The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-21
STATE NEWS.

= The Federation of Women 8
clubs will be held in Columbia in the
spring.
- The Senate has confirmed the
nomination of j. +. Richardson as
postmaster at Greenville.
- There is prospect OF reviving
the old G. K. 6; w. railroad from
Greenville to Knoxville.
Jos. w. Napier. of Langley, was
married recently to Miss Burkhalter,
aged 20. The groom is 65 years old.
= It is said that the whiskey trust
will offer to lease the dispensary from
the State at $3.50, 900 per annum for
term of years.
= According to the State Treasurer
the appropriations by the legislature
ast year exceeded the income by more
than 100000.
= The Board Of Trustees Of the
South Carolina College have elected
Prof. Benjamin Sloan as president of
that historic institution.
Policeman Lake Smith, of Paco-
let, was shot and killed on Wednesday
night by Will Davis, a negro, who fed
and has not been caught.
One hundred and fifty cases Of
smallpox are reported on Edisto Is
land, off the coast of South Carolina.
The State Board of Health will take
charge.
- The State Treasurer's report
| shows that the total receipts from all
sources for 1902 was So 1913 1893. .99. OF
this amount s2,113, ,821.75 was from
the dispensary.
= The public schools at Liberty, in
Pickens county, have been closed, at
least for time. the principal and his
assistant both having rendered their
resignation.
= Startling Horton, prominent
farmer living near Lancaster, split his
foot open With en- .Se recently and it
will be weeks before he will be able
to walk again.
| = Cholera has broken out among
the hogs in Lexington County. One
gentleman had 35 hogs to die from
this disease, another four, and all the
hogs of another are sick with it.
- The safe in the postoff;ce at
Greers was dynamited last Saturday
morning between and o'clock by
unknown parties who secured some
thing over $500 in cash and stamps.
= The Bamberg Cotton Mill was
sold at auction under foreclosure pro-
eeedings. It was bought for $4,000
by ten Bamberg men, who will recog-
anize the company and'enlarge the mill.
- A negro man died of smallpox
at Barksdale, Laurens county, on
Saturday. There are from SO to IS
negroes and one white man that have
the disease, which is for the most
part mild.
= Up to December, 20, Darlington
had handled $685. 900, pounds of to-
bacco. It w.s predicted at the first
of the season that the market would
handle 1000, 900 pounds and that num-
Der is already assured.
- It is said that the fertilizer in
dnstry of Charleston will be at least
20per cent more this season than at any
time in her history. She will ship in
neighborhood Of 400, 900 tons which
will require Is, 900 cars.
Rev. Joel I. Allen, the financial
agent Of Furman University, has &C.
cured So, 600 from twenty men in the
Pee Dee Association towards the
500, 600 endoWment to be raised this
year, aud it required only ten days
to get this amount.
- Passenger train No. 40 on the
Southern was fred into by parties un-
known near Easley at z p. m. Sstur-
day, breaking windows and splinter
ing portione off the coaches. Several
Of the bullets lodged in the window
casing. Nobody was hurt.
A negro who whipped little
crippled white boy in Aiken and was
released on his promise to leave town.
WAS caught by indignant citizens and
severely ,thrashed. It is not said
what the indignant citizens did to the
authorities who released him.
= Jobey Williams, oolored, was
killed in Chester county on Monday
| night, his throat being cut and head
crushed with an axe. His wife and
o negro named William Sterling have
been arrested, although there is no
| positive proof of their guilt.
- The organization Of the Indepen-
dent Cotton Oil Company, which has
been completed in Charleston with
capital stock of $1,00O,00O, and eight
mills in operation and profitable man
ufacture, marks once more the impor-
tance Of this industry in the South.
= Gene. Baker, oolored, of Easley,
who about syear ago assaulted and
gashed up Will Sittton with knife in
frightful manner, and who was con-
vioted for the offense, at the March
term Of court last year, and sentenced
to three years on the chaingang, has
been pardoned by the Governor. The
pardon was recommended by ex-Judge
Bennett before whom Baker ives con-
victed, and by Solicitor J. E. Boggs.
The death Of Chief Justice Mc.