The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-08-04
Palmetto Points.

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Palmetto Points.
The famous Tizah Encampment was
held at Rock Hill last week. A very
large crowd attended and excellent
speeches were made. 81
Mr.. H. H. Crum died at his resi-
lence OF Denmark Tuesday at IL
o'clock, lingering less than IL hours
after a stroke Of apoplexy Of the even
ing before.
Valuable aluminium ores have been
discovered at North, In Orangeburg
county, by Rev. H. B. Rails. The an
alysis is said to show so per cent. OF
aluminium, and 1t is estimated that
about $40 pounds Of refined metal can
be made from ton OF ore.
Rainfall stations have been estab-
lished at Pelzer, Catawba and Enoree,
reports from which will greatly aid
the State weather bureau in its fore
casts for the weather and for the
condition of the rivers and streams
which drain that section Of the State.
Work of clearing the site for the (
new passenger station at Spartanburg
is progressing rapidly. The freight de-
pot and express office have been re-
moved and the rolling away Of the old
passenger waiting rooms is now under
way. Active operations will now be-
gin on the new station as soon as the
location is properly cleared. 9,
Saturday afternoon at Eureka, sta
ton twelve miles from Aiken, Mr.. w.
Hudgens, a prominent planter, shot
and mortally wounded Bud Madison
McLoud, a tramp, who had gone to his
home while he was away. The story OF {
McLoud, told before he died, differed
from that of Hudgens. McLoud linger- :
ed till Tuesday, when he died.
Chas. Steele, a young man % years
of age, shot himself through the head
with a revolver at the home OF his :
brother, William Steele, in Vaucluse,
On Sunday afternoon. His brain was
pierced with the bullet and 1t was re-
ported Tuesday that he was dying. Dis
appointment in love is said by some to
be the cause Of his act, and by others
It is thought that his brain was a1ect-
cd by cigarette smoking.
Notice was given the secretary OF
State Tuesday by the Catawba Power
Co., of an increase in the capital stock
from $780, to $850,000. This COM
pany is building an enormous plant
not far from Rock Hill that will sup
rly the town Of Charlotte and sur
rounding territory with lights and
power for various enterprises. DR..
DR.. W. Gill Wylie Is president, and the
directors are w. ]. Roddy, w. H.
Wylie. w. S. Lee, and F. G. Whitner.
Jim Petty, an aged negro, was struck
by a shifting engine Tuseday near the
Brawley street trestle at Spartanburg
and received injuries from the ehects
of which death resulted few hours
later. There were no eye-witnesses 70
tie accident. The wheels Of the loco
motive passed over the mans left leg
and he was otherwise injured. At the
coroners inquest the verdict OF the
jury was that the deceased came to his
death from injuries as above stated.
. Union has applied for a charter for
a city hospital. The incorporators are
Drs. Crown Terrence and M. w. Culp
and Rev. L. M. Rice, pastor of the
First Baptist church.
Tuesday morning about 8 o'clock
R. V. Woodham and Tom Neal, who .
live about seven miles from Timmons-
vile, got into disputs about share
crop, which resulted in Woodham
shooting Neal with a breech-loading
gun. Both are white.
Friday during an electric storm on
81. Helena Island, near Frogmore, Jen-.
crson Smalls and his sister, Flaxy, the
former 10 years of age and the latter
"A years, were killed by lighting
bolt that entered their cabin down the
chimney and through tn edraft OF the
chimney and thorugh the draft OF the
same room was stunned but recovered.
The electric storms that have accom-
panied these rains for the past four
days have been unusually severe.
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