The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-05-16
GENERAL NEWS

- The U. 8. Governmen. has began
e fight against the drug trust.
- A young man was shot and killed
while robbing the postof1ioe at Roam
oke, Va.
- The ooldest weather on record
Tor the season is reported from Lynch
burg, Va.
- Six persons were killed by the
partial collapse Of cigarette factory
in Havana.
- Many refugees from San Fran
CISCO have bought homes and settled
In Atlanta.
49, Astounding disclosures Of loot.
Jog Of insurance companies come from
Minneapolis.
China has paid the American
CONSUL $50, 900 for the destruction of
mission property.
- Chinese official figures declare
that the boyootte Of American goodc
has not been SO serious.
- A Chicago woman last week was
given divorce because her husband
went to bed with cold feet.
- The city Of Knoxville, Tenn, wss
Waited by big fire recently and suf.
Seed loss Of about $500. .0GO.
- Secretary Taft urges the appro-
priatiop by congress of s500,0O0 more
for relic: work in San Francisco.
- Heavy scosts in western North
Carolina have killed cotton and corn,
and crops will have to be replauted.
.- Atlauta's big exposition is now
assured, aud the money to start the
enterprise has about been subscribed.
Two fast express trains had
head on collision near williamsburg,
Pa, and rs persons are dead Or dy.
ing.
"A great building boom and extra
ordinary commercial activity are re-
ported from St. Louis aud the entire
southwest.
- A bomb was last Wednesday or.
ploded on the streets Of Paris.
Houses were searched and other bombs
zere found.
- Reyauue officers in South Geor.
gis report that women are operating
moonshine stills, and they are prepar.
ing to arrest them.
- Postmaster-G General Cortelyou ss.
oommends the appointment OF com.
mission to revise the laws regarding
seoond.cl class mail matter.
- Subpoenas have been issued Rol
IS Standard Oil seeH ssa faiiToad OH.
oials, who are wanted as witnesses to
testify concerning the rebates enjoyed
by the trust. .N -..
England mas given positive OK.
ders for Turkey to withdraw her troops
from Egyptian territory. If this is
not done the Mediterranean feet all
begin business. s....
- Thaddeus Basch followed his
wife from Virgins 20 Long Branch
and shot the woman dead: ON the
street. ne says love for his wife
prompted the deed. -
- Edwin s. Greenfield, so yesrs
old. and confidential clask ~ H...:::..eeoos
Snyder B Son, bankers, Philadelphia,
is under arrest on the charge OF having
embessled $l00. 900. ...<...g -
- Tits estimated that the shrink
age in stooks sinee the San Francisco
earthquake and fire amounts to $780,
000, QUO, or three times az mucl as tho
loss in the Golden Cato City. =.
j. A. Statun, g miner in Bir-
minsham, Ala, shot and killed his 18;
ysar.old oousin, claiming that the
young msn had assaulted Ess wife and
Was preparing 20 do 90 again. :,
b: DR.. Joseph Drummer, . Consed-
sss.o surKeon and highly eateeasd
physisisn Of Meoklsnburg County, n.
o., dropped dead while nainistszins to
. patient uho; ;Wss 10 great pain. :.
- A pair os. aevolving shears i9 q
subs plsns st PiessbuIg, Pa, Gus 9
man into lttele bits, who aFst got his
hand esssAt ia the meohiaesy. His
entire body was removed ia fragments.
e a man died In Georgia She other
day 90 the age Of lii years. He was
born In l702, and wss seven years old
When Washington died. He wSs the
oldest man in Georgia at the cline OF
his death. '.F. ;:. :', :: K I. -: -.
'3;s2s,.--A landslide Ia Californis, after
The earthquake, hss damned up . lake
100 feet deep, and several. toHna are
threatened With destruction. II is
too late to, destroy the obstruction by
use Of dynamite. r., y -.
8 = - In the inyestig igatioa Of the Stand.
ard Oil Company Of Chicago . formos
employee testified STAT sgsnss were 70.
quifed 20 cheat aud euindle and under
instruction he bribed che railroad enc
ployses and agents Of opposition oil
}eompsnies. 5... M = :, ,.'
g. Mrs !shns, 9 Young lady at An.
niston, ALA. was only saved from i
large black negro By her Koreans.
The ecoundei had invaded the lady's
room, and was in :she oct OF ssizing
her, whsr, Miss johns screamed and
tho brute fled, making good his o..
ospe. 1 ~ y &5 !5s5 KIM: s., :.c: .:;+
/ Z: - After carrying on negosiations
for i,safly three months, the sub.oom.
miesess rspsesenting the snthrAeits
mine eoskers and operators Of essteTa
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