The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-07
GENERAL NEWS

Two Pittsburg theatres were de-
stroyed by fire, the loss amounting to
$l50,0C0.
| = Three members of the Arkansas
Legislature have been arrested charged
with bribery.
i! = The rural free delivery system
now costs the United States govern.
ment one million dollars month, it is
stated.
There was very severe wind
storm in the section of Mt. Olive. n.
c., last Thursday which DESTROYED
considerable property.
j. p. Branch. q wealthy banker
and prominent Methodist of Rich.
mond, Va, has given $50, 900 to Ran.
dolph Macon college.
The Chicago street railway com.
panies have made proposition to sell
their property to the city which will
probably be accepted by Mayor
Dunno.
The Chicago express companies
refused to recede from their deci-
sions not to re-cmploy strikers, and
the strike will now be fought out to
the end.
- During the first four months
OF the present year over three quar-.
ters of million people died of the
plague in India, and the epidemic
continues.
= Charles J. Bonaparte, Of Balti-
more, great nephew Of Napoleon I,
has been selected to be secretary of
the navy to succeed Paul Morton.
who retires July l.
= The town of La Mesa in New
Mexico, is under seven feet of water.
due to rise Of the Rio Grande. The
water rose gradualiy>and everybody
escaped from La Mesa.
= John Grow, a white man, and
i've negroes are under arrest at
Athens, Ga, charged with being i'm
plicated in the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. M. Hollbrook some time ago.
w. H. Deaver, pitcher for the
Savannah baseball team, broke one of
his knees trying to land at first base.
He was taken to hospital and will
be disabled for the remainder of the
season.
= The new railroad bridge across
the Mississippi River at Thebes, III. !,
has just been opened. 1t belongs to
several railroads and cost three mil
lions. The bridge has double tracks
and is 2,Sl7 feet long.
John Williams, charged with the
murder of State Senator Robert l..
Hipr, of Alabama, has been sen-
fenced to hang in June. William 8
son begged the authorities to hang
him instead Of his father.
= Edwin Steppens, living at Ross
Valley, Marion County, California,
murdered his wife, shot his five chill
dren, three of whom died instantly,
attempted to murder passing milk.
man, and then ended his own life.
= K. T. Ewing, fagman on Lou.
isville C Nashville train near Blue
Ridge, Ca, shot and killed J. L. and
Geo. Galloway, brothers. The Gal.
loways had attacked him. Ewing
himself is seriously wounded, but will
recover.
= The United States assayer at Seat.
tie states that the output of gold from
the northern country this year will
amount to $22, 1000, 900, if not more.
From the Klondike alone he predicts
an output of from ten to twelve mil
lions, the balance coming from the
camps on the American side.
Mrs. G. Durga, Of Bethel, w..
has received $4,000 by the will OF
Alfred Burts, Of Liverpool, England,
almost total stranger. A few years
ago, while Mr.. Burts was visiting in
Bethel, Mrs. Durga did some writing
for him and would take no pay. She
had not heard from him since.
"A corset saved the life of Miss
Emma Kessler, who was fred on by
unknown parties in Marinette, Mich,
The bullet penetrated the clothing
and the skin, but the steel corset
offered so much resistance that the
girl was not seriously injured. The
shooting is thought to have been the
work of boys.
- The Gear Of Russia, it is said.
has $25;000,000 invested in English
securities and it is also declared that
he would in an extreme crisis fly and
live in England, as other troubled
monarchs have done before him.
Then he has second strin to his
bow in the $6,000,0OO invested in
American rolls, iron and coal.
- Ivan Machnow is the tallest man
that has ever lived, for he standa 9
feet 81 inches in his socks and weighs
$50 pounds, although he is only %
years Of age. This extraordinary man
was born in Charkoff, Russia. When
he was z years old he was as big as an
ordinary man. At 12 years of age he
was s feet 6 inches, and at ID he was
8 feet / inch.
- Mrs. Rosefelt, Of Nashville,
Tenn, committed suicide at Asheville,
n. O., Wednesday afternoon shortly
before 6 o'clock by drinking two
ounces Of oarbolio acid and then leap.
ing from q second.story window Of
her boarding house. The suicide, in
company with her husband and sor,
went IN Aehaviele ahouk ~ mantle