The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-18
GENERAL NEWS.

riages In Indiana, and 5000 divorce
cases.
- It is reported that oil has been
found near Gordova, Ala, at depth
of l, $50 feet.
The census reports say that there
are 81 .SO2 more women than men in
New York city.
- Five men were killed and seven
injured by explosions in powder mill
at Oakland. N. j..
= Over 1000 men are on strike for a
higher wage schedule in Coal Creek
mines, Tennessee.
- There may be four new states ap-
plying for admission in 1904, to say
nothing of colonies.
- Members of the Georgia Protec-
tive Association xill hold their cotton
for 10 cents this year.
- It is said that the governor of
Georgia has received number of let
ters threatening his life.
Two hundrod and seyenty-five
soldiers at tie barracks in Atlanta
were made sick by eating stew that
was cooked all night.
|, - Mrs. Jemima Pfahler Truscott,
who died recently in Columbia, Pa,
made bequests aggregating $4,000 to
the churches in that town.
- The settlement of the steel strike
seems as far off as ever and though
tho dispatches say every day that the
men will at once surrender, they are
still out
- Despite more activity in the mar
ket for cotton goods, says Dun's Re-
view, and placing of government con-
tracts, the staple shows no great
strength.
- Carroll county has the largest
number of postoffices of any county in
Georgia, the pumber being Al, aad
Clarke county has the smallest num-
Der, two postoffices.
- A young woman who attempted
to shoot Niagara rapids in barrel
was killed. The other fools who
aided and abetted her in the exploit
should be prosecuted.
= General Macarthur says that
only thousand Filipiuos are now
under arms. The rest are just fight
ing for the fun Of it.. That is why the
troops do not come home.
- Secretary Gage will buy bon ds
to relieve the present stringency in
the money market and will afford
cash for moving crops. He will take
$40, 900, 900 worth Of bonds.
80 In place Of the Eiffel tower, the
st. Louis exposition in 1903 will have
q globe 700 feet high. It's different
stories are to be divided into restau.
rants, theatres, cirouses, etc.
- A Missourian has quit chewing
tobacco after forty years of indulgence.
but for fear that his example might
Be ce value 70 somebody ne announces
that he has been worthless ever since.
- The destruction Of property BY
ire for the first six months OF the
year shows falling off as compared
with the corresponding six months of
1900 amounting to nearly Gle, 900, 900.
Of the whito males of voting age
10 New York state 62.4 per cent. are
either of foreign birth or foreign mar.
sntage, and the actual foreign born
constitute 38.4 per cent Of the whole
number.
A ooroner's jury ina lynchlng
case in Florida made departure from
the conventional verdict when it found
that o negro, lynohed "for the usual
crime, had come to his death from
heart failure.
An anarchist in New Mexico pre-
dicted that the president would be as
sassinated before Oct. /, and now
that his prophecy has come true he
has been arrested because it is thought
that he knew what he was talkin.
about.
- The dicker between the United
States and Denmark for the pnrchase
OF the Danish West Indies is still on.
II is understood. that the United
States is willing to pay 81, 600, 900 and |
tina { Denmark is standing out for
$4,000. 900.
- Crops shrink with remarkable
facility Two hundred millers Of |
Texas report shrinkage in che wheat
crop OF that State from $4,000, 600 to |
5000, ,0OG. In tOklahoma the crop
Was estimated at SO, ,O00, 900. It has
now dropped to half that amount.
- Mosquitoes were so ferocious
lately that the workmen in the ahons
of the Singer works and some other
Elizabeth, N. j., factories were oblir.
ed to stop work. The insects made
their way, through the wire nettings
with ease and pestered the workmen
80 they were almost distracted.
The Cotton Belt passenger train
" was ralded by six masked men near
Texarkana, Texas. They secnred tha
engine, out the mail and express car
loose and pulled out several miles to
q dense forest, where they left the
engine. They blew open the safe OF
the express car. It is believed that
they got as much as $4,000.
Americans proceeding from South
America state that che Colombian sit-
nation is far Borsa than reported bv
Tho papers. They say this probable
thouesna man. Ava heay