The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
GENERAL NEWS.

OouStOr I1auun, Oh OnlO. 20 Eerl-
ously Ill with typhoid fever in Wash
ingtou.
= Savings banks in New jersey
hold unclaimed amounts aggregating
$98, 1875.
= The extreme cold up North has
filed Florida with health and pleasure
hunters.
- Five students have been expelled
from Princeton nnive-sitS fcF cheat
ing in examinations.
= Six persons were burned to death
in burning buildings near Pottsville,
Pa., on Thursday night.
j. W. Hodges, farmer of Gull
man County, Alabama, breined his
wife with blunt instrument and then
hanged himself.
= It begins to look as if Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, Arizona and
New Mexico will be admitted as two
States ere long.
= Savings deposits in Chicago
banks have passed the 800, ,000, 600
mark. In the past year they have in
creased more than $22, 100000.
The town Of Aslesund, Norwe-
gian seaport, witL population OF
$4,000 was completely destroyed by
dre. The loss is estimated at 95,000,-
600.
= Four men were killed and three
wounded in o fight at Cattle Greek,
Tenn, between striking union min
ers and guards protecting non-union
men.
= Nellie Burke, Of Wilkesbarre,
Ps., the only woman who ever applied
to the machinists union, will be ad-
mitted at the next meeting Of that
body.
- The Pan-Presbyterisn Assembly
meets this year in Liverpool, Eng
land, in June, and will be one Of the
most notable religious gatherings Of
the year.
- Threatened strikes in several
large cities are being considered by
the Executive Board of the Brother
hood Of Painters, now sitting at La
fayette, Ind.
- A bill has been introduced in
Congress appropriating $1G0,0 each
for monuments to William Mckinley
and to Alexander Hamilton, in the
District Of Columbia.
- The minsrs and operators who
have been In conference at Indian
src!!s have failed 10 reach an agree
ment on o wage scale. A strike Of
$4,000 miners may follow.
IS. B. Allen, president Of the
Farmers and Merchants National
Bank, Of Cleburne, Texas, was ar
rested charged with the embezzlement
of S29, 900 of the banks funds.
- Bourke Cochran, the famous
Tammany Hall orator, who has been
nominated by the democrats TO suo-
oeed Mayor McClelland in Congress,
says that the outlook for demooratio
success for tho presidency is most
hopeful.
Steps will be begun in Atlanta
to subscribe $4,000, 900 for fund to
purchase battleship for Japan. Col.
Harry Silverman OF the governors
staff suggested the scheme and wants
the Jews of America to make SUP
scriptions.
Four persons have been killed by
Chicago snd Northwestern passen-
ger train at Garry, near Crystal Lake,
Wis. The train struck sleigh con-
tanning minister, his wife and four
children, instantly killing the father,
mother and tive children.
= The grand jury of Talbot county,
Maryland, has recommended the es-
tablishment of whipping post in that
county for the punishment Of those
convicted of petty offenses, the whip
ping is to be strictly private and under
the direction of physician.
The friends Of George e. Cham
berlain, the democratic governor of
the Republican State of Oregon, have
suggested his name as q candidate for
the presidency and are organizing
with the purpose Of bringing him be-
fore the convention in St. Louis.
- A study Of the Boston tax list as
recently made public shows Joshua
nj. Sears to be the largest individual
taxpayer there. His tax amounts to
$40. 1887. Quincy A. Shaw is the
second largest contributor to the city
treasury with tax Of $40, O,302.4O.
- Lieutenant Roach Of the police
force Of Jacksonville, Fla, shot and
killed Thomas Parkhill, q we'll known
young man, on Thursday night. The
officer had arrested ParkhiI1 the day
before and when the two met Parkhill
fred at the officer and missed, and
then the officer got him.
- Luther Holbert snd his wife.
negroes, were burned at the stake at
Dodsville, Miss. on Sunday, by a
mob Of over. ], 900 persons, for the
killing Of James Esstland, q promi-
nent white planter, and John Carr,
9 negro, on Wednesday morning.
The burning Of. the negroes closed a
tragedy which had cost eight lives.