Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-05-04
5 NEWS NoTRs,

B Nssws NOTRs,
Interesting atenaa Shortened Down FOR
! the Iseadcrs of she Gonrier.
~ A boarding hall Of the classical Insti-
tnte, at BaI1be;g, Wss destroyed ny IRE
Sunday morning. Y Origin unknown.
Loss $4,000. (, NJ sss ,s
Governor Ellerbe's condition is again
o source of worry to his friends latest
reports are to the effecS that he Is not
doing we'll at all. 3 *. &. IS (, n
An excursion train on the Bay Rail.
road jumped tho track at Rosehbaur's
Corner, Now York, last Sunday. Three
were killed and twenty wounded. $
, Henry Gannaway, q well-knowE saw
mill man of, Ardmore, Indian Territory,
WAS stabbed to death Sunday by VIM.
Wathan at that place. Wathan surren-
dered and claims self-defense.
EsH;; Jonson, q negro boy about IL
years old, was killed by freight train
on tho Charleston g. Savannah railroad
last Saturday, near Jaoksonboro. He
was asleep on the track. .-
Two Cuban boys, who arrived at Sa-
vanDah on the Ward liner Havana,
bound for Tuskegeo, Alabama, to entor
Booker II. Washington's school, have
been lost. A search is being made for
them. .-l.... "A. &c.. "..
The Charleston Auditorium has been
finished and turned over to tho oity
council. 1t will scat : 1900 Geo porsons aud
is the largest hall of that kind in The
State. The Confederate veterans will
meet in that building. ., +.
The United States cruiser Now Orleans
is scheduled to leave tho brooklyn Navy
Yard on May 7th. She is to so to New
Orleans for the purpose of permitting
the oity she is named for to SEQ her, and
tho men and crew have anticipated q
pleasant voyage. ..'
Mr.. Wanton s. Carr, who for years
was connected with Wright's hotel snd
who was well known thoroughout the
State, died at O'Clock this morning.
He had been in bad health for year or
two and after 30 long service rs hotel
clerk was compelled to give up business.
Near Lowndesboro, Ala, last Satur-
killed by Frank Mccoy, both colored.
The difficulty arose from the umpiro's
decision In a baseball game. The owl
dcnce seems to show self-defenso and in
tho preliminary examination it is thought
Mccoy will be discharged.
Two desperadoes, who hold up several
mon near Brigham City, Utah, Saturday
night, wore brought to bay by % posse
In the hills oight miles from Ogden
Sunday. A battle took place, in which
Capt. Brown, of the Ogden police force,
and ono of tho robbers were killed. The
other robber was captured.
Mrs. Anne e. George, of Canton, Ohio,
was tried for tho murder of G. D. Saxton,
the brother of Mrs. Mckinley. The
trial lasted 20 days. The jury delibe-
rated on the case nearly "a hours and nc
quilted hor. Sho was tho heroine Of the
hour. 1t Is not stated whether she will
60 on the stage, write book or marry
ono of her attorneys.
Ono milo above Lafayette, Ca, on his
farm, Capt. A. l.. Snow, postmaster at
Lafayette, was struck by freight train
Monday morning and instantly killed =.
lIe was trying to got out of the way of q
runaway team and attempte to cross
tn Q track when no was struck. His mock
and arm were broken and his body was
badly bruised.
Mrs M. l.. Mandarsy, wealthy lady
of San Antonio, Texas, wife of Hunga-
rian nobleman, who was banishod from
his country twenty-five or thirty years
ago, was murdered and her body burned
In that place last Sunday. Robbery is
believed to have been tho incentive, and
q Mexican laborer, who worked on the
Pissoo, iid, uoon arrested Oh suspicion.
Mrs. Mandarsy's homo was found to be
on fire about Q O'Clock A. NJ, and in the
ruins her body was found badly cbarrod
end covered with knife wounds.
At Skaguay, Alaska. tho Chilkat In
dams arc on the war-path. Last Sunday
20 bucks, armed with rifles, gathered
from their several villages along the
Chilkat river and marched to Rocky
Point, eight miles from Haines' Mission,
whore eight white mon were blasting
rock for trail to Klukwan, O. distance
of twenty-five miles. The Indians drove
the whites away. 1t is understood that
parties who are opposed to the construc-
tion Of tho now trail have melted the
Indians to make trouble. United States
troops havo been sent to tho scone.