The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

""o ~ oiS uIc Ill AtIalltu
tho other day. The Markham house
block was burned. valued ut $500, 900.
All negroes have been ordered to
leave Hillshnrn. Pa, BECAUSE tncy
cndcavOrcd to conceal Il fugitive and
criminal.
All Georgia towns are having n
spasm over the Sunday laws. There
have been arrests uf butchers, bakers
and candlcstick makers, aud mostly of
liquor sellers.
= The massachusetts, Frog Company
has just been incorporated in Maine
with Il capital of $4,000, its object be-
ing declared in the application to be
"to buy, sell. breed and import frogs
and like animals.
A piano manufacturing company
i'll Toronto. Ontario, claims to have in
its shop piano made by the company's
founder sixty years ago while he was
i'll business i'll Buffalo and sold by him
to Gen. Grants mother.
= Gen. j. B. Gordon was robbed in
Chicago. He left his overcoat and
grip in hotel Office for few minutes.
When he returned they were missing
and checks and other valuablcs worth
about $4,000 i'll all were gone.
= At Winsted, Conn, j. II. HAYES
followed Miss Winnifrcd Cooke into
the school building and shot her. She
died instantly, They had been en-
gagged, and about Il month before the
shooting the tenchcr broke it off.
= DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry has prepared
with much care from personal rcc0l-
lcctions and available documents a
civil history Of tho Confederate gov
ernmcnt, which will soon be published
The work is tho outcome of IL rcsolu-
tiOn passed at the Louisville Confcd
| crate reunion.
= In Mcdowell, n. G., Edwin Dover
while sitting by the fire smoking II
cigarette and laughing AID talking
with the family, suddenly sprang for
ward into the fire and was burned tO
death. lie was q fine specimen of
young manhood and was never sick n
day in his life.
= Some time ago q young widow and
student of pharmacy was mssetl
from Atlanta. Their bodies have been
found in the woods some distance from
the car line. The Young man shot the
the lady, set the woods ON fire around
her and himself and shot himself.
Both bodies were badly burned.
According to letter from Dr. :.
son, in Yukon Territory, the tompeTa-
ture there from January 8 to January
| 18 was the lowest known even in that
frigid region. The lowest temperature
that was recorded prior 70 that time
was 55 degrees below zero, ard the
thermometer dropped day by day and
finally broke all records. On the 18th
ult. it was SO below zero.
Ono hundred and sixty miles nm
hour is the speed aimed ut by IL new
/ electric railway company in Germany,
under the direct patronage of the En-
peror. Cars with, accommodations for
fifty persons each are now being built
and will be tried Gil n thirty -kilomctre
track. 1t is intended to use electricity
only for the express passenger service,
as for freight and local traffic steam is
expected to remain the power for q
long time.
= There arc eight cases of contest
scheduled for the Fifty seventh House
of representatives, of which five are
in Southern constiGucncies-tw in
Virginia, one in Kentucky, one in Ala
bama and ono in Missouri. There is q
contest in tho Thirty second district
of New York, which includes some of
the wards of B uffalo; another in the
capital, OF Columbus, district of Ohio,
and third in one of the western dis
tricts of Pennsylvania, in which tho
successful democratic candidate had
GOO plurality.
American peanut crops average
about 100000 bushels year, and
twenty two pounds of the nuts make q
bushel. About $1O,OOO.OOO worth of
peanuts yearly are consumed either
in the natural form or in candy Vast
quantities of peanuts are shipped each
year to great Britain and the continent
from both Africa and Asia, where thcv
are converted into ''purc Lucca olive
oil" A bnslcl of peanut shells will
afford about IL gallon of oil and the
meal is used for feeding horses, and is
also baked into variety of bread
which has large sale in Germany and
France.
Did you oyer sec MANNED orcrip-
pied Chinaman9 Did you ever see one
with leg or an arm amputated, or
even finger9 The chances aro that
you never did and never will. Accord
ing to Wah Ling Lee, one of the China
towns leading citizens, his country
men would much rather die intact than
live and be separated from any portion
of their bodies. Even if life could be
saved by tho amputatiOn of n limb n