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

= The Spartanburg Journal says
Judge Townsend will be o candidate
for reelection.
- South Carolina ginned TAT, 1928
bales of cotton the past year against
863, ,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 a white man aud
q negro woman. Both are rcpubli-
cars.
= Chief Constable Hammett has
fired Constable Hughes for being
drunk in Charleston and assaulting o
policeman.
= Snow fell to the depth of two
inches in some parts Of the low coun-
try Wednesday for the Grss time 10
two winters.
- The Charleston pavements were
covered with ice on Tuesday morning,
9th inst, and there was many o fall
of pedestrians.
= Oscar Catoe, young white man
OF Lancaster, was accidentally shot
and killed by his brother last week
while bird hunting.
j. A. Mccullough, Of the Green
Vile bar, has been appointed special
judge to hold the court at Yorkville
which opens the 25th Instant.
P. I. 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. g. CoIser & 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. s. mint, $1O2,573 Of gold
during 1908, leading all the Southern
States.
= Secretary of State CAN'T is after
the Standard Oil company end lot of
packing companies doing business in
this State for back taxes for the past
ten years.
- The Lutheran Visitor, which has
been published in Nevberry since
1881 has moved their Office to Colum.
bia and hereafter it will be issued
from that city.
While Wesley Bolin, white,
eyed Is, and Esrell Froneberger. col
ored, aged 10, we're 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 $45 900 damages for the loss
of his legs by being run over by a
freight trainin October.
Mr.. Benjamin W.. Lindsey, a
Confederate veteran, while crossing
the mill race at Cherokee Falls fac
tory, near Blacksburg, made misstep
and fell into the race and was drowned.
- Alex Mcclellan, a farmer living
near Dillon, Marion county, commit
ted suicide on Tuesday, 9th inst, by
drinking TWO ounces Of carbolic aoid.
He was 80 years old and leaves wife
and children.
- The constables of Greenville
1ouu'y .,, nase uaptursu seVeral more
large stilis IN the dark corner. Dur
fred at them from ambush but there
were no serious results.
= The Beech Island Farmers Club,
Of BarnWell county, in recent meet
ing endorsed q proposition &c go be-
lo.e .ee ieglsleeture ana advocate the
.nJ n - oSa.e Sana =. .srllazels ~ inc o1ate
,a,,a, anu ~ nase ,; salne coaerolieo pretty
! uon :, - 'no iiq quof business. W
3 Z lWo y masked men walked into J:
.. Dickson store near Society Hill
et about 9 O'Clock Wednesday. night
ana at the point OF gun made him
anlock ms safe and hand over the con-
tents, something oyer S2OO. Dickson
-. ~ $500 nAn.
oliyer a.. Soholsser, the nursery
man . Wno disappeared mysteriously
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