The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-12
GENERAL NEWS.

- a terrlhe fooo struck Trinidad
Col, on Friday, causing million dol
lars damage.
81 q hundred is being paid for
cotton picking in the neighborhood of
Albany, Ga.
A carpenter was knocked of q
roof out in Oregon the other day
by a crane dropping big carp on his
head.
= a call has been issued for meet
ing Of the Southern Educationa al Asso.
oistion in Jacksonville, Fla, on De-
eember 29th.
- The foods have caused washouts
on nearly oil the railroads entering
New Mexico and traffic is practically
at standstill.
- Peter Sells, member of the "a
nous Sells Bros. chow, died at his
home at Columbus, Ohio, last We'd
nesday, ct the age OF 65.
James Bath, Of Jackson, Ky,
vas shot and killed by his recently
divorced wife. He was trying to enter
her house when she shot him.
- The small boy clubs Of Roose.
welt and Parker admirers of New York
had 9 est to cuff fight between the
clubs and the Parker boys won.
- Four men were killed in mining
accident ct Cartersville, Gs. Among
The victims are the president aud one
of the managers Of the company.
j. 81. Fiske. of Raymond, N. H.,
thinks he owns the largest bull in the
world. The beast is four years old, q
Holstein, and weighs 4,126 pounds.
DR.. T. D. Hogg, one Of the old
est and wealthiest citizens of Rsleigh,
N. c., aged 81 years, committed sui
eide by throwing himself under NOV
ing train.
= The family of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Schlott, Of Mexico, Ind, has
strange record. There are 81 mem
bers, and there has never been death
in the family.
- Three aldermen aud four ex-
aldermen, of Buffalo, N. Y, were in
dioted on Thursday BY the district
attorney for bribery and other forms
of official grating"
- The Pacific Improvement Com
pan7 and the Guatemala Central Com
pany have begun the building of .
railroad go miles long. through G uate-
mala, from ocean to ocean.
- Mrs. Mary Landish, bride Just
returned from her honeymoon to her
home in Philadelphia, fell from a
third-story window while arranging
lace curtain, and was killed.
= Mrs. Jennie English, the wife of
a miner, residing at Littleton, was
convicted in the criminal court OF
Birmingham, Ala, of carrying con-
cealed weapons and was fined $50.
Joseph Watson, colored, was
convicted at Hartford, Conn., and
condemned to be hanged on the 18th
of November for the murder of white
man. He will be the first negro to
hang in that State.
- Ben Gillian, q negro MAJ, shot
and killed white man at Memphis,
Friday. 1t is said the white man was
paying too much attention to o lady
and the negro protected her. He sur
rendered TO the police.
- Eighty negroes, 80 Of them wo.
men, arrived at Harrodsburg, KY, on
Wednesday from South Fork, Ind,
whence they had been driven by the
whites because one of the negro wo.
men stabbed farmers wife.
- The new Springfield rife is prob
ably the most seffective military arm
j the world. At distance Of so
feet it penetrRtes IS one-inch pine
boards placed bne inch apart. It has
q muzzle velocity Of 1890 feet per
second and carries ball FIVE miles,
although one mile is the greatest dis.
tanoe that any rifle can b effective,
even with telescopic sights.
= A trolley cable three.quarters of
an inch in diameter became slack and
gagged across the railroad track at
Hudson, n. Fl. 7. caught sn engine
moving at full speed just under the
headlight. Strange TO say it did not
break but instead tore up telegraph
poles for some distance and finally
knocked house of its foundations.
The train was halted with its driving
wheels stilf revolving.
- Mrs. n. II. Linchis carrier on
the rural mail route between Emmer
and Wcodstown, N. J.. Several
bridges on the road were washed away
by recent storm, making the route
impassibie by wagon. Mrs. Linch is
a woman OF do.or-die disposition, so
she slung the mail bag over her shoul-
der.and made the trip by bicycle, and
thus will continue her daily trips until
the bridges have been repaired.
- Charles Goodman, an 18-year-old
boz Of Charlotte, was tried in the Su-
.perior Court in that city for highway
robbery. It is alleged that young
Goodman held up young newsboy,
Everett Cornelius, near the railroad, ,
in the rear oe the zC's. power house
In Charlotte, about two months ago,
and at the point Of 9 pistol, robbed