The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-10
Farmers, are you ready to select man
OF your own to attend to your business7
Or will you continue to let the other
fellow hold you to their terms?
STATE NEWS.

= a negro boy was killed bg falling
in mud mill at Glendale Spsrianburg
county.
The Tuxbury Lumber Co., os
Charleston, has been chartered with
$500 600 capital.
= Arthur and j. D. Hook, 8 and III
years old respectively, were drowned
while bathing in Cheraw.
= The fertilizer factories have all
agreed to use cotton bags for guauo,
according to the farmers wishes.
= Unless attendance increases the
Columbia Theological Seminary,
(Presbyteriau) will be closed for a
year.
i 1t is charged that the baggage
of the Ogden party was looted ON
the occasion of the wreck in Green
willie.
- Governor Hayward has corl-
muted the death sentence of Sam
Marks in Darlington to life imprison-
ment.
The war department is hunting
for jerome Williams, of South Caro-
lima, as it wants to pay him some
money.
r. G.. Gaines has been elected
president of the Isaqueena cotton
mills at Central to succeed the la,e
d. X. Norris.
Two thousand tax executions
have been placed in the hands of
Sheriff Nichols, of Spartanburg, is
sued against derelict taxpayers.
= Senator and Mrs. B. r.. Tillman
have gono t. Atlanta where they both
will remain Tor two weeks under medi
cal treatment from specialists in that
city.
- A youngt white man was caught
in store in Spartanburg Wednesday
night and the clerks shot him before
he could escape but he was not shot
seriously.
The store Of the j. Thomas Ar.
mold Company, at Greenville was
burned on Wednesday night, the loss
being about $50, 900, with insurance
about half.
- The Adjutant General will soon
render his report under the new mill
tary law which demands for the militia
to be cut down and number of in.
fantry companies will be dropped.
- No decision has been arrived at
regarding the Confederate reunion
this year, but it is believed it will be
held during the fall and it is said that
Columbia stands the best chance Of
getting it.
j. A. Banks. Of St. AIetthews,
S. G. Evans, Of Greenwood, and w.
B. Logan, Of Kingstree, have been
appointed aides with the rank Of
lieutenant colonel on the staff of Gov
ernor Hayward.
- Strawberry growers in the lower
part of the State have suffered great
loss on account Of liability TO secure
refrigerator cars. The railroad com-
mission has taken hold Of the matter
and an improvement In conditions is
promised.
= The case of the State against
Stewart w. Heath, John L. Stevens
and other prominent citizens Of Ker-
shaw, changed with the lynching of q
white man name Morrison, was dis
missed by the magistrate for the lack
oftestimony.
Gus Wallace accidentally shot
and killed himself near Spartanburg,
while returning from church, carrying
double barreled shot gun. At the
time the gun was discharged he was
quarrcling with some negroes on the
roadside.
- There was killing in Spartan
burg Thursday. Two men by the
names Of. Godfrey. and Jones had a
difficulty in which Godfrey shot and
killed Jones instantly. The trouble
was Of long standing and was about
some grape vines.
The grand jury in Greenville
brought in hot presentment, charg-
ing Q citizen with running !, gam
bling house on Main street and citing
the chief aud several other police
men as material witnesses thereto.
Houses of i'll fame aud adultery cases
we're also presented.
- At Columbia, while at work in
The States press room whore . new
press is going up, James Pearson, a
negro laborer, was decapitated in q
strange and very sudden manner. A
heavy chain, hung ever o piece Of
running shafting, caught in . set
screw above, and in his clothing below
and by the time his body was even
with the shafting the chain was about
his neck, Before any one could start
to throw the meter switch his head
was torn of and tossed one way and
his body thrown the other.
- The News and Courier has made
an interesting compilation Of the
names, and vocations Of our State
Senators and members Of the lower
House Of Representatives which
shows the Senate to be made up Of "a
lawyers: 8 farmers; 2 pkysicians; l
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