The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-04
GENERAL NEWS.

1ue l6aulDg plOW manufacturers
have formed combine with capital
of ESQ n,a9,90O Gee 600. ~.
- It is declared that not single
case of yellow fever has occurred ip
Havana this year.
Evidences Of oil have been found
in Abbeville, Ca, and also in several
places in Alabama.
- Mississippi's treasurer has been
suspended for lending the States
money to the hssLs.
- Postmaster William Brice, OF
Baltimore, Ohio, found short in his
money order accounts, committed sui-
eide.
= The crops have failed in many
Russian provinces and the government
is already buying grain to relieve those
in distress.
: A disastrous wreck is reported
on the Great Northern road in Mon
tana. Seventeen persons were said to
have been killed.
- a passenger train running 40
miles an hour jumped the track near
Newark, N. j. Two weJc killed aud
twenty-eight injured.
- The Kurds are again massacre
ing Armenians. ,It is said that the
sultan has determined to exterminate
all of the Armenians.
James Sweat, q deputy sheriff,
on board train with six negro pris-
oners bound for Pensacola, was shot
from omhuqh oDd Lsl1od
- In the year 1900, out of 1855
raids on stills, 663 were made in Geor-
gia, which is a prohibition State, ex-
cept as to four of it's cities.
- Joseph Wheeler, jr., son of the
old hero Of the same name, has been
appointed captain of artillery in the
regular service by the president.
Bradstrees's trade review takes
hopeful view Of the trade situation.
They report that orders for fall goods
have cxoelled any previous year.
William Mills, his daughter-in-
law and her two young sons were
drowned while trying to cross a swol-
len stream at Rutherfordton. N. C.
: - Hurricanes and foods sweep Sec
tions of New York, New Jersey aud
Pennsylvania. Over Jersey City two
storms met and destruction resulted.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is in New
York, where she is anxious to do
little "hatchetation." She called on
Chief Murphy, but he refused to be
leotured.
By the explosion of the boiler of
The steamer City Of Trenton, near
Philadelphia, eleven persona are
known to have been killed and over q
score injured,
Deputy United States marshals
hare been called upon to prevent the
white people Of Sapulpa, Indian Ter
ritory. from driving all the negroes
out of the town.
Phoenix, .Ariz,, once sagebush
desert, has 25, 900 inhabitants and an
assessed valuation Of SIC, 1000, 900, all
due to irrigation canals brought from
distant streams.
IL The Georgiasc0tton growers as
sociation has determined to hold their
cotton for ten cents. This decision
was arrived at after careful investi-
CATION Of circumstances. t.4
- ELI Green, OF North Judson, Ind.
is rapidly turning to stone. A part
Of his body is said to be as hard as
rock already, and the physicians de-
clare there is no hope for him.
- Benjamin Higgins, Of Jackson
vile, Fla, enters suit against That
city for $4,000 damages. He alleged
that his wife died Of lockjaw brought
on by compulsory vaccination.
The trees now growing on the
farm near Franklin, N. H., where
Daniel Webster was born, are to be
cut up and made into Inatchsticks by
q manufacturing company, which paid
81, 800 for the timber.
- Three lives have been sacrificed
30 far to the experiments made with
and yellow fever. The
physicians will continue to let the
bite these who want to be
made immune, however.
- George Mcleod, negro wanted
on two criminal charges in Henry
county, Ala, while being pursued by
= pOooOs WouC0 lutO u, pOuu uuGli uC
was in water up to his neck and fired
nt his pursuers until he was shot
down.
New York leads all the other
States in the predominance Of it's city
over its country population. OF every
LOO inhabitants Of the Empire State
seventy y-seven live in cities and
towns. The percentage of the popu-
lation living in cities and town for the
whole country is forty seven only.
Before the Beaumont discove
ries the annual production of oil in
this country was about $4,000, 900
barrels. Thirty wells at Beaumont
now. produce 100000 barrels a day,
,r as much in 40 days as the whole
yielded in IL months. This
gives an idea OF the i'm
nensity and the Importance of the
Texas oil fields.
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