The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.

OuoiAoete aSTeeu 10 prices on
cotton yarns at 10 per cent.
Bank robbers are busy in the
western States. In Nebraska and
Illinois banks have been looted.
"A big company, backed by New
York az! Boston capitalists, will dig
for gold i'll Clay county, Alabama.
The American Tobacco Trust has
made arrangements to control nearly
tie entire output of Turkish tobacco.
Ex-Gov. VIM. j. Stone, Of Mis-.
souri,, has been elected Senator Vests
successor in the United States Senate.
VIM. II. Day, of Canton, Ohio,
has been appointed associate justice
OF the United States Supreme court.
A lieutenant in the German
navy, who was in this country for his
health, committed suicide in Knoxville,
Tenn.
"A large boiler in a foundry in
Admission, Ala, exploded by which
six persons were killed and twenty in
jured.
= Two trains on the Southern Paoi-
fc railroad collided in Arizona, killing
over twenty persons and injuring many
others.
- Bears are very troublesome in
the mountains of Virginia. Two days
ago they captured and devoured q far
mer's child.
There are ten negroes in Biz
mingham Jail under sentence Of death;
seven for murder and three for high
way robbery.
- Fire, caused by a blast of light
ming at the Niagara Fall power house,
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of machir cry.
A bill has been introduced in
congress providing for the purchase Of
the farm at Appomattax, Va, on
which General Lee surrendered.
= Policeman Collins, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, died in q hospital on Friday of
blood-poison brought OH from the bite
of a burglar he arrested a year ago.
- Hon. Lee S. Overman, Of Sails
bury. has been elected United States
Senator by the North Carolina Legis.
lature to succeed Senator Pritchard.
A snow slide occurred in Park
City, Utah; four persons are known
to have lost their lives and it is feared
many others are buried under the
snow.
= Rev. John Styles, of Port Glib
son, Miss, was convicted Of bigamy.
During the trial it was shown that he
was q heptagomist, for he had seven
wives.
- The news comes from China that
l tho nrykhrooI khara x--AI:--
known in years. The missionaries
have fed and there seems to be q ter
rible crisis tt catching q bloody war.
- The woman suffrage supporters
have been assured by leading mem
bers Of the Kansas Legislature that q
bill granting to M the privilege
Of the ballot would BIZ passed at this
session. Republicans generally favor
the measure.
Richard NJ. Bidgood, a prominent
young society man of Richmod, Va,
stabbed himself almost to the heart
on Wednesday in an attempt at sui
eide because his 17-year-old sweet
heart, to whom ne YVES engaged, ran
off and married another man.
W. B. Knowles, president Of the
Elizabeth mills of Charlotte, N. c.,
was accidentally shot and killed on
Sunday by his friend Thomas W..
Dixon, president of the South Hard
ware company. The two men were
examining 8 self-acting revolver.
- A dispatch from Wesler, Idaho,
says that ESQ little daughters of j. N.
Fisher, one of Idaho's richest men,
have died within the past two days,
each dying 18 hours after being taken
i'll. The doctors suspect the children
were poisoned and their stomachs will
be analysed.
= Rev. B. j. jackson. q Baptist
minister of Fort Worth, Texas, in
forms the New York Sun that "there
will be a judgement in 1923, between
the last of October and the first of
November, in which The world will
confront a great reverse, especially
the United States"
= A headon collision occurred on
Wednesday night between two pas
senger trains four miles from Tucson.
Arizona. Twenty dead bodies have
been taken from the wreck. The
accident was caused by the failure of
q oSAS6toPt OPSAoIOA w 0StltC OlucI6
to one Of the trains.
= Col. A. X. Mcclure has address
ed the Pennsylvania legislature in
support of the proposition that the
States of Pennsylvania and Virginia
unite in erecting a monument to Gen.
4. r. Lee on the Gettysburg battle
field. The idea is for each State to
appropriate $4,000 for the purpose.
- Postmaster Van Colt is highly
pleased with the figures of the bust
ness of the New York postofice for
the year 1902. The total receipts for
stamps, box rents, etc., was $12,425,-
795. The same sources in 1901 yield
ed a event of S11, 102, 921. The
profit to the government in the year
was $8,021, 764. or $1,029, 974 more
than in 1901. The quarterly increase