The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-19
STATE NEWS.

- A new oyster factory will soon
be erected in Charleston.
- Chesterfield is likely to fall in
line and vote out the dispenaary.
- The fertilizer board reports that
the sales for fertilizer last year came
to $127, 900.
- The body Of man terribly mu.
tilated was found on the coast at Sui.
livan' Island.
An insect said to be the boil
weevil has been found in cotton fields
in Saluda County.
- Sumter's new electric lighting
company proposes to build q trolley
line in the Game Cock city.
- Robert Kueece was killed near
Batesburg in o runaway. He was
driving mule and got tangled up in
the lines.
= Movements have been started in
Williamsburg and Florence Counties
looking toward the voting out of the
dispensary.
- Andrew Lamb, q we'll known
farmer of the Cross Keys section of
Union County, dropped dead while
plowing IN his field.
= The Virginia Carolina Chemical
Company has purchased plantation
near Beaufort containing valuable
phosphate deposits.
- A negro woman in Orangebure
was fired on by an unknown person
and an infant in her arms was killed
instantly. The woman was severely
wounded.
The Union & Glenn Springs
Railroad, which runs from Pride's on
the Seaboard Air Line to Union, has
been inspected by the railroad com
mission and opened for traffic.
= Henry Mosely is the richest col.
ored man in Greenville. He was re-
Gently awarded more than sc, 900 by
the Southern Railway for certain lands
to be used by the railway for termi-
nails.
- Miss Annie Holman, Of Orange.
burg, and Miss Kate NJ. Duncan, of
Newberry, have been appointed mis-.
sionaries by the committee on Foreign
Missions of the Southern P.esb;ss
rian Church.
Vernon Nettles, aged q, sen of
Kew. Hiram Nettles of Kershaw
County, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head with a pistol,
because his father reprimanded him
for some offence.
w. =. McCarter, an engineer
was found dead in the cab of his en-
gine while it was slowly moving ia
the direction Of the chalk beds near
Aiken. Heart failure is assigned as
the cause Of death.
= Andrew Wallace and J. w.
Glenu, postmaster at Wallaceville,
engaged in street duel. Wallace
was wounded in the hip. The rain
was pouring down in torrents while
they we're fighting.
= George and Westley Price, col
ored children eyed seven and eight,
were playing with pistol at Johnsto
when the thing went of, the ball en-
tering the abdomen Of the older. He
died the next day.
- 1t is stated that since the dis.
pensary has been moved from Piokena
that the town council has dismissed
the policeman, ne fines from disorder
and drunkenues,: not being sufficient
to pay for his services.
| - The Saluda Power Company has
been granted o forty-year charter by
the city Of Greenvilie. It has a oapi.
tai stock Of S300, 900 and is building 0
dam on Saluda river, from which
power will be transmitted to the city
= Rev. p. N. Goldsmith, q native
of Greenville, and pastor of the old
feast Church. at Salem. Mass, is losl
in tie mountains Of Mexico. He was
on an exploration trip and it is though,
that he was killed in trying to photo
graph some volcano fires.
- Isadore Thompson, of Greenville
was granted pardon by the governor
q few days ago. Thompson was giver
q life sentence in 1903 for the murde,
of man who seduced his daughter
The petition was signed by the mos>
prominent women Of Greenville.
| = An application for charter fo,
q trolley line and power plant hal
been made to the city counsil of Flor
ence. The trolley line is intended e
run to Darlington on one side and AL
lison' 8 landing, on the Pee Dee river
on the other--s distance Of 30 miles
- The tobacco sales in the Pee Des
section have begun in real earnest
Large quantities of the weed are beinl
sold daily in Timmonsville, Florence
Darlington, Mullins, and other places
| Prices are said to be good. The to
baeco acreage is much larger than i
vas last year.
- Robert Keith Dargan, presider,
of the Darlington Trust Comps
and. the Independent Oil Company, ol
Darlington, committed suicide OF
Tuesday, l1th inst, by drinking car
bJlio acid. The deed was . couse
quenoe Of the failure Of the two com.
| psnies for something like seven hun
dred thousand dollars. he was about
35 years old and leaves widow ant
two children, one daughter aboa,