The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-09
ANDERSON, S. G, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1904.
STATE NEWS.

SEAE6 NEWS.
1t is reported from Columbia
that cotton mill labor is very scarce
low.
"A fine gray horse belonging to the
Columbia fire department was killed
while responding to au slarm.
= There have been seven homi-
cides. including one lynchiug, in Ian
caster County since the first Of Janu.
sry.
: Senator Tillman he's been chslleng.
ed by G. p. Sims, Spsrtanburg law.
yer, to disoues in joint debate the
dispensary question.
= A. .. MahaRsy, aged 25, driver
OF the andardOil Conpany'e wagon in
Spartanburg was rnI over by the wagon
and killed while delivering oil.
While cleaning out we'll in
Charleston negro found the body Of
o dead man which was identified later
as the body Of Jim Green, colored,
who disappeared there some time ago.
= AS result Of dispute over
some crops Mrs. George Bell, of Bay
boro, Horny County, was killed by
her nephew, William Bell, who struck
her with hoe. Bell has been arrest
ed.
= The men in the penitentiary
under arrest on the charge Of being
Implicated in the Eutaw lynching are
tired Of confinement and have demand
ed prelimisry hearing in Berkely
County,
- William Pollard, highly re-
spected citizen Of Spartanburg, was
found dead in the woodland near his
residence. He was very old and
heart failure is given as the cause of
his death.
- A conference Of the Unitarian
Churches of the entire South will be
held in Charleston on the 22nd of
November. It will last two or three
days aud will be. attended by repre-
seutatives Of nearly every Southern
State,
- Dr.. D. D. Wallace, Of Wofford,
has announced prize Of $25, to be
known as the "Hart Moss History
Prize" TO be given to the student Of
Woford who writes the hest eessy On
some historical subject.
- The contract for the new Metho-
dist College at Hyatt Park, Columbia,
has been awarded to CRANKY & Jor-
don, of Greenville. The buildings
are to cost over 100000 and will be
ready by next fall.
Governor Hayward has received
petition for the pardon of j. Il.
Tucker, who was convicted of barn
burning in Abbeville County. Tuck
er is negro, and the petition is large
~ signed, but does not set forth the
length of the sentence.
- Comptroller General Jones has
issued circulars to all county officers
with whom he has to deal not to pur-
chase books and blanks until after the
sitting Of the Legislature. He ia max
ing an effort to have new form sys-
tenn Of book keeping.
- Seth NJ. MillikeD, one'of tAeglead-
Ing industrial spirits Of Spartenburg,
stated that considerable improvement
would be made in the near future in
the plant oftthe Paoolet mills. Either
new buildings will'be erected or the
old ones vial be improved.
= The BRITISH steamship Celia is in
charleston discherging o cargo OF
Peruvian grano, being the third lar.
gest vessel which has ever been in
Charleston, and having brought the
largest cargo Of Peruvian guano which
has ever been brought into an Ameri-
can port.
- The barn and stables Of L. B.
Dunn, near Donalds, were burned on
Tuesday night, 1st inst, with four
fine mules and fine horse, besides
other farm property. The loss is
$4,000, and there 10 mo insurance.
The origin Of the fire is not known.
"A warrant was Issued last week
in 0rangeburg FOR the arrest oS David
Ott. charging him With the sss.a!: &C
Mise Lula Shumaker, daughter OF
Adam L. Shumaker. All parties are
well known, and the affair is gener-
ally deplored. The young man, who
is about seventeen years Of age, de-
MES the charge.
- There are now 800 rural school
libraries in the State established under
the library law, and more appli-
cations are being received every day
by the State Superintendent Of Edu-
cation. Were it not for the fact that
counties are limited to twelve Libraries
this year number OF them would in
crease the list. Out of the S5. 600
appropriated $500 remains, and al.
most all OF this will be exhausted by
December.
- More than two hundred mechan-
los, carpenters, painters and Brick
masons of Greenville have submitted
petition to the contractors aud build