The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


INC United States over s2O,00o,0OO n !
year.
Inc ermont Legislature has pass
Ell Dill prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites i'll that State.
Ihe Southern Railrna,; has bought |
the Louisville, Evansville and st. I.ouis
Railroad for $4,o3o,0oo and will tuko
control January 1st.
= Secretary Long has announced
himself i'll iivor OF the general extern /
sion Lf woman suffrage.
= The annual conference of Virrini,
subscribed S1.3Sl.3O to rebuild tLc
Methodist Church at Galveston.
There isa fight on between the
companies controlling coffee and sugar
III this country and consequently a re-
duction in the price from IL points to
cent per pound.
= The government now proposes to
cut Il ship canal through North Caro-
lima 50 as to avoid the rounding of
Hattcras, the most dangerous point on
tho South Atlantic coast.
Senator e. *. Davis, of Minno-
sofa, whose death was reported recent
ly was the victim OF poisoned dive in
SOCK, which infected his foot and pois
oned his whole system.
= Captain Lawrence NJ. Murray. who
commanded the famous confederate
cruiser Nashville, before her CAPTURE
by the federal government, is dead Mt
his home i'm Maiden. v
= The grand jury Of New York Civ
will Investigate tho charges preferred
by the Merchants Association OF that
city that there is n deficiency of - ,OOo,
GOO on tho books of the water dcnnrt.
ment.
= Chicago now contains greater
population than all the cities of the
United States contained in 1910, and
New York city now has a greater non
lation thar AL the cities together had
in 1850.
Two men, each with double bar
relied gun, followed by his wife with
a revolver had battlcin Mango, Fla.
the other day. Ono man was killed
and tho wife of the other was badly
beaten.
A Baltimore newspaper man says
the contributions made to tho demo
cratic national committee i'm ;hc re-
cent campaign did not exceed $780,
200, while the republicans had fund
of $15,O0O,0OO.
= At Akron, Ohio, Edward Epplcy
was found guilty of the unlawful pos
session of dynamite. This is tho fifth
conviction growing out of tho riots in
August, when tho City Building was
h!ewn UP and Burned.
Twenty-Five persons were made
sick at Chattanooga last week by
drinking water from a we'll charged
with arsenic. Itresulted from neigh
borhoOd quarrel. One Of the families
put in the posion for spite.
Gov. Saycrs OF Texas is said 10
have contributed to the Galveston re-
lief fund moro money in proportion to
his private means than any other per
son interested; but his gifts wero dis
trlbuted secretly, and we're not public
iy acknowledged.
Tho Supreme Court Of Georgia
mas decided that though the general
government could require stamps put
on certain documents for raising taxes
the separate States c0nld receive tax
able papers rs evidence though they |
had no stamp on them.
= Miss Kate Miller of Fredericksburg,
Pa, is probably the oldest factory
girl" in tho United States. She re-
Gently celebrated her 8lst birthday, and
for the last twenty years has worked
III the same establishment. She never
misses day, turns out full quota of
work, competing with girls sixty years
her juior.
= An ostrich farm is to be establish
ed in the surburbs of Little Rock, Ark.
Thomas A. Cockburn of San Antonia,
Texas, has purchased tract of land
and will take his entire supply of birds
there ut once. His farm is branch Of
one OF the celebrated California farms.
MIR. Cockburn will go to Hot Springs
because the climate, he says, is better
suited FOR Ills business.
= The Massachusetts bureau of labor
statistics has been counting up the
clergymcn, physicians and lawyers of
tho State, and finds that "for every 5l4
persons in the population there is one
person engaged under the head of re-
lglon; for every 800 ono person under
tho head of law, and for every 431 one
person under the head of medicine"
An example of the chances i'm tho
United States for the bright and en-
'rgetlc young men who stay in one
place is furnished by the success of
Charles M. Hayes. At the ago of 10
10 was clerk in railroad Office at
st. Louis, his salary being $40 month. ,
That was 23 years ago. Mr.. Hayes has l
become president of the Southern I