Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-04-12
LIVE ITEMS OF STATE NEWS

The city of Spartanburg has
let the contract for $1O0, 600
worth of street paving.
The Carr Contracting company
of Rock Hill has been chartered
by the secretary of State.
There are only SO dogs in the
city of Columbia; at least, that is
the number on the city tax books.
w. B. Cooper has brought suit
for S15, 600 against Richland
county for damages from a de-
fective bridge.
Rev. L. M. Rice has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the
First Baptist church of Union, to
take effect June 1.
The county officers in Spartan
burg are to be investigated. The
money has been advanced from
the general county fund.
Senator Tillman was notified
the other day of the formation
of the Benjamin r. Tillman Lit
erary Society" in New York.
The records of the Southern
Railway show that 1,O25 solid
cars Of freight were handled in
Spartanburg during the month of
February.
The executive committee of
the Republican party in this State
has decided to call State con-
vention in Columbia on the
second Wednesday in August.
Rev. Henry A. White, D. D.,
of the Columbia Theological
Seminary has written a school
history of South Carolina which
will be published by a Boston
firm.
The franchise tax returns show
that there are thirty-eight more
State banks in this State this year
to pay franchise tax than there
were last year at the same time.
A negro woman rs years old
and negro boy nine years of
age are among those indicted for
murder and who will be tried at
the the present term of the court
at Chester.
The plumbers strike in Charles
ton was settled by the master
plumbers conceding the demands
of the union for $3.50 per day,
an increase of SO cents.
A. w. Jones, comptroller gen.
eral, has received from the
clerk of court of Colleton County
a check for $423.97, in settle
ment of the pension frauds"
in that county.
Senator Tillman has received
an invitation from DR.. George H.
Denny, president of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, of Lex
ington, Va, to deliver the COM
rnencement oration before the
literary societies of that institu-
ton on June 26. He declined.
Quite a kick is being raised by
some of the county auditors and
boards of control in regard to u.s.
ing request blanks as requested
by law. The auditor of Lee
county has fatty refused to COM
ply with the law, and says that
if the law is enforced it will drag
Lee county into the prohibition
rank.
The truck farmers in the vicin-
lty of Charleston were hard hit
by the recent cold snap. 1t was
the most destructive spell of cold
weather in five years, and the
losses of the farmers run high
into the thousands. Several crops
had to be replanted.
Rev. Jas. Boyce, president of
Due West Female College has
had an offer of $1O,O 900 from An
drew Ctrnegie for a new dormi-
tory building for the college on
condition that an equal amount
be raised by friends of the insti-
tuition.
DIR. Henry w. Farnam, pro-
fessor of political economy at
Yale University has sent the
South Carolina University a
check for $500 to be used for the
purchase of books for the univer-
sity library.
Upon a formal request from
the intendant of Prosperity a
constable is to be sent to that
town. Governor Heyward's pol
icy has been not to send con-
stables to any county that has
voted out the dispensary unless
there is evidence that the con-