The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

stake i'll Leayenworth, Kansas, last
week.
1t will bo necessary to recruit
ABOUT $4,000 new troops for the Philip
pines before July 1st.
IL Is now eatima!e:! :!!::so .hhu ;u
demnities that will be asked of China
| will amount to $4,000 900.
The $4,000, 900 cigar trust. n kid
OF the tobacco trust. will probably
increase the number of pipe smokers.
| Galveston has expended two md
g quarter millions OF dollars in new
buildings since the storm in Septcm-
Der.
"A negro has been lynched in Ocaln.
Fla, for wrccking the Plant System
fast train near Dunnell. Tho mob
took the negro from tho officers.
| In Atlanta recently a man offered
for building as much money as would
&c represented 6y silver dollars set on
edge to cover the roof but the price
was refused.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the
Standard Oil magnate, has subscribed
S25O,OO0 for the founding of New
York institution of learning for poor
boys and girls.
Including the national capital there
are 20 towns and cities bearing the
name OF Washington, and Washington,
Ga, has the distinction of being the
first Of them all.
Southeastern Texas is excited over
the opening, near Beaumont, of an oil
we'll spOuting 100 feet high and pro-
duciug 10000 barrels of petroleum in
twenty-four hours.
j. Ogden Armour, who is now
head of the Armour business interests,
viii be only 81 years old next month,
but he was connected with tho late z.
d. Armour for II years.
= The 'flrst baby of tho century,"
so far reported, was born in Cleveland.
Ohio, Mt 1901 January 1. 1t was n
boy, and they have called the poor litsio
fellow John Century Thomson.
= Charles Steinbrink, who was con-
victed Mt st. John, Kan, on forty-nine
counts of selling ~hiskcy in violation
of the prohibitory law, was fined 81, 900
and sentenced to forty -nine months in
Jail. --->
Capt. s. S. Brown, of F;ttsburg, n
civil war veteran, has given $500 to
the fund being raised for the enter
tainmcnt Of the Confederate veterans
at the coming reunion in Memphis,
Tenn.
~. +. Thompson, prominent mer-
chant of Fairburn, Ca, he's been ar
rested on charge of arson-setting
fire to his own store and burning it to-
gethcr with three other on the night of
December 31st. st i,@t n M!ETN,
In voluntary and amicable agree :
ment of separation between Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogden Merritt. of Arthur, ILL.,, the
5-year- old baby was turned over to the
husband in exchange for Shetland
pony and Jersey cow.
Both Arkansas and Mississippi.
which are to have new State Houses, to
ccst about $l.oooo, 600 each, have, by n
singular coincidence, selected as the
sites for the buildings those formerly
occupied by penitentiarics.9 esfal
= An enthusiastic Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union in one of tho
smaller towns of Georgia. finding few
moments in which to think of other
subjects than that Of liquor, passed
resolutions denunciatory Of kissing.
- Grover Allen, known as the bow
giant and probably the largest boy of
his age in the country, died in Ander-
son, Ind, the other day. He was eight
years and one month old, stood 4 feet
10 inches high and weighed 251 pounds
A suit for $50 damages, which had
been in court at Portage, Wis, tor
more than two years, and the costs for
which had run into the thousands, was
:cided the other day by the award of
$50. The participants had nearly bank
rupted themselves.
= Felix N. Cobb, a politician and
lawyer of Carrollton, Ca, committed
suicide in Atlanta Wednesday night.
lie left letter to his parents saving
domestic troubles was the cause of his
act. Cobb was the candidate of the
Populists for attorney general of Geor
gia in the last election.
% The Atlanta Ncws1- recommends
that everyone drink more..watcr. That
may be very good advice for Atlanta
but itw won't go in South Carolina. -The
cry here is to drink more dispensary
whiskey so that the school children can
be better educated from the profits
aiken Journal and Rcriew.
Considering the fact that the
average man only has use for live or
six hundred words. there seems to be
already an ovcr-supply. Bnt there is
greatactivity in the dictionary making
industry. Tho new Webster will con-
tain $4,000 words not found in the most
recent editions of that work, and an
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