The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-04-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items Of More Or Less Interest Condensed
In the State.

Monday. He bad been away for
twenty years. Was shot by police
man with whom he was fighting.
The necessary stock has been sub
scribed for the erection of an oil
mill near Due West, and it is ex-
pected that it will be in operation
| soon.
The Postal Telegraph Company
has entered Gsffney, giving that city
the best telegraphlc advantages,
Two negroes in crap game at
Lanrens Saturday night became en-
gagged in a dispute over 45 cents,
when ono shot the other in the back,
seriously wounding him.
A negro lawyer named Twine has
been ordered by Judge Watts, in
Charleston, to show cause why he
should not be debarred from prac
tice. 1t is said be tried to get
negroes charged with stealing terra.
pins to swear before the grand jury
that the overseer of the terapin farm
had stolen the tarrapins.
Polo is all the rage at Camden
just at present and some interesting
matches are boipg pulled off.
Mr.. Henry Panni]l, of Wilmington
N. g., and who has been IN New
berry for some time, says that in the
very near future he with other gen
tlemen will start one Of the largest
paint plants in the country at Co.
lumbia and that between $2OO,OOO
and 100000 will be expended in
construction.
Rev. w. H. Greever, of Columbia,
will deliver the baccalaureate SER
mon at the approaching commence
ment of Elizabeth College, Char
lotte.
The winter season at Aiken is
about over and the Northern tourists
are leaving for their homes. Whit
ney has already expressed his fine
stables.
VIM. G. King, of Florence, who
killed two men in n dispute over a
dog, and was convicted Of murder of
one, has abandoned his appeal and
will serve life sentence in the
Penitentiary.
The plant Of anew ice factory in
Columbia, with Il capital of $4,000,
is we'll under construction, and will
be- in operation by summer. 1t is
located in old Sidney Park, near the
S. A. l.. depot.
Three members OF the Columbia
Bar had an engagement in the u. S.
Court at Charleston last week which
they were unable to fill because of
the train being delayed to carry H.
Is. Spencer to SummerYille. Spen
Ger is the son of President Spencer
ands,himself prominent railroad
man. Complaints are bitter over the
affair.
Mr.. j. w. Thurston and Mrs.
Elizabeth Tins, both inmates Of the
county poor house .Ind both above
the ago of 70, vera married in An
aerson on Sunday.
Saturday morning there was an
attempt at highway robbery upon the
person Of b. ". Woodward, q citizen
Of Greers, in the city Of Greenville.
Woodward asked three negroes for
directions to q house he was seeking.
The negroes piloted him part of the
way and then attempted to rob him
One has been arrested.
Henry Dorr and Will Child. both
white citizens OF Rock Hill, engaged
in n difficulty Monday afternoon.
Dorr fired at Child six times, missing
him, when Child picked up rock
and with it badly bruised Dorr. Rock
vs. Pistol, with Rock winner
The negro Crum assumed the du
ties Of collector Of the port Of Char.
lesion on Tuesday. 1t is said he was
hastened by steps for an injunction
restraining him from taking the
office
Columbia has extended an invita-
tion to Confederate Veterans to hold
their annual reunion this year in
that city.