The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-16
GENERAL NEWS.

= Two American officers have COM
mitted suicide in Manila.
- Thus for the United States has
built $50 school houses in Porto Rico.
-, - Five telephone linemau were
kaiieI by a single bolt of lightning
near Offerman, Ga.
= The strike Of the coal miners ia
Alabama has been settled, the opera.
tors making some concessions.
- AT Evanston. Wyoming, snow
fell "a hours last week and the tenn.
perature dropped to the freezing point. |
= A desperate is at large ia the
state OF Washington, and he has killed |
three men since his escape from the
penitentiary.
= A captured native in Cebu, p. I.
said that the four missing American
teachers were alive and held as pris.
oners in the mountains.
- The annual consumption of beer
per capita in Germany is only l32
quarts. About two-thirds Of pint
per diem for each inhabitant.
= General Botha, Dewet and De-
iarey, Boer officers, will make o tour
OF the United States 70 raise funds
for their people ruined by the war.
= So it seems congress was not 50
bad after all. OF 22,Q12 bills and
joint resolutions introduced at the
recent session only 1903 were passed.
The meat packing plant of Swift
& Co., of Chicago, was burned down
on Friday night with loss Of one
million dollars, fully covered by in.
suranoe.
- The Massachusetts, Legislature
has adopted bill to compel the man
ufacturing companies IN the State to
pay their employees in cash instead Of
by checks.
= In 20 years there have been
about 5000 strikes in this country.
The total losses chargeable to strikes
in that time is estimated at about
1886, 900, 900.
= DR.. NJ. E. Koonce, a missionary
at Rampant, Alaska, drove 1900 miles
in dog sled in order to attend the
Presbyterian anniversaries recently
held in New York.
= The District Of Columbia, Neva-
da, Utah and Rhode Island we're the
only States that raised no tobacco 10
1900. Unole Sam is evidently ad.
dicted to the weed.
- An Ohio farmer, while taking
honey from hive one day last week.
was nearly stung to death by his bees.
He had never been 80 attacked before
in his rs years as an apisrist.
- An immense petrified ship has
been found in Alaska near the arctic
circle by the Indian residents. Such
Indians as are familiar with the Bible
believe it is Noah's ark.
- There was sad fourth Of July
celebration at Gloversville, N. Y.
At night Two crowded electric cars COL
lided causing the death Of Is persons
and the wounding Of 20 others.
+ IS. R. Gaylord OF Los Angeles,
CAL, committed suicide at Helena,
Ark. He hung q mirror up in front
OF him to, see how to shoot and then
sent q bullet through his head.
= Roswell Bradley is said to have
held the postofice at North Lansing,
New York, "a years. He was ap-
pointed by John Quincy Adcms. His
salary was never over 5000 year.
- North Carolina produces $17,-
O0O, 600 worth of corn, only SIS, ,O0O,-
600 worth Of cotton, and about ST.
600, 900 worth Of tobacco. Apparent-
~ corn, instead Of tar, is king Of the
| state.
! - Half Of the city Of Paris, H..
is In ruins as the result Of fire caused
by sky rocket being fred into a fur.
niture store on 4th July. A gale was
blowing at the time. The loss is
$500, 900.
- The nurses in the city hospital
OF Augusta resigned their positions
be6suse the superintendent dismissed
Q. nurse, and the other attaches, in
c!udifg three, physicians, rendered
their fesignations.
| - According to the census report
the value OF the rice crop is ea, ,72a, ;
726. Louisiana and Texes are lead
ing in tho rice business. Tho value
| OK the rice crop is about one.forty-
hgth OF the cotton crop.
- Albert G. Latimer, q weaIthv
etationer, Of New York city, who lives
IN Brooklyn, was fatally shot Thurs.
day ct bic home in a-struggle with q
burglar. The burglar escaped, leaving
his shoes and cap behind.
H. Abner Dunton, Of Lincolnville,
Mass, is nearly IS years old and offers
TO run race, walk or wrestle any man
OF his age for money. He is lively as
cricket in spite Of his great age and
can cover 9 mile as fast as most men.
= A fire at Clinton, N. c., de-
stroyed forty.two stores and residen-
ces, causing loss Of 100000, on
which there was small insurance.
Among the buildings burned was the
Episcopal church and Western Union
Telegraph office.