The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-23
GENERAL NEWS.

= The Alabama legislature has
killed the dispensary for that State.
"A carload of guupowder exploded
at Eldorado, Kan, on Friday and
! killed two men.
&C. H. Bigelow, town clerk of
Brookfeld, VI, is nearly So, 600 short
in his accounts.
= a cyclone did $4,000 worth of
damage at Moultrie, Ca, last week,
and fatally injured three persons.
- The Turks have destroyed the
Macedonian town Of Kastoria and
massacred 10000 Of the population.
= Convicts in the Pennsylvania
State penitentiary have been caught
making and issuing counterfeit money.
= Snow. sleet and rain have dam
aged crops within the past week in
Minnesota to the extent Of millions of
dollars.
= While Florida lady was firing a
r;s.o! st some hogs, she accidentally
shot and killed q neighbor's little
daughter.
Robert Stockwell Hatcher, aged
90, OF St. Louis, No., committed sui
eide because of grief over the death of
his wife.
Four million dollars Of govern
ment money will be distributed among
fifty national banks in various parts
OF the country.
1t is said that 1900 children in
New York city will be unable to se-
cure accommodations in the public
schools this year.
- Tive Alabama farmers convicted
of peonage and sentenced to terms of
Imprisonment have been pardoned by
President Roosevelt.
= The South now has 100000
cotton spindles. representing an in
vestment of s190,000,000 and the
number is increasing.
- Nashville, Tenn, had a s125,-
900 fire on Thursday night. One per-
son, DR.. VIM. IT. Smith. was killed by
falling walls and several others we're
| hurt.
= Stewart johnson, eyed eight.
shot and killed his sister. Mabel, aged
Is, in Chicago, on Friday, with par
lor rifle that had been given him as a
birthday present.
= The Philadelphia mint will cease
making coppers for at least a year.
This is due to the enormous produc-
ton Of s30,000,000 ip pennies during
the past five years.
- The American hen lays s3,OOO.-
900 worth Of eggs year, her product
5sing the most valuable product of the
United States, with the exception of
wheat, corn and hay.
- The explosion of barrel Of
alcohol on the crusier Olympia at the
Norfolk navy yard on Friday night
killed two men, wounded several others
and set fire to the ship.
- The news from Turkey shows q
horrible state of affairs. It is report
ed that the Turks have butohered
10000 Christians, showing no quarter
to women and children.
- DR.. Lem G.. Broughton, of At
lanta, Ca, has received a call to Clar.
endon street Baptist Church in Bos.
ton, one of the largest aud most in
| AucutiaI cuuICiieS III Gue pn1LeM states.
W. G. Bowles, q railway mail
clerk who lives in Washington with
his wife and seven children, was ar.
rested at Danville Va, on Friday
night on the charge of robbing the
mails.
- The books of S. D. Warren, tax
receiver of DeKalb county, Ca, are
found by en- expert examiner. to be
in a deplorable condition, mistakes
footing 100000 being found on the
digest.
= Mrs. Geraldine z. Speer, Of At.
lanta, Ca, is suing for divorce from
her husband, VIM. j. Speer, former
treasurer Of Georgia, charging him
with habitual drunkenness. They
have been married many years and
have grown children.
- Reports from points all over
Southwest Georgia indicate tremen-
dous loss to the cotton crop from the
heavy rainD and winds of the past few
days. In many places railroads are
among the storm-sufferers aud traffic
is badly demoralized.
- Miss, Della Walton, of Aurora,
ILL.,, attempted to kill Ernest Berry,
on Thursday, but missed him. Think
ing she had killed him she turned the
pistol upon herself and committed sui
eide. She had been insisting come
time that Berry marry her, and he re-
fused.
- At Santiago, Cuba, the most vio-
lent earthquake felt since 1885 occur
red lest Saturday. The earth shook
fifteen seconds, but there were no un-
dulations. People rushed into the
streets and cried and prayed. Bricks
and plastering dropped in all direo-
tions and few walls fell, but nobody
was injured.
= Rev. Sam Jones and Postmaster
Walter Akerman had fisticuff on
the streets Of Cartersville Ga. The
trouble grew out Of remarks made in a