The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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10 be the largest known in many wears.
Inc dog population of Chicago is
4O,906. The license of these is $50, 500
Governor Saycrs estimates the
dead III Texas rs q result of the storm
at $4,000.
= 1t will take 10000 men, working
every day three months, to clean nm
Galveston's streets.
Nashville, Tenn, is dissatitied with
the census returns, and is to take re-
count at its own ypense.
The total increase in the value Of
the farm animals of the United States
III the last three years was $57O, 100000.
l. Life insurance experts estimate
that New York companies will have to
pay out for loss of life in Galveston
alone Sl0,OOO,0OO
cotton may no longer be king, but
1T is still princely product. Our ex-
ports of manufactured cotton last
year amounted to more than 2o4O.O0O.-
600.
- DIR. Hunter II. McGuirc, who was
the physician of Stonewall jackson,
died on September Goth mt his home
in Richmond in the Goth year Of his
age.
- 1t is estimated that three million
dollars will be needed to carry the
sufferers Of Galveston and other Texas
towns until they can take care of them
| selves.
- The United States treasury will
issue number of bills Of small de-
nomination. for there is general COM
plaint all over the country about the
shortage of change
! The late census proves that the
United States contains greater NUM-
Der of cities with n population Of over
100000 inhabitants than any other
country except China.
- There i'avc been further riots re-
ported near Canton, China. The Pres
byterian churches at She Klung have
been destroyed. Tho Catholic converts
have been looted and the Catholic mis-
sions burned.
= The epidemic Of cholera in India
is carrying off natives at the rate of
5000 per week. The trouble is due to
pollution of tho scanty water supply
during tho famine. 1t is much worse
than the buconic plague.
- MIR. Richard Croker says tie dem
ocrats will carry the city Of New
York by 100000 majority. If he can
make his word good, and it is believed
he can, the electoral vote of New York
will be cast for Bryan and Stevenson.
In the Cuban elections the rcvalu-
! tionaTy delegates viii have q majority
in the constitutional convention, and
will doubtless favor an immediate and
absolute independence without the in
terventiOn Of protectorate by the
United States.
What is said to be most denscly
populated patch of ground on earth is
the block between Sixty first and Six
ty-second streets and Tenth and
Eleventh avenues, in New York, which
contains 0,SS8 people, not counting
those that got away when the census
man hove i'll sight.
= The vegctarians of the country
are planning colony in the South
where they can live by their own rules
and compel everybody in the colony to
abide by these laws. The president CT
the Vegetarian Society Of America, the
Rev. S. II. Chubb, of Philadelphia, is
now in the South looking for a suitable
location.
An order has been issued to the
post-mastcrs throughout the country
to observe the strictest economy with
rubber bands and to reuse old .band as
much as possible, and to save all pieces
Of string for future use. The famine
in India and the war in the Philippines
have advanced the price of both these
articles.
| - Texas has just been visited with
another calamity. ~ "a. Unprecedented
floods are reported from various points
south of Austin. Some of the rivers
are higher than evcr before known,
and the crops on the low lands nave
been utterly ruined. The cotton crop
has been seriously damaged and q
large number of cattle have drowned in
the floods.
= The Chicago News says: "Nearly
1000 prehistoric skeletons were dis
covered in Galveston just previous to
the great storm which wrecked tho
city. Apparently city in prehistoric
times was cngulfcd on the spot on
which Galveston stands-a fact which
at least shows the Galvestonians of to-
day Jared somewhat better than their
predecessors"
james B. Howard, who has been
on trial for several days at Frankfort,
KY, charged with the murder of Gov
crnor Goebel, was found: guilty, the
jury, after number of ballots were
taken, fixing his punishment at death.
The first ballot was unanimous as to
guilt, but the disagreement was as to
the degree of punishment, ten .of the
jury voting for the death penalty and
two for life imprisonment.