The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.

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gia legislature began on Wednesday.
Iowa Democrats in State oouven-
tion refused to reafiirm the Kansas
City platform.
= The government has determined
to locate in Texas the largest tobacco
experimental station in the world.
The number Of deaths from the
buconio plague in Iudia during the
frat three months Of the present year
amount to 331 600.
Health reports from Cuba ;ndi-
cate shat small pox and yellow fever
have disappeared, but that oonsump.
tion is on the :noreaso.
- There is street car strike on in
Richmond. Six hundred men and
200 oars are out. Some extra outside
help has been employed.
The biggest financial institution
in the world 80 being organized in
New York. It 10. @ bank aud will
carry 800, 600, 600 capital.
- Thirty-ssven steamships are
tied up in the harbor at Norfolk. Va,
becase Of the strike OF the marine
engineers for higher wages.
- It is said that there have been
& 400 cases Of smallpox in North Caro-
lima during the past twelve mouths.
Or this numbeV 160 proved fatal.
- It is stated that President Roose-
welt, contrary to .hs ada7ivo Of reDub-
Iican leaders, has ordered q general
cleaning out Of the postofice depart
ment. ts;;i = e 81 * ~ q
g. Earnest Chemic and lSs Jpnnie
Brennan, youthful lovers of Green
wood, Ea., committed snicideS with
oarbciic acid because they could not
marry.
- The Kappa Alpha fraternity in
session in Atlanta have determined
to erect at Lexington, Va, q memorial
hall in honor Of Gen. r. E. Lee, to
cost $4,000.
- The record Of the first six mouths
OF 1903 shows nearly 1000 lives lost
10 this country due to lcndslides, z
floods, tornadoes and collisions on
land and sea. s.
"A prominent planter iI Ala
bama. charged with peonage, plead
guilty OF eleven cases. The sentence
was B years in each case to be served
concurrently.
- The street railway strikers ia
Richmond, Va, have begun rioting
and o large force of military has bean
ordered out to assist the police in pre-
serving order. 4. -,l5. 5s
S. - Mrs. James Lovely, Of La Fol-
lette, Tenn. has been arrested on the
charge Of poisoning her husband and
causing his death. The pair had
been married three weeks aud three
days. s7
Miss Dora Campbell, rs years
old, formerly postmaster az Maysville,
GA, wes arrested il e Bait Daaiattii more, where
she had gone for hospital treatment,
on Friday for embezziing postal fusds.
wilhelm Office. q D
- Porto Rico is furnishing q mar
ket ef $1,000, 900 month to the pro-
ducers and merchants OF the United
States, and is supplying nearly S1,-
O00, ,000 worth each month of the tro-
gisal products required by the United
Stasas.
AT Wilmington, Del, Geo.
White, g negro who was held for as
saultiEg en- eighteen.year-old white
girl who died from Ter injuries, was
burned st the stake and riddled with
bullets, after having confessed to the
crime.
The Summer School Of the South
has opened its seco ID session at Knox
vile with an enrolment of more than
200 Students. The faculty includes
800 members, educational experts
gathered from all parts Of the United
States. 4.
The great strike at the cotton
mills in Lowell, Mass, has ended. It
began March 30th and involved nearly
AZ, ,0G0 operatives, costing them in
wages about 81, 800, GOO. The high
price OF cotton shut out the idea OF 10
rey. cent. increase in wages demanded
|. by the strikers. ,,iys Is
Three negroes Garfield Mccoy,
George Mckinney and Wiley Anett--.
were taken from jail at Newton, Baker
county, Ga, and lynohed last Thurs.
day night. The three men m were Z in
Jail for killing F.S. Bulard, o white
uaus WHO was caileQ1 TO Queil O row
Mt . negro dance, near his house one
night last week.
- A special from jackson, Ky.,
says Judge Cardwell, who presides
over the city court there, and who
fined two men brought before him on
the chaEge of firing Capt. b. j. EWen's
hotel, has received notice Of thrsesen-
ed assassination, and has taken up his
residence in his store. He will be
guarded by militia.
The Missouri river food has
given T. @. Nuckles, Of Roeheport,
I Mo-, 2 new house, completely. furnish,
ed. The high waters drove Dir. Nuc6-
les away from his t.arm, and WIEN he
returned to it he 9ound on his land Q
comparatively nNw house, which is