The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-05
GENERAL NEWS.

An avalanche OF snow has caused
heavy loss OF life in Colorado mining
town.
= The army in the Philippines is
to be gradually reduced to about 32,-
600 men.
ooo Flo 'de produced last year but
800 tons Of phosphate against nearly
1,000,000 in 1890.
- 1t is stated that Colonel Bryan
has made $4,000 week by his leo
lures this season.
= Mary E. Jackson, colored. will
be hanged in Baltimore the 25th Of
April for poisoning her husband.
- The congregation of the First
Baptist church of Augusta, Ga. have
decided to build $4,000 church.
- The Government printing Office, |
fast approaching completion, will be |
the largest institution of its kind in
the world.
- Crime must be on the rampaae
iu Mississippi. There will be Gfteen
hangings in that State within the
/ next sixty days.
- Over one hundred thousand men
killed, wounded aud disabled represent
the total British losses to date in the
South African war.
= Failing to secure extra pay for
working on q holiday, 300 mechanics
in the Sante Fe shops, at San Bernar-
dino, Cal, quit work.
= The Corsicana, Texas. cotton
mill was burned down Wednesday
night The loss is 1926, 900 fully
covered by insurance.
= The United States army is to
take formal possession Of the Danish.
West Indies under tho recent purchase
treaty for this country.
: The largest pigeon farm or ranch
In the world is situated on the out
skirts Of Los Angeles, in California.
1t has over $4,000 flying pigeons.
John Hays, the first white man
to discover the immense copper de-
posits of Michigan, still lives in
Cleveland, O., and is 81 years old.
"a cyclone struck portion of
Georgia on Thursday. Among other
damage done was the wreck of a ten
thousand dollar carriage factory at
Valdosta.
- General Lucban, the leader Of
the insurgents in Samar, p. T., has
been oapSured. This is said to be the
most important capture since that OF
Aguinaldo.
- Miss Ellen Stone, the mission
ary, and her companion Madam Tsilka
have been released by the Bulgarian
bandits after the payment of ransom
Of s72, 900.
- A Wells-Fargo express messen-
ger jumped from his car at San Luis
Potosi, Mexico, Wednesday night and
made off with $4,000. BE has not
been heard of since.
- Vance @. Mccormick, only 2e
years old, has just been elected mayo,
of Harrisburg, Pa. He is democrat
and got majority Of $500 in city
600. :
- On the day that the emperor
new. yacht was christened at New
York, Prince Henry presented Miss
Alice Roosevelt with gold bracelet
containing picture of the German
emperor in diamonds.
1t is announced that king Ed.
ward 3 coronation may have to be post.
poHcd on account Of the prevalence OF
smallpox in London, the great city
being threatened with an epidemic Of
that loathsome disease.
- According to the statisticians
who keep the run of crime from yea,
to year there were 118 legal exeou.
tions in the United States in 1901,
OF the persons who suffered death II
were negroes and AZ whites.
- Michael Leinkran, 81 years old,
who came over on the Kronprince
Wilhelm, was searched on his arrival
in New York and $4,000 worth OF
diamonds was found sewed in his belt.
He was trying to evade the duty.
Gov. Taft, of the Philippines,
stated before the committee that be
got $40, 900 year and palace to live
4 in, but that be could not make ends
meet on his salary; that he paid ST.
300 to light it and 50 1000 for servants
hire.
e. T. and Geo. w. Schuler.
directors and chief stockholders ia
the Alabama Steel and Wire company.
were sentenced by Judge Wilkinson of
the city court of Birmingham to five
days Imprisonment and fine of $500
for contempt of court.
= The United Sons of Confederate
Veterans will hold their seventh an
nual reunion at Dallas, Tex, April
22, the same time at which the Con-
federate Veterans will hold their re-
union. This is expected to be the
greatest reunion ever held.
- The following named States and
Territories in 1900 did not contain any
CITY with population of $4,000 or
more: Arizona, Ideho, Indian Terri
tory. Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexi-