The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-12-10
GENERAL NEWS.


per cent within the yast year.
Three masked men entered
oank IN Montana, held up the cashier.
TOOK sz,oGG in money, and then left
- A portrait of President Lincoln
vii! be placed in the Mississippi hall
OF famo along that of President Davis.
- Millard Lee. who murdered Miss
May Suttles because she rejected him.
WI VIII Dc hanged in Atlanta, Ca, the
23rd of this month.
= The truckers of Colorado real.
lied over $200, 900 on cantaioupes th;a
year. Their season runs from An.
gust to October1.
Four large organizations of rail.
way employees have decided to de-
mand from 10 to 20 per cent. increase
OF pay on Western systems.
- Cholera is increasing in Manila
at the rate of thirty new cases dailv.
notwithstanding efforts of the govern,
ment to stamp out the disease.
James Rochelle Tyler, a grand
son OF President Tyler, died last We'd.
nesday at the Confederate soldiers
home in Richmond, Va, aged 64
years.
- Thos. B. Reed, ex-Speaker Of
the House of Representatives.. altar
suffering several days with appendici.
tbs, died in Washington laft Saturday
night.
- Alfred E. Buck, United States
minister so Japan, died suddenly while
hunting in that country He wos for
many years the Republican leader in
Georgia.
A portrait Of Judge, John W.
hegan, the surviving member of Jcf-
ferson Davis cabinet, is to be placed
IN the Confederate Museum of His
tory at Richmond, Va.
= Arthur Redfern receives more
money for riding race horses than apv
other boy of his weight in the world.
Ii he is able to ride all next season ho
will earn $4,000 in the saddle.
Septimus Winner. author of the
"Mocking Bird" "What is Home
Without Mother" and many other
popular songs, died at his home in
Baltimore on Tuesday, End inst, aged
rs years.
- A Washington correspondent
tells of woman who is now claiming
her fourth pension. She married four
war veterans and as each died she
came in for the widows pension. This
is her fourth claim.
= American capitalists have bought
1000 square miles Of Mexican land
on the border of the United States for
q cattle ranch, which will be the lar.
gest in the world. The initial expen-
diture was s2l, ,0G0, 900.
= The Georgia Legislature appro.
priated $40, 900 for the department OF
agrioulture; $85, 900 for pensions for
disabled soldiers; $38, 800 for iudigent
soldiers; $50, 900 for INDECENT widows
Of soldiers; 9I2,500 for soldiers
home.
War ships are very expensive
toys. The cruiser Philadelphia, built
In 1883, has been condemned because
1t woul' require more than half her
value to repair her. In her short ex-
istenoe, large part OF which has been
spent in the repair shop, she has cost
about $4,000, ,060.
- The names OF twenty Cinnamon
etsnd on the membership roll OF the
First Congregational Church, Chicago.
as the result of the work Of the teach.
ers in the Chinese Sunday School held
in that church. Five members Of this
school have gone az missionaries to
their own countrymen.
- AS result Of popular vote in
Mississippi the portraits Of the follow
ing ten natives Of the State will adorn
the walls Of the new capitol: tJeffer.
son Davis. L. @. G.. Lamar, e. G.
Walthall, James George, s. S. Prem
tiss,. j. NJ. Stone, George Poindexter.
William Sharkey, George Fuote and
j. L. Power.
= America gave the world tobacco
snd- though It's use has extended
throughout civilization it is still pro-
duoed and used more largely in this
country than anywhere else. During
The last fiscal year no less than $780,
200, 600 cigars were manufactured in
The United States, or about 8S per
capita for our entire population.
= Certain kinds Of North Carolina
timber is valuable. j. A. Martin
near Burnsville. Yenoey county, sold
his first out Of o curly wild cherry
rec for 81, 200. Before he knew the
value Of the tree he sawed up the
second cut for which he recived S40O. |
a company is shipping hundreds of |
Walnut and poplar logs from Moores-
lille tc Glasgow, Scotland.
- Dora Meek, out in Missouri, had |
. quarrel with her sweetheart fifty
'ix days ago and Immediately fell into
! somnolent trance. The doctors can |
10 nothing with her. Restoratives
lave been used without effect and |
inally ammonia was administered !
o arouse her, but the fumes made
Ter cough and there were Indications
4 suffocation. She cats little each
ay, but does thst instinctively.
- Frank Bennett, Of Altoona, Pa,
'sgered keg Of beer with board
ng hnnse keeper that he would 20
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