The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

:. Capital aggregatiug $3.50 ,000, 600
is invested in 426 colleges in the Unit
ed States.
- Thirteen men perished while
camping in dry ravine in Texas by
Admiral Sampson has been re-
lieved from his duties as cOmmandaut
of the Boston navy yard on. account
of ill health.
= The governor Of Kentucky has
had to call out the militia to suppress
striking miners.
The postoffice department. has
decided not to issue memorial stamp
in houcr of Mckinley.
- The steel strike is said to have
cost the trust s15.OOO,0OO, and the
labor unions $40, ,000,0
= President Roosevclt has more
children than any president who has
ever occupied the white house.
The longest electric railroad in
the world will be built from C;ncinna-
ii, Ohio, to Pontiac, Mich, distance
of 305 miles.
- It is estimated that the funeral
of President Mckinley cost over S5O,-
600. The entire expense will be paid
by Congress.
- The North Carolina farmers have
entered into compact not to sell
their cotton seed unless they get 25
cents bushel for them.
- Kansas makes money out of her
couyicts. Their'earnings for the last
fiscal year exceeded the cost of their
maintenance by SAL 900.
- The Democrats aud Populists Of
Nebraska, after holding separate CON
ventions made fusion, the Democrats
getting the head of the ticket.
- On November 18th the Southern
Cotton Spinners Association will meet
in annual convention in Atlanta. The
last convention was held at Charlotte,
N. G.
- The Cleveland, Ohio, public
school board have decided to Introduce
into the course the Lords Prayer,
the 23d Psalm and Ten Command.
ments.
- The Good Roads advocates are
seeking to secure the establishment Of
a government bureau, which shall have
road building especially under its su-
pervision.
- Miss Elizabeth Aird. of Jersey
City, brought suit for $25 ,0G0 for
breach Of promise against Martin
Daily, wealthy retired merchant of
that city, and received q verdict tor
$40.
- At Swainsbor Ca, last week,
Mrs. Drake attended session Of the
Free Will Baptists, where her young
est child was baptized. After the
ceremony she said that now she was
ready to die and then fell dead.
The will Of President Mckinley
was presented for probate few DAYS
ago. His estate, including life in
surance, is estimated at $3.50, 900. He
leaves this amount to his wife, with
an annuity ofS1 900 to his mother.
One of the most interesting of
recent gifts to colleges is that of Mrs.
Carroll to- the University of Virginia.
She has handed over to the institu-
tion the greater part Of an income
which she vac to hare enjoyed fer the
term Of her natural life.
- The widow of Bresci, the assas-
sin Of King Humbert Of Italy; has
been banished from Patterson, n. j.,
by the citizens. Though she declares
that she is not an anarchist, she is
known to have befriended the men of
that society and sheltered them.
A million more farms are in the
United States to-day than ten years
ago. This fact was brought cut in the
work of the Federal census bureau.
detailed figures soon co follow. These
viii snow approximately 5,645, 600
farms in the United States VIXEN tho
census was taken last June, compared
with 1855, 900 farms ten years ago.
- According to United States Con-
sui General Hursta at Vienna, the con-
Of horse meat at Vienna as
an article Of food is rapidly increasing.
In report to the State Department.
he shows that %, GAG horses and SO
donkeys we're slaughtered in 1899 for
food. This was 1000 more than in
the previous year, and about 5000
more than in 1897.
s. N. Tracy. of New Orleans,
La, who has had charge Of the expert
ment with Egyptian cotton raising in
the South reports that it is failure.
It will thrive only in the extreme
Southern part Of Florida. An effort
will be made to cross it with our cot
ton to produce substitute, as Egyp.
tian cotton is in good demand for Ger
tain fabrics that our cotton will not
make
- Andrew B. Ross, printer, who
became an editor and afterwards sena-
tor from Kansas and by his vote saved
Johnson from impeachment
is now atypesetter at case in New
Mexico newspaper Office. Ross was
expelled from the republican party
FOR his vote in Johnson's favor. He
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