The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Ga.
1t is said that Nicarauga is now
anxious for tho United States to build
the canal.
= Cuba is trying to make q constitu-
tion, but the Convention makes haste
very slowly.
- 1t is estimated tint it costs $3.50
100000 every week to run the railways
Of the world.
= On the basis Of tho recent census
virginia. Maine, Kansas and Arkansas
will each lose one Congressman.
= Frank M. Brown, the assistant
cashier of the German National bank
at Newport Ky, stole $20O,00O and
skipped.
= They will hot let Bryan alone. The
Anna Held theatrical company has
offered him $4,000 a year to associate
himself with the company.
= 1t is said that the two candidates
for mayor in Augusta spent q small for
tune each on tho election. 1t is said
that votes were bought shnmelessly.
= Tho Georgia veterans have made
demand on the legislature of that
State that home be provided for the
disabled of their diminishing numbers.
= Mrs. Nancy Hollfend, said to have
been tho Oldest woman in North Caro-
lima, died at Ellenboro, N. c., q few
days ago. Her age is given at figures
ranging from 10 to 121 years.
= The official count in Nebraska
gives the Republicans n majority of
five votes On joint ballot. it was wise
in Bryan to decline being candidate
for the United States Senate.
"A Wall street broker has failed
for more than million dollars and his
assets are nothing. Fortunately he
owes his wife $500,575 borrowed mon
cy, and she will never ask him for it.
= HOke Smith of Atlanta, has pre-
sented travelling libraries to fourteen
counties in Georgia. The books are
intended for the school children and
are to make the circuit of the schools.
A carload of insane negro soldiers
from the Philippines is en- route to
Washington City. The cause of the
insanity of SO many Philippine SOL
diers is puzzlihg the army medical
corps.
Tho legislature Of Alabana, now
in biennial session, vii most likely
enact statute providing for the hold
ing of r constitutional convention with
the primary object to regulate and re-
strict the suffrage.
= Receipts of undclivered mail mat
ter last year increased nearly 10 per
cent. There were 1866, 158 letters sent
to the Dead Letter Office. They con-
tanned $44, ,140 in cash and $1.t34.G45
In drafts, notes and money orders.
- After spending forty hours at the
bottom OF we'll under heap of sand,
Thomas McPheters was rescued at Sui
Ivan, Ind, recently little the worse
for his long imprisonment. A two-inch
rubber hose was used to convey water
and food to him while he was heing
dug out,
- The national report rs to the ay
erage yield OF corn hae been published.
The department. of agriculture sent
out its monthly bulletin stating that
the yield was 25.3 bushels per acre
against S5 81 last year and a ten-year
average of 24.1 The quality is about
as usual.
= One of the horrors of war was to
eseen in Atlanta recently in the pass
ing through OK sixteen soldiers from
the Philippines who had lost their
minds The sight was most pitia BILE.
The surgeon In charge said that the
chief cause Of insanity was excessive
drinking.
"A committee of experts has been
exploring the regions around Biltmora
and Asheville and it is said that these
gentlemen in their report to Congress g
will endorse the idea of establishing
there national park and forest pre-
serve to be known as the Appalachian
National Park.
= Two aged women who lived near
Charlotte on public road were MUIR
dered, their bodies burned in their
house and the premises lifled by bur-
glars G few nights ago. 1t was pretty
we'll understood that tho old ladies
were rich and kent their money hid
about the house.
The Republicans carried the Ne
braska legislature which will elect two
United States Senators. There are six
Republican candidates and the Demo-
Gratis and fusionists are trading witt
one of these and in this way hope -
secure enough Republican votes to
elect one Senator Democrat.
= The leading committees of Con
gress arc preparing for the work of the
next session. The Island possessions
will call for wisest counsel and action.
The Nicaragua canal bill, passed by
the House at the last session, will, come
up in the Senate the first week. Leg