The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-08-25
South Carolina Items.

| fuIuOTS commune TO be circulated
that Eddie Kennedy, who is suspected
Of having killed Jacob Kind, his en-
ployer, in Charleston, has been arrested
first in one city and then in another,
but there is no truth in the stories.
Kennedy seems to have a good start
on the police and he is probably in safe
quarters for while at least. He is a
Northern man and it is likely that he
has returned North where his accents
and manners would not likely one,
chances of his detection, as would be
the case in the South.
! Because the paster, Rev. L. NJ.
Roper, wanted Mrs. T. A. Brooks, who
was sent to Spartanburg to superin-
tend the putting down Of the new
Church carpet, to have colored women
as assistants in the work, and because
Mrs. Brooks, for reasons which she
stated plainly, did not wish to acquiesce
in the matter, the finishers, all white
men, on the interior of the new church
have struck, out of sympathy with the
lady, and up to l o'clock Wednesday
afternoon the matter was still unset
tied
| Will Anderson, a negro railway en-
ployee, was seized with violent attack
Monday afternoon while carousing and
drinking with crowd in depot fat
in Spartanburg and it is believed he
/ was the victim of black conspiracy to
drug him and rob him. Physicians
were called in and Anderson was car
/; ried to his home where at last account
he was still suffering great agony and
is in a precarious condition. The three
other negroes who were with Anderson
are being held on suspicion.
The first bale Of new cotton, which
was taken to Charleston on Saturday,
consigned to F. w. Wagner & Co.,
from H. C. Folk, of Bambery, was sold
Monday to the Goldsmith Mercantile
Co. for II cents. The bale weighed
445 pounds and was classed as fully
middling. The bale is eight days
ahead of the first bale of last year and
II days later than the first bale Of the
year previous.
Benedict College, a negro institution
in Columbia, will have within few
! months a library building for which
plans have been drawn and which will
cost $1,000, the money having been
donated by Andrew Carnegie.
The Pickens county candidates are
discussing the automobile, all Of
them, 1t is reported, being in favor Of
some restrictions being placed on the
free use Of the automobile on the pub
! lie roads.
VIM. ]. Mcintosh. 40 years old, the
flower and seed dealer of Charleston,
who on Sunday was pronounced dead
in New York and apparently came to
life a short time afterwards, died
Tuesday night at the Hudson street
hospital in that city. The physicians
at the hospital have been unable to
diagnose the cause and the coroner's
Office has been notified.
The Palmetto Dry Goods company,
Of Greenville, capitalized at $4,000, has
applied to the secretary of State for
commission to conduct a dry goods
and shoe business at Pelzer. The cor
porators are W. X. Hudgens, Of Pelzer,
]. Thomas Arnold and G. H. Mahon, OF
! Greenville.
Miss Mamie Pearson, of Woodruff,
has been awarded the scholarship to
Winthrop College, Rock Hill, from
Spartanburg county. The college gives
a limited number of scholarships each
year in every county of the State for
which competitive examinations are
held.
Capt. VIM. H. Bertless, a gallant
Confederate officer Of Col. Simonton's
regiment during the war, died at Port
Royal Monday night after protracted
illness. He was for some years in SER
vice at the Port Royal naval station
and was highly esteemed.
Hugh Price, Marion county far
mer, died a few days ago, leaving an
estate worth $4,000. including $4,000
in cash in bank. He began life with
orr a dollar after the war, and Is said
TO have besn wholly illiterate.