The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-13
STATE NEWS.

perry ana Othcr couctleS IN this State.
= During the past ten days hail
storms have badly damaged the crops
in various sections Of the State.
= Elias Richardson, drunken ne
gro, was run over and killed by a
freight train at Sumter on the -lth.
: A farmer of Sewberry County
still has his entire cotton crop, for
which he was offered Ii cents and re-
fused.
DR.. Z. II. Nell, president Of
Clemson, has declined call to the
presidency Of the Florida Agricultural
College.
= Nike Meadows, the newsboy who
got his leg cut of some time ago by
the Columbia trolley, is suing for $780,
900 damages.
= The presidency of the Florida
State Agricultural College was recent
ly offered to DR.. Nell of Clemson, but
he decided to remain at Clemson.
= Pickens has forty-four eandi-
dates already announced for the vari-
GUS county Offices. There are seven
candidates for the Office Of sheriff.
= Three Of the South Carolina
Congressman have no opposition this
year: Legare in the first, Johnston
in the fourth and Lever in the sew
enth.
- T. B. Thackston has been trans
ferred by the Southern railway from
Chicago to Columbia, where he will
have charge of the land and industrial
department.
= Two children of Jesse Evans of
Williamsburg County were badly burn.
ed while kindling FIRE with kerosene.
One Of them died and the other seri-
ously injured.
= Corrie Green, negro, is in Sa-
luda Jail charged with saturating q
negro house on Jacob Longs place
with kerosene and trying to burn it
with it's occupants, an old blind ne
gro woman and another woman and
her infant.
- There are eight candidates for
sheriff in Colleton County. 1t was
from the Colleton Jail that a convicted
murderer escaped a week or so ago,
and it may be that Colleton needs q
sheriff as we'll as jail.-Greenville
Mountainer.
= Fred Taylor, the negro who shot
Seaboard conductor several weeks
ago in Georgia and was afterwards
captured in Hampton County, will be
sent back to Georgia at once. Cover
nor Hayward honored the requisition
of the governor of Georgia.
= The trial in Spartauburg of Harry
Dean, charged with the murder Of
Miller Mckinney, has resulted in q
mistrial. The jury remained out all
night on the case and failed to agree,
whereupon acting Judge w. II. Hunt
ordered q mistrial to be entered.
= Commissioner Of Immigration
Watson has practically closed . deal
for 25, 900 acre tract of land in All
ken County for homes for colony Of
immigrants and he will confer with
parties in New York, who are to SET
tie these people in South Carolina.
- Two wagons coming towards
Greenville with cabbages were search
ed by constables, who found 20 gal.
Ions of corn liquor in one of them and
10 in the other. The drivers, who are
white men, we're arrested for trans
porting and the whiskey was confis-
Gated. 49,
w. II. Lowe, night watchman at
the Whitney mills near Spartanburg,
committed suicide by shooting him,
self through the heart with 38.csli-
bre pistol. Coroner Foster conducted
an inquest and the verdict Of the Jury
wes that the deceased came to his
death by gunshot wound inflicted by
his own hand. At the inquest no
facts were adduced as to the cause OF
the rash act.
= The sum Of cas-, $50 has been paid
to Treasurer j. r. Kay, the same be-
ing the proceeds Of the sale Of Oconee
County bonds authorized by act Of the
last legislature in the sum OF S45, 900.
The bonds we're sold by the Board Of
County Commissioners to the Robin.
son Humphrey Co., Of Atlanta, Ca,
at premium Of $3.50. The proceeds
of the sale will be used for the pay
ment Of past indebtedness OF the
county.-Oconee News.
IS. Clarence Edwards, white man
aged 81 years, has been placed iu the
Spartanburg Jail to await trial for for.
gerry. Edwards secured q blank check
and filed it out, using the name Of
A. B. Groce, one Of Spartanburg
County's wealthiest citizens. The
check was for 5000 and vas presented
at the First National bank, where the
signature excited suspicion and Mr..
Groce was communicated with and
the forgery discovered. The young
man attributed his crime to drink,
saying that he was intoxicated at the
time Of the forgery.
- John Taylor, negro laborer on
the Seaboard Air Line work train, wa 8
taken from the train at Middendorf, g..
station 20 miles south of Cheraw, at
s O'Clock Tuesday morning, 9th inst,
by mob of over twenty. five men.
He was carried about half mile away
where he was to be shot, but broke
aWav from his eantors and ran 200