The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-18
General News Items.

made OH both sides by Russia and
Japan.
= The news from South Africa is
convincing Great Britain that tho war
is not over
Turkey has announced that it will
hereafter prohibit the importation of
American pork.
= Mineral production in the United
States this year will reach q ynlue of |
nearly $10O,000,OOO.
- There was considerable falI Of |
snow in central and western Kansas
last week. in many places to the depth
of ten inches.
| "A han ndsOme statue of Senator
Vance has been completed by Wash
inRton sculptor and will soon be un
veiled at Raleigh.
Statistics taken mt WASHINGTON
say that there is more money per capi-
tai in circulation now than ever be-
forc In this country.
= A son of p. Lorrilard, the mil
lionairo tobacco man who inherited over
r two millions from his father, has filed
"2etition in bankruptcy.
- ThoHs, Hsi;ss9ol ,;s9o boys of Philadelphia
have held gre:SSx , rt'"s sont = a.. ,mo
Academy of Music an~ a. '''''' =
OF sympathy to the Beers.
= The North Carolina State snio
cratic Convention has nominated Ho.ai
e. B. Aycocll for Governor, and en-
dorscd Bryan and his platform.
4 = Mrs. Laura Iioltshncidcr is II cam
didatc for mayor of Buena Vista, Colo
rado. She is now an alderman and
said to be the only woman alderman
in tho State.
= The farmers OF North Dakota have
formed grain growers association,
the principal object of which 10 to re-
strict the production Of wheat and reg
ulate the price.
= The Manufacturers Record of
Baltimore states That since the first Of
JaDaruy cotton mills enough have
been started in the South to require u
capital of $15,OOO.O 900.
In 1896 the Republican party is
said to havc raised for campaign pur-
poses SlS,000,000, mostly from the
trusts, but this year it is proposed to
call for $3O,O80,0OO.
= Reuben Dailey of Jeffersonville,
Ind, is n candidate for the Office of
treasurer of his county, and has in
.troduced in his campaigning the novel
| ty OF stump speaking by phonograph.
Out in Arizona eeetion hands ON
the railroad eight rifles from Jerome
struck vein of gold which assayed
$4,000 TO the tnn. These hands will
soon be able to buy the railroad and
about baif of Arizona as that lick.
The telegraphers on the Southern
Railway system, who are members of
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers,
were ordered CT c STRIKE ut ii O'Clock
last Thursday morning. The officials
OF the Southern claim that only 10 per
cent of the men have quit work, and
the other side declares that 90 per cent.
are on strike.
| William Harper, tax assessor of
Cleburne County, Ala, has for years
been Ossified from his waist down, but
is u thoroughly efficient officer. In
making his rounds assessing property
he ls carried on stretcher from place
to place. He has been assessor for ten
years, eight Of which have been passed
in his present helpless condition.
The lower branch of the Iowa
legislature has passed bill prohibit
ing the use of tobacco by persons under
18 years of age and by all minor
pupils in the public schools. Sales of
tobacco to minors had previously been
prohibited in the State, but the law
had not been rigidly enforced.
= Vermont has a law prohibiting tbs
sale OF liquor in any town unless the.
citizens vote for it, and then it must
be dispensed by town agent for med
ical purposes or use in the arts NORTH
field, town Of 5000. has had such an
agency, and its receipts nave been so
large that the temperance people have
had law passed requiring the publi-
cation Of the purchasers names.
= DR.. Hunter Mcclure, the chief sur
geon Of St0newall Jackson's staff dur
ing the war, and one of tho best known
surgeons and physicians in the South,
has been strickened down suddenly
with paralysis and his condition is
alarming. DR.. Mcclure amputated
Jackson's arm after the latter was
wounded at Charlottesville, and was
with him when the great commander
died at Guinea Station. DR.. Mcclure
is probably better informed about the
military life Of jackson than any man
in the country. He has been consulted
on this subject by writer's and histori-
ans In various parts of the country.
Dr.. Mcguire is 65 years old and his
health bee 5eon failing Tor several
years.
- One ne the ss::,:::3S Iien w;ii0 viii De
among the richest of the rich men Of
the first decade Of the twentieth CEN
turv Ia HAfrv pavna Whitman Ho In