The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-02-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Csatt5 iast y@Sr 6sCounted to Il 900,
600 barrels.
= A FIRE AZ Sioux City, Ia., on the
2Srd inst, destroyed property worth
about one million dollars.
- Seven men were buried a.ive by
oaye-in on the Quincy and Fort Smith
railroad near Antoine, Ark.
= Reason and Brico Powers, twins.
recently celebrated their ninetiett
birthday at Anderson, Ind.
= The farm products of this couI.
try yielded the enormous sum of S..
OO,O0D, 600 during the year 1904.
- Charles Lockhart, Standard
Oil king, who may have left 800.
100000, is dead in Pittsburg of old
age.
- The emergency. appropriation
bill of Congress contains an item of
$685. 900 to be used in fighting the
boil weevil.
"A collision between two freight
trains at Shawnee, Tenn, resulted in
the death of four mon and injury of
four more.
= Within three months four of the
most powerful armored cruisers ever
built will be put in commission in the
United States navy.
- The report of the State board of
health Of Virginia says there is small
pox in ten counties Of that State and
diptheria in nearly all Of them.
= The Tallulah Falls railroad is to
be extended to Franklin, N. c., and
the rumor ia ont the. :hha Southern is
to build from Knoxville, Tenn, to
Franklin.
- Three negroes were convicted in
Tallahassee, Fla, Of numbering w.
w. Epps. superintendent of public
instruction Of Leon County, last Au-
gust and sentenced to hang.
= William Jennings Bryan recent
ly paid President Roosevelt. visit.
He had no interview with him, during
which b declared himself in favor Of
government legislation of railroads.
- Colonel Duke Goodmrn, major
general Of the Texas Divie,ou United
Confederate veterans died oe heart
disease at his home in Fort Worth,
Texas, Wednesday, aged 62 years.
= Miss Carrie Dawson, Of Detroit.
Mich, who has just been appointed
clerk of the United States District
Court at Detroit, is the only woman
i0 the United States honored with
suc, an Office.
- Secretary Hester's last weekly
cotton statement shows for the twen.
ty days Of Japnary decrease under
last year Of 173,000, and a decrease
under the same period year before last
Of 128, 900 balee.
A Georgia editor has had to
leave home because he said in his
paper he was going to hold his cotton,
He had q sweet heart named Sarah Cot
ton, eld her father chased him out Of
town with shot gun. =
Hansh Elias, q negress, is being
sued in New York court by an aged
white man, John R. Plat, for re-
covery of o half million dollars which
he charges her nf ex.e.:;nE ffTom MIN
during the association OF twenty years
duration.
=. While atts@mgtiDg @ to arrest Rob
ert and James MoBryde on the streets
OF Tuskegee, Ala, Sheriff T. r. Nc
Connell was perhaps fatally stabbed,
Deputy Sheriff George Lamar was
dangerously stabbed and the two Nc
Brydes were shot to death.
= Governor Vardmcn, Of Mississip.
pi, arrested negro on the train Sun
day night himself. The negro was
charged with double murder, and on
being told that he. was on The train
the governor borrowed the conductoe's
re yolver and arrested him. i
Mr.. John Holland, OF Terrell
Counig. Ca; made last year on one
acre Of ground three bales OF cotton,
each Weighing 500 pounds. He thor.
oughly prepared the ground, used
] 400 pounds Of guano and cultivated
the cotton with much care.
1; During the recent automobile
races on the Florida beach between
Ormond and Dayton an Englishmau
Arthur e. McDonaid broke the worlds
record for Eve. mile run making
the distance &c shree minutes and II
seconds Eat. The record had been
previously held by w. K. Wander
bilt.
i In tho crop report just issued by
the Government for 1904, Kentucky is
shown to yield more than third Of
the total: amount OF tobacco pro.
.duoed in the United States. Two
hundred and twenty.seven thousand
four hundred and nine, acres were
cultivated which yielded 228, ,243, 900
ipoands.
r- The Gear owns 100 palaces and
.ohateanx scattered all over Russia.
!It take5 abbJut SO SO ,IJ0 men servants
TO sare for them, and their salaries
iaraount to 81, 600 900 . year. In the
stables are more than 8, 900 horses.
.Sixty-two Of these royal residences
the Czar has never seen. i I ,.'s5:.4i ss.s +. I.
5 - a. farmer in Monroe County,
Ohio; who invested e52S in sheep last
fall is said 20 hare ssociid sold S2c77 SS22ec7 worth OF
WOO, now has 143 lambs that will