The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of Interest Condensed ara Par.
agrapsled for Quick Reading.

This road extends from Marion, n. Z.
to Camden, S. c.
Mr.. A. Foster McKissick has been
appointed q, member Of the reform2-
tory board to I'LL the vacancy occas-
ioned by the resignation of DR.. w. G.
Irby.
John Boyd was killed on Christmas
day at Beech Island, Aiken county,
by another negro named Mccoy.
Mr. J. Monroe >speers OF Darlington
has been appointed solicitor Of the
fourth judicial circuit to succeed the
late MT. j. Monroe Johnson.
The postal commission will urge
congress to authorize a seaching
investigation into the administration
Of the postofice department
Engineer George Hunnicut was
painfully injured and disabled, by a
rock thrown into his cab as the train
was passing Rodman station on the
seaboard Air Line Thursday night.
AIonzo Bowman shot and fatally
wounded his brother, Lewis Bowman,
I in Darlington Sunday afternoon.
Col. john 3. Cleveland, who has,
served faithfully on the South Caro-
lima historical commission for several
years, has declined reappointment
and Prof. Yates Snowden Of the Uni
versity Of South Carolina has been
appointed in his stead.
Two negro children were burned to
death in house on Mr.. T. NJ. Rogers
plantation in Florence county Satur-5
/ day morning. Their mother went to
a dance, leaving them shut up in the
house.
Engineer Earle Maxwell Of Walhal-
! la, was caught in a wreck at Peach.
| land, near Monroe, n. c., Saturday
night, and burned to death in sight Of
the passengers, who were powerless5
to rescue him. He was the only per-
son killed.
! Ephriam Kinard and his son bru-1
tally murdered the formers wife in
saluda county Thursday night. They.
hacked her body almost to pieces
with an axe and knives. In the same
county a negro girl 70. years old was.
killed by two negro boys about the
same age.
j. S. Mcreer, colored school
teacher, was shot and seriously
wounded near Branchville Friday by
| his brother-i -in-law, Malcolm Durant.
Constable Byrd went to the scene Of
the shooting Immediately after it
was reported, but Durant had made
his escape.
E. S. Tillery was shot and killed at.
Ferguson Saturday BY w. S. B. Tate.
It seems that Til1ery had borrowed a
gun from Tate, about which the men
quarreled. No blows were passed un-.
til Tate started ,.,c-.e, when, it is al
heged, Tfliery r2:ls after and cut cash
under Tates -: Tate then SHOT
and killed ,;;...~iy with his pistol.
Messrs. ). H. Patten of Boston and
James Bronson Reynolds of New York.
who are representing President
Roosevelt in an inv estigation Of the
labor and Immigration matters in
the south, arrived in Columbia Satur-
day. Commissioner Watson was
rather indisposed Saturday and re-
NAMED at his home, but a meeting
Will be held today and tomorrow a
thorough conference will be held, in
which conditions will be gone into.
Mr.. William I. Laval will retire
from the Office Of the State treasurer
On on the 1st of January. He has
been connected with the Office for 47
years, first as State treasurer for the
lower district and later as chief clerk
in the Office when the districts were
consolidated He declined to serve
under Radical administrations, out
upon the return of Democratic rule
he was called back to the work in
which he had done good service fer
the State.
On the commission appointed to
mark the grave of Gen. Sumter, DR..
j. w. Babcock and Mr.. S. A. Salley,
Jr. could not serve owing to their
other official positions. Hon. Richard
I. Manning and Col. John j. Dargan
have been appointed to their places.
Mr. Manning has always taken a keen
interest in historical work and Col.
Dargan, by the publication Of his
school history and the articles written
on Gen. Sumter and other Revolu-
tionary heroes, has shown that he is