Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-08-05
Flashes from the Wires.

Six persons were killed by the collision
of freight trains near Greenwood, KY,
Sunday.
Caleb Powers, charged with completely
in the killing of Governor Goebel, will
Georgetown, Ky.
One man was killed and over twenty
injured in a street car wreck at Texar-
kama Sunday, caused by the failure of
the brakes to work.
One man was killed and over twenty
injured in street car wreck at Texar-
kama Sunday caused by the failure of
the air brakes to work.
A Mexican ball at El Paso Sunday
morning was turned into a riot when
three greasers appeared with stiletos.
Two men were fatally stabbed.
A Mexican ball at El Paso Sunday
morning was turned into riot. when
three greasers appeared with stilettos.
Two men were fatally stabbed.
The new railroad from Hendersonville
to Lake Toxaway was opened for traffic
on Saturday, August 1st, and at the same
time the new hotel was also opened.
Everything at the Post Office Depart
ment, down to the flea on tho tail of the
janitor's dog, has gone to sleep. There
is something very soporific in the politi-
cal atmosphere Mt Washington.
A Southern statesman claims with
some degree of truth, that the South
won't let the negro vote, but permits him
to work for his living, while the North
permits him to vote, but won't let him
work.
DIR. Francis f. Miles, 76 years old, died
last Thursday night in Baltimore. He
tain in the Confederate service he had
charge of Fort Sumter when it was at
tackled by the Federal fleet.
Griffin and Bud Pack, brothers, who
live near Greenville, became involved in
a fight Monday morning over trivial
matter. Bud dealt his brother blow
on the head with chair, from the effects
of which he died in about two hours.
The Secretary of State has up to date
recei we'd $11 900 in fees for charters of
industrial enterprises chartered during
the year. This is considerably above the
amount received up to the same time
last year, and the prospects are that dur
ing the year the amount will be $4,000.
The city Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Charleston met Thursday and
decided upon the assessments on the
candidates in tho municipal primary to
be held on November B, 1908. The as
sessments are as follows: Mayor, $3.50;
aldermen, $50; school commissioners
$25.
Kansas farmers are so rushed that
they refuse to allow their harvest hands
to knock off work Sundays, but every
Sunday after sundown, says the Atlanta
Constitution, they allow the worker who
has the most sheaves to his credit to
hold a spoon seance in the parlor with
the charming daughter of the house.
Gen. A. P. Stewart, one of the surviv-
ing lieutenant generals of the Confede-
rate army, and a member of the Chicka-
mauga Park Commission, is critically i'll
home in Chattanooga and is not
.pected to live. He is suffering from
paralysis. Gen. Stewart was second in
command at the battle of Missionary
Ridge.
The Pentecostal camp-meeting will
begin at Greenwood on Sunday, August
23, and continue until September 3.
Those expecting TO tent should write to
w. p. Kinard at once and make tent ar
Nashville, Tenn, will be in charge of
the meeting, assisted by corps OF live
workers.
Added to Columbia's handsome new
structures will be this winter the fifty
thousand dollar building for the Colum-
bia Female College. The plans of c. c.
Wilson have been accepted and the new
building-.which is really not new
building, but two large additions to the
present structure-will be begun in the
fall. The drawings show that the col
lege building when completed will be of
imposing appearance.
At a session of the home rule conven-
ton in Honolulu last week ex-Delegate
Wilcox urged that Congress be memo
rialized to- grant Hawaii independence.
He also strongly favored the establish
ment of government for the islands
similar to that of Cuba. His remarks
were received with much applause. 1t is
probable that petition embodying the
views expressed by Wilcox will be pre-
pared for presentation to Congress.
Information was received at Batesburg
Saturday night, August 1st, that John
Kinard, negro, who lived in the Eelmar
section of Saluda county, was found
dead in the road Friday morning. His
brains had been shot out. 1t seems that
the negro had been in law suit and was
under $500 bond. No one can give any
account of the killing. The coroner's
jury returned verdict that he came to
hands of party or parties unknown.
Thirty-five hundred gallons of beer, a
125-gallon copper still, cap and worm, 20
gallons of low wine, 18 fermenters, 10
gallons of whiskey and other fixtures
belonging to large still seized, besides
two men arrested and placed under
heavy bond, is the result of one of the
biggest raids ever made in Spartanburg
county by dispensary constables and
revenue men. The raid was made last
Friday at the foot of Hogback Mountain,
near the North Carolina line.
An Evansville, Indiana, dispatch says: :
MANY strange negroes have been pass
ing through the city on their way South,
where they will seek homes. Many of
them came from Danville, Illinois, and
points on the Illinois Central Railway.
mn xuifh
through at ono time. A number of the
negroes who left Evansville during the
recent riots have not returned. The
feeling against the negroes in the South
ern Indiana towns has grown moro in
tense since the trouble in Evansville"
At his home, eight miles northeast of
the city of Aiken, S. c., at eight o'clock,
Saturday morning, August 1st, the Hon.
Arthur w. Cushman committed suicide.
Mr.. Cushman served as a member of the
State Legislature from 1893 to 1900, and
while a member of that body was re-
garded as an exceptionally strong and
fair minded man, winning many friends
in the capital city. Financial troubles
caused the deed. Mr.. Cushman was a
man of about so years of ago and leaves
widow, three daughters and four sons.
Postmaster G. j. Thompson, of De-
fiance, Ohio, says a special despatch
from Toledo, was horsewhipped last
Wednesday morning by Cora Prater,
colored girl. Thompson offered no re-
sistance, but secured the names of all
the witnesses TO the affair. The cause
for the whipping is a supposed grievance
which the girl had in regard to her mail,
one of her letters having been coniis- |
GATED by the department. The Prater
girl Ia the only colored person who ever
graduated from the Defiance High School |
Richard Taylor, charged with the mur
der of Clay Haynes, in Kentucky, who !
arrested at Stearns, in that State, last |
week and lodged in Jail. Taylor, it is |
alleged, had been mistreated by several |