The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-22
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
- Kansas farmers propose to burn
!ootn instead Of coal the coming winter.
- Spain has increased by only g.
100000 inhabitants in the last 45
years.
= There are fifteen candidates in
the race for the governorship Of Mis-.
sissippi.
. = Lieut.. Peary, the Artio explorer,
is to be operated on in Philadelphia
for frozen feet.
- The New Orleans trolley strike
has ended by the employees accepting
the terms offered.
= The strike of coal miners in Ala
bama has been settled and 4 800 min.
ers return to work.
- Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson
Davis, has been sold to the Sons of
Confederate veterans.
= The largest aprle orchard in the
world is soon to be planted in Mis-.
souri,. 1t will contain Eve thousand
acres.
The new fast. mail train between
New York and New Orleans, will be
put into service on Sunday, Novem.
ber 2.
- Four thousand pupils in tho pub
lilo schools Of Schenectady, N. Y,
were sent home on Friday because Of
want of coal to keep them warm.
- Miss Grace Hobard Hanson, an
actress, slapped the face Of Col. r.
Q: Holt in Charlotte, N. c., because
of his offensive attentions to her.
"A woman has written 4,O7O
words on one side Of postal card.
No word is of less than three letters
and microscope was used to COM
plete the task.
Henry Campbell, a prominent
and wei. to.do farmer near Ruther-
fordton, N. c.. committed suicide on
Wednesday. Family trouble is said
to have been the cause.
-Four dead bodies, taken from
graves by body snatohers, we're found
in street in Indianapolis. Seven
teen arrests have been made, among
ohSA OVAo6 ebACO 0OCtVIEs
The next encampment Of the G..
a. X. will be held in San Francisco.
Before adjournment resolution urg-
ing fraternal attitude toward confed-
crate veterans was adopted.
- The question of selling thha Dan
ish West India islands 60 the. United
States is now being considered by the
Danish Legislative body and the mea.
sure has passedgits first reading.
The arbitration court has at last
rendered decision in the Pious fund
case. The decision is in favor of the
United States, requiring Mexico 20
pay 81 ,420, ,682.67 to this country.
* Isaac Turner, asyoung farmer
near Roanoke, Va, was called from a
house he was visiting on Wednesday
night and was shot dead by Jos.
Siumy, who was actuated by jealousy.
- Advices from Manila state that
the sultan Of Bacolod, Mindanao, SAYS
that he does not desire friendship.
but wants war. The American troops
are preparing TO give him what be
wants.
Tammany has hired $50 orators
to take the stump in New York for
candidate Coler for governor. The
orators include speakers in German.
French, Polish, Russian, Yiddish and
Burmese.
Paymaster General Bates, in his
annual report, states that the approx.
innate cost of the Spanish War on ac-
count OF pay aud extra pay to volun-
teers and regulars and mileage to off.
GERS was $73, ,668, ,44O.
- A terrible typhon mas spread dis.
aster oil over the northern par. OF
Japan. It was accompanied by seis-
pio tidal waves at Odawara, which
deluged the coast villages, the loss of
life and property being immense.
- Mrs. Carrie Nation was thrown
out Of Texas bar room By the owner
in Austin. She would not get out.
and the man, who is also an alderman
OF the city, took her by the arm and
back Of the neck and "chucked" her
out.
g. Miss Alice Fisher, employed i /,
the government printing Office at
Washington, was shot and instantly
killed by William Dougherty, employ
ed in the same Office. He then shot
and killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
- Secretary Of Agrioulture' Wilson
says there is the normal supply of
meat in the West, with plenty Of fat
cattle and there is no reason any long
er for high prices. He says the pack
ing houses have put down their prices
to the Wholesale trade and they in
turn ahould lower prices 70 the consum-
er, ssf3
- The Southern and Northern
Presbyterian Synods met in Joint ses-
sion in Lexington, KY, ON Wednesday
for the FIRST time since the civil war.
and celebrated the one hundredth an.
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