The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-09
GENERAL NEWS

400. per quart in Augusta.
- Three men were killed and Is
wounded in an explosion in q starch
mill in Waukengan, Ill.
- Two women and their eleven
small children were burned to death
at St. Felicien, Canada.
- Eight cotton mills, with 1000
employees, at Concord, N. c., will re.
duce their working time from six to
four days q week.
Noah Rabey, said to be the old
est person in America, died at New
Brunswick, n. j., ON Tuesday, lst
inst, aged 1872 years.
= Prairie fires in Oklahoma have
destroyed hundreds of buildings.
much live stock and caused tho death
Of number of people.
- Notwithstanding the war with
Russia the japanese government de-
clares that it will make big display
at the St. Louis exposition.
10 the Eastern cities, because Of
the increased price of -four, the price
Of bread and rolls has been advanced
considerably by the bakers.
Lima, Peru, had another great
earthquake. 1t was the severest in
30 years. Much damage was done
but no lives are reported lost.
- Congressman Charles Dick has
been elected by the Ohio legislature
to succeed Senator Mark Hanna for
both the short term and the long
term.
= The mockingbird is said to be
especially fond Of the grubs of the
boil weevil and will be extensively
propagated in Texas to prey upon the
insect pest.
j. W. Turner. his wife and their
three children we' Gruck at Marietta,
Ca, by railroad train. He and one
child was killed and Mrs. Turner had
her foot crushed.
= The Manufacturers Record Of
Baltimore says the value Of last years
cotton crop was $3.50 100000 against
1926 100000 for the year before-the
increase being caused by the higher
prices.
= The Metropolitan Art Museum
OF New York has just purchased an
old chariot for $4,000. Il was un-
earthed near Rome some time ago,
and is $500 years old and spleudidly
preserved.
- Roosevelt is in favor of making
two new States by consolidating Ari-
zona and Meg Mexico for one and
Oklahoma and Indian Territory for
the other with restrictions as to full
citizenship.
- The framework Of o thirteen
story building in New York collapsed,
causing the death of fourteen or more
persons and the injury Of mary others.
Criminal carelessness on the. part Of
the contractors is charged.
The Wisconsin State Capitol
building was practically destroyed by
Ere on Saturday morning. Tbs origin
OF the fire is believed to have been o
lighted gas jet in toilet room on the
second floor. The loss is estimated at
e800,0 900.
- Senator Gallinger, Of New Hamp-
shire, has introduced bill to increase
se!ss;es a5 follows: President, $75,-
600; vice president, SIS, 900; speaker
OF the house, s12, 900; members of
the cabinet. $l5, 900; ssnaIofs and
members of the house. $4,000.
- Sam Bullock v'as shot and killed
and Upton Head WIS seriously wound
ed in q shooting ,lcrape near Buch-
anan, Ga, which grew out Of quar-
rel because Head refused to drink
with Bullock and another party. The
affair occurred IN Head g dining room.
- Three members of o family in
Sioux Falls, s. D., have recently died
OF typhoid fever, and i1 is said the
disease was caught by opening the
coffin of member of the family who
died Of the disease in Louisiana and
whose body was shipped home for
burial.
- II. A. Knowles, q well-known
business man Of Buffalo, N. Y. shot
and killed 81. L. Schwartz, a promi-
nent lawyer, and ten minutes later, in
the presence of two detectives, shot
and killed himself. The shooting is
said to havo been the culmination OF
business troubles.
Mrs. Horace G. Allis, formerly
q well.known society leader in Little
Rock, Ark. committed suicide by
hanging. Her husband, who was
president Of bank, was convicted
come time ago for embezzlement and
sent to the penitentiary, and this dis
grace led to her rash act. r.
- Mrs. Helen Williams Post, the
"mind healer" who was convicted
some time sso in Jacksonville, Fla,
OF using the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses, was sentenced last week to
confinement one year in the Fed
eral penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn.
She took an appeal and gave $5, 900
bond.