The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-30

| oAu"uss 40 wagiug vigorous
crueade against gamblers, and it looks
as II number Of dens will be driven
| out.
| :. A whole family Of colored people
at Society Hill were poisoned last
week. Two have died and the Others
are not expected to live.
The annual reunion Of Co. G.
14th South Caroline regiment. will be
held at Union church, Iaurens county.
on Saturday, August 10th.
James, Bolton, young linemau
IN the employ OF. the Columbia Water
Power Company, was crushed to death
under falling pole ct Columbia Wed.
nesday.
In row .mong several negroes
at Reedy Fork Baptist Church. COL
ored, in Greenville County SUNDAY
JOS. Burton was fatally shot by Joe
Thompson.
The dispensary at Yorkville,
against which there was such q strong
fight made, has sold two carloads Of
liquor in the two months that it has
been running.
= A glass factory is to be estah.
lished in Charleston. The companv
is to have capital stock Of $3.50, 1000.
The factory will give employment to
about 800 operatives.
~ The city cornell of Orangeburg
has offered rev d of $1OO for the
capture Of the slHysr of Isaac Smith.
the negro who was cut to death on
the atreets there July IL.
- Willie Jackson, a six year old
boy, was accidentally killed at Wei
ford, Spar!enburg county, on Thurs
day by a shotgun that he and another
small boy were playing with.
= Walter Thompson, negro chick
en- thief, while in the act Of robb;nS
chicken house in Greenville Sunday
night was fred upon by E. E. Kenne.
more and perhaps fatally wounded.
= In the eastern section of the
State the tobacco market is blooming.
The tobacco planter is getting better
returns this year than since tobacco
became leading product in this State.
- A convict put on the Clarendon
gang refused to work and walked off.
refusing to return, he was shot down
by the guard. The coroner's Jury re.
turned verdict Of justifable homi.
eide.
A serious wreck occurred ON the
Atlantic Coast Line at Hilda.. near
Barnwell, Thursday afternoon late in
which George Lowering, q colored
train hand, was killed and Engineer
Cannady slightly hurt.
Jeffcoat. the leader of gang of
hort5 thieves who have been opera
ting in Aiken, was located and pur.
sued by posse. One of the men
composing the posse was shot and
killed by Jeffcoat. The desperate
escaped.
George M. Trenholm, a promi-
nent lawyer of Charleston. died at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
Nd, on Friday, 18th inst. He YES
grandson Of Geo. +. Trenholm. who
was secretary Of the treasury in Presi.
dent Davis cabinet.
Summer Institutes. for farmers
are being held in several counties of
the State. These institutes are held
IN counties which invite the corps Of
Instructors which are sent out bv
Clemson College. The State Institute
will be held at Clemson August II to
16, and large number of farmers are
expected to take part.
= Last Saturday morning fire de.
stroyed one of the leading blocks in
Summeryille, burning eleven stores
and two dwellings. The same block
was destroyed BY fire ten years ago.
and the present oonfagation s,llows
closely the fire which wiped out snoth-
er part Of the business section Of the
town about six months ago.
"A petition is being circulated in
the counties affected praying for a |
new county to be composed OF that
part Of Edgefeld lying between Steven
creek and Savannah river. on the |
south, and portions of Greenwood and |
Abbeville counties on the north. The
new county is to be- known as McCor-
mick county, with the county seat at
cCormick.
- A FIRE broke out in Camden Tues. |
day night 22nd inst /, about 1890 |
o clock from the explosion of a kero- |
sene lamp aud destroyed all the prin.
cipal, places of business in the heart
OF the city. The city was absolutely
at the mercy Of the flames, as the
power house had been burned some |
time ago. and there was not drop Of |
water to be had. The loss is estimat.
ed at 800, 900.
- The Columbia Record Of the Gath
inst. contains this interesting para
graph. A gentleman who reads the
campaign reports said today that he
would have been more interested if
Mr.. DeCamp, at Gaffney, had told
whether Jim Tiilm sn check was cash
ed or not. He said he had one Of
Tillman's which he had been trying
to get Dashed for about two years and
he would like to know where Mr.. De.
Camp succssded in getting his honor
ed. There are one or two others in