Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-22
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Jonesville decided on Wednesday by 4
vote OF IS to . that dispensary Is not
wanted there.
New coal fields, estimated to contain
300, goo tons, have just been diseoy-
cred near Wilkesbarre. Pa.
Mrs. Rose Fitzsimmons, wife of the
ex-cbampion heavyweight pugilibt, Bob
Fitzsimmons, died in New York last
Sunday.
Health officer Madden, osy GreenyilIe.
has confiscated lot of diseased beef
from one OF the meat concerns OF that
city and fined the seller $5
Anderson on Tuesday voted $25, 900 for
street Improvement bonds and SIS, goo
for a new school-house-the former by.
14S to 80, the latter by lat TO 40. %
Joe Davis, who recently Killed j. tN
King, policeman, of BambeSg, s.. a.,
was found guilty last week and was SEN
fenced to ton years in the penitehtiary. :,
Communications have been sent the
Comptroller General from various points
in the State by old veterans, asking for
the pensions early so that they oan at
tend the reunion.
A Especial from Evergreen, Alabama,
says that nine persons were killed and
immense loss to property was caused by
a CYCLONE which visited Monroe county,
Ala, Monday night of last tweek.
Wallace p. Reed, of Atlanta, is dead.
He was born in Georgia and was 81 years
of age. 1t was said OF his writings
that no pen but Henry Grady's was
deemed the peer of Reed's7'
The people of Honea Path recently
voted to issue $1,000 worth of bonds for
erecting new public school building at
that place. The bond election was cart
ried by a vote of 50 to 8. ID
The Southern's fast mail train ran iuto
rock that had fallen on the track near
Lexingtof4, N. c., on Monday night, 1ath
instant, and was wrecked. Engineer
Dan Davis, of Danville, Va, was killed.
The Orangeburg Times and D. mocrat
says: THE plant lonse has cut .the oat
ised to be. In some sections of the
county the crop has been totally de-
stroyed." -
Mrs. Clarence Bishop, bride of II, of
Port Jervis, New Jersey, drowned hel
self Saturday in Neversink river because
her 18-year-old husband spoke lightly Of
her Easter hat " .t
A careless workman kicked over a
lantern at one of the oil wells at Resn-
mont, Texas, on Wednesday and started
fire that caused the loss of million
dollars worth of property, upon which,
there was no insurance"
Rev. DR.. Francis q. Horton, we'll,
known in the Presbyterian church, pas,
tor of Temple church, Philadelphia, was
stricken with apoplexy while preaching
Sunday night, and died shortly after,
being removed fromrthe pulpit. AM =
The Seventh Day Adventists are told;
to move from Battle Greek, Michigan, TO.
some Atlantic coast city. They need DOT
trouble themselves about that. ,tThey
can pull off the end of the orld just as
well from Battle Creek as from any other
point. .asI
A. L. II. Dukes, member of the State
Board of Dispensary Directors, died
Monday at Branohville, after long ill.,
ness with Bright's disease The Cover
nor has been officially notified of his
death and he will make appointment to
fill the vacancy. There will be a great
scramble for it.
An unknown negro tramp was. taken
from the Jail in Joplin Missouri, on
Wednesday and hanged in the city. He
was accused of having murdered police
officer Leslie on Tuesday night while he
was attempting to arrest Sc, eral negroes
for theft. The lynching followed by a
raid on the negro quarters of the city.
Houses were burned and the negroes
were driven out of city.
Charles ID. Smith, who recently mar
ried young woman in Charleston and
was carried back to his old home in Mon.
roe, Michigan, on the charge of bigamy,
pleaded guilty on Monday and was SEN
fenced to four and half years in the,
penitentiary. He had been married;
twice before coming to this State, and it.
was his second marriage fol Which, he
! was convicted.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
decided that the Topeka Board of Edu-,
cation can maintain separate schools for
white and negro children, and can COM
pei the negro children to attend the
negro school. A colored man had taken
his son to the white school and the pupil
was refused admittance Mandamus pro-
ceedings were then brought against the
board to compel them to admit the negro.
r. III. Edwards, white man, killed
negro boy with a stick in Florence
! county last week. The negro had bor-
rowed a boat and was fishing, when the
white man happened to come along, Ed
wards asked the negro to give him the
boat, which the boy refused to do The:
white man threatened to beat him the
next time he met him, which he did next
morning when the homicide occurred on
the banks Of the stream. Several parties
are connected with the affair.
A disordered stomach may cause no
end of trouble. When the stomach fails
to perform its functions the bowels be-
come deranged, tho liver and kidneys
congested, causing numerous diseases,
the most fatal of which are painlesspan
therefore the more to be dreaded The
important thing is to restore the stomgol
and liver to healthy condition, and for
this purpose no better preparation can
be used than Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. For sale by J. w. Bell,
druggist. :ia
TownvlIle MI Mill '''