Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-08
The NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items Of News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

Two colored girls were killed b,
lightning at Crawford, Alabama, las
Wednesday.
Last Wednesday Jacob Wages,
boy of thirteen, was killed by light
ming while sitting on the steps of
store in the mill district of Columbia
Others standing by him wer'
shocked.
! Nancy Burton, also known q
Stella Arnold, died in Grady Hos
pital, in Atlanta, last Tuesday morn
ing from the effects of quantity o
carbolic aoid, which she swallowed
Sunday afternoon.
Assistant Adjutant General j. M
Patrick recently inspected and mus
tered in new military company a
Clifton. This was the compan,
which was disbanded just after tn,
Pacolet flood and has just been re
organized.
Samuel r. Galloway, president O
the American Locomotive Co., anG
former president of the New Yorl
Central Railroad, died in New Yorl
last Wednesday. Death followed al
operation for appendicitis. He wa.
Sd years old.
Ben Christopher, white, committed
suicide at Stephens, Ca, on June
Five years ago his wife died, and
since that time he has never been al
himself. Christopher was found in 8
barn loft with a pistol in his hand
and hole through his head.
Lieut.. N. A. McCully, U. S. N.
recently naval attache at Toxic, but
ordered to observe the Russian fleet
operations. is inside the Russian lines
at Port Arthur. Lieut.. McCully is a
native of Anderson. He has been at
Port Arthur about three weeks.
G. II. Sullivan, an alderman of the
city of Americus, Ga, was convicted
last Wednesday afternoon of assault
with intent to murder for an alleged
criminal operation performed on
Miss Olivia McLane, until recently
employed in his jewelry store. The
jury remained out about an hour.
Through the efforts of Congress-
man Johnson, of the Fourth District,
the Post Office Department has been
induced to restore mail service on
the Southern's South bound local
train, No. II. The restoration of an
afternoon mail service South, will be
of great convenience to the people
all along the line.
Last Wednesday President r. p.
Pell, of Converse College, received
the degree of doctor of letters from
the University of North Carolina.
President Pell is graduate of this
university and was classmate of Gov
ernor Aycock, of North Carolina,
and of President Alderman, of
Tulane University.
Arthur Thompson, a negro, shot
and killed M. l.. Dudley, a young
white man, at Arlington, Ga, last
Tuesday night. In a short while
determined men had caught and
lynched the negro. Dudley and
Thompson were both employees in
the electric light plant at Arlington.
The cause of the trouble is unknown.
Statistics compiled by an insurance
journal show that the American peo-
pie are taking out life policies at the
rate of $8,O00,000 a day. In the
past year all the companies combined
have paid out claims amounting to
$258,350,000. The aggregate pay
ment to beneficiaries, including an
nuities, etc., was S346, ,463,7OO. There
are now in force in New York alone
policies aggregating two and one
quarter billion dollars.
w. F. Curtis, park policeman of
Cleveland, Ohio, shot himself last
Wednesday and later died at hos
pital. Curtis was recently assigned
to the police bicycle squad. He
could not ride wheel, and it is
supposed, fearing he would lose his
position, he committed suicide. An
hour after Curtis's death letter vas
received at his home from police
headquarters saying his name would
be continued on the roll.
An Admission, Ala, dispatch, under
date of June l, says: II. f. Horn
buckle is dead and Luvenie Dalton
is severely wounded in an apartment
house here from the effects of pistol
shot wounds in the hands of Horn
buckle. The couple came here Sat-
urday and secured apartments, claim
ing to be man and wife. The woman
says she and Hornbuckle were never
married, but he has a wife and three
children at Huntsville, Ala. 1t is
said he shot her in fit of jealous
rage because she wished to return to
her sisters. Three shots were fired
from a 38-calibre revolver, two TAX
ing effect in the neck and right
shoulder of the woman, and one in
the head of the man, just below and
to the rear of his right ear, making
hole through which his brains
oozed. The coroner's verdict was
suicide.
No good health unless the kidneys are
sound. Foley's Kidney Cure makes the