Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-03
Short News Notes.

Bryan Is going to try and capture Now
York for the party OF tho peoplo.
The retired list of the regular army in
cludos 764 ofllcors Oh half pay, averaging
about $1,000 each.
Thoro sccms to DO much doubt whothor
England will back America in her posi-
tion on tho Chinese question.
Con. John NJ. Palmer, ex-senator from
Illinois and candidate for President on
tho gold ticket in 1896, is dead.
The prevailing bots in Now York last
week on tho election worc on the basis of
$3.50 to 81 in favor of Mckinley.
All tho colleges in tho State have had
worry fiattcring openings. Ten cents cot
ton is great holp to education.
At a negro frolio near Union last Sat
urday night two negroes became i'll
volved in q row. Ono was killed.
Tho great demand in Galveston just
now is for homes for tho people who are
huddlcd together in any kind of shantics.
James B. Howard who was found
guilty of numbering Gov. Goobel, of
kentucky, has bccn sontonced to bo
hanged.
Hawaii has closed it's last school for
teaching tho native language. Hereafter
young Hawaiians will bo taught to talk
English.
Whom man is really in love ho is
about as helpless rs a baby with cold
in tho head and boil Oh its nose at tho
samo time.
wo fear will bo fowcr in number noxt
yoar if cotton romans at ton cents or
thereabouts.
Ono negro was killed and two painfully
injured by lightning Mt Otranto, Berko-
10y county, last Sunday morning. They
had takon refuge undor an old shed.
Russia has bought 100000 pounds of
beef from tho Armours. But sho wants
it on the hoof and in tho hido-not in
cans. The fame of the can has spread.
Richard Croker is in absolute com
mand of the Democratic campaign of
New York. He says ho feels assured
that Bryan will bo tho next President
and Stanchfield the next Governor.
Two mon were killed and nine injured
in a railroad wreck at Waterloo, o. IT,,
last Sunday. Tho train was late and was
running at high spccd when 1T jumped
the track.
Tho strike situation in the coal regions
of Pennsylvania is not improving very
fast. About lI0, 900 men are out and coal
is advancing in price just as winter is
coming on.
Rev. Dr. Gilbcrt II. Gregory while
pIeaCHluS W HIS CoHSlcSUIlou III ,ot'
Stephens Methodist church, Marble
Head, n. Y, Sunday, died very suddenly.
IIo was G3 years old.
w. M. Ncwbold, superintendent Of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad com
mittcd suicide in Birmingham last Sun
day morning by shooting himself i'll tho
mouth. No cause can DO assigned for
tho rash act.
The State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society for the coming State Fair offers
81 900 in county displays--of S400, $500,
5000 and Sl0O 1t will be well for Oco,
nee county to arrange at once in an effort
to secure one of these prizes.
The Evansville Ond.) Construction
Company has been awarded the contract
by tho government for building stone
dam across the Congarcc river at Column
ba. This is the first step toward river
navigation for our capital city. Work
is $4,000. The American Bridge Com
pany got tho contract to build steel
viaduct to carry the traffic of Assembly
street and electric cars over the railroads
at the union depot.
cleaned l0,200 rice birds for shipment
Ono day last week these cntcrprising gen
| tlcmcn, who are managing this business
purchased 100000 birds, one man alone
| receiving upwards of $50 for birds.
| These toothsomc dclicacics arc thor
oughly picked and clcanscd and packed
one dozen i'll box, presenting as agrcca
bic sight to an epicurc rs could be i'm
agincd, and they bring fancy prices
| North -Goorgctown Times, September
| Goth.