The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-25
GENERAL NEWS.

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case growing out Of the ownership Of
cat.
- The police of New York have
captured still with g capacity OF
2oo barrels day, located in the heart
Of the city.
:. Burglars opened the Treasurer's
safe of Hardin County, Tex, Thurs.
day night, took all the county money
and escaped.
Two convicts--one under sentence
for 13 years, the other for 10-escap.
ed from the Oregon penitentisry after
killing three guards.
- A negro has entered suit for S5..
eco against the Pullman Car company
for refusing to served him food in one
OF the dining cars last March.
- The leading furniture mapufac.
turers OF the country have just met at
Chicago and advanced the prices on
all furniture 10 to 20 per cent.
- Hon. VIM. j. Bryan predicts
that Cuba will soon be the scene of q
civil war, owing to tho discussions
among her political leaders.
- President Roosevelt has express.
ed himself as determined to have
Cuban reciprocity at an early date or
he will call an extra session of con.
gress.
- Storms at Chicago and Louis.
vile Sunday did considerable damage.
In the former city the steeples Of
three churches were struck by light.
ming and one Of the edifices destroyed.
= There is another movement
on foot to combine the cotton mills
Of the South. Il. E. Fries, Of
Winston Salem, n. c., a prom.
nent mill man and capitalist, is pro.
noting the plan.
Mrs. Lois Westrop, Of Copiah
County, Mississippi, in a fit Of in
sanity killed her six children, burned
her home and fed. She was pursued,
and when found shot herself with the
rife previously used.
A lecturer in Washington asserts
that 2 100000 people have been cured
ed and healed by Christian Science
during the 35 years Of its history,
and that 700 churches Of the sect
have been established.
- The Republicans of the eleventh
congressional district of Wisconsin
took stand in their convention de.
manding complete revision Of tariff
and the placing of all trust made or
controlled articles on the free list.
20. S. Burnett was sentenced in
Chicago on Saturday to Is years in
the Penitentiary for completely in the
suicide of Mrs. Charlotte. Nichol.
They agreed to commit suicide to.
gether; she carried out her part but
he failed.
- Captain Hobson, Of the Merri-
mao and kissing fame, who claims to
to be suffering from a pair of defeo.
tive eyes, and is trying to be retired
from the navy on that account, and
having 80 far failed, now threatens to
resign and enter politics in Alabama.
The Governor Of North Carolina
has offered rewards, aggregating $780,
600, for the arrest and conviction
of the persons who took the two
negyoes from the Salisbury Jail and
lynched them. It is said that new
evidence reveals the fact that one OF
negroes ly nched is innocent. +
- Frank Jones, Of jackson, Mich,
young man who is noted for his ,dar.
ing work on slack wire, is to walk
across Niagara Falls this summer on
copper wire, with his eyes blindfold-
ed and with man on his shoulders.
The wire will te 175 feet above the
falls. The fool who is to take the
trip on Jones back has not yet been
selected, but one will doubtless be
found
- The race war which has been in
progress at Eldorado, ILL.,, since May
20, when o mob attacked the colored
Normal and Industrial institute, still
continues. The homes Of the colored
citizens have been stoned, warnings
sent the occupants to leave the vicin-
ity, and shots fred into their homes
late at night. Many through fear
have left. Many sacrificed their homes
and in some instances their crops.
Only five families remain, and two Of
them will leave at once.
- Connecticut has voted, two to
one, that it will not have the consti.
tuition prepared by the constitutional
convention after more than four
months of deliberation and discussion.
The cities did not like it and many OF
the country towns also cast majority
Of votes against it. The vote was
light throughout the State and the in
difference OF vast majority of the
voters sealed the fate of the instru-
meht.
- Senator Elkins, has introduced a
joint resolution in the Senate provid-
ing FOR the annexation Of Cuba and
for it's admission as State of the
union. The resolution grants the
consent Of. Congress to the erection of
therepublic Of Cuba as State Of the
union, to be called the State Of Cuba
with republican, form Of government
TO be adopted by the people Of said re-
public by deputies in convention as
sembled with the consent of the exist
ing government.