they would be
in the State prison itself. The sur
roundings are far more conducive of
real reformation.
= A few nights ago w. d.. Flani-
| gan, a merchant at Bowling Green, in
York county, heard an explosion in
his store, not far away, and upon
going to the store and attempting to
enter q revolver was thrust into his