The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-20
Feb. Is, 1901.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

"A cotton mill is among the posi-
bi!itics for Central.
Delaware has declined III abolish
the whipping post and pillory.
= The appropriation for the Indians
from the Federal Treasury will be near
$4,000 900.
"A national prohibition conference
has been called at Buffalo, \. T., in
| August next
= It is said that England's new king
has cancer of the throat and can not
1--we many years.
- MarcOni has succeeded in trans
mitting perfect messages by his wire
less telcgraphy to tho distance Of 200
miles.
= Smallpox is said to be in nearly
every county in Mississippi. This
plaguc.is very nearlya national epi.!em-
ic now.
= Frank Klufsky. aged sixtv-eight
years. of Cleveland, Ohio. moody over
money loss, refused to eat aud died
from starvation.
= 1t is said that the sugar trust has
perfected plans to control all the sugar
plantations of Hawaii by combining
them in trust.
1t is reported that lot of Penn
sylvania women lynched IL man the
other day for beating his wife. Served
the brute right, too.
BY IN enabling net of tho Legisla-
turo the school children of New Hamp-
shire arc to decide by their votes in
juno next what shall be the State
flower.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature providing for the
dispensary system like the one in this
State except that il eliminates the pro-
fit feature.
The Arkansas Legislature has dc
cidcd upon the apple blossom rs the
State flower. The Arkansas Fedora
ton of Womcn's Clubs wanted the
passion flower chosen.
= The legal rate of interest in Can
ada is now five per cent. /, the reduction
from six per cent. having been made
by statute of the Dominion which
went into effect January /.
= The close of the present session
will end the term of Congressman
White, the oRly negro in Congress, and
it is generally conceded that it will be
q long time before another is elected.
= In tho value of the aggregate pro-
ducton of metals during the last year,
Montana heads the list with $50, 0OO, 900.
Colorado comes second, with SAT,
600. Arizona was third and California
fourth.
- Chief Justice Blccklcy, of Gcor-
gin. though he is 10 years old, has en-
tered the University Of Georgia rs II
student to learn little more about
mathematics. lie is puzzling tho pro-
fcssors no little with his problems.
- The United States supreme court
has declared tho legacy tax, imposed
by the war revenue law, to be uncon-
stitutional. and under this decision the
sum of S,102,722 collected from the Cor
nclius Vanderbilt estate, has been re-
funded.
: In Richmond, Va, the wards are
not designated by numbers, rs is tho
the case in other American cities. but
by names OF statesmen: Clay, Monroe,
Madison Jefferson, Marshall and Jack
son. Clay ward is the largest in Rich
mond in voting population.
= Several members Of IL church in
Kutztown, Pa, having fallen far be-
hind with their fair dues, the board of
| trustees has decided that in future the
bell shall not be t0llcd for funeral in
any family which has not paid up its
Indebtedness, an year in advance
besides.
= Mr.. Mcclellan, of New York, com
pairing the cost Of the soldier in Euro
pean armies with the cost to the Unit
ed States says, including the cost of
pensions, ETC., each United States SOL
dier involved an expense Of S2,s28,
while German soldier costs S227 and
n French soldier 1892.
= Practical jokes have way of imi-
tating the boomerang, rs Charles Day.
of Marshall, Mich, has discovered to
HIS uioCohloIC Iuu uio' JuIuCulc. MI.
Day was sitting i'll barber shop get
ting his hair CT. nnd when the idea
struck him that it would be real funny
to touch the BARRIERS hand with the
lighted end of Il cigarette and sec him
jump. The barber was just rubbing
some bay rum on Days head aud the
cigarette ignited the alcoholic mixture,
which blazed up like II torchliSht pro-
cession. In four seconds there wasn't
hair left on Days Uranium and he has