Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-08-03

held at Rock Hill last week. A very
large crowd attended and excellent
speeches were made.
MIR. II. H. Crum died at his resi-
dence OF Denmark Tuesday at IL
o'clock, lingering less than y hours
after a stroke of apo,lexy OF the even
ing before.
Valuable aluminium ores have been
discovered at North, in Orangepurg
county. by Rev. II. B. Rails. The an
aIysis is said to show 50 per cent. OF
aluminium, and it is estimated tAat
about $40 pounds of refined metal can
be made from ton of ore.
Rainfall stations have been estaD-
ljshed at Pelzer, Catawba and Enoree'
reports from which will greatly aio
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
nvw passenger station at Spartanburg
is progressing rapidly. The freight de-
not arc eyn.ess office have been re-
moved and the rolling away OF the ola
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.
Saturday afternoon at Eureka, sta
tion twelve miles from Aiken, Mr.. W.
Hudgens, a prominent planter, snot
and mortally wounded Bud Madison
MeIoud, a tramp, who had gone to his
home while he was away. The story OF
McIoud told before he died, differed
from that Of Hudgens. McLoua llnsei7
- sday, VIII en- he DIED. !.
Chas. Steer sss .
! of age, shot himself through the 5hea
| with a revolver at the home OF nj
brother, William Steele, in Yaucluse
On Sunday afternoon. His brain wa
pierced with the bullet and it was re
rorted Tuesday that he was dying. Dis
! appointment in love is said by some T
be the cause of his act, and by otner
it is thought that his brain was affect
Cd by cigarette smoking.
Notice was given the secretary o
State Tuesday by the Catawba PoWe
| Co.. of an increase in the capital stool
from S75O0OO to SS5O,oOO. This com
pany is building an enormous plan
hot far from Rock Hill that will sup
rly the town Of Charlotte and sur
rounding territory with lights ant
power for various enterprises. DR.
DR.. w. Gill NVylie is president, and tn!
directors are w. j. Roddy, ". n
Wylie, ". s, Lee, and +. G. Whitner
Jim Petty, an aged negro, was strtlel
by a shifting engine TusGday near the
Brawley street trestle at Sparta1lDurf
and received injuries. from the effects
Of which death resulted a few hour:
later. There were no eye-Witnesses t
tie accident. The wheels of the loco
] motive paSSeu OSeI lHe Aloh Aei1 iSS
and he was otherwise injured. At the
coroner's inquest the verdict of tne
Jury was that the deceased came to his
death from injuries as above stated.
Union has applied for charter for
a city hospital. The incorporators are
Drs. Crown Terrence and NJ. w. Culp
and Rev. l.. M. Rice, pastor of the
First Baptist church.
Tuesday morning about s o'clock
R. V. Woodham ard Tom Neal, who
live about seven miles from Timmons-
Vile, got into a disputs about share
crop, which resulted in Woodham
shooting Neal with a breech-loading
gun. Both are white.
Friday during an electric storm on
ST. Helena Island, near Frogmore, JEFF
srson Smalls and his. sister, Flaxy, the
former 19 years of age and the latter
Ia years, were killed by a lighting
BOLT that enterci their cabin down the
chimney and Trough 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.
L.,