The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-27
STATE NEWS.

- There are 35 paupers In the aims
house of Greevville county.
&C. j. Lyon has been elected sher-
i'll of Abbeville county to succeed j.
K. Kennedy. who was killed.
= The case Of forgery against for
mcr Clerk, w. r. Bullock, of Abbeviile
COUNTY has hren ::oi i,TosscG.
= Alfred Pritchard, aged a, and
Miss Lucinda Jones, aged 72, were
lately married in Cherokee county.
= a strong effort is being made to
have tho national educational asso-
clation meet in Columbia next year.
President G.. B. Cromcr, of the
Ncwberry College, has been selected to
deliver the address before the literary
societies of Wotford College in June.
"A white cotton weighcr and II
negro II .ckman, of Union, have been
indicted for sampling cotton after it
had been weighed and put OH tho plat
form.
Luther Taylor and Frank Neely,
operatives in the American Spinning
Company's mill at Greenvilie, had a
fight which resulted in the death of
Neeley.
Governor McSwecncy has issued
a proclamation offering reward of one
hundred dollars for tho parties un-
known, who committed an assault on
w. b. f. COrbin of Oconee county.
Many of the physicians of Charles
ton have entered protest against the
enactment of the South Carolina Medi-
cal College bill. which they claim is
dangerous to the s.ifety of the health
of the State.
- The Secretary of State is return
ing to public officers commissioned. the
fees sent to his Office except in the
case OF nOtarics public. The legisln
turc has abolished fees for tho issuing
OF commissions to public officers.
= Comptroller Derham says he can
not pay out the $5O,OOO extra for pen
sions, for it is not included in the an
preparation bill this year. Attorney
Bcllinger differs from that decision
and says that the State should pay it.
"A negro was carried before Judge
X. G. Watts, charged with the usual
crime, ut Florence last week, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary in less than twenty
minutes This was record breaker il,
such cases.
= Mrs. Pollie l.. Epting, Of Pomaria,
has been granted n pension OH account
of the services Of her son, Jacob A.
Epting, as soldier in the Spanish
American war, and who died of disease
in Cuba in February, 1899. The pen
sion dates from May 0, 1909.
John j. Smith, formerly auditor OF
Oconee county, died at Hartwell, Ca,
on the 10th. He came to Walhalla in
the COS from New York and was a con-
tractor on the great Stumphouse tun-
mel. He was Confederate soldier,
and schoolmate of Grover Cleveland.
Tom Hill, n middle-nged employee
OF Clifton cotton mill No. 2, killed him
self last Th:reday night. lie ran from
his wife, who was keeping watch on
him, went to an upstairs room, locked
himself in and shot himself three times
with stolen pistol. He evidently
aimed ct his heart and did not miss it
far either time.
There is n family living in pickens
county that has record most remark
able and one seldom acquired by ms
family. The mother was married
when II years old. She is now &c and
has ii living children. The Oldest one
of the family has married and has one
caIld. Therefore che is q grandmother
at 90 years of age.
Greenwood county holds the re-
cord for the first kidnapping in this
State. A. p. Dunoway, formerly of
that county, now in the employ of the
great Georgia farmer, James NJ. Smith,
induced several Greenwood county
negroes of tender years to go to Smith
Onia, Ga. Warrants were gotten out
for him by the parents and he has been
bound over to court.
The Spartanburg City Council has
ordered that nil persons within the
corporate limits of the town who have
not been successfully vaccinatcd in the
iast seven years must be vaccinatcd at
once. Those refusing shall be deem
cd guilty OF misdemeanor and sub
Jcct to q fine not exceeding ;SlOO or i'm
prlsonment not exceeding thirty days.
= Brag Jones shot and killed Lige
Norman in the slashcr room of the
Bamberg cotton mills last week. Both
men were employees of the mill but
working Ill different parts Of the build
ing Brag Jones in company with his
brother, Charles, went to where Nor
man was working and emptied his re-
volver Mt Norman, inficting three
wounds from which he died instantly
There were no eye witnesses to the
affair except the Jones brothers. who