The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Bloomfield, Conn, fired five shots at
the officers who had him.
- The registered vote in New
York city exceeds that of 1900 by
$4,000, the vote Of Greater New York
registering 668,775
= Henry p. Farrow, postmaster at
Gainesville, Ca, has been removed
and the widow of Gen. James Long
street has been appointed in his
place.
- Two farmers of Winder, Ca, got
into a dispute over some land in
which one shot and killed the other.
Both men were about 90 years old and
very prominent.
= Mrs. Will Martin, of Indepen-
dence, Mo. has threatened suit to get
nearly half of the city of Augusta.
She claims that the land was q plan
tation Of her fathers years ago.
- Miss Penri Durham, of Dauville,
N. c., who had not walked for fifteen
years, got up and walked to the altar
on Sunday to be married to William
Harper, widower.
s. Mrs. Grant Mitta, of Mason,
Ky,,. has brought suit for SIS, 900
damages against j. B. Alexander for
stealing kiss from her at her home
while her husband was away.
= The United States grand jury at
HuntsvillesehAla., have presented in
diotments.a .aEdihst several persons for
participating in the lynching Of the
negro Horace Staples.
/: = Mrs Lahey, of Jacksonville,
Fla, shot and killed Joe Wood, a
white man, of the same place, because
he forced his attentions on her daugh-
ter, after being told to keep off the
premises.
- Crazed by drink: Harry Bowles,
Of Brookline, Mass, shot and killed
his wife at, tneir home and few min
utes later. killed Policeman McMur.
ray. who vas attempting to arrest
him.
johnnie Partridge, pupil of
the Jonesboro, N. c., high school fell
while standing at the blackboard aud
died in few minutes. His death is
attributed to the excessive use oc
cigarettes.
Il. G. Barron vas shot and kill
ed at Lovett, Ga, by N. A. Thomp-
son, mayor Of the town. It is 80 d
Barron had been threatening to kill
Thompson for year and was trying
to draw pistol when he was shot.
= Mrs. Villa Leonard, the most
expert money counter in the United
States treasury department., has not.
made mistake in forty years. She
does NOT count new money, but paper
money tbst has become old and fraz-
zled from use.
John W. E. eHopens, an employe
Of the Piedmont, hotel barber shop,
Atlanta, was stabbed to death in the
shop by SamueleF. Ring, fellow
workman, the latter using o pair Of
scissors as his wsspen, with which he
pierced Hopens t9 the heart.
-Jno. B. MoDopsld, the con-
tractor, has just completed the New
York subway railroad at o cost of
$45, 600, ,000-the biggest contract
ever carried out. tits 10 be operated
after that time to be the property of
the city.
- After walking from Terre Haute.
Ind, to Knoxville, Tenn, and de.
spairing Of success, T. E. Leroy,
tramp, was offered and accepted 1884,
600 for q one-fourth interest in q
patent to tie the ends ,of steel rails
together. The New York Central
railroad is the purchaser.
- Over sixty years ago, Spencer T.
Hancock, Of Manchester, VT, was in
bad health, thought ne was going to
die, and named the persons he desired
to act as his pail bearers. Last Sun
day he celebrated his eighty-first
birthday. All the original pail bear
era are dead and he has now picked
ont new list.
= George E. Holt, a war veteran
aud farmer at Vineland, N. j.. has
carried bullet in his head for al
years. His regiment was disbanded
in Kansas after the war and he was
shot down by Quantrell's Guerrillas
and left for dead with bullet in his
head. He recovered, however, and
is now as well as ever.
- Determined to have fair cleo.
tion this year the Democrats and Re-
publiosus, in Adams County, O., have
each deposited $500 in t he Deposit
Bank at West Union to be used in
prosecuting any person or persons
found trying to purchase votes, in
fuenoing voters in any way or inter.
fering with the ballot box.
- Missing cashier Allen Parker. Of
the First National Bank of Tallahoma,
Tenn, has surrendered after wander
ing in the woods within twc miles Of
town. His physical condition is bad.
Hs states ihat the beoks show ashort.
age Of little. over 1000. His
revenue collections are correct to o
penny. The money lost was due to
speculation.
- A beer wagon collided with an
ioe cream stand at Providence, r. l.,
and the stock of cream was precipi-
tated into the street.. A leaky beer
barrel turned the mass into sort Of
frozen pudding, which was partaken