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

OK youpg whales have been
caught in Port Royal harbor. !,
The State pension roll shows
that about $50 Confederate soldiers
nave passed away during the last
s, :. Acting under the advice of DR..
Taylor Of Columbia Chief Justice Me-
1ver has gone to Baltimore FOR treat
= The South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition viii
probably be kept open until the 4th
Of. July.
= Safe-blowers broke into the post-
Office OF Eastover, Richlaud county.
on Friday night and stole $3.50 in
money and stamps.
- The store Of L. G. Craig at
Seneca was entered by robbers q 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 1893 acres and the
crop as valued at 81 1887 1893.
= At q memorial meeting held in
Charleston it was decided to erect q
monument to Gen. Wade Hampton in
Charleston, the city of his birth.
The business men of Charleston
and Baltimore are planning the es-
tabllshment of steamship line, con-
Meeting these two cities and the 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, a 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
lesion Wednesday. He became de-
spondent from long sickness and sent q
bullet through his brain.
- The old Spanish cannon given to
the State by the federal government
is at last 70 be mounted on granite
pedstal and placed on the west side
OF the capitol in Columbia.
A charter has been granted to
the Sans Souci School, an institution
for the education Of young ladies, to
be located at Sens Souci in Green
vile County. The capital stock is
Sl5. 900.
The mail officials Of th.s State
and Georgia will meet on May 3 in
Atlanta for the purpose 6f organizing
o 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, d
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 onarrci
over ditch was the cause. Neither
was hurt seriously.
- Speedy, the worlds champion
high diver, now performing on the
Midway at the Exposition, has add
ed another exciting feature to his per-
formance. Blindfolded and tied In a
bag he plunges 81 feet into four feet
Of water.
- Chief Justice McIver Of the
South Carolins Supreme Court is
quite i'll in Baltimore. He has been
under the treatment of o prominent
there for some days, but
his condition it is ssported has not
changed fur the better.
The railroad commissioners have
notified che Southern and Charleston
and Western Carolina roads that q
new depot a,nust be built at Green
wood at once. They have also .oti-
fed the Southern that q new depot
must be erected ut Orangeburg at
once.
Maggie Smith, the l1-year.old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Of Chester county, was
handling a 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
epprehended. 1t is believed that this
inhunlan creature threw her own child
in the well to avoid the trouble Of sup
porting it. IL has also been rumor-
ed that the woman had two children
with her only Few weeks ago, and
that che had been seen recently, with
none. The presumption is that che
made way with both her little ones.
y A brutal murder occurred near
RaveneIa atatinn, Ce!le.ea county,
Last week. On returning to his home
IN the forenoon, w. ". Jones, sec.
tion master on the Plant SysteSa,
found the body Of his young wife ID 8
dogs house near his hofna. g Her
throat was cut from ear to ear and her
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