The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-11
GENERAL NEWS.

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- general outbreak of hostilities
is threatened in Central America
among the republics.
- Severe earthquakes have been
felt IN Mexico, and eighteen buildings
were destroyed in chihuahua.
One thousand miners are on strike
in South Dakota, and in consequence
several mines have shut down.
= The Methodists will celebrate
the two hundrcdth anniversary of
John Wesley's birthday on juno II,
1908.
= Two negro prisoners in Philadel-
phia had a quarrel about religion and
when n was asleep the other cut his
head off.
- The smallest watch ever manu-
featured in this country hae lust been
completed. 1t is the size of a nickel
five cent piece.
D. Citizens of Birmingham have
given fifty carloads of oil to the city
Of New York for distribution among
the poor of the city.
= Banks Miller, a young white
man of Winston-Salem, N. G., shot
and killed his wife on Wednesday and
then committed suicide.
Judge William r. Day, of Ohio,
has been offered and accepted the 20
sition of associate justice of the Uni
ted States supreme court.
= All Athens, Ca, negro who tried
to break open a torpedo with an axe is
now nursing the stub of a nose that
the explosion left on his face.
Congress has passed through
both houses the bill to erect q million
and Q half building in Washington for
the department Of agriculture.
The sons Of the Confedcracy at
jackson, Miss, have subscribed $lO,-
600 to purchase the old home of JEFF
ferson Davis at Beauvoir, Miss.
= The plague in Mexico is still
doing its deadly work. During the
month Of January 16S deaths occurred
in Mazatlan-a city on the Pacific
coast.
- The house of representatives of
Alabama has passed the bill to prohi-
bit the sale Of cigarettes or cigarette
paper in the State by the decided vote
Of 81 to 35.
= The negroes Of Richmond, Va,
held q public meeting and repudiated
the incendiary language used by the
negro lawyer Hays at the negro meet
ing in Washington.
The war department is to supply
the militia with the new rifles order
ed by congress. A plant is being in
stalled by the government to expedite
the manufacture Of these rifles
The game wardens Of Ohio are
prosecuting milliners for having in
their possession insect eatinl and
song birds, with whose plumage they
decorate ladies' hats. The penalties
are very severe.
North Sweden is suffering from
q terrible famine. The natives are in
need Of immediate relief. America
has responded nobly to the cry Of the
starving thousands, but the supplies
sent are inadequate to meet the needs.
= Captain Richard P. Hobson, Of
Merrimac fame, has rendered his
resignation as q naval constructor,
giving as q reason that he considers
himself unfit for the duties of his
position on account Of weakness of
the eyes.
= In denying a rumor that he would
accept q place on the United States
district court bench Senator Bacon, Of
Georgia, declares that he would not
abandon the position Of senator from
Georgia to accept any other Office I'M
der the government"
August Emmett Maxwell, of Pen
s%acola, Fla, and G.. G.. Vest, Of Mis-
souri,, are the only two living senators
Of the Confederate States Senate.
Maxwell has just retirrd from a Judge
ship and Vest from the United States
Senate. Maxwell is SO and Vest 72.
An unknown contagious disease
is prevailing among the plantations
around Pine Bluff, Ark, causing the
death of q number of herds of cattle.
it affects them in the back and causes
death in thirty hours. One planter
has lost all his cattle and another lost
thirty within a few days.
One of the leading English in.
surance companies now insures against
appendicitis. For a premium Of five
shillings the insured, should he under
go the operation, will have all his
direct expenses paid up to 81, 1000. In
the event Of his death during or after
operation q similar sum will be paid.
Texas has a farmers organize
ton composed of 5000 negroes who
own $4,000 acres Of land, 5000
head OF cattle and 1000 mules and
horses, and the object Of the organi-
cation is to eradicate the crop mortgage
system and improve the methods Of
farming. This is the sort Of a negro
movement which deserves commenda-
ton.
A letter of George Washington,
written October 10, 1855, to his friend,
Patrick Henry, Governor Of Virginia,
was sold at q collector sale by suction
in Boston recently for $3.50 to a New