Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-22
Flashes from the Wires.

Rev. John Attaway, an aged Methodist
minister, died at his home at Williamson
on last Tuesday.
j. III. Burkhalter shot and killed
young man named Will Holland In
Columbia last Tuesday.
The first bale of new cotton sold in
New York for 263 cents per pound last
Monday. 1t was raised in Texas.
A son was born to Grover and Mrs.
| Cleveland, at their summer home on
Buzzard's Bay, Saturday, July 18th.
The work of paving the streets of An
derson began on last Tuesday and will
DO completed in four months at a cost of
about $25,000.
Eddie Smith, a white boy of ls, was
killed in Charleston on Sunday by fall
ing from tree which he had climbed in
order to rob birds nest.
The Pacolet mill stockholders met in
Spartanburg on last Tuesday and voted
to increase the capital stock from one
million to two and to rebuild at once.
Tho New England cotton mills have
agreed that they will close down until
some time in October, rather than buy
cotton at present prices.
Gov. Hayward has positively declined
to pardon Mrs. Fannie Carson, who, in
1906, participated with her paramour in
| thO VI uSI HubDdIlu Ill SpdrGan-
burg county.
| meeting in Columbia last week, made no
change in the basis of assessments for
taxation of cotton mills, etc. The 60 per
cent plan stands.
Justice Samuel LumpkiD, Of the Su-
preme Court of Georgia, died in' Wash
ington, Ga, last Saturday night Gov
ernor Terrell has appointed Hon. Henry
G. Turner, of Quitman, as his successor.
Mrs. Minnie Cummings, on trial for
killing her fourth husband in April last,
was convicted in st. Louis on Monday
last and was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. She is now on trial for
killing her third husband, Edward Har-
| riss, in 1901.
District Attorney j. Ward Gurley was
assassinated in his office, in New Or
leans, Monday by Louis w. Lyons, for
mer client. After killing the district at
torney, Lyons fired two bullets into his
own body. They will prove fatal, so tho
hospital physicians say.
James Little, a nineteen-year- me-
| gro, criminally assaulted Emma Cole,
aged IL years, on Tuesday, near New
Baltimore, N. Y. A mob of 100 enraged
farmers started to the lookup with the
purpose of lynching him, but the deputy
sheriff got him out of the way.
In Leavenworth, Kansas, an attempt
was made by mob of United States sol
dierS to lynch two negroes, one of whom
had fired number of shots at a soldier.
Policemen with rifles and rev0lvers, by
careful manUuvering succeeded in get
ting the negroes to the police station.
Enraged at the delay of the courts, a
mob broke into the Flemingsburg, Ky..
Jail last Wednesday and hanged William
Ehnnknr Npbita xul,
John Gordon two years ago. He had
been convicted and given life sentence,
but had appealed and was awaiting a
new trial.
A negro tramp named Adams, who
assaulted negro woman near Lake But
Ter, Fla, recently, was captured last
Thursday night by mob of negroes and
lynched in Santa Fe swamp. His body
was cut into shreds by the mob. The
lynchng was carried out entirely by
negroes.
Will Ransom and Boggon and Pickett
Taylor became involved in q difficulty
in Marlboro county July 10, which re-
suited in Ransom being shot twice in
the stomach by Boggon and severely in
in the neck and back by Pickett. 1t is
stated that Ransom cannot live, The
Taylors are still at large.
Last Wednesday within 18 miles of
Norway, 5. c., where negro who assas.
sinated white man, was lynched two
weeks ago, troops having been ordered
| out to protect the town. Will Hall, post
master at Chnquepin, Aiken county, was
killed by George Edwards, negro. Ed
wards then attempted to shoot Judson
Hall, younger brother of the postmas-
tor, but negroes interviewed.
The newly appointed South Carolina
worlds Fair Commission met at Colum-
bia on last Thursday night in the Gov
ernors office. The commission went
over the situation thoroughly and took
action that will be alm ost certain to re-
suit in securing an exhibit for South Ca
rolina. An executive committee was
appointed consisting of r. G.. Rhett,
Robert Aldrich, II. G. Duncan, Leroy
Springs and e. b. Clark to carry out the
plans agreed upon.
P. M. Arthur, grand chief engineer of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enpi-
neers, dropped dead Thursday night
while speaking at the banquet closing
the annual. union convention of tho
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
which has been In session at Winnipeg,
Man, for the past few days. Mr. Arthur
had just arisen to respond to toast and
repeated tho words: at may be nv
parting words to many of you," when
he fell backward and expired q few
minutes afterwards.
Fifty negroes in the employ of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company, engaged in building the long
distance line through the Doggctt section
of Madison county, west of Asheville,
n. c., were driven out of that section
last week by the mountaineers. A dele
cation of heavily armed citizens visited
the camp of negroes. which was pitched
on the side of the mountain in section
OF the country whore a negro in the alb
stract is hated with venomous wrath,
and commanded that they leave the
country. The negroes did not wait &
second command, but began retreat
down the mountain at once, when a
volley Of fifty or more shots were fired to
impress the unwritten law of the noun
taineers that the negro is not desired as
even n temuorary reaident