The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-17
GENERAL NEWS.

= Cotton stands are generally re.
ported good throughout the South.
Nan Patterson has been released
from the Toombs prison and now she
is free.
The Secretary of the Senate has
bought 5000 inkstand for the vice
president.
=, Two young girls IL aud 10 years
old respectively were drowned in a
mill pond at Roanoake, Va.
- A boy at Sanford, Fla, Thurs.
day crushed his brother's skull with
baseball bat, killing him instantly.
Three negroes found guilty OF
murder in Decatur, Ala, have been
sentenced to be hanged on June l6.
= The last negro policeman on the
New York city force has been dismiss
ed by the police commission for being
absent without leave.
- Elmore johnson, charged with
murder of Price Brayles in Tennessee
l6 years ago has surrendered and is
now in jail at Chattanooga.
= Six fine race horses were burned
to death in their stables at the St.
Louis Fair Association race track.
They were valued at $4,000.
-Chas. G. Ridgeway, of New York.
made O record with his automobile Of
900 miles in 25 hours, SO minutes
and one second at Brighton Beach.
- The largest brick machine in the
world has just been set up ct Pough-
keespie, N. Y. It's capacity is q mil
lion bricks day, and it employs over
thousand men.
- Mrs. Benjamin Strong, wife of q
prominent banker of New York, killed
herself. She he'd been in bad health
and committed the deed while in
state of nervousness.
John Hewitt, at Adel, Ga kill.
ed his wife and son, shot his sister
and brother and then com mitted sui
eide: He had lately been confined in
the State sanitarium.
f. NJ. Holbrook and wife were
taken from their beds and killed at
Watkinsville, Ca, by robbers, who,
it is supposed, wanted to rob their
store nearby. The skulls of the VIC
tins were crushed in.
= Washington Duke is dead at
Durham, N. G. He was the founder
OF the tobacco trust and many times a
millionaire. He was generous and
liberal man. He had given over a
million dollars to Trinity College. He
was 85 years old.
Two full-blooded Indians are
members of the Maine House of Rep
resentatives. The elder, Peter M.
Nelson, belongs to the historic Pen
obscot tribe. snd Peter F. Neptune.
the other red skinned legislator, is of
the Passaquoddy tribe.
- John A. Conquest, father Of Ida
Conquest, the actress, although worth
$500,0 is laborer, packing fish in
Boston at SO day. He says he
works for the pleasure il affords him
and that work brings health, aud
that 8 better than wealth."
= Resolutions upon the death of
General Fitzhugh Lee, Of Virginia,
were adopted by rising vote Of the
Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives. General Lee visited the Massa.
chusetts House Of Representatives
just prior to his death in Washing
ton.
- While cotton sales were heavy
last week throughout the South, most
OF the staple unloaded was that ware.
housed on which money had been
drawn, and the sales were made to pay
obligations aud stop storage insur.
ance. The balance on the farms is
generally clear gain.
- At Camden. N. j., Isaac G.
Brown is grandfather, although only
36 years old. Brown was married at
II. He is the father of ten children
six boys and four girls. A daugh.
who is the wife of Edward Nelson,
on Monday. She followed the exam
pie set by her father and married |
when but II.
= Within the past few days Hon.
James NJ. Smith, of Oglethorpe,
has disposed Of about two thousand
bales Of cotton at the prevailing
prices. The transaction is under
stood to have netted Col. Smith some.
thing over $4,000. The details of |
the transaction are not definitely
known, but it is understood Col. Smith
Of his holdings at abou.7
cents q pound.
- Judge Beggs, at Pensacola, Fla. |
imposed fines amounting to $1,000 on
three men convicted o. violating the
Law against gambling. W.. F. Kissell,
proprietor Of the gambling house, was
fined $1,000; William Nioholls, an
employe, was fned $500, and Geo. W.
Sims, the proprietor Of the hotel, who
rented room for the gambling, was
find sS00-there. being psnitentiary
in each case. All paid up.
- The Federal grand jury at Jack.
son, Miss, on the 4th inst, returned
three hundred indictments against
citizens Of Franklin County, on the
charge Of whitecapping, the specific
charge being the intimidation OF gov
ernment homesteaders. Some Of the