The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-03-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
items of Interest Condensed and Par
agraphed for Quick Reading.

The next annual Sunday school
convention will be held in Union.
The Southern will build new
freight depot at Greenville.
Chester hopes to have free mail
delivery soon.
Joe Bowman, colored, was killed in
Columbia Friday by Lee Marshall.
Camden has voted to issue bond ds for
the construction Of sewerage sys-
tenn.
The State Medical association will
meet at Bennettsville April 16, II
and 1S.
They are getting ready to hang
Tom Harris at Gaffney on March
2sth.
The last stone has ben placed in
the great dry dock of the Charleston
navy yard.
Greenville expects to have to bor-
row money to erect new bridge
over Reedy river.
Work has been begun on the ex-
cavations for the new Carnegie IL
brary in Anderson.
William Lee shot and killed Miles
Smith in the upper part Of Oconee
county on Sunday.
Crime Stone, white, and Will Will
liams, colored, have escaped from
the Greenville county changing.
The city council Of Laurens has
granted franchise for a street
railway to \. B. Dial.
Wade H. Plummer, Of Lamar, S.
c., has been awarded one of the
Carnegie hero medals.
viii Sanders killed Aurelia Mat
thews and her 15-year-old daughter
in Newberry county Friday. All are
negroes.
The president and Secretary Taft
will be invited to attend the meet
ing of the National Guard association
at Columbia March 26.
Geo. Y. Coleman Of Charleston has
been appointed to be a colonel on
Gov. Ansel's staff in the place of ".
W. Ball, who declined the honor.
Orangeburg was excited Friday
over a rumor that negro uprising
had been planned to take place that
night. There was nothing in it.
Mr.. John a. Bridges, who killed DR..
E. S. McDow at Lancaster several
months ago, was on Friday acquitted,
on a plea Of self-deferse.
Mr.. Este J. Bouzard, of Fort Motto,
was found dead in the road near his
home Friday morning. He is pre-
sumed to have committed suicide.
The Marlboro Cotton Exchange Of
Bennettsville, conducted by ]. j. Nc
Carley, Jr., and W. W. Dunn, repre-
senting E. P. Randolph, Of Philadel-
phia, made an assignment Friday.
Stark Means shot and seriously
injured Ed Russell, John Taylor and
Anna Bell Russell at Winnsboro. All
parties are negroes. Jealousy was the
excuse Of the trouble.
Claude Stokes, a negro about Is
years old has been arrested at Wal
halla, charged with numerous small
hold-ups, in which he relieved his
victims of small amounts of loose
change.
Elias Saunders is said to be mani
Testing symptom Of hydrophobia in
Marlboro county, due to being bitten
some time ago by supposed mad
cat
The railroad commission has de-
cided that it will not pay for news
paper subscriptions and that the
newspapers taken by it's memebrs
must be paid for by them individual
ly.
President Roosevelt has stated that
it will be impossible for him to accept
an invitation to attend the national
guard meeting in Columbia
1t is now said that E. ]. Bouzard
who was thought to have committed
suicide at St. Matthews, met his
death through accident.
It is likely that nc effort VIII be
made to test the Carey-Cohran liquor
law in the courts as nobody seems
willing to put up the necessary coun-
sci fees.
The young man Zeigler who had
some trouble at Albany, Ca, on ac-
count of reports that he had negro
blod in his veins, had a difficulty