The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-12-02
STATE NEWS.

seiged oy people who want pardous
for conviots.
- Robert A. Law, Of Spartanburg,
has won the Townsend scholarship ia
Hsrvard college.
= Col. s. 7. Poiner's appointment
as postmaster Of Spertanburg was con-
firmed in the Senate without dis
! senting vote.
- The Atlantic Coast Line Rail.
wey 10 going to provide for pensions
FOR old and infirm employees worn out
in their service.
- About sixteen thousand bales Of
cotton have already been sold in New
berry this season. The receipts there
| this year have been better than for
| several years past.
= Jessie Henderson, who killed
Jonas Hammond in q church row near
Johnston some months ago, was arrest.
ed ip Waynesboro, Co., and brought
to Edgefeld last week.
= While e changing was at work
grading drives in Hampton Park,
Charleston, huge cannon ball was
unearthed supposed tc have been fred
from Morris Island during the Civil
war.
- Mrs. I. G.. McKissick will Gu
dow library room in the Connie Max
we'll .orphanage, Greenwood, in men,
ory Of her son, Ed. p. McKissiok, late
proprietor OF Battery Park hotel,
Asheviile.
President Roosevelt has re-ap-
! pointed Rev. Joshua e. Wilson. nni-
ored,. postmaster ct Florence against
an almost unanimous protest Of the
bnsinees men and other patrons of the
Office there.
Governor Hayward and Major
! Micah Jenkins went to Washington
recently TO see the president and
the secretary of war relative to locst-
ing an army post in Columbia and re-
celved encouragement TO expect it.
- Ramp Jones, the negro under
sentence to be hanged at Marion,
will not die on the gallows. Sheriff
Mullins has at last been officially noti-
fed of the fact that Gov Hayward has
commuted the sentence to life i'm
1 prisonment.
- Justice is slower footed in New
l
ing the recent term of che Common
Pleas there one mistrial and one COM
pFomis5yerdict was the sum total OF the
work of l3 lawyers, 36 jurors and I'm.
counted witnesses.
- 4 Greenwood woman has dis.
covered new use for the telephone.
| Wishing to visit neighbor she pull
| ed the beby's crib up in front Of the
telephone, opened the receiver, and
told central If the baby began to cry
to call her up at the neighbours.
~ On the charge Of arson two
young white men, Broadus end Lnnnie
Lolita, sons OF jack Lollis, q some
what noted horse trader Of Leurens
county, have been, ,errsased and COM
mitted TO Jail on the charge OF burn.
iIS the residence! OF Mira. Eden
Owens, o neighbor TO the Lollises.
| - About 10O, 900 cores in Riohlsnd
county are not on the county audi-
| tor o hooks, according to the returns
made and the official map used. The
exact figures show shortage OF ILL.,
BIZ, but liberal reduction is made
for. etreams, creeks and roads, and it
| is thought that about 100000 would
be nearer the right figure.
Two large distilleries were cap.
| tured by the United States Revenue
officers in Ooonee County last week
and destroyed. One Of the plants de-
stroyed, is said to be the largest still
ever destroyed in South Carolina. Il
consisted Of ninety gallon copper
still cap and worm, thirty-one fer.
menters, and $500 gallons OF beer.
The second plant destroyed had only
seven fermenters and 400 gallons OF
mash.
Rev. W. q. Neville, Of York
I county, has q novel plan for raising
church money. Last spring he distri-
buted sixty quarts Of oottonseed to
members OF his congregation Who
promised to turn. tho cotton produced
over to the church. He called for the
delivery Of the cotton and had it gin.
ned. They, met had e big picnic din-5
ner and ascertained that they had q
bale OF cotton weighing 500 pounds.
- The Barnwell correspondent o9
I the News and Courier says: The rob.
bers who have been operating in Aiken
seem to have got down this way. as
every store in Dunbarton is reported
70 have been ssburglarizedn night or
two ago, and several OF the gang have
been seen around Ba.nwell. Dhree
Watehman have recently = been detailed
for duty at night in the town here, an
increase of9two on the night force.
with special reference to the orooka. =
| - "a party of twenty OF thirty men
tguietly lynohed negro named Jim,
Nelson near Jefferson, Chesterfield
county, o few nights ago FOR attempt.
ing the usual crime on q little white
Agirl. Nelson was on his wsy 10 aiail
ut Chesterfield in charge OF, two of 2he
I Aik;esnas ~ II fAraf,r, ard. afnnk kheaa
miles from town ia; was ! nnietiv tsEan