The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

UENEhAH NEWS lIEmS
- The boys and girls of Atlanta
have organized vigorous anti-cigar-
cite league.
A college girl in Greenwich, Conn,
went into mourning on the death Of
her pug dog.
= Oil has been found in Wayne coun-
ty. Kentucky. and c:o we'll is scuGing
up 100 barrels day.
= The American Medical Association
at st. Paul has endorsed the movement
for reinstating tho army canteen.
On April 1, the attendance Mt the
regular Indian schools in the country
was 25.s80, showing the largest annual
increase in ten years.
= Under the Illinois inheritance tax
the estate of the late Silas Cobb of
Chicago is required to pay tho State an
Inheritance tax Of $5S.072
= Now York City's debt is now $2S3,-
043,0O0. Tho debt Of Chicago is $780,
1000, and of Boston $50. 900. The
Oldest cities have the largest debts.
| = An acre Of ground sold the other
day at Beaumont, Texas, for $4,000
that six months ugo could nave been
bought for less than $40. The oil find
did it.
= The President and members of
tho Cabinet have decided after full
discussio that an extra session of
Congress to consider the Philippine
question is unnecessary.
Out in California five men were
lynched for burglary and petty larceny.
Calvin Hall, aged 60, and his three
half breed sons, and n man living with
him, were swung up by Il mob of so
men
i Late tests made Mt the Kansas cx-
pertinent station prove conclusiveIy
that the smut ears on corn are fatally
poisonous to stock. Thus when the
corn is husked all such ears should he
gathered and burned up.
"A switch engine in the yards of
the Southern Railway shops near the
city limits of Atlanta dashed into a
passenger train rs it was passing. kill
ing three passengers and ipjuring 10,
three of them, it is feared, fatally.
- There are fewer contested seats in
the fifty yseventh Congress than in any
previous one for many years. There
are practically no contests in the SEN
ate, though the session will open in
December with Delaware, one of the
original States, with no representative.
= Tho Democratic State Convention
in Ohio to nominate q candidate for
governor and other State Offices, Is to
be held at Columbus on July 0, and
there are already indications of a re-
vival OF the old controversy between
the democrats in northern and southern
Ohio.
= France still holds the record for
natinna! debt. 10 owes $151 per
capita. Great Britain stands second
and owes SOL per capita. Germany is
third with debt Of @O5 per capita.
The United States has the smallest
debt of ali the great nations, and owes
only $2s per capita.
= Daniel Decatur Emmett, the noted
minstrel and author of II Wish Was
in Dixie" and other famous songs, is
reported to be dying Mt his homo near
Mount Vernon, o. Emmett is 81 years
old, and for number of years has
lived hermit's life. with dog ns his
only companiOn.-AHanta journal.
= In India, China, and Japan and
adjacent countries are about 4O0, 900, 900
people who rarely eat meat; yet they
are strong, active and long lived.
Darwin is authority for the statement
that the Andean natives perform twice
the work of ordinary laborcrs, and
subsist almost entirely on n diet of
bananas.
= In tearing OIL the roof of an old
farmhouse near Eldora, Iowa, last
week, Marvin Finstcr found barrel
Of money and to his astonishmcnt was
almost buried by the rain Of silver dol
lars. 1t is believed that some old miser
at an early date hid the money, as the
dates on tho coins are some of them
quite old.
= The auditor Of the war department.
has prepared statement showing the
amount claimed by each State and Ter
ritory for fitting the volunteer troops
for the Spanish war The total is
nearly @6.00o,000. Three and quarter
millions have been allowed and paid.
Texas is the only State whose claim
was allowed and paid in full.