The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-07
STATE NEWS.

Dun0 tigers.
- Columbia people say if the State
Fair is not held there they will organ
ice o Columbis Fair.
The Charleston Daughters Of the
Confederacy will erect monument to
Hampton in Charleston.
Congress allows 100000 for
public building at Spartanburg and
100000 for one at Georgetown.
- A gang Of robbers entered the
storeroom Of the Epwcrth Orphanage
and stole some $50 worth Of provi-
sions.
= Roland Geiger, a fve-year- old
negro boy, was up before the police
court in Columbia for setting fro to
18 bales Of cotton.
= Aiken is to have a $500, 600
tourist hotel before another season
opens. It is to be built by Mrs. H.
G. Beckwith Of Colorado.
- Convict Isaac johnson, colored,
has escaped from the Charleston
County chaingang with his entire
prison outfit, including ball, chain and
stripes.
BY the caving of sewer excava-
tion Will Pickens, negro, was buried
under six feet of earth in Columbia.
He was dug out in an hour and quickly
revived.
- Bull Jackson, colored, was acci-
dentally shot and killed by Andrew
Muldrow while shooting fish at Mul.
drow's mill pond near Florence Wed.
nesday.
The Citadel baseball team has
been disbauded by the faculty. The
manager of the team and member Of
the faculty could not agree in inter-
preting the association rules.
The commencement sermon be-.
fore the students of Furman Univer-
sity and Greenville Female College
will be preached by Rev. j. j. Taylor,
Of Norfolk, We, on.June 10Th.
= The constables are still making
it hot for blind tigers in Charleston.
Within the last few days 1000 bot
ties and 16 barrels Of beer and 40 gal
Ions Of liquor have been sc Ned.
- Grave charges against Represen-
tative Dominick of Newberry, in which
the tacking Of dispensary bill under
the title of an ordinary act is alleged,
will be investigated in Columbia this
week.
- The governor has received further
complaint as to the destruction Of fish
in the Edisto river with dynamite.
The complaint tells Of an instance of
the use Of 200 cartridges in particu-
lar spot.
- Ben Smith, negro supposed to
have had part in the killing Of Mrs.
Jones, the secticn-master' wife at
Ravenel's, was shot and killed on
Thursday while trying to escape from
the officers who had him under arrest.
- Mrs. Harriet Beckwith, who died
two years ago, left the sum Of thirty
two thousand dollars for the purpose
of building fine school building in
Bennettsville. The contract has been
let and the building will soon be com
pleted.
= The mother of Mr.. Cree, the pas
tor Of the First Baptist chu i at
Gaffney, is 100 years old. She is active
and able to take care cf herself and is
ready for q long journey alone when
duty or friendship calls her from
home.
- Last Thursday, Mr.. Wade Rob.
ertson, who lives in the northern part
of Greenwood county. was out on his
farm burning brush when he fell tc
the ground il an unconscious condi-
ti0n and was burned to death. Mr..
Robertson was 83 years old.
= May 13 is Odd Fellows day al
the Charleston Exposition and indica-
tions point to big celebration. An
effort is being made to have every
lodge in the State represented in the
parade, and each lodge will appear in
full regalia.
- Claiming that he had been ak
ing about her, Mrs. Fannie p. Good
son walked up to Mr.. Sam W. Wood
at Spartanburg and felled him by a
lick in the face with bottle, and ther
kicked him when he rolled over. A
genuine sensation was caused.
- John Brownfeld, colored, who
killed white man at Georgetown,
which caused the riot there at that
time is in the Georgetown Jail await
ing the execution of death sentence
which may be delayed several year.
owing to an appeal to the United
States supreme court.
- Spartanburg County not only has
the prize exhibit at the Exposition
for which itwas awarded tho premium
of 81 900, but it is DOW arranging tc
erect suitable building on the cour,
house square in Spartanburg, in which
will be preserved this magnificent ex
hibit Of its products and resources.
S. F. Kelly one day last weel
found peculiar Indian relic neal
the Wateree iron bridge. It is roel
weighing about two pounds skillfull;
chiseled out on both sides strikiugly
resembling soap dish. Mr. Kelly i,
keeper Of the chaingang and the curl
osity was scooped up with one of the
road scoops.
- A colored woman living not fa