The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.

State 10 raise cOttOn.
- Gov. Sam Lanham was e.nomi-
mated by tho Democratic State Con-
vention OF Texas on Wednesday.
- Thos. E. Watson, Of Georgia,
has announced that he will accept tho
PopulisG nomination for President
= Vice presidential nominee H. G..
Davis will have his formal notification
at White Sulphur Springs, Va, on the
18th.
- Nebraska Democrats say that
they will run w. j. Bryan for the
Senate if they have majority in the
Legislature.
- Last week within twenty.four
hours 1874 cars loaded with peaches
left Georgia for New York end other
points north.
- The strike situation at Chicago
remains unchanged. The packing
houses are completely tied up and no
compromise is in sight.
- A boy baby with two we'll de-
fined tongues was born in Michigan
the other day. It is said he will be
named Bryan Roosevelt.
- Fifty passengers were injured,
eleven OK them seriously and one pos
eibly fatally, in q head-on collision be.
tween two trolley care in the suburbs
OF New York.
- John r. Wilkie, chief Of the
Secret Service, estimates that the
banks Of the country the last fiscal
year handled little more than $2I 900
counterfeit money,
= w. e. Matthias, o leading farmer
Of Montgomery, Ca, sent a water
melon weighing 983 pounds Saturday
to Judge Alton B. Parker, the Demo-
cratic nominee for President.
David Wade, of Garter County,
Ky, will, on che 2Gth Of this month,
be III years of age. He was born Au-
gnst, 1887. He is said to be the old.
est man in the United States.
- The strike is still on at Fall
River. About 10000 nen are out
and the mill men say that they can
not start unless the hands submit to
the l2a per cent. reduction in wages.
- During the months of January,
February and March Of the present
year 9l9 persons were killed and 49,
444 injured on the railroads of this
country, according to the data of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
While Charlie j. Tyler, promi-
nent farmer of Wilkes County, Ca,
was at supper with his wife DR..
Thomas G. Bureh, emptied two loads
Of bhoksho. from tie window into
she body Of Tyler, killing him instant
ly.
The Diamond Special Of the Illi-
! nois Central railway was held up the
other night about four miles out of
Chicago. About .hirsy passengers
were forced to give up their money
! and valuables. Nobody was seriously
injured.
- A Colorado Springs dispatch en-
neunoes the engagement Of Miss Va
rina d. Davis Hayes to be married
to DR.. Gerald B. Webb. Public in
tereRt in the match centers in the
fact that Miss Hayes is q grand
daughter of Jefferson Davis, the South
ern Confederaey's only president
and DE-. Webb " is = near relative Of the
family OF Ulysses 8. Grant.
Justice David .Gilmer, at John.
town, Pa, has just imposed what is
probably the heaviest 6nes ever made
under the present fish laws OF the
State upon three men who were con-
yioted Of catching 166 carp aud cat
fish by building fence across Buffalo
creek, driving the fish into wire pens
and killing them. The fine was $40
for each fish, or o total Of S1,660, in
lieu of which they must serve 166 days
in Jail. .1
"A hen owned by Mrs. Fred
Steidle, Of Hasleton, Pa, has been
rugged up with a wooden leg and now
goes about its duties awkwardly, but
with eminent satisfaction. The hen
parted with one leg in an encounter
with some email boys, and its mistress
found it helpless. Il was such o
good layer that she figured that q.
wooden leg would not detraot from
this iaudeble ambition, and with g
cloth handage she tied o stick to the
etump. l..
Rev. Dr.. Silas @. Swallow, Pro-
:hibition candidate for president, has,
about completed plans for an elaborate
campaign tour in the interest Of his
candidacy. Early next month he will
start on . trip in special car, ac-
companied By five speakers and q
male quartette, and will visit the capi-
tails and principal cities of thirty
States. He says he will be disap-
pointed il he does not poll q larger
vote than was ever cast for q Prohibit
tion .0minee for president. 8
!. &c Julius q. and Junius N. Ben
ham, probably the oidsst twins in the
United States, celebrated the eighty
seventh snniversary Of their birth at
q summer resort, near Bridgeport,
Conn, last Saturday. They are ma
tives of Middlebury, that State, in
and near which they own good deal
of property. Both are more than six