The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-02
STATE NEWS.

| honuay night on an excursion train
returning from Augusta to Florence.
- Sheriff j. D. Gilreath, of Green
vile, has returned from Beaumont,
Texas, where he vent last week to
bring back j. Dennis Edwards. char
ged with the murder OF Frank Nicely,
who was killed in February 1901, at
the Poe mill village.
- Columbia is to have an infant in
dustry iE the nature Of demijohn
factory. The Columbia Glass Works
will this fall begin the manufacture
of demijohns. At first this will re-
quire the employment of about six
A building is Being erected for the
purpose.
When Miss Fleta Goss was
drowned in the Pacolet food there was
a Judgment in her favor for $4,000
against the Southern road awaiting the
decision of the supreme court. The
decision was fled on Monday sustain
ing the judgment, and the money will
60 to her heirs.
-Forty-four Chinese prisoners we're
taken through Spartanburg Tuesday
afternoon on the late Southern train,
on their way from Norfolk tc China via
San Francisco. They slipped into
the country 6y way OF Canada, and
were gathered together from different
parts of the East. They were care
fnlly guarded on the train.
- At the local United States army
recruiting Office in Spartanburg since
last Friday 38 out Of 46 applicants
lave been rejected by the officers, a
fact somewhat peculiar when it is only
required that an applicant have normal
physical qualities to be admitted in
the service. The recruiting sergeant
said that tho principal cause was weak
lungs.
= Some tir;s ago Joe Myers, ne
gro hsokman in Columbia, vas acci-
dentally killed by street car, and
che street car company offered to pay
Myers's 9 mother certain sum of mon.
ey il che should not take the case
into court. There are nov two negro
women in Columbia claiming to be
Meyers mother, and the newspapers
are reporting cease for Solomon"
| - Saturday afternoon at Denay's
Crossroads, about six miles from
Saluda, Arthur Fitzman SHOT and kill
ed Queen Chapman. No one was
present when the woman was slain,
but negro woman saw Fitzman Jump
out of the woman house immediately
after the shot was fired. It is said
that the woman was murdered because
she could not or would not paw the
man 30 cents she owed him.
- Governor Hayward has commuted
the sentence sf John Pickens, of Rich
land county, who was sentenced to 12
months. Piokens was sent up for
stealing bicycle. The petition, sign
ed by the prosecutor and county off,
oisis, set forth that he was drunk and
picked up the bicycle in the presence
OF witnesses, rode q short distance
and fell off, havirg no intention of
stealing the wheel. Judge Klugh
and Solicitor Thurmond thought that
he had been punished sufficiently.
j. e. White, q citizen of Colum-
bia, has entered suit against the coun-
ty Of Lexington for S10O damages
which he claims to have received
while riding along road in Lexing-
ton county. "White in his complaint
alleges that he was riding in the rear
Of wagon with his feet hanging over
the back. There was stump shout
IL inches high which the wagon pas...
ed over all right, but which CAUGHT
Mr. White on the ankle, breaking
some Of the bones" The suit is q
very good argument for good roads.
- The growth of the rural free de-
livery system ia South Carolina is ex.
ceedingly rapid just now and large
number Of rural routes have been es-
tsblished recently. There are now
2M rural routes in the State, each
paying salary. Of 5000 per annum,
amounting to S134 400, ali of which iss
paid through the Columbia Office. The
department recently issued letter Of
instruction to rural free delivery car.
riers forbidding them engaging ia sew
eral other kinds of business, as some
have been doing. and hereafter post
Office business only will be attended TO-.
! - Sumter, Aug. 30.-About three
years ago one Of our citizens, Mr. A.
W. Weatherly, invented q machine
for cutting down stalks, and had it
patented at the Office in Washington.
6o has made few and sold them and
is gradually working up trade in
them. Is takes money :c start 6 new
machine in the market and consequent
ly Mr.. Weatherly has not been able
to have many made 80 far. A COM
pany has been formed known as the
Dixie Stalk Gutter Co. and the ma.
chimes are now being manufactured in
large quantities. The machine is an
up-to.date one and will soon be in com.
mon use by oil farmers, for it is
large lsbor-saving device, and there
is a growing demand for thcm.-Cor.
of the State.
= Mr. j. 81. Kemp, Of Kirxsey,
was in town Tuesday. He had read
the water-mocoasin story in last weeks
News end Views and said he ooald
beat it. Two or three years ago his
| BOYS killed n mnonasin down on fha