The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-21
VOLUME XXXV---NO. 35.
General News Items.

= Georgia is shipping. cattle to iIa-
vana and Cicntucgos
= The legislature of Mississippi has |
proposed To build Il new State House
To cost 81 900. 900.
= milwaukee, and Kansas City seem
to bc III the lead for the Democratic
nat ional convention.
: The American steel andrWirc
company, of L'ittsbnrg. has increased
wages seven and onc-half percent for
about 10000.
According to the latest census.
Porto Rico has %, 900 inhabitants, but
they are in uuandary to tell whether
they are Porto Ricans or Americans.
: All the railroads in the Southern
Traffic Association have made Il one
cent mile rate tor the Confederate
Reunion at Louisville May 30-Junc 3.
Agents Of the British government
are still buying mules for South Africa;
1000 mules were shipped from New
Orleans OH Feb. Sth, and large lot of
food stuff.
= The postmaster of North Lansing,
n. u, was appointed by President
John Quincy Adams and has served
continuously ever since, being (now 30
years Of age.
: The Cuban census shows the pop
ulation of the island to be 1,572,S4O,
which is between $4,000 and GO,0OO less
than when the last census was taken
by the Spaniards in 1897.
"A man away up in Wisconsin
turned as black as ncgro's hat i'll of
sudden, and for no apparent cause;
and he is now wondering what nature
means by treating him thus.
= Gen. II. w. LawtOn's body has
been brought home from the Philip
pines, where he was killed last Dcccm-
Der, and OH Feb. 8 it WAS buried with
national honor III Arlington Cemetery
near Washington, ID. G.
"a lbany, N.Y., has had II half NIL
lion dollars of damage from high water
in the Hudson river, and the New
York Central railroad trains had to 20
around the city. Old river men say it
is the greatest flood since 1857.
= The war in Kentucky has been
transferred from the capitol campus to
the arena of the courts, and bills and
CT oss bills and injunctions and quo
warranto proceedings are being filed
first one side and then the other.
= The total British casualty list, up
to last Wednesday night, as reported,
was: Officers killed, 150; wounded,
$780,; missing, liz. Men killed, 1,477;
wounded, $3.50; missing. o,992; other
fatalities reported, 453. Grand total
10,505.
= Expenditures for pensions by the
United States are nearly three times
as much as is paid for tho same pur-
pose by England, France and Ger
many combined; yet the United States
has not been considered :. military
country.
In Queens county, New York,
some colored children demanded ad
mission to the school for white child
rem, and being refused u case was
carried through the courts, finally
reaching the court of appeals at AL
bany. This court of last resort sus
tanned the separation of the races in
the schools.
= Census taking is not the political
picnic that many imagine. Few ap-
prcciate the magnitude of the work;
the eleventh census cost more than
S11 100000, and in the twelfth census
an Office force of more than 1000 for
about two years and IL field force Of
over $4,000 for from two weeks to q
month, will be employed.
= DIR. ID. X. Pcarsons, of Chicago,
who has already given away two and
half millions Of his fortune to Ecol-
leges and charitable institutions, is
preparing to dispose of the remaining
million and half in the same way,
with provision that he receive an in
come of $4,000 year for himself and
wife during the remainder of their
lives. DR.. Pearsons will be 80 years
old in few weeks.
= One Of the most remarkable ex-
amplcs of municipal ownership in the
United States is shownllby the town
reports Of Edinburg, Ind. Incandes-
cent electric lights. are furnished to
residences for Is cents n MONTH and to
business houses for 90 cents a month
for sixteen candle power lights.
Water works are also operated at an
0nn,lal charpo Of 81 tO each consumer
and complete and perfect telephone
exchange is maintained witha monthly
rental OF so cents.
= The city Of Baltimore, Nd, was
treated on Jan. % to n rigorous earpli-
cation of ancient "blue laws" regard
ing Sabbath observance. Milk and ice
we're the only commodities allowed to
be sold, and druggists were permitted
to compound physicians prescriptions.