The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

Joseph Anderson, charged With
murder OF wife, lynched at Owensboro,
~ The new postal cards are out.
they contain the head of President
Mckinley.
= The food il Iowa mas doue dam.
age to the extent Of $4,000 ,A100, So il
10 estimated.
- Rough weather is being expe.
rienced in England, and the damage to
crops is great.
= A negro in Americus, Ca, killed
his wife and daughter on Wednesday
with shotgun.
- The ire which has been burning
IN the oil wells Of Louisiana for q week
has been subdued.
- There are 5,739, ,657 farms in the
United States. They are valued at
nearly seventeen billion dollars.
Joshua Anderson, white, who
brutally murdered his wife. was hang
ed on the town scales at Owensboro,
KY.
"A retired British soldier at Hall
fax. n. s., murdered his bride of six
weeks by cutting her throat with q
razor.
G. L. Edwards of Atlanta, while
dressing on Thursday, knocked his
pistol from the bureau. 1t exploded
and killed him.
- The greatest depth of water in
the world is in the Pacific Ocean near
the Island Of Guam, 81 ,614 feet-just
about six miles.
The Mexican northbound train
was held up near the line of Texas
and Mexico by three Americans and
robbed of S53, 600.
= There are consumed in the neigh
borhood of 80, 100000 pounds of hops
annually in the United States in the
manufacture of beer.
- Lieutenants Richmond p. Hob
son and Victor Blue get two of the
four medals SO far awarded for merito-
rious services in the Spanish American
war.
"A mob of 100 persons drove a ne.
gro family out of Blackwell, Okla,
and burned the house occupied by
them No negroes are allowed in that
city.
- Texas and Pacific coaches 90
through bridge over Saline river near
Mineola, Texas, and baggagemaster is
killed and thirty passengers are in
jured.
- Will Young and Dan Mac Auliffe,
while repairing steam pipe at mill
in Dyersburg, Tenn, fell into boiler
and were literally cooked to death BIZ
the boiling water.
In many parts Of Central Asia
the fear of locusts has caused the
natlves to reduce the areas planted in
cotton. In some regions only half Of
last years area has been planted.
- The United States gold dollar is
SO scarce that coin dealers are adyer-
:isins for them and paying from s1.5C
to $500 for all they can get. The
mlnts have not coined any since 1889.
- Six thousand and seventy-one
ballots were taken in the convention
OF the Twelfth Texas Congressional
District, without making a nomina-
tion. 1t has adjourned until Septem-
Der 4.
= A negro. man was lynched at
Herndon, Va, for numbering a far
mer. A negro. was also lynched in
Arkansas for entering the roor. of
two young white girls with criminal
intent.
= The Dukes of Durham, N. c.,
have decided to build cotton mill of
mammoth proporL.~ rs. The mill will
have 40, 600 spindles and 200 looms
and will give employment to 10000
persons.
There was an earthquake in Cali
fornia Wednesday night which trans.
formed strip of country 1O5 miles
long by miles wide, from valley to
ported. but the Inhabitants are very
much frightened.
= James w. Carroll, of New Jer.
sey, died in few hours after being
spurred through the hand by rooster
who was. defending the hens he was
trying to catch. He is not the first
man whom fondness for chickens has
got into trouble.
= An enormous pile of claims for
pensions have been filed for services
during The Spanish American war.
BE it said to the credit of the south
that few of them have been sent up
from the south, which is not pension
grabbing section.
= A Russian opera singer who lost
fve'teeth in railway accident on the
Trans-oaucasion line has just been
awarded $500,000 or at the rate of
$4,000 for each tooth. She cla' u ed
that the loss of the teeth prevented |
hef from singing and deprived her of !
q large revenue.
= In fight among white men in
Newton county. Ca, on Sunday Rich
ard s. Smith, Jr.. was shot and had |
his throat cut; Liohard Smith, Sr.,
vas shot through the lung, and man |
named Tomlin was badly cut. Young |