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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
STOLE Her OWN SON.
wife Of Samuel Miller, Son, Of Former United
States Attorney General, Plays Kldnapper.

4
indianapolis, Ind, December 81,
Mrs. Samuel Miller, wife of the son
Of the Elk United States Attorney
General, who caused a sensation here
yesterday by kidnapping her son,
Sidney Miller, aged seven, was located
by reporters at 3 q. m. to-day at
Lawrence, Ind. AT that hour Mr..
Miller was trying to prevent her leay-
ing on the 4.25 a. N. Big Tour east
bound train.
Five years ago Samuel Miller and
wife, with their son, moved to New
York and lived in the fashionable
apartment house, Rutland, near Gem
trail Park. The couple finally sepa-
rated, Millerreturning to indianapolis
with the boy. The other desired
possession of the child and secured
him yesterday. She drove to Law
renee, an outlying station, to take the
train. There she was found this
morning, the boy recovered and
and brought back to the home of his
grandfather, w. HI. Fl. Miller. y
The most effective little liver pills made
are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They
never gripe. j. w. Boil.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Stays Three Men Before Giving Up Up.

John Tiger, a full blood Indian, a
ferryman on the Arkansas river, two
miles south Of Eufaula, I. T., went
to Eufaula with his wife Christmas
afternoon, and, while intoxicated,
met L. B. Roper and threatened to
kill him. Roper Immediately struck
Tiger with a board. Tiger went to
his buggy and got Winchester. He
came back tokill Roper, but failed
to find him. Enraged, he proceeded
to fire at every one he saw, shooting
Jesse Beck through the hips and
kin; e him. He then killed Dave
Porter, nephew of Chief of Police
Porter, of Eufaula, and mover,
named Johnston, on his way to Mis-
souri, in covered wagon with his
family. Bud Taylor, aged eighteen,
was shot through the shoulder and
is not expected to live. Tiger jumped
on a horse and tried to escape. He
was chased three miles when he
jumped off his horse, got behind a
tree and began shooting. Deputy
Marshal Johnson, who returned the
fire, struck Tiger in the arm. The
murderer surrendered and was car
ried back to Eufaula. Tigers arm
will have to be amputated. Great
indignation prevails over the free
sale Of liquor and fire arms. J.T.
Smith, who lives two miles south of
Checotah, became involved in a
quarrel with T. Thompson over the
shooting at Eufaula and began shoot.
ing. Thompson was shot in the
chest and cannot recover.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
''MILKEo' SiHn BANKSFoR s1so,,,oioyo.. 81 .
MIX Prcdacsrs Association Touches Baltl,
more ln,utution for Huge Bum.

Baltimore, Md, December 28
The Old Town Bank, which went
into the hands Of q receiver late yes
terday, was eurrounded by as crowd
bowling for their money untiita 8 late
hour last night. u, IS
The bill for a receiver chargesIthat
Cashier Theodore r. Wilcox, With
out authority without the knowi-
edge Of the directors, allowed the
United Milk Prod oducers' Asso citation
to draw large sums from the bank.
The bank has been the depository Of
many retail merchants. It has been
regarded as asafe institution and the
failure was asurprise. Receiver r..
T.. Gill gave a bond of $l,5OO,O0O,
indicating aloss of $75O,000. The
bank is not national. 9..I
A run is being made on the Saw
ings Bank Of Baltimore, the oldest
and most solid institution of the kind
in the city. The depositors will all
be satisfied. A run is also. being
made on the City Savings Bank.
These are the results of the failure of
the American National Bank, the
Old Town Bank, and the closing of
the Economy Savings Bank.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
New York Hotels.

The two famous Mills hotels in
New York, one costing 100000, the
'other $l,000,000, are making money,
although they charge only 20 cents q
day for lodging, bath and use of
Office. Meals are Is cents each and
they are good and abundant. The
cost per day is only IS cents. The
Waldorf Astoria cost $12,O00,0O0,
and is said to be the finest hotel in
the world. They also make money.
In it there are 40 large, finely fur
nished public rooms and about 1900
chambers. They employ 1,4O0 SER
wants, or about one for each guest.
A millionaire has suite of rooms in
the building which, with meals served
in his private dining room, cost 5000
daily. So it seems that one may
live we'll st 65 cents day at the
fills hotels, or he may pay $50 to
100 q day at the Waldorf Astoria,
if he desires.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
The Phosphate Royalty.

