The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-28
STATE NEWS.

= Civil service examinations will
be held twice e year in Greenville and
Columbia.
- The State Federation of women's
clubs will meet in Columbia on Tues
day, April28
The Charleston Cigar Factory is
now running, and a fine grade of cigars
is being turned out.
- George Harvey, Of New York, has
left a legacy for $1,000 for Clahin
university Of Orangeburg.
= The State Bar association at their
meeting in Columbia adopted a reso-
luton asking the legislature to elect
two more circuit judges.
= Senator Tillman is deeply affect
ed by the tragedy in which his nephew
figures, but has said nothing on the
subject that we know Of.
- James Cox, IL years old, had
both legs cut off in Greenvlile on
Saturday while at empting to swing
on to a moving freight train.
- citizen of Columbia has con-
tributed 800 as a nucleus for a "Gon-
zales Fund for the Encouragement Of
the Study Of South Carolina History"
- Senator McLaurin has sold his
house and lot, which probably means
that he is preparing to leave Ben
%nettsville, but it is not known where
he will go.
= The infant child Of D. G.. Harrell,
q well-knowE citizen Of Spartanburg
county, died last Wednesday night as
q result of eating strychnine tablets
fed to her by 2.year-old sister.
Judge Golf, in the United States
District Court, has decided that the
State cannot collect back taxes from
the !Cheraw and Darlington railroad,
now a part Of the Atlantic Coast Line
system.
An earthquake shock, which was
preceded by a rumbling noise, was
felt in Charleston at 8:11 o'clock last
Friday night. The same shock was
felt in Savannah, Augusta, Columbis
and all intermediate points.
- Senator B. r. Tillman has &C.
cepted the invitation to deliver the
annual commencement address to the
graduating class Of the Charleston
Medical College. The commencement
exercises will be held April 2, 1903.
- Greenville's mayor has no re-
spect former of a scientific turn Of
mind. A white man claiming to De a
%hypnotist and reader of the negro's
mind was sent to the chain gang for
30 days for appropriating O few arti-
Giles belonging to negroes.
- On A. E. Hamilton's place five
miles from Laurens. Sam Sullivan
made a murderous attempt on the life
Of one Thompson. He attacked him
with an axe, inficting a terrible cash
in his left side. He is in q dangerous
condition. Both are negroes.
Craftsmen opened q safe in the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
depot at Clinton at 3 o'clock Tuesday
morning, 10th inst. Before taking all
the cash they were frustrated by a
policeman, who fred on them as they
were escaping. Less tbs a hundred
dollars was taken.
= John Pulley, a young white far
mer, who lives near Tylersville in
Laurens County, killed himself at
dark recently, shooting himself in
the diaphram three times with q pis-
toll. Mr.. Pulley had been married only
three months. He had been slightly
i'll three or four days.
- The new Taylor building Of the
State Hospital for the insane was
burned on Tuesday morning, goth inst,
just before daylight. It cost the
State $25 600, and had just been COM
pleted and would have been occupied
in q few days. The insurance reduces
the losses to about 8 $4,000.
= Fire in a two story brick build
ing in Columbia last Friday morning
is thought to have cremated an in
valid man who was missed after the
fire: Two ladies were injured. The
building was all aire when the alarm
was given. The occupants had to
jump for their lives. The property
damage vas about $4,000.
= Chas. F. Hart, while sitting in a
chair holding one Of his children in
Union recently, suddenly leaned for
ward as if asleep. His wife tried to
awaken him and found it impossible,
nor could she %release his arms clinch-
ed about the child. He had been
taken with q cataleptic ct and remain
ed that way for o.any hours.
- Tho will Of the late Geo. W.
Williams was fled for probate IN
Charleston Wednesday. No public
benefactions are mentioned in it. An
inventory Of the property Of the dead
banker is not given but it is thought
that his estate is worth So, 600. 900.
After giving his widow s4O0, 900 for
her life time he directs that the rest
of his property shall be divided equal
~ betaeen his two sons and two daugh.
ters.
The reports Of the shooting Of
/ Editor Gonzales hv 1t Gov Tillman