The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-11
ANDERSON, 8. @, WEDNESDAY, MARCH Ii, 1908.
GENERAL NEWss

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Seats on the New York Stock
exchange ara now worth s83, 600.
William j. Bryan denies that he
viii head an independent movsmentinI
Several railroads in the west have
Increased the salaries Of their men
about Is per cent S..
Under the provisions of q bill
Juet passed no more liquor can be sold
IN the national capitol.
"A Pokin, China, report states
chat 900 imperial troops were killed in
Q battle with rebels recently.
A bloody fight between two fami.
lies in Alabama resulted in one death
and the injury of three others.
- When the recent act Of congress-
becomes effective the navy will have,
almost $4,000 officers and men.
Owing to the French laws against
religious bodies, hundreds Of priests
and nuns will come to the United
States.
The Eve now battleships are to be
raraed after the States Of Kansas,
Vermont, Minnesota, Mississippi and
Idaho.
At Cordoya, Ala, q man named
Dickerson and his wife were beaten
into insensibility while asleep Thurs-
day morning.
The severe blizzard that has ragged
In Texas for some time has proved dig
Eastrous to stock, the loss being est
mated ct $500, 600.
- Nathan Ballinger, of NEWCASTLE,
Ind, 80 years old, is QUITTING O new
set Of teeth, the third he has had In
the course Of his life,
Mrs. Jane Hendrickson, q mil
lionaire widow of 50, Of Brooklyn, has.
clipped with her coachman and gene TO
Europe on. o bridal tour. 4
Frequent encounters have been
reported between the Imperial troops
and the revolutionjsts in Macedona
and losaes on hit. s=:: asss Ja1u, heavy.
Pedro Alvarado, a Mexican citi-
gen, has written TO President Diaz
Offering to contribute S50,000,0 GOO to,
paying the foreign debt Of his country.
DR.. James Mitchell died ct
Mount Zion, GA, March Let. He was
,President. Lincoln''s private se0fe.
tary during the war and was 80 years
Q fiage.
a number Of preachers In. Maine
are urging from their pnlpits that the
state follow the example OK New
Hampshire and adopt local option FOR
che control Of the liquor traffic.
Az the result Of. heavy rains the
Eivars of the Mississippi valley and
thfp1gheut the southwest are unuhual-
" nigh and reports Of damage from the
foods come from many quarters.
a boy in New Jersey was killed
by the wind blowing o barn door.
againet him, while the same day q man
in NeW Jersey was run over by train
Of oars; and only sustained slight In
juries.
/ l!!az.s5 u. Bidweli, who died in
Esst3 Hartford, Conn.,, last week at
the age Of! % years, lived on an old
homestead which had been in the pos
sessions Of his family for seven genera
tions, ever since 1865.
The pentateuch written in Ss-
marian characters on gazelle parch.
ment and dated in the year Of il6 Of
Mohamet or A. D. 1916, was lately dis
covered in Syria. 1t lie the Oldest Of
biblical manuscripts known.
- The tanned skin OF the diamond
back rsttlesnake is used IA q barometer
in Florida. On the approach Of q
storm il becomes moist and finally
sh0Ws beads Of moisture, often many
hours ks fore the storm arrives.
Mr.. Rockefeller's fortune is glib.
sly set down at q billion of; dollars.
But tho fortune lis really known to be,
$3.50, GOO, ZOO and the investments
mostly draw compound interest. His
annual income is known TO be $751;
100000.
IA bill hes been introduoadin the
Virginia legislature to erect q n1onu
ment 10 Gen. R. e. Lee and his lead
inglgenerals and Matthew r. injury,
TO stand in the capitol square in Rich.
mond, and appropriated $4,000 for
sthe purpose.
Reports Of loss Of cattle from
starvation continues to come from the,
plains Of western Kansas and eastern
Colorado where the ranchmen had not
provided their herds with 8 hslter. and
food. Whole HERDS perished from cold
and lack OF food.
A woman giving her name as
Mrs. Charlotte g.. Wellington COM
,mitted suicide in a fashionable board
ing House in Haddonfield, N. j. She
left 3 note saying she was tired Of life,
was the last Of a distinguished family
and asked tc II Ndecently buried, en-
closing $40 for tle purpose.
The committee of the North Car
olina general assembly which have
been investigating the official conduct
lof Judge Campbell have recommended
thst5he be deprived Of Office. Judge.
Campbell is the man who h~orsewhip.
ped Rev. DR.. Crawford of.thel Anti
Saloon league a few months ago.
s-I..a wire mills have just advan-