The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-26
STATE NEWS.

mas completed hfty years in the null
pit OF the Baptist church.
= The county papers state that the
smallpox in the upper Part Of the
State has about disappeared.
- A. j. Horne, Of Greenwood coun-
ty, had $500 stolen from trunk in
his house on Wednesday night. !,
= Boyd Evans, Esq, a member Of
che Columbia Bar, has announced his
candidacy for railroad commissioners.
against Mr.. J. @. Wilborn.
- The candidates are making an
early start in Kershaw, four having
already announced themselves for the
Auditors Office.
The dispensary has lost in Green
wood by the narrow margin Of S votes.
There were 158 against, and 153 for
the establishment ola slug,
- The State Democratic Executive
Committee will meet in Columbia on
April 3. Nothing of special public
interest will come up.
- Rev. Robert z. Pell, president
of the Presbyterian College for Wo.
men at Columbia, has been elected
president of Converse College to sue.
ceed B. F. Wilson.
The Odd Fellows of South Caro-
lima are making arrangements for the
proper celebration Of Odd Fellows
day at the Charleston exposition on
May 18th.
- The constables of Greenyille as-
sisted by some Of the police of that
city made raid on the Windsor
Hotel recently and seized SO bottles
of beer and some whiskey.
.;aiss, Sallie Parharn, 81 years
old, q native Of Union, committed
suicide by taking laudanum in Colum-
bia, where for the past eight months
she had been clerk in dry goods
store.
- Prof. Thos. W. Keitt, Of New
berry, who was elected last fall to fill
Prof. Daniel chair during his absence
at Q University, he's just been elected
a pc nanent member Of the faculty of
Glen enn College.
= The governor has appointed Jas.
p. Carey, Of Pickens county, spe-
cial judge to hold Court in Greenville,
beginning April IA, for so long time
as may be necessary to relieve the
crowded docket that has accumulated.
- The Winnsboro Granite Company
is making an effort to secure about
100 additional 1tone cutters to enable
IT to carry out iss contract for furnish.
ing the material for the building Of 6
large History building in Philsdel-.
phia. sr.....,.:s.,. ;
In Florence last Thursday q. L.
Crawley and Mics Pearl Colline, d
school girl OF IL, were married with
out the consent OF the brides parents.
The irate father had the husband ar.
rested, hat Afterwards permitted his
releases,
So The oonstables at Beaufort have
been q long time trying to locate
several blind tigers which had been
doing business with the sailors there
and have succeeded in detecting six
of them, who have been arrested and
bound over to court.
John Hudson, Money Hudson
and Jack Sentnell were convicted at
Walhalla of manslaughtel in the kill
ing OF Rachel Thomas, alias Powell,
on the 25th of last November and were
sentenced 70 the penitentiary for six
years each. All were white persons.
~ Reginald G. Fennell, Of Char
lesion, is president of the Wireless
Telephone company Of America, which
promises to establish system of prac-
tical wireless telephony that will as
tonish the scientific world. A num-
ber Of experiments have been success
full.
- d. r. Sem, Of Longshore, New
berry county, is in hard luck. He
bought a young mule few days ago
for 1925. He went to put the gears
on the mule the next morning, when
itreared up aud fell backwards. The
mules head struck post and it was
instantly killed.
- Last week Charlie Samuels,
young man, heroically rescued child
from burning building at Granite
vile. From an adjoining house the
young man saw that the body of a
baby had been overlooked and though
the roof had fallen in, he rushed
through the flames and saved the
child from horrible DEATH.
- News was received in Newbel.y
on the 18tf inst. that Hoyt King, the
sixteen-year.old son Of the Rev.
@. 81. Armstrong, Of that place, ha5
both legs cut off and his skull crushed
by freight train on the Southern
road, &C Toooa, Ga, that morning.
Later he died. He was attempting to
steal aride on a'freight train.
President Roosevelt has announ-
ced that he and his party will visit
the Charleston Exposition during the
second week in April. The President
will be accompanied by his wife and
daughter and several members Of his