The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-05
NEWS IN the STATE CAPITAL.
WHITE NAN TO BE EXECUTED I-s
COLLETON.
seaboard Extensions in Up-ccuntrs.
Baltimore Capitalists Purchased
Columbia Street Railway.
What Schools are Colleges.
BY w. II. McCaw.

NllaC ScnCClS are
BY W. Fl. McCaw.
Columbia, March 29.-R. A. Ad-
ans, the Colleton murderer Of his
knisman, Henry Jacques, whom he
shot in a. road near Cottageville as the
result of a family fued which had be-
gun to be fought out in the court, is
to be resentenced at WATERFORD to-
day. The supreme court has passed
unfavorably, upon his appeal for new
trial and he will hang in short time,
as it is improbable that the governor
will interfere Adams, it will be re-
membered, escaped from the Colleton
Jail after the supreme court passed
upon his case, but was captured in a
Spectacular manner. by Sheriff Owens
and posse after the governor had
offered reward of $1,000. He was
surrounded in his home, to which he
had come only half an hour before the
arrival of the posse. AS he was at
tempting to escape from a back win
dow the sheriff fred a load Of buck
shot at him, but Adams saw the Of
ficer in the moonlight preparing to
fire and he lodged behind the WIN
dow. Further resistance would likely
have resulted in the death Of mem
bers of his family and he surrendered.
He has been here in the penitentiary
since.
The Seaboard is preparing to make.
important upcountry connections in.
Immediate future, principally for the
purpose Of getting at the cotton mill
shipments, it is presumed, although
Hof course all Of this Piedmont section
is rich in all kinds OF business and is
rapidly developing and broadening.
The extension Of the Greenville, Knox
vile and Greenwood road from Green
vile to Greenwood as to tap the Sea-
board at the latter place, is to begin
within 80 days and the guarantee to
the 10 clastockholders who are to put
up 100000, is that it will be COM
pleted in three years. Nothing is to be
PAID by the local stockholders until.
the road is completed. This will give
the local stockholders who are to put
mills in Greenville, Anderson and
Laurens counties Then on the north
ern end of the State a connection is
being surveyed from a point on the.
Seaboard near Carlisle over to Union:
and it is thought that t>by connecting
with the old Glenn Springs and Spar
tanburg road that the line will be
extended on by. the Buffalo mills to
|Spartanburg. When these two projects
are completed the Seaboard will have
tapped the principal milf centres Of
the country.
The Mercantile Trust Company of
Baltimore has acquired a controlling
interest in the Columbia street rail-
way There will be no change in the
management for the present, it is
stated, Mr.. E. w. Robertson retain
ing the presidency, and local men will
be still represented on the board.
The newcomers own similar lines in
|Spartanburg, Charleston, Augusta,
Richmond, Jacksonville and else
where
A white man whose name appears
to be d. Pesatta, died in a mysterious
sort of a way at spartanburg yester-
day, and the coroner's inquest has
been unable to throw any light on the
matter. Pesatta was in the picture
enlarging business, but dressed well
and seememd to be quiet man. He
came to Spartanburg on March 4 and
has been drunk almost continuously
since. He was found in an unconscious
COiiOlIiOQ III Ills IOO111 Will o. NAoShSy y
and died as result Of this wound. He
said that be had been in a fight with
an unknown man who struck him af-
ter quarrel about a picture he had
sold him.
There is a feeling among the cot
ton buyers here that the mills in this
tate viii suffer from shortage Of cot
ton In April. According to carefully
gathered figures the mills in this state
will need about 250,000 bales Of cot
ton within the next thirty dsya. There
is said to be already such a shortage
in Georgia and Alabama with the re-
suit that prices are better in both
these states than they are in South
Carolina. The situation is expected to
force up the price here in April to
9 1-2 or 10 cents. Much cotton has
been warehoused throughout the state
| in anticipation Of higher prices but it