The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-11
ANDERSON, S. G., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1901
GENERAL NEWS.

- The Democrats in Maryland have
great hopes of success.
- During the year ending June 80
last there were 1900 cases of small
pox in Tennessee.
- A negro was caught, shot and
burned near Troy Alabama, for as
sault on school girl.
A thousand railway cars are
needed to. handle the peach nron IN
one county in Southern Missouri.
= By the last census Texas gains
three congressman and the Stats has
been rsdistricted, making sixteen dis
tricts.
= The government report shows
that the general cotton crop is off
three points, as compared with the
past ten years.
- Peter McNally has begun his
thirty days swim from Boston to New
York. He hopes to make about twen-
ty-fve miles on favorable days.
- The constitutional convention of
Alabama has voted to adopt the now
constitution with only II opposing
votes, only one Democrat being in this
number.
- Ecuador has sent an army Of 10.
vasion into Colombia which will be
supported by warships. This inva-
sion practically amounts to declafa-
tion Of war.
= Eimore Silvers, Bainbridge,
Ga, boy was killed in game Of base.
ball at Quincy. Fla. He was at the
bat and was struck on the ear by q
pitched ball.
- A murderer in Mississippi Jail,
who is under sentence to be hanged,
recently refused to take advantage Of
an opportunity to escape when other
prisoners got away.
Two riots have taken place in
Fairview park, in Indianapolis, be-
cause the white people objected to
negroes in the pleasure grounds. In
diana is not Southern State.
The Southern Baptist home mis-
sion board at their meeting in Atlanta
elected Rev. F. G. Mcconnell, d. d,
Iof Lynchburg Va, corresponding Sec
'retary, in the place OF DR.. Kerfoot de-
ceased.
Two hundred and fifty soldiers
are in Fort Mcpherson hospital, At
lanta, as 4 result of poisoning, thought
to be from eating a stew which was
cooked all night. It is thought sew
eral Of the men will die.
- The father Of NJ. Santos -Dumont,
the famous aeronaut, is the wealthiest
coffee grower in Brazil He employs
6.OOO laborers on his plantations. Of
his ten children, the inventor Of tn O
dirigible air ship is the youngest.
- The Nebraskan State game war
den has forbidden the farmers TO fight
the grass-hoppers longer with poison,
saying that the loss Of birds and game
is too costly price to pay for the de-
struction of comparatively few in
scots.
- The government Indian school
which is under construction at River
side. CAL, is to be known as Sherman
Institute, in honor of J. S. Sherman
of New York, chairman of the Con-
gressional committee on Indian af.
fairs.
- German insurance statistics show
that On the average workman is
seven times as liable to Injurious ac-
cidents as working woman, owing
chiefly to the difference in employ
ments, but partly also, to the greater
recklessness of the men.
- Prof. Atkinson, superintendent
of the public schools in the Philip
pine Islands, says that he will ask for
another 100 American school teachers.
as he wants the inhabitants Of every
pacifed town lii the islands to have a
chance to lea.I English.
Eugene Garfield and Miss Hattie
l.. Richmond are to be married on
18th. The unusual fea-
ture in this ceremony is that Miss
Richmond and Mr.. Garfield were mar
ried once before in 1920, afterwards
and now propose to marry
again.
According to statistics published
in q special to the New York World
from Chicago, there have been 3,13O
lynchings in the past twenty years,
ana to August 3lst there have
been over hundred in 1901. Only
five States in the Union are free from
lynchinge.
= A special from Raleigh to the
Atlanta Journal says that practically
alt the newspapers of North Carolina
have declared in favor of compul-
sorry edneation law, the cause being
that the negroes are applying them.
selves more than the whites to the
removal of illiteracy.
- The latest census figure shows
that Rhode Islands the most dense
y populated State in the Union, with
a07 people to the square mile. Mas
sachusetts is second, with 1877. Ne.
sada is the least crowded, with 10
square miles for every four people.
and in Wyoming they have one square
mile apiece. -,