The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01
STATE NEWS.

oouoleu taelr capital.
-Thos. Riley, long the proprietor
of Riley's Hotel at Greenwood, is
dead. aged SO.
= A pickle factory will be estab.
! lished ct Summerville with capital
stock of $4,000.
- Tho Congsree River has risen
fifteen feet at Colombia, owing to the
melting of the snow in the upper
country.
- The friends of prohibition in
Cherokee County claim that the voting
out OF the dispensary has given excel.
lent results.
= James Green was knocked down
and robbed outside Of tho town of
Aiken. A Degro was mis- assaiant
| and got $85.
= John Baggs, white man, has
been arrested in Beaufort County
for murder which he committed in
West Virginia.
- It is said the fertilizer shipments
from Charleston have revived, as hun
dreds Of cars are now being shipped
from there daily.
= Cornelius Vanderbilt, August
Belmont, Baron de Rothschild, three
millionaires, are in Hemptou Coup-
ty for @ big hunt on the Savannah
river.
- There was freight wreck at Dy-
sons on the g. G G. division of the
Southern Thursday. Three oars were
derailod caused by the breaking of a
wheel.
- A negro woman named Cornelia
Reeves escaped from the Riohland
County Jail last Wednesday morning
after knocking the jailer, Capt. l.. H.
Sigh, down with bottle. Y
- AT a meeting OF. the executive
committee of the State Association of
cotton growers, the salaries of the
officers was fixed as follows: President,
81 ,0eO: treasurer, 5000; secretary,
$500.
- Chief Justice Pope has arranged
the roster of judges for the remainder
OF tho present year under the ten-oir.
cult act, so as to have them preside
IN their own circuits for the summcr
terms. IT,
= Maj. Micah jenkins will ride in
President Roosevelt's escort At the
inauguration. Major jenkins was a
member of the Rough Riders and is
collector OF internal revenue for the
district of South Carolina.
- Arthur Hayes, o sailor, was
found dead at Georgetown with an
empty bottle l.Selled, "ohloroform''
beside him. It is not known whether
or not he took che ohloroform with
suicidal intent.
So Thomas and Edward Lane, promi-
nent farmers living four miles from
Cheraw, fell out on their way home on
Saturday night, both being in LIQUOR,
and Edward shot Tom three times,
inflieting Wounds that were thought
to, be fatal.
- George n0gers. enlnrad, Haa een=
victed in Columbia last week and
sentenced to Ave years in the peni-
tentiary for the killing Of q negro
known as the Savannah Kid T'he
crime was committed Eve years ago.
Rogers was betrayed by q woman.
49, Carrie Hammond, Q oolored wo-
man, sWes caught on trestle near
Spartanburg and killed BY en- engine
.on the Glenn Springs railroad. The
wonan tried to get of the trestle but
fell twice and before che could regain
her feet the second time the engine
struck her.
- Coroner Parrott, OF Piokens, held
an inqueet over the dead body Of
negro baby found under q log on the
farm Of Mr.. r.. a. Hester, near Pick
ems, on the 18th ult. It's inhuman
mother, q girl by che name Of Duke,
10 supposed 60 have killed it or left it
there to freeze.
81 - Miss Kate Bodie, daughter OF
Mr.. Bodie, Of Aiken County, has
made q record FOR selling turkeys.
One day last week che went to Aiken
in her buggy, her little brother hay.
ing preceded her with wagon load
OF turkeys and in a few minutes she
had exchanged the entire lot for .$53
Sin money. /, 7.
-. Mr. VIM. Martin and Mr.. Ben
Bostook two prominent young men Of
Hampton County were drowned 10
che Hevannsh River last week while
out hunting. The boat capsized and
the two young men being weighted
;;asss with rubber. boots and hunting
GOATS; were unable. TO swim ashore.
The negro with them reached the
shore;in safety.
Gns DEB Ford, one OF the most
wanted of the postoffice robbers, es-
capped from two deputy marshals the: /
other night, between Florence and
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