Colonel Vance, phosphate commits
sioner, is preparing his report for
presentation to the Legislature.
The royalty this year will not be
as great as last on account of the
shutdown of the three largest con-
sumers of Carolina Rock. Last year
at this time there was on hand only
$4,000 tons of rock, while this year
there is at least 10000 tons left. 1t
is almost impossible for the miners
to get vessels for shipment of the
rock, and as a result the royalty this
year will be about $25,OOO compared
with 100000 last year. Had all the
rock mined been consumed the roy
atty would have exceeded that of
last year by several thousand dollars.
The conditions will be greatly i'm
proved, however, the first of next
year by the opening up of one mill
in Port Royal and two in Savannah.
The royalty derived from phosphate
goes to the payment of the State
public debt. There is plenty of rock
on hand for foreign markets, but
freight rates have been 80 high ship
ments have been greatly reduced.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
a White Man Married I Nearess.

The Atlanta Journal, December
27, says: Withingtwo hours after
they were. married Charles johnson,
Q white man thirty years of age, and
Eleanor Moody, q bright mulatto
woman nineteen years Of age, ocou-
pied cells at police barracks, having
been arrested by Officer Harper, Of
the union depot just as they were
preparing to leave the city for Cuba,
where they we're intending t6 live.
Both of the people say they are from
Rome.
johnson takes his arrest calmly
and says he has done nothing against
the law. He says he procured a
license and was married by a Justice
of the Peace on Marietta street in
Cooks district.
The woman says that she married
johnson to be rid of him, as he had
made her life a burden for the last
six months, insisting onthe marriage.
She says she is willing to leave him
and never see him again if she could
only be released.
The charge against both parties is
suspicious. The detective depart
ment was notified to look out for a
couple, and this morning when a
cabman called on Officer Harper and
told him that he had hauled white
man and negro girl in his cab in
search Of. "a preacher that they might
be married, the officer thought this
was perhaps the couple the detectives
had been notified to look out for, and
arrested them.
1t seems that johnson and the
woman had driven to the home of a
colored Presbyterian minister on the
South side, whose name cannot be
learned, and asked him to perform
the ceremony. The minister, realiz-
ing the. difference in race, refused
and Johnson tfren ordered the cab
man to drive to the office of Justice
of the Peace.
An inquiry at the Ordinary's Office
elioted the information that mar
riage license for Charles johnson
and Eleanor Moody was issued this
morning about II O'Clock. Bailiff
Kemp, of Justice Cooks court, says
that Judge Cook did not perform the
ceremony. Notary Public Shirley,
in CookN district, states that he did
not perform the ceremony. Johnson
says he was proprietor of a skating
rink in Rome.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
A Remarkable Case.

The case of A. J. Dent, young
man formerly of this city, is a sad
one, though it possesses some remark
able features. He is addicted to the
morphine, cocaine, whiskey and ciga-
rette habits to an extent that ia won
derful even to the. medical profession.
1t is asserted that he takes 10 grains
of morphine, 100 grains of cocaine,
II pints of whiskey, 1.75 grains of
atropine and 100 cigarettes daily.
His mind is little affected, but he
realizes himself that he must be
cured or death will soon claim him.
He is son of the late Sheriff Dent.
His own story is that in 1906 he was
injured in wreck on the Texas and
Pacific railroad, in Texas, and had
13 ribs broken, his heart knocked
FIVE and one-half inches out of place,
one arm broken, and his palate and
throat torn open. He lay in hos
pital for two or three months under
opiates, and it was thus that he con-
tracted the terrible habit. He has a
wife and two children and made his
way back to his former home penni-
less. Some of his friends are sub
scribing to fund to give him the
Keely treatment, and arrangements
will doubtless be made to care for
his wife and children in the mean
time.--Columbia Record.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Aged Couple Tortured by a Negro.

