The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Professor Tizzoni Of Rome be-
lieves he has discovered o serum for
curing pneumonia.
- Mrs. Catherine DAME has been
arrested in Philadelphia, charged with
poisoning her husband.
- Il is alleged that the Standard
Oil men are planning to secure con-
troll OF the American cotton trad
- The situation in Honduras has
become 80 grave that O squadron Of
American war ships has been ordered
thither.
Ten thousand head Of cattle are
said so have died during the recent
lblizzards in Kansas and Eastern
Colorado.
Eight men were killed and q
number Of others wounded in q fight
between negroes at q turpentine camp
in Florida.
- J. M. Webb, o prominent farmer
OF Floyd county, Virginia, was shot
and killed by his son in an a~lteHcation
between them.
Ira d.. Sankey, the world.Ye-
nowned evangelist and singer, Shas
been stricken With blindness at his
home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Advioes received from Yokohama
states that the United States battle
ship Oregon recently narrowly escaped
being destroyed in o storm.
- Forty thou:and birds, mostly
aandpipers, are reported to have been
killed recently or the North Carolina
coast for millinery purposes.
= Teachers Of Logan County, Ohio,
haze formed 9 Teachers Union, by
which they agree not to work for less
than $50 per month. About half have
already signed.
- Negroes, members Of o gang OF
railroad hands on the Dallas Division
Of the Texas and New Orleans rail-
road, engaged in a1free fightlast week,
in which seven were killed.
- William G.. Hussey q prominent
young man Of Wasaw, N. g., com.
mittet suicide BY taking an overdose
OF laudanum. Disappointment in love
was the cause Of the affair.
- The North Carolina legislature
appropriated $40, 900 for an exhibit at
the worlds fair at st. Louis next year.
This sum is expected TO be doubled by
CITY and private subscriptions,
- Bandits attacked the Potam and
Torrin stage, running along the Yaqui
river in the state Of Sonora, Mexico,
and murdered the driver and six pas
sengers and stripped their bodies Of
everything ee ==iss.
- The government is to call In the
new issue of 2-cent stamps and r.;Es
from another design. The new stamp
has not pleased the public. It is said
to be too elaborate aud heavy and the
picture Of George Washington is not
admired.
A small boy aged eight has con-
fessed that be placed the obstruction
on the track Of the Seaboard Air Line
railroad which caused che wreck at
Evergreen, Fla. He assigns NO reason
except that he wanted to see what
would happen.
The largest judgment ever OBJ.
tanned against o railroad for the loss
Of life has just been. paid! by the New
York Central road to tho widow OF
Henry 6. Dimon OF; New Rochelle. N.
Y.-s6O, GOO, besides Sc, 667 for in.
terest and costs.
Safe blowers cracked the safe OF
the Office Of the Standard Oil company
ct Atlanta, GA, early last Friday
morning and secured $500 in cash and
$4,000 in checks. Nitro glycerins was
uged by the men In opening the safe.
There is no clue to the robbers.
"A family reunion Was held up in
Maine recently. The heads OF The
family were Mr.. aud Mrs. Trueworthy
Thurston, aged 81 and 70. They had
six sons and two daughters, seven.
teen grandchildren. The remarkable
thing about the family is chat there
has not been death In it for ffty-six
yoare.
Tho 2orty-eighth session OF the
Southern Baptist Convention, the
largest deliberate body in the world,
will be held in Savannah, Ca, this
year, beginning May 9th, at 10 O'Clock
q. m. It's sessions will be held In the
First Baptist church there. It ie en-.
ticipA.ed that between 1000 aud $500
people will be in attendance.
At Orange, Texas, March IL,
Mrs. Ellie Russell was shot and killed
by Daniel Richardson. It is said that
Mrs. Russell had forbidden the uae,of
Q portion Of her lot FOR the passage Of
the Richardson family to and from
their home. When Mrs. Richardson
attempted to go through tie lot IL is
said Mrs. Russell fred on her with q
Ghot gun, %whereupon Richardson fred
twice, infioting fatal wounds. The
dead woman has four ons
James Stettauer, d multi- million
aire Of Chicago, diod at Denver, Col,
from blood poisoning, the result OF q
out while being ehaved q week ago.
The barber. while shaving the back
OF his neck, by accident cut q small
pimple. Inflammation and some pain
followed, but Stettauer paid no atter-
tion TO il, Two days later symptoms
OF blood poisoning developed, he be-
came dangerously i'll and was removed |
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