Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-08-24
South Carolina Items.

South Carolina Items.
Rumors continue to be circulatet
that Eddie Kennedy, who is suspected
of having killed Jacob Kind, his EN-
ployer, in Charleston, has been arrested
first in one city and then in another
but there is no truth in the stories
Kennedy seems to have a good start
on the police and he is probably in safe
quarters for while at least. He Is d
Northern man and 1t is likely that be
has returiied North where his accents
and manners would not likely ons.
chances Of his detection, as would be
the case in the South.
Because the paster, Rev. L. M.
Roper, wanted Mrs. T. A. Brooks, who
was sent to Spartanburg to superin-
tend the putting down Of the new
Church carpet, II have colored women
as assistants in the work, and because
Mrs. Brooks, fer reasons which she
stated plainly, did not wish to acquiesce
in the matter, the finishers, all white
men, on the interior of the new church
have struck, out of sympathy with the
lady, and up to 1 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon the, matter was still unset
tied.
Will Anderson, negro railway en-
ployee, was seized with a violent attack
Monday afternoon while carousing and
drinking with a crowd in depot fat
in Spartanburg and it is believed he
was the victim of black conspiracy to:
drug him and rob him. Physicians
he was sfTll suffering great agony and
is In a precarious condition. The three
other negroes who were with Anderson
are being held on suspicion.
The first bale of new cotton, which
was taken to Charleston on Saturday.
consigned to F. w. Wagner & Co.,
from H. C. Folk, of Bambery, was sold
Monday to the Goldsmith Mercantile
Co. for 12 cents. The bale weighed
A45 mounds and was classed as fully
middling. The bale is eight days
ahead Of the first bale Of last year and
II days later than the first bale OF the
year previous.
BENEDICT College, negro institution
in Columbia, will have within few
months a library building for which
nlans have been drawn and which Will
cost $4,000, the money having been
donated by Andrew Carnegie.
The Pickens county candidates are
discussing the automobile, all OF
them it is reported, being in favor OF
some restrictions being placed on the
free use of the automobile on the pup
lie roads.
VIM. ]. Mcintosh, 40 years old, tnt
eower and seed dealer of Charleston
who on Sunday was pronounced deaf
in New York and apparently came tt
life q short time afterwards, dlet
Tuesday night at the Hudson stree
bosnitsl in that city. The physician
at the hospital have been unable t
,,,o .ha cause and the coroner
office has been notified.
, The palmetto Dry Goods company
! of Greenville, capitalized at slO,ooo' ma
.. applied to the secretary of State fo
5 commission to conduct dry good
and shoe business at Pelzer. The col
norators are w. x. Hudgens, of Pelze
+ Thomas Arnold and 6. H, Mahon'
Greenville.
! Mise Mamie Pearson, Of Woodruff
e hoe heen awarded the scholarship
= Winthrop College, Rock HILL ITO
/. snartanbure county. The college giv'
8 a limited number Of scholarships ea'
; wear in every county of the State II
!. which competitive examinations a
a held.
. Cant VIM. H. Bertless, a gaila1
Confederate officer of Col. simontol
regiment during the war, died at t'l
Royal Monday night after a protrafe =
re illness. He was for some years In 81
J. vice at the Port Royal naval stalo
r and was highly esteemed.
lie Hugh Price, Marion county fa'
4 mer. died a few days ago, leavig a
- - estate worth $4,000, including ss'oO
e. in cash in bank. He began life sie1
10 out ~ dollar after the war. and Sal
a. to have been wholly illiterate.