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South Carolina Notes.

South Carolina Notes.
The annual convention of the rural
letter carriers association of South
Carolina is in session in Columbia.
A half witted and inoffensive negro
was killed on the roadside at ORD,
Chesterfield County. Thaddeus and
Steve Williams, also colOred, have
been arrested and lodged in the
Chesterfield Jail, charged with the
crime.
A movement is on foot in Edgefield
County to vote out the ~dispensary. A
mass meeting was held in the town
of Edgefield for the purpose of mak-
ing arrangements to vote on the ques-
ton.
D. A. T. Farr, a we'll known citizen
of Jonesville, died at his home at that
place on Sunday. He was a Confeder-
ate veteran. He left an estate valued
ats 40, 900. -.
Frank Williams, alias "Old Hump"
who was tried in Charleston at the
April term of the federal court on the
charge of robbing the postotfice at
Kingstree, has beeh convicted for rob-
bling the postoffice at Port Norfolk
and sentenced to five years in the
federal prison at Atlanta.
James A. Hendrix, formerly of Co
lumbia, committed suicide at New
Castle, KY, by getting under the
wheels of q moving locomotive. Its
said that he was short in his accounts
with the Bell Telephone Company
for which he was collector.
J. n. Austeli has been elected chief
of the Union police force.
A complete temperance organlza-
ton has been planned for Union
County.
The recent advance in cotton has
caused activity in the markets of the
state.
The Charleston street car company
handled 3S,460 passengers on the
Fourth.
One negro was killed and another
wounde6a at q celebration at Mars Bluff.
The row started over 8 woman.
The Southern Railway will straight
en- the curves in its track about Ker-
shaw and a survey has been made.
James Moore q prominent farmer Of
Donalds, was killed by lightning dur
ing a thunderstorm yesterday after
noon.
A meeting has been held and steps
taken to call an election on the ques-
ton of voting out, the d~ispensary in
Marlboro County
While holding a special term of
civil court at Bennettsville Judge
Watts was suddenly taken i'll and had
to 20 to his home at Laurens. Court
was adjourned.
Next Monday night DR.. Len g. g..
Broughton the noted Atlanta min
lister, will deliver an address at the
First Baptist Church at Union.
Resolutions calling for the circula-
ton of petitions for the purpose of
calling an election to vote out the dis
pensary in Saluda were passed amid
iumultous confusion.
Frank Henderson, a negro, was
found dead beside the railroad track
at Florence. An investigation shows
that there is strong grounds for the
theory of foul play.
Harry L. Goss has severed his con-
nection with the firm ofArthur& Goss
at Union and goes to New York,
where he takes a position with a large
cotton firm.
The city. council of Greenville has
granted 8 franchise to the Saluda
River Power Company to string wires
through Greenville for lightning pur-
poses. The franchise covers a period
of forty years.
Henry Mosley is the richest colored
man in Greenville. He was recently
awarded more than $4,000 by the
Southern Railway for certain lands to
be used by the railway company as
terminals.
The supreme court has refused a
new trial in the ase of Palmer Cres-
we'll and Fletcher Byrd, convicted Of
killing Magistrate w. j. Cox of Simp-
sonville and the men will hang unless
the governor ~interyenes, which is not
The trial of S. P. Harvey in Char
lesion resulted in a disagreement.
A professor of geology in the South
Carolina College will be elected July
26.
Robert L. MCGEE of Greenvllle was
married in Gaffney to Miss Agnes
Lipscomb, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lipscomb.
A request has been made of the
state board of directors to remove j.
CARTRIDGE, recently elected dispenser
in Columbia, because he is alleged to
have been guilty of violation of the
%dispensary law.
r. D. Robertson of Mayfield, KY,
will establish an ice factory in Rock
Hill.
Julis H. We'll of Anderson will
open q wholesale dIy goods house in
Columbia.
Commissioner Watson is trying to
bring some of the New Jersey silk
mills to South Carolina.
T. J.. Davenport has been held for
trial in Newberry, charged with as
sault and battery on P. G. Smith.
G. B. Martin of the faculty of Fur.
man University has been awarded the
degree of M. A. by Cornell Univer-
sity.
Dispensary Commissioner Tatum
has rejected a carload of beer shipped
from Savannah on account of having
the wrong labels on it, the quality of
the beer being of a lower grade than
the labels indicated.
r. H.Sontag of Denmark has been
bound over to federal court charged
with buying and reselling tobacco tags
in violation Of the federal statutes.
The American Surety Co. will pay
$2,400 on the bond of Dispenser
BuZzardt, who was found short at
Fort Motto,
The body of a negro who had ep-
n~aranflu bean daad for ~aouaral months