The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-30
STATE NEWS.

Blk young whales have been
caught in Port Royal harbor.
The State pension roll shows
have passed away during the lsst
- ~ Acting under the advice OF DR.. !
Teylor Of Columbia Chief Justice Nc
Iver has gone to Baltimore for treat
! = :. The South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition viii
probably be kept open until the zsh
- Safe-blowers broke into the post.
office Of Eastover, Richland county.
on Friday night aud stole $3.50 Ia
money and stamps.
- The store Of L. G. Craig at
Seneca was entered by sobbers few
nights ago and goods to the amount Of
$50 taken therefrom.
- The United States census reports
the tobacco acreage Of South Caro-
lima for 1899 at 25, 1898 acres and the
crop as valued at s1.2e7 ,293.
~ Alta memorial meeting held in
Charleston it,was decided to erect a
monument to Gen. Wade Hampton in
Charleston, the city of his birth.
The business men of Charleston
and Baltimore are planning the es.
tablishment of q steamship line, con-
Meeting these two cities and tho West
Indies.
The monument to be erected at
WinneSboro to the Confederate dead
by the Ladies Memorial Association
is being gotten out and will be up in
60 days.
- Rev. r. W. Gregg, ...faith
cure" evangelist, died at Florence of
typhoid pneumonia. He, refused to
take medicine or listen to the warning
Of physicians.
Rowland Turner, aged 60, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Char.
lestcl Wednesday. he became de-
spondent from long sickness and sent a
bullet through his brain.
= The old Spanish cannon given to
the State by the federal government
is at last to be mounted on graz e
pedstal and placed on the west s.de
of the capitol in Columbia.
- A charter has been granted to
the Sans Souci School, an institution
for the education ofiyoung ladies, to
be located at Sans Souci in Green
vile County. The capital stock is
Sic, 900.
- The mail officials of this State
and Georgia will meet on May 5 in
Atlanta for the purpose 6f organizing
mutual insurance company for the
mills. The headquarters will be in
Georgia.
- Congressman Lever has won his
seat in the contested election case.
The contest was simply continue
tion Of the case of A. d. Dantzler, a
negro, against DR.. Stokes, who Lever
succeeded.
. Charley Grooms and Tom Con-
nell, two brothers-in-law exchanged
20 shots at each other Groomstown,
Sumter County, Sunday. A quarrel
over ditch was the cause. Neither
was hurt seriously.
~ Speedy. the werld's champion
high diver, now performing on the
Midway, at the Exposition, has add
ed another exciting feature to his per-
formance. Blindf0lded and tied in q
bag he plunges 81 feet into four feet
Of water.
Chief Justice McIver Of the
South Carolina Supreme Court ia
quite i'll in Baltimore. He has been
under the treatment Of q prominent
physician there fer come days, but
his condition it is reported has not
changed for the better.
The railroad commissioners have
notified the Southern. aud Charleston
aud Western Carolina roads that
new depot s,nust be- built at Green
wood at once. They have also. noti-
fled the Southern that q new depot
must be erected at Orangeburg at
once.
Maggie Smith, the 11-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Ferguson, Of Chester county, was
handling revolver belonging to her
brother, when it was discharged. The
bullet took effect in her heart and
produced almost instant death.
- The vagrant negro woman whose
child was found in an old well about
four miles from Orangeburg on the
the Bull Swamp road, has not been
apprehended. Il is believed that this
inhuman creature threw her own child
in the well to avoid the trouble of sup
porting it. 1t has also 6aen rumor-
ed that the woman mad two children
with her only q few weeks ago, and
that she had been seen recently with
none. The presumption is that che
made way with both her little ones.
A brutal murder occurred near
I IRavenel'a station, Colleton county,
last week. On returning to his homo
In the forenoon, w. w. Jone1, SEQ.
tion master on the Plant System,
found the body Of his young wife ia, o
dogs house neA,. hiB homes u SHar