The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

= Carnegie has given $4,000 for n |
library in Chattanooga.
Congress will adjourn next Fri
day for the Christmas holidays.
Augusta cotton men insist that
ten cent cotton vii; prevail in tho |
spring.
- Several railroads in the East are |
substituting the telephone for the tele.
graph in the operating department.
= During tho present century 100
human lives; s12s. .ooo, ,ooo and. aaeoc s,,,;ps |
have been lost in fruitless efforts to
find the North Pole.
= Thomas Gather, of Hancock Sta
tion, Md, while grinding up sausage
meat found 5000 diamond ring iii one
of his hogs. There will be genuine
hog-killing time ut that home.
The brewers are not satisfied with
the reduction of25 cents a barrel in
the tax on beer, which is given them
by the Republican bill now before the
House, and will fight for n greater re-
duction.
= The North Carolina Methodist
Episcopal Conference in session at
Newbern. has declared so vigorously
against Sunday trains and Sunday
newspapers that it really advocates a
boycott.
| A Boston youth confessed to steal
ing $s.s37, but positively refuses to
give any clue to the whereabouts of
his booty. He proposes pay the pen
atty of his crime, five years imprison-
ment, and then enjoy the money after
wards.
State Entomologist w. NJ. Scott
destroyed nearly $4,000 worth of fruit
trees in Columbus. Ga., last week be-
cause they were infected with the San
Jose scale. The trees were shipped from
the Cumberland Nursery of Columbia,
Tenn.
= Two persons were killed in Utica,
| N. Y. Wednesday morning by coming
in contact with electric wires broken
from poles by storm. The snow broke
down thousands of wires and telephone,
telegraph and car service was badly
crippled.
- The Brewers of the United States
contributed two millions to the Repub-
lican campaign fund and secured re-
duction in the war tax on beer that
will aggregate thirty millions in 10
months. The brewers are evidently
expertpolit'cians.
= The recent cyclone which passed
over portions of Arkansas, Tennessee
and Mississippi did vast amount of
damage toproperty, as we'll as destroy
ing hundreds of human lives. Amer-
chants sign is said to have been Blown
100 miles by the wind. - 2i
Bradstreet continues to- tell how
good trade is in the country, especially
i'll the South end West, but the, big
operators continue to cut down the
wages of their workers that they may
enjoy the Mckinley prosperity the
more thoroughly for both parties. -
= The United States Supreme Court
has upheld the constitutionality Of the
Kentucky Jim Crow I Car law in an
opinion handed down in the case Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. versus
the State Of Kentucky Justice Harr
Ian filed dissenting opinion. -
= The advance of the cremation idea
is certainly slow, 4 But there are idctal4H "a
sional ievidenees! tlati iti4s :sure!oaFor
exanple..in Detroit there we're ithfcs
inciperationa; in. 1889. the nnmbert had
grown to; 49 in 1899, and this year the,
number is so great that q new furnace
will have to be added to the cremato-
rum. '-@ii''' ''''A"o' '''' = '''nf-' -
'a'- jim Henderson Ind Bud Rowland,
negroes. were'hahged Mt Sso'clock Sun
day night in the Jail yard at Rockport,
Ind, by mob iof,5Qa persons, who for-
chilly entered tho prison. The negroes
waylaidi mnidered.nnd them robbediIi. :,
s. Simmons, a%hite man, early that
that morning: = They confessed the
crimG.i'i letE}7 aupigl 'tlr.' ~ rs tlj
= Charles u Stanley lis the driver of
q Lebanon. Pa, fire. engine, Last Fri4
day eEeninGIas the Rey.. DR.. Schmsnk.
was marrying ,MissiAnnaL L. Bleyer Ito
Driver ,Stahleys sthe, alarm bell rang,
The bridegroom excused himself and
started onTa run for the engine h1use.
The fire over, he returned to the Church
and the wedding proceeded. tln3c
- Tie clerk Of the board OF 'ed.lca-i
tion OF Cincinnati. Ohio, George II.
Griffiths, recently died. and since hisl
death his. hooks for. the past thirteen
years have been examined and the ao-
counts show n shortage of at least
100000. betting ON horse races and
card games accounts for his peeulation.
,.-Itiis reported that the republics of
South America are negotiating I'm
alliance. having been prompted to do
SO by tho fear that American influence
will become paramount in the western
hemisphere. The movement is said to
be an outgrowth of;the Ibero -Amcri-
can congress, recently held in Madrid.
49, The old effort to mako the holder,l
of mortgage share in the payment Of |
taxes levied uuan tho. reoJi 90 toto hos