Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-01-12
NEWS NOTEs.
Interesting HteIns Shortened Down 10,
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Sixty apprentices have been sent to
Port Royal on tho U. s. gunnery ship
Lancaster. They will practice In thct
port and DO graduated as gun captains.
Clayton has won his case against tho
Southern Railway for damages for in
jury to his person. Ho gots $4,000. 1t
is the third trial of this case ut Columbia
in tho Uuited States Court. 49,.
Frank Marshall, assistant engineer on
Dewey's hagsfip, whose sistor was mar
ried recently in Waco, Texas, sont hor q
wedding dross from Manila, silk dress
from st. Petersburg, and tca set from
Japan. .. ...-,.., ) :
A heavy storm swept ovor portion of
Scott county, Kansas, on last Sunday.
At Boles school house was blown down
and throo pupils were killed, ono fatally
injured and a dozen or moro sustained
painful Injuries. Ea -.
Bailey Decker, colorod, was put to
death by electricity in Sing Sing prison
last Monday for tho murder of his wifo.
Tho current was turned on at 11.22, and
ct 11.37 ho was pronounced dead. Two
shocks wore given him.
Six desperate convicts confined at tho
Adams convict camp near Washington,
Ca, attacked Jep Dennard, q guard,
last Monday night, beat him into insonsi-
bility and perhaps fatal wounding
him. Tho men then made their escape.
The I'd South Carolina regiment at
Havana has been sent to Buena Vista, 8
miles in tho country. Their first night
was spont in tho pouring rain. Provi-
ously thoy had boon encampcd at MORO
Castle. 1t is liloly that the glamour and
fuss of camp will soon fall on tho Caro-.
lima boys.
George A. Armour, of tho class of III,
of Princeton University, has given $1O,-
600 to his alma mater to found classical
department in tho University library.
For the noxt three years he will give
2,700 annually for tho fcrthur support
of tho department.. Mr.. Armour camo
to Princeton from Chicago four years
ago.
Whom Admiral Sampson's daughter
was married fow nights ago, sho re-
coived present from President MoKin-
10y, which, it is said, she prizes above
all others. 1t was a crumpled bit of yol-
low paper, on which was written tho
original dispatch from her father to tho
war department, telling of tho dostruc-
ton of tho Spanish fleot of Santiago.
At tho socialist annual pilgrimage to
tho tomb of Blanqui, in the cemetery
of Pcro La Chaise, Paris, OH Sunday last,
tho partisan adhorents of two socialists
editors became involved in riot and
many Of tho participants in tho pilgrim
ago manifestations woro seriously in
jured. The decorations for the tomb
were totally destroyed and tho usual
ceremonies abandoned.
Sonor Fernandez do Castro, tho civil
Governor of Havana, ignores Con. Lud.
low's authority. Ho has ordered the
Hygenio Hospital closed. Con. Ludlow
was greatly displeased at this action and
ordered tho hospital rooponcd. Do Cas-
tro also ordered the newspapers not to
print certain business advertisements
distasteful to him. They did not do so.
Gen. Ludlow will probably remove tho
OWL Governor.
The Agricultural Hall case will como
up fairly and sGuaroly before tho United
States Supreme Court. This means that
the court will finally pass upon tho
validity of tho Blue Ridge bonds, and
should tho court decide against the
State it means that tho State will have
to pay over four million dollars, tho
amount of Blue Ridge bonds he Id by Mr..
Wesley, of Now York.
A Chicago Tribune special from Van
couYer, B. c., of January 9th, saws :
Nows was received hero to-day of q tre-
mendous land slidoInear Spenco's Bridge,
on tho Canadian Pacific Railway. The
recent thaw had tho effect of loosening
tho sides of q small mountain, which
0yorhangs the Fraser River at that point.
This mountain has long since been an
object of curiosity to travellers on ao-
count of its peculiar position, its fiat
summit extending q considerable dis
tance over tho river, which is narrow at
that point. Shortly after midnight last
night, with q roar that could b0 hoard
for ovor mile, fully q hundred acres of
tho hill, anywhere from twenty to fifty
feet In depth, crashed into tho Fraser,
damming it completely, and sonding tho
Wator in torrents over tho fertile Nicola
Valley. Tho course Of tho river was
changed completely.