The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-21
STATE NEWS.

the presidency of Newberry College.
He will retire next July.
- Richland county is in bad way
not cent in the treasury aud the
expenses Of the Tillman trial to pay.
A valuable deposit of 6no mar
Bile has Deen found on Congressman
Joe Johnston s place in Laurens coun-
ty.
A Grecnvillc horse "Landrum"
owned by T. j. Hammer won the $3.50
purse at Athens, Ca, last week.
Time: 2:234.
= There will be horse swappers
convention at Walhalla court week
beginning on Monday, November 9th !,
and continue for three days.
- The citizens and business men
of Spartanburg have declared boy
colt against the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Company because of poor SER
vice.
| 12,8O4,896 feet of pine and cy-
press lumber, 100000 cypress shin
| giles and 300, 900 plas.er;ng laths were
shipped from Georgetown in Septem-
Der last.
\ AhO CASCuLOI VI -. 11uuIcWS,
g Greenwood merchant, who was kill
ed on the Southern recently, has
brought suit against the road for
! $65, 900 damages.
- Again has Saluda county to add
Que more to its list Of murders. Joe
Marlborough shot and killed his wife
over quarrel about piece Of soap.
The parties to the tragedy were ne
groes.
~ A special from Saluda to The
News and Courier reports that town
as being tired of the dispensary and
gives the further information that a
petition, numerously signed, is being
gotten up to get rid of it.
- The handsome resid ences Of Wal
lace Wise and Mrs. Hendrix in Tren-
ton we're burned down on Thursds 2,
the owners saving the contents. E.
Wise had $4,000 insurance. Mrs.
Hendrix was not insured.
- Policeman VIM. F. O'Shields
was convicted at Union Of assault and
battery of high and aggravated ma
ture and was seniSlced by Presiding
Judge Benet to three months on the
changing or fine Of $3.50.
Attorneys Legare & Holman, of
Charleston, have entered suit against
the Southern Railway for $75, 600
damages for the death Of Engineer
Broc kman in the recent Fishing Creek
trestle accident near Yorkville.
= A negro created quite sensation
at Blackville Saturday night by shoot
ing his sweetheart. His name vas
Jim Walker and he shot and killed
instantly Minnie Williams. She was
talking to another darkey and Jim
walked up and shot her down without
a moments warning. He then skip
ped and has not been caught
Il. W. Haywood, q young white
man, has been lodged in the Spartan
burg Jail for attempting to pass rails
ed bank note at Cowpens. The com
mitment, issued by Magistrate Potter.
Of that town, charges the defendant
of forgery, but the case will come up
in Commissioner bicGowan s court at
Spartanburg as it is violation Of the
United States statutes. Haywood
"raised" five-doilar note to $50 and
attempted to pass it on L. N. Moore,
| meCCu8uL at COWpeQS.
- An aged lady, Miss Nancy Rob-
ertsop, living ten miles above Lau-
rens, was burned to death in her home
Monday nig;it, 18th inst. When the
fire was discovered the building vas
almost destroyed and no rescue could
be made. She was seventy-five years
old. The fire is supposed to have orig
mated from lamp, large quantity
of batting becoming ignited accord.
ingly while she was engaged in quilt.
ing. Miss Robertson lived alone.
Her nearest neighbor lived about 1OD
yards from her house. Shs was poor
prominent family Of that county.
Her bones were dug from the debris
Tuesday.
| "A little boY Moses Dewitt, was
drowned in spring near his home,
about three miles from Society Hill in
Chesterfield County last Wednesday.
The little boy 8 mother and step.fath.
er, Henry Tucker, were cutting hay
and as has been their custom, they sent
Moses TO the spring for water. The
boys long stay caused the parents to
Investigates. The little fellow was
found head foremost in the spring.
Life was not extinct but the discovery
was znade too late for resusoi itation.
| When the boy left his parents he had
F.! stick of candy In his hand and it is
thought he dropped it in the spring,
which is five feet deep, and in trying
TO recover it, he lost bis balance and
fell in. d,
4
| = The high water on Keowee river
on june 6, uncovered the skeletons of
two Indians, presumably, in the plan
tstion Of Mr., w. e. Mimmons. Be-
tween Mr.. Mimmone' residence and
the Keowee river is q beautiful piece
Of fertile, bottom land whereon the
once picturesque Indian village Of
Keowee stood. The river out out q
hole In the land about Is yards long
/ and ten feet deem. on tha edpa nf