The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-04
GENERAL NEWS.

"A Cnlce8o paper says Hearst 8
campaign is costing him SIS, 600 every
day.
- Many Of the New England cot
ION mills have determined to curtail
production.
= Congress passed the general pen
sion appropriation bill. carrying an
appropriation of over sl37 ,OOO,OO
- Five buildings were wrecked and
three men were killed by the explo-
sion Of locomotive engine at Brad
dock, Pa, on Wednesday.
Fulton County, Georgia, after
having one legged coroner for TWEEN.
ty years elected two legged man for
that ONCE at the recent primary.
- The sugar firm of brewer and
Harvey, ct New Orleans, was wrecked
by the junior partner, who skipped,
end the firm has filed petition in
bankruptcy.
John Oliver, one of the best
known cotton mill experts in the
country, dropped dead at his home in
Atlanta, Ga. He carried s40O 900 in
surance on his life.
- The largest shoe order ever given
was given on Wednesday by Geo. f.
Keith OF Broctou, Mass. It was to a
local shoe factory for 700, 900 pairs,
the cost to be million dollars.
- All objections to the will of the
late Gordon Mckay Of Newport, R.
l., have been Withdrawn aud the mil
lion he bequeathed to Harvard uni
versity will be turned over to that in
stitution.
- The delegates from Massaohu-
sets to the national democratic con-
vention were instructed for Olney.
their home man. Parker is second
choice. Hearst had been counting on
Massachusetts.
James Nowlin and his little
daughter were shot and killed from
ambush in Franklin County, Va, on
Friday while riding along the road.
Nowlin was known among the illicit
distillers as an informer.
= The collapse of cage in the
Robinson mine, atJohaunesburg. AZ
rica, preoipitated 46 natives 1000 feet
to the bottom. All were killed and
the bottom of the shaft was made a
quagmire of human remains.
- The contract by which the own
ership Of the Panama canal passes to
the United States has been signed.
sealed, and delivered. The title to
the canal route is now vested in the
Government Of the United States.
In Cuba, two hours before a
paper is distributed, copy must be
sent, with the editors name, to the
government and one to the censor.
When the paper is returned with the
censor's endorsement the paper may
60 to the public.
Young man do your counting in
your own name. James W. Abel of
Of New York wooed and won the affec-
tion of a girl, having assumed the
name of j. Ogden Goelet, Jr. The
court found him guilty of forgery and
he will be sent up several years.
= The shrewdest fnancier of the
age is Ed Kelly, Of Chicago. He was
arrested and released on $4,000
bond. He put up the cash. He fail. :.
ed to appear in court and the bond
was forfeited. On examination of the
bills he put up they we're found to be
counterfeit.
- The Thirteenth Contine ntal CON
gress Of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, held in Washington
last week, was the stormiest session
in the history Of the organization, one
OF tho differs being exonerated OF
charges made against her personal
and official character by another of
the officers.
- Massachusetts lent the only
State where punctuation is important
in the construction of law. The
absence of comma in one of the
Iowa statutes has just caused the dis
missal Of 100000 damage suit
brought against the Retail Grocers'
Association of Des Moines.
- In the last twenty years, accord
ing to the figures Of the labor bureau
at Washington, there have been more
than %, 900 strikes, involving loss to
employees and employers OF over
$40Q, 100000. The loss to the work
men themselves has been more than
twice that of their employers.
Lyman warren Aver, OF Belle
Plaine, Minn., is the first white per-
son born in the North Star State. He
is now nearing his SEVENTEEN birthday,
having been boru june &c, 1881, at a
mission in Pine County. He is still
enjoying good health and follows the
occupation of timber cruising.
- The weather report for North
Carolina says that there will be fair
crop Of apples. Peaches are badly
damaged; strawberries will be an aver
age crop; corn is nearly all planted, /,
cotton planting and bedding has been
deferred because of the drought.
All tobacco plants are small and none
settyet.
At Dallas, Texas, drillers in the
i: r: Driskilloil we'll when they reach
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