Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-01
Flashes from tho Wires.

Inc ueau DOdy Dr. CaiYerG, "a mercnant
at Clifton, was found several days ago
o few miles below Pacolet by dog
scratching in the sand. body was
covered few feet under the sand.
More than 500 mill operative sufferers
from the Gainesville and Pacolet and
Clifton disasters have gone to Anderson
within the past six weeks and it is re-
ported they have found steady work at
good wages.
The little daughter of Ballet Strange,
living near Woodruff, was struck by
lightning Monday afternoon and instantly
killed. The grandmother of the child
was near her at the time of her tragic
death.
The Summer School of the South has
opened its second session at Knoxville,
Tenn, with an enrolment of more than
1900 students. The faculty includes 900
members, educational experts, gathered
from all parts of the United States.
A steamship of 5000 tons capacity and
drawing 81 feet of water arrived at the
port of Charleston last week. This is
the largest ship that ever entered South
Atlantic port.
The -year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William F. Pukoll, of Augusta, met
death in a very peculiar manner June 25.
Suffocation was produced by piece of
peanut candy being lodged in the wind
pipe.
The Princeton Cotton Mills at Athens,
Ga, and the Georgia Manufacturing Co.,
at Gainesville, have closed down their
establishments until the present cotton
crop is put on the market. The Athens
Cotton Mill will also take rest shortly.
Two men are dead and five injured as
the result of head on collision that oc-
CURED in the yards of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad in Des
Moines, Iowa, last Saturday. The acci-
dent was caused by a misunderstanding
of orders.
Five cotton gins arrived in Puerto
Rico June Goth, and will be immediately
installed. They are the first gins to
reach Puerto Ricoin 40 years. The cot
ton plantations of the island now cover
1000 acres and the area is being in
creased weekly.
A Peoria, ILL.,, dispatch says that a
special term of court will be convened to
try John McCray, the negro who killed
Detective VIM. e. Murphy. The negro
is in the Galesburg Jail for safe-keeping,
McCray was hanged in effigy in the Court
House square one morning last week.
John X. Aull, secretary of the Good
Roads Convention, to be held in New
berry July Is, has received letters from
A. @. Latimer, Wyatt Aiken and Presi-
dent f. H. Hyatt of the State Good
Roads Association, accepting invitations
After three days argument and time
consumed in the introduction of more
than seven hundred affidavits, Judge
Townsend has granted change of venue
in the case of James Fl. Tillman on the
charge of murder for the killing of N.
G. Gonzales on Main street in Columbia
on January 10th last. The county to
which the case was transferred is Lex
ington.
Six alleged pool rooms in the tender
loin district of New York, including the
"Allens," have been raided and 592 pris-
oners captured, making the raid the
biggest of the kind ever executed there.
Aliens place was raided while the
alleged proprietor was burying his wife.
None of the inmates of any of the six
places escaped. A lot of racing para
phernalia was confiscated.
John Brownfield, the colored barber in
Jail at Georgetown under sentence of
death for killing the deputy sheriff of
that county several years since and who
25th, committed suicide on Tuesday last
by-taking poison. Brownfield has been
in Jail several years, his case having been
carried to the United States Supreme
Court, which decided against him and
he was recently resentenced.
Robbers broke into farm house two
miles from Limestone, N. Y, June 9th,
IL,
who lived there alone, of $4,000. The
Quintons, who are bachelors, were known
to be suspicious of banks and kept their
house barricaded against robbers. The
intruders set fire to a mass of rubbish in
the yard, and when tho brothers opened
the door to run to the fire the robbers
hit James on the head, knocking him uu-
conscious. The other brother is Grip
pie.
Thos. Fortune, Special Commissioners
to the Philippines, has returned from the
archipelago, and believes that the Phil
ippine problem and the negro problem
are to be solved mutually by the move
ment of the American negroes to the
islands. lie considers the Philippines
an ideal location for the negroes, and
suggests that Booker Washington be ap-
pointed Governor of the islands with the
idea that he use his influence toward get
ting negroes to leave America for the
islands.
w. b. Hunter and Mrs. Cephas Eiland
were killed and Cephas Eiland badly
wounded in shooting affray at Spring
Lake, Fla, one night last week. Eiland
and Hunter were brOthers-in-law, but
were not on good terms. Hunter left
Brooksville early in the afternoon, but
instead of going home went to Glands.
:. Eiland says Hunter was drunk and used
indecent language before his wife, and he
his pistol and began firing at Eiland, who
returned the fire. Mrs. Eiland sprang
between the two while they were shoot
ing and was instantly killed in the pres
ence of her three little children. After
emptying his pistol Hunter ran short
distance and died. Eiland is wounded.
Twenty-four miners were killed and
about so others injured in an explosion
of gas that occurred Thursday night in
Las EsperanZas coal mines, near Barra-
toteran, Coahuila, Mexico. The disas-
ter was caused by the ignition of gas by
the flame from defective lamp Proba-
bly, 100 men were in the mine at the
time of the explosion. After the shock
of the explosion those who were able to
move rushed for the exits, but the fall
ing earth and debris carried many down
to death. Fully so miners escaped with
broken limbs and scorched flesh. At
last reports the dead bodies of "a men
had been brought to light. A call of the
roll has determined that they were tine
only ones who perished, though others
may die as result of their injuries.
After desperate struggle with Lula
Miller, his step-daughter, in "The Her
mitage," one of the finest residences in
Wallington, N. j., VIM. Dessler shot and
dangerously wounded his wife and then
shot himself in the heart, causing i'm
slant death, last Friday. He had been
estranged from his wife for more than O
year and went back, it is said. to seek o
reconciliation. When he returned to his
wife's house the step daughter answered
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