The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-20
GENERAL NEWS.

o. AcAas, ue
stroyed the business property. The
loss is 100000; insurance $3.50, 900.
= The river and harbor bill which
has passed congress, appropriates only
So, 5000 for river and harbor i'm.
provements.
= The attorney general Of Georgia
has ruled that all Georgia dispensaries
must pay the $500 tax the same as
other dealers.
j. NJ. A. Watson, former clerk
in the auditors office of the district of
Columbia, is being tried on the charge
of embezzling $73, 900.
- An Arkansas circuit Judge fined
9 bill collector for contempt OF court
because he presented "his honor" o
bill while court was in session.
- Rev. George Solomon, rabbi, Of
Savannah, has gone to New York to
institute plans For settling 500 Jews
in Emanuel County, Georgia.
Two white women ct Wheeling,
w. Vs., quarreled over 9 man and
then engaged in fight in which one
drew q pistol and killed the other.
- William Farr, of Nashville,
Tenn, is held on the charge of hav-
ing been at the head of O college
which conferred degrees st $40 each.
- Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, woman
convicted Of murder in California,
has entered an appeal. 1t is esti-
mated that her prosecution has cost
California in the neighborhood Of $780,
600. 80
- Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson
was defeated in close race for con-
gress in the 9Th Alabama district by
John II. Bankhead. Hobson's friends
may contest the election, charging
fraud.
= The Daughters of the Confed-
eracy of Athens, Ca, have written to
the authorities Of the University of
Georgia protesting against the stu.
dents being permitted to play baseball
on Memorial day.
-. A negro ia Delhi, La, went to
the house Of his father -in-law, negro
preacher, and calling his wife to the
door shot her dead, shot his mother
in-law fatally, and then sent bullet
through mis- own heart.
- Magistrate Crane of New York
says that in the last six months more
than 300 boys have been arraigned be-
fore him for greater or less crimes,
and of that large number SO per cent
confessed TO smoking cigarettes.
- A plot was discovered among Eve
negroes to dynamite their way out Of
the State prison, Nashville, Tenn.
Following the discovery OF the plot
one of the conspirators, negro, cut
his own throat, infiioting a mortal
wound.
= The gold dollar of the United
States is the monetary standard of
Canada, British Honduras and Colon.
bia, and it is anticipated that Mexico
will attain the gold standard, with
the American dollar as it's unit, at an
early date.
- Tucker Pinokney, the brother Of
Congressman John MCPHERSON Pinok-
ney, Of Texas, was shot and killed
near Hampstead, Texas, by negroes
while riding by negro church. The
incident resulted in race feeling run.
ming high and trouble was feared.
- Turner Pearson, a young man
with wife and child, committed sui
cide at the home of his father-in-law
in Milledgeville, Ca, in the presence
OF his wife and others by shooting
himself. He lived in Atlanta and
wanted his wife to move there and live
with him, and she refused.
- The famous factional fight in the
Christian church, at Huntsville, Ala,
has been revived. AS a result, two
elders and three members Of the
church were placed under arrest on
Sunday afternoon for wilfully defacipg
and injuring the church building.
Only one faction has worshipped in
the church for several months past,
and OH Sunday the other faction post
ed o office on the door warning every
one away, charging that the present
trustees were illegally elected.
- The Latimer Good Roads bill
will be reported favorably by the SEN
ate committee early in the next ses-
sion Of congress. An agreement to
that effect has been reached. It was
decided to amend the bill by fixing at
$100, 900 the minimum appropriation
which each State shall first receive
and then share in the balance Of the
appropriation in proportion to its pop.
no city to be credited with
more than 10000 population 80 as to
lim;. appropriations for States having
large cities.
Four men. Gin: WashiDgton lost
their lives by an explosion in the
plant OF Q gas company. The death
Of one Of the men was the result Of an
heroic attempt TO rescue his COM
rades. He rushed into the engine
room and catching the arm of one Of
them, who was buried in the debris,
tried TO drag him ont. The flames
rapidly envsloped the reseuer, but he
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