The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-09
General News Items.

mere lsO one church for every :. 400
persons i'll New York.
= About 200 men were killed last
Tuesday by an explosion ina Utah Goa,
mine.
= Admiral Dewey st atcs that he win
not withdraw from the presidential
campaign.
Two young ladies in l;corgia are
cu!tivating holly AMI mi>,ctoc farm
and making big money.
Col. II. Bussey Of Gcorgia, one of
'he cotton experts, says that the next
crop OF cotton will not be large one.
Democratic harmony in the State
OF New io'k is making McKinleyites
very uneasy over those - electoral
votes.
1t Is said that General Wheeler
VIII be Il candidate for reelection TO
congress and that he will have no
opposition.
III Delaware the whipping post is
still i'll force and last week . cnlnrits
sentenced for petit larceny received 30
lash"s each.
- The republicans are h,vinra Il rrcot
deal OF trouble to find suitable man
to run for Vice President on the ticket
with Mckinley.
= Judge Jackson, Of the United
States circuit court at Wheeling. West
Virginia, declares that crime in this
country is on the increase.
= a young woman in Kansas and n
young man in Oklahoma were recently
married by telegraph. The event must
have been preceded by some electric
sparks.
= Adna Adams Treat, of Denver.
Col, is probably the Oldest Mason in
the world, having joined the order in
his 1O3d year and still in vigorous
health.
= Inc Nicaragua canal.bill has pass
ell the House by vote Of 225 to 35.
The bill authorizes the construction Of
canal at n cost not exceeding 140,0OO,-
| 600.
The second anniversary of tho
bnttlc of Manila was celebrated In
Chicago May and Admiral Dewey.
the hero of Manila, was the big man of
the occasion.
= Nancy Washington, colored, cele-
! brated her 1o5th birthday i'll i5oston %
few days ago. The must remarkable
achievement i'll Nancy's career was the
burying of six husbands at Intervals.
Labor troubles are reported from
oil over the country. There seems to
be more in Mark Hanna's State than
anywhere else. Georgia's capital is
the center of the southern disturbance.
= Among the sights at the Paris cx-
position will be the Horrors of War"
building, which Nj. do Block is fitting
UP with pictures, models and other
means of melting feeling against war
fare.
- Rev. J. $. Bitter, Methodist
clergyman, OF Missouri, is organizing
company to develop gold mining claims
at Cripple Creek, the proceeds Of which
are to be devoted to the fund for
cvangclistic work in large cities.
= Complete returns from the Lou
isiana election show that the Democrats
carried every parish in the State save
two. and elected every State and local
officer except two Sheriffs. four Police
Judges and three Magistrates.
John Geisler, a Chicago broker,
who was operated on for deafness, had
bee removed from his ear, which he
says he recalled flying into his ear
twenty-eight years ago in Kansas.
The insect was perfectly embalmed in
wax.
- A riot in n debating society near
Mountain Grove, Mo-, resulted in one
of three judges suffering the loss of
three teeth, another broken rib and
the third a broken nose, while two of
the debaters emerged from the argu-
ment with broken bones.
There is one church for every 3S7
people in the United States. Boston
has one for every 1000 of her popula-
ton and Minneapolis one for every
1,054. Twenty-four million people
attend church in the United States
every Sunday.
When Hawaii was annexed to this
country there was hanging over her
bonded debt Of about $4,000,000, ut q
heavy rate Of interest. This debt still
exists, but under the act signed by the
President it is to be assumed by the
United States.
- The casualties in the Philippines
since July 1st, 1893, when the Ameri-
can troops reached Manila, up to April
eth, 1900, have been as follows: KILL
cd and died of wounds. A2. c!n.::cs7s anu
552 men; died of disease, &c officers and
I ,G35 men; total 2,256.
= There is q man in Hamilton Cnnn-
ty, Ohio, who. has run for n country
Office twenty one successive times and
been defeated every time. He says it
begins to look q little blue and that
Eve cr Elk ;sa01o defeats will lead him
to pause and consider.
- Hull and Ottawa cities (Canada)
were ravaged by an awful fire last
week. Many lives were lost, thousands