Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-13
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A Southern passenger train jumped the
tack, near Knoxville, Sunday. The en-
| gineer was killed and fifteen persons i'm
jured.
Messrs. III. III. Cabiness and Thomas
w. Loyless, OF Atlanta, have purchased
tho Augusta, Ga, Daily Chronicle for
$40, COO. ly "
Ex-Judge Benet has been chosen as
| the commencement orator of the South
Carolina College. Rev. T.. NJ. Roper, OF
Spartanburg, has been chosen TO tpre8eb
the baccalaureate sermon. Us
Fifteen men were entomed last Thurs
day at Eggleston Springs, VA, by the
caving In of a tunnel. NinAl bodieA have
been taken from the debfisE All OF the
killed were negro railway workmen.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton has held up the personal account of
Dr. w ID. Crum, colored, Collector of
the Port of Charleston, on the ground
that Crum cannot receive compensation
until confirmed by the Senate,
| ElMiss Nellie Sturteyant,, daughter of J..
s. Sturteyant, president of tho Bedford
| (Mass,) Co-operatiye Bank, was killed
by highwayman In that city last
Wednesday night. She sprapg in front
Of the highwayman to saye;her fathers
life.
The steamer Saginaw, of the Clyde
Line, was run down by the Old Domin-
ion liner Hamilton, off hog Island, May
9th, and sank to the bottom of the ses,
in few minutes. 1t is supposed that
about thirty lives were LOST Twenty
nine persons were saved. ~ f.a
According to the appointments made
at the recent Conferences of Bishops of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South,
held in st. Louis, Bishop Coke Smith
will preside at the session OF tho South
Carolina Conference to be held In Greenl
vile, December o. Y
The Issaquena Cotton Mill Co., ,bof Cen
tral, permanently organized last week by
electing D.. X. Norris president ,a3d trea-
surer, and has q capital Of 100000. It
10, 900 spindles and 1926 marrow looms for
manufacturing standard print cloth.
The fact was recently noted of the birth
OF puppy, near Laurens, with four, tails.
Last week SOW belonging to aanry
Wright, of that county, gave birth to
nine pigs. Among the number la one
with two tails, both of the regulation
length. The extra tail is on one sido of
the pig.
j. b. Marcum, prominent attorney of
jackson, Ky., was assassinated I'M his
Office door at that place last Thursday
morning. There is much excitement in
jackson and many families are leaving
the place. Governor Beckham has
offered a reward of $500 for the capture
of the assassin. 81
The carrier on rural route, No. l., Gal
latin, Tenn, was held up last Thursday
afternoon by two masked men and
threatened with death il he did not re-
sign. The carrier is negro and thelfeel-
ing has been strong against him ever
since his appointment. The matter ftis
being snnG,as investigated by the post office aa-
Miles Charles, indicted Tor. the I'll Sita ,m uurser
of his business partner, in Buchanan
county, Virginia, and confined Id the
county Jail at Grundy, was married be-
hind the bars last Thursday, t0 Miss
Heddie Mbbetts, the pretty daughter of
Joseph Tibbetts, for many wears Clorl,
of the County Court. Charles will be
tried next month. y.
The Cuban members of the First Bap-
tist church in Havana have brought suit
to oust the American members and To
dispossess the Southern Missionary AS
funds for the erection of the church edi.
| fee, which the Cuban members claim,
| rightly belongs to them. Ugly scandals
are expected to follow.
| Senator Latimer will speak at Ander-
son on Saturday, May 23, at which time
the subject of road improvements will be
| discussed. Besides Senator Latimer, a
number of other prominent citizens will
be asked to be present. A practical
plan for securing good roads will be pre-
sented, and it ID hoped that the meeting
will be productive of good results.
ID. M. Malone, a preacher ofsa sect
L vrtaN M n-I T.
constable who had him in charge for
living unlawfully with another mans
| wife, were both shot aud killed by b mob
at Wardell, Mo-, on the night of May I'd.
The citizens were, aroused to q frenzy on
account of Malone's proselyting work
and his ugly treatment of his, lawful
wife.
A desperate street fight took place at
Yazoo City, Mississippi, May 9th, be-
tween T. A. and e.. M. Kelley on one
side, and r. F. Birdsall, editor of the
law, Gibbs and Doyle Dorsey, on the
other. T. A. Kelley was Instantly killed
by q bullet through his heart, and his
brother was dangerously wounded.
Doyle Dorsey was also fatally shot and
died later. The trouble grew out OF
politics. Il. A. Kelley wes circuit clerk
OF the county. Birdsail was the only
participant who escaped without wounds.
He and Gibbs Dorsey are in Jail.
| w. e. Creech and Spain Kelley, both
driving in buggies with companions, met
| in the public road near Bishopville, S.. c.,
last Wednesday. Kelley fired three shots
into Creeoh with pistof...& The latter'e
friend put his horse on the run and He'd.
Kelley, unable to keep up With the
buggy, cut the traces OF one horse and
mounting pursued. He had az bfeeeh
loading gun. After a long ohaSei BE
gained on the wounded man, and, g9ttine
in range, began firing. Creeoh begged
for mercy, but at the third shot fell dead
Kelley rode away. Both were business
men of Bishopville. Kelley's daughter
was betrayed by Creech.
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