The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-09
GENERAL NEWS.

Work Gay.
All New Orleans trolley lines
have entered into q combine oapitaliz.
ed at $40, ,00O,O 900.
- or the 356 members of the ma
tt'onai house of representatives only %
have never been married.
- Philip a. Ruth is on trial in
NMisslssippi for embezzlement from the
State treasury of 100000
The largest cotton mill in the
world is to be built near Kansas Citv
with capital Of $40, 100000
Ten million dollars were given TO
iibraries-for books and buildings
in the United States during the Wear
ending July /. ~
= A desperate is a, large in tho
State OF Washington, and he has kill
ed three men since his escape from
the peni:entiary.
In Illinois they hold annual crow
hunts. The result Of one days hunt
In Elkin recently was the slaughter of
1886 of the pests.
Steps will be taken at once 10
put in operation the provisions of the
fhlllppine government bill, recently
passed by congress.
- The Southern summer school in
knoxville is the largest ever held in
the South. twenty-five States being
represented by 1000 teachers.
One of,the teachers in the Bos.
ton Latin School has just completed
MS hftleth year in that institution
HIS hrst pupils are old men themselves
now.
- Consul Livingston at Cane Hav.
tlen mas cab!ed request Tor an Amer
lean warship to be sent to that place
to protect American interests during
the revolutionary troubles.
= The Milwaukee breweries are in
trouble. They Only allow em mpioycs
four quarts of beer apiece each day.
I'D the men declare that it is impos.
sible to live on such pittance.
:, Ex-senator Ross, of Kansas, is
SAID to be setting type in newspaper
office in Albuquerque, N. NJ. He cast
the deciding vote against the impeach.
ment of President Andrew johnson,
= The Southern Educational Asso.
citation is holding its annual meeting
In Chattanooga, over 500 teachers be-
ing present. Appropriate and in.
structive addresses are being deliver.
ed.
= President Roosevelt has issued
his amnesty proclamation to the Fill
plnos. He declares that peace has
been restored in the archipelago. The
otfice OF military governor has been
abolished.
h Mrs. Jane Shirkle of Clinton. Ind
is the only woman coal operator in
She United States. One hundred and
ntty men are on her pay roll-among
them two of her sons. She knows
every foot Of the workings Of the
mine.
- A drummer collected q Gsbt in
New York recently by compelling the
head of the firm to draw and sign q
check for So, 500 at the point Of a Dis.
tol. He explained, when arrested
that he had no money to snend in
lawyers fees.
DR.: Gatling, Of gun fame, has,
like Tubal Cain. turned his attention
to the plOw. His invention i" a plow
worked by q gasolene motor. which
can be used at the cost of So so day.
For this sum it will do the work Of 30
men and 80 horses.
A peasant woman at Salcine des-
Sus, Roumania, has just died at the
age OF l3l years, the figures being full
~ substantiatod by documents in the
possession Of her family. For the
past ten years she had lived entirely
on milk, being toothless.
- The Pennsylvania railroad has
put into effect on its fast train to
New York the system of refunding
excess fare if the train is two hours
late. 1t she arrives ct New York two
hours late S2 is refunded; three hours
late 50, and four hours late o..
: September IL will be the two
hundred and nineteenth anniversary OF
the introduction Of coffee to civiliza.
tion BY John Sobieski, who found
large quantities Of the berry in the
camp Of the Turks when he and his
20, ,O0o Poles drove them s~sy from
Vienna in 1853.
The leading swine raining States
are, in their er5er, Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Nebraska, Ecdians and Kan.
sas. Iowa: with 9,623,79l, has 1877
per cent. of all the hogs in the United
States Hud they constitute nearly one
fifth OF tie wealth of the State.
= The University Of Virginia,
founded by Thomas Jefferson, the au-
thor OF the Dc claration of Independ-
ence, presents to the State depart
ment fac simil, of that historic doc.
ument, made twenty-five years ago,
when the original, uow quite dilapida-
ted, was still in good state of pre-
Tuesday, July l, was the great
est dividend day in New York's his