The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.

- Ihe JAps lost over 1000 men in
the battle on Mason Hill On May 26.
= The boil weevil situation iu
Mexico is getting to be very alarm
ing.
- Several people we're seriously
injured in race riot in Philadel-
phia.
= Keaess is experiencing aaothe.
Hood and much property is being dam
aged.
= The Texas cotton crop is report
ed as backward and the boil weevil as
forward.
- The purchase OF the Panama
canal has caused deficit of over S.
100000 in che treasury.
- The Southern railway has in
creased the pay of its telegraph opera
tors, the increase to date from June /.
- It is reported from New York
that all grades of refined sugar have
been advanced five cents per hundred
pounds.
A government scientist says that
in ten years from now the boil weevil
will have cut down the South cotton
crop one.half.
- A FIRE, started by On electric
wire, caused o half million dollars
damage in the Wholesale district of
New Orleans.
= Five people are dead and many
injured as q result OF fight between
whites and negroes in Mississippi and
more trouble is expected.
- Mr.. Bryan dominated the Ne.
bra8ka convention on Wednesday.
writing the platform and heading the
delegation to st. Louis, which is nnti-
Parker.
John Polanis, seven years old,
falling from bridge 80 feet above the
Housstonic river at Still River sta
tion, Conn, escaped without the
slightest injury.
- Troops have been called out at
Hanging Rock, near Iroton, Ohio, to
suppress riots caused by putting ne
groes into the mines to take the place
Of striking miners.
= Maryland sends an uninstruoted
delegation to st. Louis headed by
Senator Gorman. The convention
would have endorsed German himself
but he prevented it.
John Dresser, Louisville, Ky.
cobDler with three wives--tvo in Ger
many and one in Kentucky--oommit-
ed suicide because police judge
fined him for beating the present one.
- Barnum 6 Bailey's CIRCUS car
ries o chaplain who holds services
on Sunday for such employees and
others as desi.e to attend. A big bill
announcing the fact is put on the bill
boards.
= The Reunion Committee of the
Nashville Reunion sends the good
news that all arrangements are per
fected for entertaining the United
Confederate Veterans at Nashville,
june 14-16.
Col. Turner, OF the Illinois mill
tia, had salute fred over the graves
Of che Confederate dead in that city
on Memorial day and for decoration
day the daughters Of the Confederaoy
of Charleston sent flowers to him to
put on the graves of the Union SOL
diers.
= Negroes, Of Newark, N. j., have
formed s1 association through which
they are planning the emigration OF
number OF families TO Liberia. Two
prospeotors have been sent TO look for
O proper place for settlement and OBJ
tain CONCESSIONS from the authorities
OF Liberia. President Tinsley Of the
association says that more than twen-
ty thousand negroes ere ready 60 leave
the cotton hele end make their home
in Liberia IL transportation facilities
Can be secured.
= Triplets eighty years old cele.
brated their birthday few days ago
in Hillsdale. parish Of Upham, near
Monoton, N. B. The three have
lived in the same place ell their lives.
They are Richard, James and Deborah
De Bow, the children of William De
Bow. A number Of relatives and
friends waited upon the triplets and
presented to them purse Of money.
The triplets are oil in good health and
appear to have O good chance OF reach
ing the century mark.
-. An associated press dispatch
from San Antonio, Texas, under date
Of the End inst, says: "Jose Cas-
siano, former county collector, who
has several hundred acres Of cotton in
this county, is tho bearer Of good It'd
ings concerning the work Of red ants.
Mr. Cassiano's fields, less than
month ago, were alive with boil wee
wills. Today he said there is not
live weevil in his fields. The rows
are strewn with dead weevils, which
the busy little red ants are carrying
away by thousands. Mr.. Cassiano
says close inspection failed to show
, single live weevil on a cotton plant
anywhere in his fields. The ante are
On the plants and the rows between in
countless thousands. They seem to
hs7e completed the slaughter of the
weevils and are row engaged in carry
ing the corpses away, probably to be
stored for food.