The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.

- Congress finally appropriated Sl,-
325 900 for the Jamestown Exposi-
tion.
A Pennsylvania farmer was go
5tuus by bees that his life ia despair.
cd Of.
-- The Baptist Church steeple at
Fitzgerald, Ca, was destroyed by an
electric storm.
- 4 negro who assaulted a white
girl in Indian Territory was hanged
and burned by mob.
-- A pet cat bit child ct Tyrone,
Pa, aud the child has since bitten
itself, and is dying horribly of hydro.
phobia.
- Americus, Ca, shipped her first
oar load Of peaches to the north
Thursday. The crop is about two
weeks lato this year.
-Locusts have destroyed one. half
the cotton crop in parts Of Arksnsae.
Locusts bite holes in the stalk and
above these the plant withera.
- The steamer America, which
sailed from Marseilles, France, June IL
with Ito passengers aud crew OF 40
for New York, is still missing.
Five men were killed by dyns.
mite explosion at Wanamie, i. mining
town near WiIkesbarre, Pa, on the
4th. They we're celebrating the day.
Now Orleans has received the
6rst bale OF the new cotton crop. It
came from Brownsville. Texas, and
was sold for the benefit Of the charity
hospital.
W. F. Fendley, formerly marshal Of
Pitte, Ga, shot and killed W. T.
Ryoraft, prominent citizen Of that
town. An old feud had existed be.
tween them.
49, Kansas farmers are preparing to
boycott merchants who ride in auto
mobiles, claiming that their horses
are frightened by the machines on the
country roads.
- Rudolf: Kollitz, q farmer Of Fox
Lake, Wis, murdered his wife by
shooting her in the temple with q
shotgun and then blew ont his hgs:ns
with the same gun.
-. --latest expressions from wheat
experts are that this years crop will
be enormous and some even place It. ct
420, 600, 900 bushels, the largest in the
eountry's history.
Mrs. Smith, OF Topeka, Kan,
wife OF convicted murderer, has sued
the liquor dealers'of shat CITY for s55,-
600 damages. for being responsible for
her husbands crime.
Bryan clubs have been formed in
many towpe in Oklahoma, and the
democratic leaders are confident Of
carrying the State at the next election
By majority Of IS, 900, :
The Sehboard Air Line Railroad
will enter Admission, Ala, and COM
pete With the Southern and L. s. N.
railroads. Il is expected that the line
will be further extended.
Bud Wilson was driving a team
OF mules ct Decatur. Ala, on his way
home from picnic, when the animals
ran away. Wilson was killed and q
dozen other persons hurt.
w. N. Harding, eigi! ~. vet
eran, !aged sixty years, living BALI
mile from Tennysor, Ind, shot and
killed bis wife and then killed himself.
Jealously prompted the deed. -
-Mrs. James Tanner, wife Of the
G: A. r commander, was killed at
Heiena, Mont, in an automobile aooi-
dent. Her husband and others were
seriously hers. hrs net fatally.
= A convention Of old maids and
old bachelors he's been called to nomi-
nate a State ticket in the lowe else-
lions on platform opposing President
Rensevelt'e :==ssss=sai5ido views.
During the LAST i've months q
total Of 134 petitions for divorce have
been flsd in Atlanta and this number
does not include those previously fled
and pending at the first Of the year.
- Three little g;:!s e P. q. Hun.
phrey, at Sparta, Ca, were playing
undera tree when q thunder storm
came up. Lightning struck the tree
and two of.the children were killed. ::
!, Five boys were killed snd nine
injured by . dynamite explosion at
Wilkesbsrre, Pa. They were shooting
some explosives near q oar loaded
With dynamite when the latter blew
up.
- The ios famine in Washington
has stirred up the municipal offioials,
end IL upon Investigation it proves to
be the result Of conspiracy to raise
the price, tho responsible individuals
may be prosecuted, =" !: -. -
The socialist party Of Georgia
met In A,.anta on the 4th and nomi-
neked A full Skate tioket. innludinr
Mrs. M. A. Thomas, Of: Augusta, for
school commissioner. The nominee
for governor is j. B. Osborne, Of At
lansa, blind man. .,.,,y.. .:::s...
The governor has agreed to let
the dispsnsary Investigating. commit
toe have e1 900 from bis contingent
fund in compliance with the commit
tees request. :s.,.. -. : -.
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