The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-28
5. G., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1908.
GENERAL NEWS.

Ex-President Cleveland is hunt
ing in North Carolina.
Seventeen lynchers have fed
from Mississippi to avoid arrest.
"A brisk eruption of q volcano on
the island of St. Vincent is reported.
- ali the electrical workers in In
dianapolis, Iud., are on strike for high
er wages.
- A town lying in three counties is
a distinction in regard to which Win
der, Ca, probably has no rivals.
Tho convention Of the southern
lumber dealers at New Orleans have
agreed to raise the price of lumber.
- A crowd Of men, women and chill
dren captured and ooufscated seven
cars,loaded with coal in Brooklyn, NY.
More than thirty great mauufac-
turing companies Of the United States
are establishing factories in Canada.
= Col. VIM. E. Mickle, of Mobile,
has been elected adjutant general and
chief of staff of the United Confed-
Gratis Veterans.
- Rhode Island is the only one OF
the New England States which has a
democratic governor. The other State
officers are republicans.
- Among the converts immersed in
the 10y Delaware river on Sunday at
Camden, N. j., was Mrs. Jane Shorts,
n%inety-two years old.
= Congress has passed a bill to pay
the First Baptist church of Carters-
Vile, Ga, 50, 1000 for property destroy
ed during the Civil war.
Episcopal laymen. ;ucludiug j.
Pierpont Morgan and Senator Hanna,
are raising 81, 000, 600 for missionary
work among the Filipinos.
Mrs. Litauma, aged 80. shot and
killed Sauto Marziz, at Yatesboro,
Pa, on Wednesday,. He had entered
her house and attempted to assault
her.
Another very rich field Of gold
has been discovered in Alaska, not
far from the Klondike, on American
soil, aud the prospectors arc rushing
thither.
The United States will retaliate
against foreign governments that re-
sort to discrimination, a measure now
pending in congress having this end
in view.
Without cutting wages the River
side and the Knoxville Wooden Mills,
of Knoxville, Tenn, will give their
employees ten instead of eleven hours
for a days work.
The Colorado legislature is in
quite o unique condition. in that it
has two senates. Notwithstanding,
balloting 10 in progress for United
States senator.
- Virginia negroes are drawing the
color line very strongly. A negro
preacher in Roanoke refused to con.
duct a funeral because the undertaken
was o willie man.
- Judge John b. Reagan, the only
surviving member Of the Confederate
cabinet, is 81 years Of age. He has
just retired from the Office Of railroad
commissioner of Texas.
A petition from Aguinaldo has
been cont to congress asking the loan
of $40, 000, 900 to establish a bank in
the Philippines for the development
and improvement Of agriculture.
= The Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company has decided
to move it's general Offices from New
York city to Atlanta. The proposed
change will take place about April 10.
Lieutenant Psary wants 10 make
another attempt to reach the north
pole. He believes it possible and will
try tho third time if somebody will
furnish the $l5c,cc coo necessary to
equip the expedition.
= A. A. Hewlett, the veteran bank
president and business man Of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, has issued invitations TO
about 100 widowe, Who are to help
him celebrate his eighty-second birth
day anniversary on February II. No
man will be there save the host.
A sensation was created in the
lower house of congress the other day.
In the course of a speech by Cochran,
of Missouri, he spoke Of the "truck-
ling policy toward Great Britain"
when a stylishly dressed woman in the
gallery exclaimed, "You lie!"
This month witnesses the inau-
guration of a Democratic governor in
Rhode Island and also in Nevada and
Oregon. These are the only States
outside Of the South which have
Democratic governors, except Mon
tana, which elected a Democrat in
1900 for a four-year term.
During the month Of December
50,291 immigrants arrived at ports of
this country. According to the re-
port made public by Frank P. Sar-
gent, commissioner &C .eral of immi-
grafton, this number was 1913 in
excess of the record for the came
month Of the previous year.
- The new issue of 2.cent stamps
bearing the portrait Of Washington in
q new position with draped flags above
the vignette is being distributed by