The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

President Diaz has been re elect
cd in Mexico.
The strike III ST. Louis has been
renewed. The boycott will be rein
stitutcd.
We have 63,42i men in onr army
III the Philippines who reported for
duty on June 30
A million dollars for strawberries
Is the record for this season for Char
lottc, n. c., shippers.
- The Southern Methodist Epwnrth
League Conference is to bc held in
Atlanta, Ga, July $500.
- Fall River cotton mills have closed
for month, throwing 10000 people
out OF work and docking them $3.50, 900.
= British loss in South Africa up to
date about equals the total number of
Beers engaged in battle, and the end is
not yet.
= The cost OF the glorious Fourth to
Chicago is briefly summarized as fol-
lows: Thirty persons killed. 1,8e5 in
jurcd; fire loss, $l23,3a5.
= Five men were blown to atoms mt
Parkcrsburg. w. Va, by the explosion
OF tank car containing 5000 gallons
of oil. Fifty more men were injured.
= A great many of the Independent
papers of the West and East that sup
ported Mckinley in 1896 have declared
for Bryan and will support him this
year.
Our great battlcship Oregon will
go into Kuro docks, Japan, and it is
estimated that it will take three months
to repair the damage done by running
OH rock.
Senator Clark, Of Montana. is de-
termincd to get even with the Rcpub-
licans for ousting him out of his seat.
He says he will give one million dol
lors to the Democratic campaign fund.
= Cholera and famine continue to
scourgc India. In Bombay district
during the last week of June 1O,3oO
deaths occurred from cholera, and g.
509 from starvation. Relief is being
furnished 10 6,Gi3,0 ,000 persons.
- A white man named Isaac II. Pol
lard i'll I.ynchburg, Va, was in love
with colored girl and being jealous
OF the attentions she received from
others shot and killed the woman
Wednesday ana then shot himself.
= There's something in name.
jeff. Davis, young Arkansas politi-
clan, has been nominated the Demo
cratic gubcrnatOriaT standard bearer.
There were several other candidates
just as smart and promising as jeff,
but they didn't ',nve the name.
- The superintendent of one Of the
largest hospitals for the insane de-
clares that nineteen out Of twenty of
the business and professional men who
have come under his care have been in
the habit of carrying business OH their
minds for seven days in each and every
week
The powers are rushing troops to
China. The allies at Taku and Mt Tien
Tsin now number $4,000 men. The re-
lnforcements under orders consist of
10000 Japanese troops, $4,000 Germans,
$4,000 Russians, 1900 Americans, 1O,-
600 British. 5000 French and 5000
Italians.
Handles of forks and knives are
utilized for the storage of salt and
pepper under new patent, each han
die being formed OF a tube, which has
spring clips to hold it on the shank,
with an internal reservoir for the salt
and pepper, which is shaken through
the ends.
= The policemen of Pekin are armed
chiefly with small drums, which they
beat loudly, in order, it is presumed,
to let burglars know that they are
coming. All night long the watchmen
beat their way around the streets, end
as a natural consequence are said to
make few arrests.
= Among the exhibits at the Paris
Exposition is set of tea cups, the
cheapest of which is valued at 5000.
Whether O cup Of tea out Of one of
them would taste sweeter than it does
out OF ordinary chinaware is question
able. The precious set is to be admir-
ed and not for use.
The records Of tho p0stoffice de-
partment for the year past show q total
stamp issue of 3,983. .374 ,310, aggregating
in value $7G.270,e04. This is an in
crease over 1899 of 4G7,417,48O, and an
increase of value of $9,474,413. The
new stamp books issued by the depart
ment late i'll the fiscal year proved to
be in great demand. There were over !
two and half million sold, aggrega-
ting in value $S30,64S.
- About two months ago buzzard |
was caught in Texas and sleigh bell
attached to its neck, after which the
bird was let loose to soar away at its
own free will. Recently the people of
settlement in Illinois were amazed by
hearing tinkling sounds in the sEy an:!
began searching for the cause of it.
They were rewarded by one of their