The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-13

Wade White, a young man % years
oi age, VINO ilved at the Anderson cot
ton mills, died Monday night. His
Dody was inferred in Silver Brook
cemetery yesterday afternoon at 1
o'clock. He was q popular young man.
and his untimely death is deeply re.
gretted.
Henry. Speed, a negro boy, was
drowned In Tugaloo river at Hatton's
Ford last Wednesday afternoon. He
that went out from the city with A. G.
Meads. He was in the etream swim
ming, and getting into swift water was
carried down with the current. The
body was not recovered until Friday
afternoon, when it was found more
than a mile below in come driftwood.
Speed had been in the employ of Mr..
means for several years, and had Ill
ways been valued servant.
Rev: w. L. Presley, D. D.. president
of Erskine College at Due West, spent
last Sunday in Anderson and p cached
Doth morning and evening for the AS
soclate reformed Presbyterians. After
the morning service the members of
this ChnTch in tire city organized into
congregation numbering thirty-nine
members. 1t is proposed to purchase a
lot and with the assistance of the SYNOD
erect a handsome and commodious
Church this fall,
Bill Wright, negro employed at
the county dispensary, was arrested
Friday on the charge of stealing whis-
key from the dispensary. For some
time Dispenser Jones has been missing
bottles of wines and liquors that were
taken from the cases. His efforts to
apprehend the thief were without re-
snlts until Wright was detected in the
act of concealing number of bottles.
He was tried in the Mayors Court,
found guilty, and sentenced to pay q
fine of $40 or serve 60 days on the city
chalngang.
Lightning struck and instantly killed
Q negro boy named Ernest Barber Fri
day night on Elias Earle's plantation
near Piedmont. The boy was in the
house sitting near the fireplace when
| The electrical bolt struck the chimney
| and entered the boys body. He fell
limp and lifeless to the floor without
| utteriug a sound or moving muscle.
| Parts of the roofing were shattered by
| the stroke, and fire started at once, but
| the boys mother and other children
| who escaped uniDjured, ueed q pitcher
OF milk to extinguish the flames. The
storm in and around Piedmont was
severe. Rain fell in sheets, the wind
Was high and the growing crops on G
ed.
Mr. v. Pleas Kay died at his home
in Broadway Township last Thursday
plight, after an illness Of several weeks
I leaving devoted wife but no children
to cherish bis memory. The deceased
was most worthy, upright citizen
and his death is deeply regretted by 6
wide circle of friends and relatives
MIR. Kay served his State faithfully
through the civil war, and bore the
ceived on the battletields of Virginia
He wac about 65 years of age. anG
spent the greater portion of his life or
the farm in the section where he died
On Friday afternoon the remains were
inferred at Meals Creek Church, Rev
Geo. L. Baker conducting the funera
services.
While attempting to arrest negro
in Pickens County last Tuesday nigh.
Constable Columbus Jones was sho
and instantly killed. The tragedy oc
CURED near the Greenville line abou
six miles from Easley. The negro
Henry Jonen. escaped Immediately
after the shooting and is still at large
his whereabouts being unknown. The
women who were in the house will
him have been declared by the coro
| in Jail. The inquest was held at Eas
ley and the verdict charges Henry
Jones with having taken the officer
life. The dead constable was younf
man of excellent character. and has
number of relatives in the upper sec
ton Of Anderson County.