The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-19
GENERAL NEWS !TEEMSS.

1ESE1AI EEWS .EE@S.
The exports from the United
States to Spain are increasing rapidly.
= Seventeen miners were killed by
An explosion in mine OF West New
ton, Pa.
- The biggest sailing ship in the
world is being built in Boston. It
will carry six masts.
= Forty thousand names have been
added to the pension rolls within the
past eleven months.
- All the industries of Texas are
preparing to petroleum use fuel and ma
terially reduce cost Of production.
= There are 100000 widows on the
United States pension rolls, and ap-
plications from 100, 900 more are pend
ing.
= The Census Bureau has made it's
final announcement Of the populs-
tion Of the United States which is TO-
300, 1887.
Five negroes were hung at Syl-
vania, Ca, last Friday for murder.
All of them made confession on the
gallows.
= There are said to be IS lepers in
the United States and nearly all the
cases are said to be among people of
foreign birth.
- A case which has been in litige.
tion since 1867. has just been settled
in Albany, N. Y. The amount in
volved was $237.
- AS result of the losses in the
jacksonville fire, the Pacific Fire in
surance company of New York, hes
suspended business.
= There is great excitement in Ma
rion county, Fla, over an oil strike and
prospectors are rushing to the scene
from all over the State.
- General Fitzhugh Lee has been
put on the retired list and it is the
understanding that he will 90 back to
Virginia and engage in politics.
= Queen Christina of Spain will
soon retire in favor Of her son, who
possesses the advantage of having had
his wild oats sown by his father.
The first act of Pennsylvania
man whc was made to see after having
been blindfrom birth was to compli-
ment tho surgeon on his whiske kers.
- The salaries of 800 postmasters
in the United States have been raised
which entails an additional expense of
nearly quarter of million dollars.
The powers have notified China
that If the indemnity is not paid by
July that country will have to stand
an interest bill of $40, ,000, 900 month.
= Shiploads of wheat are being bur.
ried from San Francisco to Chile and
other South American countries, where
a dearth has prevailed for long time.
= The places of striking machinists
in Detroit and Chicago will be partial.
ly filled by mechanical engineering
students Of the University Of Michi-
gan.
a farmer Of Dougherty county,
Ga, trapped big golden eagle few
days ago. 1t measured feet from
tip to tip of wings and is as big as a
large turkey.
Magnetic hcalers and frauds who
promise to cure all sorts Of diseases
by letter do not fare we'll in Missouri.
Two of them were fined 81 800 each at
Kansas City.
- There has been such an epidemic
of suicides in Emporia, Kansas, that
the mayor and board Of e,lth have
forbidden the local papers to print the
details of suicides or attempts.
VIM. +. Sanford povornor &c
Alabama. died Tuesday night, 1lth
inst, at Tuscaloosa, Ala, where he has
been i'll for some time. Disease of
the heart was the real cause of death.
= There is dentist in Indianapolis,
Ind, who extracts teeth with his fore
II ,ger and thumb, and who says the
use of the forceps is simply barbarism.
He says that the Chinese have always
extracted teeth this way.
= The Southern has put new men
to work in the Columbia shops in
place Of the strikers. The strikers
have been endorsed by the trades
unions of the city aud the fght may
be considered as about opened.
= The frequent and persistent rains
are playing havoc with Georgia neaeh
crop just as the peaches are getting
ready for shipment to market. They
are causing the peaches to rot on the
trees and many of them are falling !
- Rev. Dr.. /. X Funk, of New
York, in his baccalauTate sermon at
Roanoke college, Virginia, endorsed
Darwin's theory of the origin Of man
and goes him one better by saying man