The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-03-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Condensed and Par
agraphed for Quick Reading.

Henry Aston, a Georgetown negro,
is confined in an insane asylum in
London, England.
A company has been organized at
Hartsyille to manufacture silverware
and silver valuables. 1t has a capi-
tai of $4,000.
congress has made an appropria-
ton for4ouilding immigration stations
at Charleston, New Orleans and CAL
weston.
Klrail Jeans killed Abe Gist in
Jacks Township, Laurens County, OF
Saturday.
An interstate fremen's tourna-
ment will be held in Anderson July
.2e-Aug. I.
VIII Mcmillan, colored, was seri-
ously injured by street car in Co
1umbia Sunday night.
Philip Haiiliard, a, one-legged negro
desperate, was given life sentence
by the Charleston court Saturday for
a murder committed at Ten Mile Hill.
John M. Hiott fell under a car
loaded with fertilizer at Pelzer and
an arm and leg were cut off.
John Evans, colored, split Hilton
Usherss head open with a hatchet
Tuesday night at Lester, Marlboro
County. Both were drunk.
The Rock Hill city ccunci1 is TAX
ing the preliminary steps to secure
a sewerage system.
The Fythian Grand Lodge meets
in Anderson Moy 2sth.
The Pendleton cotton mill will b.
enlarged from 3,101 to 10000 sp;z,-
dies.
Two little negro children were
burned to death in house near Sell
ers, Marion County.
E. P. waring, Jr., of Charleston,
has arrived in Columbia and has Ia
kenaup his duties as secretary of the
railroad commission, succeeding D.
P. Duncan, who has held the Office
for many years.
The March term of the United
states court convened IN Florence to-
day.
st. Johns Cathedral, Charleston,
will be dedicated April IA. Cardinal
Gibbons will conduct the dedication
services.
Jay Kanzier, manager of the CO.
lumbia baseball team, arrived in Co
lumbia Monday.
Noah Ruff, colored, was killed in
Newerry County Sunday while gam
bling with crowd
The body of an infant was discov-
cred in a well in Greenville Monday
by a negro woman who was drawing
water.
Two negro railroad hands were
drowned in Pee Dee swamp in lower
Marion County last Thursday night. /.
A burglar broke into Dr. ]. H. Car
isles residence in Spartanburg Sat
urday night, but stole only a fountain
pen and a pair Of .spectacles.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Newberry inspected the Charleston
navy yard last week.
officials Of the Southern Railway
are much interested in the South
Carolina immigration movement.
DR.. j. M. Moore of Rock Hill,
surgeon in the United States army,
is now stationed at Norfolk, Va.
J. R. Bruce, young man employed
in a dry goods store in Anderson,
has disappeared with some of the
stores money. He left wife.
Forty-six Belgians have arrived in
Greenville and have gone to work in
one Of the cotton mills. They came
on the second trip of the Wittekind.
The annual State convention of the
North and South Carolina Young
Mems Christian Associations will be
held at Wilmington, n. c., on March
22-24.
Ed. Rainey was sentenced to death
in Gaffney for abusing a young fe-
male child. It is thought his SEN
tence may be commuted to life i'm
prisonment.
Requisition papers have been is
sued by the governor for Mack Nc
Corkle, wanted for murder in Ches-
ter County. The man is a negro
and is being held in Arkansas,
where he was arrested.
The 5ooie,lo+,,ro of North Carolina