The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-02-28
ANDERSON S. Co., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1906.
GENERAL NEWS.

in quart pickle bottle was found
near Atlanta.
- Harvie Jordan will make tour
Of the cotton States. lie will loave
March !, and return April 10.
- Fl. Y. Stack, railroad meu,
WAS shot and killed by Miss Han.
nop, o 14-year'old girl, at Concord,
N. q.
- Nearly one hundred thousand
dollars have been subscribed by tho
citizens Of Atlanta TO the 1910 expo
sition.
- IN Roanoke, Va, Ex-Sheriff
John Is. Traynham was assassiuatcd
With an axe by some one who got into
his room.
John D. Rockefeller's wealth is
saidto equal the annual budget of
fifteen European States, aud If put
into dollars would form a double cir
cGit around the earth.
- Claude Sims, negro convict
Working at the rock quarry in Athens,
&C., had both eyes blowa out and one
OF his hands torn off by premature
explosion Of charge of dynamite.
- Virginia, through attorney gen.
eral, petitioned the Supreme Court
for permission to enter suit against
| West Virginia for portion OF tho
debt contracted before tho two States
separated.
49, Rov. Fl. Lee Harrcll, Prcsby.
terian minister of Monticello, Ca,
! was accidentally shot and killed or
Thursday by his friend r. r. Howell,
q cotton buyer, while they were hunt.
ing birdie together.
| = e. Spencer Blackburn, the only
Republican congressman from North
Carolina, was indicted by the Federal
grand jury at Asheviile for accepting
retainers for services before the de-
partmenss in Washington.
J. - Mrs. Grogan aud her four chill
/ dren were burned to death in q burn
ing building at Tunnel Hill, near
Johnstown, Pa. Two other members
of the family jumped from the SEQ.
ond story and we're seriously in-
jured. T.. ..*:
r It is estimated that the presents
received by Miss Alice Roose welt, Aow
Mrs. Lopgworth, represented q value
Of not less than $3.50, 600. The value
OF the presents received by Nellie
Grant when she was White House
bride was about s69 900.
-; Mrs. Carrie Nation was elected
from barroom ct Hot Springs, Ark. !,
on Thursday and committed to Jail on
the charge of disturbing the peace,
che having gone in there to deliver o
lecture against drinking. She was, re-
leased later ic the day. ..:.,... .. II.
- A fire recently swept through
the woods near the State university at
Berkeley, Cal, and disclosed that q
freshman had been living in tent in
the woods and cooking his own meals.
He was too poor to rent Q room. It is
said. he is an excellent student. H..
| - AS result OF Wednesdays cleo
tion in Philadelphia the Republican
party is again in, the minority. The
CONTEXT hinged on the election Of two
police magistrates, aud the reform or
city party candidate, with Democratic
endorsement, led his Republican op.
ponents by 10,14 votes. '.:..> -.
~ ~ Three young white men, Viii.
liam. Dnnnaway, William Turpin and
Jatnes Gamble, etepped from the train
on 9 trsstle 80 feet high over the Ten.
nessee river at Knoxville on Wednes.
| day night and were instantly killed.
The name Of the, station had been
oailed out aud they evidently thought
they had reached it.. III: *. =.
~ Miss Lizzie e. Wimbish, na.
tive Of Montgomery, Ala, aud ore Of
The best known Southern female mis-.
| Isionaries OF 1.-THE Presbyterian church
nt.the Orient, died last Friday in
Kobe, Japan. Miss ,Wimbish was 81
yeess Of age and had been engaged in
foreign mission work since 1887. &:
-* ~ The United Stat55 il becoming a
bankrupt governments. = This may
j sound harsh,; but deficit confronts
the high finauoiers at The head Of az.
fairs. Notice from the last treasury
statement that for the fiscal year end.
ling June 30, 1905, tho expenditures
exceeded the receipts $4,000, 900.
And this at the food tide Of pros:
perity too. f:l. ::.. w., '.:: :: :., ~. =:
';!+- 3 = Samuel ;, Thomas, the largest
manufacturer Of pig iron In the Unit.
ed States, died ct: Oatasqua, Pa, He
was 79 years Of age. ! Hs' was q SON OF
i David Thomas, who first successfully
introduced tho anthracite blast for
! the manufacture Of mig iron. Samuel
Thomas organized the Pioneer Mining
and Manufacturing Company, at Tho
mas, near Birmingham, Ala. =. :.*@ 4 I
The 18 months-old child of Mr..
and Mrs: Stanford Jordan. in North
Bsistoi, Va, is in q oriticalf condition