The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-18
STATE NEWS.

- Walhalla capitalists will build
2o.ton oil mill.
Ssntuo, Union County, is to have
o sl5, 600 knitting mill.
- Piokens has voted bonds for ten
Thousand dollar school building.
- Two solid cars of strawberries
have been shipped from Florence this
year.
- The three Clifton mills that were
wrecked by the food Of June. 1903,
have been rebuilt.
Clarence Wolfe, aged 16, had his
leg broken on Wednesday while play
ing baseball at North, Orangeburg
County.
- Crop reports chow an eight per
cent increase in cotton acreage in this
State, but the stand reduction may
overbalance that.
- DR.. Len G.. Broughton, OF At.
lanta, will make the literary address
at the approaching commencement of
Furman University.
= The court Of general sessions in
Oraugeburg last week entirely cleared
the jail Of prisoners, for the first time
in twenty.four years.
Constable Davenport shot and
killed Bill Williams, c0lored, at Nine
ty-Six. He went to the negro house
in search Of liquor and got into row
with him.
- Work has begun on the new
buildings for the State Fair. The
new fair grounds are il the south
eastern suburbs Of the city of Colum-
bia beyond the union depot.
| = Frank James, aged %, overseer
on Col. Singleton's place at Acton,
Riohlaud County, shot and killed q
negro named Barnes on Monday. It
is said the negro was making for the
young man with knife.
= Several parties in Ozone. .oun-
ty who were found guilty in the fed
| sral court at Greenyille Of violating
the federal liquor laws, were allowed
to 60 home and work their crops, and
serve their sentence in August.
"A recent census taken by the
city authorities give Orangeburg a
population Of 5,232 souls, divided as
follows: Whites, 2,459; colored, 2,773;
males, 1888; females, 2,849. There
| are 3l4 more oolored people there than
there is white people.
j. Laurie Patterson was shot and
killed on Saturday night as he was
entering his yard at Fort Mill. Be-
fore dying he charged W. E. Deaton
with the crime, and Deaton has beeu
arrested and jailed. Patterson leaves
wife and'a six-year-old daughter.
- The supreme court has dismiss
ed the petition made for a re-hearing
in the case of Q. w. Buchanan against
the State Of South Carolina, which
is suit for back salary alleged to be
due by reason of change in the law
in regard to the salaries of circuit
Judges.
- Subterrenean noises like the roar
Of distant train were heard in Bates
burg one morning the past week.
There was no shaking or movement Of
the earth OF all. Noises were dis
tinotly heard by many reliable people
and seemed to come right up from
under the feet.
- The committee rscently appoint
ed by Walker; CASTOR camp, U.-U. w.,
20 push the work Of raising funds for
building monument to the memory
Of the Confederate dead Of Chester
County 10 meeting with great crafty.
ing success, nearly $500 having been
raised in che past two months.
- Col. j. M. Patrick, asois.ans ad-
iutane general, last week inspected
tie military company OF the Sumter,
graded school. The boys of che high
or four grades have adopted the mill
tary feature and have Eune and uni
forms. This. il 10 essd, ia che enly
graded school in che South which has
military feature.
= The liesle yix-year-old daughter
Of Mr. e. j. Wehver OF the Olympia
mill village iu Columbia, met q horri-
bic death List week. She went With
several Of her companions to one OF
the stores in the mill village, and on
her way home, while che was crossing
Q plank over Hot Branch, she fell in.
The steam exhaust OF the cotton
mills goes into this branch and tho
water soalded the child. Her compan-
ions. gnk her on. es .Ass TstsT and took
her home, but she died as che result
Of the accident.
= Singleton Banks, white, charged
with numbering in q most horrible
manner his son-in.law, Smith Cook
Freil, in September Of last year, was
acquitted at Saluda court few days
ago. The testimony on the part Of the
State consisted in the proof Of mur-
derous threats to the effect chat he
intended killing Cockreil. There
were no eye witnesses 70 the crime,
as the young man wae shot after dark
at his home and no testimony to con.
nect Banks with the killing. Sew
eral members Of Banks family, testi.
fed, that when the shots were fred,