The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-25
STATE /. 1 NEWS. 1

= calalqate Ior AdJutants and inspec-
tor General.
Asnegro was killed on the South.
cru. railway track in Greenville on
Thursday night.
The 16-months.old child OIL. q.
Beyille of Spartanburg was burned to
death on Thursday.
= The. sepats has confirmed the
nomination OF John G.. Capers as dis
trict attorney for South Carolina.
- The railroads and the soalpers
are having hot fight in Charleston.
a number of scalped tickets have been
turned down on the railroads.
- Mrs. ELIZA Brighs 3, Of Greenville,
90 years old, was fatally burned while
standing before the FIRE on Tuesday,
18th inst. She died the neEt day.
= TIE State Board Of Health will
ssk the legislature to give it further
authority in the matter Of treating
epidemic diseases, vaccination, etc.
Prof. w. X. Slight ,sho for IA
years has been q mer0ber Of the fac
ulty os Newberry College, has tender
cd his resignation, to tako effect Jan
nary I. u
- The second Tuesday I'M January
iS fixed by the Constitution for the
convening Of the Legislature. AS
the month comes in-on Wednesday,
the 14th is the day, tna latest possible
date.
- MRS. Frances Ryan, oae OF the
most highly respected ladies of Edge
iield, was burned to death by falling
in the fire at her residence in South
Edgeaeld. She was subject 20 YER
tigO.
i. ~ Prof. Barnes of Clemson college
has just finished q gasoline engine
which he constructed for an auto
mobile on which he.is now at work.
When finished it will be the first
machine of the kind ever. made in the
South.
~ The governor has ordered the
election for the county of Pee Dee to
be held on Jan. 16. The new county
will contain 403 square miles and
leave 592 in the old. Dillon, which
ID very near the center is to be the
county seat.
- The Democratic congressman who
have just returned from the Phslip-
pines declare that the intelligent class
OF the Filipin0s are just as capable of
self government as we ourselves are,
and thas nearly every man on the is
lands is longing for independence.
The business men of Cheraw
are IN correspondence with parties
who contemplate the establishment
OF 9 large veneer plant. The poplar
and gum on the Pee Dee adjacent to
the town will afford raw material for
many years. The plant has submit
ted a reasonable enough re reIuisitioE.
and Oheraw will probably take them
up. iE
- at the meeting of the State
Teachers Association last summer q
resolution was adopted strongly urg-
sng the passage of a. compulsory edu-
cationl law. A. committee was appoint
ed to urge upon tho Legislature the
adoption of such a law, and lis under.
stood that the committee has already
began necessary work among the legis-
iators. 5.S
/, A fatal accident happened at the
State farm at Hagood, in which David
Williams, convict, serving q three
year sentence, from Dorchester, was
Instantly killed by gnard M. @. Bur-
kett. ltseems that while the detail
was at work, Burkett's pistol was ec-
cidentally discharged, the bullet pene-, /,
tratipg the temple Of Williams; killing
him instantly.
- 60 Tho governor has received sever
alreports Of the appearance and ex-
istence Of smallpox in Hampson and
Beaufort counties and partioularly az:
Yemassee. There has already been
one death and the people are consider
ably exercised over the matter. The
governor took the matter up with DR..
James Evans, the secretary OF the
state board of health, and he will give
to the situation at once.
Senator McLaurin is on six Sem
ate Committees, as follows: Indian af-
fairs, claims, Improvement Of the Mis-.
s;ssippi river aud its tributaries, or
conduct and expenditures
OF the executive departments, trans
routes to the seaboard, ! and |
industrial expositions. Senator Till.
man is on the following: Appropria-
tions, mines and mining. naval af-
fairs. forest reservation, and reyolu.s
lionary claims.
w. j. Dufie, one Of the wealth.
ess5men in the State, died Tuesday
afternoon 17th., inst, at his home in |
Soinmbia. He was a self made man,
graduated from the Sorth Carolina I
Jollege in 1855. served as private in
he Confederate army, and settled
after the war as a publisher Of school
books He made'a fortune, which is
hgested in real estate in that city and
elsewhere. He owned 20 900 acres Of
and in Oconee county. was for 36
'ears 9 ruling elder in the Presbyter-
an church and for 20 years treasurer
II the Columbia Theological Semi
,ary.
December 80 will be ssCitadel