The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-13
GENERAL NEWS.

a man in New Mexico has 20, 900
goats In 5000 acres Of land. :
Miss Missouri OVERLY, of Blu
Iord. Ga., is under arrest on charge of
passing raised bill.
=. Five murders have been commit
yea IN as many months in Simpson
county, Mississippi.
Smallpox prevails in Newberne,
n. ". The postmaster has il and is
not expected to live.
- a negro boy was lynched near
Homer, La, for criminal assault on
white girl years old.
=. According to the government bull.
ietin, the United States uses 1892.
100000 pins every year.
A movement has been sta. cd in
Jamaica for the annexation of Tat is.
land to the United States.
- Increase in value of taxable prop.
erty in Georgia this year will be ia
the neighborhood Of $12, 200, 900.
= Sixteen men were killed in o
Colorado mine by an explosion of gas,
and the mine is said to be ruined.
= Willard G. Vanderlip, q promi.
nent Boston lawyer. has confessed to
embezzling over 5000, 900 Of an estate
left in his care.
= Wife murderer at Norfolk, Va,
refuses to ask for new trial and wants
death sentence Of court executed as
soon as possible.
The strike Of the mill operatives
at Augusta, Ca, has been officially de-
ciared off, the mills having filed the
places Of strikers.
= The men outnumber the women
in Texas by 100000. Horace Gree.
ly's advice might be modified now into
Go west, young woman.
= Oil has been struck In a field
west of Rome, GA. 1t began to gush
when 860 feet had been bored and 60
gallons a minute rushed out.
= Another cotton factory operating
In New Enaland has shut down be.
cause its owners say they can make
the same goods oheaper in the South.
- Enough coal vas produced in the
United States last year to give three
tons and one-half to every one of the
5000, 900 men, women; and children
;a the country.
= The steel trust earned $40, ,OOO,.
600 during its second year. This beg
carly sum indicates that the dear little
infant needs some more protective
tariff coddliDg.
- An appalling epidemic of suicides
among young girls is reported from
China. Famine causes them to be
sold into slavery, snd they prefer
death to that lot.
- Half million acres of what was
the Rosebud reservation in South Da.
kota are to be thrown open to the pub.
lie this fall. The farms will be dis.
tributed on the lottery plan.
During the prevalence Of a storm
at Carolina Beach. twenty miles be.
low Wilmington, N. c., the Oceanic
hotel was wrecked and thirteen guests
injured, one Of whom may die.
- Little Marguerite Flournoy, Eve
years old, of Fort Valley, Ca, was
accidentally killed by der brother, ten
years of age. The boy wes taking a
gun from the rack when it accident.
ally fred.
The United States wheat crop
this year is something like hundred
million bushels short, but the corn
crop is about two billion and a half
bushels ahead, so we can stand the
wheat deficit.
1t is announced that the total
amount of money in circulation in the
United States is $2,26O, COG, 1877, au
increase of over ffty-one millioas
since this time last year. The oircu-
lation per capita amounts to S28.53.
The miners have been holding
in Knoxville, Tenn. Al
resolution was adopted declaring that
300 men have met their deaths in the
last sixteen months from bad manage.
ment and calling for laws for the bet.
Ter protection Of human life.
= Now it seems that the earthquake
10 California is not Of the regular
kind from volcanic origin but from
oils and natural gases underlying the
region The damage seems TO have
been greatly exaggerated and are nov
set at "a 900. There is panic enough
among the people, however.
John. ". Mackay, one of the
aorld' richest men, died recently in
London. He was born in Ireland and
came to this country, drifted West
anc went into the mining business.
Those who knew something of his
business said that he could not tell
within s2O,000,OO0 of what ne was
worth.
- At Birmingham, Ala, Fred Her
rick, millionaire lumber manufac-
:urer has appealed case from the in.
,erior criminal court, where he was
ined l cent for refusing to pay bill
IT licensed restaurant. He refused
% pays14 cents for cold slaw having
dressing on it, when he ordered Il
plain. He will carry the case to the
highest court Of the state.
- Various oyster canning and mack.