The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Will PoOV,UUO uT6.
= Another gusher has burst forth
in Texas, making 13 in all.
= A bolt of lightning killed twelve
men and boy in Chicago.
= TIL. apple crop in the North and
West promises to be only moderately
large.
- $40, 900, 900 oil cloth combine
is being arranged at YcunSstowu.
Ohio.
= 1t is said that the wheat crop of
the Northwest will break the record
this year.
- President and Mrs. Mckinley
have left Washington for their home
in Canton.
In Montana three robbers held
up train and secured $50, 900 from
the express car.
= Civil government in the Philip
pines was auspiciously inaugurated
on the 4th inst.
=. A kangaro, ranch is being plan
! :e1 IL ATAausas-to raise the animals
for their hides.
- An SO year old wife in Paterson,
n. J.,. wants divorce from her hus-
band for desertion.
"A young school boy Of Albany
N. y, got in temper and shot
companion, then hung himself.
- A negro 1amed Jim Bailey was
lyuched near SmithEeld, N. g., for
assaulting l4.year-old white girl.
- The white and aegro miners in
Campbell county, Tenn. have been
rioting and many fatalities arc re-
ported.
- Bags Of gold. aggrcgating $780,
600, are missing from the mint in San
Francisco. The robbery liz being in
vestigated.
= Comptroller of the Currency
Chas. D. Dawes has resigned. He
will make the canvass for United
States senator in Illinois.
- Mrs. w. H. Burnett, of Jasper,
Tenn, gave birth to four children
June 28th-all doing we'll. Mrs. Bur.
nett is also the mother of triplets and
twins.
- The legislature of Porto Rico
has been called id extra session on
July 4, to fix the date after which
free trade will exist with the United
States.
| = The town of Williams, Ariz.
was for the third time destroyed by
fire last week. It is q railway and
numbering town, and has about 1000
inhabitants.
| = The Homestead hotel at Hot
Springs, Va, was destroyed by fire,
entailing loss Of about $500, GOO.
There were many narrow escapes from
death of the inmates.
- Mr.. Louis Lewark, of Currituck
county, N. c., has the distinction Of
being the biggest man in North Caro-
lima. Louis is only II years old and
tips::the scales at $50.
| = People are securing oil options
about Elberton, Ga. 1t is said that oil
has been discovered in the Broad river
section of that county and that COM
pany will soon begin to sink we'll.
- On the 14th inst, at Muskegon,
Mich, Frank Tazelow was killed while
making a parachute drop. He fell
1000 feet, dropping into Muskegon
lake. Thousands saw the accident.
- The biggest chunk Of granite ever
quarried in this country has just been
split from the ledge in Rockland,
Me-, quarry. It is 1926 feet long, SO
feet wide, 38 feet thick, and is esti-
mated to weigh $4,000 tons.
- The trustees of the first Metho-
dist church at Omaha have passed
resolution forbidding women to wear
hats during the hour of service, deory-
ing fancy hcadgear as an impediment
to the attainment of Godliness.
- Americas wheat crop this year
is estimated at 700, ,000,000 bushels.
The average for former years has been
500, 600, the average yearly ex.
portation has been 200, 900, 900 the
average yearly price per bushel 72cts.
= A young lady Of Indian Terri
tory who was reproved by minister
from the pulpit for speaking to her
| escort during long sermon was 80
depressed by the unpleasant notoriety
| that she took dose Of carbolio acid
! and killed herself.
= The intense heat that has pre-
vailed in New York aud other North
ern cities and that has been so de-
| structive to human life has abated
somewhat because of rain. In New
York there were 600 deaths from the
heat in six days.
Rev. DR.. Byron Sunderland died
in Washington on Sunday aged &c.
He was pastor Of the First Presby-
terian church for AZ yoars and retired
in 1893 on account of his age. It
was he who married President and
Mrs. Cleveland in 1885.
= There is no yellow fever in Ha-
vana this year. Science has found
that the female mosquito transmits
! this disease, and by sprinkling all
drains, sewers &c., with kerosene
plague Of mosquitoes has been pre-
vented, and, consequently, q yellow
fever was stamped out.
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