The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-17
General News Items.


ed 800 persons last week.
= Cincinnati will endee or to capture
the next democratic national conycn-
ton.
= AT an examining trial for murder
ill Kentucky last week two men were
killed and four others wounded serious
ly.
= Subscriptions to the Twentieth
Century Education Fund in the South
crn Methodist Church now amount to
| $573,92l.
= The fruit growers in Georgia con
Sidtr the recent cold snap of great
benefit 10 them preventing the trees
bu tding too carly.
| = The postal money order service in
New York for lS9S amounted in round
numbers to $?0.00n,Ooo. For 1899 il
amounted to $ll50O0.0n.
The Mississippi legislature has
chosen Anscl J. Mcl.aurin. the present
governor, for United States senator.
knocking out Private John Allen.
The South African war has cost
Great Britain more than three hundred
millions of dollars. and the cNl,rn-
diturcs have just got fairly started.
| - The common school fund of Texas
Owls i'll round numbers 2S,o0o,0uo
acres of unsold lands one fourth of
| these are leased for grazing purposes ut
ic. an acre.
! = The cold snap last week extended
over Northern Florida, but only in
iurcd early vegetables as the previous
cold weather had lowered the sap in
tropical fruit trees.
| - Preparations are being made ut
Gastonia, y. G.. for the erection OF IL
cotton mill to cost Sl,0oo.0O0. Work
will begin on the plant us soon as he
weather will permit.
= Mississippi proposes to adopt the
Georgia solution OF the uut stinn of race
education by alo y ing each race to
bear the burden and provide for the
schooling Of their own people.
| a Mrs. Crutchticld brings suit for
$500 against the Memphis street rail
way because Il conductor gave her
| change. entirely in nickels, for Il tweii-
ty dollar bill with which she paid her
fare.
= Mrs. Sarah +. Dick, the only wo-
man who is cashier Of Il National bank
in the United States, has been for the
eighteenth time elected to that rcspon-
sible position in bank at Wabash,
Indiana.
| "A contemporary calculates, from
data supposed to be reliable, that the
amount of money expended by the
people of the United States during the
past twelve months for life insurance
was $3OO,OOO, 900.
Miss May hudson, of Walden,
Ga, while looking into n 7O-foot well,
lost her balance and fell to the bot
tom. a young man who was with her
| at the time succeeded in rescuing her.
Beyond few scratches, she was unin-
jnrcd.
Another terrible famine is causing
| widespread suffering in India. Scarci-
| ty Of water adds to her horrors of hun
| ger. Children are being sold by starv-
ing parents. Cattle are dying by thou
sands, and no rain is expected before
June.
= The Georgia school Of technology
has again become the beneficiary OF
the magnanimity Of Aaron French, the
Pennsylvania millionaire, who has just
| contributed $500 to meet the cx-
pcnscs for admission Of sub -appren-
tices.
= Lucy Boston johnson, 105 years
old, tho last of the Nipunll Indians,
| committed suicide near Webster, Mass,
OH Wednesday by setting her cabin
| afirc and dying i'll the flames. She was
to be taken to the poor house next day,
and preferred death.
= Since May, 1893, lip to and includ-
ing June, 1890, the total of dcsertiOns
from the various regiments in the
American army has been 5,7T2, of
which. 3,036 were from the regulars and
2,73G from the volunteers. These fig
| ures are from report sent Congress
by the War Department.
| "A novel way of deriving an income
has been devised by number of young
English girls, who are making living
from butterflies. Miss Mary Yoemnns,
n clever English girl, who came to this
country several years ago, settling in
California, took up the work Of collect
ing butterflies as she had followed it
abroad, and has succeeded admirably,
California being SO rich iii rare and
beautiful varieties. Some species that
she has sent to England she has re-
| ccived as high as :S25 apiece for.
Quartcrmaster General L,ldington
has made arrangements for the ship
ment to this country of the remains Of
! abont 100 soldiers disiiiieried ut San
tiago last spring and detained there
until this time on account of the sani-
tary precautions against the introduce
tion of contagious diseases. These
bodies will be shipped at Santiago and
ELL lao 4a Lon Lnszz "