The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-02-07
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

Live Stock Association will be held at
Clemson College this week, beginning
tomorrow.
The women of Georgetown have or
ganized a large branch of the Red
Cross and under their auspices will
build hospital.
A former flagman on the G. & w. c..
Road has filled two suits aggregating
$50, 600 against the Coast Line for in
juries received.
The population of this state at this
time is 1,340,316, the total number of
homes is 269,S64, and the number of
farm houses is 152, 993.
w. C. Dickerson, charged with the
murder of Ben F. Reed, at Bamberg,
was granted bail by the supreme court
in the sum of $1,000.
Frederick the Eighth has been pro-
claimed King of Denmark as the sue
cessor to King Christian, whose death
occurred week ago.
Congressman Aiken has introduced a
bill in the House providing for an in
crease of rural mail carriers salaries
from $50 to $75 month.
The general education board Of New
York has donated $25, 600 to the endow-
ment fund of Wofford College, provided
the institution raises $1O0, 600 by June
Is, 1907. This will be undertaken by
the College.
The shops and roundhouse of the Sea-
board Air Line, including five locomo-
tives, were totally destroyed by fire
at Abbeville Sunday evening. The loss
is estimated at 100000. The origin of
the fire is not stated.
Russ Kimbo, the 16 year old mill
operative of Piedmont, who was re-
Gently convicted of the murder of a
negro was refused a new trial by Judge
Aldrch, who sentenced him to life i'm
prisonment in the State Penitentiary.
-Four men were killed and two Sc
riously injured in head-on collision on
the Seaboard Air Line Id miles North
OF Columbia last Tuesday. A misun-
standing of orders on the part of the
crew of the freight train, which col
lided with a northbound passenger. was
the cause of the wreck.
The governors mansion was the
scene of the elimination of a romance
Wednesday. The governor was called
upon to perform the marriage cere-
mony there which made H. c.. De-
Champs, well known Sumter travel
ing man, and Miss Rosa Barnett, a
handsome girl of st. Matthews, man
and wife.
Secretary of State CAN'T, after con-
sultation with the assistant attorney
general and the chief of the State con-
stabulary, refused to grant charter
to the Mountain City Club of Greenville.
Owing to the character of the persons
applying for the charter, investigation
was made and it was decided to turn
the application down, as there was every
reason to believe that the charter was
sought to cover blind tiger.
The Riverside Land Company, capi-
tai S25, 900, Incorporated by t. C. Will
liams, Jr., w. H. Lyles of Columbia,
and III. j. Haynesworth of Greenville
have bought from Jas. A. Finley for
$25, 900, Finley's lands, within half a
mile of the city limitso of Greenville,
containing three hundred and forty
acres. They will lay out parks and
streets, divide the lands into lots, pave
the streets and put in water.
The Dispensary Investigating Com
mission conducted several public meet
ings in Columbia during the past week,
further probing the affairs of the insti-
tuition. The fact that the State board
of control paid something like $25, 900
more for certain contract for labels
than they could have been actually fur
nished the board, was the biggest thing
brought out. Other sessions will be
held this week by the committee before
it submits its final report to the legis-
ture.
Dyspepsia -bane of human existence.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures it, prompt
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