The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-28
STATE NEWS.

EaTIe maJorlty over lODley, Oy
official count, was 10,443.
There has been another knitting
| mill established at Walhalla.
= Carroll Hook, the 11-year.o old
| son of John w. Hook, of Bates
burg, was bitten by o mad dog on
Wednesday.
= Last Saturday one negro shot
| and instantly killed another negro on
! Laurens street in the city of Green
vile. The murderer was arrested.
= Two graduates of West Point
from Charleston have left for their
respective places of duty, one in
Alaska and the other in the Philip.
pines.
- A young negro boy was lynohed
last Friday night by citizens Of Lau-
rens County for an attempted rape
on q l4.year-old daughter Of George
Hughes.
- Because she was "always get
ting up something against him,
Grant Wright, Mt. Pleasant negro,
killed his wife with an axe and til On
cut her throat.
- Sam Slater, q trusted colored
employee Of r. q. Dean, Of Darling
ton, for the past ten or twelve years,
ran Of with $500 thkt Mr.. Depn had
entrusted to him.
= Winthrop College openend on
Wednesday with every room in the
dormitorieD full. DR.. Jas. p. KiDard
is acting president for while, during
the illness OK President johnson.
The recollection Of T. r. TRIMMER
40 Clerk Of Court of Spertauburg
County recalls the fact chat there
have been only eight clerks OF. court
there for more than o hundred years.
- Frank Wilson, o white man, has
been arrested in Charleston on sue-
pioion Of being o member OF gang OF
postofioe robbers and safe.otaakers
who made their headquarters in Co.
lumbia last winter.
= After deliberating for more than
an hour over the case Of Hsffy Dean,
on trial for murder in Spartanburg
County, the jury entered verdict OF
guilty with recommendation for mercy,
and The man was sentenced to q life
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
= Sam Marks. oolored, knocked
Hillary Langeton on che head with
seantlipg at his home in Darlington
County, making q wound that proved
fatal. In response TO a request
from the sheriff, the governor order
ed the negro carried to the penite 1tiary
for safe keeping.
George Taylor, photographer
at Bennettsville, committed suicide
last Thursday morning by shooting
himself through the head with o pis.
toll. It is said that he became alarm
ed and thought some boys were going
to kill him because Of remark he
had made.
= A fire occurred in the Secretary
OF State's Office in the State House in
Columbie, and number of valuable
papers and records were destroyed.
It is not known how the fire origi.
mated but it started among the books
and papors. The night watohman has
been discharged.
- Capt. Charles Donald Clay,
United States Army, has been ap-
pointed commandant of cadets ct
Clemson College, &c report Nov. i.
He is Kentuokian, grandson Of
Henry Clay, and was retired on account
Of wounds received while serving in
the Philippines.
- The South Carolina Bureau of
immigration has begun to reach ont
into the northwest to secure settlers
for the untenanted farm lands Of this
State. Col. e. j. Watson has re-
eeived information 60 the effect that
the railroads Of the northwest have
decided TO issue homeseekers' rates
70 all points In She South, with the
exception Of Key West.
!. - A negro named John Sans was
killed bv Coast Line passenger train
in the outskirts Of the city Of Sumter
last Wednesday He ss..s drinking
and declared TO o negro woman, who |
was walking with him, that he was
going 90 let che train run over him.
She said che tried 20 pull him out of |
che way but he was ssruck by the
train end Knocked into che ditch,
dying soon after che accident.
- Ie is ssldom chat coroner hes to |
report o negro suicide, as suoh GASES
are very rare, but il has been mecca.
sary for Coroner Green. OF Richlsnd,
20 LOOK into one. Marshall Shelton, q |
negro living on. West Green street,
Columbin, took dose oS morphine
and died in short time. After an |
investigation il was found that Shell
ton had been drinking and was evil
IDENTIFY temporarily insane.
y Judge Watts in passing sentence
last week on 9 Sslude murderer, took
occasion to comment upon the fect,l
.thas "there has been TOO much shoot
ing in South Carolina" During the
course Of his remarks he said: "Il
hhsys heard the .soIisitor OF the 9Th !
diatrict say be was absolutely afraid
do blow lliG iloaa in khh c.nrt hn,Yea