The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.

-, !Ho raIi river, Mass, cotton
mills have reduced wages fourteen per
cent.
Chipley, Fla, has been noarly
burned down as result of the work
of incendiary negroes.
The new steamers that are to
c:ess .ls Atlantic iu four AMI haif
days will burn Texas oil.
= Hon. A. j. Montague has been
nominated for governor Of Virginia by
the Democratic convention.
The missionaries of the Ameri-
can board will return to North China
to resume work in the early fall.
- A. bloody fight occurred between
whites and blacks near Jackson, Ohio,
In which many were seriously hurt.
Spain had only one battleship
left at the end of the recent war. She
is now building six new war vessels.
- There is no material change in
the strike situation, though it is said
the advantage is with the mill owners.
= Negotiations are in progress by
which the output of window glass of
the world will be controlled by one
corporation.
- Sixty of the four hundred teach
ers going to the Philippines fell in
love with one another and were mar
ried at Honolulu.
= The Western Union Telegraph
company, through its operators in
New York, is implicated in gigantic
green goods swindIe.
Georgia. s first bale of new crop
cotton for the year was sold at Coch-
ran August 18th, at loo. Alabama re-
ports first bale same day.
- Colombia is about to whip Vene-
zuela. Colombia's army is about 4O,-
600 men and her population about
twice that Of Venezuela.
= About 1000 persons and 300 yes
sells are employed in the sponge fisher
les Of Florida. The profits last year
are estimated at $850,000.
= Five masked men held up Mis-.
souri, Kansas and Texas train near
Caney, L. T. The robbers got little
booty and have been arrested.
= A young lady Of Chicago, Miss
Amelia Smoke, attempted to smoke a
cigarette when spark dropped upon
her dress and she was burned to death.
- This seems to be an unlucky
twelve-month for towns named Gal
weston; one in Indiana Of that name
has been almost wiped off the nap By
fire.
- A remarkably rich vein Of gold
has been discovered in Wilkes coun-
ty, Georgia. Out of ], ,4O7 pounds of
ore 1875 pennyweight of gold was
taken.
- The annual report of the Mis-
sissippi River Commission recon.
mends an appropriation of $3,OOO,O 900
for each Of q half dozen successive
y5aFs.
David Nation, husband of Carrie,
has entered suit for divorce. He al.
leges that his wife has held him up to
public ridicule and neglected her fam.
lily duties.
= Reports from the west show that
the damage done by the prolonged
drouth is less than was first supposed.
Good rains hsvs fallen, anu fair crops
will be harvested.
- It is charged that custom apprai.
sers at New Y FORK have been bribed by
silk importers and undervalue goods,
and that the government has been de-
frauded Of millions.
- Bobby Walthour, the Southern
bicycle rider, made worlds record
on six.lap track in Providence, in
25.mile race. The record now stands
38 minutes, 8 seconds.
= By an explosion of dynamite in a
saloon in Chicago, one man was kill
ed and many others injured. It is
thought this was an effort to destroy
the place by dynamite.
=, An Alabama sheriff backed out
a mob of would be lynchers at Tusca-
loosa with shot gun: They wanted
the negro that was to be- lynched very
badly. but did not want to get hurt.
- The biggest wheat crop ever
made in the United States was in 1891,
when it amounted to 675, 900 900
bushels. The crop of 1901 is expected
to exceed that by from $4,000, 900
to 75 100000 bushels.
- Whitecaps have made their ap.
pearance at Goffstown, N. H., and
have tarred and feathered q young
blacksmith for paying attention to a
widow whose husband had been
buried only few weeks.
= The British government has had
an agent in this country for the past
two years purchasing horses and mules
For service in South Africa. In Kan
sas City alone the agent expended So
o00.00O for needed animals.
- Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel, of Geor-
gia, who was adjutant-general on
Lopgstreet's staff in the Civil war,
died at Roanoke, Va, on Saturday
aged 64. He was we'll known to the
old soldiers Of the Confederacy.
= Great foods caused by the over
flowing Of che Yapg Use have caused
the death Of many thousands in China.
The river has risen forty feet, and for