The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-04
GENERAL NEWS.

klliug our soldiers from ambush.
Judge Jones, OF Alabama, an ex-
Confederate, delivered the memorial
ADDRESS ut Grants tomb in New York.
: The Tennessee Democrats have
nominated Hon. James B. Frazier for
governor and reaffirmed the Kansas
City platform.
= 1t looks as if Chicago is to have
o meat famine, caused by the drivers
strike. The ice and coal unions NAV
have sypathetic strike.
- A locomotive on the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad exploded at Man
chester, Va, killing the engineer and
seriously iDjuring five other persons.
IL A Fort de France dispatch saws
that George Kennan, the famous ex.
plorer and traveller, is missing and it
Is feared he perished in ,he last ex-
plosion of Mont Pelee.
H. The rain during the past few
days have caused the greatest floods
in the history Of Oklahoma. Rail-
road traffic on all railroads is impeded
and all rivers are out Of their banks.
= A Wisconsin woman who want
ed $15 200 for ''three stolen kisses
has been defeated in court, the Jury
deciding against hor because she is
taller and heavier than the man whom
she accused.
- President Estrada Palma, in his
first message to the Cuban congress,
lays much stress on the island in
debtedness to the United States,
especially In the matter of schools
and sanitary reform.
- Three years ago the Rev. +. G..
Rosoamp of Kokomo, Ind, was given
a block of supposedly worthless min
ing stock bya. friend who posed as
a practical Joker. He he's just soi1
the stock for 100000.
- In the United States there is one
church for every 337 people. Boston
has one for every 1000, Minneapolis
one for every 1,054. Tweuty-four
million people attend church in the
United Stetes every Sunday.
= among the passengers on the
steamship Philadelphia who sailed
Wednesday for Southampton we're
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who will be
abroad for three months. Accom-
panying him were his daughters Lucy,
Julia and Carrie Wheeler.
- Veterans on both sides of the
Civil war are deeply interested in pre-
venting the destruction &c two his
toric buildings in St. Louis. In one
julia Dent became the wife Of Ulysses
S.Grant, and in the other ill-fated Sarah
Knox Tayl ylor was made the bride of
Jefferson Davis.
- The boot and shoe industry of
the United States is great one. The
completed census returns of 1900 Gov
ering that branch Of effort shows that
the total output that year was valued
at 1851 ,O28, $50. This was an increase
OF eighteen per cent. over the value Of
the output Of 1890.
- An explosion took place in q
mine in Coal Greek district of Ten
nessee q few days ago. About two
hundred men and children had just
the mine and all were lost. It
was q perfect disaster and the scenes
around the entrance to the mine were
pitiable in the extreme.
- The Postofice Department has
issued an order that hereafter writ
ten designation on the wrapp.r-such
as book, printed matter" or
photo shall be construed as a per-
missible Inscription" upon mail mat
ter of the third class. This revokes
q previous construction forbidding
such writing.
= Recently a strip of ground along
Dutch Gap, on the James river, below
Richmond, Va, has sunk, and much
Of the earth has fallen into the river.
Gen. b. f. Buffers forces cut the
gap during the civil war. Itis several
hundred yards long and runs across q
horseshoe made by the river, cutting
off several miles.
- Frauds Of the grossest character
are said to have been discovered 10
the customs service of the city of
New York. It is reported that the
government has been cheated out of
revenue amounting to at least $500, 900
. year, through the collusion in the
importation of silks. Criminal prose-
'utiona, i is expected, are to follow
as result.
- A Mississippi inventor who has
been experimenting with cotton pick
ing machinery for the past ten years
'iaims that he has at last perfected a
machine that will pick the Aeecy
,tar'e as deftly as the human hand.
s is SO confident that his invention
vail be success that he has already
,losed contracts to pick the cotton
grown on several Mississippi planta-
lions.
- The American colony in Con.
'taEtinople is said to be much psrtur-
bed over the conversion Of one OF it's
nembers-a Miss Davis to Moham-
Miss Davis was O teacher
n the American College for Girls at
Saitari, and also gave lessons in
Turkish family, where she met and
eli In love with an uncle Of her pupil.
IN order TO marry him che has renoun-
,ed her faith aud entered the fold Of
Islam.