Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-04-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items Of News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

from Various Sources.
-Four men were killed in blast
explosion near Richmond, Va, last
Friday.
twenty-five young women lost
their lives by an explosion in the
Dickson s9uib factory at Priceburg,
Pa, last Thursday.
The surest and safest remedy for kid
dsey and bladder diseases is Foley's Kid
ney Cure. For sale by j. w. Bell, Wal
!, mana, and w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
William Jennings Bryan has lost
his appeal suit for $4,000, at New
llaven, Conn.,, against the estate of
Philo S. Bennett.
1t is reported that J. Pierpont
Morgan will retire from active bust
ness and live in England, leaving his
interests in the United States in
charge of his son.
Floods in Michigan, Illinois and
Indiana the past week have caused
great damage to country and city
property, exceeding $6,OOO,0OO in
amount.
The American delegates, on their
way to the Worlds Sunday school
at Jerusalem, stopped in Athens and
heard sermon delivered by one of
their number on Mars Hill.
The Red Cross Society in Russia
has prepared for shipment to the
seat of war in Manchuria 10000
beds, 100000 worth of bread and
$4,000 worth of meat. The funds
at its disposal amount to $3,OOO,OOO.
During the thirteen years of his
pastorate at Lafayette Avenue
church, Brooklyn, DR.. David Gregg
received $4,000 salary. But it is
said that he has not saved dollar,
all that was not required for mode
rate living expenses having gone to
religious work.
Foley's Kidney Cure, If taken in time.
affords security from all kidney and
bladder diseases. Sold by ]. w. Bell.
Walhalla, and w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
A new Y. M. G. A. building on
West Twenty Third street, New
York, has been completed at a cost
of S850,000. The expense of main
tanning the institution annually will
be about 100000. This is said to be
one of the most complete buildings
of its kind in the United States.
A correspondent at Bessemer, N.
O., tells of destructive timber fire
there last Sunday. The fire was
started by some children and before
it exhausted itself destroyed 5000
cords of wood and about 1000 saw
logs belonging to DR.. d. A. Garrison
and S. J. Durham. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Columbia special to News and
Courier All arrangements for bor-
rowing 100000 by the State for the
payment of pensions have been COM
pleted and the loan will be made by
the 10th of this month. The pay
ment of pensions will begin in few
weeks and the financial statement
will be handed out in day or SO.
1t has been decided to have the
Capital City Mills of Columbia, 90
through involuntary bankruptcy.
w. Elliott, Jr., has fled proceedings
in an involuntary bankruptcy in be-
half of large number of creditors.
1t is stated there that the creditors
bringing these proceedings favor
plan of reorganization which will not
only protect themselves, but the
stockholders to the utmost.
The Presbyterians of New Orleans
have organized movement to raise
100000, with which to found hos
pital to the memory of DR.. B. M.
Palmer, whose service in the yellow
fever scourge and whose protest
against the Louisiana lottery, and
his faithfulness as preacher of the
Gospel, make such memorial
most deserving tribute.
The Mississippi Legislature has
passed the boil weevil bill, prohibit
ing the importation Of boil weevils
into the State, making an appropria-
tion for keeping out the pest and
authorizing the State entomologist,
wherever he finds a field ofaeotton
infected with the pest, to comperthe
owner to destroy the cotton and TO
decide how much the owner is en-
titled to. az E~
Conductor Foyle, of the construc-
tion train of the Southern Railway,
the crew of which has been working
about the yards in Spartanburg for
several days past, was robbed of $85
in money Thursday night. He was
sleeping in the cab of the train at the
Spartanburg Junction, using bis
pantaloons, coat and vest as a kind
of pillow. The canning thief made
to bis bed, and without disturbing
him, secured the money. No arrest
has yet been made.
| John ID. Rockefeller has given to
the Johns Hopkins hospital the sum
of 100000 and the amount has been
accepted by the board of trustees of
that institution. The income of the
hospital was seriously affected by
the destruction of many houses be-
longing to it In the recent fire, upon
which there was inadequate insur-
ance. The express purpose of Mr..
Rockefeller's gift is to restore that
income to its original proportions,
which will enable the hospital to
keep up the great volume of charita-