The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-04-26
south Carolina Notes.

sonville, Fla.
J. J Robertson has been appointed
game warden of Fairfield County un
der the new law.
Euoree Presbytery is in session a
Union. Rev. w. R. Potter of Greer
was elected moderator.
Beaufort is making preparations tt
enertain the grand Lodge, Knights o
Pythias, May 16 and II.
The oyster and fish commission o
the legislature will 60 to Savannah
Saturday for it's first meeting.
The state council of the Junior Or
der of United Ameicar Mechanic
will meet April 10 and 81.
Greenville is arranging to retunt
SIS 500 of bonds issued to build The
bridge over Reedy river 20 years ago
The ministers and clergyman OF
Greenvllle are considering the hold
ing of a general revival in that city
A commission has been issued tt
the News Publishing Co. to issue
daily paper in Florence. The capita
stock will be $4,000.
A number of horses have died in Co
lumbia of lockjsw. Among them was
fine horse belonging TO Governor
Hayward. >,
Thos. J. Jackson, about 81 years old,
was struck and killed by a falling
limb from a tree while driving home
a.load of fertilizer in Orangeburg
County.
The barns on the premises of Mrs,
Nj. L. Lipscomb and DR.. VIM. Ander'
son at Blacksburg were burned with
their contents. The loss was about
$3.50. The residences of these parties
narrowly escaped destruction.
The temperature at G~reenville drop
ped to 80 degrees Friday morning
H. H. Edwards is dead at Anderson.
aged AZ years. He was q native OF
Edgefie1d and a graduate of Furman
University.
Archie Holiday, while practicing
in the gymnasium at Monaghan Mills,
Greenville, fell from a horizontal bar
and broke his neck, dying instantly.
The committee of physicians ap-
pointed to examine and report on the
sanity of Ned Mack, sentenced to be
hanged at Manning has not yet re-
ported to the governor.
The Atlantic Coast Line express
was deraileb at q place called Straw
berry, Is miles from Charleston. Six
cars were overturned and several OF
the crew were injured,
The South Carolina Medical Society
will convene in Greenville Wednes-
day, April IL. The convention will
be attended by physicians from every
city and county in the state, Spartan
burg will be we'll represented.
Rennie Cade was drowned in Sa-
vannah river while attempting to
swim across to the Georgia side to Sc
cure q batteau for use in capturing an
escaped negro, whom he wished to
arrest.
G. w. Jordan, who owned a small
c store at Rock Hill, has disap-
peared, leaving a wife and a two
months old child. He is said to have
been considerably involved financial.
ly.
G. M. Trammel, q Furman Univer-
sity student, has disappeared. He
had been much mortified by failing to
pass some of his examinations. His
home is in Greenwood, where his par
'ents are greatly distressed over his
strange conduct.
Mrs Ida MCGEE died Thursday
night in Anderson County from being
burned when her clothing caught fire
at two o'clock in the afternoon while
she was lying before a fire in her
room. She left q four weeks old in
FAINT, which was also badly burned.
The body of q negro woman was
found in Broad river near Columbia.
It is supposed to be that of Rebeces
Planter, who lived nearby and who
has been missing for several days.
There is suspicion of foul play an
her husband, Henry Planter, has been
arrested.
Work has commenced on the new
Depot at Kingstree,
A similar fatality occurred also at
Lowndesville.
Scarcity of farm labor is complained
Of in parts of Laurens County.
Mrs Minnie Corpening, wife of the
Baptist minister at Timmonville' is
dead at that place.
Young Trammel, who disappeared
from Furman University, is said to
have been seen in Atlanta.
Judge Hudson has ACCEPTED an in
vitation to deliver the address on Me
mortal Day at Sumter.
The Wesner-White mattress factory
at Camden was partially burned with
heavy loss to machinery. The origin
of the fire Is unknown.
The annual banquet of the celebrat-
ed Winyah Indigo Society at George
town will take place the first Friday
in May.
The guard house at st Matthew
was burned and in it Fred Miller, q
negro, vas burned to death. 1t is be-
lieved that Miller set fire to the place
in the hope of escaping.
A train between Laurens and New
berry was wrecked four miles from
Newberry by a car containg rock
breaking down and tearing up the
track for quite a distance. Nobody
was hurt.
D. M. Bedenbaugh, formerly agent
of the Southern Railway at Belton,
has been arrested in Savannah. chary.
de with embezzlement. The qrosecu.
ton is being pushed by the American
Surety Co., which was on Beden.
baugh's bond.
w. II. Andrews, superintendent
of the Georgetown & Western Rail
road, was painfully injured by being
struck on the cheek bone dy a whiskeS
flask in. the hands of a negro. Hi.
cheek bone was broken. After beins
struck he seized his assailiant anC
administered a severe drubding
The negro has been arrested.
G. 81. Niehaus, the sculptor, is re,
covering from an operation for the re,
moval of two false teeth, which he
swallowed while laughing.