The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-12-30
GENERAL NEWS.
- Four children were burned to
death in Augusta in one week.

GouE cullurcu WeE0 OurQeG TO
death in Augusta in one week.
- All efforts to settle the strike of
livery drivers in Chicago have failed
and it is said fight to the finish is on.
- A literary recluse Of Louisville
has bequeathed to tho University of
Virginia his library worth 100000.
Mrs. Mollie White, of Lanett,
fell down the steps at her home and
the fall broke her neck. 1t is sup
posed abe was fainting and caused tho
fall.
- Judge Pope Barrow of the super
ior court of Georgia was seized with
vertigo while trying case in Ssvan.
nah and died short while after
wards.
- The new williamsburg bridge
across East river, at New York City,
which has been in course OF struc.
ture for about ten years, is now open
for passage.
- Joseph Phillips killed his three
motherless children and then himself
at Hudson, N. Y, because of his in
ability to purchase Christmas gifts for
his children,
:. Nicholas Miyo, aged So, shot
and killed Tony Loche %, and his
bride in Philadelphia on Wednesday
because Laobe had married the young
woman he was in love with.
= Four little negro children were
burned to death in Oconee county,
Ca, on Wednesday night. Their
parents had gone off and their house
burned down in their absence.
| - Nicaragua has recognized the
! Republic of Palam= b. sppo;nsins o
consul at the city of Panama. This
is the fret recognition Of the republic
by Central American nation.
= Eugene Muslin, of Augusta, Ga,
has been arrested, charged with illicit
manufacture of whiskey in cellar on
Broad street. The whiskey was label
ed Nerve and La Grippe Cure"
| = An agreement has been reached
between General Taft and the friars
OF the philippine Islands by which
the United States will acquire the
friars lands for the sum Of 81, ,21O, 900
in gold.
| = A sensation has been caused in
Alabama religious orioles by the
withdrawal Of Rev. G. T.. Chiffon
from the Methodist church and his
declaration that Methodists have de-
serted their old time principles.
John Melrose, the driver Of the
st. Paul police ambulance, had chick
en- for dinner the other day and in the
crop of the fowl sacrificed for tho
purpose he found diamond valued at
S125.
- Robert Burohett was murdered
at his home at Max Meadows, Va.,
and suspicion points to his wife and
another man. His wife was found
washing blood stains from the floor.
The body had been dragged some dis
lance from the house.
- The fast through train from
Pittsburg to New York on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad ploughed into
pie OF lumber near Dawson, Po.,
with the result that sixty-three per.
cons We're killed many injured and che
train virtually demolished.
= The president has appointed
Gen. Jno. q. Black, Of Chicago, on
the OWL service commission in place
Of Jno. R. Proctor, deceased. Gen.
Black 10 commander.in-chief Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, was
commissioner Of pensions under Oleve-
land and is a. democrat.
- Miss Florence Graham Offut. OF
Lexington, KY, where she is direo-
academy, has broken off an engage.
ment to wed o young man Of good
family because he insisted that after
IN rrs oa oho oho,,9J
cupation.
The best paid official in the world
is said to be the grand vizier to the
Sultan Of Morocco. Ben Hammed.
who held the Office for twenty years
previous to his death, which occurred
recently, left store Of gold coin, ab.
to $40, 200, 900. '''''
-. A successful trial of flying ma
chine was made on Thursday near
Kitty Hawk, N. c., by Wilbur and
Orrville Wright, Of Dayton, Ohio.
The machine flew for three miles in
the face Of wind blowing % miles
an, hour and then gracefully descended
IN the spot selected for it.
= During joint debate at Hope,
Ark, between the three candidates
for the democratic nomination for
governor, a personal encounter 90.
CURED between two Of the candidates.
Governor JEFF Davis and Associate
Justice Woods. Neither gentleman
was hurt and both were put under
bond to appear at the police court.
An engineer on the Georgia road
recently succeeded in stopping his
train on trestle within six feet of an
old man and Eve children who were
crossing the trestle. A curve on the
track shut off the view Of the trestle
until almost too late to stop the train.
The stop was 60 abrupt that the par