Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-25
the NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

Tom Whitney, colored man living
near Whitney, while seinipg In the
Whitney pond recently, caught Ger
man carp which tipped the scales at
23i pounds.
Frank Davis, white, was hanged Thurs.
DAY at kinston, N. @. His neck was
broken. He lived IL minutes. Davis
protested his innocsnce to the last. His
crime was murder.
DR.. p. Il. Griffin died recently in Co
iumbia. He was IS years old. From 1878
TO 1891 he was superintendent of the
hospital for the insane, which position
he filled with ability and to the welfare
OF tho institution.
DR.. Frank G. Fuller, one of tho veal
thlest and most prominent citizens in
Laurens, is dead at Mountville, his home,
aged 81. He was worth 100000. He
owned over 5000 acres of land besides
large oank and commercial interests.
~ The Enterprise Tobacco Stemn cry at
Florence was burned last week. This
was the best equipped and built stem
merry in South Carolina. The building
which had just been completed since
the fire In January, when 1t was damaged
considerably, cost the company $l8, 600.
1t was insured for $4,000.
Robert Sanders, a negro tenant on the
farm OF John Staubes, five miles from
Aiken, was shot and killed Thursday
night. At the inquest evidence was OBJ
tained which led to a warrant being
issued for Henry Gray, white miller on
the place of Mr.. Henry Summerall, in
the same neighborhood, and GRAY was
arrested and taken to Jail.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terian Church in the United States OF
America, in session at Buffalo, adopted
resolution removing. aspersions made
upon the Southern Church during the
Civil War, anc favoring closer union
with the church in the South. This reso-
luton, telegraphed to the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States, in session at Mobile.
was received with cheers.
Because of grudge he had against
John Singleton, a negro named "Tur-
key" poured kerosene oil over Singleton
while he was asleep on the wharf Of the
oyster factory in Charleston Monday and
then applied the torch. Singleton was
badly burned because of the fen, ish act
of Turkey" and would probably have
been burned to death had not assistance
reached him. Singleton was sent to the
city hospital Turkey" escaped.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee has been called to meet in Co
lumbia on May Goth for the purpose of
selecting nine Presidential Electors, one
from each District and two from the
State at large who will represent this
State at the formal meeting held in
Washington after the election. No man
can be an elector who holds any other
office, either State or Federal. The Ex-
ecutive Committee will also arrange for
the primary.
The bodies of four persons drowned in
the flood at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on last
Saturday night have been recovered. 1t
is feared that there have been other
casualties, as number of persons are
still missing. The dead resided near the
river and were asleep in bed when the
-cloudburst came. A wall of water six
feet high came down the valley sweeping
buildings and fences in its path. Five
hundred people living in the low lands
along the creek had no warning and
many escaped from the beds with only
their night clothing.
John Frazier Livingston died suddenly
at his home in Abbeville last FRIDAY
morning. He had called his physician
during the night, who found him suffer
ing with complications of the heart.
Mr.. Livingston was born in Abbeyille
county about seventy five years ago and
lived here all of his life. He was a gal
liant Confederate soldier, having been
member of Blacks Regiment, Second
South Carolina Cavalry. Some years
the time of his death was chairman of
the Pension Board. He married Miss
Fannie McCaw, who survives him, be-
sides his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Mazyck,
and his sons, j. Frazier Livingston and
j. Brooks Livingston, of Columbia, s. C.,
and III. B. Livingston.
One of the boldest and most dangerous
acts ever attempted in Sumter was COM
mitted by man giving his name as j. K.
Elkins, of lib Lumber street, Columbia.
The engine of the Gibson and Sumter
train had been left "at rest' on the track
In Sumter but a few hours when Elkins
boarded it and pulled out and headed
for Florence. The steam had gone down
considerably in the boiler and he couldn't
go very fast. He blew the proper signals
for crossings, and when about two miles
from town he blew for a hand-car to get
off the track, but the hands refused and
he slowed down, when one of the colored |
roilroad hands boarded the engine and
brought him back to town. He was
taken in charge by the police. He claims
to have been Intoxicated and says he
knows nothing about what he was doing.