The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.

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dreds Of people.
~ Arrests have been made Of post
masters in the Philippine Islands for
robbing the government.
"A mob Of men in Newcastle.
Wyoming, lynohed q rancher for mur.
dering man and his wife.
y - Thousands of people in Kansas
are being rendered. homeless by foods.
The situation at Topeka is desperate.
= Eight trainmen were killed on
Wednesday in q collision of two
freight trains on the Southern near
Bryan, Ala.
= A tornado destroyed the house OF
w. y. Wilson near Hereford. Tegas.
on Thursday and his wife and baby
were killed in it.
- President Samuel Spencer an
nounces that che Southern railway
will be double tracked from Washing.
ton to Atlanta.
= A large tobacco warehouse back
eds by Andrew Carnegie is to be start
cd in Richmond and operated exclu.
'siyely by pegroes.
- The boil weevil has begun opera.
tons in Southern Texas. It can be
counted upon TO keep down the supply
OF cotton in the West. .-as
- Mrs. ThoB. Countess and her
servant Margaret Norris were instant
" killed by lightning at Meridianville,
Ala, on Wednesday night. sa. ss.
= It is probable that che national
political conventions will be. held in
st. Louis next year, as the delegates
will be able toStake in the exposition.
The attorney general Of Texas
has taken steps to break up an,alleged
insurance trust aid has ensered suit
egaint 6fty-nine foreign fire insnr ance
companies. 4:
- Mrs. Adeline Patti will revisit
Amerius In November. She will sing
sixty nights for S5, COG a. night. Her
notes will be too high FOR the average
American ear.
There were 35 heat prostrations
in New York city on Wednesday, seven
Of them proving fatal, and there were
three deaths from sunstroke the same
day in Philadelphia. y
I9S Terrible details Of suffering and
death have been reported az result
OF Q famine in Kwangsi, China. Owing
to three successive failures Of crops.
people are dying By the hundreds.
\ General John s. Mosby, the fa-
nous COME ederate cavalry officer, who
is st present at Montgomery Ala, is
enjoying excellent health with ap-
parently many years OF activity before
him.. &, 8. S1 Ss
a train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad was wrecked by the
spreading Of rails. The engineer and.
fireman were killed and the engine, Z
mail coach and two passenger coaches
were demolished. ssa rs rs 81 q.
Andrew Bailey Young; OF Bel
mont. N. H., who is 81 years old, s
still lives In the house in which he
was born. he and his wife celebrated
the eixty-sixth ,anniversasy. OF their
marriage last week. 9ssI I.s s.
The estate OF Captain William
Duaovent, who Was killed ia Texas
last year, has just been appraised al
$691 1860. There are 8, 500 acres in
cane, {, 200 in fics and Che. balance in
cotton and corn, the whole acreage
being II 900. sss y
- News comes OF q horrible disaster
in Armenia Thursdsy. An |. earth.
quake destroyed the town Of Malaz-
quierd, two Thousand people, inolud-
Jag seven hundred Armeninns, and
four hundred soldiers in garrison,
being killed.
Mrs. Effie Il. Carson, who shot
and killed Robert Rigsby In Macon,
Ga, some months ago for making
slander0us remarks about her. has
been acquitted. When The verdict OF
the jury was annolncedtherew was con-
siderable applause.
It is estimated that there are
close on TO 200, ,00G men idle in the
different boronghs Of Greater New
YoFk 90 o result Of strikes ordered bv
different unions and che lockout de-
cided upon by material and contrao-
tors in their fight against the nnio1s.
The Supreme court Of the United
States reversed the decision OF the
Supreme court Of North Carolina,
which stated that suit in which the
Southern Railway was concerned could
not be- moved from the State. The
Federal court held that it was q for
eign corporation and the case was re-
movable TO the Federal coe.t.
A lot Of young fellows in an
Ohio town had . good time with
tramp lest week. They took him into
9 shed, gave him d good bath, shaved
him aud cut his hair. They then
bought new suit Of clothes, white
shirt and standing collar and dressed
him out complete. But whom they
attempted TO burn his hobo clothes he
objected and fought for them with
such desperation their suspicious were
aroused and upon searching they found
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