The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-04
GENERAL NEWS.

the San Juan battlefield from Cube,
for $4,000.
- Georgia proposes to debar the
children of poll tax delinquents from
the pubic schools.
:. New Jersey man has brought
damage suit againsta e judge who de-
cided case against him.
A mob of negroes took negro
murderer from white officer near
Shreveport, La, and lynched him.
The matter Of the reduction Of
the representation Of the Southern
States is to be revived in congress.
- Orders have been issued by the
war department sending 5000 more
American soldiers to the Philippines.
= Alexander Anderson admitted
stealing bible in Chicago, and was
fined $2o. He said he was q religious
enthusiast.
Joseph Brown, young New
Yorker, wrote his sweetheart 1900
love letters in Eve weeks; he was de-
clared insane.
An electrical apparatus is now
used by the United States department
Of agriculture to determine the char
acteristic Of all soils.
- It is said the Presidents deter
mination to make army promotions
solely on merit,is likely to create fric-
tion with the Senate.
Alexander D. Anderson, Of
Washington, distinguished lawyer
aged IS drowned himself in the Poto-
mac riveron Monday because of bad
health
- The annual report from the post
Office department shows that the in
crease. in postal revenues has bean
such ms to make The department self
sustaining.
The late Governor Pipgree, of
Michigan, kept all the printed com
ments about himself, aud his scrap
books contain do, 900 columns of news
paper comment.
| A young lady in Pittsburg, Pa,
started q fire with kerosene, with the
result that four persons we're burned
to death, four others Injured and the
residence burned.
Wautagua hall Of the North Car
olina Agricultural college at Raleigh
was burned last Friday night. Loss
$4,000, insurance $4,000. Fifty
students will have to return home.
- There was head end collision on
the Wabash Railroad, about 70 miles
from Detroit, Mich, last week which
caused more than fifty lives to be
lost and great many seriously wound
led.
- The report of the Southern rail
way shows s26, 6,601 ,804 of gross earn
| ings for the year, which is gain over
last year Of $1,804.979. Other rail
roads in the South show like in
crease in gross earnings.
= Francisco GAMBIA, chairman of
the Cuban commission that has come
to Washington to try to secure favor
able trade relations, says that 80 per
cent Of the business men and proper.
ty-holders Of Clba desire annexation
1 to, the United States.
- The joint committee on constitu-
tional amendments in the Georgia
legislature have prepared bill pro.
viding that the taxes fo7 public
/ schools be divided between tbe whites
/ and the blacks in proportion to the
amount paid by each race.
w. j. Vann, a white man So
! years old and married, was found
dead in a tree top by 'possum hunters
at Luverne, Ala. He bought NOR
phine aud stryohnine the day before,
saying he had family troubles and was
going away SO that no one would ever
hear from him.
Buddhism seems to be making a
! fair number of converts in this coun-
jatry. California now has three
churches and San Francisco society
which, though only three years old,
has membership of more than three
hundred, and that without any heal
ing attachment. 81
- A schedule of the estate of
President Mckinley has been filed at
Canton, Ohio. by the appraisers, It
shows his estate to; be worth about
s2OO,000 He carried $50, 900 life in
surance. Including properties in her
own name Mrs. Mckinley will be
| worth half million.
- There is a rush for divorces ia
the District Of Columbia where over
400 applications have been filed in the
past six months. A new law goes
into effect in January which elimi-
mates about q half dozen causes, Ii epce
the rush by the ill-paired to take ad-
vantage of the present law.
----ssThe meanest, man died in
West Virginia not lohg ago. He left
a fortune of $4,000. To his wife
and nine children he bequeathed 81
each, and directed that the remainder
of the estate be devoted to the build
ing OF a water-tight vault for his body
and the erection of beautiful monu-
ment to his memory.
= = The frut American fag raised