The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-22
GENERAL NEWS.

IA sti ouBo DoRJ WHICH III QesLfHc-
tive 10 cotton, has been discovered in
Alabama.
- After Japuary women will not
be allowed to sing in Catholic Church.
es. The Pope las so ordered it.
A hurricane destroyed several
towns in Cuba and did much damage
to Santiago. Many lives were lost.
A fight with pistols in the streets
Of Bryantsville, Ind, resulted in the
death Of three men and the wounding
of two others.
- A man who was being taken to
the asylum in Georgia got loose and
fled to the woods and he committed
suicide by hanging himself to tree.
- Georgia is preparing to move
record breaking peach crop, which is
estimated at 5000 car loads. The
fruit is said to be the largest and
finest since 1898.
-R. G. Dunn & Co., report that
the cost Of living which was higher in
March last than it he'd been in twenty
years previous, is on steady and ap.
precieble decline.
- Jonah Woods. an old negro. was
lynched and hanged by men of his
own color in Heard County, Georgia,
FOR threatening to report them to the
grand jury FOR crap shooting.
= The cost Of the various strikes
in Colorado within the past 16 months
is said to have been about $23 ,OCO, 900.
The State troops have been OF guard
10 prevent trouble since early in
1903.
Thirteen year old Margaret
Sweeney, an orphan girl who lived
with her aunt, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid in Brookly lyn., :,
N. Y, on Thursday because her aunt
scolded her.
- Many arrests growing out of the
mine troubles in Colorado are being
made. The president of the miners
union is under arrest charged with
murder by blowing up train with
dynamite.
- The Arkansas Valley on the Ar.
kansas River has been flooded for a
week. Levees have been broken in
many places, and great destruction to
millions of dollars followed.
- The Charlotte Observer says that
woman has entered suit for $40, 600
damages against the Southern rail-
way in that town because she was
forced to stand in the rain while
freight train had the street blocked.
= Capt. N. B. Broward, after q very
exciting campaign, has been elected
Governor Of Florida, defeating Con.
gressman r. W. Davis, one of the
most prominent politicians in the
State. The nomination Of Broward
came as great surprise.
- Miss Hannah McNamara. who
ssys sue 10 60, 10 suing Meyer Gug-
genbeimer, of New York, aged IS, for
breaeh Of promise Of marriage, fixing
her damages at 100000. Her law
yers in the courts ask for a speedy
trial before the old man dies.
- Work has been resumed in the
mines in Teller County, Colorado, the
district which was placed under mar
tial law on account of o reign Of law.
lessness. and it is reported that the
streets of the towns and cities in the
district have taken on their normal
appearance. .
- The Texas popul;sts have held
their State Convention and have in
stsucted their delegates to the national
convention to be held at Springfield,
uls., to vote as unit, and for no
one except an old line populist. Near.
" all the >individual members Of the
delegates at large favor Thomas Wat
son, of Georgia. as head Of the ticket.
Lightning struck the house of
Mr.. w. T. Leopold in Savannah last
week, running down chimney and
scattering bricks through the sitting
room. Mrs. Leopold was severely
shocked, but on recovering found that
the electric disturbance had instsn-
taneously cured her of painful rheu-
matio stack, which the dcotors could
not relieve,
- - Making believe he was high
wayman, Frank Reinecke, sixteen
year-old boy, jumped from behind
clump Of bushes at Mount Holly, N.
j., last Thursday night, and seizing
his father from behind, cried "Now,
Ve BOL you. 11lS Iatuer grove
clasp knife into the boys heart. AS
the boy fell, he cried: "Why, it's
me, father" The boy died in few
moments.
AS the result Of friction over
the selection of g teacher for public
schoof at Elk, Texas, a bloody street
fight took place between R. B. Tor.
renee, and j. McAden, . son-in-law
being on one side, and DR.. Holton,
his son and Prof. G. w. Perkins on
:ss other. The elder Terrence was
~ received dangerous wounds. Shot.
guas and rsvolvers were the weapons
used.
- Another horror hss struck the
country. Wednesday morning while
no fewer than 2 900 souls, Z mostly wo-
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