The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-19

= Philadelphia is said to have 4G3
cases of smallpox, and 254 cases of
typhoid fever.
"A 17-year.old boy of Decatur.
H., committed suicide because he had
been detected in forgery.
= The United States postoilicc ap-
preparations are to BE- Sl4 100000
more this year than they were last.
y. Z. Andrews, vice president of
the City Savings bank of Detroit,
Mich, is q defaulter for million
dollars.
81 Admiral Sampson aud Cromwell
of tho United States navy have been
placed Oil the retired list, having reach
ed the age of g.
- The Empire hotel in St. Louis
was destroyed by fire and eleven per-
sons, ten men and one woman, lost
their lives in the holocaust.
"A seven year old boy was run
! over and killed in Now York city on
"Wednesday by an automobile occu.
pied by u son Of Gen. Samuel Thomas.
J - AS q result Of drunken row in
a whiskey- shop at paristown, Ca,
JOG Weaver. young man Of 21, shot
and killed Vestal Stepp and John Will
son.
= Tho exports of the United States
during the year 1901 were larger than
those OF any nation which sold goods
abroad, amounting to over a billion
dollars.
- Tom Brown, negro, was hang
ed in the courthouse yard Of Nichol-
asville, Ky, by mob for assaulting
q white girl. The girl was attacked
on her way from school.
= The Sycamore flour mill in Up
per Providence Township, Pcnnsyl-
vania, which was burned recently, was
{ said to be the Oldest iu the country,
having been built in 17l7.
/ = Eleven insurance companies have
, just pulled out Of Texas On account
of that states antitrust law. Seven
others withdrew for the samo reason
not long ago, making IL in all to go.
Mrs Davis has refused to sell
Beauvior, the home of the late JEFF
ferson Davis, TO northcrners for $50
, 600; but she offers it to the State of
! Mississippi for $4,000 for soldiers
! home.
The Pope Of Rome and Count
Leo Tolstoi, of Russia, are making a
,, close race for the promised land. The
press dispatches about once n month
report each one to be in dying con-
0 dition.
"A bill has passed Congress pro-
yiding for the payment Of claims of
| Confederate officers aud soldiers whose
horses, sidearms and baggage were
taken from them at the time Of sur.
:, render.
New complaints are being made
by county officers in Nebraska against
farmers who breed wolves for the
T. bounty. At 50 a scalp, wolf culture
r often proves more profitable than rails.
. ing hogs.
- An admirer has presented Ad.
miral Schley with Thousand dolla,
; piano. The donor did not give his
name, but sent tho instrument with q
receipted bill to the admiral 8 room in
! washington.
So many Ohio banks have been
robbed recently that bill has been
introduced in the legislature fixing
: the penalty of life Imprisonment foI
persons convicted of robbing or at.
tempting to rob safe.
- Herbert Nook and Miss May
Gcigcr broke through the ice and were
drowned while skating near Rich.
mond, Va. The young man could
have saved himself, but lost his life
In trying to rescue the young woman.
- The little town Of Marmaton
Kan, is practically run by women.
It has woman school teacher, wo.
man telegraph operator, postmis-
tress, woman pastor In charge Of its
only church, and woman letter car
J rier.
= The senate has passed joint
> resolution submitting constitu-
tional amendment changing the time
Of presidential linaugurations and the
termination and commencement of
congresses from the fourth Of March
to the last Thursday of April.
= A delegation Of negroes, repre-
senting the National Industrial Asso-
citation, called on the President and
presented an address urging his CO.
operation in securing an appropria-
tion from Congress for disabled and
decrepit ex-slaves in the South.
= Governor Davis of Arkansas has
asked from the bankers Of his State q
loan of SIS, 200 to relieve the distress
in four Of the richest land counties.
Half the people are destitute and
only one-fourth of them have provi-
sions to last until another crop is
made.
: The discovery has just been
made that owing to technicality
every law passed at the last session Of
the Wyoming legislature is invalid
The Governor is now in South Amer.