The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-01

Dam CASTILLO, tho famous old cir
Gus clown. has just died in New York
- Rev. Sam Jones snys he will make
l47 speeches in Georgia during tho next
campaign.
= 1856 foreign missionaries, including
children. were killed during the recent
Boxer uprising i'll China.
= The Kansas Wholesale .:ss Deaf
ers' Association has taken contract to
ship 100 carloads OF eggs to Cuba.
- The supreme court of the United
States decides that one State has the
right TO quarantine against another.
"A Constitutional amendment per
mitting women to vote has failed of
endorsement in tho Wisconsin I.cgisla
ture.
= The recent cold snap damaged tho
fruit and cotton crops in Georgia. In
some sections tho cotton was killed and
will have to be replnntcd.
- In 1890 tho total agricultural pro-
duct Of the South, outside of cotton,
was valued at $45O.OOO,OOO. The fig
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| THE people of Arizona are return
ing thanks for tho heaviest rainfall
there for twenty years. Rains are not
an everyday occurrence in that Terri
tory.
"A white woman was tined SG40 in
the mayors court of Augusta on Mon
day-$30 for violation of an ordinance
and $0iO for contempt OF court. She
has the alternative of days.
Wall street reports say that
George Gould has doubled his fathers
seventy millions since jays death. Hc
has been making two millions monthly
since McKinloy's last election.
"A terrific explosion Of natural gas
occurred i'll tho Commercial Hotel ut
st. Mary's, w. Va, and instantly the
whole building was afiamc.. Five per
sons were killed and others injured.
- There has been inventeda machine
which, IN ten hours. will paste paper
labels OH one hundred thousand tin
cans. The cans roll down chute, and
each in its journey picks up label.
According to Mr.. II. Dodge, sta
tistcian of tho department of agricul-
ture, there arc 0,500.0OO agricultural
workers in the United States, of whom
100000 are independent farmers"
- Caesar Booker, snid to be the old
est cOlOred man in the Orld. lives near
Washington, Ga. 1t is snid that he is
1875 years old. The buffalo Exposition
wants him to exhibit rs one of their
novel attractions.
Heavy snow storms in the vicinity
of Pittsburg, Pa, and floods resulting
thcrefrom, have caused unmoasured
distress and enforced idlencss of fifty
thousand men with accompanying losses
&c factories and railroads.
- The State entomolOgist of Geor-
gin, has announced that 6, ,OOO, 900 frui
trees have been planted in Georgia
since last October. Judge George
Gober, of Marietta, has alone planted
more than 1000, 900 trees.
ID. Kanwciler, q drummer frou
Savannah, was publicly horsewhippet
in Seville, Fla, by Miss Juniata Pra
watt. the pretty postmistress, who
claimed that Kanweiler had Maie &
disrespectful remark about her.
= Probably no small town in all
the world" says tho Memphis Appeal,
cover gave to any great contest of wal
SO many distinguished men as Holly
Springs, Mississippi. It furnished
eight general officers to the Confeder
acy, not ono of whom had received G
military education. None entered the
, war rs high officers, but all distin.
guishcd themselves in battle, and al
attained tho rank of general by theil
merits. They were Major Genera
Walthall and Brigadiers Govan, Chal
mcrs, Mott. Benton, Ben Mccullough
FcatherstOne and Vaughan. Five ol
them were reared in tho town and were
scho0lmates, and tho other threo livci
in tho town or In Marshall County.
"A special telegram to the Atlanta
Constitution from Elberton, Ga, under
date April 26. says: While fishing in
the Savannah river near her home yes.
terday afternoon Miss Rhoda Alexan
der was assaulted by negro work
: man, William Goolsby. Miss Alexander
reported the matter TO her mother
About that time the negro appeared
and offered to work six months for the
widowed mother if sho would not tel
on him. Before he could leave tho
l premises some friends appeared, took
. charge OF the negro and left for the
: river. Later they reported that they
had set him free. To-day it develops
) that Gooisby was lynched by the citi
zens and that i,is oody was thrown into
|, the Savannah river.