The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-27
IN, s. c., WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1904.
GENERAL NEWS.

- The cotton crop in Southeastern,
Ala., was badly damaged by terrific
hail storm.
- Bryan has issued manifesto in
which he promises to vote for Parker
and Davis.
- The strike in Chicago packing
housee has been called off aud ell
questions are to be settled by arbi.
tration.
- Mics Rose Levy, aged II, com.
united suicide in New York because
her father, retired merchant, would
not let her marry the young man che
loved.
- It has been estimated that the
total amount of insurance money paid
to those who lost their lives in the
great Baltimore fire will exceed thirty
million dollars.
Fully 300 physicians are to be
sent from the United States to the
isthmus Of Panama to endeavor to
make lshor on the big canal safe from
a esnitary standpoint.
- Colonel John 8. Mosby, Of Con-
federnte guerrilla fame, who ives re-.
Gently appointed An Assistant AT.
torney in the Department OF Justice,
at Washington, 10 seventy one years
old.
= Edgar T. Weohburn. Q big grain
merchant Of Buffalo, N. Y, shoe and
killed his wife aud daughter and thau
committed suicide on Friday. Bupi.
ness troubles ig stated aS the cause.
= A cat owned by Uriah Adams,
Of Mt. Holly, N. j., reoently killed Q
rat which had about its neck o dia.
mond ring belonging to his daughter.
Search for the lost ring had been
abandoned.
Frank Carter, Of Lowton, Okla
home, and hi8 wife have BEEN mar.
ried bat eighteen years, and :hey are
the joint parente OF twenty. three
ohildFen-all living. Fourteen Of the
children are twins
Capt. John Taylor Wood, grand
son Of Zachary Taylor and nephew Of
Jefferson Davis, died last week at
Halifax, Move Scotia. aged "a. He
was on the STAFF Of President Davis
during the Civil War.
- The Mormons have purchased
substantial buildings in Chattanooga,
Tenn, for the permanent establish.
ment of headquarters for the Mormon
Church in the South. These head
quarters are moved from Atlanta.
j. NJ. Stewart, prominent poll
ticisn Of Elba, Ala. was shot and
killed on Wednesday by Miss Annie
Rhodes, q member Of o prominent
family. 1t is said that Stewart had
been mixing up her name in soar
dal.
- There has been placed in the
State Library, ct Richmond, plate
armor taken from the body Of Fed
ersl soldier on the Seven Pines field.
1t is claimed that this susteins the
charge that Northern soldiers we're
armor. :,
= The beard Of Valentine Tapley
is almost twice as long as he is tall,
and he is proud Of his peculiar distinc.
ton. he lives aS Frankfort, Mo.,
and the beard, which is the longest in
the world, is more than eleven feet in
length.
Wiley Davis, OF Bremen, Harrol-
son County, Georgia, is dead, at the
age of 1l5 years. He lived in Haral-
son County nearly all OF his life aud
had been very active man until
few years ago. He was considered
the oldest'man in Georgia.
Bryon and Ross Clutter, aged re-.
speotiuely % and II years, weTe
struck by lightning and instantly kill
ed during severe storm at st. Mary's
w. Va, last week. They were at
work at the time in the hay fields on
the farm owned by their father.
- At Portland, Oregon, in a cloud
burst accompanied by loss of life and
great damage to property near Mitchell,
in Wheeler County, Mrs. Bsthune,
aged 80 years and Martin Smith, 81
years, were drowned. Twenty.eigh
bouses In Mitohell were destroyed.
-Wm. p. Scott, ehe negro can
didate Cor the presidency on the
National Liberty party ticket, was
arrested in st. Louis on Thursday
because of ON unpsid 6ne Of 800.
Scott rnne ss!con and summer gar
den, and was fined for conducting a
disorderly establishment.
- Three young girls. 20, 1S and Is
years Of age, respectively. daughters
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kemmou, Of
Washington, together with Mrs.
James Hubbard and child, Of Meter,
Va, were drowned at Edgewater,
Westmoreland County, Va, last week
while bathing. Their bodies were re-
covered. ,s
- A mob Of thousand meu at
Lancaster, Pa, attempted to lynck
two men who had been arrested and
brought % Lancaster charged with
the brutal raid upon the village Of
Gordonville, Pa, recently. The off !:
GERS with the greatest difficulty sup-
ceeding In gotting the men to jail.
The men admit that they were in the