Ia. III 3 . q Y 1. .
A Marietta, Ohio, dispatch says
that Abraham Johnston and wife,
both more than 80 years old, were
bound, tortured and robbed about
midnight at their home, a short dist
ance below Marietta, ON the West
Virginia side, last Wednesday night.
Their assailant, q gigantic negro,
gained entrance to the house steal
thily. After securing all valuables,
he left his Victims still bound. Mrs.
! Johnson t,N is almost totally paralysed
from the shook and her husband Is
injured badly He may not recover,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
The Bright Retrospect Of an oconeo Man.

The Columbia State of Sunday,
December %, contained the follow
ing regarding Col. Robt. A. Thomp-
son, Ocopee's senior member in the
House of Representatives:
"There was in the city this week a
man who, for many reasons, is the
most remarkable member of the re-
Gently elected General Assembly.
( Col. "a. Thompson, of Walhalla,
will Sbe the oldest member of the
House, offar as can be learned. In
1 fact there will be remarkably large
number of very young men in the
house this time.
"Another distinction which Col.
Thompson will have is that he is the
only member of the House, and one
of the half dozen living men, who
can wall up to the marble tablet in
the State House, commemorating the
signing of the Ordinance of Seces-
sion, and say my name is written
3 there
cit was just 40 years ago this
month that the Convention of Seces-
sion met in Columbia just 40 years
last Thursday since the ordinance
was ratified and South Carolina
struck boldly for independence. Col.
Thompson was the next youngest
man in that convention. Hon. r.
@. Logan, of Clarendon, who died
last year, was the youngest. The
other survivors of that immortal con-
vention are: Henry McIver, Chief
Justice State Supreme Court; Jas.
III. Carlisle, D. D., President of Wof-
ford College; Col. J. D. Pope, Dean
of the Law Department South Caro-
lima College; Chancellor VIM. D..
johnson, of Marlboro, who, with
Inglis, Wardlaw and Carroll, sat
upon the chancery bench Rev. VIM.
II. Campbell, d. D., of Asheville,
N. O., and Capt. John Fl. Kinsler, of
Lever, this county, who took a Rich
land company to the war. The con-
<vention was composed of mon of
mature age, and as that was DO years
ago, all but these few have passed
away. Those who have died since
the memorial tablet in the State,
House was erected two years ago,
are Hon. r. @. Logan, of Clarendon !;
VIM. Porcher Miles, of Louisiana,
former President of South Carolina
College, and Leonidas w. Spratt, of
Jacksonville, Fla.
"Col. Thompson has still another
distinction, he has been in the news
paper business nearly half century:
A few years ago he retired, but for
46 years he was editor Of The Keo-
wee Courier, one of the most repre-
sentative county papers in South
Carolina. 1t must be the mountain
air Of beautiful Walhalla that keeps
him SO hale and keeps his intellect so
young and vigorous---for the Colonel
isa Presbyterian elder and repre-
aents a prohibition county.
4. aCol. Thompson WAS looking
around for q place to stop during the
Legislature. He said he hoped he
would not be forced into the predica-
ment (then custom) of Col. William
Sloan and other legislators from Old
Pendleton District before the war.
They came to Columbia through the
country with o retinue of servants
and camped out in the northern
suburbs Of the city--ins Cottontown.
Herein their tented quarters they
spent the time, enjoying life to the
fullest Note w ooldn't the oily
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
T ass-----------------
Preachers Salary Too Small.

