The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25
GENERAL NEWS.

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and Guatemala which nearly end
ed in war have been peacefully ar.
ranged.
= Snow in the Idaho mountains
averages IS feet deep and in some
places is 80 feet deep. The cold is
intense.
- At Newark, N. j., q fast express
cut through a trolley car crowded with
children, killing twelve and injuring
twenty.
= CASTOR County, N. c., is agitat-
ing the voting of $500, 900 for good
$500, 600.
Two men held up and robbed g
carload of passengers in California
securing about 5000 worth of jewelry
and cash.
Trouble seems to be brewing in
China. 1t is reported that the em-
press has the emperor in prison, under
heavy guard.
Fifty women have been jailed in
Patterson, N. j., charged with stealing
coal from cars Of the L~ackawanna &
Western railroad.
The negroes throughout the
South are holding meetings praising
Senator Hanna for introducing the
slave pension bill.
- An old-line Georgia Democrat
suggests William r. Hearst and John
B. Gordon as the next Democratic
presidential ticket.
A colony of Beers from South
Africa have selected for their home
q tract of 200, 600 acres of land in
Texas. They will make excellent
citizens.
The white republicans of Ala
bama have declared against President
Roosevelt and are determined to fight
his policy to the bitter end-his negro
policy.
- A bill has been introduced in the
Missouri senate making it a misde-
meanor, punishable with a fine of $25
TO 500, to n;rc with any boarding
school girl.
- Spain has been given heavy dam
ages against an English shipbuilding
company because of the non-dclivery
of torpedo boats at the time of the
Spanish-American war.
Miss Alice Bradley, aged 20 and
worth $50 1000, is being sued for $780,
600 damages by Mrs. Chas. B. Quin-
tard Of Sound Beach, Conn.,, for alien
ating her husbands affections.
= Warren Grover, q 17-year-old boy
OF Jamestown, N. Y, committed sui
eide on Friday by shooting himself
through the head. He was almost in
sane from the excessive use Of cigar.
cites.
John Smith and A. T. Wright,
young men of Birmingham, Ala, in
love with the same girl, settled their
differences on Wednesday night with
q pistol encounter in which Wright
was killed.
A train on the Southern railway
ran into an open switch at Ravens
worth, Va, killing the engineer and
fireman and seriously injuring two
postal clerks. The switch was mali.
ciously left open.
The General Assembly of Ten
nessee has passed a law prohibiting
the sale of whiskey in all towns Of
5000 inhabitants and under. There
are now only eight cities in that state
where whiskey can be sold legally.
= Four hundred dollars in gold aud
So, 900 in bills were in the house of Mrs.
John 81. Wait, of Balston, N. Y,
which was burned down a few days
ago. The gold was recovered from the
ruins, but the bills we're Of course de-
stroyed.
= At Springfield, Ohio, fire de-
stroyed the new building of the Young
Mems Christian Association, the
Fountain Square theater and several
adjacent buildings, causing a loss of
S250, 900, with insurance Of two.tf;rds
of that sum.
"A woman in Minnesota, who
died the other day, left a million dol
lars or so for the relief of the poor.
with an especial provision in her will
that no politician should have any
thing to do with the administration of
the trust fund.
An Atlanta dispatch saws one
thousand acres Of rich farming lands
~ ooochSiA pat VI Cuc 6OLaCG were
donated to the Salvation army by a
Georgia woman for the establishment
OF a colony composed of poor families
taken from the large northern cities.
Among the bills introduced in
the Wisconsin assembly was one pro-
hibitiDg the manufacture or sale of
cigarettes in Wisconsin. Another
making all marriages hereafter con.
tracted between white people with
negroes or mulattoes illegal and void
was also introduced.
= Dispatch from Atlanta announces
that DR.. G.. R. Glenn, of Atlanta, will
succeed the late DR.. j. L. Nj. Curry
as agent for the Peabody fund, which
is the proceeds of about 50, 600. 900
used for the education of southern
teachers. The headquarters of the as.
sociation will be moved from Wash
ington to Atlanta.
"A we'll known young man of Sa-
vannah asked his sweetheart to kiss
him and because she refused, he lost
kro law I'D ~.oaz