The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-12
STATE NEWS.

- 0Ae SoseVu mil Vlllag6. Il
- Chemically pure artesian water
has been found on Helena Island, off
Beaufort.
- A few cases Of smallpox are re.
ported at Chester, but the situation is
not ct all alarming.
Two carloads Of potatoes were
received in Newberry few days ago
from Aroostook. Maine.
= Congressman William Elliott.
or beaufort, has been announced as q
candidate for the United States Senate.
= An effort is being made to ge.
the 5e9e7son aud Fitssimmons prize
Eight pulled of in Charleston during
che exposition.
During storm in Sumter Coun.
~ q negro cabin was blown down, kill.
ing negro woman. Three Others in
the house escaped.
Rev. David A. Todd, who died
recently In Laurens, left o bequest of
one thousand dollars to tho First
Presbyterian church at Laureus.
The WinnsboTo dispensary was
robbed the other night Of about s35
worth OF stock. The county board Of
control is investigating the affair.
{. - VIM. j. Thackson Of Greenville
has resigned as private secretary TO
Senator McLaurin in order to devote
himself to his real estate business.
- It is reported in Charleston that
an old iron pot containing $4,000 in
coins was dug up by negro on a farm
on Mount Pleasant few days ago.
Rock Hill boasts of a man who
has suit of clothes over 40 years
old, in good repair, in which the own.
er has been married in three times.
- DR.. Richard Farguson, a well
known and popular young physician
of Columbia, killed himself few
nights ago by an overdose Of chloro
form.
- - The live pigeon shooting a,
Aiken has begun. For this purpose
it is stated that ten thousand pigeons
have been shipped to Aiken from New
York.
The four boys who ran ava,
from their homes iE Greenwood sew.
erel days ago were located at Whit
miro and have been returned to their
parents.
- State constables seized and broke
up two big distilleries in the upper
part of Greenville county on Wednes.
day. One was Of 80 gallon capacity
the other IS.
- The project for reclaimiL the
waste land In Charleston County will
soon be under way. The plan is to
have the work begin on April 1,
Convicts will be employed to do the
work. -.
- The flood reports throughout
this State show that considerable
damage was done, bat the streams
have resumed their natural channels
and railway traffic is becoming more
regular.
- The twenty-fifth annual oonven.
tion Of the South Carolina Sunday
School association will be held in the
Presbyterian church at Greenwood
beginning March 25 and LASTING
through the 9Th.
There was a serious fire in Aiken
on Wednesday by which nine build
ings were destroyed in the centre Of
the city, the Sunuyside Sanitarium,
Aiken Record Office and several resi-.
dences being burned.
- DR.. w. A. Shards, Of Clinton,
lost house containing meal and cnrn
by fire. Loss about $500. DR.. II.
G. Wofford had his barn burned about
the same nour, 2 o. m. They think it
was the work Of an incendiayy.
- A colored man named John Cole.
man was sEct by his sister in Oar
lington County few nights ego. He
came to her house and Disgusting his
voice tried to break in. Upon his re-
fusiDg TO give his name she shot him.
- While the funeral services of
YRS. Christmas were in progress in
Columbia the other day, her husband,
83 years old, died from grief. The
services were stopped and both were
inferred In the same grave the day
following.
- A negro, Julius Gibbes, brutally
assaulted Mrs. K R. Haynes, O well
known and respected white woman,
near Hymans, in Florence County.
A lynching was narrowly averted by
the promise Of the sheriff that spe.
cial term of court would be held.
- A few days ago a 4-year. old son
of Joseph Wilson, near Abbeville,
:=.s burned 70 DEATH. The child walk.
ed too near where his father was burn
ing off cotton stalks and brush. When
found his clothes ware burned entire
ly off and he died in short while.
In an alteration that occurred
at North j. A. Davis cut 9. D. Bates
in IL places and Bates shot Davis,
the ball catering his side and lodging
IN his back. Bates has several ugly
gashes in. the face and c7e deep wound
in the side but will recover. Davis
is In precari0us condition and his