The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-06-14
South Carolina Notes.
Free Lance.

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The street railway in Greenville ha g
been extended to Brandon Mills.
Boyd Rice, a young man, was STRUCK
by lightning on his fathers farm il
Marion County.
A cotton mill with a capital of $780,.
900 will be built at Iva in Anderson
County.
The regula an nual encampment o
the Citadel cadets will occur at Col
umbia, beginning June Is.
Dillon has voted to grant a fran
chise to Philadelphia parties to insta.
a water and lightning plant in that
town.
J. E. Lilley and G. E. hand of Co
lumbia are Pc 1ning the building Of ar
electric lightning and power plant IL
Sumter.
The prisoners at the penitentiary
who were poisoned by food Tuesday
have nearly all recovered. The state
chemist is Analysing the poison.
G. B. McCombs, intendent Of Brook
land, who fled to escape arrest for
election frauds, has not yet be en- cap
tured.
F. Gunnels, a white man, shot
and killed q negro named Gloster
Daniels at Ola. The shooting seemed
to be unprovoked. The negro bore q
good reputation.
A meeting of citizens of Newberry
will be held on Saturday, June 10, to
take steps to call al election on the
question of voting the dispensary ont
of that county.
1t has been discovered that there
was arsenic in u pot of cabbage which
poisoned the convicts at the state
~penitentiary. 1t had been placed
there in the form of paris green.
Governor Hey ward has signed the
commission of J. E. Cox, a member Of
the board of dispensary control of
Pickens County. The governor has
not yet been officially notified of the
result of the recent election in that
county.
In a fight at Cadets nea Kingstree,
between Fleet Epps and Levi Sauls on
one the other over the ownership of a
few crates of beans the elder Carson
was shot twice through the arm and
his son fatally shot through the
stomach.
Andrew johnson, jam s Clinton
and John Harris, negroes, have been
pardoned by Governor Hayward from
the penitentiary where they were
serving sentences for breaking into
Lewis & Hartzog u store and stealing
$3.50. The pardon was recommended
by the solici tor and many citizens.
r. M. Eli son, Bros. & Co., Of Honea
Path have filed a petiLition in bank
ruptcy.
The question of holding a state en-
campment will be decided by the
authorities on Monday.
Ebaugh & Ebaugh of Greenvllle
have been awarded the contract for
constructing 20 miles of sewer in
Darlington.
In a suit against state constables for
the return of two gallons of whiskey
seized and for 800 damages q magis-
trate's court in Columbia decided in
favor of the constables.
Representatives of Russian jewish
societies are inspecting lands about
Charleston with q view to placing i'm
migrants there.
The safe in the Atlantic Coast Line
DEPOT at Bennettsville was robbed OF
sos in money and $572 in checks.
Two other packages containing about
$50 were overlooked.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has decided to pay the $lOOO
license demaned by the city of Ander'
son and has done 30 with $50 penalty
for a non. payment within the requir
ed time, and the court costs for the
fight made against payment.
Mi. Bryan has sent a check for $4o'
TO the Kentucky Agricultural Collie &c
the proceeds of which shall be used tt
give a prize yearly for the best essay
on the principles of free government
The money comes from the Bennett
estate. :,
Three men were killed by the sud
den rush of steam from a boiler al
Cleveland, Ohio.
William Zeigler, the promoter OF
Arctic explorations, left an estate al
ued at $50, OOO, 900.
King Edward met. King Alfonso
at the railway station in London
where the two monarchs embraced
President Roosevelt was presented
with statuette representing him a.
colonel of the rough riders.
Harvey Goodwin, a l7-year-oid boy
fell too near the shore and broke nj
neck. .,,
Military honors will be paid by th'
national government at the funeral Of
the late Gen. H. V. Boyton.
n11tx , Iou, ~ rfnnr nf w
G. Crawford, who was indicted 10
connection with postal frauds, testlln'
| ed in favor of Crawford.
Negoations for the settlement OF the
transfers strike were renewed AM
President c.. P. Shea and anothe
strike leader was arrested.
Adyices from native sources stat'
that Warmbad, the German heao
quarters in southwest Africa, has peer
captured by natives the garrison
perishing. -.
Secretary of War Taft declined tn
a~pnlioation of the state of Missouri Il
take possession OF the eEcn snts
Bridge, across the Mississippi river a
st. Louis. ,.
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., in an inter
! view at Pittsburg, stated negotlatlons
are under way for the acquirment OF
the Little Kanawha Syndicate's prop
erty by the Wabash Railroad.
Three white men were badly cut IL
a fight, with negroes in Louisville
The negroes were trying to take lce
from a wagon driven by n OF tne
white men. A.
The Southern Cotton Growers AS
ISOLATION charges that there was 9
leak in the cotton acreage estimate O
the department of agriculture, Whlcl
was used by the bears for their ben