The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-28
s. c., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1908
GENERAL NEWS.

= Congress will be asked for over
500. 600, 600 for the navy by Secretary
Moody.
- The steamer South Portland went
down on the Oregon coast. o few days
ago and carried 36 passegers to vatery
grave.
- Both plague and cholera are rag
ing ct Pei.tang, North China, where
1000 deaths have occurred during the
last two months.
= Mrs. Flora NJ. Davis, Of Des
Moires, Iowa, who celebrated her
thirtieth birthday On Mondsy. has e.
granddaughter three monthe old.
- AS the result of The attemnt of
three officers to arrest three negroes at
Glassport. Pa, On Friday constable
and one of the negroes were shot aud
killed.
- The report Of the Postofice De-
partment auditor showed postal trans
actions in the last year Of more than
o billion dollars; the deficit was moro
than 1900, 900.
- Fifty Of the largest postoAioes
showed II September sc sTGTsEs III
oroase in receipts Of nine per sent.
over last year. PHILADELPHIA gain
being twelve per cent.
- Over in Georgia negro gave up
his son to the authorities, who had
been convicted and sentenced to death.
Then he claimed the reward Of $50
offered for the capture.
A curious days happenings at
Hutchiaon, Kas., was en- invasion OF
thousands Of grasshoppers. The fol-
lowing morning they had disappeared,
where none knew or cared.
= A telegram from Columbus, Ca.
to the Augusta Chronicle says fifty
persons heve been dropped from the
rolls OF the Broad Street Methodist
church because they failed to pay any
thing.
- The famous Mason and DIXON
line, for generations regarded as the
boundary between the free States Of
tho North and the slave States of the
South, has been re.surveyed and re.
marked.
Joseph Husoh, Of Mishawake.
Ind, has just celebrated his llOth
birthday. He claims to remember
distinctly the duel between Aaron
Burr and Alexander Hamilton, in
which the latter was killed.
- The Alaskan Boundary commits
sion, which has been in session in
London, to fix the boundary lines be-
tween Alaska, the property of the
United States, and Canada, have
reached an agreement which is dis
tinct victory for the United States.
- Robert Cassidy, Of Ritohie coun-
ty, West Virginia, does not believe in
banks, 30 he put his savings Of s5, 600
in cash in straw mattress. His wife
does not believe in dirt snd burned
the straw. Nothing is left Of the saw
iDgs of several years but ashes.
- A mammoth watch built fox the
occasion on such large scale that
people may walk around in it. among
the moving wheels, will be on exhibi-
ton at the Worlds Fair, St. Louis.
Visitors will thus be able to study the
mechanism of watch without the aid
Of glass.
- The son Of a Philadelphia mil
lionaire has mysteriously disappeared
in the mountains Of West Virginia
and it is supposed he was kidnapped
by mountaineeFs. A rewerd oe S25..
600 has been offered for the recovery
Of the boy and over u thousand men
are searching for him.
- The liquor makers and sellers Of
North Caroline are being put out OF
business by the temperance people.
Last Legislature passed bill that
closed all the rural distilleries, 100 or
more in July; and the fall elections
are either giving the towns dispen-
saries or putting them dry.
Fire that burned from 8 Friday
morning until 9 o'clock in the after.
noon caused four deaths aud destros-
ed property valued at $1,000, 600 in
the town of Aberdeen, Wash. It
wiped out the main business street OF
the town. which is built mostly OF
wood. Six persons we're Injured.
Ten business blocks were destroyed.
- - About fifty girls, employed in a
rag factory in New York, went out
on. strike and the firm refused to
rail- Q their wages and employed Ital.
lenL 20 carry on the work. When the
Italians came out Of the factory in the
afternoon they were attacked BY the
girls and . free fight ensued, in which
several OF the girls were stabbed, one
Of them seriously.
~ ~ A special dispatch from Bir.
mingham, Ala, says: Andrew Beard,
! negro. who has earned . modest
salary In the machine shops Of the
louisville and Nashville railroad in
this CITY for 20 years, today sold to
the makers Of the Janney car coupler
o pater. cog coupler which he invent,
ed 10 years ago and has perfected
since until found acceptable to emi-
pent railroad authorities. Beard ia
TO get 800, 600 and royalties for ~
years on all couplers made on his
model.
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