The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-02
On, s. G., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1904.
GENERAL NEWS.

- "a sl50,000 Gre occurred in De-
oasur, Ala, on Wednesday.
- Texas is having some race trou.
bles. In pitch battle between whites
and negroes at Bryan several persona
were killed.
- Insurance men put the Baltimore
fire loss at $32, 1864, 1894. Two more
small local insurance companies have
gone to the wall.
- Paymaster Harry Biscoe, Of the
United States steamship Oregon, has
been arrested for alleged shortage of
So, 600 in his accounts.
= BY the will of the late Senator
Hanna an estate vslued at about So
100000 is left to his family. There
are no charitable bequests.
= Miss Pearl Niedenthal, aged
sixteen. committed suicide in Rsl.:-
more by swallowing carbolic acid be-
cause she was scolded by her father.
- Several Georgia farmers near
Barnesville have sold their next crop
of cotton, in lots Of 100 to 200 bales,
atprices ranging from II to 122 cents.
- The blowing up OF locomotive
on the Pennsylvania railroad, near
Johnstown, resulted in the killing
of three men and the injury Of two
cihers.
=. 1t is reported from Moscow and
st. Petersburg that jewish soldiers
are deserting in great numbers from
Che Russian army. Six were caught
and ahot.
T. J. Cornwell, defaulting presi-
dent Of the Bessemer, Ala, savings
bank, who fled to Honduras about g
year ago, will return to Bessemer and
stand trial.
Robert P. Skinner, American
CONSUL general at Marseilles, Fran ,e.
has recently Effected trade relations
with Ethiopia which will be to the in
tefest Of the United States.
"a. w. Aderhald, of Canton.
Ohio, visits his father, Mike Adcr-
hald, at Tallapoosa, Ca, after they
had been separated FOR forty-two years.
not having heard from each other.
= A dispatch from San Domingo to
Q Paris paper says that the United
States cruiser Columbie and the train
ing ship Hartford have bombarded
Dusrte which is occupied by the in
surgents.
- A torpedo or q stick ef dynamite
9as thrown under the rear Of the resi-
nenoe of Mr.. Robert Spitzer, at Biz.
mingham, Ala, and the explosion,
~hhi0h was deafening, almost destroy
ed the house.
= Deadville. Miss, a little town,
is experiencing some serious race
troubles. Several persons of both
races have been killed. Whites are
searching for several other negroes
and declare that they will lynch them.
- The Houston Post notes that
'disquieting reports of tendency to
largely increase the cotton acreage
come from all over Texas, particular
~ from those sections where the boil
weevil has done the greatest damage.
= William Little and Samuel Hall,
well.to.d0 farmers near Whitesbure.
KY, fought o duel on Sunday and
both were killed. They used revolvers
and had seconds" They fought
about young woman with whom both
we're in love.
- A carload OF dynamite szp,oaa.da
ct jackson, Utah, on the Southern
Pacific, eighty five miles from Ogden.
BssTeen twAlt;' and twenty-five per-
sons were killed outright and about
thirty injured, many women and chill
dren being among the number.
!, - In sixty years the annual per
capita consumption of whiskey has
gradually decreased from two and one
half to one and one-quarterl gallons,
In forty years the consumption of
beer has increased from less than two
to more than seventeen gallons per
capita.
- @. H. Troutman, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers bank, of
Milledgeville, Ca, who shot himself.
is treasurer, Of the State sanitarium
and is said to be short in his accounts
about So, 600. Speculation in cotton
"a thought to have caused this short
age. Mr. Troutmau is under q S4O,-
600 bond and the State is fully pro-
teoted.