Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-09-17
News ltenas.


The Chinese boxers have issued ano-
thor proclamation against foreigners,
ordering them to be killed.
A commission has been issued to the
Easley Hardware Company of Easley,
which has capital stock OF 5000.
An Alabama negro has fled an applica-
ton to the Federal Court for an injunc-
ton against the new constitution of that
State.
Sixteen men were killed one day last
week by an exposition In the Tredegar
Iron Company's colliery, England, and
seventeen were seriously injured.
The receipts of new cotton of the
crop of 19O2-03 at delivery ports as esti-
mated are 90, ,531 against 52,e42 last year
and 1920 the year before.
The strike of the coal minors in West
Virginia is at an end, the miners having
decided unanimously to return to work.
The strikers were granted some conces-
sions.
The constabulary force seems to have
about made its wages through the seiz-
ures for last month. Columbia blind
tigers have contributed very largely to
this result.
A negro man was taken from Jail in
Hampstead, Texas, one day last week by
several hundred citizens and hanged to
telegraph pole for criminal assault upon
a white woman.
There are said to be three thousand
cases of typhoid fever in Chicago. 1t is
thought that the cause is eating un-
cooked fruit and vegetables, which will
carry the germs of this disease.
James Foster, the negro whom Gov.
Crane, of Massachusetts, seemed to be
trying so hard to keep from the Green
wood authorities, has been taken back
to that county to stand trial for murder.
Anderson Daily Mail, September 7th:
REV. o. j. Copeland will enter Furman
University, Greenville, S. c., at the open
ing of the next session to pursue special
course of studies. He will continue to
serve the churches in this county of
which he is PASTOR"
The contract for building dam across
the Congaree river, just below Columbia,
was let in Charleston Wednesday to the
Evansville Contract Company, of Pitts
burg, for $65,875. When it is finished
the river will be navigable as high as
Columbia.
A report from Greenville is to the
effect that McLaurin will tackle Tillman
in the next round for the Senate and that
is one reason for his proposed move to
Greenville. Here he will be at the capi-
tai of the commercialist's forces with
the lieutenants all around him.
The National Encampment of the G. A.
r. will be held in a monster tent at Camp
Roosevelt, which will be located on the
grounds South of the White House,
Washington, d. G. The encampment
will take place sometime in October.
DR.. D. E. Jordan, for twenty years the
beloved pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Winnsboro, S. c., died on
an illness of several days. He was 70
years old and prominent in his denomina-
ton.
Edgefield, without single dissenter,
voted to bond the town for $4,000 to
build a new modern school building to
replace the one destroyed by fire few
months ago.
At the meeting of the State Farmers
Association, which was held at Raleigh
Wednesday, strong resolutions were
adopted urging the farmers to build cot
ton seed oil mills in every section of the
State where one thousand bales of cotton
are produced.
A part of the property known as
Gibbes's Green in Columbia, and which
the authorities of South Carolina Col
lege, was advertised by the Sheriff of
Richland county on last Monday. The
sale was stopped by the Governor until
the college authorities may prove owner
ship of the tract
The freight train on the Blue Ridge
Road met with a slight wreck near Den
YER Saturday morning, 9th instant A
draw-head on one of the freight cars
pulled out and fell on the track and de-
rallied the from. trucks of the passenger
coach. Nobody was hurt and the train
was not delayed more than two hours.
The new bell was not injured.
Gen. M. l.. Bonham, who has been
seriously i'll at his home in Anderson for
several months, is slowly improving, but
is expected to leave in few days for
Saluda, N. G. After spending several
weeks at this resort he will go to John
Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, for
medical treatment. Although his condi-
ton is greatly improved, he is still con-
fined to his room.
The two daughters of w. w. Bright,
the late Superintendent of Education of
Pickens county, who died on the day be-
fore the first primary election was held,
will continue the work of their fathers
office. The Governor and State Superin-
tendent of Education will make arrange
ments for the appointment of some one
who will allow them to do the work and
draw the salary of the Office also.
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