The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-11-11
ANDERSON s. G, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IL 1908
GENERAL NEWS.

- The government has added 79O
acres more to Chickamauga Park.
Jno. r. Mclean, Of Cincirnae;,
is said to have won 10000 on the
New York e.eotion.
= Eight inches of rain fell at Pen
sacola, Fla, ON Tuesday, 3rd inst. -
the heaviest in "a years.
A slight earthquake shock in
Tennessee on Wednesday caused ey.
element but no damage.
= In Louisville, KY, Tom Kiley,
democratic judge Of election, was shot
and killed By John Kriger, republican
sheriff.
James Culpepper, aged 70, of
Granitevillo, Ca, took carbolic acid
by mistake for toddy and died from
its effects.
- Edward, the 13-year-old son of
A. Z. Gresham, fell into q tan vat in
Rome, Ga, on Friday and died in ter
rible agony.
&C. w. Holland, 6O.year. old
citizen of Valdosta. Ca, is in jail
charged with running a fifteen gallon
bClll III nlS K1tCneE.
= Postmaster General Payne calls
for an appropriation Of sl68, GOO, 900
for the next gear. The deficit he
estimates at more than eight mil.
lions.
Six men we're killed and ten in
jured by an explosion at the United
States naval arsenal on Iona island,
New York. The property loss is
heavy.
- A million dollar Portland cement
plant is to be located at Selma, Ala,
by Boston capitalists who have al.
ready secured options on valuable ce-
ment rights.
= Benjamin franklin Weissenser,
of Pottsville, Pa, thought to be in
sane, killed his brother and tried to
Kill his sister and sister.in-law. The
brothers had quarreled.
= A quarrel between two men.
Little and McAlpine, in Smith county,
Mississippi, resulted in Smiths being
mortally wounded. McAlpine was
then shot to death by mob.
= At Allentown, Pa, the entire
Beohtel family has bsen held as ac-
cessory to the murder Of Mabel Bech-
tel, whose brother, charged with the
crime, killed himself in his cell.
= One person was killed outright
and ffty.on others injured, two of
them perhaps fatally, BY collision
of two cable cars at Kansas City.
The accident was due to dense fog.
- All Of our farmers do not depend
on cotton. A Mississippi man ship
ped carload of honey northward and
got about $4,000 for it. He knew
how to make the industrious bee his
banker.
- Fourteen solid blocks OF build
ings were burned on Coney Island, N.
T., on Monday night, the damage
being o million end half. One per-
son was killed and 500 persons we're
rendered homeless.
- The Tennessee synod at Mem
phie by vote OF so to 80 adopted the
committee report advising against the
removal of the Southwestern Presby-
terien university from Clarksville,
Tenn, 20 Atlanta, &c.
Two cnra loaded with dyne.,;.e
exploded at Cresline, Ohio, Sunday
night, and the shook wss 40 terrific
that ;.aussnds Of window glass were
broke, panios occurred in churches
and s!.aat Eve hundred cars were burn
= Fifteen persons we're killed aud
over fifty injured in q collision Of
trains on the Big Four railroad. Near
~ ell the victims were happy foot
ball players Of Purdue university
COINS to play the State championship
game.
- VIM. j. Engel, secretary and
treasurer Of the Vincennes, Ind,
Distilling company was shot in
hia home while dressing to 20
out. AS his aocounts have since been
found $25, 900 to $50, ,000 short, it is
suspected he killed himself.
- A Bridgeport, Ct., man has in.
vented an engine developing 12-horse
power weighing but ffty-five pounds.
IL will run ten, hours on two and one
half gallons Of kerosene. He will US 9
the engine for propelling an aeroplane,
which will be seen at the Worlds Fair
at st. Louis in 1904.
- At Brooklyn, N. Y, with her
face and head streaming with blood
from dozen gashes, Miss Margaret
Hunt, prominent in social circles,
hung desperately to negro highway
man Friday morning at Vanderbilt aud
Atlantic avenues. The police arrived
just In time &c save her life.
- There was disastrous wreck on
toe Asheville division Of the Southern
Railway near Tryon, N. O., at about 2
o'clock Thursday morning. An en-
gine and six cars were derailed and
fell down an embankment, and Engi-
neer Hendrix, Fireman Floyd and the
front brakeman were injured, the lat
ter probably fatally.
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