The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-25
General News Items.

Nic"t utiiiaSc mas been done by
the Hoods i'll Alabama and Mississippi
the past week.
= The effort to subjugatc the Beers
has cost England thus far $4,000 men
and $500,000.0OO.
- The Kentucky governors case will
come before the United States supreme
court on April 3Oth.
- 1t is estimated that William J.
Bryan has travelled over 100000 miles
III the last four years.
= Representative Levy Of New York,
has introduced bill in Congress to re-
peal the war revenue act.
= Great damage to lives and prop
erty has been wrought by heavy floods
i'll the Mississippi valley.
= Theodore Haynes, young farmer,
near Washington. Ca, was killed by
lightning rs lie was walking along
road.
- DR.. Broughton, Of Atlanta, is
standing by the tclegraphers in their
strike aad says he is their friend Will,
his money and influence.
! "A canvass made by the New York
journal shows that already enough
States orc pledged to William j. Bryan
to insure his nomination.
Two young Georgia ladies' are
making money by holly and mislctoe
| farm. They raise these cvcrgreeus for
sale, and find ready market North.
= Mrs. Matilda Quitman, of New
York City, wept until she lost her eye
sight through grief at the death of her
husband and little daughter.
The historic church at Concord
where the Massachusetts provincial
congress met in the spring of IT'S,
was burned to the ground cn the morn
ing of April 18th.
- President Mckinley will visit
Charlotte, n. c., on May Goth to par
ticipate in the celebration of the 125th
anniversary OF the Mecklenberg declar-
alton Of independence.
= The project for American
Congress in Mexico has been success
fully launched at meeting in Wash
ington of diplomats from South and
Central American countries.
- 1t is predicted that the fruit crop
of Georgia this year will be the great
est in the history of the State. and it L.
cstiiniateI that fully 5000 carlonds will
be shipped out of the State.
w. V. Powell, president Of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers. has
sued the Southern Railway for $4,000
damages on account of publication
which occurred in a,i Atlanta paper.
- The Russian government recently
borrowed $25,OOO,0oO dollars in New
York. most of which will be spent in
this country for railroad material to
be used OH the Trans Siberian. Rail-
road.
= The Kentucky grand jury turned
in ten indictments for the Goebel MUIR
der recently, six principals and four
accessories. These indictments will
be followed by others, including tho in
dictment of Gov. Taylor.
= Chas. H. Allen, of Massachusetts,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has
been rendered the governorship. Of
Porto Rico. He has signified that he
will accept. He is So years old, q man
ufacturer and bank president.
= The Paris Exposition has been
formally openedand the most elaborate
exhibition of the worlds progress in
manufacturing, in industrial develop
ment, in fine arts and in every depart
ment Of life is open to the world.
The National Agricultural depart
ment reports that the condition of
winter wheat for April is s2.1 against
! no last year and q tcrJeaT average
of 1913. The Hessian fly has damaged
crops in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
+ The expense account of the last
U. 8. Philippine commission mas been
made pnblic. 1t foots up $l17,185 for
the three commissioners and their sec
retary. The items indicate that none
of them suffered in money or comforts
or luxuries while striving to bolster up
our new Imperialism.
A scientific statistical work just
published fixes the population of Eu-
rope at 381.000.O0O, an increase of TO-
000, 600 since 1870, or an annual increase
of about three millions The average
density of this population is given as
thirty-nine inhabitants for every five
eights Of square mile.
Tho Federal Department of Agri-
culture ts making a special point of re-
commenting nut culture. In New
England the abandoned farms are be-
ing planted with nut trees, and the
workcd-out ground is found to furnish
| nourishment enough to cause the wal
| nut, butternut and chestn.. &c &c .a.oo;uIii,;;.
abundantly.
= In addition to the national military
parks at Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
Antietam. Shiloh and Vicksburg, it is
now proposed I'd establish others at
Stone River, near Fredericksburg, and
at Atlanta. The battlefieldsar are among
the nations great historical monus
ments, and public interest in them