The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-16
GENERAL NEWS.

= The Continental Savings Bank
building, at Memphis, Tenn. collapsed
burying some 20 persons, none of
whom, however, was killed.
= AS q result Of an injury in q
football game, Captain Robert S.
Strangeland, OF the Columbian uni
yersity, has lost his sense of smell and
taste.
- Three hundred and thirty people
were killed in Chicago last year by
railway accidents. The average for
big cities in the United States is
eighty year.
= Secret Service officials have ar
rested three counterfeiters in Cleve-
land, o., who are charged with max
ing and circulating large sums Of coun-
terfeit Hungarian money.
= The total value Of real estate in
North Carolina, as shown by report
just made up, is $22O, ,303 ,339. The
last report, year ago, showed total
value Of only SITS, ,892,81
- The court at Charlottesville, Va,
has denied new trial to ex Mayor
Sam McCue, convicted of numbering
his wife, aud has sentenced him to
hang the Goth day of January.
- Four masked robbers entered the
private bank of Jes. i. Bladgett at
the Hermitage, Buffalo, N. Y, Friday
morning before day, blew open the
safe with dynamite and secured $780,
600.
- A woman in Oakland, Cal, got
divorce because, at every full of the
moon, her husbsnd would sit up in
bed and howl, occasionally beating
her and pulling her hair for
change.
- An apple Of this years growth
weighing 30 ounces, and measuring Is
inches in circumference, is exhibited
at the Worlds Fair in the office of
Secretary Marchant, of the Oklahoma
commission.
| - State Representative T. +. Cur
ley and Alderman James NJ. Curley
were sentenced by the United States
court in Boston to two months in Jail
for impersonating others ct civil SER
vice examination.
= James B. Storm, county treas
urer of Prescote County, Arizona, was
found locked up in his own vault
bound aud gagged with $500 mis-
sing. He claims that robbers left
him in that condition.
= Private advices from Iaaia an
nounce the prospect Of a serious
famine in certain districts owing to a
light rainfall. The Bombay presi-
dency and the region north and south
of it for Stretch Of 500 miles have
had but little rain. .
- It ia understood that steps have
been taken to bring about another
conference between representatives Of
the striking cotton mill operatives and
the manufacturers at Fall River to
discuss proposition to submit the
strike issue to arbitration.
- AS ooroner's jury was attempt
ing TO arrive at verdict in Omaha
the other. day as to what caused the
death of James Black, the corpse
arose aud wanted to know what was
the matter. The jurors left 80 sud-
denly they forgot 20 collect their fees.
= Timothy I. Lee, the American
locomotive engineer, who was held re-
sponsible for the railroad wreck on
the Central railroad, in Mexico, about
nine months ago, which resulted in
the loss Of about twenty lives, has
been sentenced to four years impris-
onment.
Last year 1,069, 900 harvesting
machines were sold in the United
States. and Of this number 225, 600
were binders. They went to every
wheat producing country in the world,
for the sun never sets on American
farm machines. But most Of them
are being used in the United States.
Our agricultural expansion has follow.
ed the path of farm machines.
- At Philadelphia, Friday, Chsrles
Ihlstrom pleaded guilty to forging the
name of ex-President Cleveland to a
check for email sum. His arrest oo-
CURED several weeks ago. A letter
from the ex-president was read stat
ing that the prisoner had been in his
employ as oosohman for year and
q half, during which time he had al
ways been honest. The ex-coachman
was given six months in the county
prison.
John Crawford, an industrious
and prosperous negro Of Sumter Coun.
ty, Georgia, paid $4,000 cash one day
last week fo1 the William Tooke plan
tation Of two hundred ec.es adjoining
his own farm of thousand acres.
Crawford operates twenty plows,
raises two hundred bales Of cotton an
ne.lly and is only one Of many. wealthy
negro farmers here with money in the
bank.
- The disturbance Of hornets
nest led to the death Of William
Forbes, Of Stewarton, N. H., in an un-
usual way che other day. Mr.. Forbes