The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-20
GENERAL NEwgs

govsrnment's ice plant at Manila, has
been arrested charged with emhegs!;~g
$4,000.
- President Chappell has dismissed
the entire student body If the Georxis
Normal and Industrial college, whore
smallpox had developed.
= Carson and Newman College at
YJ eRe,sJn City, Tenn, has been closed
)on account Of two dozen cases of small.
pox amongst the students.
- Judge Augustus E. Maxwell, who
has recently died in Florida ct the
age os "a, was the last bu. one Of the |
Confederate States Senators.
~ Postmaster General Payne has
suspended A. w. Machen, superinten-
dentNOf free rural delivery, pending
tho investigation OF charges against
him.
The largest individual life insur-
anoe claim paid in North Carolina dur
ing the year. was upon the iifaof the
late Preston L. Bridgers, of Whining
- John Czolgosz, q brother of the
man who killed President McKinley,
was confined as protection for Presi-
dent Roosevelt while he was in Los
Angeles, California.
Ex-P President Cleveland has con-
tributed check, accompanied by q
letter, for the benefit Of the fund to
erect in Richmond a monument to
General j. E.,B. Stuart.
(, g Our trade with Cuba is at a dis
advantage in competition with Europe
because freights are higher from the
United States than from Europe, de-
spite the difference in distance.
- 4 negro mob in Delaware attack
ed circus man who had been
soldier in the Philippines and didn' &
discover their mistake until four of
them were laid out dead with bullets
in them.
- Samuel Keith, of Waynesvil]e,
N. O., was abusing his wife. His son
demonstrated with him when the father
assailed him and the son aon shot him
dead and then surrendered to the
sheriff.
- This was crue!. How could q
modern Boston maid who had forsakeh.
the pen use nom de plume, and how
could she explain when there is ro
good Latin substitute for writing
machine?''
- A trust has been formed, with a
| anew: Jersey charter, for. controlling
the peanut trade, with a capital Of
| 81, ,O00, 900. The name of the trust
company is the American Edible Nut
1 Company.
Jaeksonville, F3a,, has been de-
luged with, food because Of heavy
downpoutof rain. One square mile
of the cityhis said to be under Water
and there is much damage to oity snd
railroad property.
- Col. Asa Philip Stanford, 81
j years old and brother OF the late
| millionaire Leland Stamford, died in
New Y ork on Wednesday in poverty.
7 He had once been o millionaire him
Eself, but lost all in speculation.
What is probably the Eaggest
locomotive in the world has ,GsE heen
completed at Schenectady for hauling.
freight over the Rocky Mountains. It
measures 20 feet, and ON level track
can haul train Of cars mile and a
half long. ,I
/ New York city is having the
greatest labor war in her history. It
is stated that S65, 600, 600 in building
contracts is tied mp and 100000 man
are idle. The masons, carpenters,
plasterers and al! the other building
trades are either out on, strikes or. are
looked out.
In tunnel disaster on the N. &
l2W. Railway, in Giles County, Ve., !,
nine men were killed and three fatally
injured. A gang was double tracking
tho tunnel, and when the earth and
stone for the, tracks had been removed
a huge slide Of rock fell striking che
i gang squarely and with the terrible
consequences mentioned.
Owing to heavy rains in many
j parts OF Kansas serious foods are re-
ported, resulting in loss Of life aud
great destruction to property. The
Republican river is spreading over
thousands Of acres Of land, destroying
/ crops of wheat and corn. The central
branch Of the Missouri Pacific has
been forced to suspend traffic.
Az JAS. s. Sturteyant, treasurer
/ OF q Medford, Mass, bank, and his
daughter Miss Nellie reached Il ;r
i home from the bank on Thursday nj Z
/ q man sprang from concealment and
ordered the former to hold up his
I hands. Miss Sturtevant struck the
rubber with her umbrella and he shot
and killed her. An Italian has been
arrested on suspicion. 4
An Ohio syndicate has made Q
proposition to construct an electric
Irailwsy from Athens to GAINESVILLE,
Ga. on condition that the people
slong the line put up 10000. The
people Of GAINESVILLE it is said have
1 raised fully one-third Of the amount,