The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-21
GENERAL NEWS.

~ o"AS Nl4Uu, tue new leader CT
tammany, Hall, New York, has re.
signed and quit politics.
- The New England Union will
give further assistance to the strikers
and locked out operators Of Augusta.
- An inch Of snow fell at Milwau.
kee, Wis, on Saturday, 10th inst, and
| the thermometer was below freezing
point.
- Distributing Clork .BarroSs in
the Y. ;, census Office has been found
short 81 800 which he lost il speculs.
tions.
- The smallpox continues to be
troublesome at Charlotte. There are
90 people in the pest house and house
of detention.
- The estimated decrease in the
cottca acreage of the South this year
is four and half per cent. compared
with last year.
= $4,000 subscribers from Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Alabama and Ten
nessee have presented Admiral Schley
with handsome silver service.
Commissioners of Agriculture o.
b: Stevens says Georgia's peach crop
will be less than one-half as large as
it was last year. The fruit is falling
off.
- An engine and IL cars ran away
down q mountain near Saginaw, wes-
tern North Carolina, and William Bur-
ton, engineer in charge, was instantly
killed.
- A dispatch from Naples says
Mount Vesuvius shows signs of activ-
ity. Lava is flowing from the crater
on the Pompeii side, while hot cindere
are thrown up from time to time.
= Twenty-nine persons were killed
outright and 300 others Injured
some Of whom will die-by the explo-
sion of naphtha car in the railroad
yards at Sheraden, near Pittsburg, Pa.
There ere three States which
have. no debt, Iowa, Nebraska and
Illinois. There are three others which
have almost no debt, California, Mon
tana and Nevada. All six are in the
west.
- Sarah Ann Crandall died recent.
~ at her home in Green, n. Y, hav-
ing lived complete recluee in her
house for 40 years. None of her
neighbors had seen her face in that
period.
- A negro in Jail at Decatur, Tenn, j,
boasted that he had killed two white
men and declared that he intended to
kill two more. A mob took him from
the Jail and administered q drastic
preventive.
In a difficulty between whites
and blacks from Beaumont, Texas, on
May 11th, one negro was killed, several
whites and blacks wounded and a
number Of others who jumped from
the train are believed to have been
injured.
- The Atlantic Coast Line files in
the six States through which it runs
the merger agreement with the Plant
system. With its leased lines this
system now controls 5,00j miles Of
railway. It will issue $50, 200, 900 of
per cent. bonds.
- Barnum and Bailey's Circus was
the cause of serious riot in Bexlers,
France, on May 11th: The crowd
could not be accommodated in the tent
and those who we're unable to enter
began to stone the circus employees,
five of whom were injured.
- On Monday, 18th inst, there was
q very heavy hailstorm in Madison
county, Ca, about 2 miles from
Athens, extending from Bethaven
church about three miles. Hail fell
as large as guinea eggs, and covered
the ground to the depth Of a foot, COM
pletely destroying all crops aud the
fruit.
- President Stuyvesant Fish Of the
Illinois Central railroad, has bought
10, 900 acres of land near jackson,
Miss, and will establish there model
farm on which he expects white farm
ers to settle. The land will be cleared
ia sc acre tracts and turned over to
men wLo are known to be true to the
interests of the company.
= In the oil fields near Austin.
Texas, the drill in the No we'll at a
depth Of 142 feet dropped into lake
of liquid asphalt, which is so thick
and heavy that further drilling is al
most impossible. The heavy black
matter oozed up into the we'll for
quite q distance. An expert pro-
nounces it the finest kind of LIQUID
asphalt. There is but one other place
that it is found, and that is in Trini-
dad.
= Congress established precedent
by appropriating two hundred thous-
and dollars for the relief Of the suffer
ers at Martinique. For the first time
in American history direct appro.
pristion hes been made to foreign
people. Congress on several other
occasions, such as the Irish faminea
in l847 and 1880 and the famine in
India in 1890, has taken steps to re.
heve distress in other countries, such
as authorizing the navy department to
lend vessels TO carry food and cloth