The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-08-18
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Many Newsy Items Gathered From
all Sections.

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Sheriff E. C. Harrell an attempt hav-
ing been made to burn the Dixie ware
house at that place. Officer Harrell
having gotten wind that such an at
tempt was going to be made, had con-
cealed himself in the building, to foil
the would-be incendiary in the act.
The negro entered and was about to
apply the torch when the officer halt
ed him and fired. The negro, calling
Mr.. Harrell by name, said he would
surrender, but the two men being in
close proximity then. the negro grab
bed hold of the officers gun and es-
capped in the darkness. Another shot
was fired but with no effect.
A few nights ago Glover Walker,
colored, and his wife were returning
from service at negro church IN
Chester county, when the woman, In
stigated by.a fit of jealousy, sudden
" assaulted her husband with
knife, infiicting not less than four
wounds. He fingered until Saturday
night, when he died. The woman, 1T
is said, was aided and abetted by
Mary Sanders, a negro, in company
with Walker and his wife. The Ver-
dict OF the jury was that death was
caused by knife wound at the hand
Of Rebekah Walker, wife of the de-
ceased, with Mary Sanders as acces-
sorry. The Sanders woman was taken
to Chester and committed to jail.
Rebekah Walker escaped and has not
been arrested.
The body of Jacob Kind, of Char
lesion. an illicit liquor shop keeper,
who had been missing since Thurs
day, was found floating in the cistern
Oh his presmises in King street Tues
day morning. There was a great
cash in the throat, several stabs in
the breast, and the body was in
frightful s,ate Of decomposition. HIS
clerk, Edward Kennedy, alias Grant,
who has been conducting the blind
tiger" since Kings disappearance,
left Charleston Monday night with
considerable money, and every effort
is being made to capture him, as cir
crmstantial evidence points strongly
t. his guilt.
Miss Emma Laird, eldest daughter
of John Laird, well known contract
or of Aiken, was drowned in the surf
at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston,
Sunday afternoon, while attempting
to save her younger sister. The
younger girl was unconscious when
brought ashore. but was resuscitated
after two hours work. Miss Laird
was spending the summer on the Is
land, and was very popular and highly
esteemed. She was % years OF age.
Governor Hayward has received
specially urgent letter from Mr.. WIN.
S. Rodie. who is chairman Of the COM
mittee to notify Judge Parker and who
has charge of the arrangements, to
attend the notification ceremonies
and then 60 with him to his home In
the Catskills. Governor Hayward
has declined the kind invitation, but
hopes later to be able to meet Mr..
Rode, who urges him to meet Judge
Parker and visit his mountain home.
A petition for a rule to show cause
why the Ellis & Pope Company,
wholesale grocers Of GreenVille,
should not be declared bankrupt, has
been filed with United States district
Judge Brawley at Charleston. While
no return has been served on the firm,
the president, Charles w. Ellis, when
seen admitted that the business was
badly involved and intimated that the
proceedings of the creditors would
, not be resisted.
! Mr.. Med. Cochran, aged Y years,
dropped dead about 8 o'clock Monday
night at his home in Rock Hill town
ship. Anderson county. He had not
complained of feeling unusually III,
and his sudden death was a great
! surprise.
A commission for charter was
Tuesday issued to the Cooper-Grifhn
| Company, with headquarters at Green
vile. Capital $4,000. The incorpor-
ators are from Georgia.
The comptroller general has finish
ed tabulation of the railroad assess
ments recently made by the State
beard. The genral increases are as
fellows: Atlantic Coast Line, $685.
| $40; Seaboard Air Line, $4,000;
Southern, s4S,0O0; Independent lines,
all connections Of the Seaboard, SAL
coz. The total increase is $243,00O,
which will increase the revenue OF
the State.
The sale Of White Stone Springs to