The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-17
STATE NEWS.

Aeooh Aiit HIS IcIuScU 01Sp6nSaIy
by q vote of 90 to ITO.
= Work has begun OH tho smillion
dollar mill at Lancaster.
- Work is to begin on tho Charles
ton naval station at once.
- The Abbeville cotton mill has in
creased it's stock from half million to
$500, 600.
Mr.. Thomas Randolph, c: Lamar,
Darlington county, died April 9th, at
the age Of 102 years.
= The board of health of Union is
going to fight mosquitoes with oil this
summer. They propose to put kcro-
sece e aM ponds, iuies OF vessels in
which mosquitoes breed.
= Senator b. r. Tiliman will deliver
the literary address, aud the Rev. d.
N. Mclaughlin, of Chester, will preach
the sermon at thel commencement
exercises at Clemson in June.
- There is strong prospect of the
publication of Republican daily news
paper at Columbia. 1t is understood
that AR. w. s.. Smith W haley the cot
ton mill magnate will be in charge.
- Tho Seneca cotton mill is rapidly
approaching completion, and President
L. w. Jordan has reason to be proud
of the work, as it bids fair to be one of
the mostthoroughly built and equipped
mills in the State.
= Senator S. G. Mayfield, of Bam-
berg county, had tho misfortune to
lose his house and nearly all it con-
taincd by fire the other night. He lost
his fine library which had some very
| valuable works in it.
- Near Bowman, Orangeburg coun-
ty, a negro and his second wife were
arrested on the charge of beating an
8-year- old-child by former wife to
death. The circumstantial evidence is
strong agaicot them.
= Miss Florence Lorysa, one of the
Winthrop students. while sitting
watching the Saturday evening play OF
her companions, suddenly collapsed
add before any aid could be given her
had breathed her last.
w. S.Lee, crippled merchant who
keeps store at small station near
Union was called up by an unknown
party last Friday night and murdered
at his store door. The object is
thought to have been robbery.
- During reunion week the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy of Columbia
arc to present to members of Camp
Hampton, medals known as the South
ern Cross of Honor, the presentation
to take place on memorial day.
- The April showers raised the Con-
garee Mt Columbia higher than it has
been for ten years. The electric power
house, furnishing $1,000 horse power,
was stopped. Several small tornadocs
twisted things around near Charleston
and the coast.
- Governor McSwceney has receiv-
cd paper in n novel case. The peo-
pic OF Saluda held a primary election
to namo dispenser. The county board
ignored the primary ,minee, and ap-
pointed q man of their choice for dis
penser. The people ask the Governor
to withhold his signature from the COM
mission.
= 1t is announced by those in posi-
tlon to know that railroad will soon
be built from the Toxaway Ford, near
Sapphire, N. c., to Seneca, s. C. Re-
cent surveys have been made by en-
gineers. and the actual work of con-
struction will begin within month.
The Toxaway Company, of Sapphire,
are behind the enterprise.
The twin City Power Co. will
build an immense cotton mill and pow
or plant at Ring Jaw shoals on Savan-
nah river, near Mccormick. It is pro-
posed to furnish power for several
towns. D.. nj. Mackaye, who is direc-
tor of one Of J. Pierpont Morgan's New
York banks and whom Bradstreet rates
at SO, 1000, 900 is ut the head of the enter
prise.
Governor McSweeney has become
suddenly interested in that "bunch of
money" that is lying idle in England
waiting for several thousand heirs to
qualify and hDend it. Mrs. McSweeney
was O Miss POrcler of Charleston, and
the governor has been notified by one
of the heirs who is looking up records
that Mrs. McSwecney Genes in for q
share of $140,OO0.OOU.
= George p. McCloy was sentenced
III the United States circuit court in
Charleston to six years in the peniten-
tentiary. McCloy was n pension agent
who was shown to have been engaged
in swindling the Federal government
for years. He obtained pensions for
negroes who did not deserve them or
else for people who did not exist at ell.
The papers in; both cases would be
forged by himself and his accomplice,
Solomon p. Brown. Brown turned
States evidence and was acquitted.
McCloy's operations covered the entire
lower section Of the State.