The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-08
General News Items.
The latest estimate of this years
American corn crop is two billion bush

vention denounced the war in the
Philippines.
= A Yale undergraduate and young
woman have been sentenced to jail for
kissing publicly in New Haven.
- The North Carolina board OF ag-
riculturc has made an appropriation
secure crcditablc State exhibit at the
Paris exposition.
- There have been more than $500
in this country during the
past twelve months, which breaks the
record for this or any other country.
- The Vanderbilt estate will pay
50. 100000 to the Federal government
and S5OO,O0O to the State of New
York under the inheritance tax laws.
- Since the new cotton season began
the increase in the consumption by
southern cotton mills is 80 per cent.
over the amount of cotton bought IN
the same time last year.
= Hon. O. B. Stevens, commissioner
of agriculture of Georgia, estimates the
cotton crop at 100000 bales, and eX-
presses the opinion that the price will
go up to between S and 9 cents by Jan
uary.
Judge w. j. Hood, of Florence,
Ala, has letter from Gen. Wheeler
saving he will resume his seatin con-
gress when that body meets. He does
not say when he will return from the
Philippines.
The movement for the erection Of
a monument in San Francisco to COM
mcmorate Admiral Dewey's victory ut
Manila is already assured of success
full outcome, the fund having reached
$4,000.
= Hon. G. a. Hobart, vice president
of the United States, is critically Ill at
his home in Paterson, New Jersey, and
his death is expected at any moment.
Mr.. Hobart is 50 years OF age, a native
of New jersey, and quite 4 wealthy
man.
The leather market is advancing
and the national convention OF snOe
manufacturers recently recommended
an advance Of % cents per pair on
shoes. This is an advance of 30 cents
per pair since August Sth.
The fighting in South Africa be-
tween the Beers and the British con-
tinues, and the meager reports so far
given out indicate that the Beers have
not only held their own. but are more
than match for the British.
The news from the Philippine war
continues to be conflicting. At one
time we are told that the war is near
ing its close, and the very next news
is to the effect that we control little
territory and the insurrection IS grow
ing.
Ella Ewing, the giantcss, OF CORN,
Mo-, is now s feet inches tall and Is
still growing In the new residence
which she has just built the doors are
10 feet high and the ceilings and win
dows like those OF a tabled giants cas-
ties.
A woman in Pennsylvania, whohas
% children, is being given some prom
inence in the newspapers. The Will
mineton Messenger says that Mrs. Ar
chic Gordon, Of Granville county,
North Carolina, had 81 children, all
sons.
/. "A negro woman died of smallpox
in Alabama near the Georgia line: No
one could be induced to bury the body,
and after waiting several days 1t was
decided to apply u torch to the cabin
and cremate the body, and this was
done.
= Mrs. Peter Empfeld, of Altoona,
Pa, and three cows on her husbands
farm at Martinsburg were bitten by a
rabid dog few days ago. The COWS
soon went mad, two Of them butting
their brains out against trees on the
farm. The third, with the dog, was
shot.
An automatic writing machine,
known as the phonotypewriter, has
been invented by a Racine, Wis, rnan;
The inventor asserts that it will record
verbatim whatever is talked into, 1T.
The motive power is electricity, but
the details Of the mechanism is kept
secret.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is said to
be nearly blind and is suffering from
an incurable disease at her home in
Charlotte n. G. and the Daughters OF
the Confederacy are raising funds tor
her. One Chapter has contributed
S7O0 and it is called the Mrs. Jackson
Love and Sympathy Fund.
In Brooklyn Tuesday night an
electric light wire was broken by the
wind storm and rs it fell coiled around
the shoulders of Louis Bergler. a r.
year-old boy. He raised his hands,
but fell to the ground, without utter
ing a word, and it is believed was
dead when he fell.
The widow of ex-Gov. Atkinson,
of Georgia, has created something OF q
sensation in business and social circles
by going into the field as a general
State agent for fire and life insurance
companies. She says that her .pupose
is to make a living and educate her five
children. She is already doing we'll.
and has received letters OF cOngratula-
ton from numerous society women.
= The cityof Copenhagen, Denmark,
is ovcrrun with rats, and is trying to
cXterminatc the pests by offering Il
small bounty on each rat killed. In
the first week G,094 rodents were Off
cially recorded as having been slaugll-
tered; the number grew to 6,Gl6 in the
second week, and to $3.50 in the third.
When the number shall have reached
10000 per week it is thought that
Some impression will nave been made
on the army of rats. Meanwhile rat
catching is Il popular and lucrative
cno,+ with +ha yO1th Of thp TOWN