The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
STATE NEWS.

| made i3G bushels Of oats on one acre
this season.
- Sam Farrow, negro, near Daw-
kins, n.S:ders his wife, father-;n-law
and mother-in-law.
- Army worms have appeared in
large numbers in few eastern coun-
ties and are destroying much grass.
The Illinois hn;ld::s Gu the
Charleston Exposition grounds is
going up and it will be n handsome
one.
The postal authorities promise to
make material extension of the rural
free delivery in this State, in the near
future.
- Arrangements are being made to
have grand Eemocratic mass meet
ing IN Abbeville some time next
month. 4liS
- Reports show that the various
summer schools held throughout the
State this year were unusually we'll
attended.
= Giles Irby, negro convict from
Laurens county, was accidentally kill
ed by guard at convict camp near
Columbia.
II Rev. John o. Wilson, editor of
the Southern Christian Advocate, has
gone to London as delegate to the
Ecumenioal conference.
Governor McSweeney has issued
proclamation making an earnest re-
quest that Monday, September 2,
1901, be recognized as labor day
throughout tie State.
"A number of soldiers, among
them South Carolina boy, Henry G.
Watson, were killed by the explosion
OF cartridge at target practice at
Fort Myers, Kansas.
- Reports sent out by Washington
correspondents state that Senator Nc
Laurin intends in the future to be
'hands off, in the distribution of
federal Offices in this State.
- The Baptist church at Denmark
was destroyed by fire few nights ago.
It is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary. There was about
81 900 insurance on the building.
- The present outlook is that the
cotton mill property in the State will
reach $25, 900, 900, which is very near
~ as much as the railroad property Of
of the State, and in round numbers
the total assessment of the property
of the State is only $173, 100000.
- The Southern Railway maohin-
lists at Columbia and Charleston, who
struck for higher wages and shorter
hours, can now repent at leisure.
New oomers have taken their place
and the old hands have had to break
up their homes and hunt work else
where. &
Two negroes were killed at Chero-
kee Falls, Cherokee County, by pre-
mature explosion Of dynamite. They
were preparing for blast in -esks and
spike fell in the dynamite. The
charge went off with q terrific explo-
sion and both negroes were killed in
stantly.
Mr.. N. M. Venters, o magistrate
of Williamsburg county, sent in his
resignation last week. He gave as
has reason that no man could fill the
job honestly when he got only So. .O8 q
month for his services. He is sn
beothers to fill his job.
- A representative of Boston oapi.
talists came to Gaffney about q fort
night ago and bought site just east
of Gaffney for factory to manufac-
ture cotton mill supplies. He i'm
mediately let the contract for the
buildings and material for same are
being placed on the grounds.
- James r. Jordon, ex-city treas
urer of-Aiken, is short in his financial
accounts with the city in the sum of
$2,2l5.40. The amount Of the def
cit is fully covered by indemnity bond.
Jordon is an elderly man, nearing his
seventeen yea and had been treas.
urer of the city Of Aiken for fourteen
years.
In Greenville County William
Gardner and Mack Dixon, both white,
quarreled over some small matter.
Gardner drew q pistol and shot three
balls in Dixon's abdomen. Then
Dixon knocked Gardner down, took
the pistol from him and shot the two
remaining balls into Gardner's body.
Both men died in short while.
- The government has taken pos
session Of the property of Charleston
upon which the new naval station at
that place is to be constructed. Cap
tain Longneoker and Paymaster Skeld-
ing have notified the department that
the last Of the purchase money was
paid and the property taken posses
sion Of. The purchase price was about
$50, 600.
- The Governor has been inform
ed of an act Of vandalism most hor-
rible in Darlington county and has
offered reward OF $50 for the appre-
hension Of the party or parties who
maliciously and fendishly desecrated
the graveyard at the Gum Branch
Baptist church. The rascals threw
down some OF the headat0nes, broke
al a. fxr