The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Indiana towns are making war on
negro vagrants, and not encouraging
negro citizens.
The Tennessee legislature has
passed bill to prohibit the co .cduca-
tion of the races.
The City Council of Omaha, Neb.,
has offered Ii reward of $4,000 for Pat
Grove, the kidnarpuT, dead or alive,
making the price on Groves head now
$4,000.
= Because an engineer was asleep
live persons were killed, one fatally
injured, and thousands of dollars wo.eh
OF property destroyed in q wreck on
tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
= Four hundred textile mills were
established in this country last year.
This is moro than double the annual
average for tho past eight years, and
is 46 per cent. above the record of 1892.
= Reports from Kentucky cities are
to the effect that tho State is being
flooded with raisc;. s5 bills. In Louis
vile nearly all the banks have been
swindled by the raising Of IL 81 silver
certificate to $5.
= There comes story from Cleve-
land. O., that rheumatic in that town
who could barely walk took to his
heels and ran like deer when he was
held up by fOOtpads. and since then
he claims that he is free of his malady.
= Cigarette smoking is a sufficient
ground for divorce in Wisconsin. In
Milwaukee the other day woman de-
manded divorce on the plea that her
husband was an excessive smoker of
cigarettes and the court granted the
decree.
One of the measures before the
Legislature of North Carolina provides
that all criminals condemned to capi-
tai punishment shall be removed from
the county jails, Immediately upon
conviction, to the State penitentiary to
await the execution of their sentence.
- In North Carolina t'!l has been
introduced in the Senate to create n
State Board for the examination of
BARRIERS. like medical OF pharmacy
boards. The bill contains provisions
regarding the prever lion of contagious
diseases at BARRIERS hands. 1t was
referred 20 the committee on public
health
= The farmers of Woodstock, Ga,
are battling with an army of crows,
numbering thousands, and the battle
is going on day and night. 1t takes
them only q snort time to Iavour q
field of wheat, and the farmers say
they will have to be destroyed before
spring or there will be no corn raised
in that section.
The New York World claims to
have secured IN interview with Agui-
naldo in which he says he will not
trust the American people any more.
since Dewey, Otis ard other American
Generals have violated their solemn
promises TO the Filippinos. He says
the war will last till his people win
their independence.
- The State Supreme Court of Ohio
has affirmed the constitutionality Of
| the Act authorizing county commits
sioners to regulate the width of wagon
tires according to the loads carried.
Acting under it's provisions the prose-
cutting attorney of Wyandot County
sued violator. The Court Of Com
mon Pleas declared the Act unconsti-
| ti0nal, but this decision was overruled
! in the Supreme Court.
Queen Victoria is said to have been
profoundly religious. She believed in
the efficacy of prayer. She was rega-
Ter Bible reader, and frequently used a
well-wcrn Bible that belonged to Gen.
Gordon. and was presented by his
sister to the Queen, who acknowledged
the gift in an autograph letter. At
the same time she did not permit her
religious convictions to influence tho
subtle intricacies of Statecr
- The Daughters of the Confederacy
and the Forrest Statue association of
Memphis, Tenn, are Displaying great
energy in securing subscriptions to the
monument proposed to be erected in
that city to Gen. N. b. Forrest, tho
great cavalry general. 1t is hoped at
least to have tho cornerstone laid be-
fore the coming annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans in that
city. Subscriptions to the monument
are coming in daily, and there is pos
sibility that the legislature may make
an appropriation to help the enterprise.
= Prof. Robert Gersung, an eminent
surgeon Of Austria, is credited with an
important discovery in the scientific
world, 1t consists of tho use of mix
ture of paraffine and vaseliae in curing
physical deformities, and filling in
cavities caused by the removal of por-
tions of bones. The mixture is inject
ed beneath the epidermis at a temper
ature of 104 degrees; it hardens quickly
and is said to be in no way harmful to
the blood. 1t has been successfully
used in filling out hollowsin the human