The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Judge,Campbell Of Amherst, Va.
mas been arrested for horsewhipping o
preacher.
- According to the census report.
the largest farm in Texas contains
$40 600 acres.
Terrific hail and wind storms did
great damage in North Dakota, Mime.
sofa and Illinois.
Two cars Of peaches were shipped
from Fort Valley, Ca, to London,
England, last week.
= There has been q disastrous food
n II gas. Much property and many
lives have been lost.
-. Trinity College Of North Caro-
una Is the second richest institution
OF Southern Methodism.
= At least "a lives were 10 81 bv an
explosion in the Italy-Wes. silver
mine at Park City, Utah.
- Tracy, the western outlaw. hes
killed nine men in their effort To- can.
ture him and is still at large.
Candidate Berry has withdra xn
from the race Cor railroad commission
er on account Of sickness in his family.
= A Canadian has invented a ma.
chine for laying bricks which does ,he
work o. six or seven skilled brioklay-
ers and cost $500.
- Many farmers about Opel;ka.
Ala, are cutting down their corn and
curing it for fodder. For want of
rain there were no ears.
Medals are to be awarded by the
naval board to Hobson, Ward. Buck
and Victor Blue for distinguished ser
vices in the Spanish war.
- The destruction of crops and
other property in the Mississippi val
ley by the recent foods is appalling:
the damage is placed at $6,G00,0O %
- Potatoes form the worlds great
est single crop, 1000, 900, 900 bushels
being produced annually, equal in
crops.
- Frank Peker, 20 years old. com.
mitted suicide at Columbus, Ca,
using the same pistol that his SON
used four years ago for similar pur-
pose.
james Cockrell, town marshal,
was shot and mortally wounded at
jackson, Ky, by an unknown assas-
sin, who fired from the Court House
window.
- While on trial for murder at
Rome, Ga, last week Jno. B. McGhee
committed suicide by outing his Jug
ular vein with piece of iron taken
from his ehoe sole.
= The mississippi river has over.
flowed three hundred square miles
Of corn fields in Missouri, illinois and
Iowa. The damage is estimated at
four million dollars.
= Sweeping changes in the uni
forms Of the United States armv will
be made January l, 1903. The famil-
lar blue has been abandoned and olive
green will be the regulation color.
= A destructive plant disease, an.
thracnose, has been discovered in the
cotton fields of Putnam county. Ga.
ana tne farmers are apprehensive that
it will do much damage to the cotton.
Telfair and Tom Stockton, broth.
ers, of Jacksonville, Fla, were can.
iidates in the late primary for Senator
from Duval county. Telfair won by a
majority G 80 in total vote of 3.297.
- The army transport Kilpatrick
viii carry on her next trip to Manila
,G0o co& &as for use in bui ying Ameri-
ian soldiers who have died of fevers.
cholera and other diseases inoident n
tropical warfare.
John Higgins, 6s years old, has
applied for admission into the Hudson
county, N. Y, poorhouse. Four years i
lgo he was worth $4,000. He says
1e was swindled out OF his money by
big land deal in Bullock county, Ga.
W. j. Bryan left his home at
Lincoln, Nebrsskay on Saturday night
'or speaking tour in the eastern and
New England States. This is sup
,osed to be the beginning Of an active
for the summer and fall
months.
g. A suit for sl75, 900 damages has
been fled in Atlanta, Ca, eeoinst the
Joast Line, Southern, Seaboard and
central railroads by Inman g Nc.
aowan for infraction of the provis:
ons of the Sherman law with reference
o freights.
w. G. Craft, q fugitive from ius. |
ice, committed suicide in Fergus
county. Montana, on monday. he
eft note saying that his crime
haunted him to such an extent that
he could not sleep and that death was
preferable to capture.
- One day last week there arrived
t New Orleans train of forty cars |
oadcd with $4,000 barrels Of -four |
rom Minneapolis, Mimi, and the |
ext day q train Of thirty-five cars, |
,1o0 tons OF tobacco, arrived. Both |
rainloads were intended for export. |
Mics Bertha Hatton has been an. |
,olnted second assistant citJ agent Of |
he Louisville &c Nashville Railroad |
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