The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-31
STATE NEWS.

= John Pricster, Of Hampton
County died last week at the age of l02
1t is rumored that new $780,
600 cotton mill is to be built at
Union.
- Work is expected soon TO begin
on Charleston's new union passenger
station.
= Mack Jackson who killed his
brother near Spartanburg some days
ago has been captured near Inman.
Grecnsille has been selected as
the next meeting place Of the South
ern Presbyterian General Assembly.
A serious shooting affray oc-
Cured in Gaffney, in which Sam
Kennedy shot his brother in law, Sam
Sanlin.
= Movements to hold elections to
vote out the dispensary have been
started in York and Oconee Coun-
ties.
- The l50th anniversary Of the set.
Element of the county of Union will
be celebrated with Il floral festival,
June 18th and 10th.
- Pedee River is to be deepened by
che United States Engineer Depart
ment and made thoroughly navigable
as far up as Cheraw.
- Mrs. Robert McCartee, a New
York woman who died recently in
Aiken, bequcathed to the Aiken sani
tarium the sum of $4,000.
- Capt. D. w. Hodges, g we'll
known farmer Of upper Greenville
County, lost his barn and contents
by fire. The loss is said to be $3,-
600.
IS. A. Anthony was drowned in
the reservoir of the Grendel cotton
mill at Greenwood while trying to
swim across it. He leaves wife.
- Prof. j. II. NJ. Beatty has resign.
ed from the faculty Of Clemson College
to take a position as assistant to
Lewis w. Parker, the we'll known mill
manager.
- The Confederate veterans Of
Spartanburg are making serious COM
plants against the injustice practiced
by those drawing pensions.
The next big event in Spartan
burg will be the holding of an elec-
tion to authorize .he$1G9.0 .00Gbond issue
for the extension of the vitrifed brick
street paving and other street i'm
provements.
= Walter Hill, an Edgefeld negro,
in fit Of jealousy Drained his wife
with the butt end of gun q few
nights ago, killing her instantly. He
first tried to kill the woman by shoot
ing her.
- AS result of the State Board of
Equalization raising the assessment
of the Columbia canal from $l2O,G00
to $3.50, 900 it is likely that the entire
matter will be taken to the Courts for
adjustment.
- The State phosphate commission
believes that there is strong possi
bllity of the phosphate industry being
revived in this State. The revenues
to the State from this industry were
once $500, 900, but are not now more
than $40, 900.
Governor Hayward has been in
vited by the Tammany society to de-
liver an address before the annual
meeting of that society on July +.
This is the celebration Of the 10th
year Of the formation of the society
as we'll as the formation of the United
States Of America.
- Suit has been filed in the Court
of Common Pleas in Columbia against
the Palmetto Cotton Mill for 1000
for personal injuries received last
February By Frank Williams, o lad of
13 years, who had q hand and arm
caught in an. exposed cog wheel.
- The special legislative commit
tee to Investigate the dispenary will
hold its next meeting about the first
of July. It is not stated where this
meeting will be held, but it will be
looked forward to with much interest,
inasmuch as sub committees appoint
ed st the last meeting have been
gathering information.
Adjutant General Frost has is
sued an order disbanding sixteen COM
panies Of the State militia. The
order was the result of requirements
Of the new militia law which makes
it necessary to reduce the militia to
6, 100 men, as against 3,770 as at pres
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get the government appropriation Of
sl7 1852. %.
- Senator B. r. Tillman was
thrown from carrie . in Edge6eld
last Wednesday nighv caused by the
antics ofHhis horses, and was slightly
injured. He had just delivered the
address to the graduating class Of the
South Carolir Co. Educational Insti.
tute. Miss Lons Tiiiman, mis- daugh.
ter, who was also in the carriage, re-
ceived several slight bruises. y
The testimony given by the rail-
road officials in Columbia Friday morn
ing before the railroad commission on
the Ogden wreck hearing, seems 70
show thet the blame will be laid upon
Engineer Hunter who had charge Of
the special It is claimed that the
train; should have been under control
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