The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of Interest Condensed and Par
agraphed for Quick Reading.

The Comanchee Fertilizer Company Z:
Of Charleston will erect a large
manufacturing plant near Charles
ton.
Several gypsy women We're arrested Z
in Chester on the charge Of out
rage. is and indecent conduct on the
streets.
Fifty car repairers, oilers and 9TH
er employees in the shops of the South
ern at Charleston have gone out on
strike.
A charter has been granted by the Z
State of Georgia for constructing a
trolley line from Athens to Ander-
son.
Elections have been held in more
than forty places in the State for z
| high schools.
Monroe Can't shot and killed John
Rackson at Springfield, S. c.
Mayor L. Sawyer Of Sally has gone
to Middletown, n Y, for the purpose,
of identifying Fred Dunbar the nelRs
gro who is under arrest on the
charge of murder committed IN this
State.
The citizens of Chester are making
efforts to secure free mail delivery
system. n
The residents of sullivan's Island =
have taken steps to erect life lines
on the beach
Charles Harper, young white man
Of Gaffney. stole his fathers COW and So
sold the animal to butcher in
Blacksburg. n
]. Henry Ellison, a we'll known g
farmer of Greenville county, was
thrown from his buggy and painfully
injured.
Buck Foster, we'll known athlete
of Greenville, will wrestle with Al
Christensen of Columbia, next Mon &
day night
A movement has been started in
Lancaster TO build macadam ro3d
from Lancaster to White Bluff,
distance of Il miles.
During the past few days hundredsn1
of gold fish in aquariums in Char1es-
ton have been killed from the copper
sulphate in the water.
j. H Snead has been arrested in
Charleston, charged with the embez-
Element of $500 from the Southern
road at Hickory, n. c..
W. ]. oakes, sewer inspector off +
the town of Orangeburg while riding
bicycle through the streets Of
that city ran into a rope suspended
from q telephone pole and his neck
was badly cut by the rope.
A trunk containing six gallons of>
whiskey and Is bottles of beer was
seized at the Southern station in y
Greenville by officers.
A young white man of Elloree was @
attacked and bitten by mad dog. He
has gone to Baltimore for treatment
Seven fires occurred in the home OF
John Nix in Union within an hour s
and half
J. J. Simmons, tried for the murder
Of Sam Chastain in Anderson, was
found guilty.
There is movement on foot in
Aiken to build another trolley line
from that place to Augusta.
Monroe Whitley, we'll known bus<aI
mess man of McColl, is dead at MS
home at that place.
c. c. Faatherstone, of Laureas.
says that the tax on labor laws OF Il
South Carolina need amending.
Fred Brown, Of Anderson, who was S.
recently stricken with paralysis, hasaA
gone to a sanitarium for treatment.
A severe hail and wind storm vis-,
tied Anderson county. Crops are
badly damaged throughout the coun
ty.
Hamilton Carhart, owner of the
Carhart Cotton Mills in Yorkville, "a
will erect a three story club house N
for the operatives.
The South Carolina branch Of the
Farmers Union is in session in
Greenwood. Delegates from all Sec
tions of the State are in attendance.
Boxanna Meadon, colored, has been ~
arrested in Union, charged with set
ting fire to the house of John Nix. It ~
is alleged that the girl made seven
attempts to fire the house.
During a thunderstorm in Camden
the residence Of Senator Hough was
struck by lightning and set on fire.@
The flames were extinguished before
E-ny damage was done.