The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-24
STATE NEWS.

at his home in Greenwood County
Thursday, aged 103 years.
- A native born Jap in Charleston
is canvassing the city to raise money
to aid japan IL the weE with Russia.
A large party Of Canadians are
expected TO join the colony Of i'm
| migrants lately settled near Summer
Vile.
- A. A. Allen, cf Greenwood ooun-
ty, has a grandchildren and three
great.grandchildren and he is only 60
years old.
- A prominent Greenville farmer
tells the News reporter that the cot
ton acreage in Greenville county will
be increased this year 40 per cent.
= William Jennings Bryan leotured
in Spartsnburg lacs Friday night on
1.-The Value of en- IDEAL" aud was
greeted by an audience OF 1000 peo-
pie.
= The Woman's Exchange OF Char
lesion is now out Of debt. For thir-
teen years il has been at work. Is is
in better condition than it has been
during it's existence.
State Superintendent OF Educe-
tion Martin he's issued circulars to
book houses asking for bids FOR sup
plying tho school libraries provided
for by the legislature. The sum OF
$l5, 900 is available for this object.
Jno. G.. Cspers and the negro
Edmund Deas have made friends, but
r. M. Brayton is pouring hot shot
into the district attorney through the
Southern Reporter Of Charleston.
Things promise to be lively in repub-
lican circles.
= John W. Meetze, Lexington
County farmer, was shot in the face
with two loads of buckshot last Friday
| afternoon within stones throw of
his young wife and little child by an
| unknown white man said to have been
concealed behind Meetze's pasture
fence with q lad, also white and also
| unknown.
- Dock Alexander, O middle aged
negro living at Stone Station, In Spar
tanDurg county, was lodged in Jail
last week charged with the grave crime
of incest with his 11-year. daugh-
ter. The child lives with him his
wife being dead. The warrant for the
negro's arrest was sworn out by his
brother-in-law, Marion Wofford.
= Mrs. Chase. respectable woman
Sss Charleston, who conducts grocery
store, was tried in the city court few
days ago on the charge Of selling whis-
key in violation of the dispensary law.
1t is the first time in the history of
the court that d white woman has
been brought up on such a charge.
The jury took merciful view of the
case because Of her sex and the good
name she has borne heretofore, and
returned verdict of not guilty.
- George Brown, farmer of Chero-
kee county, was in Gaffney on Satur-
day, returning home at night in q
wagon with James Allen, on whose
place he lives. aud Isaac Philips. On
Sunday his dead body was found in q
field some distance from the road, and
the other two men have been arrest
ed charged with numbering him. They
were oil drinking when they left town.
j. r. Hall, the young man who
recently obtained e75 Prom The Central
National Bank in Spsrtanburg by
means Of forgery and who subsequent.
y attempted to carry out his idea of
the eternal fitness Of things by assas-
sinati9g himself, hagbeen captured in
Mansfield, La. and he will be brought
haak 70 SP.ssslbuTg for trial as soon
as the necessary formalities shall have
been observed. No furthcs facilities
will be afforded him for committing
suicide.
The naEn= Frank is one that is
always supposed to belong to one of
the masculine gender, though like g
great many other names it is becoming
to be very common with those Of the
feminine gender as we'll. This fact
does not seem to have been very we'll
known by the jury commissioners for
in drawing the jury for the first week
they drew Frank Wo0:en whose name
appears on the auditors books with
out any prefix, though there should
have been one there. She will Of
course be excused from serving
Fairfield Herald.
- On Tuesday, about 9 o'clock p.
M, two barns were burned on Mr..
Laban Mauldin's farm two miles west
Of Easley. Loss about e3OO. Mr. e.
D. Miller lives on Mr.. Mauldin' place
and lost in the flames one mule, one
niloh COW, about 75 Bushels Of cotton
seed; 1900 bundles 0f fodder, about,
100 bushels Of corn, besides guam
tity = peas, shuoke, wagon gear,
farming tools, etc. Mr.. Miller also
had another mule badly burned, but
he succeeded in saving the balance Of
his stock without injury. His loss is
about e400, snd no insurance. The
origin Of the fre is unknown. Easley
Progress.
- Little 3-year-old Cornell. Bon.
neau, son OF Proprietor Bonnea Of
the Caldwell hotel, in Columbia, met