The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-12-09
GENERAL NEWS.


who murdered his three children, was
given 80 years imprisonment.
= Thirty-seven per cent. of the
American people nov live in cities OF
Of more than 1900 Inhabitants.
$4,000 cotton mill operatives OF
New England have been affected by
cut OF ten per cent. in weges.
- a restaurant proprietor in Chi
cago ehot and killed man because he
was short five cents in peying for his
breakfast.
- The Atlantic Coast Line Railway
ie going 10 provide, scs cessinna for
old and in6rm employees worn out in
their service.
- A special aesoion OF the Louis.
lana legislature has been called TO
take come step TO keep the boil veevil
ous Of the State.
- The treaty. with Panama was
eigned on Wednesday and now there
is no reason why work on the canal
should be delayed longer.
- A boy found $3.50 in greenbacks
in rats nest in an old siuhouse near
Soottsboro, Ala, the other deg. The
money was in good condition.
= Miss Onie Tanner, young bride,
charged with poisoning and causing
the death or her husband, was tried
and acquitted at Gainesville, Go.
- Another big cut OF veges in New
England cotton mills has been made,
G5, 900 men ere affected and the re-
duction means 500, 900 from operatives
weekly.
- Miss Kata Roughbough, sele-
graph operator ct Thacker, w. Va,
ehot and killed John Thurston on
Saturday. He wen. into the Office
where she was alone and insulted her.
- Cashier Francis B. Wright, OF
the National bank Of Dundee, ILL.,,
was arrested in Chicago on the oherge
of robbing the bank OF $4,000 and
was put under bonds Of $4,000 for
trial.
= Robert Briggs, o Clemson College
student, went to his home at Clinton
to spend Thanksgiving aud on his
arrival wss found to be desperately
iii with pneumonia, and died on Sun.
day morning.
= -Four negro children were burned
to death near jackson, Miss, on Sat.
urday night. They had been left
locked up in house by their parents
who had gone to festival. The old
est was girl OF 13.
u. a. Booootthh, sssd !e, &c I.o-
gansville, Ca, and Mrs. 8. A. Toomey.
aged 81. of Stone Mountain, ran away
and got married the other day. It
was the fourth venture for che bride
and second for the groom.
- By the confession OF an ex-city
attorney nnmber Of prominent men
OF Grand Rapids, Mich, including
,ldermen, State senators
and others OF eque. prominence, have
been implicated in the water works
scandal Of that city.
= Four deaths and 25 new cases OF
typhoid fever were reported es Butler,
Pa, on Tuesday, 1st inst. Four Of
tho .cc::-s phySiciens have been attack
ed with che disesBe and six physioiano
from other plsces have gone to the
city to help treat the sick.
- Thomas N. Thens, who died in
Savannah November 29th has never,
since the war worn anything but the
Confederate gray, and his INSTRUCTIONS
TO his brother was to bury him from
the Confederate Veterans hall, in his
uniform, with the orosB
Of honor on his breast.
~ It has developed in Chicago since
the arrest of the three youthful ban.
dts that the city is q carnival Of crime
and authorities are startled. Confes.
sion after confession piles up crime
against the beardless murderers who
were caught recently. They have
murdered no less than twenty people,,
- At Soofield, Utah, an attempt
was made by number Of striking
Italian and Penn coal miners TO roll Q
box car down the railroad tracks lead
ing through q deep canon through
which party of railroad and mine
officials were coming. The attempt
was prevented by the military and
number Of arrests were made.
- Last week the State Supreme
court OF Nebraska issued writ Of
against the teacher Of dis.
trict school No. 81, in Gage county,
ordering her not to read the Bible TO
her pupils. The case was tried some
time ago, the supreme court deciding
that seotarian knoWledge should not
be impaired in the public schools.
- Mrs. Ellen Bailey, her sons
james and Joseph Kennedy were con.
victed at Staunton, Ve., on Friday Of
wrecking train on tho Norfolk &
Western road last December and kill
ing several persons. She was sen.
tenced to ten years in the peniten.
tiary, Bailey to IS years, while Ken.
nedy was convicted Of murder and
sentenced for life.
- A remarkable story Of the flight
Of O carrier pigeon comes from Salt