The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

robblng as leading western industry.
49, "ovtlrrcncies of anti foreign out
breaks in China are expected almost
any day.
There "rc doze" candidates for
the two vacant places in tho senate
from Nebraska.
What effect will 1,0oOO00 tons of
Cuban sugar have on the markcte That
is tho product for the season.
New York school children h.-c
done pretty we'll in sending 500 900 TO
the relief Of tho school children il, Gal
weston.
There has been third lynching
in Southern Indiana on account of the
recent murder of n white man by n cou
pie Of negroes.
r. II. Morris. auditor of ono of the
departments in Washington, was shot
and killed by an employee whom he
had discharged.
=. Tho volunteer soldiers now in the
Philippines will be mustered out and
be returned to this country 80 ga to be
discharged by June 3Oth next.
"A Missouri weather prophet who
reads the future in tho leaves of trees
! says this will be one OF the mildest
winters ever known on tho continent.
| = Mississippi evidently does not in
tend to he Outtlonc by Indiana or any
other northern State. She has varied
the monotony little by lynching the
wrong man.
| = Senator Proctor's marble trust,
not satisfied with controlling the
American output mas reached over to
Italy and gobblcd up the famous Car
rarn Quarlies.
- The Tennessee woman who killed
her son because he smoked cigarettes
may lay claim to invcnting the only
absolutely sure cure for the cigarette
habit ever discovered.
Lynching Bees are getting to be
rs numerous np North as turkey shoot
ing matches in the South. The brother
i'll black is generally the game ropcd
in over Mason DixOn's line.
A million dollar bequcst is a pretty
big Christmas gift for one man to get,
but what is what the Atlanta Journal
says has come to Il. j. Fielder, for
mcr Albanian, who now lives in Nash
Vile.
In celebrating it's jubilee, s15O 600
i'll gold was distributed in Christmas
gifts by the American express COM
pany among it's employees in the United
States and Canada. Each of the 30, OOC
employ es received brand now So gold
piece.
A scheme is on foot to place 100
600 square miles of the territory OF
Brazil under French protection and as
this matter will involve the Monroe
Doctrine it has attructed great deal
Of attention and may lead to serious
trouble.
"A Georgia man prayed to God tc
kill his wife the other night, not be-
cause he wanted her to enter eternal
bliss, but because he wanted to sleer
and she had asked him to open the
door. AS he rose to open it he was
struck with paralysis and died.
- The New York World is author
ity for the statement that over $175,-
100000 will be paid out during Jan
aary by the great corporations of the
United States together with the United
States government and the financial in
stitutions which exist under it's charter
y BY recent ruling of the postoffice
department., money orders will be paid
upon presentation Notwithstanding
that the duplicate has not arrived. Up
to November 1st, the holder was COM
PEELED to wait several days before the
order could be casieG OH account of
duplicate being delayed.
= Patrick McCabe, an old man, was
taken to New York hospital in what
appeared to be a destitute condition.
His wretched rags were exchanged for
comfortable clothing, and then the as
tonished attendants found that ho had
a chest protector made OF $50 bills, the
total amount sewed inside of his old
shirt being $3.50.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of
tho Barber county, Kan, w. C. II. u,
is somewhat violent refOrmer. She
entered magnificent barroom at Wi
chita on Thursday and deliberately
smashed mirror valued at 5000. She
claims that there is no law by which
she can be punished; but she was COM
mitted to Jail on the charge of mali
cious destruction of property.
While carelessly handling bag of
! mail i'll the Milwaukee p0stofIicc, a
clerk suddenly became conscious of an
Overpowing offensive odor.? tHe drop
ped the pouch and the Odor increased
in power. Eventually it was discov-
cred that the tremendously emphatic
effiuvia arose from the breakage of a
two-ounce bottle of oil extracted from
that sleek, but exceedingly ordoifer-
GUS animal, the skunk. Who sent
the stuff through tho mails is not
known, but before night many Mil
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