The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-14
STATE NEWS.


- The citizens of Marlboro have
organized Good Roads Association.
- Eight hundred boys have applied
for admission iuto Cicmson College
next session.
= An explosion in saw mill at
Georgetown killed three negroes and
wounded seven others.
South Carolina sold 10000, 900
pounds of tobacco last year, the aver
age price being 81 cents.
= State Senator Brantley. of
Oraugeburg, has resigned in order to
enter the race for Congress.
- There are ,O62 patients ia the
State hospital for the insane, the wo.
men 8 department being much crowd
ed.
- Miss Carrie Bostick, of Green
ville. will 60 to Canton, China, in
September, as q missionary from the
Southern Baptist Church.
J. There will be big military dis.
play in Charleston during the winter,
participated in by the MALTA of this
State, North Carolina and Georgia.
= Three soldiers of the Sullivan's
Island garrison have been sent to
prison in Leavenworth, Ark, for bur
glarizing vacant house on the Is
land.
= lightning killed three negroes
and pair of fine mules on one Of w.
A. Clark's plantations near Columbia
The party had gathered under tree
to eat their dinner.
e. The Columbia correspondent Of
the Ne,cs and Courier says that the
crop of candidates for Secretary of
State promises to be larger than that
for any other State Office.
Two negro painters at work on
the Robinson building in Columbia
fell from high scaffold thirty feet to
the sidewalk. One of them died
from the effects of the fell.
"Cad" Waller, a negro boy, at
tempted to board q moving freight
train on the Seaboard Air Line, at
Greenwood, and was thrown between
the cars and crushed to death.
= The Democratic club at Travel
er's Hsst, Greenville County, has
passed resolutions oondemning the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee for its action as to Senator Nc
Laurin.
Governor McSweeney has re-
moved County Treasurer Dickinson
of Bamberg and appointed John +.
Folk to act in his stead. There was
found to be shortage ;n the treas
urer's Office.
%. S. Wakeling aud 4. D. Will
Hanson of Detroit, Michigan, have
leased some mining lands about six
miles from Abbeville and purpose
working the property energetically in
search Of gold.
- Senator McLaurin scored a great
success last Friday at Oakway, in
Oconee county, where he addressed
crowd Of more than 1000 farmers at q
picnic given under the auspices of tho
Woodmen OF the World.
- Frank Jones, negro burglar of
Clarendon County, was shot and kill
ed by Capt. s. Y. Barnes, of that
eo% Jones was arsT sTy1g to n arrest the the
was in the act Of firing when Capt.
Barnes used his shotgun with deadly
effect.
- In Charleston Lewis Hackerty,
private of the 10th company of ar
tillery, shot and killed lis wife,
who was not over 16 years OF age, and
then killed himself. The company
was stationed on Sullivan's Island
near Charleston. They had certain
domestic troubles.
- A Greenville jury has awarded
Mrs. Simmons $l.069, 10 damages
against the Western Union Telegraph
Company for failure to deliver to her
a message from her husband, who was
sick at Asheville. The damages were
based on mental anguish caused
by the failure to get the telegram.
- For some years the counties Of
Greenville and Spartanbnrg have been
in dispute over bit of ground on the
boundary line, both counties claim
ing the land. The State Supreme
Court has decided in favor of Spartan
burg, but it's decision was reversed.
Judge Gage presided in the Circuit
Court.
= a five toed pig is curiosity re-
ported from Kershaw County by some
fishermen who have been down in
that section. The pig is about ten
weeks old. and with the exception of
lie eorelegs, which seem more like
arms, it is perfect specimen of q
rooter. But it's fore.legs are much
higher on the body than is usually
the case, and each foothand contains
five toes (ingers), each Of which has a
q perfectly developed nail.
: The special committee authoriz-
cd by the State Alliance to prepare
plans for the reorganization Of sub
Alliances in this State has secured
the services Of Col. j. G. Wilborn OF
York, president Of the National Alli-
ance, as lecturer and organizer. The
committee will issue and circulate an
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