The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-05
GENERAL NEWS.


demic Of typhoid fever, AL cases re-
ported.
= A woman was fined $50 at Bir.
mingham, Ala, for carrying conceal.
ed weapons.
= Sixteen dressmakers at South
Orange, N. j., have become brides
within the last month.
- Richmond county, Ca, which in
oludes the city of Augusta, is prepar-
ing to have q prohibition election.
j. Z. Holmes died at Brewton,
Co.. on Thursday from congestive
chill brought on by drinking too much
ice water.
Cows on the track caused the
wreck OF passenger train at Linwood,
Mich, Several persons were injured.
the engineer fatally.
- The Republicans have a CAM
paign fund already of over 81 ,0OO, 900,
and the chairman hopes to make it
slO,OO0,00O before he quits.
The Chinese in Manchuria have
been unable to harvest their crops on
account of the war and the winter will
likely bring much distress.
- Near Little Rock, Ark, a boy
shot his father and killed him be-
cause he would not stop abusing his
mother when he asked him to.
= Texas leads every other State of
the union in railroad mileage, the ae.
gregate, according to the Texas state
railroad commission, being i,563
miles.
- Next to England and France,
Germany is the greatest creditor ma
tion OF the world; that is, has the lar
gest amount of capital invested in for.
eign countries.
= The finance committee of the
Richmond council decided to recon.
mend that the city give 81 900 and q
site for the proposed monument to
Jefferson Davis.
=. Believing that colored teacher
had been appointed, 700 boys and girls
went on strike and prevented the
pupils from entering one of the public
schools in Chicago,
= By an almost unanimous vote the
United Citizens Club, of Philadel.
phla, non-partisan organization of
Jews, has decided to support the De.
mocratic ticket this year.
= 4 negro committed an assault on
Thursday on Mrs. Thomas Boagan
near Patton, Pa. Mobs were after him
on Friday to lynch him, but the off,
GERS got him out OF their way.
= A needle nearly two inches long
has been removed FROM the knee Of
Mrs. Davis Thomas by Dr.. E. r.
Apeldon, Of Berwyn, Pa. The needle
had entered her right leg about 80
years ago.
= Three miuers we're crushed to
death at the Old Audover Iron Mine.
at Hibernia, N. j., another was 80
badly injured that he will probably
die and two others were seriously
hurt. Nearly twenty tons of rock
fell on the men.
= There is in Chicago, according to
Q news dispatch, firm of stock bro.
kers that begins every days business
With Bible reading, hymn and pray
er. 1t is alleged that the firm has
found the "admixture of religion and
business to be very advantageous.
- An engine ran into wagon load
ed with dynamite ct little village
OF Long Branch, Nd, causing terri
fic explosion, killing the engineer and
o brakeman and wrecking several hou-
ses. The conclusion broke windows
OF houses half mile away
The military court of inquiry have
made their report to the governor Of
Alabama recommending that Co. f; of
the Alabama National Guard, which
was on duty ct Huntsville when the
negro Horace Naples was lynched, be
mustered out of sesvioe for ineffi-
cienoy. i.
Louis F. Carmiohal, q carpen-
ter 60 years Of age, Of Winston. Salem
n. O., shot and killed his wife, aged
so, then out the throatof his 12-year.
old step-daughter and committed sui
eide with q razor and pistol. It was
all because his wife. refused to live
with him.
- In q rainstorm at Mariette, /. T.,
twenty miles north OF GAINESVILLE, Tex
as, lightning struck and killed three
small boys and seriouoly injured two
others. The boys killed were all
rideing on one horse at the time, while
the two were on another horse. Both
horses were killed Instantly.
- Twenty thousand dollars to es-
tablish q home for drunkards' wives
in the State Of Iowa is one Of the be-
quests Of the late James Callahan, the
eccentric philanthropist millionaire.
Mr.. Callahan was strong advocate of
temperance during the latter years of
bis life and gave freely to the cause.
- According to railroad men, the
wreck on the Southern Railway near
pany nearly one million dollars in set
Ting death and injury claims. The
disaster was the most serious ever
known on the Southern, The destruc.