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STATE A! GENERAL j NEWS ITEMS. THINGS OF !\TER?ST GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES AND CONDENSED INTO BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. Luther Strickland, a white convict serving a life sentence f in the penitentiary, killed him self last Saturday by jumping from the second story of the prison hospital. His rr.ind is said to have been unbalanced. New York City is building a water system capable of supplying" the city with one billion gallons a day. The cost of the enterprise will be $161,000,000. It is estimated that in 1930 the population of Greater New York will be 10,000,000. To furnish a new water supply system for Greater New York a part of the work is the building of a tunnel 030 feet under the Hudson river at a cost ?400,000 a mile. The Jamestown Ter centennial exposition was formally opened last Friday. President Roosevelt pressed the golden button that set the machinery in motion. The Jamestown exposition commission from this State is composed of the following members: W E **.onzales\ J E Norment, E M Rucker, J B Black, Frank Evans, J G Richards and T R Waring-. The immigration commission, romnosed of Senator Latimer et al., will come to South Carolina to investigate conditions here before starting on their European junketing tour. Maj- J W Gaines, formerly principal of Welsch Neck High school in this State, has been elected president of Cox College, Atlanta Ga. Maj Gaines lett Welsh Neck to assume the position of superintendent of the graded school at Newman, ! K Ga; | Summerton nas oegun ine erection of a $12,600 school building. Eli Davis, a negro watchman at the AC L yards,Florence,was run over by a flat car Monday j and both legs cut off. It is not I thought that he can survive. In Bamberg county Saturday night Shelly Pauls killed Ulysses May in a difficulty about the possession of a coat. Both parties were ^egroes. ( drew Carnegie has given f ewanee University, Tenn., $60,000 to erect a science hall A State baseball league has been formed with the following cities: Darlington, Sumter, Anderson, Greenville, spartanburgand Camden. M L Smith, ex-speaker of the house of representative^ has been chosen president of the league. Congressman Ellerbe, of the ' 6th district, this State, will go J to Oklahoma to make speeches; in behalf of the Democratic; party. A fifteen thousand dollar company has been organized atj Union to do general passenger and freight business by automobiles. J A Searcy, a young1 man, was drowned near Spartanburg while fishing in a pond. The state Federation of U omen's clubs meets in OrangeIbuag on May 9. The attendance of the Music Festival in Spartanburg has grown so that the Auditorium will.have to be enlarged before the next Festival is held. CliTiton J Holroyd, an engineer at the waterworks plant in Columbia, was stricken with apolexy last week and fell into a basin and was drowned, | Benj. Sutcliffe and Miss Mary Belfield, natives of England ho were separated forty years ago, were married in Columb a recently. Mayor Khett will probably be reelected mayor of Charleston without opposiiion. The night watchman at the A. 0. L shops in Waycross, Ga., was found dead Sunday with a! bullet hole through his body. Foul play is suspected. Great preparations are being uiade for the arrival of a royal babe which is expected in *pain Twelve thousand cigar makers are out on a strike in Ilabana. Former Gov Bullock of Georgia died Saturday at his home in New York State. Capt Hobson, of the Merrimac fame and now a Congressman from Alabama, has started! a campaign to further agriculture in his district. i Carnegie has given $13,000 to Young's College at Thomasville, Ga. A pier collapsed Saturday in Baltimore, killing six persons and injuring fifteen. Williamsburg County Pension Roll for the Year 1906. CLASS A. J M Coker, Hebron; J S Coker, J \v Langs ton, Lake City. CLASS B. Elisha Ard, Scranton; J A Bradham, Kingstree; Robert Hanna, Outland; H M Lindsey, ?from Sumter, H J Lamb, W C Ogburn, Suttons; A P Parker, Camp CLASS C NO 1. N T Altman, Suttons; C Cons tfne, Kingstree; J W Dennis, Venters; C P Hattield . Issac, C Lee. John Powell, James W Thornhill, Lake City; R F Tilton, Scranton. class c No 2. T S Ard, Greelyville; W E Ammons. Lake City; Thomas Altman, Morrisville, R A Buckles, Kingstree; D S Barr, Lake City; I H Bradham, Greelyville; L E Baylor, Indiantown; J W Braxton, A Browder, William Browder, J F