The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-12-03
GENERAL NEWS.

- There is $500, 600, 900 in coined |
gold in the treasury vaults of the
United States.
The Texas cotton crop has suffer.
ed very severely from recent rains
though the movement continues heavy.
= Robbers in Jonesboro. N, c..
entered store, blew open the safe
and secured between 50, 900 and 81, 900.
There are 13 cases Of smallpox
at the pest house in Charlotte. Two
OF theee--Doth colored-are expected
to die.
-; - George Sheppard, Of Sanders.
vile, Ga, killed himself in Macon be-
cause he bad been Tilted by young
woman.
- A colony of negroes are 20 GO to
Liberia in January. They are from
Georgia and Alabama and leave from
Savannah.
= A lone bandit walked into a
gambling house in Minneapolis the
other day and held up the inmates,
securing $4,000.
O. Samuel Miller, tailor of Mem
phis. Tenn, shot and killed his wife
on Wednesday. She had applied for
divorce from him.
= Two young people, one at Car.
rolton, Ga, and the other at Bowden,
near there, were married over the
phone few days ago.
- The emperor of Germany, while
on his way to embark on the imperial
yacht, came near losing his life Thurs
day by horses running away.
- The monument to mark the CEN
tre of population according to the CEN
Gus Of 1900, was put up in Bartholo.
NEW county, Indiana, last week.
- Rhode Island has elected the
only Democratic governor north of
the Potomac, east Of the Mississippi;
river. He is naturally big man.
= The commissioner of internal
revenue in his report states that re-
ceipts have been reduced 800, 900 900
by the repeal Of the war revenue laws.
= A live bear which was captured
near Decatur, Ala, will be sent to
President Roosevelt with an invitation
TO try his luck in bear hunt there
about
- A bold roboer seized a mail wsg-
on on one of the most frequented
streets of Chicago and drove off with
its oortents, consisting in part of
$4,000.
- Three oolored children were
burned to death in house near Green
vile, N. G. They had been shut up
in she house and left alone by their
parents.
A postal regulation has been
made under which women in the en-
ploy Of that department Of the govern
men service lose their positions if
they marry.
- Three negroes, one man and two
vomen, were sold at public outory at
Lancaster, KY, for vagranoy. Natur-
ally the price paid was email, but the
bidding was spirited.
- Gypsy, q big elephant belonging
to the Harris Nickel Plate show, went
crazy near Valdosta, Ga, and killed
her keeper. She then. escaped to the
woods where she was killed.
= MRS. EstelIa Hook, of Middle
town, New York, has secured O YER
dict Of $500 against Israel Harris, Of
New York, for hugging aud kissing
her in the street in June last.
- Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, is
not in the least frightened concerning
reported experiments Of cotton grow
ing in South Africa. He finds that
the prospects for success have been
greatly exaggerated.
- The Daughters Of the American
Revolution have undertaken the task
Of saving old Pohick church, which
George Washington planned and help.
ed to build aud in which he worship
ped, in Fairfax County, Va.
- Benjamin Kidd, the economist,
who has just mado tour Of the new
British South Africa, says he believes
the country to be richer than the
United States west OF Mississippi and
believes that its future is assured.
- Humphreys county, Tennessee,
has q young woman mail carrier, who
carries the mail daily, between Two
points, rain or shine. She has proven
herself perfectly able to attend to her
duties as an employe of Uncle Sam.
- What ID to be known as the
"millionaires' train" IS to be put on
hetween Chicago and Jacksonville
and other Florida points The train
is now being constructed by the Pull
man company and its cost will be
about million dollars.
- Rev. D. S. McCurry, a Baptist
minister of Hall county, Ca, has
made quite a record. He is 72 years
old; has been an active minister for
30 years; in doing so travelled $4,000
Miles, has conducted Oil funerals,
baptized 4,013 believers, and married
621 couples.
= The Rhode Island farmer who
has had the distinction Of supplying
the White House with Thanksgiving
Day turkeys for the past twenty-five
years did not forget President Roose-
volt Tho oohh1ar op tho proo;dapt'o