The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-31
GENERAL NEWS.


ed States.
- Jno. p. Mcintyre com mitted sui.
cide at his home in Atlanta by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
= The bayonet Of the new army
rife is to be four inches longer than
the one now IN use.
- Miss Annie Keenan, had her leg
burt in q runaway at Wilmington and
had to have it amputsted.
= The last survivor of the War of
1917 has passed away, but there arc
yet number Of widows on the pen
sion rolls.
= Many thousands of Japanese
laborers are said to be waiting on the
Hawaiian Islands for transportation
to the United States.
= Maj. Gen. Luusford +. Lomax, q
Confederate general, has been ap-
pointed on the Gettysburg battlefield
| park commission.
= Farmers in the vicinity of
Amerieus, Ca, have applied to have
term OF court postponed as they
are too busy fighting grass to attend.
= John Hoch, the man in Chicago
who was said to have had 40 wives
and who was charged with the mur.
der of one of them, has been SEN
tenoed to hang.
= Atlanta 8 new depot has been
thrown open for business. 1t covers
thirteen acres and is one Of the finest
in the world. 1t has every conven-
ience for the travelling public.
= The convention of the Washing
ton Diocese Of the Protestant Epls.
copal Church appointed committee
to investigate alleged errors in May
land school histories.
= Mrs. Blackshire, Of Brookville,
W. v, is in Jail charged with having
hired Robert McClosky to kill her
husband, in order that she might col
lect his insurance policy of 81 900.
L. 2. Ohliger, ex. president
Wooster, Ohio, national bank, and
ex'congressman, was sent to the peni.
Tertiary for eight years for issuing a
draft when there was no money in the
bank to meet it.
- Lem Walker farmer of Coving,
ton, Ca, shot and killed his neighbol
named Adams and then attempted
suicide, but was prevented. Domes-
tic troubles caused the tragedy.
= At least 19 persons we're killed
and about IS injured by the Cleve.
land and Cincinnati express over the
Pennsylvania running into q freigh,
train containing dynamite, which ex-
ploded, at South Harrisburg, Pa.
= Laurens Ross and H. g. Reed
the president and secretary of the
Ross Cotton Spool Co., have been
arrested at Augusta, Ca, charged
with using the Unite States mail for
fraudulent purposes.
| - According to the department of
commerce and labor, during 1904 there
were l,O53 100000 pounds Of coffee
consumed in the United States, valued
at s81 100000. This is equiva lent to
about thirteen pounds to every man,
women and child Of the population.
- Mr.. George Hearn, prominent
farmer of North Carolina, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning Fri.
day afternoon, at his home four miles
from Charlotte. His nephew, Neeley
Hern, was knocked unconscious by
the same bolt. They were out gather.
! ing cherries at the time.
l - The town Of Vineland, N. j.,
vas the other day held up by an angry
woman with hat pin. For half an
hour she defied all Of the authorities
and all of the citizens, and none dared
approach within reach of the deadly
hat pin. At length, however, she
was captured by strategy and disarm.
ed.
| = Lieut.. Edward Y. Miller, a Penn
sylvanian, is now the practical agent
of the authority of the United States
in the province of Paragua, Philip.
pines. At the age of 30 and with
only two assistants of his own race,
he is maintaining law and order in q
territory of 1850 square miles, en-
bracing seventy-nine islands.
- At Marion, Ind., John McCor-
mick was fined $37 by Judge Will.
liams for having one cigarette paper.
Being unable to pay, he was sent to
jail for AZ weeks. Mccormick had
been arrested for vagranoy, but when
the single cigarette paper was found O
charge under the anti.oigarette Law
was fled.
= Rev. DR.. Robert s. Macarthur
bas celebrated the close of his thirty
fifth year as pastor OF Cavalry Bap.
tist Church in the city Of New York.
Great crowds attended the services in
commemoration Of the day. In his
35 years Of service Rev. Macarthur is
said never to have missed Sunday
through illness. He will begin his
thirty.sixth year by starting an impor-
tant movement Of missionary nature
in the city, plans for which he is now
maturing.
- Mrs. Letitia Tyler semple
daughter Of President Tyler, and for.
mer mistress of the White House,
celebrated her s4th birthday in Rich
mond, Va, last week, says the Phila
delphia Ledger. Mrs. Semple was a