The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-24
GENERAL NEWS.

night OF February 10, destroyed prop
erty to the amount of $40 900.
- The fortune Of the late Senator
Hanna is estimated at seven or eight
millions. lie didn't make it il poll
tics.
= Six divorces were granted by the
court at Concord, N. c., last week.
North Carolina couples do not use tar
enough to make them stick.
- Luta Polstc,, !; negfess, Carroll
ton, Ca, ia, perhaps. the Oldest per-
son in the State, as it is said she is,
without doubt, liz years old.
= Louis E. Sears, member of the
Sears Shoe company of New York,
committed suicide off the Florida coast
near Miami by jumping from q steamer
into the sea.
- The Virginia Legislature has pass
ed and fhe governor he's approved
bill allowing women who are victims
to testify in private concerning the
crime against them.
"A million dollar fire occurred in
Oswego, n. Y, on Wednesday night,
destroying the plant Of the Corn Pro.
duets company and throwing 600 men
out OF employment.
- Western railroads have cut the
tariff on grain, from Missouri river
points to the Atlantic seaboard to Is
cents per hundred pounds and big
rate war is promised.
= Sixty-two worbmen have been
arrested ct Danville, Va, for laboring
on Sunday on the two million dollar
manufacturing plant Eow in course of
erection at that place. q
- Kentucky Democrats will erect
handsome monument to the late Gov
ernor Goebel, who was killed in 1900 at
Frankfort. 1t will be Of bronze with
pedestal Of Verr 1T granite.
- The Senate is considering bill
to pay ex-Queen Liliokulani of Hawaii
$500, 900 for losses sustained by her
royal highncss by the transfer Of her
government to the United States.
= It is estimated that the amount
Of Texas wheat now on hand and un-
sold by the farmers does not exceed
5000, 600 bushels. The total yield in
the State is placed at "a, 600, 600 bush
els.
= Frank Dyes, farmer, was shot
and Instantly killed or Sunday night
at MS home at Fort Valley, Ca, by
his 19.year-old son. The father was
mistreating his wife and daughters
when the son interferred.
= According to the statistical Atlas
OF the United States, newly issued by
the census Office, the average number
of persons to family has declined
from 5. Gin 1850 to 4 Z in 1900. In
1870 the average was trife above
FIVE.
- William Little and Samuel Hall,
well-to-do farmers near Whitesburg,
KY, fought duel on Sunday and
both were killed. They used revolvers
and had ''eeconds." They fought
about o young woman with whom
both were in love.
The sum Of $40, 900 will at once
be paid to the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary at Louisville by q
compromise Of the will case Of. Mrs.
Rebecoa Bartlett. Of Memphis, Tenn.
She oequeathed nearly $250,00O to
schools and charity.
- Mrs. Brooks and her 17-yesr.ola
daughter, Pauline, were burned 70
death at Oak Street, Ala, on Thurs
day night in their home. The daugh-
ter's dress caught while she was stand
ing by the fire and her mother tried
TO save her, when both were burned to
death.
- A resident of Massachusetts, he's
adapted rihe TO tue use OF cordite,
which is the highest explosive used
by the British navy. Fifty-two grains
of cordite, the amount he puts in a
rife she'll, is equal in force to nearly
pound Of powder, and gives muzzle
velocity of 1900 feet second and
fo1ce which drives the ball through
eight feet of pine at 100'yards.
- The Greensboro Female college
buildings at Greensboro, N. G., were
destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock last
Thursday morning. There were ninety
inmates, including tho faculty, all Of
whom escaped without injury and
saving their trunks, wearing apparel,
most OF the furniture and bedding.
The hotels and private residences
opened their doors to the burned out
students.
= Later truer accounts put the loss
by the great Baltimore FIRE at e7O,-
000, 900, mostly covered by Insurance.
Eighty blocks, containing 2, 500 build
iDgs we're laid in ashes and 30, 900 peo-
pie thrown ont Of employment. The
residence portion Of the city escaped
and there are no homeless people.
Aid from abroad is not asked. The
burned district will be speedily rebuilt
in superior style.
- Chicago is on the verge Of the
greatest epidemic Of pneumonie ever
known. This warning has gone both
from the Office Of the board Of health