The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


lomo of President James X. Polk, in
Nashville, Tenn, AS II Governors man
sion.
Two blind people. after Il court
ship of twenty years, were married
out in Kansas last week. The oiliria-
ting minister and two maids of honor
were also blind.
= The attempt to subjugatc the Fill
pinos according to official figures has
cost tho United States 1901 American
lives and S1SG,G1S,OOo. And the job
has been barely begun.
= The gate receipts Of the Fitzsim-
mons Rubin asht in New York the
other night were $4,000. OF this
amount the fighters received $4,000,
tho winner 75 per cent. and the loser
% per cent
= 1t is said at tho War Department
III Washington, that for every vacancy
in either the military or naval academy,
which the President has the power Of
filling by appointment, there are 100
applications.
A. I4yncoln Hyde, the wcll-known
English scientist, has come out in favor
OF II decinal system of weights and
measures for tho English speaking
people based OH taking the inch as the
fundamental unit.
= Having just declared an per cent
dividend of $4,000, 900, making total
dividend of 80 per cent this year, the
Standard Oil Company should be will
ing to come down handsomely for Mark
Hanna's slush fund.
Several weeks ago the surgeon
general of the army called for 100 con-
tract surgeons for service in China. Up
to the present time over thousand
applications have been received, of
which tho first 100 have been appoint
ed.
Major Gen. Joseph Wheele. HAS
been asked to deliver during next vim
ter course of lectures on the great
battles of the world before tho depart
ment of history of the University of
Chicago.
= Mrs Alice Buckner, of. Nebraska,
is one of the few women who have
thus far dared to brave the perils of
Cape Nome. She is with her husband
and has been there for year, during
which time the pair have cleared S12-
600.
"A change of 80 per cent in the
German vote cast for Mckinley four
years ago in the middle western States
will elect Bryan and Stevenson with
q big bunch of electoral votes to spare;
and those who claim to know predict
that the change will exceed 90 per
cent.
- old Chicago detective says:
"Don't take any stock in stories Of
people being chloroformed in open
rooms by burglars. Chloroform in an
open room is no more effective than it
would be out of doors. It's unpleasant
odor usually awakens sleepers and
keeps them awake"
The Mormon faith will not die out
for apparent lack of effort. That de-
nomination has at present 1.82G young
men employeda as missionaries in Amer
lea and Europe. Their greatest sue
cesses are in the slums Of large cities.
They claim over $4,000 new converts
gained for their church the last year,
and prophesy that within q few years
they shall contre! the entire west.
- The official statistics Of the wheat
crops Of the world for 1809-10OO have
just been compiled by the Department
Of Agriculture. They show that in the
countries in the southern hemisphere
whose wheat crops are commonly in
cluded in the statement of the world
wheat crops, the crop production will
hardly fall less than a16O. .54S, 600 bush.
els. This is 10000, 900 bushels short o1
last years production.
- Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the
largest orchard in South Dakota. Ac.
cortling to w. N. Irwin, chief Of the
division Of pomology of the depart
ment Of agriculture in Washington,
Mrs. Alderman has, near Hurley, Tur.
ner County, $50 acres, in which are
5000 trees, two acres being given over
to plumbs. Besides the trees there are
1000 current bushes, 1000 gOoseberry
bushes, 500 grapevines and three acres
Of Strawberries.
x One would think that the methods
of suicide had been exhausted and
that all persons desiring to end their
lives would be forced to be imitators
of others. But young man up near
Atlantic City went out sailing with q
jolly crowd few days ago and on the
return when the sea was little bOis-
ferrous, he jumped overheard saying Il
o gieeful way "Good bye" He came
to the surface albright and was float
ing on his back when his Companions
attempted to rescue him when he took
ont pistol and put ball through his
hea0.
"A world wide revival, by means of
which 100000 persons are to DO con-
vorted to Christianity ss..a monument
to the first half year....of the Goth CEN
tnry in tn rean1t from efforts now heinz