The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.

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- Three hundred Virginia and
North Carolina tobacco growers have
organized protective association to
fight the trust.
= Tho tenement inspectors of New
York City have found over 325, ,OGO
occupied rooms which have neither
light nor ventilation.
- Representative Bali, Of Texas.
has resigned after serving six years
in Congress, his purpose being to de-
vote his time to his law practice.
= Nearly $4,000, 900, ,GGG pieces of
mail acre handled by the postal
| authorities last year, and :ss trans.
portatiou cost more than $4,000, 900.
| - Miss Ella Flenninger was mur-
dered near Peoria, lii, 6y young
man named Fred Strude, who had
been attentive TO her and had been
rejected.
- The will of the late Gordon Nc
Kay: OF Boston: gives $4,000, 900 to
Harvard college. To his divorced
wife he wills $li 800 annually during
her lifetime.
Roy L. Cridler, of Piedmont,
W. Va, committed suicide with q
pistol in hotel at ConnellsviIle, Pa,
on Tuesday-"all for the love OF o
gill; he said in note that he left.
i Fleet Wilkins, g merchant Of
near Roxboro, N. g., died on Thurs
day from the effects Of beating ad-
ministered by negro who demanded
money and when refused literally beat
Wilkins to death.
= The most successful race horse
OF the year seems to hn the mare
Seeytre, one of the most successful
thorongghhreds ever rsisedin England.
Up to the present time she has won
something like Sl8O,0O0.
- The prohibitionists Of the first
Hampshire county district Of Massa.
ohusetts have nominated Mrs. Fannie
J. Clary, Of Williamsburg, for the
State Legislature. She YES their
candidate last year. Her husband is
farmer.
= AS result Of an old family
feud, William Anderson, a young
white man, aged % years, shot and
killed his cousin, Howard Anderson,
aged IS. The shooting occurred in
the public road about seven miles
from Augusta.
The work OF counting the silver
dollars at the United States mint in
Philadelphis, which was begun last
May, has just been completed. The
count shows that there are 10, 600, 900
OF the dollars in coin in the vaults,
not Q single dollar being missing.
- United States Senator Dietrich.
OF Nebraska, has been indicted by the
United States grand jury for receiv-
ing q bribe Of $1,000 to secure the
appointment Of Jacob Fisher as post
master Of Hastings, Neb. Fisher is
also indicted for giving the bribe.
The Georgia Daughters of the
Gcctede-ecg have inahgmrated move.
ment to provided home for ex- slaves.
those who proved their fidelity by re.
naming at home protecting and labor
ing for the southern women and chill
dren during the entire four years of
the civil war.
The little eight.year-old child OF
Dud Bradford, of Bowman. Gs.. while
playing with o loaded pistol. acci-
IDENTIFY shot HE little six months old
sister through the head. The ball
hit just above the left eye and was
take from the back Of the head. A
portion OF the brains oozed out, but
the child still lives.
The next Kentucky Legislature
will have Democratic majority Of
sevensy-six on joint ballot. In the
last Assembly the Democratic major
ity was sixty. The next Senate will
have q membership made up Of thirty
one Democrats and seven Republicans,
and the House will have seventy.eix
Democrats and tWenty-four Repubii-
cans.
- The Southern has had still anoth-
er wreck: At Winston, Culpepper
county, Va. Wednesday trsinmen
were injured. IN o collision between a
freight train and local passenger No.
Is, on the main line between Winston
and Culpepper. Owing TO misunder-
standing os orders, the two trains
came together headion with terrific
crash.
- The latest orage in New York
among the very wealthy men is an ex-
travagant style Of invitation GARD.
Not long ago the wife Of millionaire
ordered 200 Of these from local firm
and they cost her just $40 esoh. The
cards we're made Of ivory edged with
gold. che name Of the guest and hos
tess being lettered in gold on one side,
the oss:er hand painted. Cards at $5
each are quite common.
- Some time ago an alleged petri.
fed man was dug up on the farm Of
a. W Sitton. Of near Hendersonville.
N. O., which was bought bya com.
pany Of capitalists and exhibited over
the country. It was charged that the
petrified man was fake and the COM
pany lost money, and now have
brought suit against Sittou for per
petrating q, fraud and Sitton has been
bounG over to court in the sum Of
S15, 900. d