The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-07-30
Palmetto Paragraphs.


A negro boy Is years old was roast
ed alive in a brick kiln in ~Spartanburg
last Saturday. He was employed at
Iianna's brick yard. which Is situated
about a mile and a half from Spartan
burg. Late that night he fell asleep
near a kiln, where brick were being
| burned. About 8 a. m. the brick kiln
tumbled over and e~nshrouded the sleep
ing boy. He was taken too suddenly and
was asleep at the time, and conse-
quently there was Nd outcry. One Of the
men working there saw the tragic hap
pening. and gave the alarm. Seve-.i
workmen fastened to the spot. n
| With implements they pulled the fire
and brick from the boy and extrt~
Gated him from his red hot bed. Tbs
boy died in an hour after being taken
out.
Judge Purdy refused to grant baft
10 E. f. Harbeson, white who is cor
fined in the Berkeley county jail N
Charleston. on the charge Of beating
to death a woman by the name OF Belle
Brandon. Messrs. Dennis & Dennis, OF
Mo2ck's Corner brought habeas cor
rus proceedings and Sheriff MORRISON
of Berkeley, took the prisoner
Charleston Friday. Solicitor Hide
brand went down from Orapgeburg ann
appeared for the State. The showing
made was insufficient and Harbeson
was remanded to the Berkeley county
iaii to await trial at the fan term
court.
Anderson Is 70 have a frst-class
business mems club, such as exists n
other cities. TIE need Of such an a.
ganizat:on has been felt there for q
long time, and row 1t Is believed tn
II can be secured. The club will have
well furnished rooms where visitors
TO that city can be carried and enter
toined, and where the members hem
selves IAN spend their leisure time
pleasantly and to advantage.
Monday morning at I o'clock the
dead body of Otis Mcmillan, coloreds
the night porter of the Spartan Inn.
in S~partanburg. was found in the rear
of the building beneath an open win
dow on the second floor. His neck was
broken and his face badly mutilated.
Physicians who examined the BODY SAD
there we're no marks to indicate vio-
lence and that his death was evidently
due to a fall
The county commissioners of Uni0
have awarded to George H. Crafts, a9f
Atlanta. Ca. contract for rebuilding
bridges at Guests and Cedar Blum. in
Union county. at S4,724. Superstruc-
lures will be Of steel.
At an entertainment in the colored
Second Baptist church IN Greenyiile
Monday night. a sneak thief stole
through one OF the rear windows n
secured a purse containing S21. A re-
ward of $40 was offered for the capture
CT the thief.
In Columbia tuesday morning JucSe
Gary rendered q decision in the case
of Brookshire VS.. the Farmers Alliance
Exchange, ordering that a receiver be
appointed for the fund now on hana,
about SIT, 900. or that bond be furn-
shed for twice the amount involved
until this fund is distributed.
Covered with dirt and grass, the body
Of an unknown negro man was found
Friday not far distant from the tracks
of the Southern Railway between Lad
son and summerville. The body was
turned over to a magistrate at Ladson.s
and an investigation Of the case viii
ne made. 1t is thought that the man
vas murdered, for the body bore no
nprks of having hecn struck nv 9 train.
Twenty-one contractors in Columbia
Monday signed an agreement not to
employ any union man connected with
he Building Trades Council.
James Hammond, a former employees
OF the Arcade Cotton Mill, Of York
vile, was tried in the Yorkville court
last week. He was convicted of carry
ing a concealed weapon and of assault
of a high and aggravated natu{S 81 SUI
p%erintendent G. A. Buchanm and
Judge Kiugh, fixed his fine at s5oo.