The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A"S Pioutcu AV,VoV itCIcS Ill corn. lnNCS
O pretty big corn patch.
AT the Kansas City stockyards a
Hereford COW was recently sold for
80, 700. the highest price OH record.
Tho @l,500,OOO thank Offering or
dereG for tho Twentieth Century by
tho general conference of the NJ. f.
Church South has been raised.
- City Treasurer il. Il. A.: iey,
Treasurer of Arkansas City, Kan,
committed suicide by shooting. He
was short in his accounts $4,000.
- !";o union labor organizations of
Richmond, Va, have ordered all their
members to resign from tho volunteer
militia companies or quit the unions.
= The United States lead all other
nations i'll the matter Of fruit growing.
Strawberries were valued at aSU,OOO.-
oOc last year and grapes ut 800. .OO0, 900.
1t is reported from Washington
that the negro population of the coun
try US determined by the count last
year, will be found to be not quite
s.5O0,0Oo.
- After II careiul consideration of
the situation in tho Philippines as it
exists to-day tho Administration has
decided to reduce the army in the is-
lands TO 10000 men.
Paul krucger, who recently had
his stomach removed, is said to be
rapidly convalescing and will soon be
able to leave the hospital. He says,
however, that he feels "goncness."
Since 1851 according to statistics,
the emigration from Ireland foots up
3.841 ,410-3,0O3,2t4 males and 1885, s,O75
females. And they have furnished
this country some mighty good citizens.
- Grand Master of Masons of Flor
ida, Issues an appeal for aid for the
thousands rendered homeless by tho
Jacksonville fire. Contributions should
be sent to w. B. Webster, Jacksonville,
Fla.
The latest business combination in
this country is tho "straw hat trust"
Fifteen largo manufacturers Of Balti.
moro and Philadelphia are uniting
their business with capital of S12,-
100000.
Tho volume containing statements
OF appropriations. new offices, etc., re-
quired by law to be prepared and pub
lishcd Mt tho end of each congress.
shows the grand total of appropriations
to be $3.50, ,33s, $50.
= Starvation and typhus are increas-
ing among the villnge population of
Bessarabia, South Russia. Seventy
per cent Of the farmers of that district
have lost all their horses, and have no
seed for tho spring sowing.
Hereafter in the State Of New
York women who are owners Of prop
erty md tax payers, and who are of
voting age may vote upon any propo-
sition to raise money by tax assessment
for municipal purposes.
Thirty years agoa minister now of
Vineland, N. j., but then of Prosperity,
Pa, had $40 bill stolen from him
The pnrloiner wrestlcd with his con-
science for thirty years, but conscience
finally downed him, aud the other day
the minister got his money back by
mail.
= The heirs of man who was re-
Gently murdered in Western Kansas
have offered $500 reward for the can.
ture and conviction of tho murderer,
adding tho following Significant clause
to their advertisement: "Or wc will
pay the samo amount if he is killed in
resisting capture"
= A very remarkable eclipse Of the
sun will occur the 18th instant. Ex-
petitions have been sent out to the is-
land of Sumatra to observe it. 1t will
be totally eclipsed about six and half
minutes. the longest time possible.
The centre of totality is mainly through
tho Pacific ocean.
- Patridges feed as soon as they
wake in the morning, and an unscrupu-
lous inventor is showing how they can
be fattcned by putting them in DARK
cellar with electric lights. Every time
tho lighte arc turned up the birds
think it is morning, and 80 cat break
fast five or six times in the afternoon.
- Mark w. Ball, of Newark, gavo a
dinner to five of his ex-playmatcs one
day last week. The youngest man at
the tabic was over so and the oldest o..
All six Joined the Presbyterian Church
together sixty years ago; all have been
prosperous in business and there has
never been break in their friendship.
= Ex-Governor Morrill, is planting
the largest apple orchard in the world.
He bought $50 acres in Lcavenworth
county, Kansas, and has put out $4,000
trees. An cxper. horticulturist is in
charge of tho orchard. In three OF
four years they expect to make enough
in one year to pay for the whole out
lay.
= Nearly one million Odd Fellows
throughout the United States, gather
ed in over 1900 lodges, April GO,
and celebrated the eighty second au-
niversary of the founding of tho order.