The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Oregon defeated the constitutional
amendment allowing women to vote.
Japan has been asked by the pow
ers to put an army of 10000 into China
to restore order.
The western wheat crop is said to
be shorter than it has been for years
and the price will go still higher.
A strike in Pennsylvania coal
mines, in which 10000 men may be in
volved, is threatened for July 1st.
= Fifteen hundred men are being
recruited in this country how to join
the regular army in the Philippines.
= Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind
millionaire, has given to charity 1920
600 during the first six months of 1900.
= The strikers in ST. Louis are seek
ing to provide transportation for the
public by placing 450 busses on the
streets.
George w. Watts, of Durham, n.
c., has given $4,000 to the presbytc-
rian Union Theological Seminary at
Richmond.
= Samuel Adams, colorcd, who en-
tered the room of two white girls and
tried to assault them, was lynchad at
Columbus, Ga.
William j. Bryan pays taxes in
Lincoln, Nebraska, upon 1850 of per-
sonal property, which is the largest re-
turn made in town.
- The Reformed Presbyterian synod,
at Cedarville, O., passed n resolution
prohibiting the ordination of any man
who uses tobacco.
= A runaway horse in New York ran
up flight Of stairs to the second floor
of wholesale grocery store at the COR
ner Of Forty-SiXth street aud Eighth
avenue.
= Mr.. James II. Kecnc, the famous
stock operator, who is now in Europe,
has bet an additional twenty five
thousand dollars that Bryan will be
elected this fall.
A first cousin of w. j. Bryan has
been nominated for governor of Flor
ida. 1t took forty four ballots to choose
the nominee, and it does not appear
how much the name had to do with the
selection.
1t is possible that President Nc
Kinley and Governor Roosevelt may
come to Atlanta July Goth to be present
at the reunion of tho blue and gray, to
be held at the old battlefield of Peach
tree creek.
VIM. r. Hearst, president of tie
national association Of Democratic
clubs, has issued an address urging all
Democratic clubs to solemnly observe
July 4 and ".ioin iii a new pledge OF
fidelity to the republic rs their fathers
made it,"
- During the past ten years the ex-
ports Of manufactured products from
the United States have increased $50
per cent, far greater gain than any
other country has made during that
period or ever made in the same length
of time.
Chairman James X. Jones, of the
Democratic national committee, says
Bryan will carry every State that he
carried in 1896 and in addition will
carry Kentucky and Maryland. Heal
so has splendid showing in Indiana,
Ohio and New York.
"A great Dane named Caesar died
in Germantown, Pa, the other day and
was buried in n silver lined coffin,
with solid silver trimmings, which had
been made to order by an undertaken
from careful measurements, and q
monument has been placed over the
grave costing $1,000.
= Oregon is the first State to vote
this year. The fight was made on free
silver and expansion. The Democrats
favored free silver and opposed tie
Republican policy in the Philippines
and Puerto Rico. The State was car
ried by tho Republicans by majority
of 5000. They also elected the two
Congressman from that State.
= 1t was pleasantly said by speaker
at q missionary conference held lately
in New Jersey: ga dime makes as
much noise on plate collection as q
quarter, and both make moro noise
than bill. If you don't want your
left-hand to know what your right
hand doctl put in bill.
= Commander-in-chief Shaw, repre-
senting veterans of the civil war in the
Grand Army of the Republic, has sent
q personal invitation to Major Gen.
John b. Gordon, representing the
United Confederate Veterans, to come
to Chicago next August as q special
guest of the oath national encampment.
"A passenger train ON the Macon
hcss.ccc. o9 tho Southern railway ran
into washOut one and half miles
north Of McDcnough, Ca, last Satur-
day night and was completely wrecked.
The wreck caught hnTo anu the entire
train with the exception of the sleeper
was destroyed. Every person on the
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