The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-04
STATE NEWS.

| Ninety-slx ls planning for o
quarter million dollar cotton mill.
-sl,236,05O was paid in South
Carolina for life insurance last year.
= John Gary Evans has annosnced
himself candidate for United States
Senator.
- Chief Justice McIver is undergo
IN special treatment in a ssn;.a-ium
in Savannah, Ga.
w. L. Harris has been appointed
postmaster at Charleston and George
u. Shaw postmaster at Sumter.
- Society Hill and Conway are in
the race for the feb hatchery to be
established i'm South Carolina.
- The operatives in the cotton
mills Of Augusta and the Horse Creek
valley have gone back to work.
The State Reunion of Confede.
rate Veterans will be held in the city
OF Greenville the 9Th, 7th and 9th Of
August.
While drunk Bill Simmons, col
ored, killed his wife and tried to blow
his own brains out in Charleston
Thursday.
= Bishop W. W. Duncan will pre-
side at the Methodist annual con.er.
ence which meets in Newberry the Sd
| OF December.
- Three children of Washington
Hayne, colored, aged ID, 16 and 18,
were killed by tornado at Congaree,
Richland county.
- Incoming vessels and fishermen
report much volcanic matter along the
coast near Charleston being brought
there by the Gulf Stream.
- The schedules for the State cam
paign has been made ont end publish
ed. The campaign begins on June II
and concludes August 21st.
= The big mill to be erected at
Wares Shoals on Saluda river is to
be on the Greenwood County side and
not in Laurens County as reported.
= Ed Thompson, colored, who has
been connected with the postal service
in Columbia for several years, will run
for congress in the Seventh District.
"A negro attempted an assault
upon sixteen-year.old girl in Fort
Mill. Several suspects have been ar
rested and lynching narrowly avert.
ed.
= An electric car line will be built
from Columbia to Lexington. It is
designed to carry freight and passen-
gers, and charter has been asked
for.
- Congressman Latimer has intro.
duced bill for the relief of the Char.
lesion exposition. It proposes to ap-
propriate $4,000 to pay its indebted
ness.
- DR.. Jesse NJ. Thornton, Of Vir-
ginia, has been elected physician for
Converse college. She is graduate
of the Woman's Medical college of
Baltimore.
- John Kirkland, white man, was
run down by q train and knocked from
the trestle on the Seaboard near Co.
lumbia Thursday. He was dangerous
ly injured about the head.
- Columbia wants to be transferred
from the Eastern judicial district of
South Carolina to the Western dis.
the court to be created for that dis.
trict.
- Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese min
lister to this country, visited the Char
lesion exposition on Tuesday, May
26th. He was on his way to Mil
ledgeville Ca, to make an address at
the Georgia state college.
= Mics Annie Carroll, who was in.
iured by falling off the Charleston and |
Seashore railroad company's wharf at
Mt. Pleasant, has been. given YER.
dict for $4,000 in suit for damages
brought in Orangeburg county.
The State Board of Assessors
met in Charleston Thursday and in
creased the assessment Of the pro-
perty Of the Atlantic Coast Line and |
the Southern SO that the tax reyenue
to the city Of Charleston is increased |
by 80, 200.
The citisens Of Sumter made up
o purse Of s64,45 end distributed it |
among the children Of Thornwell |
Orphenage as they passed through |
that city. on their way to the Exposi-
tion. The money was intended to be |
used as pocket money by the children. |
- A little boy at Woodruff Cotton
Mill caught large bull frog one even.
ing last week and cut of snd dressed
the hind legs; that evening sud next
morning feasted on them, and at ten
o'clock in the day the balance Of the
frog was still alive and hopping in the
yard.
- Il is stated that Mrs. Beckwith,
. wealthy western woman, is going to
build $500, 900 hotel in Aiken. The
cottage owners at Aiken have tried
to prevent it, but could not. The
plans for the building have been
drawn and are ready to be submitted
to n contractor.
= An attempt was made Tuesday
morning, May yN, just before daybreak,
to blow up the milldam at Coles mill