The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

street car strike in st. Louis, but the
trades union boycott is getting very
troublesome.
Woolcy and Mctcalf have been
nominated by the national prohibition-
lists for president and vice president.
= Mrs. Katharine H. Long, who died
recently in Lancaster, Pa, leaves $3.50
600 for home in Lancaster for indl-
gent single women.
Grasshoppers are beginning work
OH the cotton crops in the Southern
States. On the Mississippi delta the
havoc wrought is already extensive.
The postmaster general has amend
ed the postal regulations 80 as to per-
nit the sender Of q registered letter to
recall it after it has been dispatched.
- 1t is stated that the rise in the
price of cotton the last season made
the South rich by something like two
hundred million dollars.
The number of horses and mules
landed in South Africa since the begin
nirg of the war for military purposes
is over 10000, at a cost of geo, ,00O, 900.
= The fact that citizens Of the Uni
ted States are now running things in
Cuba will result i'll special effort at
developing peach culture on the Is
land.
- 1t is stated that Ncely, the postal
employe of Uncle Sam in Cuba, en-
bezzled $405,0OO worth of postage
stamps which the government had
ordered destroyed.
State elections will be held in
North Carolina OH August 2; in Ala
bama on August 6; Arkansas, Septem-
ber 4; Vermont, September 10; and
Georgia. October 3.
AT Toccoa, Ga, Editor w. A.
Fowler was fatally stabbed by Belt
Stafford, local editor. The two men
were friendly Stafford walked up be-
hind Fowler and cut his throat without
warning.
= The new law requiring the inspec-
tion of oils in Georgia has resulted in
the cOnfiscation of large quantity
which was being smuggled into the
State, and which was very Iuuch below
the standard.
- Sheep shearing has startedin Utah
and from present indications the clip
will average about seven pounds to the
head. All of the men ranging in Wyo-
ming are doing we'll. One man alone
has 100, 900 head.
- The will of Pennsylvania woman
bequeaths $4,000 for the benefit of a
horse and g dog. There is one good
thing about leaving money in this way.
The beneficiaries ago not likely to get
drunk and quarrel over the division of
it.
\ Mrs. Josephine Coates, aged 90
years, was assaulted and murdered at
her home near New Orleans Saturday
by white man named Frank Gilmore.
He was caught, hung, shot and buried
by mob. When caught he confessed
his guilt.
- Brigadier General Wheeler has
assumed command of the Department
of the Lakes, at Chicago, and expects
to remain in Chicago until September
10, his oath birthday, when he will
reach the age limit and retire from
active service.
- Miss Josie Wanous, Of Mime
apolis, has been chosen third vice presi
dent Of the American Pharmaceutical!
association, being the first woman to
hold office in that body. Miss Wanous
who owns a successful drug store in
Minneapolis, holds a leading place
among tho pharmacists of the country
= According to table Of statistics
published III the American Baptist
Year Book for 1900. membership OF the
rolls Of Tie various religious donomina-
tions in the United States show names
of between 100000 and $4,000, 900
people. Of course the number that
attend church will double this number.
- Chairman Jones claims only 1O6
votes as sure for Bryan. In these are
included Maryland and West Virginia,
II votes. He comedies 1GS for McKin-
ley, leaving New York, Indiana, and
Minnesota, on the doubtful list. These
have s3 votes. The Republicans claim
every one of them. There are 447
electoral votes and 224 will be necessary
to elect the President.
The crop report prepared by Snow,
the crop expert, who has just complet-
ed two weeks trip through Mime
sofa and tho Dakotas, declares the sit
nation national calamity and claims
the wheat failure is the worst ever
known. He estimates the Dakotas as
promising only 2O,0O0,0OO each and
Minnesota $4,000, 900, n total of Is, ,OOO.-
n1n against ~ov,vvv,vvV and 295, ,O00, 900
Of the last two years.
Adventists are in the field once
more with their oft-repeated assertion
that the end Of the world is near. The
elders assert that. the vyars in SontI,