The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ooul ~. tOCKefellcrS income lS
$57.600pc day. or $40 minute.
= New York receives daily 1000, 900
egga-cnc :ni, quarter for every in
habitant.
1t is stated that the condition of
Mrs. Mckinley's health will nccessitate
southern trip.
= President Mckinley re- c-appointcd
his Cabinet and tho Senate confirmed.
the appointments.
= Tho town of Glover Point, Ky,
has boen wiped out by fire and thous-
ands arc homeless there.
- According to tho Statistical Alb
stract for 1900 the per capita money in
circulation in the United States is
$1,000.
Mckinley is said to be interesting
himself now in an attempt to build
mp n white republican party at the
South.
There have been reports of tor
nadoes from all tho sonthwesterm States
| recently. Great damage has been done
in some sections.
|
amendment to the constitutional fran
chse has passed the Maryland house
of representatives.
j. Is. Martindalc, Il white man,
was lynchcd at Carthage y. G., Il
few days ago for making il criminal as
sault upon Mrs. Brewer Young mar
ricd woman.
Two sharp earthquake shocks
were experienced in Manchester, y.
II. There was an interval Of ten see
Onds between the two shocks. No
damage was done.
- An Inslianian who employed sub :
stitute in the civil war applies for Il
pension on tho ground that his sub
stitute, to whom he paid $500, was kill
ed, and the applicant is old and needy
The Porto Ricans arc kicklug
about burtlensome taxes and harshness
i'll their collection. A committee has
been sent to the president to make for
NAL protest, but he has declined to
take action.
Delaware has been without full
representation in tho United States
Senate since 1865. The Legislature
which adjourned last week, failed to
elect, and Governor Hum says that
he will not appoint one. There arc
two Republican factions that are fight
ing each other to the death and neither
will yield.
= Andrew Carnegie. the Pittsburg
philanthropist, has offered the city OF
Charlotte $4,000. with which to erect
n library building. The offer is based
on tho conditions that tho city will
donate free site and establish nm au-
nual fund of $4,000 for the mainten-
ance of the library. The offer will
doubtless be accepted.
- A New York newspaper recently
contained an advertisement announc-
ing that babies at certain foundlings'
homo could be had fG: adoption. In q
short time two hundred little ones
were thus disposed of in rcspec table
families. it is now learned that many
of these infants were placed in tho asy-
lnm by parents comfortably of i'll or
der to avoid taking care Of the chill
drcn.
"Thc abode Of Satan is in the
planet Saturn" says John II. Fulton,
M. A., of Edinburg University, and at
one time professor of Oriental Ian
guagcs i'll the Royal University of
Athens and the Imperial University of
Vienna, according to report, and tho
information is timely. Tho Richmond
Dispatch says: "NOw that we know
exactly where his Santnnic Majesty is
we may be able to avoid him. We
ought to be able to keep ont of the way
of Il person as fur Off rs is 4 dwcller in
Saturn, that is to say, something like
779.000,000 miles,"
"A destructive tornado swept
through Texas recently dealing death
and destruction. At Willis Point four
persons were killed aud number in
jurcd and many buildings wcro wreck
ed. The storm extended throughout
Kentucky, western Tennessee and on
to Chicago. A cloud-burst tore up tho
streets in Owensboro, Ky, flooded this
cellars and easements and destroyed
much property Chicago was DAM
aged to the amount of s;2c0,0O0. Loss
of life is reported all along the track
of the storm, and millions of dollars
worth of property swept away by storm
and flood.
The Supreme Court has officially
declared that drunkenness does not
excuse crime. The case was appeal
ed to tho Supreme Court and tho tri-
bunnl was called on TO decide whether
or not the fact that an accused per-
son suffering from delirium tremens
Mt the time of tho commission
of crime is gond and valid de-
fence. The decision of tho Supreme
Court, declared through Chief Justice
Nichols, was on this special point as
follows: "Where n Darty in DOSsessiOn