Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-08-17

apply the torch when the officer halt
Ell 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 fit Of jealousy, sudden;.,
ly assaulted her husband with a.
knife, inAicting not less than four.
wounds. He fingered until Saturday;
night, when he died. The woman, it
Is said, was aided and abetted by;
Mary Sanders, a negro, In company
with Walker and his wife: The yer:G
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 moi:
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 id the cistern.
op his presmises in King street Tues.
day morning. There was great
cash in the -htoat, several stabs in.
the breast, ant the body was in: a.
frightful state decomposition. His
clerk, Edward 1nedy, alias Grant
who has been ducting the ablind;
tiger" since g's disappearance
left Charleston .a,uday night with
considerable money, and every effort.
is being made to capture him, as cir. :.
cumstantial evidence points strongly
to his guilt.
Miss Emma Laird, eldest daughter.
of John Laird, q we'll known contracts
OF 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 2s years Of age.
Governor Hayward has received g
specially Urgent letter from Mr. Wnii:z
S. Rodie, who is chairman OF the coni:;::
mittee to notify Judge Parker and who
has charge of the arrangements, to-
attend the notification ceremonies
and then go with him to his home; IN q
tha-Catskills. Governor Heywards
=nas declined the K1nu- nu-InyItulIUuizBsr
hopes later to be able to meet MI. s..
Rode, who urges him to meet Judge
Parker and visit his mountain home
A petition for rule to show cause
why the Ellis & Pope Company,
wholesale grocers of GreenYille,
should not be declared bankrupt, has
been flied with United States district
Judge Brawley at Charleston: While
no return has been served o1 the firm,
the president, Charles w; Ellis, when
seen admitted that the business Was
badly involved and iatimated that the
proceedings OF the creditors would
not be resisted. go -
Mr.. Med. Cochran, aged " 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 Ill,
and his sudden death was great
surprise.
A commission for charter was
Tuesday issued to the Cooper-Grifti
Company, with headquarters at Green
vile. Capital s5o,000. The incorpor-
ators are from deorgia.
The comptroller general has finish
ed tabdlation Of the railroad assess
ments recently made by the State
board: The genral increases are as
follows: Atlantic Coast Line; $685.
$40; Seaboard Air Line. $9l,020I
Southern, $4S,000; Independent lines;
all connections of the Seaboard, SAL
692. The total increase is S243,0O0,
which will increase the revenues OF
the State.
The sale of White Stone Springs! to
Dougan G. Sheftall and Solomon Shef.
tall, of Savannah, carries with itsthe
whole plant, including 1877 acres OF.
land. The electric line will be finish
ed to Glendale, putting the springs, in
easy and direct communication with
spartanburg. When that road Is fin
ished it will be a most popular outing
place for spartanburg people.
A Lake City correspondent REMARKS
on the great increase Of Drunkenness
in that place since the establishment
of the dispensary there. He 5says
that it is now common to see fulls Of
whiskey men who, before the estab-
lishment Of the dispensary, Were not
known to drink at all. IS:
A special from Dibby, N. S., says
that a sail boat containing six or
eight tourists capsized and sank off
Smiths cove near Digby yesterday.
evening and that nearly all on board
were drowned. Tugs and boats with
graphing irons, and doctors have left
Digby for the scene Of the accident.
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