The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.

= The United States apple crop of
this year is estimated as worth S34,-
000, 600
= The war ships at Venezuela have
been ordered north, the danger to
American property having apparently
passed.
= A live frog is said to have recent
ly been taken from the stomach, where
it had lived five years, of Hopeward
Junction (N. Y.) woman.
- A warrant for the arrest Of Gov
crnor Kimball, of Rhode Island, has
been issued. Governor Kimball is
charged with slander and malicious
prosecution.
- A Missouri grocer, hauled up for
selling plug of tobacco on Sunday,
contended that tobacco was O neces-
sity of life in Missouri, and the court
sustained him.
= Mrs. Thomas Simpson, Of Hobo
ken, n. j., daughter Of Major Morton,
of the English army, has saved more
persons from drowning than any other
woman in the United States.
- The Missouri editor who threat
ened to write an article entitled:
"Hell and Who Will Be There" has
been warned against the publication OF
libelous matters by the entire town.
- Ciroumstantial evidence is char
ged with another innocent victim.
Victor Williams, of Tacoma, has just
confessed the murder Of girl thirteen
years ago, for which young Indian
was legally hanged.
= According to the fgures of the
treasury department, we are all twice
as rich as we were twenty years ago.
At least, if you are not, it is because
you let the other fellow get it. The
money is here, anyway.
= Because the expectation of frogs
from Canada to the United States has
become big business the Canadians
are in quandary. If frogs are game,
the close season must be fixed by the
provincial authorities; if they are fish,
by the Dominion.
= The Emperor Of Germany thinks
that the only way to keep his son, the
crown prince, from falling in love with
some American girl is not to let him
see one. The Emperor is wise. No
prince would ever live contented with
royal maiden who knows what an
American beauty looks like.
= The Mississippi Worlds Fair
commission is considering plan for
showing cotton plantation in minia-
turs at the Worlds Fair, presenting
the growing plants in oil stages, ac-
cording to the seasons; also the gin
ming, weaving and the conversion Of
the raw material into textile fabrics.
= There are from Northern ooustit.
uencies forty-eight Democrats in the
House of Representatives, of which
number twelve are from New York,
three from Massachusetts, two from
New Jersey and four from Pennsyl-
vania, total Of twenty-nine. There
are los Democrats and Populists from
the South.
= An architect of New York says
that, with the modern steel frame, a
building can be carried to height
equal to seven and one-half times the
diameter of the. base. By this rule
on an ordinary city block could be
erected building 1900 feet high,
800 feet higher than the Eiffel tower.
1t would have 125 stories and cost
about $50, 900, 600.
= Probably there is no more chari-
table woman in New York than Mrs.
Clara Simon, who recently turned
over the total savings Of lifetime
$50, O,0O0-to the Lebanon Hospital to
save the institution from bankruptcy.
For forty years che has labored in her
little shoe store on the east side and
has kept even her neighbors in ig-
norance of her many charitable works.
- Charles L. Fair, who was killed
In an automobile accident near Paris
Thursday, WAS one of the two sons OF
the late California millionaire and
United States senator, James G. Fair,
and was distinguished for the remark
able fact that he completely refrained
from tasting any kind Of spirituous
liquor for FIVE years in order 70 win
$500, 900, which his father left him
upon that condition.
- The French Government has
adopted system Of passenger insur-
ance on State railways The purchase
of penny ticket oonfers the right to
$4,000 in case of death or permauent
injury, from $500 to 81 900 for minor
injuries and five francs day while
the injured man is unable to work as
the result Of an accident Of any kind
within the precincts Of the railway.
A passenger may purchase any nuea-
Der OF tickets up to ten.
jackson County, Mo-, is turn
ing most of the revenue derived from
liquor licences to the construction Of
macadam roads. The Kansas City
World says some 23O miles Of these
roads. centering in Kansas City and
costing about s1,250,O0O have been
built. Two. thirds of the license mon
ey is expended for road and bridge
construction under the direction Of
the County Court, and direct prop
erty tax of Is on every 800 valuation