The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-12-11
]. G., WEDNESDAY,, DECEMBER Ii, 1901.
GENERAL NEWS.

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= Foot Ball season is about over
and q few wards in the College Hos
pitals are empty.
8 - Dun's Review for December says
the chst ofsliving is one-third more
now than in 1897. 5
InsMichigau, in. terrible rail-
road disaster, eighty wero killed OUT
right and as many injured,
Barney Conway, who voted for
GanernI Jackson For president, died &. 8.
New Albany, Ind, Friday aged 1O6
years.
- Fire at the North Carolina Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, near
Raleigh, destroyed the dining hall al. 1
dormitory.
Attorney General Knox has is-
sued circulars to U. S. marshals and
district attorneys forbidding their TAX
ing too much interest in politics.
- Mrs. Mary Burke and four chill
dren were burned to death in their
own house ct Altoona, Pa. The house
caught fire while they were asleep.
Smallpox is so prevalent in Bos-
ton that the medical authorities admit
that it is beyond control. The pest
house is full and they usc Gallup 8
Island in Boston harbor.
- That Paris leads the world in
dress-making can be readily under
stood when it is stated, that 100000
persons are engaged in the dressmak-
ing establishments Of that city.
- A man secreted himself in box
in the hold of the Hamburg American
steamer Palatia and crossed the ocean.
Notwithstanding he was in the hold
for fifteen days., he is able to talk and
may recover.
- The Chinese exclusion act ex-
pires by limitation next May, and a
strong fight will bo made before con-
gress over the re-enactment cf the law.
the west particularly being anxious
for it on account Of "Chinese cheap
labor
The First National Rsnk Of
Ballston, N. Y, is found to be out
500. 600 by the defalcation Of teller
Charles b. Fitcham. The bank has
.Amporarily closed and is in the hands
Of receiver. The defaloation began
as far back as 1865.
- A resolution has been introduced
in both branches of the Georgia legis-
latnre asking congress to pay the
southern states proportionately $685.
.000, 900 from the sale of captured and
abandoned property during the war
and to refund the cotton tax.
4. George M. Pallman, eldest son of
the palace car builder, died ct Menlo
Hsrk, Gala, last week. Much drink
ing hastened his death. At his death
he was receiving $4,000 a year as his
allowance from h:3 fathers estate,
and s12, 900 from his mothers.
Mrs. G. N. Whitman owns tho
largest ranch Of any woman in tho
world. It is located in Texas, near
Yasoosa, and is called the L. s.
Ranch, after its first owner. The
ranc q is 30 miles. square and there arc
hundreds Of cowboys employed upon it.
In one day recently there were
tol, Ind, bank robbery at Plymouth,
Ia, and another bank robbery at Tren-
ton, KY. In each case the robbers
secured considerable sums of money,
while several persons were injured, ,
tive being shot: ,
- A divorce was granted to David
Nation in the Kansas City court fir om
his wife, Carrie Nation. He charged
that she called him "hell-bound
hypocrite" aud that she did not at
tend to his wants. The divorce was
granted on the grounds Of gross neg
lect Of duty.
- The committee Of twenty ap-
pointed blythe last General Assembly
60 revise the creed Of the Presbyterian
church met in Washington last week
and began work. Their object is not
to change it in any respect, but il
possible, to put it in language that
will be more easily understood.
Mrs. j. Fred Meyers, living near
Sioux City, Iowa. wrapped her 5,
months old baby in blanket. and
put it in the oven Of the kitchen stove
to warm, and went out in the yard to
gather fuel, when. q half hour later
she came back, the baby was dead, its
arms and legs being burned to q crisp.
- Mason and Dixon line, the fa-
s.e..s CID historic boundary Of the
South, is being resurveyed and will
not be permitted to drop ous of exis-
tence. oThc old stone markers or
posts wkich marked the line arc being
reset in solid cement bases and iron
posts are being substituted in places
where the old posts have disapDeared
"a woman in Chicago has been
married twelve years, and in that time
has given birth 10 nineteen children,
apd she is not yet thirty years old.
Tho latest addition to the family was
quapruplets, and occurred while the
husband was away from home. He
has not returned, and the wife has
asked for divorce on the ground Of
desertion.