The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

MaiN Hanna refuses to make any
predictions ut this time.
= The mnsOns of Atlanta. Ga. will
spend $4,000 on Il masonic tcmDlc
- The population in British tcrrito,v
alone IS given at fully 19S millions.
- The corn crop Of the United State,
this year covers 100000 acres more
than it did last year.
- At Blossom. Texas, j. r.. Jones. n
baseball player, dropped dead running
from first to second base.
More than $500, 900 has been
voted for war expenses of the British
Ill South Africa and China.
"A clothier on Hester street New
York sold so suit of clothes and gave
$0l in change for 800 Confederate
= About 10 carpenters at Augusta.
Ga., are out on q strike. demanding
nine hours work ut present scale Of
wages.
The New York Journal is taking q
weekly vote in New York and fore
SHADOW: Hsyan's election in that State
by S5,535 plurality.
l. Great sections of Arizona are
drought stricken. Cattle are dying by
thousands, and forest fires arc devasta-
tiuS luiiiltISt UICUS.
= The corn crop Of Kansas will not
be over half crop-120,00O, 600 bush
els. Continued dry weather has dam
aged it heynna hope.
Carl Peterson, of Glencoe, Okla,
fully hacking his neck with n butcher
knife. severing the jugular vein.
Chicago. packers are to furnish g.
000. 900 pounds of meat for our troops
IN China. War is not such bad thing
from the Chicago meat packers point
of view.
= One of the novel exhibits ut the
Paris Exposition is the complete set of
bed ilnngiugs from Madagascar, manu-
factureu from the silk Of the halabe.
The hnlabe is an enormous and ferO-
ciOus female spider.
ID. w. Bingham, prominent
planter of Florida. was choked to death
OH his false teeth. He was at the sup
when the teeth were displaced and
lodged in his windpipe. He died in
fifteen minutes in great agony.
"A letter has been received by the
director of the mint from the United
States assay office, at Seattle, WASH,
reporting that during the first eleven
days Of the present month gold arrivals
there from Alaska amounted to $4,-
4OO, 200. Several millions are reported
to be in transit.
- The celebration of the semi-ce
tennial of California's admission into
the Union will be one of the finest
The big parade of various orders of
native sons. which will take place on
September 10, will be the main event
OF the four days celebration
- In France woman may wear
masculine attire, if she desires. on pay
ment of tag. It costs about $40 Il
year for the privilege Of wearing a
mans trousers. The San Francisco
Chronicle says: eff the French system
were applied here it might result in the
collection Of considerable revenue, al
though the fad of the strong minded
in these parts runs chiefly to high stiff
collars and mannish vests and neck
ties.
"A hotel man in Portland, Maine.
made bet Of q hat with q friend and
lost. The loser telephoned to the win
ner: "Get as good hat as you want; in
fact, buy any kind of hat that suits
you and have them send the bill to me-"
In day or two bill of $33 from
we'll known Congress street milliner
for wOman's hat was received by the
4VoOAs AO WAuuCk Cdluly 1uIOTuou
him that he was pretty we'll fixed for
hats himself so he thought he'd turn
the thing over to his wife. 1t was n
hat and the hotel man paid.
When one reads that Jersey or
Holstein cows will make more than
pounds of butter day it hardly seems
credible. Private records may, or may
not be correct. An official test of n
HOlstein heifer, 3ycars old, the prop
erty of +. II. Knapp, Fabiuss n. T..
shows that in one week she gave 590.7
pounds Of milk, testing 20.822 pounds
of butter fat equivalent to q little more
than aG pounds Of butter at 80 per cent.
fat. Tha. was about II gallons of
milk and more than 81 pounds of but
ter per day.
Contributions for the relief of the
India famine sufferers who are said to
be dying ut the late Of 81, 900 day arc
being raised in all parts of this country
and in unexpected quarters. The
Chinese in attendance upon the Re-
formed Presby terian Mission at Oak
land, California, have sent $1O.4O to
the fund, though all the contributors
arc themselves very poor. Inmates of
the Ohio penitentiary have given $28
out of the little pittances which they
had. Such examples, it seems, would
bestir persons with surplus wealth to
do much more for the relief fund than
they have yet done.
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