Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-04-20
from Various Sources.

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SO far 81 candidates nre announced for
office In Barnwell county.
Y The Russian Government has given
notice that newspaper correspondents,
using wireless telegraphy, will be treated
as spies aud shot when captured.
lt Is thought that the present session
OF Congress will end about May1. Nearly
all Of the appropriations have passed,
and no other business of Importance will
be acted on.
w. III. Green, assistant general manager
OF the Southern Railway, died at Washipg-
ton. last Saturday. He was o native of
South Carolina aud was about 85 years
of age.
ID. l.. Larkp, United States deputy
marshal OF Virginia, has been allowed
$4,000 by Congress- toward the expense
he was put toin defending himself in the
courts Tor having killed moonshiner.
The business of the country is some
what less than at the same time last year,
the only section showing an inol case be-
ing the South, which Is in more prosper
GUS condition than it ever was.
Miss Katherine Mulligan, of Spartan
burg, has been elected. teacher of domes.
tic sceince in Winthrop college. She has
been for the past year teacher in the
industrial college at Milledgeville, Ga.
The Worlds Fair at st. Louis will
open April 80. An immense amount of
work has been done in the. past month,
and the opening day will find the build
ings complete, and most Of the exhibits
in place.
Senator Tillman has returned to his
home from Washington, and will proba-
bly, not return during the present session.
Owing to the bad condition of his throat
his physician advises absolute rest from
active work.
The cold rain that set in Saturday
night and continued all day has been the
salvation so far of fruit, truck and corn.
1t has prevented frost and the hope is
that the weather will turn warm before
the rain ceases, -s
High school students at Kansas City
declare that negroes will never be per-
mitted to re-enter the school. The race
feeling caused by the killing of Roy Mar
tin, o white freshman, by negro, is be-
coming fierce.
Ex-President Cleveland announces that
he favors the nomination of Judge Parker
for President, while Col. Bryan states
that he is opposed to Parker, and that a
Parker administration would be worse
than Cleveland's last administration was.
When Russia is driven out Of Man
churia and fails to dislodge the Japs from
Manchuria, she has lost the war, no mat
the two powers. And it looks very
much as If Russia is going to lose Man
churia.
The Census bureau at Washington
issued bulletin recently which gives the
estimated population of the United
States for 1908, exclusive of Alaska and
the insular possessions of the United
States, at 79,00O,SS9. This is an increase
of 3,9O5, ,S14 since the census of 1900.
The reference in Dun's cotton acreage
bulletin to an increase of from 20 to 80
per cent must refer to particular locaii-
tiessand not to the cotton belt as a whole.
An increased cotton acreage of 10 per
cont would be enormous, taking the
cotton belt as whole, and severely tax
the labor and mule capacity of the South.
The death rate in Cuba last year was
the lowest the island has ever known,
and Havana is 80 clean that she does not
know herself, thanks to tho surgeon
general of the American army and tho
late Colonel Waring, of New York "white
wings" fame. Yellow fever is no longer
the plague of the Queen of the Antilles.
At the recent session of the Legisla-
ture of Mississippi a bill was pf ssed ap-
propriatiug $4,000 per year to be spent
under the direction of the State Enty-
mologist in preventing the introduction
of the boil weevil in that State, and
within the next few days, or as soon as
the necessary plans can bo formulated,
a system of quarantine will 60 into effect.
Isaiah j. McCottrie, the negro collector
of customs at Georgetown, was reap
pointed last Thursday. His nomination
was sent to the Senate, together with
other Presidential appointments. At the
treasury department. it was said that
there was no opposition to McCottrie's
appointment and he had the endorsement
of the Republican referee for that district.
Albertus Vanderhorst, a young man
holding position with the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company in Columbia,
fatally shot himself one day last week
in his Office at the fertilizer factory.
When the shot was heard by other en-
ployees they rushed to the office. to find
the young man lying on the floor with
a bullet wound in his head.
The Washington Star has culled from
the Postal Guide list of some of the GU
riously named post offices. Here are q
few: Tub, Penn; Robbers Roost, l. r.. +;
Bird in Hand, Peun; Iamedeer, Mont;
Popcorn, Ind; Why Not, Ky; Hat Off, Ga:
Sopchoppy, Fla; Jugtown, N. c.; Seven
stars, Penn; Fearnot, Penn; Judyto wn,
w. Va; Pig, Ky; Goodnight, KY.
Rev. A. G. Kirkpatrick, well-known
minister of the Associate Reformed Pres
byterian church, died at his home in
Due West, April IA, after a brief attack
of pneumonia He was 81 years old. On
account of failing health he had not
been engaged in the active work of the
ministry for the past four years. He is
O., .utx nd hxro mil os..l~ IL
some of whom are quite small.
John B. Irby, popular young farmer
of Marlbo County, was waylaid on the
road the other night by two or more
negroes and was shot at ten times, five
of the bullets hitting him. He returned
the fire, but the negroes ran. He was
surprised at the attack. Thirty-two-cali-
bre shots were used by the negroes. Irby
was brought to Cheraw last night and is
doing very we'll. One bullet smashed
his watch, and if it had entered his body
would have caused instant death. He
does not know the negroes.
A negro woman by the name of Jane
Field, of Laurens, came near losing her
lose large sum of money, probably tho
savings of several years. Her dress
caught on fire and blazed up and she
would have been seriously burned had
not her daughter torn her dress off of
her. She had in her pocket $40 in paper
money which was destroyed and several
dollars in silver which was badly black
ened. The woman herself escaped with
out injury.
"The niggor in the woodpile" is no.
thing compared with fifty gallons of
Spartanburg county Dark Corner bitters
in rail pile. Constables Muiligan and
Drake went out to Duncan's by order of
Chief FAINT to examine the quality of
ozone in that neighborhood last Wednes-
day. 1t was said to have very exhila-
rating effect on divers people. In scout
ing around they saw a peculiar pile of
rails. They began to inspect and hauled
out fifty gallons of whiskey in several
kegs and barrels. 1t belonged to no one,
and so far as the innocent citizens knew
it may have been deposited there during