The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-03
South Carolina Notes,

| lie COlNlC I'LL plOSSluOtG dsSoCldtlou
of Anderson is engaged in beautifying
court square in that city.
Preparations are bsing made for the
opening of United States court in
Greenville on April IS.
R. A. Cooper, recently nominated
in the democratic primary, was duly
elected solicitor of eighth circuit.
No news has yet been received of G..
M. Trammel, the Flrman University
stduent who disappeared last week.
The Acme Grocery Co. of Pelzer
has been chartered with capital of
Sis, 900 to do Wholesale grocery busi-
ness.
There will be II cases for murder
docketed for trial at the term of
court at Greenville which begins
Nav |.
The rottonseed oil mills of the state
are considering the establishing of a.
refinery at some point in the same for
the finishing Of their product.
Gen. F. NJ. Bambsrg is dead at BAN
berg. He was 81 years old and
member OF the Methodist Church.
He was large farmer and business
man.
The doctors convention closed in
Greenville with banquet Thursday
night. DR.. Davis lfurman of Green
vile was elected president for the
ensuing year.
Col. E. II. Aull, editor of the New
berry Herald and News and president
of the State Press Association, is
being mentioned SIS candidate for
secretary of state.
Solicitor Sea-e has recommended to
the governor the offering of a reward
for the arrest of the person who burned
the barn of L.. F. Stanford in Union
County, near West Springs.
j. p. Carvey of Pickens is appointed
to preside at the coming term of court
in Richland County in the place of
Judge Aldrich, who is ill, and no reg
ular circuit judge being disengaged at
that time.
The libel suits of Frank E. and An
ME Butler against the News and Cou-
rier and the Post of Charleston were
decided in favor of the newspapers.
Publication had been made of the ar
rest and conviction of woman in
Chicago calling herself Annie Oakley,
which is Mrs. Buffers name as a
crack rifle shot.
5000 bales of cotton were sold Friday
in Greenwood.
Anderson's first city directory has
been compiled. 1t shows population
of It'll.
The ladies and business men of
Greenwood will form civic improve.
ment league.
c. E. Hill of Florence had his COL
lar bone fractured in class baseball
game at Furman University.
DR.. J. G. w. Kennerly is dead at his
home at Mt. Willing, Saluda County.
He was 70 years old and was highly
respected.
The Page-Mill Co., has been char
tered in Marion. 1t will have $4,000
capital and will do general merchan-
disc business
Captain Tickling of the Columbia
police force was seriously injured by
a heavy billboard falling on him as
he stood on a sidewalk in Columbia.
Henry Rector had one of his hands
so badly injured that it had to be am
putated while working at the Mallard
Lumber Co, plant in Greenville.
Maj James F. Hart has returned to
Yorkville from Charlotte. where he
has been under treatment in hospit-
al for stomach trouble. He is not
improved.
The governor of Alabama has so far
refused to honor the requisition of
Governor Hayward for former Chief
of Police Rose OF Anderson, who is
wanted for some sort of frand.
The alleged yeggmen who were
tried in federal court in Charleston for
the robbery of the Kingstree postoffice
were found not guilty by order of the
court, the evidence being deemed in
sufficient.
P. 1. Welles of Columbia has been
made vice president and general
manager of the Union & Glenn Spring
r. R. This road will extend from d
point on the Seaboard Air Line to
Union, Buffalo, Glenn Springs and
ultimately on to Spartanburg.
The Catawba Indians in New Coun-
ty say they cannot live on the ST, 500 a
year, given them by the state and wish
to emigrate to the West to settle in In
dian Territory. There are about 800
in the tribe. only 10 of whom, howev-
er, are full blooded Indians.
J. Maxwell Cobb, a young man,
was perhaps fatally injured oy fall
from stepladder while fixing some
electric light wires in the pool room
of the Oregon Hotel in Greenwood.
It is thought that he suffered frac-
ture at the base Of the skull.
Captain Fickling, who was hurt by
a billboard falling on him in Colum-
bia, died at the Columbia Hospital.
| Bishop Capers preached q sermon
and confirmed class of IA at the
Episcopal Church at Sumter Sunday.
A second lodge Of fKnights Of Pyth-
las has been organized at Newberry
with Fred L. Dominick chancellor
commander
A steel cage is being built in which
toconfine the Heath Springs robbers
when they are brought from Wades-
boro to Lancaster TO stand trial.
The largest number of people ever
in attendance on a funeral ceremony
attended the funeral of the late Gen.
f. NJ. Bamberg.
The meeting of the grand lodge,
knights of Honor, will be- held in
Columbia beginning Wednesday, DR..
J. j. Vernon of Wexford is grand
dictator.
The people Of Edgefield are prepar-
ing to make Il vigorous fight to pre-