The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-16
n, 8. G., WEDNESDAY,, JULY Is, 1902.
STATE NEWS.

Reports Of drownings are appear.
ing from all sections Of the State
= Spartanburg farmers arc cons;d.
erabiy worried by the lice pest which
has damaged their cotton.
- Arch D. Gray has been excluded
from the Bennettsyille Baptist Church
because he turned over to the Mormon
faith. o' u'ou
I. = Robt. Kiser, a young white how
has been killed BY train at Gaffnoy'
ne wac Intoxicated when the accident
occurred.
Tom O'Sullivan, a small boy Of
eleven years of age, was drowned in a
swimming hole near the canal at Co.
lumhia.. ~ W
- In storm at Lancaster several
houses we're demolished and LIGHTNING
struck the Methodist Church. doin9
considerable damage.
= The Spool and Bobbiu Manufac.
turing Company Of Greenwood, capi-
talized at sl2, 900, has been granted
charter BY the Secretary Of State.
- Secretary Moody has authorized
the purchase Of additional land for the
new naval station at Charleston. The
land is wanted for naval hospital.
- An unknown white man was
found dead on the railroad track near
Aiken Wednesday morning. A quart
bottle OF whiskey was found in his
pocket.
= Willis James. colored barber.
was found near the Blue Ridge treatle
at Walhalla with his throat cut. He
may recover. Who his assailants were
is not known.
Rev. James B. Dunwoody. who
married the father and mother Of
President Roosevelt, died at his home
IN Walterboro last week in the seth
year of his age.
=. According to correspondent
writing from Charleston there are in.
dications that gun dealers in that city
intend to test the coustitutiopelitv OF
the new pistol lag.
- A large number Of South Caro-.
lima Pythians will take o great trip to
California this summer TO attend the
National gathering Of the order to be
held at San Francisco Aug. II to 90.
A negro woman named Ramsey
who lives in Sumter made a determin.
ed effort to commit suicide on Thurs
day night. She saturated her clothing
with kerosene oil and then set herself
on FIRE.
While standing under q tree.
near his home, w. D. Manley, q
prominent farmer Of Pickens county.
was instantly killed by lightning last
Friday during heavy thunder storm.
He was 20 years old.
n - There is man living not many
miles from Camden who has family
Of nine boys, the youngest one now
being about grown and as large as his
father, and u doctor has never been
called IN to see one Of them.
- Rev. Thornwell jacobs, pastor
Of the Presbyterian church at Morgan
ton, y. O., has been elected assistant
superintendent of the Thornwell or
phanage to assist his father, Rev. VIM.
p. Jacobs, whose health is sfailing.
- The porch Of Emanuel A. M.f e.
Zion Church ip Charleston collapsed
Sunday afternoon, carrying with it
several hundred negroes, Of whom
about 40 were Injured They became
panic stricken and tbought it was
judgment day.
. - A good deal Of damage was done
IN Florence by lightning. The storm
was OF short duration but severe. The
two.story residence OF the county
superintendent Of education, was
wrecked, and it is miracle that any
in the house escaped. !.
- The assessments of prcpsrtv
have been raised all over the l|tate.
The incfease will amount to some thing
between 10 and Is per cent. The
State Board finds that, with the ia.
creased and increasing expenditures,
there has got to be high aseessmeuts
and high levies both.
Henry Bowen, the saw mill, man
at Norris Station, Pickens county,
met with the misfortune to have two
fine.tnnles killed by being struck BY the
'eouthbound vestibuled train on the
Southern. Besides the mules being
killed the wagon was completely wreck.
Cd. The driver escaped by Jumping.
- William Hayne Perry, son Of
the late ex-Gov. B. r. Perry aud for
six years representative OF the Fourth
District in Congress, died as his
home, t.saus souci,'' three miles
from GreenYille, on the 7th inst.
Before his election TO Congress Dir.
Perry bad served es Solicitor OF the
Western circuit and State Senator
from Greenville County. Since 1891
he has lived Ia retirement. He was
63 years OF age and leaves widow
and two children. .g5
- Jeremiah Poison. the Oldest
man ever known in Benne ettsville SEQ.
ton, died at his home ten miles south
east Of Bennettsville on the 4th inst.
he has numerous progeny, and some
OF his grand children are now old men
and women. Mr.. Poison celebrated