The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

- The pensions to the survivors of
the Spanish war are now nearly two
millions.
= Alabama has reduced the tag tax
on fertilizers to the actual cost Of in
spection.
-. The interest on the national
DEBT for the last year cost each person
forty-four cents.
"A prophet in Omaha, Neb., has
set December 18th as the date the
~c-!a Will oomu 10 uu end.
The crops have failed in Euro.
poau Russia and over forty million
people are in danger of starvation.
"A Georgia woman, now living in
Pittsburg, Pa, killed peddler who
had attacked her and another woman.
A trolley smashup near Allan
ia, Ga, resulted in tho killing of one
person aud injuriDg nineteen others.
- The carriage manufacturers Of
Cincinnati have discharged all union
men aud will run their plants non
union.
- The Texas mob that was after a
negro for criminal assault caught their
man and burned him at the stake near
Red Ranch.
- Commissioner Poole, Of Ala.
bama, reports that the wind has great
~ damaged cotton by blowing it down
in the fields.
- Farmers in Mississippi are send
ing agents to the cities aud towns for
labor to help gather their crops. La
Dor is growing very scarce.
Mrs. Nation is about to overdo
the sensational act. Her friends arc
seriously considering the proposition
to look her up in an asylum.
= DR.. Gatling, of rapid-fre-gun
fame, has invented motor plow by
which he expects one operator to
plough thirty acres in day.
- The threat is made by certain in
fuential citizens of Cuba that if they
do not get certain concessions Cuba
will fWk for annexation to the United
States.
- Confederate veterans had grand
time at their reunion at Lexington,
Ky. It is estimated that there were
over ten thousand of the old soldiers
present.
- Many vessels are tied up in the
harbor Of San Francisco for want of
men to load them. The strike Of ship
leaders and employees on shore is still
in force.
= In Wythe county, Va, Miss Ola
Neff, 10 years old, shot j. L. Waxel-
baum, of Georgia, because Of improper
proposals made by him to her. The
wound is not dangerous.
- Northampton County, Va, has
population Of $4,000 people, who
made and sold this Summer $50, 900
barrels of potatoes, realizing over two
millions in money for that one crop.
During the progress Of the trial
OF Otto johnson at Reynolds, Miss,
for seduction, pistol vas fred, and
the firing Of pistols soon became gen.
eral. Three men were probably fatal.
ly injured.
Two negroes were taken from
Jail at Pierce City, Mo-, by 1000 in
furiated citizens and hung and then
their bodies were riddled with bullets.
These brutes had assaulted Miss Ca
rella Wild and then killed her.
- Indiana has q genuine snake
farm, developed without the aid of
stimulants. It is commercial en-
terprise, the garter snake being pro.
pagated and fattened for the sake of
its oil, which is extracted by running
tho reptile through press.
- Charles j.. Preston, a wealthy
citizen of Waterbury, Conn, is seek
ing a divorce from his wife because
she is a. kleptomaniac. She steals the
chickens and flowers, and
of this kind which she de-
sires, though amply able to buy all
she wants.
"A burglar attempted to enter
creamery at Benton, Wis, the other
day through trap door in the roof.
He had bottle Of nitroglycerine in
his hip pocket, and the trap door, fall
ing, struck him on the hip. He was
literally torn to pieces by Sne force
OF the explosion which followed.
- Chas. w. Nordstrom was hanged
last Friday at Seattle, WASH, for the
murder in 1891 of William Mason.
This celebrated case has been in the
courts for nine years through the tact
and skill Of his lawyer, James Hamil-
ton Lewis. The doomed man had to
be strapped to board to be hanged.
= Lightning saved little girl from
being buried alive in Kansas the other
day. The bolt struck the hearse, eplit
ned the drivers. When the he nnu mouTners ruer
came to investigate they found the
little maiden reused from swoon.
sitting in the ruins, crying for her
mother.
-R. B. Weddington, Union
County, N. c., farmer, who died re-
,ently, was not troubled by the 'race
issue" He lived in the kindliest re-
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