The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.

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A dispatch says 700 persons
were drowned in che disastrous foods
which occurred at Che Foo, China,
July 9th.
= A negro vas severely whipped
near Dublin, Ga, on Friday by blacks
and whites for attempted assault on O
yonng negro girl.
Nine horses were killed by sim
gle bolt Of lightning on the farm Of
Henry Brosenne in Howard county,
Nd, on Thursday.
- The New Englsud cotton mills
continue to close down because OF the
high price Of cotton, aud Of course
many operatives are, ont Of work.
- The national convention oe tho
Peoples party at Denver, Col, passed
q resolution not to unite with either
OF the old parties but to 60 it alone.
"A few days ago shipment Of
watermelons was made from Aneri-
GUS, Ga, to London, England. Several
Of the melons weighed 60 pounds each.
= The greatest clock in the world
10 being made ae Milwaukee, Wis.
for the st. Louis exposition. The
diameter of its face will be 100 feet
and the minute hand sixty feet long.
- Miss Addie Evans was shot and
killed at Matewan, W. Va, on Thurs
day, by Mrs. VIM. X. Davis, whose
husband was too attentive to the
young woman to suit the notions of
the wife.
The first bale of Georgia cotton
was marketed on the 4th inst. and
sold for ID cents pound and was
grown by q negro, who for. several
years past has been the "frst bale
man" in Georgia
& - Cashier Dewey, of the Farmers;
and Merchants bank Of Newbern, N.
c., is short In his accounts and has
fed, with o reward of $500 for his
capture. The Gank has been COM
PEELED to suspend.
General Fitzhugh Lee has accept
ed an invitation from the Daughters
Of the Revolution at Jersey City to
deliver the Grafton at the unveiling of
the Paulus Hook battle monument in
that city on October "a.
- Mrs. Swiphart, Of Elkhart, Ind,
recovered the use IF her voice in d
novel way. She hadn't spoken a word
for two weeks, as the result OF soiatic
rheumatism. Her house was struck
By lightning and the shock caused her
to regain her voice.
- Last week there was big rain
and much lightning in Marietta, Geor-
gia. II came in the night time and
lasted only ON hour or two but during
that short time 48O English sparrows
were killed and the next morning were
carted off and put underground.
Will Hamilton, q well-so.do
white farmer, was taken from Jail at
Asotin, Wash, on Wednesday night
and hanged by q mob ofsa thousand
men for assaulting and numbering little
Mabel, daughter Of Sheriff Richards.
The sheriff tried hard to save the
wretch. s,
It is said in Washington that
the negro will gradually be eliminated
from the Navy. Out Of 29. 200 enlist-
ed men IN the Navy, only 500 are col
ored. AS their terms expire they
will be dropped, and four or Ave years
from now the last one Of Sambo's tribe
will have been wseded out.
- The son Of the wealthiest man
in Buchanan, Ca, was cowhided, at q
church door by woman for defaming
her daughter, while her own sister
held g pistol. She then compelled
him to sign paper to the effect that
1.-THE rumors against the girl were lies
and uttered by base slanderer."
THE life of child one year old
was saved at Raleigh. N. O., recently
5y q piece Of beef. The child was on
the point Of swallowing this when it
fell into tub Of water and was found
there with its head and body in the
water aud was pulled out. The piece
of beef prevented any water from en-
tering its throat.
{ - A violent fit Of sneezing accom-
plishcd for Samuel Veale. Of Hazle-
ton, Pa, what number Of physicians
had failed TO do-restored his hearing.
For several years he suffered from an
afiiotion Of the head which finally.
made him deaf. He sneezed the other
day and heard what sounded to. him
like a miniature explosion, after which
he could hear.
- The conclave, after being in ses-
sion four days elected Giuseppe Sarto,
patriarch Of Venice, as pope to SUD-
ceed Leo XIII, and he now reigns at
the vatican and over the Catholic
world as Plus x. The new pope is an
Italian and is GO years Of age. He
was not among the cardinals promi-
hently mentioned, but was elected as
@ compromise, none Of the leading
names being able to get the necessary
two-thirds vote.
- Jean A.. Crone, q newspaper man
Of Augusta, Me., who ;s co visit every
state capital IN the United States,
covering distance OF over 2l,000
miles inside OF three years. and
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