The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-04-26
GENERAL NEWS.

= The fruit crop at Roanoke, Va,
has been killed by the cold.
= The mines of Mexico have been
closed to the coinage Of silver
= Three men were burned t. death
in jail near New Orleans few days
ago.
= The damage to strawberries in
North Carolina is estimated at % per
cent.
- The estimate is that % per cent
of tho Georgia peach crop has been
killed.
= A fire on Thursday at Nashville,
injured Vanderbilt University to the
amount of 100000. Insurance, $40
900.
a wealthy merchant died in
hospital in Savannah few days ago
from blood poison resulting from cat
scratch.
= John d. Rockefeller has given
500, 900 to the University of Nir.
ginia to found Garry school of
education.
= The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, in Augusta, will
erect q house for taking care Of stray
dogs and cats.
= Some negroes lynched another
negro at Marion, Ark, few days ago
because the lynched negro killed
another negro.
- At Washington it is thought
that unless France gives some salts.
factory assurances complications with
England may develop.
= Bishop A. A. Watson, of the
Episcopal diocese Of Eastern North
Carolina. is dead at Wilmington. He
had reached an advanced age.
= The Naval Stores Product Ex-
port Company to control the turpen-
tine industry has been formed in
Mississippi with s3,5OO,OOO capital.
The bones of Paul Jones, who
founded the American navy, have
been found in an I'D cemetery in
Paris aud will be brought this coun-
try.
- A sculptor at Logansport. Ind,
removed statue Of VIM. Mckinley
from the pedestal in tie park because
be said he was never paid for making
the monument.
= Hardy Watkins, a negro, was in.
dietea st Evergreen, Ala, charged
with the murder of his wife by throw.
ing her on burning brush heap, and
holding her there until life was near
ly extinct.
- The Japanese will profit by the
| destruction of the Russian feet in the
karbor of Port Arthur. There will be
at least four Of the sunken battleships
raised and made to do service in the
Japanese navy.
= The largest bequest ever made
by colored person to Tuskegee In
stitute, Booker Washington's school at
Tuskegee, Ala, was recorded in
New York when the will Of Mary E.
Shaw, of Philadelphia, was probated.
It bequeathed $4,000 to the institu-
tion.
A price has been put on the
head Of the American eagle in Te:
hama County, California. The board
of supervisors offers reward of 81
for the head Of each Of the great
birds on the petition Of the sheep
men, who have lost many lambs by
eagles.
= The home of George T. Maull at
Clarsburg, w. Va, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire and four children were
burned to death. The parents, with a
fifth child, had barely time to escape
from the burning building. The
charred bodies Of the four children
were recovered from the ruins.
- State Senator R. L. Hipp, law
yer, and Deputy Sheriff Dunlay, Of
/ N,,ll s,xo l.
country on Thursday to oust John
Williams from tract Of land he had
lost in lawsuit. Williams refused
to vacate and fight eusued, in which
Hipp was killed and Dunlay was bad.
ly wounded.
- 1t has just come to light that a
niece of Andrew Carnegie married her
mothers coachman, widower with
two children, year ago, and that
they have been in Europe since. An
drew says it is so, and that the coach
man is an honest man and he would
rather she had married poor but
honest American than q worthless
duke.
| - The heaviest rainfall of short
duration ever recorded accurately is
| said to have been the recent one at
Santiago de Cuba. An English engi-
neer found the rate to be more than
four inches an hour, and between z
and 10 clock in the evening total
fall Of more than foot was registered
| by the gauge. The storm covered
nearly three hundred miles, in places
being even heavier than at the point
where the measurement was made.
- Thomas Yandaw, conspicuous
| figure in Norfolk for over fifty years,
claimed up to the time of his death
| thes he was entitled to large for
tune in California. Five years ago he
was adjudged lunatic and sent to
an asylum. Two years ago he died