Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-27

/ Three tlanmen were killed in freight
| wreck near Amsterdam, N. Y, last Mon
day.
The contract to build the battlcsnip
Georgia has been let to the Bath, Maine,
| Iron Works.
The annual convention of tho Y. NJ. G.
A. of South Carolina meets in Sumter
February 14-l7, 1901.
| The Tennessee Congressional delcga-
ton has asked that ono Of the new war
ships be named Tennessee.
| Rev. Shcldon's plan for solving tho
servant girl problem, as far as it has
progressed, seems to be to put pianos in
| tho kitchen.
"The warm weather has caused tho
buds to swoll," says the Waycross Her
aid. And here it has caused the swclls
| to bud.
i A Kansas exchange is disposed to
apologize for the fact that circumstances
make it impossible for Mrs. Nation to be
that States favoritc son.
Columbia is to have q now steel frame
ten-story Office building and it ia to bo
erected on tho site of the present Ken
d.ll building and will cost over 5000, 600.
Owing to the heavy shipment of fcrti-
| liZCrs out of Charleston and other points
in the South there is IL great scarcity of
cars on all of the railroads.
a white, man named Mcdonald, was
killed by train No. 1 on the Southern
Railway, near Spartanburg, last Monday.
He was drunk and fell from the train
while it was in motion.
The statement is published in New
York that Miss Helen Gould has given
S400, 900 for the land, building and equip
ment of homo for naval branch of
the Young Mems Christian Association.
1t is said the Kansas barkcepcrs have
q new and insidious drink which they
have named in honor of Mrs. Nation. 1t
is a sort of combination of brandy smash
and hot soda.
Eskimo children at Carlisle school
rank far ahead of the Indian youths in
every study. This clearly demonstrates
the superiority of walrus blubbcr over
! roasted dog as brain food, thinks The
Chicago Journal.
Queen Victora's funeral was the most
costly as well as the most imposing from
a military and naval standpoint uf that
of any European monarch. And yet the
Old lady loved peace better than any
| thing in tho world-cxcept money.
"And do you think" asked his friend,
that your RENE nstranccs will have any
effect ?' "Wcii." said tho Chinese
statesmen, 'thc European Generals have
promised that, in future, their troops
will be moro moderate in their atroci-
ties. Puck.
The Congressional report Of hazing at
| West Point reveals q fearful state of de-
pravity among the young men of that in
stitution. The treatment Of the fourth
class boys was simply brutal-more than
barbarous. some Of their ideas they
evidently got from English schools,
where tho upper men each had small
boy as a "fag"; but in initiating England
in this they have gone far beyond any
thing ever rcad ABOUT IN the old country.
| The House did not enter protest
against striking out the extra $780, 900
by the Senate for public schools, which
shows the incncerity of tho proposition
from the outset, as it is only a repetition
of the farce enacted last year. What is
that favorite quotation from Lincoln !?
"You can fool some of the people part
Of tho time and somo of the people all
the time, but you cannot foe, all tho poo.
to be kept in mind next year when tho
public schools are under consideration
Grccnville Moutainccr
Fort Mill Special to Tho Columbia
State, February l4th: w. II. Bradford,
Captain Of tho Fort Mill Light Infantry,
and editor Of the Fort Mill Times, shot
and killed John McCord, colored, this
afternoon. l,radford's mother was quito
sick, and tho negroes were making a
noise just behind her house. He went
to see about it. McCord drew pistol
on him and snapped it. and when shot by
Bradford, fell with pistol in hand. This
is the first homicide hero in years.
Everything is perfectly quiet. McCord
has been in frequent rows, and was a
very dangerous negro. Tho COroncr's y
inquest is in Bradford's favor
The subsidy bill is dead, it is said, so
far as the present session of Congress is
concerned. The bill cannot be passed at
this session, and although if a special
session of tho new Congress is called, a
vote on the bill will be reached, it is by
no means certain that it will be passed..
The situation in Cuba makes it almost
certain that q special session will be
called, as it now seems likely that tho
Cubans will adopt a constitution without
reference to the relations of Cuba with
this country, leaving those relations and
all other foreign relations to bo dealt
with by tho new government when cstab-
lishcd. Tho administration is by no
means disposed to lot go of Cuba on
those terms, and tho Congress is wanted
to devise some scheme by which Uncle
| Sam may seem to keep his promise of
independence to Cuba, and yot maintain
complete control of tho island and its
! people.