The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-12

/ - The capital STOCK OF the new
Woodside cotton mill in Greenville
has been increased to $400, 900.
W. Z. Latham, who has been
confined in the county Jail at Camden
for assault and battery, committed sui
eide By taking poison.
= A committee Of experts, after
examining the sources Of water sup
ply for Columbia, advises that city to
to continue the use Ok river water.
= Senator J. T. Hay, Of Kershaw
County, has announced his candidacy
for Judge Of the Fifth Circuit, now
presided over by Judge Ernest Gary.
- The second presbytery Of the
Associate Reformed Church, held ct
Clinton, voted against union with the
| United Presbyterian Church, by 34 to
= Z. NJ. Freeland, q fagmsn on
tanburg, by being struck by the mail
hanger while walking on q freight
train.
- It is understood that the Win
thYop girls will attend she State Fair
in body. The students number more
than 400 and will make o magnificent
display.
- -Four girls, aged about ten. stole
o ring apiece froba Charleston jeweier
while examining his etock. They
were caught with the stolen rings ON
their fingers after they left che store.
-14 boarders end Two servants
were poisoned ct Columbia boarding
house last Sunday by eating ioe cream
made from pineapples in which too
muuh acid was used in canning. None
will die.
= Rev. j.. L. Dart, colored, has
brought suit in the Court Of Common
Pleas Of Charleston against the Morris
Street Baptist Church for. 1924 4S,
which he claims is due him for salary
as pastor ee said church.
- There are three candidates for
Judge Of the Seventh Circuit. Judge
D. A. Townsend will stand for re.
election and Senator D. E. Hydrick
and Hon. G. P. Sanders, Of Spartan
burg, vii! aiso be in the race.
- Channey Reeves, Of Branchville,
was killed by being run over by train
while asleep on the track at Lsngley.
His head was broken and one hand cut
off. He had been running as brake.
man or fagman on the local freight
between Brsnchville and Augusta,
Ga.
- The books Of the late D. P. Ver-1
ner, Master of Greeuville County,
are being examined by committee.
The books are reported 60 be in bad
shape and it will be some time before
q full report Of their condition can be
made.
- Unless there is Communication of
his sentence, Aerac Williams, the
negro rapist at Camden will be hanged
On November 4. The crime took place
last June and created much exotic.
ment at the time. The assault was
committed on o respectable white wo-
man Of that community.
~ The Rock Hill Record says:
"a report comes from Chester and
Richburg shat JAS. q. Tillman has
joined the Methodist !, Episcopal
Church, South, and will become
minister Of che gospel. We publish
the report for what IL 10 worth, being
upa5le to verify it to-day"
- Abram Vansant, who lives near
Wards, in Saluda County, fell and
broke his leg recently. while going to
the dining room for supper. He is
now in his 96th year and is by dozen
years the oldest msn in Saluda Coun-
ty. He was born on Hollow Creek, in
Lexington County, in 1903. and moved
to where he now lives in 1882.
- Several classes Of chilren from
Sunday Schools in Greenville spent
Saturday in the fields picking cotton.
"A prominent farmer was in the'city to
secure help, and failing to secure it
he called upon several Sunday School
teachers who responded By taking
their classes to the fielde and working,
spending che day in picnic fashion.
a. tragic accident occurred at
Wellford last Thursday afternoon at
the home Of .R. A. Burnett, when o
young boy child 16 months old fell
into tub Of water and Was drow. ed.
The vessel containing the water had
been left on tho floor and Mrs. Bur-
Hee... rel. 9 stepped ss..ssFFSssa ;lt0 an adjoining room,
leaving the tot alone. During her
absence the child crnwled to the tub
When the mother returned she found
the lifeless body Of the infaut lying in
the tub Of water.
family row occurred at
Vance's, near Holly Hill, in Orange
burg County, last Wednesday between
Elvin Smith, his two SONS, Tom and