Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14
ACCIDENTS AND HAPPENINGS.
Many Interesting News Items-A Steamship
Goes Down-Sixty Lives Lost

and in turning in bed her arm wat
30 crossed under her throat as tc
strangle her to death.
f. M. Smith, white, agod 50 years,
was hanged at Nacodoches, Texas
last Friday for the murder of Mrs
Waters, his kinswoman, in July. Nc
cause is known for the murder.
The crops of Nebraska this yea,
will help the farmers of that State
amazingly, as the total excess OF
their value over the past four years
will amount to $52,553,OO0. Corn
yield, 241, ,935,527 bushcla; wheat
39,7O0,635 bushels oats, 1885, 900
bushels, and rice 3,52O,S77 bushels,
Nebraska farmers do not propose to
starve.
Two express trains collided last
Friday between Offenbach and
Frankfort on the Main, two towns in
Germany. A gas reservoir exploded
setting fire to the wreckage. Seven
persons were burned to death and
four injured.
-Four officials of Pao Ting Fu,
China, were put to death November
9th under sentences imposed by a
tribunal of the allies, including Yang,
the acting viceroy of Prechili.
A disastrous railroad wreck oc-
Cured last Friday morning on the
Southern at Hodges, twenty miles
east of Knoxville, Tenn. The pas
scnger train and a double header
freight collided. One engineer was
fatally injured and one seriously.
Three mail clerks were seriously in
jured. The three engines were com
pletely demolished.
1t is reported that there is to be a
big trust formed of all the trans
Atlantic steamship companies.
Section Master Boyd and two
hands were killed on the Scaboard
Air Line railroad, about thirty miles
from Cheraw, last Thursday by car
breaking loose and running into
their hand car.
Upward of seventy-fve houses
have been destroyed by fire at
Biloxi, Miss, a well known summer
resort and business center on the
Mississippi Sound, nine miles from
New Orleans. The fire occurred
Friday. The loss is 100000.
Finley Brown, the twclve-year-old
son of w. X. Brown, of Charleston,
died in that city Saturday morning
under distressing circumstances. The
boy was day pupil at the Porter
Military Academy. AS a practical
joke, some of his school fellows
dropped him into the swimming
pool of the academy, from which
the water had been drained off, and
left him to get out of the hole as
best he could. During his struggles
to regain his liberty little Finley in
jured himself internally and died in
great agony.
The Dark Corner of Grccnvillc
county comes up with another kill
ing. Miles Cureton, colored, killed
Ned Parks, colorcd, because the
latter charged the former with steal
ing his Sunday pants"
Geo. Moblcy and Tom Moody had
shooting scrape at Keystone Park,
Fla, on November 9th over primary
matters. Moblcy got his pistol and
shot Moody unawarcs. The latter
drew his revolver and fred on his
assailant. Moody is badly hurt and
may die. Both are prominent white
men.
a priest, named Boryisko, who
bore grudge against patient in
the city hospital, Cracow, Poland,
last Thursday sought revenge by
blowing up the building with dyna-
mite. Fifty patients and forty doc
tors and nurses were in the hospital
when the explosion destroyed the
east wing of the building, causing
the death of four physicians and the
injury Of fifty. a mob caught the
priest, and after stripping off his
robes, lynchcd him.
Finley Anderson, one of the wit
ncsses of whose testimony Caleb
Powers was convicted of completely
in the Gocbcl murder, now says that
testimony was prcjurcd, and that he
was influenced to swear the false
story by Attorney Campbell and
Arthur Gocbel. He says further
that since the trial he has received
sums of money from these two men
aggregating three hundred dollars.
The steamer City Of Menticcllo,
belonging to the Yarmouth Steam
ship Company, foundcred in the Bay
of Fnndy, N. s., with an appalling