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

- Fighting continues ct San Do.
minso between the government troops
aud revolutio nists.
= The shops of the Tennessee Cen
tral railroad burned at Nashville last
week cntailiug loss Of $780, 600.
- In view Of the present state of
the cotton mia. Se:, English spinuers
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
arc taking steps to secure tho disband-
mont Of all the negro military com
panies in that State.
- The thermometer went to so de-
grceo below zero in some parts Of
blassachu 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 osl56, 197, ZOO.
William H. Pugsley caused the
arrest 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 Iriquois theatre in
Chicago the night Of the 31st Of De-
cember we're 81 school teachers.
- There is au epidemic of pneu-
mooia IN Chicago, 130 persons having
died in week with this disease
per cent. of the entire death list.
The Mississippi senate, by vote
OF 81 to /, has instructed Mississippi q
United States senators to vote For
the ratification 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
| consump ptiyes, aud camp has been
established for this purpose near Pen
sacola, Fla.
- A bill was introduced in the
Minnesota legislature making it un-
lawful for any person to kiss another
unless he &c able &c produce c!eaa
bill of health.
- In Rockingham County, N. c.,
Jno. Cans asked Miss Mary Martin to to
dance with him. She declined, where
upon he drew a pistol aud shot her
through the chest.
- The Louisiana legislature, every
member democrat, has instructed
the United States senator's from tn at
State to vote for the ratification of the
Panama canal treaty.
- Moses T. Cough and VIM. Shaw,
Layers, 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 I've hundved
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 II. B. Plant,
the founder of the Plant system of
railroads aud steamships, has heen
appraised at $l2,729,GG0. E;s widow
will get $3,947, Coo and his son S. 1885,
Lille Pertle, Of Chicago, sup
posed to have been suffering for DAYS
from sore throat, vas relieved by a
physician, who found metal band
from piece Of sandy sticking close
to the root Of her onguc.
= The president has appointed W.
b. Taft secretary of war to succeed
Elihr 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
U Unlted 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 ct q salary of $4,000 year.
Davney played once at the White
House for the late President McKin-
ley.
- The Wright Brothers, inven tors
OF the flying machine which has at
tracted such attention, have prepared
q statement Of the two successful
trials in North Car rolina. They say
the age Of the fyini. 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 margin, 'sdig in the South
east corner Of smoke house for buried
treasures" They did dig and scoop.
ed up $500.
- Governor Montague, of Virgin
has vetoed bill passed by the as
sembly forbidding State banks to is-
sue currency on the ground that,
though the privilege had not been exer.
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