The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
GENERAL NEWS.

ct Knoxville, Tenn, has cle=ed most
successful session.
- A movement is started in Bos.
ton to erect o monument tc Eli Whit.
uey, inventor of the cotton gin.
- Twelve prisoners attacked the
jailor in Georgetown, Del, broke
from Jail and escaped into vast
swamp.
- Strike sympathizers in Chicago,
ILL.,, wrecked q house from which o
woman had been evicted for non-psy-
uent Of rent.
- Four thousand oars Of peaches
from Georgia orchards for the market
this year make up record of which
the State is justly proud.
- Miss Cora Killeu, pretty young
woman of Sharon Hill, Pa., committed
sEicide because she was engaged to
one young man and was in love with
suother.
= Mrs. Mary Murphy, the Oldest
person 10 the State of Pennsylvania,
died on Saturday near Meadville, aged
!34 years. Mrs. Murphy is survived
by her second husband.
- Three constables from whose GUS
tody negro was taken while on his
way to Jail ct Selma. Ala, and lynch
ed, have been held on the charge of
murder in the first degree.
- Heurv Osborne, o leading mer-
chant Of Hartford, Conn.,, was MUIR
dered BY his boy servant out Of re-
veDge for being discharged as valet.
A lynching was threatened.
- Both America apd England have
given stern warnings to Russia re-
speoting recent seizures and sinking
of neutral vessels. The matter prom
ises to lead to serious trouble.
- George Long, o carpenter in the
government navy yard in Washington,
cut the throat Of his sweetheart,
throat-both dying Immediately.
George II. Northrup, Raceville,
N. Y, sold three cocks and eixteen
hens, Black Minorcas, for export to
Germany for s3.40O. The leading
cock sold for 81 900 some time ago.
- A wheat buying craze, induced
by the Northwest crop reports, has
struck the big wheat trading centres,
and the prices Of all the features
are way up: there is talk of sl.25
wheat.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Scherou, of
Philadelphia, Pa, were murdered by
the woman's brother, whom they
caught ,obb;ng their home. The mur-
derer gave himself up, after trying
suicide.
Res W. E. Mumford, founder
Of the Georgia Industrial aud Orphans
home, located four miles from Macon,
died Friday morning. He vas the
best known man in Georgia, q promi-
nent Methodist minister, and has
been sick several weeks.
= Hitched to o sulky cultivator
William Hoyt pulled his wife and
their four-year.old son all the vey
from moline, ILL.,, to the World Fair.
Mr.. Hoyt set ont upon wager and
covered :, distance of 3l5 miles in
just ons ~. h, thus winning his bet
Of 81, 900.
The National Association Of Car.
riage Dealers, which lately convened
in Boston, had on exhibition at that
place an ancient vehicle that was built
in 1776, and which is still as good as
new. I.==s bail. built s0T Gov. j0nathau
Trumball, Of Massachusetts,, the origi-
nal Brother Jonathan"
At the State freman's tourns-
ment in North Carolina, at Spencer,
the worlds record in grab reel races
Of 100 yards in 20 seconds was lower
ed by one second by Spencer, which
now gives her the championship Of
the world. This team will enter the
international contest at St. Louis on
the 25th.
= A stick of dynamite was exploded
under an electric car at Tazeweli, Ala.
The Dynamite was put inthe Aange
Of the track by unknown persons.
The passengers numbered about half
dozen ladies and as many men, and
they were panic. stricken, but no one
was injured beyond being severely
shocked.
- Asbury Harsons, OF Ripley, w.
Va, republican nominee for judge Of
the circuit Of the fitch district, has
declared for Parker and Davis, and
John s. Farr, of Huntington, w. Va. !,
q republican nominee for presidential
eleotor, has withdrawn from the tiok-
ct and sent his resignation to the state
central committee.
One Of the most remarkable tri ps
in COP nneotion with the exploitation of
the Worlds Fair was completed when
the Rev. s.. p. Werner, the Presby-
terian missionary who brought eight
pygmies ont Of the African jungles,
arrived in st. Louis. His journey
included $4,000 miles, 300 miles Of
which was traversed on foot through
the Wiids and deserta Of Central
Africa. The trip lasted eight months.
Mr: Werner was reported killed sew
eral times and contracted tropical