The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-14
STATE NEWS.


expects to open an office in Greenvillc
this month
The Orangeburg bar have unan-
lmously endorsed ex.Judge James f.
lziar for associate justice.
- NJ. NJ. Harley, white farmer,
disappeared from his home near Co
!nmbia and has not been heard of
since.
"A man died in Columbia the
other day who is said to have drunk
two quarts of liquor day for some
time past.
= The Spartanburg Journal says
the local dispensary sales of that city
the day before Christmas amounted to
three thousand dollars.
= The old Gilreath opera house Of
Greenvil'e will be torn down and
modern building put in it's place, thus
removing an old land mark.
= = 4 negro boy six years old shot
and killed his sister, aged four, near
Clifton. The killing was Intentional
and was the result Of quarrel.
- Gov. McSweeney has been asked
to remove notary public at Branch
vile on the ground that the notary
gets drunk, and while in this condi-
tion is likely to cause trouble.
= The Comptroller Generals re-
port show an increase in the taxable
value of property in the State amount
ing to $6,203 1852. The figures are:
1901, s189 ,333, 109; 1902, s195, ,537, ,o61.
- It is said that there arc not less
than a thousand men in this State
who are ambitious to serve as dispen-
sary constables, and they are piling up
petitions and endorsements of their
applications for presentation to Gov.
Hayward.
- a charter has been issued to the
Independent Oil Company of South
Carolina with headquarters at Char
lesion. The company represents
merger of various independent oil COM
panies of the State. The capital stock
is to be 81 100000.
= Two negro children living near
Converse, in Spartanburg county,
were playing with a pistol when the
weapon was discharged and the young
er one was shot through the heart.
The parents were away from home at
the time. On account of the youth
OF the other boy nothing was done
with him.
- DR.. Augustus Corley a young
dentist Of Edgefeld, was doing some
work when his patients pistol, q sort
Of Edge6eld toy, fell from his pocket
and was discharged. The ball made
for the dentists diaphragm, but strik-
ing silver dollar the bail was de-
fected and did no damage except to
the clothing.
= An association has been formed
in Charleston FOR the purpose of ini-
tiating the prosecution of sWindling
money lenders. This association is
composed of those white people and
householders who have suffered great
and annoying evils because &C tie saot
that their servants were in the clutches
of these fellows.
- In Lexington county, about three
miles from Columbia, Wesley Spires
shot and killed Charles Hutto. There
had been bad blood between the two
men on account of Hutto's attention
to Mrs. Spires. They met in tho
woods near Spires house. It is said
that Hutto opened fire with rifle
when Spires pulled down on him With
double-barreled shot gun, killing
him dead. Spires went to Lexington,
reported TO the sheriff aud went to
Jail.
Geo. W. Williams, secretary and
president of the Carolina Savings
bank and widely known as one of the
vealthiest men in South Carolina,
died of heart failure at his Meeting
street residence in Charleston at 8
O'Clock Tuesday morning, 9th inst.
Mr.. Williams was 83 years of age and
had not been in good health for some
time though he was in his Office as
usual Monday. The fortune that he
leaves is variously estimated at from
two to three million dollars.
- The Baptist State Mission Board
was in session in Greenville last week.
mapping out the missionary work for
the year, which is upon basis of
$4,000 by order of the recent CON
vention. The Board has already ap-
propriated nearly $4,000 and other
expenditures are yet TO be made. Rev.
Il. P. Fitch, of Pacolet, was chosen
as State evangelist and will shortly
enter upon his duties. The election
of Sunday School Secretary was
postponed, which is discretionary with
the Board.
= Prof. Patterson Wardlaw has
submitted to the board Of trustees OF
the South Carolina College a recon-
mendation as to the department. OF
pedagogy. He declares that too little
inducement is offered young men to
fit themselves as teaohers in so far as
the South Carolina College is concern
ed. The girls are abundantly provid-