Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

George A. Rose, the late cashier
of the Produce Exchange at Cleve-
land, o., who recently confessed to
embezzling $4,000 of the banks
funds, was sentenced last Thursday
to serve ten years in the penitentiary.
The Pickens County Commits
sioners have recently decided to do
away with every small bridge in the
county and make fords,, as many
of the mountain streams rise 80
quickly and to such a height that in
time of high floods it is impossible
to maintain bridges over them.
1t is announced that Thomas Mel
son Page, the author, is to establish
a technical school in Hanover county,
Virginia, the county of his birth.
The plan is to teach young men and
girls the different manual callings,
such as carpentering, mechanics,
cooking, sewing, etc.
Senator Penrose has introduced q
billin the United States Senate appro-
priating 100000 for the erection in
Washington of statue of Abraham
Lincoln. The bill provides that its
erection shall be under the direction
of the Secretary of War or such
commission az he may approve.
Last Wednesday was the anniver-
ssry of the death of Governor William
Goebel, of Kentucky, and in honor
of his memory appropriate exercises
were held by the State Legislature
in session at Frankfort. Addresses
eulogistic of the character and public
deeds of the dead executive were
delivered, and as further mark of
respect to his memory both chambers
of the Assembly adjourned for the
day.
The case e the State of North
Carolina versus the State of South
Dakota was decided last week by
the United States Supreme Court
favorably to South Dakota, The
case involves the validity of mort
gage on stock of the North Carolina
Railroad Company, given by the
State of North Carolina to secure
the payment of State bonds given in
aid of the road in 1867. The State
of South Dakota holds ten bonds of
81, 900 each, under gift from Simon
Schafer and Samuel M. Schafer, of
New York City, the amount due on
the bonds and coupons attached being
$4,000. !
J. w. Hodges, farmer, aged 60,
residing near Duck River church,
Culman county, Ala, was found dead
hanging in bis barn last Wednesday
while in the house in bed was found
the dead body of his wife, who had
been ill for some time, and had been
Drained with a blunt instrument.
Hodges was deeply in debt, and it is
said his creditors were pressing him.
This is believed to have mentally
unbalanced him and led him to
murder his wife and commit suicide.
s. Hill Terry, in Jail at Whining.
ton, N. O., charged with the murder
of his son-in-law, George Tate
Bland, last September, committed
suicide in his cell last Wednesday
morning by slashing his throat
through the jugular vein with an
old case knife which he had been
given with his meals. His trial was
in progress in the Superior Court,
and his chances were good for a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree.
Mayor Rhett, of Charleston, is hot
after the slot machines. Seven were
destroyed by the police last Thurs
day morning, having been seized in
pursuance to orders that slot ma
chimes must go. Altogether there
have been about twenty-five ma
chimes destroyed by police officers
The process for destroying the de-
vices is cremation. They are fret
broken up and then piled in heap
in the open and the torch applied.