The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-16

Texas infested with the cotton boil
weevil.
= A number of Indiana towns are
solving the race question by running
all OF the negroes out of the towns.
= In signed statement Willism j.
Bryan denies that his daughter, Ruth,
is engaged to Richmond Pearson Hob
son.
The yellow fever raging in Mexi-
can cities is very malignant. Out cf
1913 cases at Merida in August fifty
proved fatal.
- The farmers of New York State
are complaining that their crops are
going to waste because it is impossible
to hire help to harvest them.
= In Kiating, China, man was re-
Gently executed by being nailed to
wooden cross. He lived three days
before he succumbed to his tortures.
- A man attempted to kiss wo-
man in Madison Square, New York,
the ether day aud q mob of women
collected and beat MIN nearly to death.
= Fifty per cent. Of the inhabi-
! tants Of Linares, Mexico, are in the
clutches Of yellow fever and SO per
cent Of those stricken with the disease
die.
= The total amount of money en-
bezzled by dishonest employees in
the United States and Canada, during
| 1902, reached the enormous sum Of
Sc, ,933,516.
- Rev. Dr.. Coyle, moderator Of the
Northern Presbyterian Assembly,
states that he believes the twelve
| different Presbyterian churches will
shortly become one.
= Twelve hundred troops nave
been massed at Cripple Creek by order
of the governor of Colorado to sup
Pr riots brought about by strikes
an ether labor troubles among the
miners.
= Secretary of the Treasury Shaw,
has commenced the distribution OF
public moneys among the national
banks in pursuauoe Of his plan for
putting out e40,000,000 to prevent q
monetary stringency.
= The force of secret service men
acting as body guard to the President
has been increased since the attempt
Of the madman, Weilbrenner, to gain
admission to the Presidents apart
ments at Oyster Bay.
- The suffrage league, negro or
ganization in Boston, the other night
adopted resolutions declaring that
Booker Washington was unfit to rep
resent the negro race and demanded
that the president cut loose from him.
= A monument to the dead soldiers
Of the Confederacy is to be erected at
Little Rock, Ark. and will be 30 feet
high. The pedestal will be of French
stone, modelled after the Rochambeau
monument, and the shaft is to be Of
Arkansas granite.
- Holding q glass of wine appraised
in his right hand and proposing q
toast to his friend, DR.. Louis Morris,
of the navy, Arthur w. Ufei, promi-
nent banker Of New York, dropped
dead in q fashionable restaurant.
Heart failure was the cause Of death.
- Rosa Adams, young lady of St.
Paul, has begun suit against hos.
pital for $4,000 damages, alleging
that by reason Of fall in the hospi-
tails elevator shaft che was crippled
in her arms, rendering ner unsuitable
for marri:ge, and shat her dozen suit.
ore have deserted heS.
-. Chicago will be 100 years old
September 26, and plans are being
made for celebration which will be
record breaker. One feature Of the
celebration will be reproduction Of
the great FIRE Of 1871. All the build.
;ngs now in the area covered by the
oonaagstion will be ableze with red
fire.
- Miss Annie Peck. Of New York,
who has achieved fame Sc mountain
climber. accompanied by DR.. Albe ".
6. Tight, president Of the University
OF New Mexico, and two Swiss guides,
has successfully ascended Mount Fora
to, in Bolivia, the highest peak in the
Andez. This is the fret time the
summit has been scaled.
Commander Robert e. Peary, Of
the United States navy, is to go out
on another Arctic expedition. The
navy department. has given him three
years leave Of absence, and he will
start With his expedition about the
fret OF next July. Mr. Peary has
already made several trips in search
Of the pole and is we'll qualified for the
work.
- Bearing the bodies Of 800 SOL
diers, who sacrificed their lives in the
Philippines, the transport Fitzpatrick
is expected hourly in New York from
Manils, by way Of the Suez canal.
The ship bears the largest number of
dead that has pet arrived from the
islands. The complete list shows that
less than one-ffth died from wounds
received in battle.
sold Uncle Andy" Montgomery,
III years old, the only negro ever
owned by the State Of Georgia, died
in Atlanta, Ga. He is said to have
been born In South Carolina In 1856.
There are many evidences TO establish
hia 11aat ara. Ha had xAnfn.ed FRA.