The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-25
NEWS.

PItSVa ~ OocrAoUus IAices, ny u Om1n
It is said hat Texas alone mar
kets ESQ, 600, 600 worth Of cattle an
nually.
The First National bank OF Jack-
sonville, the oldest bank in Florida,
has closed its doors.
President Samuel Spencer denies
that he will retire from the Southern
railway and be succeeded by w. w.
Finley.
The czar Of Russia has. issued a
decree for freedom Of religion through
out his dominion and making other
concessions.
Anew Yorker who was operated
on for appendicitis was found to con-
tain 9 few tacks, knife blades, pieces
OF glass, eto.
-Advices from Samoa state chat
tho hurricane which recently swept
the islandkilled 600 people and caused
property loss Of $500, 600.
Negroes Of rival turpentine camps
near Orange Springs, Fla, engaged in
Q pitched battle in which eight were
killed and many badly hurt.
- Foreign capitalists are preparing
to speed 100000 600 developing Ten
nessee copper workings. The mines
will be opened along the Jellico river.
Sweden is said to have the low
est death rate Of any civilized nation.
During the last ten years the annual
average has been only 1910 per thous-
and.
Owing TO the food in the South
the osnBus bureau has postponed
until April31 the issuance Of final re.
turns on5the cotton ginning operations
The richest man in the world is
said to be Alfred Belt, who was Cecil
Rhodae' ee..:1TT HHiiu wealth is resti-
mated at from 100000, 600 to nearly
a billion.
Grover Cleveland, ex.president,,
was 66 years old on Wednesday. He
iapent the day quietly3at his horne in
Princeton, n. j., receiving the CON-
igratulations Of his friends.
Every member Of Lincoln's oabi-
net has been dead for years, but John
III. Reagan, Jefferson Davis Postmas.
ter General, is still one OF the briskest
iof Texans, though nearly so.
"A bar Of gold, velued at $223. 600.
in transit from Salt Lake City to the
east myBteriously disappeared from
the Office Of the Pacific and Domir ION
Express company, at Detroit, Mon.
"A fire occurred on q dock ct Port
land. Oregon, last week and the loss
Yves 100000. Ten thousand tons OF
wheat were burned. The fire origi.
mated fSom smokers, or il. was incen-
diary,
The will Of the late Professor yl-
vester Waterhonaa3ae ST. Louis. MO-,
leaves $3.50, 900 to Washington Uni.
versity, available In 1000, when it
lie expected it will haye reached S1,-
900, 600.
The general assembly OF North
Carolina appropriated SIC, coo for q
State exhibit at the ,Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition at Sc. Louis. It as
thought that private subscriptions
will increase the amount to S20,0
PEostofhce Inspector Davis has
made o queer discovery az Spout
5Spfapgs, N. G. He found that lail-
roAd postal clerks were bringing JUICE
Of whiskey about three times o week
TO- the lpostmaster there 10 mail pouch
eH.
Our Southern timber is falling
into the hands u Northern syndicates.
Charles D. Fuller, representing a Kal.9
amssoc company, haH purchased TO-
600 acres in Western North Carolina
and is going to put up Q big lumber
factcry.
j. 81. Brown, a we'll known citi-
zen OF Memphis, was shot and killed
noar Wynne, Ark.,.by q negro. Tt is
said Brown was employed By 8 pri-
yate detective agency lin en- effort to
appr0hend certain negro ~whitecapp;ss
in Arkansas.
The petri6ed body OF q man was
found on Mill river, not very far from
lAsheville, about two weeks ago. Sew
eral people claim 10, but is seems chat
&c aInot settled just who is the real
,oWner. "A number OF big offers have
been made for the body.
The president has rendered tie
director rip Of the csnsus to s.. NJ. d.
North. formerly chief statigtioian OF
manufactures OF the census bureau, to
succeed DIR. Merriman who has re-
signed. North has accepted and will
enter upon his duties some time in
bay.
The elephant lingo. said 70 be
larger than Jumbo, recently bought in
Iondes 55y the Bostock animal show J
for exhibition il this country, died |
March 10 and was buried at seq while
on passage from Liverpool to New
York aboard the White Star Liner
Georgia.
Among che other novel faatufee
Of the st. Louis exposition will be tiae
gennions OF the Smith aud Lewis fayni- I
hes, which all the Smiths and Lewiass
IN che country will be invited to atten5 !;
The Smiths are raising o fund OF $1O,-
0GO for the erection OF . building on
the exposition grounds to be used as
their headquarters during che fasr.
The fQgty-eighth session OF the