The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-26
GENERAL NEWS.


- Nearly 5000 men are at work ON
the site Of the Worlds Fair ground at
St. Louis.
- The Mckinley Memorial Asso-
citation CT the State Of New York has
raised $4,000.
- The rumor that tho Southern
road is about to buy the Plant system
has been revived.
= There will be three new stars
for the flag next year-New Mexico,
Arizona and Oklohoma.
- So far only 81 400 has been con-
tributed by North Carolina to the JEFF
ferson Davis memorial arch.
- A negro man in Gallatin, Tenn,
grabbed man, dragged him into an
alley and cut off his head with razor.
- An earthquake in Russian Trans
caucasia destroyed towns and VA
lagos, and 1000 persons lost their
lives
= Phil Melloy of Dubuque, Iowa,
devoured seven dozen raw eggs on
Monday inside Of ten minutes on
wager.
- Our wheat crop in 1901 was near
ly 450, 100000 bushels in excess of
the crop Of Russia, which is our near
est competitor.
= Young Teddy Roosevelt is all
right again. His pneumonia was
caused by too suddenly cooling off
after violent exercise.
= Seven men were killed and IL
injured by the falling Of 10 ton bould.
cr upon the caboosc Of n work train
near Little Rock, Ark
- An unknown friend of Tuskegce
institute, Booker Washington school
in Alabama, has given the institution
$50, 90 for girls dormitory.
= Prince Henry will remain in this
country from the 22nd instant until
March 1lth. He will come as Ear
south as Chattanooga, Tenn.
- In fight between officers AMI
moonshiners near Middleboro, Ky,
on Wednesday nine men were killed
including deputy sheriff.
"A steam plow weighing 5000
pounds and owned in San Bernar-
dino County, California, is supposed
to be the largest plow in the world.
The average depth of the Texas
spouting oil wells is few feet more
than a thousand and the height to
which the oil is elected 60 to 200 feet.
= The Southern Tariff association
has made an increase in insurance
rates Of 25 per cent. on all stocks of
merchandise and on frame store build
ings, etc.
James R. Keeneg gave $40, 900 for
the poor during the blizzard in Now
York the first days Of this week. He
also gave $4,000 to the charity organ
izstion society.
| - Union carpenters of Spokane,
Wash, demand forty-fve cents an
hour for eight hours work after May
l. The new scale is an advance Of
five cents an hour.
- Miss Mamie NIcKane, night
operator of the Charlotte, N.|C., tele-
phone exchange caught fire in her
office and was burned SO badly she
died in few hours.
- Confined to her bed with a bad
ly injured ankle, Gertrude Gothic was
shot and killed by her lover George
Sutton, iu Philadelphia. He ther
shot himself, but he may recover.
= The State of Louisiana has test
ed its new plan of convict labor for
one year with great success. AS the
result of the first seasons work Che
State has realized $780, in cash.
- The postofiice appropriation bill
carries $4,000, 900, an increase Of
$l4 200, 900 over last year. The lar
gest item is SAL ,250, 900 for railway
transportation. Rural delivery gets
s7,500,000.
= Thirteen young men have been
convicted for the murder Of Jack Os-
borne in Russell county, Va, last
Christmas and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary-ive for 18 years, four for
16, others for shorter terms.
- Judge Taft, of the Philippine
Commission, declares that living in
the Philippines is expensive. He
confesses to the Senate Committee
that out of an annual salary of $40. 900
he could not save $4,000 for rainy
day.
= Last week the two Oldest women
in Ohio--both residents of Toledo
died on the same day. They were
Mrs. Dora Extiuc, aged 104 years and
one day, and Mrs. Hannah Torrans,
aged 1O4 years, seven months and one
day.
= Ranoolfus Bingham, of Mer-
chantvillc, N. j., supports life at the
age of rs on food that costs Il cents
per day. He says he is healthy,
happy and spry, and has helped to
bury aoquaintanccs who ridiculed his
diet.
= President Lincoln during the war
met up With an army chaplain whom
he believed to be uglier than himself
and gave him knife ON that account.