The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-15
3. c., WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER Is, 1902.
GENERAL NEWS.

-, 1: is said that so, 900 people have
died of cholera in the island Of Sa.
mar, one of the Philippines.
Three men were killed, another
will die and two others were wounded
in street fight in Eldorado, Ark.
- Secretary Moody Of the naval de.
partment wants congress to appro.
pirate sS2 900, 900 for the navy next
year.
- The president is not yet able to
put his foot to the ground, but the
doctors say he is getting on satisfac.
torily.
New York is threatened by
water famine as we'll as coal famine,
for coal is used to s,p the water
into the city. aA
- According to the UniteS States
statistics there are $4,000 divorced
men in this country, aud 114,OO di.
vorced women.
- - The Canadian Pacific railway
will shortly place the enormous amount
of %, 900, 900 acres Of land On the mar.
= Another great conAagation has
swept over the Beaumont, Texas, oil
fields, causing the loss of dozen or
more lives and great amount of prop
erty.
= Our little island of Guam, away
out in the Pacific, has had a pr city
big earthquake. On Monday there
were 140 shocks. Two natives were
killed.
= The public debt Of the United
States the first of this month was ST.
328, $685. The debt was diminish.
ed ten million dollars during the
month Of September.
"A 17-year-old youth in Pitts.
burg, Pa, while laboring under men.
tai alteration, killed his mother, sis
ter and two children, and fatally in
jured two other children.
= A burglar who broke into the
Y. NJ. @. A. building in Madison
Wis, left note in Latin explaining
why he did the job. Education i:
certainly making great progress in thi
country.
- President Roosevelt has no
given up efforts to settle the Goa
strike. He now offers to appoint
commission to investigate the Who'll,
matter, provided the miners will re
turn to work.
= Samuel Arnold, who was con
victed in 1865 of participation in th'
murder of President Lincoln, bu
subsequently, pardoned, died at hi
home in Anne Arundel county, Va.
! last week aged 70.
A Cleveland man was cut oepl
by his doctors to get set of falls,
teeth which he was supposed to hav,
swallowed, out Of his stomach. Th
teeth were afterwards found under hi
bed. He died from the effect of the
operation.
- Alonzo Garrett. United State
consul to Mexico, is missing and grea
anxiety is felt for his safety. Th,
Washington authorities have notified
the biexican government which ha
sent out searching parties, for tn,
missing official.
= The Liberiau Colonization So
oiesy, Of Birmingham, AIN, which ha,
sent three colonies Of American ne
groes to Liberia, proposes to send
fourth party. The preaers plan j
that the party shall sell from Savan
nah, Ga., on January 20, next.
Since 1866 the Stete OF Georeis
has paid seven million dollars in nen
sions to Confederate veterans. Will
the $50, 900 annually appropriated fo
the Soldiers Home and that to tn
widows the amount since 1865 to tn,
present time foots up 81 ,290, ,622.
- Armstrong Cornsilk, who ha
been granted pension by the Nortl
Carolina pension board, is the onl,
Indian thus provided for by tha
State. Cornsilk is O Cherokee. H,
served in the Sixty-ninth North Caro-
lima FegimNnt from April, 1862, to th'
close Of the war.
= There will be only one negr:
who will hold seat in the next gen
eral assembly Of Georgia, when tha,
body convenes in its annual session
| VouuSoooys Oot. 90. MC1uLOBn COuQ
ty sends the colored man this time
He 10 Darien Rogers, and he defeated
Joseph Mansfield in the election Oct.
l.
- The strangest use Of an injunc
ton was that attempted by c. Il. De
Long OF Scranton, Pa, who got an in,
junction from court to prevent his
pretty young daughter from marrying
Dewitt Tewsbury, divorced man and
twice her age. They fed, however, and
were married in Brooklyn before the
injunction was served.
"A special from Greensboro, N.
c., Gays: The Amos Owen Cherry
Tree Company. swindling cases came
up. in the. federal court here todey
and the defendants ageed to pay in
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