The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

have lynchcd another negro for mur-
dering his wife.
= Six hundred Republicans have
been arrested in Chicago for illegally
registering.
negro woman near Charlotte,
n. e., went crazy and cut the throats
OF her three children few days ago.
- Tho per capita circulation Of the
United States OH October was S27.
the largest in the history of the conn
try.
"A. B. Steele, wealthy lumbcrman
of Atlanta: hns donated Five Tbuusund
dollars to the Orphans Home mt Dcca-
tur.
One of the latest trusts to be Or
ganizcd is the linsecd oil trust which
has already advanced the price 10 cents
Fer ga.l0n.
The Indians in tho southwestern
territories are nrming to resist tho
allotment of lands by the government.
Trouble is expected.
- Germany is discussing the advisa-
bility of introducing the culture of
cotton and France is going to try the
experiment, of raising watermelons.
= DR.. S. B. Hawthorne's church
(Baptist) was burned on October 10th,
in Richmond, Virginia. This church
was comparatively new and cost $4O,-
600.
SO much horse meat is being sold
In Chicago that the city's Health Com
missioner is considering the advisa-
bility of licensing dealers in horse
flesh.
= The town Of G uadalupe, Tex, was
completely swept away last week by
water spout; not a single house was left
standing. The people fled to the
second foot hills and thus saved their
lives.
= The Alaska salmon cannery sea-
son has just closed and shows the lar
gest pack in the history of Alaska. The
total is near 100000 cases and somo of
tho canneries were forced to shut down
for lack of cans.
A statement prepared by Auditor
Castle of the postoffico department.,
shows that tho number of postotfices in
the United States have increased from
10000 on July 1, 1906, to 70,001 on July
1, 1000, an increase Of 0,831.
= Reports from India, Oct. 90, re-
garding the famine in that country,
state that 1856, 1000 have been cx-
pended in relieving distress and that
100000 people are still being fed.
Losses on crops, $3.50, 100000.
President Mckinley has issued O
proclamation setting apart Thursday,
November,20 as day of Thanksgiving.
= The coal miners in Pennsylvania,
who have been out on strike for sew
eral weeks, have gone back to work.
The commissioners of agriculture
OF six cotton growing States have sent
to the Atlanta journal their estimates
OF the number of bales of cotton likely
to come from ire present crop. The
estimates run from 5000, 900 to 0,50O, 900.
y tbs said at the War Department
that no plans have been made for
bringing home tho volunteer troops in
the Philippines preparatory to their dis
charge June 80 next, in accordance
with law. but that it is probaDle that
the homeward movement will begin
on the 10Th proximo and be continued
until all the volunteers have been land
ed in the United States. There are
nearly $500 of these troops and their
transportation across tho Pacific will
be an immense undertaking.
Galveston and the towns were by
no means the only sufferers from the
recent storms. According to the reports
OF tho Agricultural Department the
Texas farmers in the track Of the hurri-
cane lost 100000 bushels of corn, 300
600 bushels of rice, 0s,0OO bales of cot
ton, 100000 pounds of. pecans, 5000
trees, and farm animals worth S40O, 900
in all property loss representing q
value of 81, 100000. And this loss is in
the main irreparable, the relief of char
ity and insurance not applying it.
| Divorces have grown to such an
alarming extent in Indianapolis, In
diana, that the Judges there have
agreed to suppress tho record of divor-
ces granted. They place this action
upon moral grounds. Judge Carter,
of the Superior Court, enid, in explain
ing their action, that it ls believed
women are impressed with the ease of
securing divorces when they read the
long lists OF cases. The Judges be-
lfevo 800 divorcesar are entirely too many
for the county iii one year and will do
all they can to suppress the evil.
"A return which has just been pub
lishcd gives the general statistics of
Methodism all over the world, includ-
ing Wesleyan sIethodists, Primitive
Methodists, the Methodist New Con
nection, Bible Christian Methodist the
United Methodist Free churches, the
Wesleyan Reform Union, the Metho-
dist Episcopal and many other bodies.
The grand totals are as follows: Minis
ters, 1860; lay preachers, 18s,434;
church members, 1885,, JAG; Sunday
echools, .79.102; officers and teachers,
9o,850, Sunday school scholars, 6,271,-