The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-12
GENERAL NEWS.

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move the war tax on tea.
- The president has signed the bill
creating permanent oepsns bureau.
w. W. Baldwin, near Madison.
Georgia, made 66 bales Of cotton last
year with three plows.
- The British have suffered auoth.
or defeat ct the hands of the Beers:
the British loss was s32 men.
- John II. Reagiu, Of Texas. who
was member Of Jefferson Davis cab.
ieet. is very i'll and will scarcely sur.
vive.
a reces. rain il southern Cali.
fornie increased the Lompoc mustard
crop from three eaoks an acre to 30
sacks.
Four girls and man we're killed
by the collapse Of the building OF tho
Saturday. ~
= Norfolk, Va, is practically at
the mercy Of mob of street car strik.
ers. They have defed and run over
the police.
- The loss to the Southern railway
by the recent foods is heavy: the loss
between Morristown aud Asheville is
placed at $500, 900.
- Since the doors were thrown
open, on Oct. l, 1897, there has been
q daily average Of 3 200 visitors to the
congressional library.
| - A portion of building under
construction in Philadelphia fell on
Saturday killing two workmen and
severely injuring two others.
There is formidable uprising
in China Of former soldiers of the
army. The insurgents have ordered
missionaries to leave the country.
Frank P. Jacobs, aged 25, shot
and killed his wife, aged Is, at Lynch
burg, Texas, and then cut his own
throat with a razor. They had been
married year.
The senate has passed a bill Civ.
ing Flora A. Darling SIS ,693 for dam
ages on account of her illegal arrest
and Imprisonment in New Orleans in
January 1864.
- Because Of the high water in the
Savannah river, 300 feet Of the bank
ct Augusts caved in, carrying with
it 300 feet Of the track of the Western
Carolina railroad.
= A new 1-oent postal card is being
printed by the postofice department
with Mckinley vingette on it instead
Of Jefferson's. The new cards will
be placed on gale soon.
- The public library Of Atlanta,
] Ga, presented by Andrew Carnegie,
fwas opened last week. The buildinp
with its furnishings cost sl25. 600
all given by Mr.. Carnegie.
- It is certain that q railway will
soon be Iuilt frem Tallulah, Ca. ia
Franklin, N. c., distance Of 40 miles.
This will run through o country rich
In minerals and scenery.
- Harvey Nesmith Of Pelham, Ca,
shot and killed his wife on Saturday
night and then killed himself. Both
were members Of good families, but
Nesmith had been drinking hard.
Thirty hosiery mills in North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee met in Charlotte re-
GENTLY, and decided to advance the
price Of yarn one cent on all numbers.
- Dispatches from Wilkesbarre.
Pa, shows that more than score of
lives were lost and 5000, 1000 worth
OF property was destroyed in north.
western Pennsylvania by the recent
foods.
- At Welsh La, small town, a
family Of six were killed in one night
Their names we're Earle and the fam
| lily consisted of father, mother, and
four children. L is equal 20 the
Voolfolk murder in Georgia.
- Mr.. Mullen, who celebrated his
reappointment as postmaster at Char
lotte, N. c., by getting on jamboree,
on that account, has been given the
grand bounce, and II. K. Pope has
been appointed in his stead.
- Mrs. Virginia Waterman, 60
years old, is student at the North
western Academy in Evanstown, Ill.
She expects to take O full college
course, entering Cornell after her
graduation at Evanston. She is the
oldest college ''girl" on record.
= A five story church. with roof
garden and gymnasium attachments,
is. being erected in Chicago. The pas
tor says ice cream and musical enter
| tainments will be held on the roof in
the summer, in addition to which he
will rent the roof garden to political
parties for campaign purposes.
| - The Governors of thirty States
have so far consented to serve on a
national committee which will advo.
cate q change in the date of the inau-
guration of future presidents of the
United States. The senate has al
ready PASSED joint resolution to sub
NIT constitutional amendment that
will bring about the proposed reform.
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