The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-06
STATE NEWS.
Sumter will use crude petroleum
to settle the dust on her streets.

= The American Spinners company.
OF Gfeenville, has increased it's capital
stock to 100000.
= The Spartanburg correspondent
OF The State says the cotton crop in
that county 10 going to be short.
- Hugh Nicholson and Emanuel
sutton, farmers Of Chesterfield coun-
ty. fought and the latter was killed.
= A cylinder ON the engine Of the
Dekalb Cotton Mill at Camden burst
and killed D. j. Kelley, the engineer.
=. The prominent ''issues" in the
legislative campaign in Orangsburg
county are biennial sessions and cur
dogs.
= New York pays her supreme
court judges SIT 500 per annum.
Georgia hires whole court for that
| amount.
= Alfred Huger, a Berkeley county
negro under death penalty, has had
the sentence oommuted to imprison-
ment for life.
- The fourth annual convention Of
the South Carolina Funeral Directors
Association will be held in Columbia.
Aug. 18th and 18th.
- Charleston received her first bale
of new cotton last Friday. It was
shipped from Blackville, and is the
| first bale reported in the State this
season.
- Dispensary sales have increased
in Charleston to such an extent that
the authorities have ordered the es-
tablishment of six new places where
liquor can legally be sold.
= A young negro child was killed
in Cheraw Wednesday, A door which
had been taken off its hinges was
blown down by the wind and fell on
the child killing it instantly.
The appropriation made by the
national government for the State
militia is due in few days and as
soon as possible will be distributed
among the various companies.
- 1t appears from the report Of the
State dispensary that the constabulary
captured the past quarter 2,15O. 81
worth of liquor and that the consta.
bulary themselves cost $12, 2,O89.O1.
- There is an aggregate reward of
81 200 for the capture Of Charlie JEFF.
coat, the Aiken desperado. OF this
$500 is the amount offered by differ
ent parties in Georgia where he COM
mitte1 two murders.
- The Charleston County republi-
can executive committee has adopted
resolutions condemning the appoint
ment of Micah Jenkins as revenue col.
lector aud declaring its intention to
oppose his confirmation.
John Collins, of Barnwell coun.
ty, rode up to his house on mule
when storm was approaching. His
wife held up the baby for him to take
when stroke Of lightning killed him
and his mule. Baby and wife were
unhurt.
- Perry Crlde-, ynung oolored
man, while working at the saw mill of
NJ. Il. Herlong, six miles above the
town OF St. Matthews, was caught in
the saw while the mill was running on
Wednesday evening last and was 80
badly cut up that he died almost il.
stantly.
- A negro, Hollis Truesdale. who
was convicted in 1872 in Lancaster
County Of breaking into a store at
Fort Lawn. aHd sentenced to Is
months in the penitentiary, but escap-
ed before serving his sentence, was re-
captured at Fort Lawn last week and
recommitted to prison.
- The colored ministers Of Charles
ton have entered politics and are
carrying their congregations with
them. A mass meeting was held Sun
day night in one of the churches
which was addressed by Chairman
Deas of the Republican committee. He
denounced President Roosevelt for
his appointments.
= South Carolins constables have
had desperate encounter near Marl-
boro with moonshiners. The con-
stables won out, capturing two wagons
and two men. Others in the party
escaped When the officers came upon
the moonshiners they opened fire but
to no avail. By plucky stand the
constables succeeded in bagging the
game.
- Elmer Hendricks, aged 13 years,
met with very painful accident at
his home in Easley few nights ago.
He 'as sleeping up stairs and being
afflicted with sonambulism, got up
and walked out of a window which
had been raised for ventilation. He
fell g distance Of about twelve feet
and was badly hurt and bruised, but
his injuries are not necessarily fatal.
- Annie Smith, colored, died at
her home in Charleston last week at
the advanced age of III years. She
was the oldest resident Of Charleston
and the state and up to the time of
her death she was in full possession
OF all her faculties. She was an un-
usually intelligent woman, having
been educated by her former owners,
family of Martins, who have long
since died out. She was the mother
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