The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-02
STATE NEWS.

= Edward Braswell and Thomas
Stiles shot each other at Greers on
Wednesday-both seriously.
- The mayors court Of Spartan.
burg collected $6,293.I5 in fines dur
ing the fiscal yesr just closed.
- r. NJ. Anderson, near Rock Hill,
has gathered az bales of cotton from
40 acres, and is still picking.
- South Carolina is the only State
in the Union which has no orgauiza-
tion Of the Populist party.
Rev. w. G.. Neville, of Yorkville,
has accepted the presidency Of the
Presbyterian College at Clinton.
- Samps Pope, of Newberry, has
announced that he will be candidate
for Congress in the election. He is a
federalist.
= Ernest Moore, Esq, Of Lancas-
ter has been appointed by Governor
Hayward to hold special term Of court
at Abbeville.
- James Walker, an operative in
the Spartan mills of Spartnnburg, fell.
from ladder of the fourth floor and
was instantly killed.
| A negro attempted to snatch
pocket book from Mrs. G. Il. McCul-
lough on the street in Darlington.
She gave an alarm and the negro ran
off. .N'
Edwin L. Crouch, agent Of the
Southern road ct Warrenville, Aiken
County, was arrested on Thursday
night at Leesville on the charge Of
having embezzled $551 Of the COM
pany's money.
- Jim Brown, the negro wanted in
Florence on o charge Of arson, has
been brought back from New York.
The negro is charged with setting fire
to several houses and tobacco ware
houses in Florence.
= While pouring some melted bah.
bit metal into o gin box that had
come grease and water in it, Sid Jack
son, of Dillon, was very severely in
jured by the explosion which follow
ed. He may loss both eyes.
Mrs. Fannie Baskins, the veal
thy Sumter woman who is charged
with setting fire to house, waived a
preliminary examination on Thursday
and gave bail in the sum of 1000.
j. q. Smith and Joe Allen, the
oounterfeiters arrested in Abbeville
recently, were sent to the u. S. court
at Greenville and sentenced to the u.
s. psnitentiary in Atlanta for one
year and to pay o 6ne Of 800 each.
- The juries in Saluda County
seem to be improving. A oorrespon
dent from that County says that it is
perhaps unparalleled in the history Of
prosecutions there thet conviction has
been obtained in every case tried last
week.
w. q. Burns, of Greenwood, was
found guilty in the United States
Court in Greenviile of making i'm
proper use OF the mailsl aud was sen.
fenced to af fine Of $1,000. The in
dictment against his wife was dropped.
The Paris Mountain summer
home Of Postmaster j. F. Richardson,
Of Greenville, wa, burned down on
Wednesday morning With it's contents.
The origin Of the 6re is unknown, as
the house had bseu closed for the sea-
son.
- A valuable horse of Mr.. Isidore
Rich, Of Orangeburg, was poisoned
last week by eating Rough on Rats
mixed in bran which had been pre-
pared to kill rats. The horse got the
barn door open during the night and
eat the poison which caused death in
a few hours.
X On motion Of Col. Allison, the
oldest momber Of the bar, seconded
by Solicitor Henry and Major Wylie,
Judge Watts adjourned the Lancaster
Circuit Court for day ont Of respect
to the memory Of. Bishop Isom @.
Clinton, colored, who had just died
there.
go Joe Byrd was shot and killed
by Kendall Higgins near Lstta in
Marion County, Both men were
young white Farmers, and the shooting
grew out Of q dispute over horse
trade. It fs said that Byrd advanced
on Higgins with buggy whip and
Huggins shot him. near the heart
With an old csp-an3-ball pistol loaded
with shot. az = @@& q
- A white man named KelIar who
was beating Q ride on No. 40, north
bound passenger of the Southern rail.
way near Greers Saturday night fell
from his perch and his head and face
were badly bruised up. AZ first it
was thought that the man had been
killed, but he recovered consciousness
=nd at last accounts was in fsir road
to recovery.
DR.. r. G. Elliott. a prominen.
physician @; Lancaster County, met
with Q singular accident day or so
ago. While riding along in his buggy
he took out his pocket knife, cleaned
out the bowl Of his pips and was in
the act OF taking Q smoke when he let
the knife drop in his lap. Feeling ie
falling between his legs, he quickly
pressed the limbs together, cauEsng
the blade TO pierce one OF his thighs