The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-02-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Inc 6tateno0Q Dill has been pass
ed and New Mexico and Oklahoma
Territory are now States.
= Sixteen horses broke their legs
on the streets Of Atlanta and he'd to
be killed. The ice was two inches
thick.
= John Birch. of Sheffield, Ala.
recently stabbed himself to death with
q pair of scissors. He was crazed by
the death of his wife.
- Within three mouths three of
the most powerful aimored cruisers
ever built will be put in commission
in Che United States Navy.
= A. N. Howe, a wealthy coal
dealer of Akron, Ohio, shot his wife
and then committed suicide. The
wife is badly wounded aud may die.
= A serious fire started in Birming
ham, Ala, which destroyed property
to the value of $1,000 While
lighting the fire two fremen were seli
ously injured.
= The revolution in Argentina,
South America, goes bravely on. On
Monday body Of rebels looted the
local government bank in Bueuos
Ayres and carried off $300,OOO.
= Thos. L. Coffin, colored, profes.
eor in the Georgia industrial school
for negroes, near Savannah, was hit
with rock by pupil whom he had
reproved in the classroom aud was
killed.
- An effort is being made to in.
peach Judge Laoombe, of New York,
because he has delayed decision in O
case for 81 years. The Judge, in dc.
fense, will probably cite supreme court
precedents.
- Eight homing pigeons liberate
at Capetown at 5:3l o. M, performed
the astonishing fent of reaching Kim.
berley, about 512 miles away, before
1880 p. m. This is at the rate of over
81 miles an hour.
j. Hobart Moore, of Chicago
nroaident of the Rock Island railroad
presented his son with 9 check for
500, 900 upon his 21st birthday on
Friday. He put the check in an en-
velope by his plate at the breakfast
table.
- Not all Of the horrors of sudden
aud bloody deaths are associated with
war. During the twelve months end.
ing June Both last 3,787 persons were
killed and 51,343 injured as result
of railroad accidents in the United
States.
= An opera house in Saleu, Mass.
was destroyed by fire caused by the
explosion of a moving picture machine
during q matinee performance Mon
day afternoon. The audience OF 1900
persons escaped without casualty.
The property loss is 500, 900.
- Weather conditions in West
Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Texas and Louisiana are reported aa
the worst experienced in years. Cat.
tie In Texas have suffered terribly and
stockmen place their losses at hun
,dreds Of thousands Of dollars.
A family Of three persons lost
their lives by drowning at Mount
Holly, N. J. They =~eTu skating on q
mil pond, when the ice broke aud
they were preoipitated into tho 10y
water, roRning before assistance
could reach them.
The United States Senate has
made prohibition OF the sale for TWEEN
ty-one years q condition precedent tc
the admission of the Indian Territory
into the Union as State, and j,
would seem that If the territory can.
aot learn total abstinence in that
period it, can never do 30. ~
A report issued by the Census
Bureau on Tuesday, 7th inst, shows
the quantity Of cotton ginned from
growth OF 1904:to January 16 to be
1926, 600, counting round bales as
half bales. These consist Of Il, 1924,
777 square bales, 289 OPS round bales
and SO, ITO Sea Island bales.
,---. - News was received in Charlotte
Of the death Of o colored woman at the
advanced age OF 10S years, on. the
farm Of Mr.. Bob Wallace, at East.
feld, Cabarris County, Wednesday
The old woman had been helpleDs fol
g long while, but had been we'll essed
for by white and colored friends. II
is said that there is no fake about her
age. ..,,
Reuben a. Torrey and Charles
M. Alexander, American evaDgelists
have begun in London what lie de.
soribed as the greatest revival In the
history Of that city. The revival was
opened in Royal Albert. Hall, Lon.
dom 9 largest theatre, on Saturday
night, the audience numbering about
II 900. including mans of London i
most prominent paople. A choir OF
:, 600 voices furnished the music. 4
Il - James P. Harmon, Of Gaines
vile, Ga, while lying in bed with hii
son the other night, heard some one
tap on the window and as he raised il
up % sss who it was some one fred {
pistol at bin, the bail breaking bis
collar -bone. A short time after the
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