The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-18
STATE NEWS.

A partridge With four legs has
been discovered in York county.
Capt. w. A. Courtenay, Of New
Try, is spoken Of as candidate for
governor Tor next year.
- Congressman Bankhead of Ala.
| 6ama is III at the residence Of his
daughter, Mrs. VIM. H. Perry, Of
Greanville.
1t seems that tho directors Of the
State dlspensary have blund cred in
the. purchase Of some s'booze" and
now this bad stock is to be run off at
"cut prices.
The premium list Of the State
Fair has been issued. The Fair this
year will be. ahead Of any one yet
given. Liberal premiums are offered
for almost everything you can get.
- While prowling her premises last
Friday night in Union Charles Bobo,
Q negro, was shot by Mrs. A. w.
Green. He was only slie htly wound
ed, and was arrested by the police.
- The steeple Of the A. NJ. E.
Church at Seneca was struck by light
ming and set on fire last Thursday
afternoon. The Church was frame
building and was totally destroyed.
II is proposed to build cotton
mill for the manufacture Of yarns at
Laurens, the investment to be $25,-
Oe0. Complete equipment for dyeing
and mercerizing is to be included in
the outfit.
- G. +. Dill, Of Greenviile, Presi-
dent Of the South Carolina game pro.
tective association, calls attention to
the fact that the game laws impose o
| fine Of $40 or 30 days in jail for Killing
bull bats.
- A l3-year-old negro girl living in
the back yard Of Miss Lizzie Phillips
at Winnbboro developed full case Of
smallpox. the other day. Dir. Bah
cook OF Columbia went up and con-
firmed the diagnosis Of DR.. Buchanan.
y. Gordon Coogler, poet, died at
his home in Columbia recently, aged
So years. Mr.. Ceogler was Job
printer. He wrote and published sew
eral small books of poems that at
tracted some attention in the world.
~, The total vote in the Seventh
Congressional race is as follows: Brant-
ley, 2,642; Buchanan, 566; Howell,
2, 1879; Lever, 1925; Smith 1903. A.
Frank Lever and Thomas Z. Brautley
will make the race in the second pri-.
mary.
- Col. j. Thomas Austin Of Green.
vile won the first prize of $4,000 Of
fered by the Atlanta Constitution for
the nearest guess of the total cotton
crop for the season of 1900-19OI. Col.
Austin,s 8 guess was 10, 1888, ,416 and
Hester s cotton report puts the num-
ber of bales at 10, ,383, ,422.
- DR.. Arthur Becker, III. D., D. d.,
has skipped the town of Sumter, leav-
ing his wife and child objects Of char
ity in strange land, and number
of creditors who. were lenient with
the doctor are sad but wiser men.
Mrs. Becker, the deserted wife, weeps
pitifully, and the little child sobs
along with its mother.
80 Tuesday afternoon, 10th inst.
John Odom shot his wife and his STEP,
son, Luther Jones, at the Peeds Oil.
mill in Darlington. The man was
shot in the leg with buck shot and is
seriously hurt. The man who did
the shooting, John Odom, is in jail
The woman ia not seriously hurt.
Jones went to the assistance Of his
mother and was shot BY Odom. {
g. In the daily bulletins issued by
the presidents physicians appears
the name of DIR. Eugene Wasdin.
DR.. Wasdin is South Carolinian.
being native Of Georgetown. and
he has attained eminence in the prac-
!tice of surgery. DR.. Wasdin about Is
years ago entered the navy as surgeon
and mis- success was such that he has
been assigned to many important
medical missions by the government.
. Mrs. Matte Hughes was to have
been tried at Greenville last week for
the killing of her husband. She was
living at Spartanbnrg, being out on
bail. Recently she was arrested in
Spartnnburg for retailing whiskey and
released on her own recopnizance.
AS soon as released she disposad of
her store and effects, disguised herself
IN male apparel and skipped. Now no
one knows the whereabouts Of mische.
.vious Matte. 81
AN arteslan we'll boFer, while bor-
ing on the lot in the resident portion
OF. the town Of Lake City, Williams.
burg county, struck oil and coal in
good quantities at a depth Of SIS feet.
What is said to be anthracite coal vas
forced up almost as large in size as
guinea eggs, and the fluid accom- pany-
ing it is said to s'smell and burn ex.
actly like kerosene" The find is on
the property of A. N. Sntcliffe, at At
lanta Coast Line stationmaster.
The Charleston city cannc:, las
ratified the ordinance prohibiting the |
sale Of liqnors in blind tigers and pro.
yiding for all violations to be tried in |
the police court by the recorder,
Mayor Smyth and Chief OF Police
Boyle have not as yet determined
What plan they will adopt in the en-
foreemont OF the ordinance. It is be.
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