Brockinton, Greelyville; Moses Braveboy, Scranton; L E Burkett, Taft; J C Caraway, Scranton; G P Casselman, Lake City; J F Chan dler, Vox; Cornelius Cannon, Harpers; S M China, reelyvriIle; Daniel Calder, Cades; J T Carter, Lambert; H W Carter, Kingstree: J A Christmas, Cades; S J Coker, Cades; Frank Coltins, A L Cook, Scranton; S B W Courtney, Kingstree; John Casselman, Scranton; C W Danielly, J W Dennis, Lake City; C W DuBose, Cades; T F Duke, Mou zons; J S L Evans, Leo; H G Eagerton, Taft; John Ferdon, Morrisville; W E Fleming, Kingstree; C E Floyd, W D Fitch, J A Gee, D H Gray, Cades; R K Gamble, Kingstree; D Gun ter, Morrisville; John .u Gray son, Indiantown; W J Hodges, Lake City; D B Hughes, Rome; J E Howard, Fowler; J \V Hughes, Jr., Lambert; J A Jordan, Lake City; A J Lee, Scran ton; John Long, Morrisville; J M Lacy, Cades; R A Miles, Scranton; P YV Mims, Leo; S D McKay, Saiters; J D Mims, Kings-1 tree; W T Mitchum, Greelyville; j L W McCants, Indiantown; W J | Morris, Morrisville; D K Mou zon, Mouzons; D S McKenzie, Cades; P McGee, Scranton; W E Mitchum, Heinemann; D E Morris, Lake City; E P Montgomonr rirAAlwillp-CI LMorris. Wil W J, V , liams; W G Mathews, W A. J | McKnight, J L Nesmith, Scranton; J F Pack, Greelyville; W M Phipps. Scranton; John L Poston,?from Florence; J A Parker, W R Parneil, Cades; W D Parsons, Lambert; T W Powell, Scranton; Charles Powell, Lake City; W II Parker, Cades; James K Quinby, Scranton; S L Rodgers, Cades; E 15 Rowe, Sutton; G T Rollins, Lake City; J C Sanders, Kingstree; J II Sauls, Cades; F N Smith, Trio; A c| Stewart, Lake City; G W Terry, Trio; H P Tallevast, S B [ Thompson, Dock; John Thomp- . i son, Vox; S J Tharpe. He as on; W W Tisdale, Morrisville: D W Thompson; Indiantowu; James Tanner, Jay; T A Tanner, Vox; J T Weaver, Single; F W Wil" r> lir I _l. ,I? , son, mi icons: o^nj. weisu, ?> .v Young, Scranton. CLASS C No 3. Su?an E Brunson, Margaret Kaddy. Jay; Susannah A Floyd, | Lake City: E .1 Keefee. Vox; Hannah C' Lynch. Catherine McCallister. Scranton; Nancy! Thomas, Vox: Margaret Pipkin, Harpers: Margaret J Wilder. Scranton. class c No 4. i P T Ard, Venters; Elizabeth Adkinson, Lena Barnett, Jay; Francis E Brunson, Gourdin;; Matilda Byrd. Trio; Dorothy i BarSeld, M G Brockinton, Lake City: Eiiza Brown, Cades; Titermutus A Burrows, Fowlers;Harriett J Cane, Lake City; Ma-J ry Calder, t owards; Susan Cox, Vox; Martha Cameron, Lambert; Sallie Coker, Lake City; j L M Davis, Gourdin; S A Dennis, Johnsonville; Emily Douglass, Lambert; Jane C' Eaddy,! Vox; Rebecca Evans, Scranton;; |MA E/ans, Hannah A Floyd, j Margaret Feagan, Lake City; j Mar}* Ann Gamble, lleinemann; | Sarah t. uoawin, ocranioa; Nancy Gray, Lake City; Isabel la M Graham, Indiantown; M E Graham, Mary A L Graham. Lake City; Ann M Hamlin, Harpers; Elizabeth HLx, Suttons; Cadness Hanna, Vox; Dora Joye Mouzon; Louisa Kelley, Lake City; E H Kiroy, Scranton; Mary Lewis, Greelyville; E Lynch, S R Mitchum, Scranton; Nancy McConnell, Fowler; M E McDug-le, Lambert; Annie McNeil, Scranton; Eliza A .Miller, Jay; Mossy Miles, Lake City; L A McElveen, Spring Bank; Eliza R Miles. Lake City; G W Martin, Trio; H E Mathews. King's tree; Martha L McConnell. Mary J McCutchen, Ilachel Neal, Taft; Jane Pope, Kingstree; ! Jane Powell, Lake City; Mahaley Parker, Matilda Rodgers, Cades; Agnes Z Strong, Benson; Mary E Scott, E J Sturkey, W W Shaffer, E J Sauls, Lake City; E L Smith, Padrien Sauls, Mary E Thompson, Scranton; Sarah I Thompson, Margaret Venters, I Putman; N E Venters, Sarah Wilder, Johnsonville; Mary A Wise, Kingstree; Jane E Young, Lake City. Pointed Paragraphs. Most people look grave when they are buried in thought. 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Box 243. 5 -2 tf. \ Rates to Jamestown Exposition, The following rates to the Jamestown exposition, which opens next Friday, April 26, have been furnished us by the agent here: 7 Days Season Ticket C" Days 10 Days <'oacli Ex? urs'n Scranton $15 85 $13 25 $12 00 $7 50 Lake City 16 00 13 -40 12 10 7 70 Cades 16 35 13 65 12 30 8 10 Kingstree 16 75 14 00 12 55 8 55 SaIters 16 95 14 15 12 70 8 80 Lanes 17 20 14 40 12 85 8 90 Oourdins 17 35 14 50 12 95 8 95 Coach excursion tickets will be sold on the day prior to the upening of the exposition and will be on sale Tuesdays of each week thereafter. They are limited to seven days. The other tickets will be sold on the day prior to the opening of the exposition and will be on sale daily during the period of the exposition.