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

A negro was lynched for tho usual
crime in Barnwell county the other
day.
The mayor of Union recently sent
a chicken thief to the chaingang 1870
days.
SpuriuuDurg county had but four
Clerks of Court during the whole Of
the 10th century.
The annual spring meeting Of the
State Agricultural aud Mechanical
society will be held on February O, in
Columbia.
- The new prison building in the
penitentiary is said to be one of the
best in the South. 1t is built of gran
lite and has $50 cells.
- Two girls, Leonora and Flora
Daniels. of Columbia, were. hit by a
shifting engine. Miss Leonora was
killed, being run over by the engine.
= EliDhas Dawkina. n negro nrnmi-
nent in the religious and social circles
OF his race. is in Jail at Gaffney for
murder. He threw kerosene oil on his
wife and set her afre.
Sumter ia to have a training school
fornurses. A charter has been applied
for ana the leading physicians Of Sum
ter will lecture to the students. The
institution will start about February l..
The Edgefield papers are fixing
things for 1909. They have agreed
that Hon. WI. Talbert shall be elect
ed Governor; and that Solicitor j. Will
liam Thurmond shall succeed him in
Congress.
Tie town Of Little Mountain is
partly in Newberry aud partly in Lex-
ington county. An election has been
ordered for the 3lst inst. to determine
whether tho Lexington part shall bo
annexed to Newberry county.
Deputy Sheriff Coleman, of Salu-
da, was sent to Savannah last Wednes-
day to get murderer under arrest
there. He got helplessly drunk and
was robbed of $40, and his handouts.
He did not know where he had been
or what ne had seen.
Tho laws of the State are stringent
against prize fighting. Some sports in
Cincinnati recently sent Governor Nc
Sweeney this message: "Please wire us
whether you will allow Jcffries and
Rubin to fight limited number of
rounds in your State i'm case tho fight
isprevented nerc." The response was:
"Under no circumstances would Jeffries
and Rubin be allowed to fight in this
State"
= At Spartanburg last Friday morn
ling at 3 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 $4,000; insured for $5,-
600. The fire was caused by Goals from
the CRATE falling on the floor. The
structure will be rebuilt Immediately.
No suspension of work will be reccs-
STATED,
The one hundredth anniversary of
the appointment Of John Marshall to
the Chief Justiceship of the United
States, will be celebrated by the law
yers Of South Carolina in Columbia on
February 4, 1901. Judge Charles H.
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 ell over the State to have
charge Of the arrangements.
Several members of the South
Carolina delegation in Congress had q
hearing the other day before the House
committee on war claims for settle
ment of the account between tho Unit
ed States and South Carolina, growing
out Of war of 1919, and tho Florida
wars It.is said that no action was
taken by the committee. The amount
involved in the claim is a396,60e. 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.
= 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,OU2 patients-white 505, colored
407 and 44S-whito 242, colored 30e
were admitted during the year.
The total number under treatment was
1,401, while tho average daily populn-
ticn Was 1,043. There were discharged
during the year 4l8 patients, and the
number remaining Dec. ~, 1900, was
1923. The annual cost per capita is
for this year S103.87. Compared with
other States the expenses are 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
paraiyzed. Since then he has suffered
greatly, although able to walk about.
Recently he has been in low spirits.
bat no suspicion was entertained that