The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-05

y Baptist negro preacher w.
shot dead in his puIpi, in Birming-
ham, while preaching. Fifteen back
shot took effect. \ member Of his
congregation is charged with the
crime.
- Certain surviving friends Of the
late Gen. 'Stoncwall' Jackson seem
to be aggricvcd that he should at this
late day be accused in the news pa pcrs
ni having written poetry in hi, youth.
Ihey explain that Gen. Henry X.
Jackson produced the poem which has
been mistakenly attributed TO Stone
wall.
= Robbers blew open the safes
IN the court house of Jasper. Texas. and
set fire to the town, which was with
out fire protection and was totally
destroyed.
b. Railroad Commissioner Rogers.
of North Carolina, tells of walnut
tree cut in that State which when cut
into vcneering realized 500, 900. The
Owner sc: i,531 for il aud ne man
who cut it $1,000 put on tho cars. 1t
was curlcd walnut.
= The Northern Presbyterian AS
sembly has decided by vote to revise
the statement of the creed by way Of
explaining certain phrases contained
in the Westminster confession of
faith, with reference to foreordinatiop.
infant salvation, and few other doc
trinC,.
= Fruit growers, at Cuthbert, Ga,
have begun shipping ripe peaches.
= Three children out in the noun
tains of West Virginia were killed by
a bear They were 3 to Z Yeas old
and were playing out some distance
from the house. The bear was killed.
A number of Atlanta negroes
have closed q deal by which they Sc
cure control Of 200 or more acres of
land eight miles east of Atlanta and
two miles southeast Of Decatur, Ca,
on which they propose to build negro
settlement
- To get funds to take bridal trip.
) ohm N 'Cullough, young Savannah
law student, forged check aud sail
ed with his bride to New York, where
he was arrested and put behind the
bars.
At Louisville, Ky. Sunday
morning F. H. Richardson shot and
killed his wife, mistaking her for a
burglar.
= A special from Washington says:
Aguinaldo is likely to come to the
United States next fall and spend the
winter in Washington. This infor-
nation reached the war department
in the mai from Manila.
= Peter Postcll, the richest negro
ia the South, has lately died at Hon
Ky He was worth half a
million. In his youth he was q slave.
= The value of manufacturing in
lcrests in North Carolina has nearly
doubled according to the last census
in The past ten years. The number
of wage earners has increased 60 and
The wages paid 81 per cent.
- 1t is now oonservatively estimat-
"a that tho capacity Of the recently
discovered Texas oil fields will be
greater than that of the entire balance
If the world combined.
The largest single iron deposit
e the United States is Iron Mountain,
lo. 1t is considerable Of mountain
md is 80 per cent pure iron.
= An Indiana cattle company has |
purchased III 900 acres of land in
southern Georgia near Honnersville. |
they expect to use timber then plant
ugar cane, cotton and cattle.
- Girl factory hands in Passaic.
\. j., struck work and stoned the mill
md any girls who tried to take their
,laces.
- In telling of the great loss to the
southern Railway by recent floods,
he Ashcville Citizen says: ut is
tated that the damage done to tho
Ashevllle division alone will amount
o $780, 900. In addition to this there |
the amount lost in hauling people |
yer circuitous routes, lose Of time
nd loss of mail schedules"