The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Five hundred people in Japan
we're caught in tidal wave and
drowned.

rive hundred people in Japan
were caught in e tidal wave and
drowned.
"A new mining company has been
organized 10 Bristol, Tenu,, with o
capital Of $4,000, 900.
The sheriff arrested 127 strikers
at Centralia, Pa, charged with riot
ing and inciting to riot.
"A Tennessee farmer was beating
his wife and when his son iaterfered
shot him and escaped into Kentucky.
A New York man is suing rail.
road company for S10, 900 because his
Whlskers were cut off in ca accident.
A man in the Indian Territory
raised 255 bushels Of corn on ono
acre and 18 bales Of cotton on IL
acres.
- Eighteen hundred electric car
men in New Orleans are out on etrike.
Iaaey demand shorter, hours and more
money.
Florida and other southern re.
sorts look for big rush Of northern
travel this winter on account Of the
high price Of coal in the north.
= There has been terrible storm
on the Pacific coast. There were .
large number Of severe earthquake o
shocks, followed b. tidal wave.
= A negro man in Mississippi orim-
inally assaulted white married wo.
man aud then murdered her. When
arrested he made confession, and q
mob burned him at the stake.
- Louis Girard, one OF the aero
nauts with the Stafford troupe, fell
100 feet with collapsed hot air bal
loon, at the Bristol County Fair at
Taunton, Mass, and died an hour
afterward.
= At Monterey, CAL, Myra NJ.
Duarte has been awarded divorce on
the ground Of cruelty. The speoifi
cation was The. fer years her husband
had been feeding her on fish and beans
exclusively.
= Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, who is a
veteran Of the Civil war, has given
$50 for the Confederate home at
Mountain Creek, Ala. Other men,
bers Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public have given 1867.
= One hundred graves in Indian
apolis have been robbed Of tho ocou-
pants by negroes, who were hired to
do 80 by medical students. When the
negroes were arrested they confessed
to be members Of an organized band
for grave robbing.
- Miss Isabell Heguer, social SEQ
retary to Mrs. Roosevelt, has become
an heiress by the death of her aunt,
Miss Frances Randall Hagner. Il ia
believed the total bequest will amount
to about 800, 900 in money and resi-.
denoe In Washington.
The people OF Alexandria, Va,
propose 10 erect monument to COM
memorate the one hundredth anuiver.
sary Of George Washington. The first
president, in his youth, was one of
those who helped to survey the old
oity Of Alexandra in 1749.
- Els monthly report OF the statis-
tician of the department OF agriculture
shows the average condition OF cotton
on Sept. Is to have been 58.3 as com.
pared with 81, on Aug. 26, 6i.4 on
Sept. 25, 1901, 81 on Oct. /, 1900 and
o ten year average Of 68.9.
- The Rev. DR.. Henry g. McCook
has resigned the pastorate os the
Tabernacle Presbyterian church, in
Philadelphia, after thirty.three years
service. = He is IS years old and in
tends to spend his remaining years in
scientific and historical writing.
j. Eva Farmer seventeen year old
girl OF much beauty, committed sui.
oide at her home, near Richmoad, Va. +,
By shooting herself through the heart.
a note she left declared false stories
about her had caused her to be Tilted
by her fspcee, Thomas Wilson, a
pr -minent young man.
a canvass Of the producing dis.
tricts of Louisiana and Texas indi.
oates that the rice crop this year will
be 600, 900 sacks or 30, ,000, 900 pounds
short Of last year'e yield. The figures
chow Q total yield OF 3,1O0, 1876 sacks,
two-thirds Of which is the output Of
Louisiana. The quality Of some Of
she crop 10 said to be inferior, and
higher prices are predicted.
- Representatives Of the Russian
Government have been visiting several
points in the South for the purpose Of
arranging to introduce the cottonseed-
oil industry into their coun,-y. Here
tofore the seed has been ,.sed there az
cattle feed. About 1900 bales Of
cotton are produced essaally IN Rus
ale aud the frst oil mill built there
will handle the seed from it.
= Whistliug in church, once re.
garded as Q r.ossnation, now bids fair
80 become regular feature of the
services. AT one Of tho New York
churches Miss Lucie Truax has intro
duoed the novelty Of whistling the
offeroory. So successfully has this