The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-30
GENERAL NEWS.

AhlcC ucBIOeo "cTe kllleQ IN
race conflict on Wednesday ct St.
Charles, Ark.
- Atlanta is to get 81 ,O00, 900 for a
new postoffice and court house. At
lanta generally gets what she wants.
- Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,,
last week completed his thirty.ffth
year OF continuous service in Con-
gress.
= Two policemen were shot and
killed on Sunday night by burglar
whom they were pursuing in New
York city.
-.""Private" Dalzell estimates that
President Roosevelt's recent service
pension order will take 100000, 900
from the treasury.
= A missionary in German South
west Africa has written letter deny
ing that the natives have been guilty
OF indiscriminate slaughter.
- Two car barns of the Union Trac-
tion company, of Chicago, ILL.,, were
burned by incendiaries on Sunday
night win loss of sl50,0O0.
= Jno. NJ. Thurston, aged s3, of
Utica, N. Y, is being sued for $4,000
damages for breach Of promise by Miss
Charlotte Armstrong, aged l9.
- Arthur Mellon, the IL year old
son OF wealthy parents at Abbeville,
Ca, com mitted suicide with pistol
because his pet bird few away.
H. T. Hayes, cashier Of the
Orange Growers National bank of
Riverside, CAL, is charged with EN-.
bezzling over 100000 Of the banks
money.
= A new rife with which the Unit
ed States army is to be shortly equip
ped is said to have an effective range
of five miles, and to be the lightest
rife ever devised.
= A bill has been introduced into
the New York legislature providing
for the licensing of all cats in the city
of New York, and for creating the
office of cat inspector.
= At Americus, Ca, young son
of William Spann is alive with chances
to recover, though rife bullet has
passed through bi. brain and is nov
resting in the back Of his skull.
- A fight occurred at Chipley, Ca,
between two 16-year-old school boys,
Tom Haralson and Robert Maddox,
in which the former k;llled the latter
by breaking his skull with a stick.
= President Gordon, of the Geor-
gia Industrial Association, declares:
Twelve million bales will be require,,
to meet the demand this coming year,
and the South is going to try TO pro-
duce it..
- There are those who are begin
ming to believe that there is q suicide
club among the professors of the Ohio
State University. Three of them
have taken their own lives in less
than year.
- Ralph Armstrong, the Alabama
young man who shot and killed his
cousin, Miss Allie Armstrong, because
she refused to marry him and was
sentenced to death, hanged himself
in his cell at Tuskegee.
= The camp of Confederate vet
erals st Granada, Miss, has adorted
reso. 4t,'ns denouncing lynching,
"sa,s perhaps for the one unmention,
able o:ine', and denouncing the burn
ing Of humSn being for any crime.
Henry Donohue and John Ray
mond, safe crackers, pleaded guilty to
taking $4,000 from the bank safe at
Rocky Mount, Va, two months ago,
and we're sentenced at Roanoke, Va,
on Friday to ten years in the peniten.
tiary.
= Tbs majority Of the house COM
mittee have reported in favor OF i'm
peaching federal Judge Swayne of
Florida. Ii the report is adopted by
the house the impeachment trial will
probably prolong the session of Con-
gress several weeks.
- Rsv. j. 8. Coleman, one of the
noted Baptist ministers Of the South,
died at his home in Ohio County,
KY, eyed seventy-seven last week.
He has been for two years assistant
moderator Of the Southern Baptist
convention.
~ VIM. P. Beach, Of Macon, Ca,
who had not worn hat for twenty.
Eve years, died Of pneumonia on the
14th. He believed that head-gear
was unnecessary, aud this theory was
responsible for the disease which
caused his death, the doctors say.
Two women from Charleston,
Ellie Rivers and Mrs. Edith Riggs.
we're arrested in Atlanta on Thurs.
day and bound over for trial on the
charge Of shop-lifting. They had
abous 5000 worth Of goods in' their
trunks that they had stolen from At
lapta merchants.
John Maynard, negro, was found
hanging to q telephone pole at Mont
gomery Station, about 100 miles from
Houston, Texas, on Monday morning.
The negro had confessed that he
was one OF Q party who had beaten
and robbed number Of railroad la
borers, one Of the victims afterwards
dying.
While In the ACT nf nauinn Ror a