Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News OF The Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

The London Evening News states that
President Roosevelt will visit London at
an early date.
Ninety-f1ve persons were killed by an
explosion in a colliery at MeleLdors,
Spain, last Tuesday.
The sultan has agreed to pay the ran
som of $4,000 to the Morocco bandits
for the release of Perdioari aud the other
captive.
Alex. Brady, colored, killed his wife
near Warrenton, Ga., Sunday. Brady
cut his wife's throat and stabbed her in
the lung.
The historic liberty bell arrived at the
ST. Louis Worlds Fair grounds last
Wednesday and was greeted by $4,000
school children.
Women's clubs of Utah are arranging
to ask the Democratic National Conven-
tion to have nothing to say on the po-
lygamy question.
1t is said that in spite of reports to the
contrary, President Roosevelt will insist
that Secretary Cortelyou manage the
approaching campaign.
Lewis ,Etzel, correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, was killed by
Chinese near New Chwang last Tuesday.
He was an American from Denver, Col.
In New York Sunday thirty firemen
were temporarily overcome by tobacco
smoke and the fumes from alcohol, while
fighting fire in Holtz Cafe, in Broadway.
Mrs. Eliza Ross, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is
suing the Jacksonian Club of Omaha,
Neb., for $4,000, which she claims her
minor son lost at poker there some time
ago.
sian Baltic fleet will sail for the far East
on September l. 1t consists of eight
battleships, ten cruisers and twenty I've
destroyers.
The South Carolina College celebrated
commencement exercises for the ninety
ninth time last week, the College having
been established in 1905. Thirty gradu-
ates received degrees Wednesday night
in arts, sciences or in law.
Reports from cotton points in Texas,
Indian Territory and Oklahoma indicate
that the cotton acreage of Texas is in
creased 9.32 per cent, Indian Territory
and Oklahoma 25 per cent. The high
prices reached by cotton the past season
are responsible for the increase.
DR.. Gordon b. Moore, formerly pro-
fessor in Furman University, has been
elected to a chair in tho South Carolina
College. He will take the place left
vacant by the death of the lamented
Prof. r.. Means Davis. DR.. Moore will
teach history and political economy.
The cadet corps of the South Carolina
Military Academy will leave Charleston
Friday for st. Louis to spend one week
at the Worlds Fair, returning to Charles
ton on June 2S for the annual commence
ment. The arrangements are now being
made for the welfare of tho corps on
their travels. They will go via Rich
mond, returning by the same route.
Dock Arthur, colnred, fireman at the
Salisbury ice factory, Salisbury, N. c.,
was arrested on June 9th on a charge of
wrecking No. 40, the fast mail train on
the Southern Railway on the morning of
the same date. Engineer Haynes and his
colored fireman, Jim Watkins were killed
in the wreck. 1t is alleged that Arthur
had threatened the life of the dead fire
man.
John Pinson died from suffocation in
the calaboose at Easley last Saturday
night. He was arrested late Saturday
afternoon for drunkenness and locked up
for the night. When tho marshal
opened the door Sunday morning he
found the dead man standing stiff and
rigid against the wall. In some way
during the night he set fire to the bed
clothes and the fumes and smoke filled
the room, thereby suffocating him.
Easley is a dry town but Pinson got his
whiskey from the dispensary at Pickens
Saturday, and when he reached Easley
he was fit subject for arrest.