The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-02
STATE NEWS.

humphreys, Greenville, was burned
Thursday.
- The Newberry cotton mills has
declared semi-annunl dividend of
four per cent.
= English capitalists have been buy
ing up mineral lands in Cherokee coun-
ty OH Broad River.
= Secretary of State Cooper advises
the abolition of fees for commits
sion of public officers.
Tho Williamsburg County liquor
dispenary. at kingstree, is reported to
have been robbed Of 1880 in cash
Wednesday night.
r. X. Cleland, of Newberry Coun-
ty, has an orange tree which has put
forth athis season thirty-one oranges,
all of which ripencd.
- III Union negro had his hand so
badly torn up by large cannon crack
er explc ling in it, that he had to have
it ampntated above the wrist.
Contracts for buildings and fences
for the Charleston exposition are being
let very rapidly now. Tho exposition
star continues to grow brighter every
day.
j. w. Cortland has sold his Kelley
Institute in Colnmhia to strong COM
pany with capital enough to make it
the leading hospital of the kind in the
South.
- An old negro woman livingin Dar-
lingtOn County, while hitching bull
to cart, was attacked by the animal
and gorcd to death. She was almost
disemboweled.
Governor McSweency has received
q report from responsible gentleman
from Lnurens county saying that there
are 100 cases of smallpox in Young's
township that county.
- 1t has been just 100 years since
the death of Capt. James Kincaid, who
built the first gin run by water in this
State, and was the first cotton buyer
of tho sp country.
= Abig devil fish, real octopus, was
captured in Beaufort harbor few days
ago. Some people thought that tho
octopus was the phosphate trust Mt
first, but they learned better.
-J.I. Broswell, n wealthy lumber
merchant Of Florida who had been in
the city hospital of Charleston for
quito awhile under treatment for alchol-
ism, committed suicide last week.
Laurens Choice, "bad niggcr'
of Greenville, on Christmas afternoon,
shot apparently without provocation,
two othernegrOes, one of whom is dead.
Alonzo Shields and John Coleman were
the victims.
"A fire was caused early Wednes-
day morning in Marion by the careless
use of firecrackers by late Tovolers.
Four stores in the business portion of
town were destroyed, all proprietors
except one losing books and papers.
Marion has no regularly organized fire
department.
In Greenville last Thursday be-
cause of his attentions to his wife, Sam
Coleman, negro, attacked Alonzo
Choice, another negro, who drew his
pistol and fred ut him twice. The
second shot took effect in Coleman's
stomach, the bullet passing through
the intestines, producing instant death.
One night last week at Walhalla
W. e. latham was rather mysteriously
shot with a pistol. Reports are con-
ficting. Some say he was shot from
house; others say from the outside.
The would is serious, but not neces-
sarily fatal. Mary Taylor, young
white girl, has been arrested charged
with the shooting and is now in jail.
- Miss Lnlla Jordan, niece of Presi-
dent Parker Jordan of Greenwood cot
ton mills. and David Jennings Forter,
nephew of United States Judge Will
liam II. Brawley, were married in
Greenville last Thursday night at the
home of the BRIDES mother. Mrs. John
M. Jordan. Mrs. Jordan was talking
to her daughter Immediately after the
ceremony, when she dropped dead
from heart disease.
On the nth of December, Whit
Gary.a colored man of 20 years, six
miles South of Clinton, was shot by q
young white man, Martin Milan. He
died from the wounds on the 18th inst.
The trouble occurred on a path in a
plantation, the only witnesses being
negroes. Milan has not been arrested.
but it is said that he will surrender at
Court and stand his trial.
- Magistrate Strohecker, of Red
Top, notorious negro settlement near
Charleston, recently gave orders that
all negroes living there would have to
marry. Since the notice was made
several days ago that such orders would
be issued by the magistrate, seventy
five couples, it is said, have been mar
ried. Magistrate Strohecker maintains
that man will fight quicker for his
param0nr than for his wife, and to stop
the run of crime in that locality he has
directed the negroes to become legally
man and wife