The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-18
GENERAL NEWS.

- Oil was found in Jamestown,
Tenn, recently; it is Of high grade.
- High water in Kansas rivers is
subsiding and danger to crops appears
to be passed.
- The strike in the coal fields is
spreading. It is said that 80 per
cent OF the miners have quit work.
= Burglars opened the treasurer's
safe of Hardin County, Tex, Thurs
day night, took all the county money
and escaped.
= A collision of two railroad trains
occurred near Chattanooga, in which
five men were killed and fifteen injur.
ed, several seriously.
- The St. Louis prophet who bobs
up every few years to predict the mil
lennium has now decided upon 1912
as the momentous date.
Colonel Estill, the editor candi-
date for governor of Georgia, has fled a
protest against the recent primary, on
the ground of Irregularities.
-Charles S. Onderdonk OF Lamy,
N. ~, owns the largest goat ranch IN
world. He has as high as 10000
goats on his $4,000 acre ranch at one
time.
John H. Converse has duplicated
his gift of last year-$25, ,O00-to
help the General Assembly Of the
Presbyterian Church in its evangelis.
tic work.
David G.. Bald win, postmaster Of
New Orleans, has rendered his resig-
nation as q result of o serious disa-
greement with. the postoffice depart.
ment at Washington.
- No mention is made Of the Kan
sas City platform or of Mr.. Bryan in
the resolutions adopted by the Irdiana
democrats. though hard fight was
made to refer to Mr. Rrys:.
- Gov. Davis, Of Arkansas, who
was recently expelled from the Bap-
tist church in Little Rock, has con-
nected himself, on invitation, with
the Baptist church in Russellville.
DIR. j. r. Goddard, a veteran
Baptist missionary in eastern China,
has translated the Old testament into
the Romanized Ningpo colloquial.
Thia completes the Bible &c :he Ming
po dialect.
Gut in Nebraska, Illinois, Wis
oonsin and other States beyond the
Mississippi, they had foods Of rain in
many places last week. At Cortland,
Nebraska. seven inches of water fell
and great damage was done.
= The portrait of Martha Washing
ton has been decided upon as the first
of American women to adorn q United
States postage stamp. 1t will be plac.
ed UPON the eight-cent stamp Of the
new issue, to appear some tine next
fall.
- One person was killed, one fatally
injured, two others severely hurt and
II number reported missing as the re-
'eult Of q fire in Saratoga, N. Y, June
9. The property destroyed was valued
at $500, 600, with estimsted insurance
Of $75, 900.
- Two hundred dollars deposited
in the Bank Of Savings. New York
City, in 184O and forgotten, has just
netted the heirs OF the depoaitor tho
csat little sum Of $4,000, the princi-
pal and interest having accumulated
to that extent in the meantime.
james j. Cavanaugh, Of Water
town, Mass, died the other day, in
his Que hundred and twelfth year. He
was in the habit Of taking alcoholic
stimulants and he had used tobacco
for more than 100 years. What other
life-shortening vices he had is not
mentioned.
= Rt. Rev. DR.. Brent, Protestant
Episcopal bishop OF the Philippines,
who sailed for his post some da, ago,
telegraphed from Boston that $780,
600 had been, given him, to be used in
building a cathedral, school and Bish-
ops house in Manila. The name Of
the giver is withheld.
- Neely, who was convicted Of
postal frauds in Havana and senten-
ced TO ten years imprisonment and
pay fine Of $50, ,701, has been rsleas-
ed under the bill passed by the Cuban
congress granting amnesty to all
Americans convicted of crimes in
Cuba during American occupation.
A mob Of fifty masked men broke
the jail at Salisbury, N. c., last Wed
nesday morning at 2 O'Clock and took
two negroes, Harris and james GILES.
pie, charged with numbering q white
girl, and lynched them. The negroes
were hanged, to o tree on the outskirts
of che city. Their bodies were rid.
died with bullets.
- Alexander City, Ala, place Of
1900 people, was wiped away last Fri.
day by fire, the estimated loss reach
ing $3.50, 900, which the insurance
Eill not begin to cover. The town
was not supplied with watcr-works
and all the terror stricken people
could do was TO save what little they
could and then almost prostrate fee
from the awful heat.