The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.

elected mayor of indianapolis, Ind,
on Tuesday.
= The dispute between the Federal
Government and the State Of Louis
lana over swamp lands will soon be
settled.
= Snow, sleet and rain have dam
aged crops within the past week in
Minnesota to the extent of millions Of
dollars.
- Doctors assert that an attempt
has been made to kill the soldiers on
duty at Cripple Greek by poisoning
their water.
= China has at last signed the com
mercial treaty with the United States.
This insures the opening Of additional
ports in Manchuria.
= The president will call an extra
session of congress to begin the 9th
of November. The extra session will
run into the regular one.
- In riot between drunken In
dians on the Blackfoot reservation in
Montana seven persons were killed
and two seriously wounded.
- Four men drove into Berwick,
ILL.,, on "Wednesday before daylight,
entered the Farmers State bank. blew
open the safe and got $4,000.
= The Americans at St. Andrews,
Nicaragua, have appealed to the Unit.
ed States for protection, and war
ship will be sent to the scene.
= Mrs. Dora Russell, of San Fran
cisco, was shot and killed on Monday
night by her husband, Hillard Rus.
sell, who mistook her for burglar.
- Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to
carry larger amount of insurance
than any other woman in the world.
Her policies amount to more than
81, 100000.
= D. V. Miller, formerly assistant
attorney general for the postal depart
ment, is on trial at Cincinnati on the
charge of accepting bribe while in
government service.
= A girl in Norfolk. Va, vas mar
ried twice within twelve days. Her
first husband committed suicide be-
cause of attentions she paid to the
man who has become her second hus-
band.
- The association Of commissioners
of agriculture for the Southern States
at their meeting in Montgomery, Ala. :,
gave their estimate Of the cotton crop
as 10000. I'll. That was the average
of all their estimates.
= Announcement was made of
gift OF s25, 900 to the University of
North Carolina by Judge w. P. By
mum, of Charlotte, as memorial to
his grandson. The money will be
used to erect museum.
- A man giving his home as New
York has just been run out of Lum-
berton, N! G., at the point of pistols
because he was trying to take orders
for whiskey to be shipped to that
town. The town recently went dry.
During a prolonged attack of
hiccoughs Thomas Mcdonald, of Ply
mouth, Penn, was the victim of
peculiar injury. The paroxysms be-
came 30 violent that two of his ribs
snapped and were seriously fractured.
= The Japanese government has
issued an off cial statement denyipg
the reports Of imminence of war be-
tween that country and Russia, and
states that there is no reason to an
tioipate rupture between the swo
countries.
- Judge John "a. Reagan, post
master general of the Confederacy aud
the only surviving member Of the cabi-
net, declares in an interview that the
American republic is doomed and that
he wishes Texas to remain intact that
it may once more become the republic
Of Texas.
- The Presbyterian synod of Ohio
has adopted resolutions declaring that
"all ministers are hereby enjoined to
refuse to perform the marriage oere-
mony in the case Of divorced persons,
except such persons as have been
divorced upon grounds and Cor causes
recognized 90 Scriptural in the stan.
dards Of our church."
- By the action OF the Federal
grand jury in returning no bill against
four Italians charged with passing
Confederate bills, the United States
courts OF the Northern district Of
Ohio have gone on record in declaring
the possession aud passing Of Confed-
crate currency no violation Of the Fed
eral statutes which apply to counter.
felt money.
- Fireman Thomas Callahan's goat
ate the pocket off pair Of trousers
belonging to another fireman that had
been csrelessly thrown down in the
engine house in Louisville, KY, q
few days ago. In the pocket were
twelve silver dollars. TIE goat did
not have time to die Of indigestion ss
he was put to death With force and
violence. and the twelve dollars were
recovered.
"A fight at Columbus, Texas,
which started at dance between Viii.
lism Wink and Rheinhard Hildebrand,
Wink was killed, Hildebrand was shot
in the neck and probably fatally wouod-
ed, Joe Becker, spectator, WAS shot
in the leg and Beno Hildebrand was
badly heatan ahonk the haS2 Tho