The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-04
GENERAL NEWS.

Anarchists from all over the
world are about to meet in secret SON.
vention at Paris.
The rivers Of Indiana have over
flowed and thousands of acres oe wheat
are inundated.
= The. United States government
has secured two important coaling
stations in Cuba.
IN hotel fire at Cedar Rapids,
La, Friday morning ten lives were lost
aud many injured.
The big baseball teams have
already begun to start South for their
preliminary warming up.
An epidemic of grip aud influenza
is raging in New York and has largely
increased the death rate in that city.
The business section of Red6eld,
Ark, was destroyed by fire caused by
an explosion Of chemicals in q drug
store.
= President Roosevelt will call an
extraordinary session Of Congress un-
less tho canal and Cuban treaties are
passed.
The whole number of Seminole
Indians as shown by a census just
taken, is but 339. Nearly ell Of them
are in the Florida Everglades.
- Tits the opinion of leading grow
ers that the peach crop in North Geor-
gia will be almost q total failure. The
recent freeze killed nearly all the buds.
= Albert A. Knapp was arrested
in Indianapolis, Ind, on Wednesday
on the charge Of having murdered
three wives. He had just married g
fourth.
= The Southern Railroad hos &C.
CURED control of the Florida East
Coast Railroad, and will now operate
it as q portion Of the southern extern
sive system.
IA organization is being perfect
ed in Chicago for the purpose Of con
trolling the meat trade Of the world.
The company is to be capitalized at
$500, 600, 900.
- The Misses Smith have offered
the trustees Of the Peabody fund 42O
acres near Scottsboro, Ala, if they
will locate the proposed teachers eel
lego upon it.
= Earl Woods, IL years old, son Of
q farmer near Frankfort, Ind, killed
his father and mother and sister and
then committed suicide. No motive
is known for the deeds.
- The legislature Of Virginia has
decided to remove Judge Campbell
from the bench because he recently
horse-whipped Row. DR.. Crawford, Of
the a%nti-saloon league.
w. J. Thompson was shot aud
killed in his own dining room at Max
ton, NO, on Wednesday by E. N.
Mclean, o nephew Of his wife.
Thompson was drunk, and Mclean
was present ct Mrs. ThhOmpsonss re-
quest to protect her.
- A fast express train on the Lack
awanna railroad crushed through q
trolley car loaded with school children
in Newark, N. j., and eight Of the
children were killed, while twenty or
more were badly hurt. The engineer
Of the train was fatally injured.
- Peter Farrell, Of New Orleans, a
prominent Democratic politician and
State coal gauger, was shot dead by his
son Edward, February 20. The father
became enraged and ats mpted to kill
his two sons. Edward wrested the
pistol from him and shot him three
times.
- The drinking Of kerosene is such
q growing evil in France that measures
are being proposed to combat it. The
vice has long prevailed among the In
dams Of the South Pacific, apd to such
an extent that the Importation Of
kerosene for drinking is an important
trade in Peru and Bolivia.
- Mrs. Cornelia Wilder Appleby,
who died recently, left the bulk OF
her estate, valued at one million, to
be invested for che benefit of the
worthy, poor Of St. Paul, MINI. The
will provides that no politician shall
ever have anything to do with the ad-
ministration Of the charity.
- The Delaware house Of represen.
tatives unanimously adopted a'resolu-
tion requesting Congress to call g. con-
vention, to which shall be proposed an
amendment to the constitution Of the
United States making United States
senators elective in the several States
by q direct vote Of tie people.
= A battle took place at Stamford
City, W. Va, on Wednesday between
a deputy United Sta D,s marshal and a
deputy sheriff and his posse on n
side and rioting miners on the other
in which three miners were killed out
right, two were mortally wounded and
several men on both sides wounded
more OF less seriously.
- Dora Meeks, of Centralia, ILL.,,
after suffering 100 days from a sleepy,
trance like hysteria attack, is recover
ing. On September % she went to
sleep aud for ten days she was not
aroused sufficiently to take nourish-
ment. After that she was in a sort Of
somnolent trance. Now for several
days she has been recovering rapidly,
aud appears to be in the best Of
health.
- Ten days age Sterling Aiken, a