The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-11
GENERAL NEWS.

| - Kansas and Oklahoma are expect.
ing very large wheat crops. The abun-
dant rains Of April have greatly bene-
fited them.
- Georgia Methodists are subscrib.
ing to the Wesley Memorial Hospital
to be erected in Atlanta. In one day
800, 900 was raised.
= Collector Stratton, of San Fran
cisco, estimates chat Japan and Rus.
sia have sent $40, 900, 900 to this couu-
try for supplies since the war began.
Georgias peach crop is safe and
they are counting on the ship.
ment Of 10000 cars from the State.
The first Car load wac shipped last
week.
= The Whitney Fifth Avenue pal
ace in New York city is said to have
brought $50 900, ,OOO 1t is the high
est price ever paid for private resi-.
dence.
= The Lilly White Republicans of
Louisiana elected solid white dele.
cation to the national convention, but
instructed it to vo1e for the nomipa-
tion of Roosevelt.
- Rev. D. X. Pearson, the man
who gives his money to small colleges,
has sent his check for $50, 900 to Rol-
Inns College, Winter Park, Fla, to
help educate Cubaus.
= Very heavy rains fell in portions
Of Texas last week. One person was
drowned near Franklin and three near
Taylor, aud two persons near Bryan
were killed by lightning.
- The Congressional appropria.
tions were $500, 900, 600 for the past
session Of Congress, and the total ex-
penses Of the Roosevelt administra-
tion, SO far, are s2,64o, 100000.
- The year 1903 in the Presbyte-
rian mission in Canton, China, was the
best in it's history. To the twenty
churches there we're 1859 additions,
and the local contributions amounted
to more than $4,000.
| - It 10 estimated that there are at
least two hundred American and Eu-
ropean newspaper correspondents with
the Japanese army, and the Jepsnese
| government has stated that it cannot
accommodate any more.
- The most remarkable record for
numerous descendants of any person
in the United States is that held by
Mrs. Jacob Dearinger, who resides in
Tsylorville, Ill. She is 81 years old
and has 271 descendants.
- Roger Williams was expelled
from the Massachusetts, Colony in
1885, and the event was celebrated
the other day by the planting Of en
oak tree on the site of the hut occu-
r',d by the prosecuted preacher in
East Providence.
- President Roosevelt has appoint
ed Jeter G. Pritchard, Of the supreme
court Of the District of Columbia, to
fill the vacancy caused by Judge
Simonton's death. Judge Pritchard
was at one time United States Senator
from North Carolina and is lawyer
Of much ability.
/ - John W. Martin and wife, of
Toledo, O., were found dead in their
bed as q result OF asphyxiation from
Illuminating gas. 1t is supposed to
have been case Of double suicide, as
Martin had been found short in &C.
counts insthe city water works office,
whore he had been employed for II
years as bookkeeper.
- T. NJ. Angle, B. F. Sprinkle and
Wn. Young, we're found guilty at
Charlotte, N. c., on Wednesday Of de.
frauding the government by false eu-
tries in connection with the payment
Of taxes on whiskey. Sprinkle was
fined S5 900 aud two years in prison,
5A1gle 81 600 and one year, Young
$4,000 and ak months.
Il The New England cotton mills
have found their policy Of shuttipg
down two days each week OF very little
benefit 80 far. snd some Of the manu-
fsoturers as Falls River, Mass. favor
| complete shut down unless relief is
shortly forthcoming from the manu-
facturers. The present plan, how
ever, will; tried further.
~ Mrs. Mary Sickly, who died re.
Gently at Medicine Springs, Okla
homa, willed 100000 to near rela-
tives. Her trunk she left to the ply
sician who had bean her medical ad-
viser for twenty years. Upon open
ing the trunk the doctor was horrified
to find it full Of pill boxes and the
medicine he had prescribed for her in
the twenty years.
Master Halle Elco, Of North
Star, Mich, eleven years old, is per-
haps the largest boy Of his age in the
State. He is larger than either Of
his parents, since he weighs 247a
pounds, while his father weighs 217
pounds and his mother 100. Master
Elco stands Ave feet three inches
high, has breast measurement Of
forty-fve inches and belt measure
Of forty-seven inches.
- 3 4 movement looking to the
Wholesale deportation Of every China
man from Savannah who is not en-,
titlad Sc citizenship undert the Chinese
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