The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


men engaged in tho sponge fisheries in
Florida.
= FIRE destroyed several cotton ware
houses in Augusta, Ga, causing loss
Of about 100000.
Ihrcc persons wcre killed by light
ning at Cordcle, Georgia, during a
thunder storm last week.
- All the watch factories Of the coun-
try arc to be united in Il trust by up.
Morgan & Co., of New York CITY.
- Texas is counting on having a big
ger cotton crop i'll 1901 than it gather
cd in 1900. It's acreage for 1901 is 35 pcr
cent. greater than that of 1900
= George Vanderbilt has stocked his
pig farm at Biltmorc, n. G.. with 3e
Berkshire pigs from England that arc
valued at $4,000. All Of these pigs arc
prize winners.
The military authorities in the Phil
ippines are teaching the natives the
history of the United States. % Tho
book is published under tho direction
of Gen. Macarthur.
- X. N. Pollock, cashier Of an Ohio
savings bank. committed suicide few
days ago. He left life insurance poll
cles on his life to the amount of sixty
five thousand dollars.
DR.. Josiah Strong estimates that
more than one half of the rural popu-
lation of this country arc non church
gotrs. This statement he makes after
careful Investigation.
| An Indiana cattle company has
purchased 177,000 acres of land in
Southern Georgia near Honnersville.
They expect to use the timber then
sugar cane, cotton and cattle.
The jurors in q fighting case at
Muncie, Indinna, while trying to reach
a verdict had fight among themselves.
The jury room had to bo broken open
by the constablcs before the fight could
be stopped.
Some of the progressive Southern
mills have adopted the plan of selling
operatives' cottages on easy payments,
instead of renting them. A mill whose
hands owned their own homes would
be sure of it's help!
Tho women OF San Jose, Califor
MIA, presented Mrs Mckinley the 18th
with the largest bouquet OH record.
1t was 05 feet in circumference, 25 feet
high, and it's stem was telegraph pole
planted deep in the earth.
The thirty third annual convcn-
ton of the National American Woman
| Suffrage Association is announced to
meet in Minneapolis on May 80 to June
S, inclusive, and call friends of truth
and liberty are Gspeciliiy invited TO
| attend"
1t is reported from Denver that
| an oil field has been discovered in the
western part Of Rio Blanco ,unty,
Colo, extending over into Utah, which
bids fair to create as great excitement
| in that section as that in the Beaumont
fields Of Texas.
An Arkansas planter is making
| arrangements to start kangaroo
ranch. The hides are valuable and
the teEdons much moro 80. The lat
ter can be split extremely line, and are
/ the best thing known to surgeons for
sewing up wounds.
On the battleship Maine. sunk in
Havana harbor, are 1G2 complete en-
gines, and the contractor who is raising
the wreck is confident that all are un-
injured. The ship is worth e2,OCO, 900
IL she can be patched up, and half as
much as old material.
= At the beginning Of the century
the newspapers published in the Unit
<" States numbered 200-one for each
20,4oO Of population-while at the pres
ent time the total of regular publica-
tions slightly exceeds 2O,OOO-ono for
each $500 inhabitants.
- Here's good one on the Philippine
question: "Spain hada tiny little lamb,
the meekest lamb around; she sold the
lamb to Uncle Sam for twenty million
down; then Sam ho took it by the tail
to lead it home you know, the mutton
rare turned out bear. and Sam cannot
let 60"
= Millions of destructive insects
suddenly swooped down on Hartford,
Maine, last Saturday, stripping in an
hour or so every tree and growing plant
OF all green foliage. The weight Of
the insects broke of many limbs Of
trees. The insects or bugs were dark
green in color and about the size of the
common squash bug.
- curreat statement that electric
power "has been successfully transmit
ted 14O miles to suburb of San Fran
cisco. the longest distance it has ever
been successfully carried" is interest
ing for two reasons. The first is OBJ
viously the success of tho experiment,
and the second that part of San
Francisco distant 140 miles is described
as suburb"
"A telegram from Raleigh, n. c.,
under date of 10th inst SAYS: "THe