The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-02
STATE NEWS.

Some tobacco in the eastern Sec
ton OF the State brings Us high as
l5s cents pound.
They are having mad dog scare
In Greenville, q number of the ami
mails having put in an appearance.
- There is movement on foot IN
organize new county from the mnner
portions Of Spartanburg and Green
vile counties.
columbia had big cotton fire
last Thursday night. Lightning struck
warehouse, and about $50, 900 worth
OF cotton was burned.
IS. W. James, prominent farmer
OF Miiilsn,sburg county, was shot and
K. !e4 by l.. c. Meyers, his brother
ln-law. in dispute about a dividing
fence.
= The probable withdrawal of the
nomination Of Koester and the sub.
stitution of Micah jenkins az Collec.
tor OF Internal Revenue is now being
talked.
- Extensive forest fires ragged for
about week in the neighborhood Of
Little Mountain, Nex6erry County.
The fire was left in the woods by some
berry pickers.
- The case against Barnard B.
Evans. charged with the killing Of
Capt. Griffith in Columbia. has been
postponed on account of the absence
of material witness.
Jesse Edwards was killed near
Calhoun Mills in Abbeville by Eman-
uel Wright in difficulty about COW
injuring the crop. Both are negroes
and Wright has surrendered.
Pavement earth" is new sub.
stance discovered in G, mden. 1t will
pack, after being rained on, almost as
hard as rock. This earth is said to
be the finest in the world for street
purposes.
= The stables Of the Poe manufac-
turing company in Greenvill. were
struck by lightning and completely
destroyed on Thursday night. The
aorses and mules were taken out and
escaped the flames.
A tornado struck SpartanLurg
last Thursday evening about 8 clock.
Three colored churches were complete
~ demolished, trees were nprooted
houses un-oofed, chimneys blown
down, but no loss of life resulted.
- There is man living Dot many
miles from Camden who has raised q
family Of nine boys, the youngest one
now being about growG and as large
as his father, and doctor has never
been called in to see one Of them.
- That lightning, never strikes
twice in the same place has been re-
futed by ON incident in Laurens.
where it struck once in 1873, kill.
ing seven head of cattle, and again q
few days ago, killing negro and q
mule.
- II is said in Augusta on reliable
authority that there is movement on
foot by the Atlantic Coast Line to CON !.
solidate the Georgia Railroad and the
Charleston & Western Carolina and
put the consolidated roacs under one
set Of officials.
w. r. WillinghAm was attacked
by two men while driving from Nevry
to Seneca few nights ago, and about
$50 or $40 taken from him. He was
SHOT at several times, one ball passing
through the calf Of the right leg.
Powder burns were on each wound.
He Is getting on very we'll.
: "A house on H. H. Evans place
about four miles south Of Newberry
was destroyed by fire last week, and
its onl y occupant, j. Butler Kinard
aged about go years, was burned to q
crisp. Kumors are afoat that Kinard
was robbed and murdered and the
house was set on fire to conceal the
crime.
- At Scranton, the other day, Mrs.
Jake Casselman was partially paraly-
zed by lightning. The bolt struck a
post III the yard from which clothes
wire rap to the column post Of the
piazza. The lightning was Conducted
by this wire to the house. TIE shock
felled Mrs. Casselman to the floor and
set fire to broom which stood in the
house.
- John Bowen, a young unmarried
man, went to Ms. A. E. Gunter's
~.SooSl Az UOot w dCcTtc, III hGf-
shaw County, the other day, and offer.
ed her an insult. Mrs. Guuter resent
ed it by emptying the coutents Of a
shotgun in his face. A number OF
shot penetrated his head in and about
his eyes. Mrs. Gunter is in jail.
awaiting the result of Bowen's 8
= The consolidation of the Ashe.
Vile and Spartanburg, the Carolina
Midland and the South Carolina and
Georgia railroad has been consum-
mated. The new company is known
as the Southern Railway, Carolina
Division, and the capital stock is
81, ,798,700. The company assumes
The Indebtedness of the various lines
which amounts to over eleven millions.
tol A. B. Andrews is president.
!, Near Greenwood. the other day,
Prince McClintock, negro boy, and
day Edwards, negro woman, were
from church, when tho wo-
nan started to run, saying that she
wanted to catch. up with some one in
'front.' of them. The boy commanded