The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-02
GENERAL NEWS.
The Democrats and Populists Of
Nebraska will fuse again this wear.

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The senate has passed bill ap-
propriating 500, 600 for public
building at Georgetown.
$50, 900 has been put up by the
sporting characters of Charleston to
secure the Jefries- es-Fitzsimmons fight.
= A negro sleeping car porter was
lynched in Colorado for criminally as
saulting lady passenger 67 years old.
There is good deal Of cholera
in Manila, but it has not attacked
any OF the United States soldiers yet.
- The French chamber has adop.ed
a ship subsidy bill. The navigation
bounties is limited to 100000, 900
francs.
- Signor Marconi has made new
wireless telegraph record by the trans
mission Of message at distance Of
1900 miles.
- The representatives of tho North
ern and Southern Methodist churches
have agreed upon various matters of
interest to the two churches.
- New York has subscribed nearly
S80, 200 for the Mckinley monument
ct Canton, most of it being given in
New York city.
- Ex-Gov. Northern, Of Ga. has
announced that he will not stand for
reelection as president Of the South
ern Baptist Convention.
A train on lhe PENNSYLVANIA
railroad broke the record on Monday
between Philadelphia and JERSEY Citv
making 80 miles in just 80, minutes.
- A dog in New Y York that had been
drugged with liquor mangled a little
girl most horribly the other day. This
shows what even dog will come to
when he takes on too much liquor.
- A person near Petersburg. Va.
who for the past thirty-eight years
posed as married man died recently,
when the discovery was made that
the aforesaid person was q woman.
A train on the Southern railroad
was wrecked by landslide in Vir-
ginia, by which two were killed, nine
injured and six coaches completely
destroyed by fire.
The Rucker cotton press and
2, 100 bales Of cotton were burned at
Athens, Ga, recently: loss Of s155,
900 partly insured.
- Representative Rhea, a Demo
crat from Kentucky, has been unseat.
ed and his place given to J. M. Moss,
a Republican.
The war department is alarmed
at the rapid increase of drunkenness
and immortality among the United
States soldiers in the Philippines.
Nay 20 is the day fixed for turn
ing over Cuba to the civil government,
and on that day the United States
soldiers will be.withdrawn.
Miss Blanche Boise, protege
of Carrie Nation, horsewhipped tue
mayor Of Topeka, Kansas. She says
she will give the governor q dose OF
the same kind.
- John l.. Mason, the inventor of
thesscrew-top glass fruit jar, died re-.
ccntiy in New York city at the age of
76. His invention brought fortune to
him. His first patent was taken out
in 1857 and the only improvement was
made last year.
- The commission appointed by
the marine hospital service to investi-
gate the origin and prevalence of
leprosy in the United Estates has sub
mitted its report. It appears that
there ale 278 cases Of leprosy in this
country.
- The census bureau reports 39,-
937 ,b73 sheep one year old and 2l,-.
668, ,238 lambs under one year in the
United States. From the year olds
276, 100000 pounds of wool was shown
in the fell of 1899 and spring of 1900.
- The Virginia constitutional con-
vention has adopted the grandfather
suffrage clause. Persons who are
otherwise qualified must own $500
worth of property unless they are
soldiers, their sons or
their grAndsons. SIS
IA, L.. Schaeffer of Edgar county.
Ill. last year harvested the largest
crop Of popcorn ever gathered in the
world, From his l02 acres he had
l 800 bushels. yield Of q little over
seventeen bushels to the acre It
cost him SIT an acre to raise, sort,
she'll and pay ground rent.
= Hanna is said to be the choice Of
the southern Republicans for next
president. And it must be admitted,
says the Atlanta Journal, that the
average southern Republican comes
pretty near knowing where the pie
located.
Thousands of dollars worth of
sash checks, drafts, money orders,
stocks end negotiabie securities ad.
lresp j to Baltimore banks and firms
we're destroyed in the wreck Of the
Fast Mail train on. the Southern rail-
way near Charlottesville, Va, on Sun
lay morning, 23rd ult. The total face
value Of the paper destroyed is esti-
mated as near 500, 900.
New York woman sued hos
oital. the other day for having perform