The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-03
GENERAL NEWS.

jail at Hamer, La, aud attempted to
take prisoner.
: A man at Saratoga, Texas, shot
and killed widow and then killed
himself. jealousy was the cause.
- Easter contributions to the
churches of New York City Sunday
amounted in the aggregate to $780,
600.
= The residence of George r. Maull
in Clarksburg, W. VA, was burned
and four of his children was burned to
death.
- a New Yorker secured judgment
OF 50 800 against street railway com
lany for the loss of two teeth in an
accident on the road
= Mrs. Eliza Stewart and her r.
year old son were killed at Westport.
Ala, in a quarrel with Mrs. Lingo,
who claims she shot in self defence.
- Frank &. Bigelow, president Of
the First National bank Of Milwau-.
kee, Wis, has been arrested charged
with embezzling over million dol
lars.
- A fir tree has been cut in Oregon
recently which made nine saw logs
averaging fourteen feet in length,
scaliug 21,583 feet board measure.
The product Of this one tree will bring
more than 1000.
= A. D. Pierson, leading whole
sale mel chant of Scranton, Pa, com.
mitted suicide in Jail on M,aday
rather than face the charge in court
OF having enticcd young girls into his
place of business for improper pur-
poses.
= Edward Rose was arrested in
Wilmington, Del, for stealing o
Panama hat in Honolulu, was taken
back to Hawaii for trial. The hat
vas worth 81. Travelling expenses
for sheriff and prisoner amounted to
nearly 81, 900.
- Miss Mamie Rowland, of Green
vile, fell from the rear platform of q
g. & W. q. train at Laureus and
sprained one Of her wrists. She was
trying to overtake the train, which
she thought was leaving her, and after
boarding it fell.
~ A deputy sheriff saved from
lynching at Mount Vernon, Ohio. q
negro charged with criminal assault
upon white woman by Disgusting the
negro in o big overcoat, placing him
in the bottom Of an automobile and
speeding twelve miles to Center
burg.
Gifts amounting in all to $780,
GOO will be made this year to small
colleges in the rural districts OF Ten
nessee, Kentucky, North Carolina and
West Virginia by DR.. D. X. Pearsons,
retired capitalist and benefaotor of
many small colleges in the United
States.
Joseph Jefferson, one Of the
world g greatest actors, aud who won
fame and fortune as Rip Van Wrinkle,
has gone TO sleep to wake no more.
He died at Palm Beach, Fla.,. on April
23rd, after making o gallant and he
roio fight for his life, in the 10th year
Of his age.
- The Filipinos are rapidly estab-
fishing their capacity for self govern
ment. They are oounterfeiting Amer
loan coined money 80 we'll and on
such scale that business is menaced
and the government is sending a lot
OF detectives to put q stop to their
operations.
1t is reported from Glenwood
Springs, Col, that President Roose-
velt's hunting trip has been crowned
with success far beyond his expecta-
tions or those Of the most sanguine
of his guides. Five bears we're Killed
by the party last week, one by the
president and one by Dr.. Lambert.
= DR.. Lawrence Bragg, dentist of
Richmond, hearing noise near his
rooms at the entrance of the National
bank, ehot in the direction of the
noise and killed DR.. Alex. Nelson, OF
the Western State hospital, who had
arrived on late train and was en-
deavoring to get to his brothers.
house.
-R. W. McCeamer was killed and
it was thought that Eve other men
would die as the result of peculiar
accident In Laine in Birmingham.
The men we've working in closed
room and were asphyxiated by the
gradual accumulation of gas in the
enclosure from dead. end OF a gas
pipe in which there was evidently o
small leak.
= Passengers who have arrived in
Son Francisco from Guatemala declare
that Q reign Of terror exists in that
country. President Cabrera rules as
an absolute monarch. Freedom of
speech 10 limited and the press is
under censorship. Il is declared that
o revolution, whioh 10 already organ-
ICED, will cover the country with
blood end jeopardise foseign interests.
- Last Friday afternoon q terrible
tornado visited Laredo, Texas. More
than o hundred persons wero killed
and several more or less injured.
Thirty.Ave guests 10 one hotel were
killed outrighs. Fifty railroad coaches