The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-12
GENERAL NEWS.

. Snow fell in California last week
t Ia rare sight to see snow in chat
State. '""'
- The Peoples Party 10 Idaho ba.
7oted not to disband in favor Of The
Democrats.
;, - a bill mas been introduced in
Congress to authorize the coinage Of
2a-cent pieces.
John D. Rockefeller distributed
more than $3,0O0,000 in public bene.
factions last year.
Bradstreet reports that the heavy
SHOWS in the wheat states have i'm
proved conditions very much.
- Tom Brown, a negro, was hanged
by mob at Nicholasville, KY. for
assaulting white school girl.
= Our wheat crop in 1901 was near
ly 4oO, 100000 bushels in excess Of
the crop of Russia, which is our near
est competitor.
= David Rankin, who owns the
largest farm in the world, located at
Tarkio, Nc, in 1901, sold 1883 head
OF cattle for $172, 500.
- The. income from the two convict
farms in Louisiana last year was $780,
600, and the farms now have on hand
40 600 bushels of corn.
= The Pan-American congress- at
Mexico City, has come to CLOSE. The
members claim that much good will
result from the congress.
- A resolution has been offered in
Congress looking to tho admission Of
Cuba, first as territory and subse-
quently as State in the Union.
- A woman in North Carroll, ;, re-
sisting vaccination, has barracaded
her house and threatens to shoot any
one who attempts to vaccinate her.
= The retail clerks Of Illinois have
organized an union, and one of their
first movements will be direuted to-
ward the closing Of ell stores at six
p. IN.
Eighty-four dead bodies and 10
scarcely alive have been taken from
the Hondo, Mexico, mines. Forty
are still missing, who are probably all
dead.
- The smallest corn crop on record
for the United States is said to have
been that of last year, when sixteen
and four tenths bushels per acre was
the yield.
- The bill to increase the salaries
of the United States senators and con-
, gressmen, from So, 900 per year to ST.
! 59O, was defeated in the Senate, by
vote of "A to Is.
: - A lot on Peachtree street, At
lanta, SO feet front, and 200 feet deep,
7 was sold last week for $13,500. It
{ seems that $27O front foot is not q
3 bad price for land.
= Legislative action will bosought
by citizens of Beaver Falls, Penn,
to suppress the practices, common
among the women of the place, Of
, playing cards for prizes.
- The bank of Clarksville, Ark,
. was dynamited and looted on We'd
nesday by six men. They killed The
D sheriff, who attempted to arrest them.
p They obtained about 81, $40.
= Mrs. Hammond Moore, the
widow Of wealthy New Yorker, who
had just completed tour around the
world, committed suicide last Friday
night at Stockton, California.
!. - Miss Ella Murray, native Of
! Missouri, who is eight feet one inch
, tall and weighs 400 pounds, will wed
Edward Beaupre, cowboy Of Helena,
Mont, who is just eight feet tall.
Nineteen hundred negro women
q have registered to vote in the election
for school trustees in Louisville, KY,
under the new law Of Kentucky grant.
ing woman suffrage in such elections.
1 - It is now believed that because
: Of slow payment Of poll taxes in Ala
bama, the State viii have not more
: than one-tenth vote in next election.
: 1t may affeot the congressional repre-
q sentation.
t j. @. Legree, negro mayor and
Y postmaster Of Burroughs, Ca, was ar
Q rested Wednesday charged with steal
t ing letters from the mails. A decoy
8 letter with marked money was found
on his person.
? = Robbers in Cleveland, Ohio
(, stole house the other day aud tried
!. to sell the vacant lot on which ii
: stood. The house was wooden
. building and the robbers took it down
!, and hauled it away.
Q = Mrs. Mary McKittrioh, supposed
: to be pauper, died in Greenwood,
N. Y, last week. After her death
her niece found fruit cans full OF
8 gold, and 50 far $4,000 have been
discovered that the old woman had
hidden away.
= For many years, German emf.
grafton has found its chief destination
in the United States. About six mil
lion people have come from Germany
= to this country; and they, with their
1 descendants, now constitute a very
large element of our total population.
= An interesting suit has been in.
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