The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-28
GENERAL NEWS.

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Over 100 lives we're lost by an
explosion Of gas in coal mine in
Canada.
- The revolutionists are in com.
plete control Of the republic Of Santo
Domingo.
Judge MoAdams, Of Joplin, Ca,
10 accredited with having united in
marriage 1876 couples.
Some Of the truck farmers near
Hickory, N. G., got $500 an acre for
strawberries this year. -
= Meat stores in New York and
Boston are wrecked by mobs because
the proprietors refuse to quit selling
meats.
- Almost continuous shocks Of
earthquakes were felt for three hours
last Wednesday night at g.. Angus
tine, Fla.
- An anarchist plot to assassi-
nate Alfonso, the young monarch of
Spain, on the occasion Of his corona.
tion, was thwarted.
The seventeen-year locusts have
appeared on time. The first localities
to report their arrival are Washington
ID. e., and Evansville. Ind.
- As result Of gas explosion in
the Fraterville, Tenn, coal mine,
about 200 men and boys met death.
1T is the worst disaster in the history
of Tennessee.
Five persons were burned To
death in the American Hotel at Point
Pleasant, W. Va, on Thursday night
and three other persons were serious
ly injured.
= A negro man was burned at the
stake last Thursday, at Lansing,
Texas, for criminally assaulting a white
woman. Many women were present
to witness the burning.
= At last Cuba is free. The gov.
ernment Of the island was turned over
to president Palma on May 10th,
which by that fact becomes the Inde.
pendence day Of the Cubans.
The Pennsylvania coal miners
decide to continue the strike and it
will likely be one Of the most desper.
ate fights between capital and labor
ever witnessed in shis country.
= The recent earth quake in Guate.
mala ie reported to have wrought ter
rible damage. The city OF Coos was
ruined and hardly any coffee planta-
tion escaped damage. The loss of life
was large.
= In Hancock county, KY, Mrs.
Robert Pool was overcome BY o faint
ing spell and fell in the road near her
home. Her face struck in wagon
rut filed with water, and she smoth-
cred and strangled to death.
The news from London says that
.'peace is practically assured in
South Africa. It is said that Boer
leaders are willing to accept the terms
offered. but the. some of the rank and
file may continue the struggle.
- Eruptions at Martinique cor
tinue and the panic stricken people
are fleeing from the city. The us.
Steamship Dixie has arrived with an
immense qusatity OF supplies end had
difficulty in finding storage room.
- Aroola. ILL.,. was visited by q
cloudburst and hurricane, which did
great damage to many buildings and
growing crops. Forty-four years ago
TO the day the town was visited by q
Cyclone and was utterly blotted from
the map.
- Mr.. Isidore Newman Of New Or
leans has just contributed big sum
OF money for the erection of train
ing school for the boys and girls Of
that city. MIR. Newman will also give
an ample sum for the equipment and
permanent endowment of the institu.
tion.
- Postmaster General Payne has
issued proclamation to continue the
present postal relations between Cuba
and this country, also one Of the same
effect was issued by President Palma,
OF Cuba In accordance with the under
standing reached between them several
weeks ago.
= The German steamer Sakkarah,
Captain Pienig, has become a total
loss at Huamblin Island off, the coast
Of Chile. The fate Of the steamers
crew and passengers is not known.
The cargo of the Sakkarah included
81 800, 900 in gold specie, which was
being Identified by the Chillian gov
ernment.
= A large number of the members
Of the Alabama division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy are de.
sirous Of having permanently preser-
ved "the first Confederate White
House"-the house in Montgomery
in which Jefferson Davis resided in
1861, before the Confederate capital
Was transferred to Richmond. Va.
- Much discussion has been arous-
ed in Washington by story printed
in New York Thursday that Andrew
Carnegie has offered to furnish the
twenty million dollars this country
paid to Spain for the Philippines, if
by that means he could be sble to as
sure the Filipinos that their indepen-