The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

State.
= Nellie Corcoran, tho New York
girl who has been sound asleep for 20
days, is dead.
- Senator Morgan, of Alabama.
says the Democrats will win over
Roosevelt in 1904.
- Admiral Dewey has been ordered
to take command of the Caribbean
Sea division in the coming manoeu-
vres.
= 1t is said that President Roose.
velt will be very easy" on the Trus.s
in his forth coming message to Con
gress.
= The Michigan beet sugar manu-.
facturers are storing their sugar for
higher prices. They say there is no
money in it now.
- Charles Drake, a railroad engi.
neer of Goshen, Ind, has just secured
divorce from his wife because she
smokes cigarettes.
= The Hawaiians are learning the
arts of civilization. They stole Gen.
Nelson A. Miles valise as he was on
his way to the Philippines.
- David Rothschild Of New York
city is paying $780, 900 Of debts that
he had been legally freed from years
ago by bankruptcy proceedings.
= Since last March, eleven mem.
bers of the National House of Repre-
sentatives have died. But there are
many more ready to taxe their places.
- Lily white republicans of North
Carolina will establish a big daily
newspaper in Greensboro for the pur-
pose OF boosting Hanna for president.
- VIM. E. Breese is on trial in the
| Federal court in North Carolina on
the charge Of robbing an Asheville
bank of which he was cashier Of $ll9.-
600.
- The home Of John Evans, a
negro, near Greenville, N. c., was
burned and Evans three children,
who were left alone, perished in the
| flames.
- In Binghampton, N. Y, cor
poration has been formed to compress
whiskey and other spirits into solids
in tablet form, so as to avoid the tax
on liquors.
- The case testing the legality Of
the Virginia constitution has been set
for hearing on the 18th. The case
is to be heard in the Federal court be-
fore three judges.
President Roosevelt's bear hunt
in Mississippi has ended and he has
returned to his official duties. While
he did not succeed in killing bear,
he nevertheless had an enjoyable out
ing.
= Miss Ettleson, school teacher
Of New York city, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic aoid. She had
been summoned to answer charge of
roughly treating one of the children
in her room.
Thos. Mitchell, aged 88, shot
and killed Elkins Weatherby, aged 25,
at Middlesbero, KY, last Wednesday.
Weatherby was soon to marry Miss
Lavinia Morris, with whom the old
man was in love.
- A proposition has been made,
and will probably be accepted, for the
striking coal miners and operators to
come together and settle their differ.
ences without the aid Of the arbitra-
tion commission.
- The unofficial list of the mem.
bers Of the house Of Representatives
in the fifty eighth congress, issued by
Thomas H. Mckee, journal clerk Of
tie house, after every district has
been accounted for, shows that they
number 208 republicans and 178 demo-
Gratis.
Twelve years ago, when Robert
Il. Patterson ran as the Democratic
candidate for Governor Of Pennsyl-
vania, he received just one majority
over his Republican opponent in the
Bryn Mawr election district of Lower
Merton. Mr.. Patterson's majority
over Judge Pennypaoker in the same
district in the late election was again
one vote.
- Negro citizens of Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, will engage in the banking
business. They propose to lend mon
ey to their own people hereafter,
claiming that the rates charged by
ourbstone brokers are ruinous. Sew
eral meetings have been held and Off
oers and directors Of the fund have
been elected. 1t will be the first bank
ing concern Of this kind in America.
- Macon county, N. c., at the re-
cent election voted out the dispensary
by majority of 523 and voted in pro-
hibition. Prohibition carried also in
Cumberland, by very large major
ity. The county had had the dispen-
eary, following the license system.
These facts are noted as matters of
human interest. There seems to be
drift in North Carolina towards local
prohibition.
= When cook pots begin to explode
it is time to clear the kitchen. A
woman at Hot Springs, Va. was stew
ing some beef. IN some way the juices
of the meat oemented the top Of the
vessel down and when she forced it