The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-02-27
NEWS ITEMS.
DsrliDgson. s G.. has voted for a
920, ,0O0 Opers House

Darlington. s G.. has voted for a
$40. 600 Opera House
A lissle more than one-sizfb OF the
pension appFoprias,oa comes TO she
South
The expenses of Harvard Univorsi'y
are exceeding It's ioeome, the deficit
amounting to $4,000 shis yeas.
Bigmingham is preparing TO bold az
International Metallic AID Industrial
Ezposisi0o in 1904
The Anerlssn Phosphate cOnpaoy
Of Colambia, Tenn has made an
assignueas.
Judge Hasss, Of Topeks. has put
Mrs Nation under . $4,000 peaOe
bend.
TIE eoveraaeus majority is che
house of connons on Monday vas
reduced from $50 30 Is
Tgs bare burners we're lynched near
Maeoo. Miss OF Monday.
The cigar makers strike 1t Tsnpa
has been declared Of.
E!evea States have laws prohibiting
cigarettes from being sold within saelr
borders,
Wilcox, the Hawaiian delegate. will
sesain his seat in congress.
Dr. Geo Kirby, superintendent of the
insane asylum a. Raleigh, is dead
Tha dispensary question was defeated
ID Cumberland County, N. G, on
Feb I9
Mrs NstioD is behind the bars and
refuses TO give bond. She will acs as
her oun attorney.
TIE building of the Manufacturers
Oil aud Grease Company of Clevelapd,
Ohio, wss destroyed By Ere on Feb ~.
The Southeastern Freight Association
8 net a. Sc Augus,iDe, Fla, on Feb 20.
There we're eight murders in
fairfield County since the last term OF
eoure
The civ Of NsWberry has bad its
limits extended. taking 10 High Point.
asuburb.
Comfy Superintendent of Education
for Spartanburg County, J. M. Ballen.
ger died on Sunday last, before enter
Ing Oh his duties.
The passengers on enc qaaraDslned
steamer Alpha at Savanoab. we're
rather badly treated BY the funigstion
process as applied TO their clothing.
An effort vas made 10 the senate
Yesterday 20 repeal the sectioe of the
noss esics bill which authorizes the
payneas Of Sl7l, ,2Ss year for oecas-
s.ry aud special fscilisiss on sruok lines
from New York sndl Washington to
Atlanta aud Nsw Orleans. II this
appropriation is Withdrawn she South
viii be deprived Of quick mail service.
Mrs Carrie Nation says she will edit
The Snasher's Mail. o paper TO be run
in behalf Of negroes. She says also
shas she has declined tempting offers
from shess=e managers.
Army officers and other American
ch.e holdsrs IN Manila aud lot OF
,eeonssrucsed Filipino held Banquet
il houor of Washiugsou's bisthday os
Thursday eight. Gen Macarthur made
. spese6 ohock fnil Of ros. of Whieh
the following is . speoiueu /: "UndeE
the Amsriean fsg injusiioe and oppres-
sion are impossible.
Secretary of the Navy Long has
aDuonoesd that hereafter Pensacola.
Fla, will be The regular winter head
quarters of tbs North Atlantic squad
ron.
Thomas Vital. negro. vas lyuebed q:
Reusou. La, Thursday for rape. Sam
Maddox, Who attempted to defend
Vital, vas shot 60 death.
Architect Gilbert. of the Charleston
Exposition, has prepared the grouOd
plans aud elevation for the proposed
State Bulldog to be erected With sse
sppropriasiou recently made by tts
State
Al the meeting of The premium lisl
committee Of the South Carolina Agri-
cultural spd Mechanical Society held il
Columbia 90 Wednesday some impors-
ant changes 10 the premium list vas
decided upon. Last year. the premiums
amounted to. in round naubeFs,
$1,000. This year she list will carry
So, 500. Increases viii be made in tas
cattle. sheep and sWine department..
4 youog oolored nan by the nams o
Rufus Low wsa shot and ins:sn,l5
killed las. Saturday nig0s few uile'
from Society Hill BY another negro mar
5y she name OF Caio.