The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-08-16
South Carolina Notes.

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South Carolina Notes.
t P. L. McMannus, division superin
fendent of the Southern will be moved
rom Charlotte to Greenvllle.
Anderson County shows a gain in
taxable property of million and 6
half dollars over last year.
Ernest Benson and Kay Robinson
were sentenced to five years in tie
penitentiary for the killing of Myrtle
Burns in upper GreenVille.
Will Cabe has been arrested at Try
on, N. c.. charged with the murder o.
P. G. Plumbly at CLASSY Mountain ir
September, 1896.
Otto Summey was acquitted ir
Greenville of the murder of Oscal
Cureton. The jury out IL hours, one
man held for manslahghter.
5000 pounds of tobacco were sold
in Dillon at from 8 to 20 cents 6
pound. This was the break the mar
ket has had in several years.
Former Supervisor Speegle o.
Greenville County County is Ill al
Hendersonville, N. c., and will not he
required to come to Greenville at pres
ent.
r. L. and G. E. Graham of Green
vile have leased for Is months the
Banna Cotton Mill at Goldville in
Laurens County Yarns will be
manufactured.
James Nelson, the negro charged
with attempt to commit rape in Sum
ter was trie d at special term of court
and sentenced to 80 years in the peni
Tertiary.
William Elliot, Jr., has been elected
manager of the Columbia street rail
way to succeed P. I. Welles, who be-
comes manager of the Union anc
Glenn Springs Ry.
An attempt to poison the family O.
Mrs. J. A. Ferguson near Clinton by
putting poison III q well has beer
discovered. Several members of the
family and household were made i'll
but they have recovered. A negro
named Jake Carwile is suspected anC
is being searched for.
J. A. Pride, commercial agent of tht
Seaboard Air Line at Columbia, Ii
said to be going TO be appointed assist
ant general passenger agent of th'
Seaboard Air Line with headquarter'
at Atlanta. Mr.. Pride was formerly
str toned at Spartanburg.
Gillian Hoton and a negro mai
were struck and killed by lightning
while standing under tree during {
thunderst orm near Kershaw.
A. II. Wells of Grecnville nov
auditor of the Blue Ridge Railroad
will move to Anderson and will b.
general manager of the line, reporting
to President A. B. Andrews a
Raleigh, N. G. The latter says tha
the Southern will build the line owe
the mountains to Marysville, Tenn
Col A. B. Andrews of Raleigh, N
c., first vice. president of the South
ern Railway, has been elected presi
/ dent of the Blue Ridge Railroad t.
succeed the late 81. G. Beattie. Th,
offices of the company will be remov
ed from Greenville to Anderson.
Rev. R. L. Rogers, highly respected
Presbyterian preacher Of Oconee Coun
ty, is dead.
Mrs. Sarah Wilcox, widow of th,
late Henry M. Wilcox, who was pro
bate judge of Marion County, is deat
aged 76 years.
The Fountain Inn Manufacturing
Co., will add 4,5O0 spindles and 81
looms. 1t is understood that con
tracts have been awarded.
The Speegle shortage in Greenvill,
continues to grow. ST 1000 paid Spec
| II. -, +lo Dor;, NIo,n t,;n INotor (,o
and 500 by the Chick Springs Co
for county purposes are unaccountec
for.
David Gruber was shot in Charles
ton while attempting to burglarize 6
house. The negro was shot by w. R.
Heron and was instantly killed
Heron was trying to arrest him.
There are still persistent rumors liz
Darlington that Robert Keith Dargan
is still alive and that a dummy was
buried for him. 1t may be necessary
to exhume the body to prove it's iden-
tity. Dargan is said to have carried
1000 life insurance.
An extensive electrical plant is to be
bull on Reedy river at Fork Shoals.
The stable of r. A. Whitlock at
Jonesville was destroyed by fire. The
loss $500 with no insurance,
1000 people are said to have attend
ed the Saluda Baptist Association in
Anderson County.
An underground distillery was
found four miles from Greenville in
an old mill on Reedy river. 1t had
baff1ed the search of the constables for
more than year.
Aaron Williams, colored has been
discharged on his own recognizance
as the state was unable to try him for
rape. He was once convicted, but a
new trial was ordered. The woman
said to have been his victim refused
tc testify against him, thus demolish-
ing the states case.
P.S. Seay, an employee of the
American Bridge Co., fell from the
bridge being erected over Saluda river
for the Southern Railway, between
Greenville and Pickens Counties and
was instantly killed on the rocks be-
low. The deceased was resident of
Pennsylvania, where bis body was
sent, accompanied by his wife, who
was at Fasley at the time of the acci-
dent.
The Poplar Logn case hearing in
Greenville elioited nothing Of interest
the principal testimony being that the