Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
items o. News Of the Past Week Gathered
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Five men were instantly killed ON the
nights of January Goth in the Maple Hin
colliery of the philadelphia aud Reading
Coal and Iron Co. The victims were
roekmen.
Commercial failures last week In the
| United States numbered S02, against 358
the previous week, 1924 the preceding
week aud 24S the corresponding week
last year.
Chicago is bankruptl Suits for s37,-
866,952 have been brought against the
city for personal injuries caused by the
bad condition of the streets and side
walks. @s!lD'
On Tuesday night of last week ailttof
tho prisoners In She Darlington jail
three in number, made their escape.
Two were charged with robbery and one
with arson. gtAse p Z
The outlook for war between JapaI,
and Russia is still grave, but the leading
diplomats believe that Russia will finaily
make concessions to Japan that win at
least postpone war. -,
At Spartanburg last Thursday car of
cotton was discovered to be on fire at the
union depot, and in unloading 1t the
hands discovered tramp, wedged in be-
tween bales, badly scorched and dead
from suffocation.
David Moxley, negro, 10 years Of age,
was found frozen to death in his room in
Atlanta last Friday morning. The negro
had been i'll for some time and had ap-
parently risen from his bed to call for
help. He fell, and froze to death before
any one arrived. g >,t%
A mission of the Christian Catholic
church, John Alexander Dowie, over
seer, was established at Chattanooga.
Tenn, last Saturday. 1t starts with
forty members. William d. Gay has
been placed in charge and will hold
regular services.
The body of Frank A. LeSeur, who
was murdered by Booze Bennett several
weeks ago at Clay ton, Ca, was exhumed
last week and shipped to Boliver, N. Y.
1t is stated that an Atlanta woman, to
whom LeSeur was engaged, ordered the
body taken up and shipped to Boliyer,
and that she bore all expenses.
Six persons were killed and fourteen
injured as the result of an explosion of
gas in the cafe of hotel in Bognonas,
France, last Friday. The hotel was par.
TALLY wrecked. From stories of tho sur
vivors of the explosion it was learned
that dozen patrons of the hotel were
sitting at the tables drinking and playing
cards when an odor of gas penetrated
the room.
Harry d. Egbert, who murdered John
G. Saxton and John West last October,
was hanged at Salem, Oregon, last Fri
day. Egbert made brief speech on the
scaffold. He said: "My friends, take mo
as a mark; keep your children.otf 'She
street and above all, out of the saloojis.
Bad raising and bad company are the
direct cause of my downfall. 1 haye re-
pented my sins"
Elberton, Ga, suffered severely from q
destructive fire last Wednesday night.
The Jones block, in which were drug
store, two general stores and a photo
graph gallery, were burned, with prac-
tically their entire contents. The loss
was about $12, in excess of insurance.
Merchants in nearby stores lost consider
able sums by moving goods and getting
them damaged. Elberton has no fire
department and the flames were fought
by bucket brigades.
Mrs. Mary Schrofrenski, aged 1875, the
Oldest person in the country, according
to the age given in the death certificate,
died last Saturday at the home of her
daughter, at Menominee, Mich. She was
born in Prussia and came to this country
twenty-five years ago. Her father lived
to be 100 years old, and her youngest
daughter, Mrs. Mary Lowendski,, is
nearly seventy years old. The children
are so poor that the body was buried by
the county.
Bass Bracewell died at his home near
Dexter, Ca, on January 20, after a lin
gering illness. Bracewell was danger
ously ill, but being believer in faith
cure he refused, it is stated, to have any
medical attention, and was carried from
house to house to the different faith cure
meetings. He was at one of these meet
ings endeavoring to stand and sing when
death seized him. His first wife died
last year under similar circumstances.
She would not receive any medical aid
until it was too late. Bracewell is the
son of j. r. Bracewell, also firm be-
lever in the same faith. He leaves a
second wife, who was a sister of his