Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-31
rHE NEWS IN salsF FORM.
Iiems Of News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

hoS'1 20" ny ast WAS COm-
mitted to Jail Monday in Charleston
for attempting to poison his wife.
The negro is alleged to have put a
quantity of lye into the woman's
drinking water.
Governor Terrell has ordered a
court of inquiry to investigate the
conduct of the picnic soldiers who
failed to shoot when sent to States
boro to protect prisoners and uphold
the law. Lookout for a nice, clean
coat of whitewash.
The striking meat butchers in
Chicago arc said to have appealed to
Booker Washington to come to their,
aid and call off the negro strike
breakers in the stockyards. Booker
can probably qualify as an expert on
meat with the experience he had at
the Presidents table.
| Another new disease Of the cotton
plant has sprung into existence.
This time the cry comes from Pick
ems. 1t is neither boil weevil, blight
nor rust, but it kills the plants. First
the roots seem to die. This causes
casting and soon nothing but the
bare stalk remains. Several acres
are now affected and the disease is
said to be spreading.
Information was received in Char
lesion Monday of another tragedy at
Meggetts. Thomas Simons, colored,
killed Mamie Adger, negress, and
succeeded in making his escape. The
officers are hunting for Simons, but
on account of the swampy character
of the section it is hard matter to
search the woods for criminal.
The Pacolet Manufacturing Co.'s
No. mill, at Pacolet, destroyed by
the flood last year, is again in condi-
tion for operation and will at once
begin manufacturing. The company
has had site cleared for the erection
of No. 5 mill, but will probably not
begin. construction work until next
year.
Carlyle Mckinley, an editorial
writer on the News and Courier, ia
dead after a long illness. He was
the author of several works of note,
and was the embodiment of real
worth and manhood. The profession
has lost one of its ablest members
and the State one of it's brightest
and purest intellects.
Preparations are being made by
the Attorney Generals office for
taking up the suit against the South
ern, brought to test the consolida-
tion of the South Carolina and
Greenville road with the Southern.
The suit was fled in Kershaw county
and under the law takes precedence
over all other cases and will come up
in October. 1t is not known vet
whether the case when started will
be jury or an equity proceeding.
Magistrate Richard C. Folk, of
Sumter county, was shot and killed
Thursday morning in difficulty with
County Supervisor w. III. Scale at
Providence. Folk drew pistol on
Scale, who attempted to disarm him.
The pistol was discharged in the
struggle, grazing Scales coat and the
ball lodged in Folks head. Scale
was unarmed. The difficulty occur
red on public road in front of
Scales house. The only witnesses
were Scales son and Folks brother.
Fate Shealy, fourteen year old
white boy, was found Thursday
morning, near the old Taylor place,
just south of the city of Columbia,
with his head horribly crushed and
his mouth split back to the ears. The
boy with two men have been living
in a camp near the river, earning
their living by fishing Thursday
morning the men went out to set
their lines and on returning found
the boys dead body. Robbery is
thought to have been the cause. A