The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-13
STATE NEWS.

= The snar.anhsrg Journal says
Judge Townsend will be candidate
for reelection.
- South Carolina giuned TAT 1928
bales of cotton the past year against
S63, ,889 the year previous.
- Three negroes have been killed
in one week in Fairfield County. All
the parties concerned were negroes.
- Beaufort's postoffice is being
warmly contested for white man and
a negro woman. Both are rcpubli-
cans.
= Chief Constable Hammett has
fired Constable Hughes for being
drunk in Charleston and assaulting a
policeman.
= Snow fell to the dept. of two
inches IN some parts of the low coun-
try Wednesday for the first time in
two winters.
- The Charleston pavements were
covered with ice on Tuesday morning,
9th inst, and there was many fall
of pedestrians.
= Oscar Catoe, young white man
OF Lancaster, vas accidentally shot
and killed by his brother last week
while bird hunting.
j. A. Mccullough, Of tho Green
vile bar, has been appointed special
judge to hold the court at YorkviIle
which opens the 25th instant.
p. [. Welles has been elected
general manager Of the Columbia street
railway and will leave the Southern
road to accept the new position.
= The safe of w. q. Coker & Son,
of Society Hill, Darlington county,
was blown open by professionals on
Friday night and $400 was stolen.
- South Carolina produced, as
shown by the report Of the director
of the u. 8. mint, s102,573 Of gold
during 1903, leading all the Southern
Statea.
- Secretary Of State CAN'T is after
the Standard Oil company and lot Of
packing companies 'oing business in
ten years.
- The Lutheran Visitor, which has
been published in Newberry since
1881 has moved their Office to Colum.
bic ssd hereafter e e viii vii. 10 issued
from that city.
- While Wesley Bolin, white,
aged 18, and Esrell Froneberger, col
ored. aged 10, were hunting in York
county, the former accidentally shot
and killed the latter.
= w. G.. Smith, of Charleston, has
begun suit against the Atlantic Coast
Line for S45 900 damages for the loss
of his legs by being run over BY
freight train in October.
Mr.. Benjamin W. Lindsey,
Confederate veteran, while crossing
the mill race at Cherokee Falls fac.
tory, near Blacksburg, made misstep
aud fell into the race aud was drowned.
- Alex Mcclellan, farmer living
neaT Dillon, Marion county, commit
ted suicide on Tuesday, 9Th inst, by
drinking two ounces Of carbolic acid.
He was 35 years old and leaves wife
and children.
The constables of GreenviIle
county have captured several more
large stills in the dark corner. Dur
ing recent reid several shots were
fired at them from ambush but there
we're re serious Tssuits.
The Reeeh Island Farmers Club,
of Barnwoli county, ia q recent meet
ing endorsed . proposition to go be-
fore the legislature and advocate the
manufacture Of fertilizers by tho State
and to have same controlled pretty
much as the liquor business.
- Two masked men walked into j.
S. Dickson g store near Society Hill
st about8 O'Clock Wednesday night
and at the point Of q gun made him
unlock his safe and hand over the con-
tents, something over 5000. Dickson
is respectable colored man.
e Oliver A. Soholsser, the nursery
man who disappeared mysteriously
from Greenville four weeks ago, has
not yet been. heard from, but NC nc aabts
in the city, amounting to 81, 200, have.
And thereby probably hangs the ex-
pianation of his sudden departure.
While digging trench at the
water wor-S pumping station, ut Goose
creek, near Charleston. nine negro Ia
borers were buried alive by the saving
in Of en- embankment. One, George
Mouitrie, was killed outright, while
the others were extrioated from the
mass Of earth. Several Of the negroes
are seriously injured. s.
The season for deer. shooting in
the State ended with Dec. 81. On ao-
count of the shortened season for
the past few. years, deer have In.
creased in number in Georgetown
county and the sport has been proper
5tionately better throughout the hunt
ing season. The hunters experienced
better sport this last year than for
many years previously.
d. j. Forbes, farmer living
about three miles west Of Glover, in
York county, .is the owner Of fine