The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
STATE NEWS.

SA~1o A' DAA u0piA Couuty tho OtEer
day.
- The mayor of Union recently sent
q chicken thief to the chaingang 1870
days.
Spartanburg county had hut fon1
Clerks Of Court during the whole of
the 10th century.
The annual spring meeting of the
State Agricultural and Mechanical
society will be held on February G, in
Columbia.
= The new prison building in the
nenitentiary is said to be one of the
best In the South. 1t is built or gran
ito and mas $50 cells.
Two girls, Leonora and Flora
Daniels, of Columbia, were. hit BY q
shifting engine. Miss Leonora was
Killed, beingI a over by the engine.
= Eliphas Dawkins, negro promi-
nent in the religious and sociai circles
OF hls race. is in Jail at Gaffney for
murder. He threw kerosene oil on his
wife and set her afire.
Sumter is to have q training school
for nurses. A charter has been applied
for and the leading physicians of Sum
ter will lecture to the students. The
institution will start about February /.
The Edgefield papers are fixing
things for 1909. They have agreed
that Hon. w. Talbert shall be elect
ed Governor, and that Solicitor j. Will
liam Thurmond shall succeed him in
Congress.
-Tho town OF Little Mountain is
partly in Newberry aud partly in Lex
ington county. An election has been
ordered for the 31st inst. to determine
whether the Lexington part shall be
annexed TO Newberry county.
Deputy Sheriff Coleman, of Salu-
da, was sent to Savannah last Wednes-
day to get a murderer under arrest
there. He got helplessly drunk and
was robbed of $40, and his handcuffs.
He did not know where ne had been
or what he had seen.
Tho laws of the State are stringent
against prize fighting. Some sports in
Cincinnati recently sent Governor nlc-
Sweeney this message: "Please wire us
whether you will allow Jcffries and
Rubin to fight limited number of
rounds in your State in cnse tho fight
is sprevented nere." Tho response was:
"Under no circumstances would Jeffries
and Rubin be allowed to fight in this
State"
AT Spartanburg last Friday morn
ing at o'clock Wofford Fitting School
was destroyed by fire. There were 40
students in the building all escaping
uninjured. The building and contents
were valued at $15, 900; insured for $5,-
600. The fire was caused by Goals from
the crate falling on the floor. The
structure will De rebuilt Immediately.
No suspension Of work will be neccs-
STATED
- The one hundredth anniversary of
the appointment of John Marshall to
the Chief Jasticeship of the United
States, will be celebrated by the law
yers of South Carolina in Columbia on
February 4, 1901. Judge Charles IL.
Simonton will deliver the address and
an elaborate banquet will be served.
An executive committee has been ap-
pointed, consisting of prominent law
yers from all over the State to have
charge OF the arrangements.
- Several members of the South
Carolina delegation in Congress had a
hearing the other day before the House
committee on war claims for settle
mept Of the account between tho Unit
ed States and South Carolina, growing
out of war of 1919, and the Florida
wars. lt:is said that no action was
taken by the committee. The amount
involved in the claim is $396,692. The
delegation are working, and hope to
get settlement of the matter during
this session. 1t is thought to be doubt
full, however, if the measure will be
gotten through the House owing to the
limited time of the session remaining.
-T The superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Insane gives the fol-
lowing figures in his reports: There
were remaining in the hospital Dec. 81,
1890. 1.0O2 patients-white sos, colored
407 and 448-white 242, colored 800
were admitted during the year.
The total number under treatment was
1,4Gl, while the average daily popnla-
ton was 1,043. There were discharged
during the year 419 patients, and the
number remaining Dec. 81, 1900, was
1,023. The annual cost per capita is
for this year S103.67. Compared with
other States the expenses arc among
the lowest Of any institution for tho
insane.
E. p. Wyatt, we'll to do citizen
of Greers, killed himself last Thurs
day. Three years ago Mr.. Wyatt was
paralyzed. Since then he has suffered
greatly, although able to walk about.
Recently he has been in low spirits,
but no suspicion was entertained that
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