The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-19

- The State Conference Of Epworth
Leagues will be held in Marion April
l7-20.
- Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, is
annoIaced as candidate for Liouten-
ant-Governor.
DIR. w. j. Ellis, of Dand, Ca.
was run over and killed by Southern
train at Furman, Hampton county.
- - Rock Hill has sent cor,mittee |
to Washington to try and further her
plans for securing government bu;ld.
ing there.
-. A rich Filipino general has Of.
fered q wife and $500, 900 to anv
American officer as long as mis- girls
hold out for wives.
= Spartanburg is to have another
big mill. Its capital will be half
million and Mayor Arch B. Calvert
will be president Of it,.
w. G. Whitney has left with
Mayo. Emanuel Of Aiken 81 600 TO be
distributed among the sufferers from
the recent disastrous fire there.
- A number of counties Of the State
are asking for extra terms of court SO
as to clear the calendars of cases
which have been do,ketcd for years.
- The 2Sth inst. will be Florida
day at the Exposition. Gov. jenkins
and his STAFF and big crowd of pco-
pie from the Flowcry State will attend.
= Rev. A. G.. Wardlaw, pastor of
tho Westminster Presbyterian Church
Charleston, has accepted call to the
First Presbyterian Church of Union.
- The board Of directors of the
State dispensary, in accordance with
an net OF the last legislature, have set
aside $25 600 for the common school
fund Of the State.
- y negro woman named Rose
Howard, aged 75, was run over and
killed by the train near Scabrook sta
tion in Baufort County. The suppo-
sition is that she was deaf.
= President Roosevelt has with.
drawn the nomination of VIM. G..
Chaffee to be postmaster at Aiken be
cause OF ashortago in the accounts Of
Postmaster Chaffee amounting to $500
= Charles German, magistrate a,
Langley, left about two weeks ago un
tremendously and has not been heard
Of since. The Aiken delegation me-
and recommended an election for hil
successor.
- Two men on the Aiken ohaingant
while working the road Wednesday
made a desperate attempt to escape
They were fired upon by the guart
and both riddled with buckshot an,
will propab..s die.
- A fire destroyed the general mer
chandise store Of Thos. Black and tn,
drug store Of DR.. j. B. Black in BAN
berg. The drug store was broker
open and robbed and then set on IRE
The loss was $l2, 900; insurance SO, 200
- In Columbia two negroes wer,
fighting at their home and one threw
lighted lamp at the. other. Th,
lamp fell on the bed, on which was
baby, setting the bed clothes on fir,
and 80 severely burning the child tha
;t died.
- Several strangers have been ar
rested suspected Of being implicated
in the bank robbery at St. Matthews
Suspicion is strong as to their guilt
but 1t Is not known what positive O.
direct evidence is in the possession O.
the officers.
4 - Col. Elliott of Beaufort, the con
| gressman from the first district is
candidate for the U. S. Senate. Col
Elliott has made good record in th,
lower house and his ambition to g,
higher will, no doubt, meet with th.
approval of large humber of voters
4 80 Ivisen T.. Minis, young farme
OF Clarendon, has an animal, abou
fourteen months old, which he say,
I is a freak of nature. It's head ant
body are those Of hog, but its fee
resemble those Of o shecp, and i
makes noise very much like tn,
bleat Of a sheep.
= The ladies who have undertaken
| to erect monument over the grave O
the Columbia bard, the late J. Cor
don Coogler, have about secured suf
ficient funds for the purpose, and ar,
arranging for the monument. Upol
it as an epitaph will be the last YER
ses he pcnned, which were prophetic
! - Fifty armed men, all masked
came to the Florence Jail THURSDAY
night and demanded of Sheriff Burcl
the surrender Of Julius Gibbs the
negro repist. The sheriff refused EN-
phatically to give way an inch, prom
ising to defend his prisoner with hi
life. TIE mob remained half an hou,
and went away without accomplishing
their purpose.
= The two-year-old child Of Mar,
Allen, colored, was burned to deatf
on r. B. Sowoll's place, Lancaster
county, the other day, while playinf
in the fire. The woman's baby, abouI
eight months old, was also seriously
burned and may die. The mother
was at the spring, about 200 yards
/ from tha hnusa 1vaahino and had laf,