The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

-"'O OCou hLlcu Dy tNo boxers IN china
amount to 178.
-, Mrs. Stonewall jackson is quito
for treatment.
Warner Halo of Walton county,
picking 132 pounds of cotton in one ,lay.
- Nearly $11, ,OOo, 900 has been sent to
the su6treasuries to movc the cotton
crop this year as against $5,000.000 last
year.
There q story Of snake in New
York State which bit q man who was
SO full of booze that the snake died in
stantly.
Quail are destroying the crops of
the Colorado farmers and have beer
declared 9 nuisance by various town
and county boards.
- The United States received the
highest number OF awards at the Paris
exposition, including all grades, from
the highest to the lowest.
Kansas has q potato field forty
miles long. This years harvest from It
Will come close to 1000 carloads. An
average crop is 200 bushels to an acre.
= According to report Congress will
be asked to give the Navy Department.
authority to contract for at least 12
sa:a!! santoats f9T Philippine service.
= The ta2hans from Galveston and
towns along the coast are to be distri-
buted samOngst families that will take
good care of them. Two hundred were
sent TO San Antonio.
The latest census proves that the
United States contains q greater num-
Der of cities with the population of over
100000 inhabitants than any other
country except China.
Dick Croker has hired every hall
IN New York city for every evening
from October 10 to November 6, and If
the Republicans hold any meetings
they. will have to build new halls or
speak out of doors.
= The trusts controlling food pro-
ducts are capitalized for $067, 100000.
A dozen monopolies make up the ag-
gregatc of nearly billion dollars In
stock. They all pay big dividends by
taxing the hungry stomachs Of the
American people.
The wave of prosperity seems to
have struck the Fifth Avenue bank.
of New. York, controlled by Russell
Sage, which n few days ago declared
o quarterly dividend of 20 per cent.
The. stockholders in that bank have
"full dinner pals"
The Census Bureau, Mt Washing
ton, has announced officially the popH-
States to be enumerated. The popu-
lation. according. to the recent census
is 1911 1854. This is an increase over
the population in 1890 of 193, 1856, or 49,
25 per cent.
In Florida the orange crop promises
to be the largest produced since the
great freeze of 1894. A prominent rail-
road man who has just returned from
O trip through the orange belt estimates
the crop at 100000 boxes which is
almost as valuable as the one preceding
the year of the freeze.
The Tri-State Medical Society of
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia has
taken the initial steps to secure medi-
tho purpose of regulating or prohibit
ing the marriage of habitual criminals
anu persons afflicted with incurable
diseases, drunkards and victims of
baneful drugs.
Somebody ought to call Pitchfork
TilIman to one side and gag him. In O
speech in Illinois he declared thnt Lin
coin was better Democrat than was
jefferson Davis, and that Bryan is bet
ter Republican than is Mckinley. He
abused the crowd for being 80 small.
mercial-Appeal.
town of Charlemont. Mass, the other
day, the chairman called for all prese:: 1
over 20 years OF age to rise, and seven
ty-twO responded. He then asked all
who were over eighty to rise, and
there were twelve who had passed that
limit. A similar call for nll over 90
brought four members to their feet
= Even yet, rs the streets of unfor-
tunate Galveston are being cleared.
cOrpses in profusion are found and the
estimate OF the loss of life has been
advanced to 1000. The charity of tho
nation must continue to minister to the
sufferers, for though there be food and
clothing IN plenty, much more money
is needful TO supply shelter for the
hc.ieiess.
- Bishop Charles b. Galloway, prcsi-
dent of the general board of education
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, has issued q call to the one and
one half million Methodists in the
South tie assemble in their places of
worship on the night of the last day OF
tho year to hold an old fashioned watch
meeting es lifting climax TO the
fund now amounts to $1,100,O00.
Thomas Barnes, the eighteen-year
old son Mrs. j. G. Jeffcoat, died at
Ashburn, Georgia, last Thursday, as
the direct result Of stage fright. lie
was student of the collegiate institute,
and was, with others, assigned as q
speaker. He went upon the stage
when his time came and started to de-
liver his speech, when, after saying
Just a few words, he threw his hand to
his breast and fell, expiring imme-
diately. Physicians who examined the
body after death are of the opinion that
the extreme nervous fright under
which he was laboring stopped the
action of his heart, causing instant
death.
NJ. F. Stultz, of Elkhorn, West
Virginia, has sent to William Jennings
Bryan what he thinks is sure mascot
tho left hind foot of a graveyard rab-
bit. Mr. Stnltz killed the rabbit in the
graveyard at Tazwell at anndnrn lasss
Friday. within ten steps OF the spot
where, in 1892, he killed rabbit, the
left hind-foot of which he sent to Gro
yer Cleveland prior to his election.
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