Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-04-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

Ellis Sanders, the white man who was
shot by Policeman Brown in Greenville,
several days ago after Sanders had NOR
tally wounded Policeman Tucker, died
Saturday night.
The dispenser in Raleigh has resigned
with the statement that he could not be
consistent member of the church and
sell liquor at the same time, but it doesn' t
interfere with religion in South Carolina.
A bill passed the House on Thursday
appropriating S20,0OO for "the proper
marking Of the graves of Confederate
soldiers who died in northern prisons" ="
The work of locating the graves will be
in charge of an army officer.
At the election on April 10Th for issu-
ing bonds to build $4,000 school build
ing at Conway, the county seat of Horny
county, there was not a vote cast against
the proposition. The friends of educa-
tion are much elated over the unanimous
verdict of the people.
a. j. Davis, government gauger, was
convicted in the United States court at
Greensboro, n. c., on Saturday, of MAX
ing fraudulent returns. He had swindled
the government out of about $4,000 in
four months by collusion with wholesale
liquor establishments.
Daniel Keegan, Confederate veteran,
found dead in his room at New Orleans
was famed as the man who blew tho last
bugle call at the battle of Appomattox,
and in later years he sounded taps over
the graves of many of his comrades and
on many important Confederate occa-
slons. Keegan was in the Soldiers
Home for some time, but months ago he
found himself able to do work. For the
last three months he has been cleaning
brasses and doing similar work around
hotel. SO far as is known he left no
relatives.
Between ten and twelve million dollars
worth of property was destroyed by the
fire which devastated the business por-
tion of Toronto on the night of the 10th
The flames were under control by 5
O'Clock the next morning. Two hundred
and fifty firms were burned out. The
area covered by the fire is three blocks
long and half block to two blocks wide
Only one man Is missed, but it is not
certain that he perished in the flames
Chief Thompson Of the fire department
was injured, but not seriously. The
custom house, fOur-story stone build
ing, was destroyed. The total insurance
is %, ,360, 900.
John w. Gates, so we'll known on Wall
street, said to a reporter of the New York
Tribune upon his recent return from an
extended tour of the Sonth 81 have been
South, largely in Florida and Texas, all
"ihCer. inc prosperity OF the South just
now is nothing short of wonderful. /
have never seen anything like IT, Every
body in the Southern country is prosper
Qua, and business in every line is boom.
ing as it never has before. 1t is the great
est era in the history of the Southern
people, and they are apprecating and
enjoying it to the fullest extent.'
1t is estimated that the States OF Nee
braska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Mime
sofa, Oklahoma and South Dakota will
have to import not less than 45, 900 labor
ers this year to help harvest their crops.
There has been more or less talk of a
scheme to advertise for young men from
the East to work in the harvest fields to
get money to see the st. Louis Exposition.
great many young men have gone to
the harvest fields of the West every sea.
son for number of years past and the
probability is that the movement this
year will be larger than ever before.