The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-07
ANDERSON, s. Co. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Z 1903
GENERAL NEWS.

The Florida orange trees have
not been hurt by the recent freeze.
- Bradstreets reports the holiday
trade this year the most active on
record.
:, Brazil has appropriated $500, 900
TO be represented at the st. Louis
exposition.
by falling through thin ice on
which they were skating, two boys
were drowned at Knoxville, Tenn.
-Four and thsss.auarser inches
fronting on Wabash avenue, Chicago,
was sold to Levi z. Letter for 81 $50.
"A fire in Louisville in lsrxe
whiskey house destroyed several hun
dred thousand dollars worth Of prop
erty.
- Fifteen thousand miners and
coke workers in the Connellsville re.
gion get ap advance Of 10 per cent in
wages.
= At che New Year reception at
the white house President Roosevelt
shook the hands OF seven thousand
people.
= The black and white phosphate
miners in Florida had q battle in
which two negroes were killed and two
white men wounded.
The accident insurance com.
panies are to pay 5000 to the heirs
OF man In Tennessee who died from
the effects Of tick bite.
= An Ohio man aged sixty.five has
just discovered that he needs wife
and offers $4,000 to any woman who
will marry him Immediately.
Gov. Durbin Of Indiana has re-
moved Sheriff Dudley of Sullivan
county for permitting prisoner to
be taken from him and lynched.
:. Andrew Carnegie has given New
Orleans quarter Of a million of dol
lars for new years gift. The mon
ey will be devoted to the public libra
-.
- On June 80 there we're rs 924
postoffices in the United States, of
which 228 were first class, 4 .O23 SEQ.
ond-class, 3,480 third-class and II. 1873
fourth GLASS.
- By the report Of Che agricultural
department it appears that the corn
product OF the year reached over one
billion dollars. Hay is the second ovop
on the list.
= Spain, Portugal, France, Eng
lanI and Great Britain have all sent
war ships to Morocco 60 protect their
citizens who are threatened by the re-
bellion there.
!; = A negro entered the house of n
lady in Alabama for the purpose OF
robbery, and when she discovered him
he fred at her but missed. She them
shot and killed him.
= President Larry Of the Lincoln
Memorial University at Cumberland.
Tenn, announces that northern
people have given the institution an,
endowment Of 100000.
= Frank Trenwith, 81 years old.
who was working in Philadelphia
mill for 81 a week. was married on
Wednesday to Mrs. Jennie Lyons, a
handsome widow of 80. worth $780,
600.
- Calvin Carter, an old Confederate
soldier, in Florence, Ala, driven to
because Of want. gave his
granddaughter, a helpless cripple.
acid and then cut his own
throat.
= Robbers stole $4,000 worth Of
diamonds from the window of q New
York jewelry store while crowds Of
people were passing. One OF the
robbers was captured and five Of the
gems recovered.
= A lone robber attempted to hold
up the Cincinnati. New Orleans ex-
press near Louisville. He stunned
the conductor with pistol bullet,
secured some booty and then made
good his escape. ~
= New York is suffering ffom q
coal famine and the outlook for the
poor is dark. It is said by dealers
there that the price of coal Will soar
to 800 per ton before another week.
1t is now selling at from $40 to SI2
per ton, while year ago it was plen-
tiful at $3.50.
->On q farm near Tompkinsville.
KY, is an apple tree that was brought
from Va: in 1871 by a man named
Campton. 1t has never missed bear.
ing fruit every season for 1O7 years.
This is claimed to be the Oldest apple
tree in the United States. Although
the fruit crop wes failure there this
season, this old veteran has q good
yield.
= Henry Mari, farmer living near
Columbus, Ind, lives closer than auy
other man to the center of population
as fixed by the United States census.
A stone slab marking this point has
been placed in Msrr's barn yard. II
the returns are to be relied on, there
were when the ,census was taken 49,.
b6O, 600 people in each direction from
the farm.
- According to the Railroad Ga
aatta. railroad hnildinn in tha IHn;Aaa