The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-13

- Fighting continues ct San Do
minngo between the government troops
aud reyolutio nists.
= The shops Of the Tennessee Cen
trail railroad burned st Nashville last
week cntailiug loss Of 1920, ,OGO.
= In view of the present state of
the cotton market, English spinpers
have voted to curtail the production.
= The inventors of The new flying
machine at Dayton, o., claim that
they have made four successful flights
with their airship.
= The white military of Georgia
are taking steps to secure the disband-
mont OF all the negro military con-
panies in that State.
= The thermometer went to SO de-
grces below zero in somo parts Of
Massachusetts last week. It was five
below in New York city.
= According to the New York
Journal Of Commerce the fire losses in
the United States and Canada for 1903
amounted TO $l56, 1877, 700.
William n. Pugsley caused the
grrest of his wife at Vermont, n.
Y, on the ground of cruelty in forcing
him to sleep in chicken coop.
- Among the $50 people who lost
their lives in the Lriquois theatre in
Chicago the night of the 31st of De-
cember were 81 school teachers.
= There is an epidemic of pneu-
monia in Chicago, 130 persons having
died in week with this disease-27
per cent. of the entire death list.
= The Mississippi senate, by y vote
Of 81 to l, has instructed Mississippi q
United States senators to vote for
the ratification Of the Panama canal
treaty.
- Seventeen persons were killed
and 81 injured by head-on collision
between an empress and freight train
on Wednesday at Willard, near Tope-
ka, Kansas.
The navy department recently
decided to try open air treatment for
consumptives, and camp has been
established for this purpose near Pen
secelaa scea, E!a 9!a.
A bill was introduced in the
Minnesota legislature making it un-
lawful for any person to kiss another
unless he be able to produce clean
bill Of health.
- In Rockingham County, N. c.,
Jno. Cans asked Miss Mary Martin to
dance with him. she declined, where
upon no drew pistol and shot her
through the chest.
The Louisiana legislature, every
member a democrat, has instructed
the United States senators from that
State to vote for the ratification Of the
Panama canal treaty.
- Moses T. Cough and VIM. Shaw.
lawyers, and Benz. w. Kinney, a
merchant, were burned to death on
Wednesday in a fire that destroyed
the Troy club of Troy,.N. Y.
A hotel in which FIVE hundred
people were dancing was wrecked at
Woodbridge, N. j., by the explosion
of dynamite. Thirty persons were
more or less seriously injured.
- The property left by H. B. Plant.
the founder Of the Plant system of
railroads aud steamships, has been
appraised 'at S12.72 600. His widow
gi!l M get $3,947, 600 and his son 81, $685.
900. @
- Lille Pertle, Of Chicago, sup
posed to have been suffering for days
from O sore throat, vas relieved by q
physician, who found a metal band
from piece of candy sticking close
to che root OF her tongue.
The president has appointed w.
81. Taft secretary of war to succeed
Elihn Root, resigned, and Gen. Luke
Wright, of Tennessee, q democrat,
has been appointed governor of the
Philippines to succeed Taft.
~ The Supreme court of the Unit.
ed States has decided that Porto
Ricans are not aliens but citizens of the
United States, and therefore cannot
be prevented from landing in this
country by any immigration laws.
Nord Davney, negro piano play.
er Of Washington, has been engaged
as pianist to President Alexis, Of
Haiti at q salary of $5,00Oa year.
Davney played once at the White
House for the late President MoKin-
ley.
- The Wright Brothers, inventors
Of the flying machine which has at
traoted such attention, have prepared
. statement Of the two successful
trials in North Carolina. They say
the age Of the flying machine has ar
rived.
- Benjamin A. Worsell, of South
hampton County, Va, left his prop
,erty to his heirs. A few hours before
death he called for his will and enter.
ed on the msrgin, "dig in the South
east corner Of smoke house for buried
treasures" They did dig and scoop.
ed up $500.
- Governor Montague, Of Virg inia,
has vetoed q bill passed by the as
sembly forbidding State banks to is-
sne currency on, the ground that,
though the privilege had not been exer-