Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-31
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Gathered Hore, There and Everywhere News
Notes and miscellaneous Paragraphs.

aud has nearly two million dollars in the
treasury.
Mayor Hay, of Atlantic City, New
Jersey, has issued an order barring ne
groes from surf bathing there.
Booker Washington, Jr., was fined
Sl5 at Quincy, Mass, on last Tuesday for
running his automobile too fast.
The Virginia General Assembly has
passed law furnishing with imprison-
ment men who do not support their
wives.
Sam Jones says on general principles
he is opposed to war, but when it is nee
essary he likes to see the right crowd get
good licking.
Caesar Booker, colored, died at Wash
ngton, Ca, on Wednesday, aged 125
years. He leaves six children, one of
them son, aged 96.
A negro boy while drawing water
found four months baby in well at
Chester, S. G. The infant had been in
the well about "a hours.
Reports from Austin, Texas. state
that many acres of cotton land are being
abandoned owing to the ravages OF the
boil weevi.
Judge Parker has declined the invita-
ton to attend the proposed ratification
meeting at Charleston. He also reite-
rates his purpose not to m ke speeches
during the campaign.
Mrs. Thomas Taggart, wife, of the
chairman of the Democratic National
the publication of pictures of public
mems wives in the newspapers. She
says no newspaper shall ever have her
picture for publication.
Miss Pearl Truluck, of Sumter, and
Miss Barton, of Tigerville, have been
given free scholarships at the Greenville
College for Women by the South Caro-
lima Federation of Women's Clubs, who
has two scholarships in this institution.
B. l.. Gowan, of Spartanburg. has filed
suit against State constables j. F. Drake,
w. r. Gideon and Joseph r. FAINT and
Chief Constable w. B. Hammett in the
sum of $4,000 for seizing $4.76 worth of
liquor. The Attorney General has issued
a demurrer and the case will be tried in
Spartanburg in September.
A mass of earth and stone broke loose
from the side of the mountains bordering
on the Spartanburg and Asheville divi-
sion of the Southern Railway last Thurs
day morning, and as result the track
was covered by tons of debris. The
track is not yet entirely cleared and
normal schedules cannot be resumed for
a few days.
Mrs. Tom Thumb. made famous by
Barnum, is still alive at the age OF IS.
She has regular turn in midget thea
ter at Coney Island and is driven home
each evening in the identical coach pre-
sented to Tom Thumb in 1884 by King
Edward, then Prince of Wales. She is
very religious and member of the &C
tors Club Alliance and of the Woman's
Aid Society. She is also Daughter of
the American Revolution.
Two people were killed by an auto
mobile at st. Louis on August %. In
false start of the fifth event of the
Worlds Fair automobile speed contest
Charlie Oldfield, of Cleveland, Ohio,
became blinded by the dust, failed to
make the turn and crushed through the
fence, instantly killing John Scott,
watch imam, and fatally injuring Nathan
Montgomery, negro, who died a few
hours afterwards. Oldfield was pain
fully injured and his machine completely
demolished
Joi n Burley, a negro, forty years of
age, was hanged at the District Jail in
Washington, d. c., last Friday, August
Goth, for criminal assault on four-year-
old negro girl, committed in July. 1905.
1t was the first time the death penalty
had been inflicted in the District of Co
lumbia for this offence. An appeal to
President Roosevelt recently for Glenn
ency resulted not only in a refusal, but
he coupled with it scathing arraign-
ment of the prisoner and the crime for
which he was convicted.