The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-17
ANDERSON, s. G., WEDNESDAY, JUNE H. 1908
GENERAL NEWS.

81 - A cloudburst in Arizona drowned
nine persons.
- Colorado was visited by heavy
snowfall on the 11th inst.
8 At least 15 persons are krown 10
have lost their lives in {. Nebraska
tornado.
The Pennsylvania Republican,
convention endorsed Roosevelt for re-
nomination.
- Forest fires in the New England
States are doing untold damage. The
loss will be several millions. #
- Nine paper mills OF Holyokc,
Mass., have been closed down on ac-
count of strikes among the operatives.
- At Sneedville, Tenn, Lewis
Bolir, GO years old, was killed with
40 axe Dy his 13.year.old step.daugh-.
ter.
~ Whila drawing check In q Mon.
tazuma, Ca. bsnk Friday to pay his
iife insurance premium J. B. Farrili
fell dead. ,
- Miss Mary Stevens, Of Hall coup-
ty, Ga, died shortly after eating
bread, into the dough Of which spider
had been kneeded.
g. James Watson, Jr., q district
clerk, was arrested in Washington
charged with embezslement. The
amount taken was $75, 600.
- New York city has contributed
81 900 dollars to the food sufferers OF
Gainesville and enother thousand TO
the sufferers cf Clifton and Pacolet.
80 -Four men OF Wayne county,
Ohio, were struck by lightning aud
killed while they were carrying
heavy piece of timber on their ahoul-
ders. sS 80.
= The government hiss awarded the
contracts for the erection Of the three
new 16, 900 ton battleships. The total
OF the contracts amounts to $12, 2,454,-
600.
"A. l.. Newman, mail clerk OF,
the run between Greensboro and At
lanta, was killed at Social Circle.
ga, while trying TO board moving
train.
~ Andrew Carnegie has given to
public benefaotions nearly . hundred
million dollars. About three.fourths
OF that amount is distributed in the
United States. :.
- Elmer G. Sweezey, OF Baldwins.
vile, Mass, was fined S8 by q local
court for hugging another man sweet.
heart. He thinks the price excessive
and has appealed the case to the
Spperior Court.
A mob Of citizens at Wynne.
Ark, tarred and feathered two Mem.
phis men, one of whom was charged
with intending to elope with the wife
OF g Wynne merchant.
- Kansas City, Kan, iss still sore
ly in need Of aid Tor its food sufferers.
The second urgent appeal to che coun-
try at large has been issued By the re-
lief committee Of that city.
s - The Kansas food has reoeded
and business and repairing of the
ruined buildings is now going on.
Dead bodies are still being recovered
as the debris is being moved.
u. hlit Juggling OuG TOOK Tor use
on the streets Of Key West. Fla, q
trench was opened containing fifty
human skeletons. From a tombstone
it was found that these people were
buried in 1885.
At Quitman, Ga., sewerage is dc.
posted in we'll bored 136 feet deep.
AT that point the augur struck hol-
low place and dropped down several
feet. The capacity Of that cavern
seems to be unlimited.
Sixteen negroes werc drowned in
the Mississippi near Memphis. They
were two families Of plantation hands
who left the plantation after dark in
two skiffs. Waves from passing
vessel capsized the boats.
James Wilcox, who murdered
Miss Nell Cropsey in North Carolina
last year, will have to serve. his sem
tence of thirty years in the peniten-
tlayy, the supreme court having re-
fused to grant him new trial.