The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30
GENERAL NEWS.

$23, 100000 in gold have been
sent out in this country since October
%.
- Booker Y. Washington has sent
his check FOR $25 for the Gordon mon
ument fund.
They say Gov. Odell, of New
York, won nearly three thousand dol
lars Oh election bets.
There is good deal of talk about
President Roosevelt appointing a
Southern man to position in his new
cabinet.
= Give persons perishcd in fire at
Lancaster, Pa, caused by a spark
from an Italians pipe falling into a
pail of gasolene.
- The chief Of police Of Reno,
Nevada, has issued orders that all
negroes must leave town-and they
are leaving by every train.
- Two entire families of twelve
persons were burned to death in fire
in the tenement district of Brooklyn,
N. 7. They were Italians.
= The total dividend declared by
the Standard Oil Company for the
year 1904, is 36 per cent. compared
with A per cent. for last year.
p. Y. Hill, white man and
drayman Of Lavonia Ca, committed
suicide by drinking laudanum. Ho
leaves wife and four children.
&C. Il. Hayes was convicted at
Lumberton, N. c., of oriminally as
saulting Miss Mary Inman, aged l8,
and was sentenced to hang the 18th
of January.
= Losses amounting to half a mil
lion dollars have been suffered the
past year by 81 department stores in
New York city through the pilferings
Of shop.lifters.
The corn crop of 1904 is esti-
mated at 1853, ,000,O bushels or
about 80 bushels for each inhabiLant
Of the United States. The quality is
said to be good.
= A conference Of Democrats is to
be held shortly in New York, it is re-
ported, to boom Folk aud Douglas as
the ticketin 1908 and to oppose the
leadership of Bryan.
- President Roosevelt has promised
to visit Texas early 10 the spring,
and will make speeches at Fort
Worth, Dallas, Houston and either
Austin or San Antonio.
= VIM. Crutch6eld. of Winston
n. c., gave himself up to the authori-
ties at that place saying he was i'm
plicated in O murder committed in
that town 16 years ago.
- Six negroes engaged in deadly
fight in fourten-foot room near
Curti, La, Wednesday, the partici-
pants beiug armed with shotguns and
pistols. After the battle, three Jay
dead and che other three escaped.
The only Methodist hospital in
Georgia will be built in Atlanta on
Courtland street as twentieth cen
tury memorial to John Wesley. Work
will begin by January 1st. Metho;
dists all over Georgia have subscribed
to it.
- G. n. Lemay, rivet worker Of
Atlanta, fell from the top Of five
story building without sustaining q
more serious. injury than a fractured
hip. He got up after the fall with
out assistance and walked eeveral
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- Colonel w. s. Paris, of Clayton,
Rabun County, Georgia, who killed
p. T. Shore, at Tallulah Falls, Ca,
has been granted the privilege Of Civ
ing bond, the sum fixed being at $10,-
600. 1t is thought he will be able to
give it.
The barn and dog kennels ct
Hickory Valley, Tenn. the property
of several wealthy Eastern sportsmen,
have been burned. Six dogs, among
them several hounds which had taken
many prizes in the United States and
Canada, were burned.
- Thirteen deaths have resulted
from football this year. The casualty
list is the same as last year, but the
number of serious injuries during the
season just closed will exceed that of
any year since the introduction Of the
modern college sport. The players
Injured number 296.
- There is now living at Nish,
Siberia, man who was well acquaint-
ed with Lord Byron. His ehams is
Stoven Zikitsch, aud he is III years
old. Though probably the oldest man
living to day, he is wonderfully vigor-
Gus, with clear memory, good eye
sight and strong, hearty voice.
- Col. w. G. P. Breckinridge, the
celebrated Kentucky lawyer, died q
few days ago at his home in Lexing-
ton after a stroke of paralysis. Col.
Breckenridge, who was fine orator,
served several terms in Congress and
during his career in Washington be-
came. involved in scandal that got
into the courts. This marred his
career and he soon afterwards retired
but his influence in Kentucky con-
.inued to be strong.
- The Secretary Of the North Caro-
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