The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-21
J., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2I, 1904.
GENERAL NEWS.

- Judge Parker has visited New
York and held o conference With the
Democratic leaders.
- The Japanese scheme Of tunnel
ing, Russian forts in order to blow
them up 10 proving successful.
- The Ottoman government has
deposited $50, 900 in settlement of the
claim Of an American citizen Of
Smyrna.
= AS the weather is getting cooler
people are moving in on St. Louis.
Great crowds will attend within the
next sixty days.
- James McWilliems, 10? years
old, veteran of the Indian. Mexi.
can and Civil wars, died Wednes.
day at his home near Greenville, Ala.
- Seven thousand men have been
thrown out of employment in the
Pullman car shops because the COM
pany says it cannot paw the high
wages.
= Blaine Hoffman, Of Pittsburg,
Pa, is the first victim of this season 8
football. He was killed by being
crushed underneath pile Of opposing
players.
= The special grand ;a-y 81 Hunts.
vile, Ala, investigating the lynch
ing Of the negro Horace Naples have
reported indictments against ten Of
the mob.
- The great strike at the blooming
and bar mills, at Sharon, Penn, has
been brought to an end, end the fires
have been lighted preparatory to
going to work this week.
- David B. Leiphardt, superinten.
dent Of the dead letter Office at Wash
ington, is himself dead by his own
hands, having sent bullet into his
head on Saturday night.
- Frank ODonnell, lad l8 years
old, has been arrested in New York,
charged with forgery and embezsling
funds to the amount Of S25, 900. He
was in the employ Of q lawyer.
- Heavy fighting with great loss of
life is of frequent occurrence in Para
quay between the government troops
aud insurgents. Negotiations are now
on foot to end the revolution.
Gen. John T. Wilder, of Knox
vile, Tenn, now Q pension agent, but
commander Of Wilder's brigade in the
Civil war, has just been married in
North Carolina. He is 80 and sbe is
ID.
Some Of the Indians OF the Five
Tribes in the Indian Territory are
threatening to boycott the public
schools il the negroes are permitted to
enter them-thus drawing the color
line between black and red.
= The Southern Methodist Church
at Statesboro, Ca, have by resolution
denounced the horrible crime in that
place, the burning of two negroes,
and they have asked members par
ticipating in it to withdraw from the
church.
= The largest chicken farm in the
world is ct Sidney, Ohio. Between
70, 600 and 1900 chickens are hatch.
ed daily, and each days crop enters o
series Of ninety pens, at the end Of
which after moving up one day they
are ready for market.
- Judge Miller in his charge to
the grand jury Of Kinds County, Mis-.
sissippi, on Friday said that 200 men
were killed in that State between
January and April IS, and that it is
reasonable to supposs the same ratio
has beon kept up since.
Two shocks OF earthquake were
felt at Augusta, Gs., last Wednesday.
Within the city limitS the disturbance
was noticed only by q few, but on the
hills west both tremors were diatinot-
ly felt. The first was noticed at half.
past two and was followed in five min.
'utes by the second. No damage was
done. &. s ..#,e
I - Andrew Carnegie gives aSbonus
of 10 per cent, upon their yearly
wages TO all employees upon the .Skibo
estates who are total ahstainnra g.em
Intoxicating drinks. He believes
that such are we'll worth their bonus,
both from an economic and social point
Of view.
a mob at Carlisle, Ind, has
chased oil non resident negroes from
town; and the press dispatches report
that all resident negroes will be driven
iout. The homes OF, al negroes 10 che
village have been visited \, and partly
demolished. This assault upon all
the negroes Of o community was in
oited by the shooting Of q white man
by one negro.
ss.s77 ss, 40 Sam Faiaon, young negro who
threw rock in q moving train on the
Atlantic Coast Line between Whining
ton aud Newborn, n. c., sometime
ago, was tried and convicted at the
recent term Of Pender Superior Court,
and sentenced to two years in the
ohaingang service. which is the
heaviest sentence imposed By Law.
The negro 8 act was one Of pure devil
try and the heavy missile which he
hurled into, tie train struck . small
white boy named Koonce, Of New
i bern. fraoturinR his sknll and nerhana