Rev. Jas. A. Duncan, pastor of
Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church, the largest congregation in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, numbering
1900, has asked to be released on
account Of salary being only $4,000,
whereas DIR. Monk, former pastor,
received &3,750. The last Holston
conference exchanged Knoxville and
Chattanooga pulpits, occupied re-
sreotively by Duncan and Monk.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Question Answered,

2 Yes, August Flower still has the larg-
est sale of any medicine in the civilized
world. Yourmothers and grandmother
never thought Of using anything else for
indigestion and biliousness. Doctors
were scarce, and they seldom heard of
appendicitis, nervous prostration or
heart failure, etc. They used August
Flower to clean out the system and stop
fermentation Of undigested food, regu-
late the action OF the liver, stimulate
system, and that Is all they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches and
other aches. You only naed few doses
Of Green's August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious the matter with you.
For sale by j, II. Darby, Druggist.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Fatal BrawI In Kentucky.

A Middleeboro, KY, dispatch says
that Frank Davis, "Buck" Chadwell,
Estepp Morgan and Richard Davis
quarreled at q dance at Walnut Hills,
fifteen miles from here, and a pitched
battle ensued. Fifty Shots were
fred. Frank Davis was killed, Nor
gan and Dick Davis were wounded
mortally and Chadwell was wounded
slightly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
A TEXAS WONDER.
Hall's Great Discovery for Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

One small bottle Of Halls Great Dis.
covery cures all kidney and bladder trou.
bles, removes gravel, cures diabetes,
seminal omissions, weak and lame baoka,
rheumatism and oil irregularities Of the
kidneys and bladdeGin both men and
children. II not sold by your droggist. {
will be sent by mail on reooipt Of $1.OO.
One small bottle is two months treat-
ment, and will cure any. case above men-
toned. DIR. K. w. Hall, sole ,nanufao-
turer, p. o. Box 629, st. Louis, Mo.
Send for testimonials. Sold by all
druggists.
ST. Louis, February ~, 1900. --Thie is
to certify that have used one bottle of
The Texas Wonder, Halle Great Discov.
cry, for kidney and rheumatic troubles,
and cheerfully recommend 1t to others.
Mrs. IA. Rodell, 1880 Olive street,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Wants to Remarry Every Decade.

Reading, Pa, December 2s.--C.
Troxel, 30 years old, took out mar
riage license to-day to remarry his
own wife. He is under the impress
sion that every seven years the body
undergoes metamorphosis, necessi-
tsting husbands and wives to we'd
again. Troxel's wife, however, re-
fused to be remarked. They have
been welded ten years.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

If you wish to SOW oats in January
or February, take land that will
make ten to fifteen bushels of corn
or five hundred pounds of seed cot
ton and subsoil until it is seven to
ten inches deep, with no clay brought
to the top, then harrow with any
thing that will pulverize the soil and
SOW any oats that come handy and
cover with q cutaway or plow and
you will reap fair crop in due
seaaon.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

Help is NODDED at once when person's
life Is in danger. A neglected cough or
cold may soon become serious and
should be stopped at once. One Minute
Cough Cure quickly cures coughs and
colds and the worst GASES Of Group,
bronchitis, grippe and other throat and
lung troubles. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

The residence Of Capt. w. C.
Humphreys, Of Greenyille, was par
italy destroyed by fire last Thurs !
day morning. tt is supposed she
fire was caused by q detective flue.
twas one of tho handaoinest resi-.
dences IN the city The damage Eis
estimated at %, 500 fally covered I
|by insurance IS, 81
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Three Cremated.

In the village of sigel, Pa, the
house of John Harriger was burned
last Thursday, and Mrs. Harriger and
her two little daughters, aged five
and seven years, perished. When
Mrs. Harriger arose in the morning
she discovered the house to be on
fire, and called her two sons, who
escaped. Mrs. Harriger ran up
stairs to where her children we're
sleeping, and, catching her three,
months-old babe in her arms, threw
it from the window. It sustained
no injury. She directed hor atten-
tion to the two little daughters, who
were overcome by the fire and
smoke, and she perished with them.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :.
LICAS COUNTY { oo


Frank J.Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of Z. j.
Cheney 6 Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day of December,
~. D. 1886.
r~~>, A. w. GLEASON,
: SEAL I
'~~~' Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O..
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

When tho stomach is tired out it must
have rest, but we can't live without
food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests
what you eat" 80 that you can eat ali the
good food you want while it is restoring
the digestive organs to health. It is the
only preparation that digests all kinds of
food. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
w alfalfa, .. O.

