The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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1t will be necessary to recruit
ABOUT $4,000 new troops for the Philip
| pines before July 1st.
= le now estimated that tho in
hemn.t.es that viii DC asked of China
will amount to 5000 1000, 900.
The $4,000, 600 cigar trust. kid
of the tobacco trust, will nrohohlv
increase the number OF pipe smokers.
- Galveston has expended two and
quarter millions of dollars in new
buildings since the storm in Septcm.
ber.
! "A negro has been lynched in Ocala,
Fla, for wrecking the Plant System
fast train near Dunnell. The mob
took the negro from tho officers.
In Atlanta recently man offered
for building as much money rs would
be represented by silver dollars set on
edge to cover the roof but the price
was refused.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the
Standard Oil magnate, has subscribed
$25O,00O for the founding of Now
4orK institution of Learning for poor
boys and girls.
Including the national capital there
are 10 towns and cities bearing the
name of Washington, and Washington,
Ca, has the distinction of being the
first of them all.
southeastern Texas is excited over
the opening. near Beaumont, of an oil
well spouting 100 feet high and pro-
Gnni1Vny IN nm Hor oc
twenty-fOur hours.
j. Ogden Armour, who is now
head of the Armour business interests,
will be only 81 years old next month,
but he was connected with tho late =.
d. Armour for II years.
= The "first baby of tho century,"
30 far reported, was born in Cleveland,
Ohio, at 1901 January 1. 1t was q
boy, and they have called the poor little
fellow John Century Thomson.
= Charles Steinbrink, who was con-
victei Mt st. John, Kan, on forty-nine
counts of selling tvhislSey in violation
of the prohibitory law, was fined 81 800
and sentenced to forty -ninc months in
Jail. ---.
= Capt. s. S. Brown, Of Pittsburg, n
civil war veteran, has given $500 to
the fund being raised for the enter
tainment of the Confederate veterans
ut the coming reunion in Memphis,
Tom.
-. r.. Thompson, prominent mcr-
chant of Fairburn, Ca, has been ar
rested on charge of areon--setting
fire to his own store and burning it to-
gether with three other on the night of
December 81st. III ,,ffh ;SIETAi
In voluntary and amicaple agree
ment of separation between Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogden Merritt. of Arthur, Ill.,, the
5-year-old baby was turned over to the
husband in exchange for Shetland
pony and a Jersey COW.
Both Arkansas and Mississippi,
which are to have new State Houses, to
cost about 100000 each, have, by n
singular coincidence. selected as the
sites for the buildings those formerly
occupied by penitentiaries.a .asf "A
An enthusiastic Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union in one of the
smaller towns of Georgia, finding q few
moments in which to think of other
snbjects than that of liquor, passed
resolutions denunciatory of kissing.
Grover Allen, known as the bow
giant and probably the largest boy of
his age in the country, died in Ander-
son, Ind, the other day. He was eight
years and one month old, stood feet
10 inches high and weighed 251 pounds.
- A suit for $50 damages, which had
been In court at Portage, Wis, for
more than two years, and the costs for
which had run into tho thousands, was
decided the other day by the award of
$50. The participants had nearly bank
rupted themselves.
= Felix N. Cobb, q politician and
lawyer of Carrollton, Ca, committed
suicide in Atlanta Wednesday night.
He left letter to his parents saving
domestic troubles was the cause of his
act. Cobb was the candidate of the
Populists for attorney general OF Geor-
gia in the last election.
. The Atlanta Ncws]- recommends
that everyone drink moresswatcr. That
may be very good advice for Atlanta
but it won't go in South Carolina. sThe
cry here is to drink more dispensary
whiskcy so that the school children can
be better educated from the profits
Aiken journal and Reriew.
| Considering the fact that tho
average man only has use for five or
six hundred words, there seems to be
already an over-supply. But there is
greatactivity in the dictionary making
industry. The new Webster will con-
tain %, 900 words not found in the most
recent editions of that work, and an
ION, 4.