The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-21
GENERAL NEWS.


= 1t is said there are over two hun
dred cases Of small! pox in Elbert coun-
ty, Ga.
- Bets are being made now by pool |!
that Roosevelt will not be dominated |
for the presidency.
- Six persons were fatally burned
In Johnstown, Pa. by the explosion
or keg of powder.
= Nearly seventy thousand people |
are starving in northern Sweden, as a |
result Of the famine.
Gen. nuddington says that 30
152 Confederates died in Federal pris-
ons during the civil war.
An American soldier in the
philippine Islands, who was captur-
ed, was roasted to death.
- Recently Chinese professor in
q government college made application
for fifty English Bibles for use of the
students.
= It is said that there are now
more girls than boys preparing for col
lege in the United States. BY and by
the sweet boy graduate will be a rara
avis.
Thos. A. Donahue, q young New
York millionaire, while crazed with
typhoid fever, jumped from sew
enth story window Saturday and was
killed.
- Many towns aud cities are pass
ing through coal famine, and with
the mercury hanging near the zero
point the suffering is somewhat ter
rible.
While party we're skating on
pond in Washington city on Wednes-
day the ice gave way precipitating
twenty persons into the water. A
young woman and two young men were
drowned.
= Policeman Mann killed burglar
in Atlanta, Ca, on Thursday night.
He caught the burglar in the act Of
blowing open a safe. The burglar
turned on the officer with revolver
and the officer shot him.
- Because his brother refused to
give him cigarette paper, Pink
Groves, young man living at Grove
Park. Fla, plunged knife into his
brothers heart, killing him instantly.
Groves was arrested and placed in
Jail.
- James 81. Robin, president of q
bank at SilvertoL, Ohio, committed
suicide because he had taken large
sums for speculation and could not re-
turn them. The haste to get rich
may be put down SO the cause Of the
rash act.
L. The State game wardens of
Ohio are raiding the millinery shops
and summoning the milliners to answer
the charge Of selling the bodies Of
insectiverous aud song birds contrary
to The law. $25 is the price they are
paying.
= The largest mule on earth,
three year old jennet, belonging to
Michael Murray, Of Hereford, NO.,
will be exhibited at the Worlds Fair,
st. Louis. She is eighteen hands, or six
feet high at the shoulders and weighs
1,705 pounds.
= There ia deadlock in the North
Carolina legislature over the election
OF senator to succeed Senator Pritoh-
ard. Following are the candidates
being voted for in the order of their
strength: Oyerman, Watson, Craig,
Carr, Alexander.
- r.. A. Rigsby, professor in q
business college," was shot and kill
ed in Macon, Ga, by Mrs: Efie Gar
son, q teacher Of telegraphy in anoth-
er business college," It is said that
Rigsby had made remarks detrimental
to her character.
= Mary Gallagher, sixty.five years
old and worth $4,000, was found
starving in hovel at Englewood, N.
j., the other day and taken to hospi
tai. She had several thousand dollars
in money on her person but declared
she could not afford to buy food.
General Davis, in command OF
the army in the Philippines, has made
an unfavorable report on the plan to
colonize negroes in the Philippines.
He argues that they would not like
the different conditions there and
that they would not be likely to leaven
the Philippine lump.
= Arthur Jennings, aged 27, resi-
dent Of Florence, Col, has negotiated
with an Eastern medica' institute for
the purchase Of his heal. Jennings
head is almost twice the normal size.
According to the informant, the price
is $1,000 down and an additional
81 900 to be paid to his relatives ut
the time Of his death. His head
measures thirty-six inches in circum.
ference.
Joseph Kirspach was taken into
q philadelphia hospital recently auf-
fering from what was supposed to be
Q bullet wound in the right temple.
He had placed revolver to his head
and fred. Mr.. Kirspach was seeming. |
ly unconscious, but after the surgeons |
had washed the blood from his face
they found no injury save some pow.
der burns and abrssions of the skin.
It was then discovered that the cart.
ridge used by Kirspach was blank |