The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

has decided that women cannot Drac-
ticc law i'll the State.
= Thomas B. Reed, according to re-
ports, is openly opposing the Repub-
lican ticket.
- A farmer ut Bath, Ca, i'll blowing
in field turned UP a pot Of old gold
amounting to ss7,70O.
= North Carolina truck farmers have
sold twelve million baskets of straw
berries this year at IN average price of
ten cents.
= William Woodward, farmer, shot
and killed his stepdaughter and, in
turn, was beaten to death by his neigh
bors at Marshall, Mo.
A terrific hail storm during which
hailstones as large as hens eggs fell,
damaged wheat fields near Denver,
Idaho, to the extent of $4,000.
- A nugget of gold that weighed "a
ounces and valued ut $13,5OO was re-
Gently picked up in the Klondike-
the largest ever found on this CONT
nent.
General heavy rains have fallen in
Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and
South Dakota. 1t is believed that
part of the wheat crops can now be
saved.
= The general crop bulletin Of the
United States says that cotton has
been badly hurt by rains, and that in
some States the fields have been aban-
dOned.
= The Treasury now shows surplus
of over $8O,O0O,O0O. In June the re-
ceipts from customs amounted to &2O,-
600, 900 and from internal revenue @2s,-
100000. So the little stamp tax is doing
good work.
= President Mckinley and his Cabi-
net and Theo. Roosevelt, Republican
nominee for Vice President, have been
invited to attend the reunion Of the
blue and gray Mt Atlanta OH the Goth
instant.
= Alabama is now shipping coal to
Germany. A Birmingham agent n
short time ago secured an order for
100000 tons from a German firm, and
it is assured that other large orders
will follow
1t is said that Tennessee cotton
planters are sending out large orders
for turkeys in m effort to save the
crop from destruction by grasshop-
pers, which have appeared this season
in enormous numbers
= Miss Abigail Robertson, of Roches-
ter, N. Y, has brought suit against a
folding box company and a millinely y
company for $4,000 damages, because
they are, without her consent, using
her picture 0n their packages.
| "A fire at Hoboken, N. j., destroy
ed S0,0G0,00O worth Of property, con-
sisting of ocean steamers, wharf pro-
perties and frieghts, and burned to
death upwards of three hundred per-
sons, besides iDjuring many more.
= 1t is probable that within the next
month three regiments of the United
States infantry-the. First and Second
and either the Fifth or Eighth-will
leave Cuba. This will leave but two
regiments of infantry in the island.
- Leprosy is said to have broken out
among the Idaho volunteers returned
from the Philippines. The State Health
authorities are investigating the re-
port. 1t is known thet four cases are
being Looked into, and it is stated that
one of these is beyond question leprosy.
The victim is the son of an Episcopal
clergyman in Blaine County, and is now
isolated in the mountains.
"A unique phase of the liquor license
question has appeared Mt Marshfield
Mass, once the home. of Daniel Web
ster, The town had for long time
been "dry," but at a recent election
voted in favor of license, and the local
authorities have proceeded to make
the license fee Si,000,00O year. No
body has come forward impressed with
the idea that a place of 2,0OO inhab-
itants can have million dollar thirst.
The statistician of the Department
of Agriculture estimates the total area
planted in cotton at 25,553, 900 acres, an
increase of 2,038. 900 acres, or 81 per
cent. over the productive area of last
year. He estimates the increase ut z
per cent. in South Carolina end Ala
bama; 8 per cent. in Texas and Geor-
gia; 0 per cent. in Louisiana and Ten
nessce; 10 per cent. in North Carolina,
Mississippi and Arkansas; is per cent.
in Indian Territory; 18 per cent. in
Oklahoma; 25 per cent. in Virginia and
~ per cent. in Missouri.
Link Glen, of Orr, Kan, who en-
listed for service in the Philippines. was
wounded in the leg in his first battle,
and when the wound healed he found
that tho injured member was two
inches shorter than the other. He was
niied with cork -soled shoe and sent
home. Soon after his return he met
with an accident and broke the other
leg. When the bones were set, curi-