The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-23
GENERAL NEWS.

sino Oouool VI ale college,.
Thirty-three persons we're killed
6y powder explosion in e mine near
Park City, Utah, on Wednesday.
= Connecticut towns have pa;d
bounties Of 1872 foxes killed within
their limits during the past year.
All Of Names Republican repre.
sentatives in Congress-, four in num.
ber, have been renominated hv accio.
nation. ~
- MIR. WI, the chinese minister a.
Washington, has been recalled by his
government, as his services were need.
ed at home.
= The strike of the workmen on
the Great Northern railway system
has been ended by each side making
concessions.
Jefferies aud Fitzsimmons are
working hard for their championships
battle next month. Both are getting
in good condition.
- King Edward continues to i'm.
prove so rapidly that it has been de-
olded to have the cor0ration between
August 1lth and 18th.
=. John A. Regan, the last survivor
OF either war cabinet, has just retired
voluntarily from the Office of railroad
commissioner Of Texas.
- Cholera in Manila averages about
forty new cases day. There have
been 1867 cases and 1898 deaths
from the disease in the provinces.
The biggest trial on record, is
soon to come off at Kieff, Russia,
where 5000 people are to be arraigned
for participation in popular uprisings.
Spencer Mobley, a negro, was
lynched by mob Of negroes near Hal
oyondale, Ga, recently on account Of
some trouble he had with negro wo.
man.
= The Texas Democratic platform
adopted by the State Convention on
Wednesday does not mention either
Col. Bryan or the Kansas City plat
form.
- B. Aycock, manager of the Dub
lin oil mill, and his wife were drowned
in Bullock county, Ca, on Thursday.
They, had been married only two
months.
- Of the silks used in the United
States $l07 900, 900 arc home made.
and only s26,O00,O 900 imported. We
vii! soon be exporting them to China.
probably.
"A fierce fire is raging in the
Louisiana oil fields. Ten thousand
dollars has been offered for any one
who will extinguish the flames and get
control Of the gusher.
- The quest Of the merry miorobe
steadily progresses. It is said that
the germ that causes dysentery and q
serum that will eject a sure cure.
have been discovered.
= President Roosevelt reprimands
General Smith for orders issued bv
the general to "kill and burn" in the
Philippine Islands, and orders his re-
tirement from the army.
- Major General Lloyd Wheaton is
the latest Civil and Spanish war vet
eran to be placed upon the retired
list. There will soon be no men in
the army who saw AppomattQx.
- Nancy Ann Jones, widow OF a
soldier Of the Revolutionary war. ha6
Just died at her home near Jonesboro,
East Tennessee. aged 81 years. Only
three other widows Of Revolutionary
soldiers are nov living.
- The Oldest man in the United
States ie said to have died in Ten
nessee the other day. He was a negro
/ named Ferry Chesney, who lived on
the summit Of Copper Ridge near
Knoxville, andhe 4, reported to have
died on the 4th of July, at the age Of
126 years.
- Mayor Swink Of Rocky Ford.
CAL, who has perhaps the largest bee
plant in America, is going to take his
bees to the World Fair at st. Louis.
he proposes to construct Of bee hives
. miniature Of the Colorado state
house at Denver.
Louis Wilkins, who died in Chi
oago the other day, deserves a foot
note in history as one of the sona of
Anak. He was 80 years old. eieht
feet two inches high, and 365 pounds.
a half dollar could be put through
his hGser ring. and special bed had
W o0 0Unotru Tor him at the hospi-
tai where he died.
= There has been found in Allan.
ta, Ca, the daughter and probably
heir Of Charles Hill, supposed Geor.
gia confederate veteran, who died some
weeks ago ct Groton, s. Dak., leav-
ing $144, 900 in cash. Miss Lillar
Hill, of Atlantis, mas stated her case
to Adjutant General j. w. Robertson
in such q manner as to make it prac-
tically certain she is the daughter Of
the dead man and is entitled to his
estate.
- A press dispatch from Clayton.
Miss, under date OF 10th inst, saws:
William Ody, o negro who tonight
attempted to ASSAULT Miss Virginie.
Tucker, of this place, was burned at
the stake at midnight. The assault
was most brutal. The young lady
was riding in the country when she