The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-01
J. c., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER /, 1902.
GENERAL NEWS

= There are 500 cities aud towns in
Ohio that have prohibition laws.
= A thousand people are said to
have been killed by an earthquake in
in Turkestan.
- Reports show that schools and
colleges in the South are unusually
crowded this year.
= Alonzo Tucker, q negro who as
saulted Mrs. Dennis near Libby. Ore.
gon. was lynched.
- There was q net iucrease Of nine
per cent. in receipts at tho fifty largest
postoffices in August.
New York City in all its boroughs
is appropriating $15,0OO,O0 to be
spent in single year upon it's schools.
o - Helen NJ. Gould has given $780,
600 for q Y. NJ. c. A., building for
the soldiers stationed at Fort Monroe.
- The salary account of the govern
ment's officers and servants is $780,
600, 900 year. A pretty big pay roll.
- No less than 30, 900 white men in
Mississippi have failed or refused to
pay their poll taxes. This cuts them
out OF voting at the primaries.
A Jeffersonvine, Ind, woman
now enjoys four pensions and is about
to receive fifth. She makes it
business to marry old soldiers who die.
= The postoffice building at Minot,
n. d., collapsed Thursday and about
fifteen people were buried in the
ruins, some Of whom were rescued
alive.
= VIM. Hooper Young, grandson
OF Brigham Young, the great Mormon
leader, has been arrested, after long
chase by the police, for the murder Of
Mrs. Pulitzer in New York.
Great Britain and venezuela
have some differences and present con-
ditions are threatening. The cause
of the trouble does not seem to be
confined to any particular incident.
- Mabel Carroll shot and instant,
ly killed her aunt, Mrs. limerick, in
Roanoke, Va. The girl did not know
the pistol was loaded and the ooro-
ner' 8 jury exonerated her of blame.
!, A census Of the Philippines has
been ordered, but the applicants for
anumerators are few, as the chances
Of getting killed are heap greater
than the chances of getting the cen-
sus.
= The Colombian revolution seems
to have gathered fresh impetus, and
as American interests are threatened
the warship Olympia has been or
dered to sail at once to that disturbed
section.
John T. Stewart is one Of the
richest farmers in Kansas. On ar
irving in that State five gears ago he
borrowed $50 from a friend to pay
rental on a piece of land, and today
he is worth $4,000, 900.
- The bureau Of statistics has sent
out 10 experts to visit every cotton
shipping point and make an estimate
Of the crop. This is done because
there is so much discrepancy in the
estimates and reports sent out.
= The negroes who caused the
stampede in the church in Birming.
ham where 80 many lives were lost,
have been released. Prominent negro
ministers asked that the case be drop
ped, as prosecution would injure the
church.
= During 9 fight at Caslettsburg,
KY, Wednesday night Fred Maroum
OF Wayne county, West Virginia,
struck John Davis with his fist kill
ing HIM almost instantly. Davis lived
as Hampton City, Ky. Marcum is in
custody.
= Several regiments Of Pennsyl-
vania troops are stationed in five
counties. embracing the anthracite
coal region, to prevent lawlessness on
the part Of strikers. There has been
no general riot, but the disturbances
have been Of such nature as to cause
apprehension.
= The bank deposits Of the people
of the United States in 1901 aqgregat-
ed SO, ,535 600, 900, an average Of S168
per capita. Ten years ago they az
gregated %, ,232, 600, 900, or just half
the amount Of today, and twenty years
ago they were $4,000, 600, 900, or a
little more than one-quarter OF those
Of today.
- President Roosevelt had to under
60 surgical operation at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, a few days ago, to prevent
blood poisoning from bruise on
his leg sustained in the trolley car
accident come days ago. The remain
der of his western trip had to be
abandoned and he has returned to
Washington.
AITs. Edith White, Of Benning.
tcu, VT, has received small fortune
IS q reward for a kind act. Years
ago she tefriended stranger, who
said he would remember her in his
will. Mrs. White had forgotten the
episode when few days ago she was
notified that $17 500 had been deposit
ed in her name at st. Louis, Mo. The
stranger had died and left her that
amount. Mrs. White has gone to St.
Louis to secure the money.
= z most distressing occurrence