The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-15
General News Items.

= The Beers are holding their own
in the var with the British in South
Africa
- The Exchange Bank at Athens.
Ga. has been placed in tho hands of a
receiver.
: The Northeastern railroad of Ca
from Athens to Lula. has been pur-
chased by the Southern. They paid
S301 900 for it,
= Imperialism comes high. Our
army and navy are now costing $685.
oU Il day, with more prospect of in
q, ease than of decrease.
= at an auction Of Hereford cattle
at Kansas City the other day Il calf Il
yenr.and Il day old brought 1850. and
Il helirr was knocked down at 5000
- By December lst. Otis will have
Go.O0O men in the Philippines. ono
thousand more men are to bc recruited
to bring all regiments to full strength.
Gen. Otis is now pushing the war
with the fllllplnoS with Il little more
energy, and is chasing them back into
the mountains. killing many of then,
ais they retreat.
BoD Green, cN-prizc fighter, has
Dcen licensed to preach in Boston. 1t
w
knock true religion into the sinners of
that city Of cranks.
= On behalf of Admiral Dewey ana
lis officers anal men Washington ;,ttor
neys have asked the court of claims 10
find that the AMOUNT of bounty money
due them is $3.50 800.
- at the meeting Of the Cabinet
the question of civil government rn,
Cuba was discussed. The President
Is said to favor the abandonment of
the present military system in the
island.
- The United States cruiser Charles
ton, which had been pntrolllng the
northern coast of Luzon, was wrecked
on reef off the northwest coast on
Tuesday November :. All on board
were saved.
A company with unlimited capital
ana 20O,oO water power at Ottawa,
Canada, has been organized to fight
the American paper trust. Its plant
will cost SG0O,C and it will make 600
tons OF paper day.
pretty large divorce mill business.
AT the last term of court forty:fOur
inlsmatcd couples were suntlercd. IT.
is said that good deal of tile mntcrial
fOr the griSt comes from South Cara
lima.
- The cultivation of fruit trees
along the highways of France is being
extended each year, the Governments
having adopted this practice as a
source OF revenue, so that now road
SIDE fruit cultivation has become nm
important branch of national industry.
a cOlored preacher named John
LoIton, or Norfolk, Va, was arrested
at Wlnfall. n. c., for passing q conn-
terfelt bill. A good ten dollar bill
had been split and the back half ha,f
Deen pasted on to q counterfeit. The
work was skilfully done aud only an
expert could detect it.
A big Western packing concern
has embarked i'll tho business of SEN
arating the whites and yoiiss of eggs,
canning them separately. freezing
them and unloading them on tho mar
ket. Some thirty dozen eggs are put
up III two gallon can, which is exnctly
the number that Il case holds When
q Daker uses thirty or forty dozen
eggs IN day it takes time to break
the eggs anil separate them. The new
plan saves time.
- 10 feed her army i'm South Africa.
Great britain is buying from Chicago
anu Kansas City packing houses can
ned beet by tho car load. The beef is
OF the saEo quality that was bought
ror the American army during the
Spanish war, and about which such n
rumpus was raised against Secretary
AIger. So large has been the British
orders that the price of beef has been
considerably raised throughou the
west.