The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-01-08
J. c., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1909
GENERAL NEWS.

The town OF Foreman, Ark.
has been nearly wiped out by fire.
Three men were scalded to death
". Va.
= In New Jersey there are two
match factories with a capacity to.
gother Of $1,000, 900 matches a day.
= The medical experts who held
tho autopsy report that Czolgosz was
sane when he murdered President
Mckinley.
Rev. J. H. McClinton was called
to his door at Deport, Texas, on
Christmas morning by crowd Of men
and shot to death.
= There is an advantage, after all.
in not being elected president. For
instance. Mr.. Bryan can send mes
sagcs to congress every week.
= General Grants telegram to Sec
rotary Stanton announcing Ice s sur.
render was sold at auction in New
York to George H. Richmond for
500.
= An elopement in Birmingham
has just been prevented by the father
of the girl shooting the groom and his
friend when they came for the bride
elect.
= In Richmond, Va, a serious
freshet menanced the city. To add
to the peoples alarm, fire broke out,
the firemen fighting it waist deep in
water.
Last year Missouri produced
more manufactured tobacco than any
other state in the Union, over 7S,-
100000 lbs. passing through its fac
tories.
Frank Pevey, the man who car
ried over million dollars in life in
surancc. is dead. The loss falls on
company with over three hundred
millions capital.
- The coal famine has ended so far
as the Jellico and Kentucky fields are
concerned. The Southern railway has
handled 1000 car loads of coal in the
past three days.
- The State Entomologist of New
Jersey predicts that the State will be
overrun with locusts during the ensu-
ing year, and that they will eat ey-
erything in sight.
- The first public reception Of Pres
ident Roosevelt on New Years day
was the largest for years. No one
was refused admittnnce and over 5000
people wore present.
The protocol between Nicara-
qua and the United States gives the
latter complete jurisdiction through
out a zone six miles wide and extend
ing from ocean to ocean.
- Secretary Ritchie,. of the Cinci-
natti Municipal Reform League, re-
ports that there are 8,440 penny-in-
the-slot machines in that city and
that over So, 100000 drops into them
every year.
- It is said that Herbert g. Hoover
is one of the highest salaried men of
his years in the industrial world. At
the age of twenty.nine he is in receipt
.t $33, 600 annually for his services as
a mining expert.
A report from the Fall River
cotton mills shows that they are los
ing money. The.surplus Of several of
them reported year ago is now taken
place by deficit. They cannot stand
southern competition.
- On Christmas day Mrs. MoKin-
ley sent pair of hand-worked slip
pers made by herself &C Richmond
girl who sometime ago cut picture of
the late President out of magazine
snd mailed it to his widow.
An armed robber compelled tie
woman cashier to deliver the contents
Of the safe in the Boston Office of the
Prudential insurance Company Just
before closing. The amount is un-
known, the cashier being alone at the
time.
- Congressman Loud, chairman of
the House committee ON postofices
consulted President Roosevelt about
postal legislation. He afterwards
stated that one cent postage was out
of the question. It would result in
deficit Of thirty-five millions.
IT. M. Exum, a farmer living
near Centreville, Tenn, went home
and when his wife objected to his
shooting into the floor about her feet,
shot her dead. He carefully laid her
on the bed with the assistance of
MS cnlldren and then blew out his
own brains.
A new version of the Bible is
being prepared in England. The
work, under the guidance Of Samuel
Lloyd, of Birmingham, has been pros
ecuted by leading scholars for the
past eight years and is nearly COM
plete. It is entirely distinct from
the American TRANSLATION.
s- Frank Royal, young man, was
shot and killed Christmas night, near
Duck Hill, Mass, by the daughter of
his brother-in-law, T. s. Mills, whom
he and his wife were visiting. Mills
and Royal went to town in the even
ing and upon their return by way Of
joke, Royal refused to answer Mrs.
Mills, who called to him as he started
to enter the hallway Beatrice Mills,
o 14-year-oid girl, thinking it was
some ona bent ON miaahief saized