The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-03
GENERAL NEWS.

hsNe both been re-elected Senators
from Mississippi.
= The lower house of Congress has
passed the army appropriation bill.
which carries the enormous SUN of
SO, 100000
= a resolution introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature inviting Presi-
dent Roosevelt. to address that body
was voted down.
= New jersey, the charter State,
boasts that she has more than two
million dollars in her treasury and
doesn't owe dollar.
= The Produce Exchange bank, of
Cleveland, Ohio, has been forced to
the wall owing to defalcation of
$l7O, GOO by Cashier Rose.
= One hundred and eighty.four
miners lost their lives by the caving
10 of the Harwick mine Of the Allie
gheny Coal company, near Ches wick,
Pa.
- A part Of the town Of Elberton,
Ca, was destroyed by Ere Wedues.
day night. A dry goods store, drug
store and two grocery stores were
burned.
- An old negress in Augusta, Gs.,
has been found guilty of the fendish
act of tbrusting little child, three
years old, into the fire end burning
it SO severely that it's life is despaired
of.
John Sorrels prominent young
man" Of Banks county, Georgia, aged
20, pointed his gun at his ID ,year-old
sister on Monday and it went off and
killed her. He 'didu't know it was
loaded"
The Ohio river above Ginoinnsti
is blocked with ice for miles. In
some places the ice is 30 to 40 feet
high. The river has never been fro
zen over 80 long as it has been this
winter.
-J. r. Clary, chief master of arms
on the United States battleship Neva-
da, with service stripes orf his arms
denoting twenty-eight years of naval
Service, recently completed 100 trips
around the world.
= Senator Burton, of Kansas. has
been indicted on half q dozen counts
for receiving bribes for the exercise Of
influence with the postmaster general
in behalf Of concern that was max.
ing fraudulent use of the mails.
The wife Of Abraham Gotwais.
with an unloaded revolver, drove back
to their cells two prisoners who had
murderously assaulted her husband
and Night Watchman Samuel Beck
with, in the Jail at N orristown, Pa.
= According to cable report from
the United States representative At
Montevideo there have been three
heavy battles between the insurgents
and the government OF Uruguay. In
the last battle the insurgents lost 500.
= The governor of Tennessee has
veto:d the dispensary bill passed by
the legislature of that State, one Of
his reasons being that "if it is i'm
moral and Injurious for q citizen to
sell liquor it is much more 80 for the
State"
= BENZ. Dickerson is under arrest
at his home 18 miles from Savannah,
charged with having beaten his wife
to death. He acknowledges The. be
whipped her, but says he used small
switches. His children have testified
against him.
The coroner's jury of Chicago
has concluded It's inquiry as to the re-
sponsibility for the fire in the Iroquois
theatre, and the names of about a
dozen persons ere presented as being
responsible, among the number being
Mayor Harrison.
= The Pacolet Manufacturing com
pany's cotton mill at Gainesville, Ca,
which consumes annually over 10000
bales of cotton and employs 1000
hands has closed down for an indefinite
period because Of the low price of
goods and the high price Of cotton.
= A statement has been issued by
the family of the late Gen. John B.
Gordon expressing their gratefulness
for the many kilograms received dur
ing the illness Of Gen. Gordon and
after his death. Owing to the large
number Of messages received it is i'm
possible for them all to be acknowl-
edged, and the family requests that
their appreciation be made known
through the press.
- Another daughter of o. Revolu.
tionary soldier has turned up in Kan
sas in the person of Miss Eleanor
Hoyt, of Lebo, Coffee County. She
is said to be the only unmarried daugh-
ter Of Revolutionary soldier now liv-
ing. There are only three other daugh
ters of Revolutionary heroes drawing
pensions: Congressman Miller, Of
Kansas, has introduced q special bill
IN Congress to grant Miss Hoyt
pension of $l2 month.
- From the Mississippi valley to
the Atlantic ocean in the northern
part of the United States, SHOWS are
melting on the mountain sides. rivers
are flooded to their banks and over the
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