The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-04-25
STATE NEWS,

aoIe 10 swim, WGs drowned.
- The barn Of W. H. Dent, five
miles from Columbia, Was struck by
lightning and burned down.
49, The two.year-old son Of D. NJ,
Nixon fell iutc pot Of hot water
and was scalded to death ct Green
wood.
- VIM. Brunson was shot aad kill
ed by Wade Butler near Manning.
A dispute over some land was the
cause. Both colored.
B. G. Whitehead, Clork Of Court
of williamsburg County, dropped
dead on Friday. He was afflicted
with heart disease.
- Dennis Sumter, cciored, was ar
rested in Orangeburg County aud will
be tried in Charleston for murder com
mi.ted eight years ago.
Dock Miller, a Snartanburg ne
gro, became angry at his mule
and cut ita throat with knife. The
mule died and the negro has been ar
rested.
The prayton cotton mills of
Spsrtanburg, one of the newest mills,
Of which Arch B. Calvert is president,
has decided to Increase its capital
stock from $3.50, 900 to 5000, 900.
Judge Prince sentenced 20 ne.
groes and white man at Saluda for
gambling they gambled on Sunday.
The sentence of each negro was $50
aud Of the white man $3.50. All paid
up.
- Comptroller. G eneral Jones has
expressed himself as being very much
pleased with the prompt manner in
which the corporations of the State
have reported and paid their franchise
tax.
- The recent decision Of the at
torney general that cities and towns
Of over 500 inhabitants should have
boards Of assessors, has brought about
the appointment of quite number
| Of such city boards.
Stealing out Of her home with
fox-like tread, Mre. Mary Lcwis, aged
40 years, of Glendale, mado her way
to we'll, ninety feet deep, located 10
the back yard Of her home and lump.
ed in. Her neck was broken by the
fall and death must have been instan-
taneous.
- -- 1t is generally conceded that
! when the final returns Of taxable
| property in York County for the year
1906 have been oompil.l ] they will
show o large increase over those of
last or any other year in the history
Of Tie oounty-possibiy from one to
two million dollars.
| - An internal revenue notice in
the keowee Courier states that one
mule, one horse,r gone 2 horse wagon,
one set OF harness, one lantern, one
Ecnr, eHe sunuoi, one hammer, two
chairs and fifty gallons Of corn whis-
key we're recently seized from ". Is.
Whitworth near Walhalla. - =.
:. .-J. P. burst, a white butcher Of
Johnston, was shot land seriously
wounded By Joe Grant, o negro bar.
ber,% April ID, at 10 o'clock. The
shooting is said to have followed au
Argument about house rent. burst
was unarmed, Grant fred several
shots, one OF which struck burst in
the abdomen. The negro ssesped.
>::$$-: The South Carolina commission.
ers to the Jamestown Exposition have
picked out 8 site for the State exhibit
on the-water front Of the grounds: It
is proposed to make the exhibit EN-.
phasize the fact shat ehis: was one Of
Che original thirteen States, rather
THAN overshadowiug the commercial.
lam OF the times. : j. i .<;. =: .:..:
-: Representative aiken, aho is &C
the committee on pensions has got
throug b the pensions Of John f.
Tathen, OF Waihalls, now 0 fremen
| on the Columbia and Green Vile road, ,
and Msa. Minnie O. O'Conn0r, OF
INewbskfy, mother Of John A.a Res-
gan, who died in the Philippines.
Mr.: Hathen was injured during the
service in Cnba. = !, : : : =. .,' !. =,
- The State Board OK Dispensary
| directors made provision for she es.
tablishmsnt In Columbis of retail!
dispensasy from vhioh remnant
stock will be worked Of at reduced
prices, this with . view 20 dispssing
Of unstable goods that bave aooumu-
lated, not only at the State. dispen.
ssry, bus Is the sub. .dispensariss
throughout tho State. :. .,><....5*#..e .>5*#.e
- William Marcus, negro, stab.
bed his;wife on sulliyan's Island with
sn Ice pick ssd killed her. She was
stabbed fourteen times: The negro
waa arrested and admits the killing,
saying he killed his wife because she
was not trne to Elm; It appears that
she was an industrious. woman and
had worked in q white family end
supported her, husband. ia idleness
for sonae time.5 II @::; !: $r;1::.
r. Governor Hayward received .
delegation from Greers asking for an
election for Highland County. The
| delegation wants an election ordered
Sc ss:k=.ss 99st s;a1 get 5o11.7 se.:.
| Ecuntain 4 Inn, also in Greenville
County, has asked for . new county to
be known, as Gairview." Both coun-
ties cannot be carved out Of che pro-