Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-11
WALHALLA, 8. 9. /;
Bits OF News In Condensed Form,

Six men were killed and ten in-
jured by an explosion at the United
States naval arsenal on Long Island
on the 9th instant.
Governor Beckham's majority in
Kentucky will surpass that given
any Democratic gnbernatorial can
didate in fifeen years.
Because his wife laughed at his
vain efforts to drive hog through a
gate, Calvin Wade, of Norwich, N.
Y, seized gun and shot her dead.
Former Senator Sullivan, of Mis-.
sissippi, is sued for $4,000 libel by
Mrs. Amis, formerly Miss Leaton,
who brought breach of promise suit
against the Senator.
Five housand miners have been
thrown out of employment at West
w. Va, by the shutting down OF
the plant of the United States Coal
and Coke company.
On the eve of his wedding at
Philadelphia William Warren wrote
a note to his betrothed saying,
"There will be no wedding tonight p
and then blew out his brains.
DIR. A. r. Love, the North Caro-
lima Baptist minister who wrote a
book on "Heaven and Hell," which
he afterwards withdrew from publ
cation, is in doubt as to the orthodox
opinion on hell.
Speaking of the result of the cleo
tion in Maryland, Senator German
says it is a protest of the business
interests against the radicalism of
President Roosevelt in dealing with
the race problem.
One person was killed outright
and fifty lone others injured, two of
them perhaps fatally, by collision
of two cable cars at Kansas City, on
the 9Th instant. The accident was
due to dense fog.
Commenting on the result of the
election in Ohio, Tom johnson says
it was due to the use Of money and
the fact that Hanna made voters
believe that prosperity would cease
it he were defeated.
According to the decision of the
Mississippi Supreme Court, the pres
ence of an unnaturalized foreigner
on jury does not serve to invali-
nate the verdict when attorneys file
no protest during the trial.
Joseph Rogers, of Fairburn, Ga,
won a wealthy bride in Pennsylvania
by the aid of whitecaps. The parents
of the girl opposed Rogers, but the
neighbors took his part and kept the
old folks at bay until the ceremony
was performed.
Mrs. Eliza Hendricks, widow of
the late Vice President Hendricks,
died at her home at Indianapolis
on November 3. She was stricken
with paralysis three weeks ago, and
her death has been expected for
several days. She was born at North
Bend, Ohio, in 1928, and married
Thomas A. Hendricks in 1845.
The Easley Cotton Mill recently
sold for export to China $500 bales
of cloth. The shipment amounted
to two million yards and brought
$4,000. The mill has orders ahead
for several months. There is no
mill in the country that has a finer
reputation for it's cloths than the
Easley Mill, and the goods always
in greater demand than can be sup
plied.-Easley Progress.
Twelve shots were fired at Capt.
Even, the star witness in the feud
cases recently tried in Breathitt
county, as he passed along Walnut
street at Lexington, Ky.,on the night
of November 3. The shots were
fred from blind alley. One went
through his hat and another through
the lapel of his coat, but none of
them touched him. He was walking
along with Judge Mann, at whose
home he is staying, and the Judge
had just crossed the alley in front of
Even when the firing began.
In fatal election row at Bristol,
Tennessee, on November 3, two men
we're killed and one fatally and one
seriously injured. The trouble arose
by Republicans about the polling
place objecting to @. P. Roller serv-
ing as a Republican Judge. He had
been selected by the Democratic
election commissioners. John Os-
borne and Ezekial Nichels, the dead
men, were Democratic judges. J. II.
Catron, fatally injured, shot Osborne
and Nickels and they shot him in the
neck. More trouble is feared. Fair
view is a remote mountain settle
ment.