tongued lobbyist of to-day be dis.
comfited if he had to approach leg
islator in a tent, where whisperings
would be unseemly and where se-
orets would be found out p
"In commenting upon Columbia,
the development Of the hotel busi-
ness and the miracle of great public
carriers flying from Walhalla to
Charleston in day, in commenting
upon these vast changes, Col. Thomp-
son said that the first visit he ever
made to Columbia was via stage
coach from Laurens. The route lay
through Newberry and Lexington
counties and the approach to the
city was over Broad river bridge,
where it now is, two miles above
town. The stage stopped at an inn
just about where the post Office now
is. This inn was two-story frame
affair with about dozen rooms, and
kept by a man named Caldwell.
"Those we're the days when the
planters who raised tobacco resorted
to curious expedient to get their
cropto market. They would pack
the tobacco in huge tieroes or casks,
strongly bound and mounted upon an
axle. A tongue would be attached
and the farmer, riding astride the
lead horse, would drive his barrel
wagon to market, sometimes $50
miles. There he would sell tobacco,
barrel and all, unhitch his team and
ride back home."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

Tho fertilizer business is reported
the heaviest,in the history of the
department, amounting to 292,152
tons. The inspection tax amounts
to $78,088.08.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

The oity of Marion was visited by
a destructive fire Christmas night.
Carelessness in shooting fire crackers
is assigned as the cause. -Four stores
and contents were burned. Loss
about $4,000; partially insured.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

Congress has ratified the canal
treaty. The canal is to be open to
all nations and not fortified.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

Many persons have had the experience
Of Mr.. Peter sherman, Of North STRAIT,
ford, N. H., who says, 'sFor years Isi,f-s
fered torture from chronic Indigestion.
but Kodol Dyspepsia Cure made we'll
man of me. 1t digests what you cat
and Is q certain cure for dyspepsia and
every form of stomach trouble. It gives
relief at once even in the worst cases,
and can't help but do you good.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

-t T. 70" = : u y . a
The Georgia Houoe of Representa-
tives has, at last, passed a bill pro-
viding for the acceptance by the
State of the Confederate home that
was built by popular subscription
raised in 1882 by the late Henry w.
Grady. The home cost originally
$45,0OO, and the idea was to present
1t to the State simply on condition
that the State should maintain it for
the benefit Of the veterans. The
matter has been fought over in nearly
every session of the Legislature from
1889 until now. The acceptance
bill carries an annual appropriation
of $4,000 for maintenance.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

Gen. Wade Hampton, at the age
of388, is still able TO engage in q deer
hunt l3s
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02
Pupils In Schools In the State.

The report of the State superin-
tendent of Education shows q total
enrolment as follows:
White boys, 68,943; white girls,
68,S46; total white enrolment, 1877
289.
Negro girls, S2,74s !; negro boys,
72,S54; total colored enrolment,
166,6O2.
Total, both races, 282,S91.
Total average attendance, 164, 1909.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-02

The most effective little liver pills made
are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They
never eripe. j. w. Bell.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-10-12

H. NJ burke will sell you some
fine mules at very reasonable terms
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-10-12

The Philadelphia Record calls il
'somethlng approaching barbaric
splendor, the spectacular trip of
Biilionaire Morgan across the con-
tinent to attend the Episcopal con-
vention at San Francisco. 1t is ac
companied with advertisements of
the splendor with which he will en-
terrain the clergy IN San Francisco
bonanza palace leased for the occa-
sion. The Record says: ono his
tcric monarch or conqueror could
have made tour from capital to
capital with anything like the pomp
and circumstance of this American
citizens journey to attend a church
convention. Mr.. Morgan may think
it is no ones business but his own
how he makes or spends his money,
yet there are thousands of his fell
low-citizens who, though wishing
him no harm, deplore such ostenta-
tons. Display of this sort breeds
discomfort and gives opportunity
for demagogic appeal to the ele-
ments of social disorder. "-Daily
States.