The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-04-01
GENERAL NEWS.

The food in the Mississippi river
Is subsiding, although all danger is
not passed.
= Taxes have caused riots in Por.
tugal, resulting in the killing and
wounding of many persons.
"A frenzied mother in Fishdale,
Mass, murdered her four little chill
dren, set fire to her house and then cut
her own throat.
- Miss Alice Roosevelt, the presi.
dents daughter, is receiving distin-
guished attention on her pleasure
tour Of Porto Rico.
= The republic of San Domingo is
in q state of revolution and the city
of San Domingo is in the hands Of
the re~volutionists.
- The governor Of Arizona has
vetoed the bill passed by the terri
torisl Legislature extending the right
OF suffrage to women.
- Advices from Samoa state that
the hurricane which recently swept
the islands killed 600 people and oaus-
ed property loss Of $500, 600.
= William Hulbeat, Of Buchanan,
Michigan, has been married seven
times. Three Of his wives died. three
were divorced and one is living.
James Mailer, said to be the
largest man in the United States, died
in Chicago. His height was 5 feet 10
inches and he weighed 4sO pounds.
Henry Thomas, who attempted
an assault upon o white girl at Parish,
Fla, wac hanged to o tree after being
identified ana confessing his guilt.
A Chicago young woman only %
years OF age has just married for the
fifth time, and all Of her husbands are
still living. They ought to organize
and elect officers.
- The widow Of John Griffin, who
was assassinated near Eaton, Ga, has
been put in jail, together with her
nephew. Circumstantial evidence
caused the arrests.
Three masked men held up q
trolley car near Los Angeles, Cal, and
in the shooting which followed one
passenger was killed and q number
seriously injured.
e. E. Williams, local manager Of
che Western Union Telegraph COM
pany OF Birmingham, Ala, has been
fined $50 by the courts for allowing
betting over the wires.
= Among the officers elected BY
the National Women's Suffrage Con-
vention in New Orleans not one was
from the South. So much the better
for the women Of the South.
| - VIII nareov oo1o.oI y. 49,
cd at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery, it being the first instance in
the States history where the death
penalty has been imposed for this
crime.
- Rev. DR.. Ryan, Q missionary of
the Baptist church, has arrived in the
United States from China, and he re-
ports hat country more peaceful than
ever before and missionaries are in no
danger.
= Archibald Jones was convicted
In Tennessee Of bigamy and sentenced
to the p%enitentiary for three years.
He is charged with having married
nine women in as many different
States.
Six oil tank cans containing oil
caught fire at Orlean, N. Y, and an
explosion occurred throwing burning
oil over spectators, of whom many
were burned to death and others seri-
ously injured.
- Miss Efie Waggy, daughter of q
farmer of Weston, Va, shot and kill
ed Ralph Mcdonald, a medical stu
dent, on Sunday. She fred five shots.
Her defense is that he betrayed her
four years ago.
= OF the five new battleships au-
thorized by Congress the three 10, 600
ton vessels will be named Vermont,
Kansas and Minnesota, and the two
$4,000 ton vessels will be named Mis-
sissippi and the Idaho.
"A summer school for the South,
q branch of the work Of the Southern
educational board, will begin at Knox
vile or the 25rd Of June. There will
be o faculty Of 80 men and women
with 150 courses Of instruction.
- With Senator Pritohard's retire
ment from the United States Senate
there is not a Southern Republican
member Of that body. The only
S0uouCau AAOPuoI.Oouo III Cue I1OuB6
are Gibson and Brownlow. Of Ten
nessee.
. &C. E. Sapp, former collector of
internal revenue, Leonard Parsons,
his former deputy, and Joe Potoning,
q local republican politician, pleaded
guilty in the federal court at Louis
vile, KY, on Wednesday to indict-
ments charging them with assessing
federal employees FOR political purpose.
Sapp and Potoning were fined $500
each and costs, Parsons 5000 and
costs.
Arthur Jennings, sged q years,
o resident Of Florence, GAL, has nego-
tiated with an Eastern Medical Insti-
tuition for the purchase Of his head.
Jennings head is almost twice the
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