The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-20
GENERAL NEWS.

Iue htlauta SranQ jury daS COM
menced crusade against the drug,
gists of the city for selling cocaine to
negroes.
- Four hundred cadets Of the Mis-.
siseippi Agricultural and Mechanical
College will camp at the Worlds Fair
next summer.
- A preacher in Winchester, Tenn.
has been found guilty Of subornation
of perjury aud sentenced to three
years imprisonment.
- Albion, Iowa, has city council
which requires it,. citizens to take out
license if they wish 20 dance. The
price is sl5 per capita.
= Gen. Stephen D. Lee, comman-
der-in chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, has established headousr.
ters at Columbus, Miss.
= Two negro prisoners at Birming-
ham, Ala, set the Jail on fire and
were fatally burned while three other
prisoners were cremated.
= II is said that the United States
government will abolish the office of
Federal railroad commissioner, lately
held by Gen. Lopgstreet.
- The American Chinese treaty has
been exchanged by the two govern
ments, and thus Two Manohurian ports
are opened to the United States.
- Gen. Stephen D. Lee has assum. !.
ed the duties as oommander.in-o chief
Of the United Confederate Veterans,
made vacant by the death Of Con. J.
B. Gordon.
During 1903 announced additions
to southern cotton mills amounted to
Sl7, 1926 spindles and 1913 looms,
representing an investment of about
$16,000,000.
- Col. Chss. Denby, former Unit
ed States minister to China, under the
administration of Cleveland and Har.
rison, died at jar estown, N. Y, last
Wednesday nigh
- Mrs. Amanda Whaley, aged 35,
was sentenced in Norfolk, Va, on
Friday to five years in the peniten-
iiary for beating her 16.year- old
daughter nearly to death.
Negroes in Virginia lynched a
member of their race who had killed
another negro, notwithstanding the
murderer had been tried in court and
declared not guilty.
- Secretary of War Root sent q
telegram to Atlanta saying: "The
country may well mourn the loss of
such noble gentlemen and useful
OIL MOS
= Prof. Runyon, of Huntington,
w. Va, who teaches two miles from
that city, was assaulted by students
Thursday night and beaten into in
sensibility. He had previously whip
ed one of them.
- The largest rabbit drive in the
history of the Northwest occurred on
lower Butter Creek, Oregon, on Mon
day. Seven hundred men, women and
children participated and over 1000
rabbits were killed.
"Baby Ruth" Oldest daughter Of
Ex- President and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land, died on the 7th inst. at Prince
ton, New Jersey, of diphtheria follow
ing an attack Of tonsolitis. She was
born in New York city October 3rd,
1891.
=. In Omaha John Walker, an en-
ployee Of Armour & Co.. died appar-
emily in poverty. When proper off :
GERS took charge of the body they
found his coat heavy and padded.
They ripped it and found in lis cloth
ing end old trunks, 100000.
- At the Los Laureles mines, in
Mexico, large number of boxes of
dynamite stored in powder house
exploded on Thursday, killing 20 men
and injuriDg 4G others. TIE disaster
was caused by the explosion of dyna-
mite cap in the house.
= Marcus A. Hanna has been 70.
elected United States senator by the
two houses of the Ohio State Legisla.
ture in joint session. The joint bal
lot gave Senator Hanna q majority of
81. John 81. Clarke, of Cleveland, re-
ceived the united Democratic vote.
= Lewis P. Abbott, for thirty years
member of the Boston fire depart
ment, part Of that time holding the
Office Of district chief, retired on O
peusion Of $1,000 yeatly on New
Years Day. He has missed but four
fires in his district during his term Of
service.
= Two days after the death of
Stephen W. Fits, of Allerton, Mass.
his executors received check of S3.O3
from the United States Treasury in
psyment of n claim against the oovorn
ment that had been filed forty-two years
ago. The claim was for unpaid SER
vices in the army.
= The national house of represen-
tatives has made available the sum of
$500, 900 to be used to meet tho emer.
gency caused by the ravages of the
cotton boil weevil and other insects
and diseases affecting cotton. The
measure had the support Of both sides
and was adopted without division.
William Jennings Bryan has pur.
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