The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-21
GENERAL NEWS.

= Oscar Brannon, prominent citi-
zen of Plant City, Fla, was waylaid
and murdered by gang on the road
side.
= Mrs. Agnes Meyers, Of Kansas
City, No., has been convicted Of the
murder Of her husband, Clarence
Meyers, and sentenced to death.
= The Kichmo1d Chapter Of the
Daughters Of the ConfcGeracy have
declared their purpose to erect anon
ument to Fitzhugh Lee.
= The Prcsbytcrians propose to
raise fund of SO, ,O0O, 900 to care for
their wOrn.out ministers. Over %l,-
600, 900 has already been raised.
\ train carrying Confederate
veterans to Louisville was wrecked at
Golden Gate City, H., and : persons
were killed and number injured
= Just as the German Baptists were
getting ready to adjourn at Bristol,
Va, several of the delegates were
rendered unconscious by stroke Of
lightning.
= The Ccnfedcrans veterans at
Louisville reelected Gen. Stephen ID.
Lee commandcr,in chief and selected
New Orleans as the place of the next
reunion.
= Negro carpenters at Wetumpka,
Ala, refused 20 work at building
scaffold for the execution of another
negro. White carpenters were Sc
cured to do the work.
&C. II. Allison, 70 years old, of
Boonville, Mo-, graduate of Mis-
souri, University in the class Of '52,
has rc-entered the university to take
special work in surveying.
"A newsboy found $50, 900
pearl necklace on street in Philadel-
phia and hunted up the owner and re.
turned it. 1t belonged to Mrs. War
burton, and she lost it while going to
her hairdrcsscr.
- Mrs. Paul Klas killed her four
children and then committed suicide
at her home in Kicler, Wis, using a
butcher knife. The woman had been
in i'll health for some time.
= At a wedding at Barstow, CAL,
the other day, each of the guests was
presented with gold nugget from
mine which the bridegroom had be-
slowed upon the bride.
= John j. Hunt, Of New York
city, aged 10, killed himself with
pistol on Wednesday because his
sweetheart refused to marry him un-
less he would quit drinking.
= Henry w. Comstook of Roston
was robbed of $l2O,O 600 in negotiable
securities which he had put under
pillow In his statcroom on a Long
Island sound steamer on the way to
New York.
John johnson, Swedish youth,
was taken into custody in Washing
ton for annoying Miss Alice Roose-
welt, the presidents daughter, with
proposals of marriage. He was ad-
Judged insane.
- Seven persons worc shot at
wild west SHOW at lnmau, Kas., when
Cherokee Indian during war dance
fired charge from shot gun into
the crowd. 1t was supposed that
q blank shell was in the gun.
- Real estate in New York is too
high for farming purposes. A fam
Gus lot, No. l, Wall Street, was sold
last week at the rate of 81. 90 a square
inch. That is little more than twen-
ty.five million dollars an acre.
- The State Board of Health, of
North Carolina, has issued bulletin
showing the existence of smallpox in
forty five Of the ninety eight counties,
the disease being scattered from tho
sea coast to the high mountain region,
and being literally all over the State.
Mrs. Mary Wagner, aged 25,
stabbed her husband to death in their
home in Brooklyn, n. Y, on Weenes.
day night. He was drunk when he
sat down to supper and quarfeled with
his wife end grabbed her by, the
throat, whom she picked up knife
and plunged itinto his heart.
- Mrs. G. r. Hayne, prominent
club woman, committed suicide at her
home in Bastrop, Texas, by shooting
herself through the heart. She was
sister-in-law of Gen. Adna r..
Ctatfce, of the United States army,
and was we'll known throughout the
State.
= Out of the three candidates for
Georgia's governorship, two are ma
tives Of South Carolina, Col. j. H.
Estill and Clark Howell, while tho
third, Hoke Smith, is native of
North Carolina. Two are editors and
the other sn ex.editor.
Plans are under way in New
York oity for big celebration in
1907, of the centennial of steam navi-
alton. In that year q century will
have elapsed since the Clerment yes
sci moved up the Hudson River, pro-
PEELED by steam engine,