The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-13
GENERAL NEWS.

candidate, has been elected mayor Of
baltimore.
Seventy thousand workmeu are
out on @ strike in New York city in
various lines Of industry.
- Forest fires in Pennsylvania have
caused damages OF million dollars
within the past few days.
= Reports from Simla cay that
deaths from the plague in India now
exceed thirty thousand q week.
e. Unknown persons have warned
Montgomery, Ind, that unless $685.
O0O is given up the town will be burn
- The last official report OF the out
put Of the cotton crop for the past
season is placed at over ii, 100000
bales.
Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson, aged 79,
committed suicide in Baltimore on
Thursday by hanging herself from
hedpost.
- Investigations as to Irregular
ties in the postoffice department are
still in progress and may be extended
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- The police reserves were called
out in New York several times last
week to quell disorders in the city
growing ont of various strikes.
- For the FIRST time in the history
Of our government the imports have
exceeded o billion dollars ii. q year.
The exports are about 81, 400, 900, 600.
- George Vann, desperate negro
ex-oonviot, Of North Carolina was
shot to death while resisting three
officers on train near New Bern, N.
80 New York now has the largest
hotel in the world. It has $500 rooms
and not q single piece Of wood or other
inflammable material enters into it's
oonstruosio
- j. L. Miller, letter carrier q.
Jefersonville, Ind, has been arrest
ed because he failed to turn in two
cents collected on q postage due letter.
de collected the two cents one year
ago. q B
Col. Martin Ericsson, worth sew
eral million dollars and we'll known
throughout the; Southwest, las been
captured by the Yaqui Indians. OF
Sonora, Mexico, and held for $500 900
ransom.
- Moses Aphby, Of Pocono, Conn. /,
iWoodohopper, has j1st celebrated the
seventy fifth anniversary of his birth
By buying hat for the first time ia
twenty-five years and suit Of clothes
for the first time in forty years.
- That the low lying territory OF
the Mississippi should at times be
overhoWed is not surprising If one
considers that the 6 Father of w nters,' !
draws supplies from twenty. eight
states, draining one.third Of the. area
of the United States.
The ladies' bazaar in Richmond
Tor the benefit Of a monnment to JEFF
ferson Davis, is expected to net about
$4,000 and this with the s48. 600
already in the treasury, will erect q
handsome monument. The notion OF
an an arch has been abandoned.
With the bridal couple at the
altar and the church filled with fash.
ionable people, Rev. DIR. Goodwin OF
Christ Episcopal church, Hartford.
Conn, refused to perform the mar.
riege ceremony on Sunday becauss. !.
on reading the marriage license, he
found the man had been divorced ten.
years before. ss,35' ..e;. S; ,7 81
- 1t is estimated that fully 9OO.-
600 foreigners will arrive in America
IN 1903 IL the immigration to the
northwest and southwest continues
through thesummer as it has through
the past winter: Hundreds Of Italian
immigrants en- route TO southern CsIi.
Iornia have passed through Atlanta in
the past few months. ':'5
- A fetal duel with pistols occurred
across the Tennessee river from Lambs
ferry, Alabama, as q result OF which
J. Il. Mefford and r. Osborne are
s.sas. = quarrel having arisen be-
tween the two, Osborne went TO his
home nearby and returned with q pis-
toll which he emptied. He turned to
run, but Metford, mortally wounded.
ired at the fleeing man with deadly
effect. Both died shortly afterWard.
The Government' monthly re-
puf6 0I tne conditions OF the cotton
,rop makes special mention Of the
value Of cotton raised in the Louis
lsna Purchase States. It says; "The
galue OF the cotton crop OF 1902 in the
States included In the Louisiana Pur.
,hase Is given as $113, 1856, ,044 or more
han 50, 900, 600 greater than the origi-
,al price paid to Franco for that terri
'ory, with interest at per cent com
pounded to the present time.
So In view Of The establishment Of |
he Department Of Commerce and
,sabcr, IL may be interesting to note |
hat the internal eemmeroe. Of che !
United States, lest year, has been
stimated By the government ssstisti-
ian ct $40, ,009, ,000, 900. Fifty years |
go, it was only So, 2,GOO. .00O. .()f,Il. The |