The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-23
GENERAL NEWS.
= Dublin, Miss, has been destroy
ed by FIRE expect one building.

ed Oy nre expect one building.
= There are eight smallpox cases
among the students of Michigan Uni
versity, Ann Arbor
w. G. Thompson, aged SD, was
run over and killed by street car in
Athens, Ca, on Tuesday, 18th inst.
The Colorado strike has been
ended. Miners have got the eight
hours day with full days wages.
= James Freeman. who lives near
Talbotton, Ca, in fiji of anger struck
at his wife and killed his infant in the
mothers 8 arms.
= Seven persons were killed and 30
wounded in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, in
riot which arose over the order for the
people to be vaccinated.
= Reports say that Germany is fac.
ing the worst famine of her existence.
The unusual drouth and heat have al
most totally ruined the crops.
= A number of robberies have been
committed in the smaller towns of
North Carolina right recently and it
is the work of an organized band.
Hammond Childers and Joseph
j. Hunter have skipped from Ma
con, Gs. They were ticket agents at
that place and were found short in
accounts.
= The Standard Oil company, with
headquarters in New York, has de-
olared dividend of seven per cent,
which makes &c per cent in dividends
so far this year.
= One outlaw is dead and another
is in Jail mortally wounded, as the re-
suit of desperate battle between
cattle thieves and officers of the law
near Deeth, Nevada.
= Adolph Weber, 18 years old, is
under arrest charged with the murder
of his parents and sister and brother
at Auburn, Cal, and then burning the
house to hide the crime.
- Miss Dora Campbell. for mer post
master at Maysville, Ca, pleaded
guilty of embezzlemeut in the federal
court at Athens on Wednesday. The
judge suspended sentence.
- Rural free delivery has advanced
with marvellous rapidity from Il ser
vice costing $4,000 a year at it's
inception in 1891 to one that will
cost this fiscal year nearly $1,000
600.
- Mrs. Mary Zimmerman. hand
some woman of 2S years, committed
suicide in New York because her hus-
band chided her. She took cyonidc
of potassium. Her husband witness
ed the act.
= Judge Parker can afford to take
defeat serenely. Before the race he
received salary of few thousand
year, after January 1st he will step
into New York law practice of $5O,-
600 year.
= Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has
declared his purpose to give $4,000
toward the founding Of home for
INDECENT and worthy public school
teachers who have passed the sge of
usefulness.
Col. W. G. P. Breckenridge, of
Lexington, Kv., former congressman
and one Of the greatest orators of the
day, was stricken with paralysis in
his Office on Wednesday and is in
critical condition.
- At Waco, Texas, November 16,
B. F. DELAY, we'll known citizen,
aged 80 years. killed himself by hang
ing in cow shed. He was we'll to do
financially. He left note saying:
II am just tired of living"
- A young man Of Decatur County,
Ga, has been placed under a $40O
bond for sending obscene language
through the mails. He belongs to a
prominent family, aud his father is
lawyer and will defend him.
w. B. Caldwell, the conductor
who says be was responsible for the
wreck at New Market, Tenn, early in
September, in which 62 persons were
killed has been indicted by the grand
jury for criminal negligence and will
be tried.
The annual report of the national
commission Of education makes it
known that last wear there we're $15,-
925, 1897 pupils enrolled in the public
schools OF the United States, and
that the average daily attendance was
SO per cent.
- The old "Long Bridge" span
ming the Potomac river at Washing
ton. and over which nearly sil the
traffic OF the South had to pass from
1861 to 1865 in order to reach Wash
ington, soon will be demolished, and
nothing will be left but the memory
Of the celebrated and historic struc-
ture.
- Secretary of the Navy Morton
will ask Congress for an act increasing
the commissioned and enlisted force
of the navy. Recent estimates show
that when the ships now building are
commissioned it will take about 2,081
officers and 62, 1853 men, more than
twice as many as the law now pro-
vides.