The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-26
STATE NEWS.

The ladies' of Marion have begun
TO raise funds to erect O monument to |
confederate soldiers in the court house
square.
- President Montague, of Eurman.
has just received and declined a call
to the head of one of the Target univer-
stiles in the southwest.
= The annual meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary society of
the South Carolina conference will be
held in Nowberry commencing July II.
Tie Insurance Press, published
in New York, says that the sum of
81 ,124 ,543 was paid out to benelicia-
ries of life insurance policies in South
Carolina in 1900.
: it is said there are 63 cotton
seed oil mills in the State. OF these
50 are independent and the others are
under the control Of the Southern Cot.
ton Oil Company.
- The State Teachers Association
was in session last week at Spartan
burg, and resolutions were adopted in
favor OF compulsory education and ex-
pert supervision of the public schools.
- On the third Sunday in July
Rev. A. A. James will celebrate the
fifteenth anniversary Of his pastorate
of the Fair Forest Presbyterian Church
in Union County.
- A'passing train..set fire to ware
house at Liberty last Friday and de-
stroyed the building and 175 bales of
cotton, entailipg loss Of about 81 900,
partly covered by insurance.
| The reports of the condition of
the crops throughout the State are
gloomy. Cotton is in very critical
condition, while the corn crop has
been injured, some Of it, beyond hope
OF recovery.
j. G. Simms, formerly Of Lancas-
ter county, in this State, is prominent
ly spoken Of as the next Democratic
candidate for the governor.ship of
Califoruia. He was private secretary
to Gov. Hampton.
-. The Southern RAILROAD, since
January 1, has built or contracted for
I $27 600 worth Of side tracks in Colum-
bia. The growth of the wholesale
] ibuBines5 in Columbia has great deal
4 to do with this demand for increased
trackage.
- l.ollie, the 10-ycar-o.d son Of w.
8. Stubbs, had his leg severely crush
edS while trying TO board swiftly
moving train in the Seaboard Air Line
1 yards at Abbeville Monday. Doctors
were called and the leg amputated just
below the knee.
- Two negro farm hands near st.
Matthews, got into dispute about
ten days ago and one cut;theS other to
Ii death n,theipr sof a n Smber of
l other negroes, none Of, whom made any
effort to prevent the tragedy or to pre-
/ vent the escape Of. the murderer.
~ Governor Mos Sweeney has recent
~ received an invitation to deliver an
I address In Tammany hall, New York,
July 4, In celebration of the one hun
dred and twenty-ffth anniversary of
Il American independence. Governor
Mes Sweeney 6nas it impossible to ut
tend =
/ - "a serious wreck occurred on the
/ C..&; w. Q. nine miles below Spartan
burg last Thursday afternoon AS a
result SIX men were injured, one prob-
ably fatally and two others seriously.
The damage to the property on the
road was extensive.
- Walsh's new city directory for
! Columbia has been issued. The pub
fishers state in their preface that the
directory, based upon careful can
tvass OF the city and immediate su-
burbs; shows the population to be not
less than $4,000.
- A matter Of qualification to Meth
odists is the consent Of DR.. Lsnes H.
Carlisle, who has been president of
Wofford College for twenty-five years
and is seventy-ive years DID,. to serve
IN that capacity for one year. more.
He had decided to resign, but was per-
suaded not 20 do so.
DIR. N. Fl. Williams says.lie has a
curiosity at HE house n,the shape Of
Ian animal which, ishalf rabbit and
half cat. The fore part, ,is5Iike a cat
and the hind part looks like rabbit.
IL 10 about six weeks old, and he sup
poses il to be the result Of tame rab-
bits and cats breeding together. BAN
berg Herald.
- Floyd Burnett, six year old son
Iof Mr.. James Burnett, of Greenwood
County, was accidentally shot with a
pistol last Thursday afternoon by his
uncle, Maxwell Burnett. The ball en-
tered the left breast just below the
heart. passed through the body and
lodged under the skin. DR.. Neel cut
the ball out, and the child IS likely to
recove, from his dangerous wound.
= Governor McSwesney announced
some days ago that it was his inten-
tion TO call q Good Roads, oonven-
ktion TO meet some time during August.
The correspondence with county SUI
pefvisors has been favorable to the
convention idea. The State geologict
and his assistants, who are familiar
with the aspect of economical devel-
orment, will be consulted before date
Il o.. 4 ~ \