The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-11-05
ANDERSON, S. c., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER s. 1902
GENERAL NEWS.

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ages for breach of promise Of marriage.
=. Wireless telegraphy was success.
fully tested By the Navy Department
last week fora distance of seventy
five miles.
- Mrs. Maude Kiehi, aged g, Of
Cortland county, New York, is in Jail
suspected Of poisoning her husband
and his brother.
= Women and children are fleeing
from Bulgaria to escape the Turks,
who are burning Christian Villages
and massacreing the inhabitants.
= Elizabeth Cady Stanton is dead
in New York at the age of 81. She
was member Of the Woman Rights
crowd and did not believe in future
life.
= The registration books of North
Carolina under the new constitution
have just been completed. They give
the negroes not quite 5000 votes.
They had 10000 before.
= Robbers dynamited the safe Of
an Iowa State bank, and secured an
amount approximating $4,000. They
exchanged a fusilade of shots with
local officers and escaped.
= Arthur Spencer, q famous wild
animal trainer, recently sent to the
Maryland penitentiary for Is years for
burglary, committed suicide by hang
ing himself in his cell with twisted
sheets.
- The Nebraska Supreme Court
has decided that the reading of the
Bible, supplication TO the Deity, and
singing OF sacred songs in public
schools Of the State, is prohibited by
the Constitution.
- A woman Of Maiden, Mass, re-
Gently refused to return $40 in change
given her by mistake by the conductor
Of trolley car and has, as conse.
quence, been sentenced to a year in
the house of correction.
The Georgia legislature is wrest.
ling over Che question of text books
for the common schools. A bill has
been introduced to provide for uni.
form system on the plan used ia this
State, and will probably pass.
When the Florida man wants a
barometer he goes out, catches dia-
mond back rattle snake, skins it.
dries the skin and hangs it up the
barometer. Then he knows lust what
kind of weather he may expect.
- A policeman in So. Augustine.
Fla, who was addressing the council
on the matter of a bill to buy new uni
forms for the police, got mad with
negro alderman for interrupting him
and pulled his pistol and shot him.
= An entire circus company was
arrested at Crystal Springs, Ky,
charged with killing boy and young
woman the day before at Piokens,
Miss. The two were killed by shots
fred just as tt ci~,us train was pull.
ing out.
- The Dead Letter Office at Wash
lngton is busy place. The reports
for the last fiscal year shows receipts
Of $500, ,351 pieces of dead mail mat
tor received at that Office, 0,869 were
found to contain money to the amount
Of 948, ,498. y.
= A well.to do negro in Missouri
left his ehree daughters at home while
he went to \ circus, and while absent
they we're murdered and assaulted. A
negro has been arrested who says he
saw another negro kill the girls. Both
whites and blacks were among the pur.
suers.
At meetng,of the United Tex.
tile Workers of America in Washing
ton last week motion was adopted
providing for the appointment Of an
sgent to undertake the work Of more
thorough organization of the tetixtile
workers throughout the southern
states.
& Minting, the marvel, who rode
The unicycle up the spiral in Fore
paugh's circus, was probably fatally
injured at Albany, Ca, by his spiral
falling through with him. It had not
been properly put up. He was at the
top, just jumping off the wheel, when
The structure fell.
- Frank IS. Cannon, third vice
president Of the Southern railroad, has
resigned. The cause of the resigna-
lion. has not been made public, but
t is hinted that the strike Of the
nachlnists had something to do with
t, and thatthe matter has just been
Impressed until that affair has nearly
been forg
= Gen. John B. Gordon, command
ng the United Confederate veterans,
las issued acircular letter in reference
o the ninth annual convention of the
Daug ghters Of TIE Confederacy, which
yill be held in New Orleans, begin
ling November 12,and lasting five days.
lie calls onevery Confederate survi.
Vor to give all aid and assistance in
lis power to make this meeting an
'minently successful one.
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