Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF rcss.
Items oi News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

DIR. T.. b. Craighead, at ono t.me presi-
dent of Clemson College, has been elected
president of Tulane University, at New
Orleans.
According TO reports from various
parts of North Alabama, the peach crop
in that section was ruined by tho very So
we're weather of last month.
The Comptroller Generals report
shows that the Bsuks OF this State will
paw franchise tax of S3,400, the cotton
mills $4,000 and the railroads $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 to the city of Anderson fora apab.
lie library If the city will furnish the lot
aud agree to give 81 900 year FOR main
tanning the library.
Sam and John Breazeale and John
Smith, negroes, charged with the murder
at Belton last week of another negro
named Flip Green, went to Anderson
Tuesday aud surrendered and are 10 Jail
Gen. Joseph r. Hawley, formerly
United States Senator from Connecticut,
died in Washington on Saturday morn
ing, 18th instant. The remains were
taken to Connecticut for burial.
The price of cotton remains steady
and if the area planted is reduced 25
per cent, cotton now in the hands Of the
planters and next seasons crop will be
certain to bring profitable price.
Reports from all parts of the winter
wheat belt agree in stating that wheat
has emerged from the cold winter in
fine shape, and the condition is much
better than that of year ago.
Saturday, March 18th, was the 6Sth
birthday of former President Grover
Cleveland. He is the only living ex-
President of the United States. Many
friends called to pay their respects.
With Spartanburg, Pickens and Dar-
lington counties getting ready to vote on
the question of abolishing the dispen-
sary. it would seem that there is some
thing the matter with the great moral
institution.
Nathan Slocum, of Jones county, Geor-
gia, was found last week with his throat
cut from ear to ear and died shortly
afterwards without speaking. A bloody
razor was lying near and it is believed
the case is one of suicide.
Henry Bishop, of Murray County,
Georgia, who has served nearly two years
of seven-year sentence for manslaugh-
ter, has been pardoned. Bishops brother
was being beaten to death by man with
a pair of brass knucks, and he shot to
save his brothers. life.
yers aud the friends of Alton b. Parker
to have him nominated for the Supreme
Court bench this fall by Democrats and
Endorsed by Republicans. The salary at
tached to the position is greater than the
one he gave up to become Democratic
presidential nominee.
Daniel j. Sully and Edward Hadley,
of the failed firm of cotton brokers, of
d. j. Sully & Co., New York, have re-
ceived discharges in bankruptcy from
Judge Adams in the United States Dis
trict Court. The creditors offered no
opposition. This discharge wipes out all
of Mr.. Sully's indebtedness.
Governor James b. Frazier has been
elected by the Legislature of Tennessee
United States Senator to succeed the
Frazier has served two months of his
second term and he will be succeeded as
Governor by John T. Cox, Speaker of
State Senate.
The jury in the murder case at Flor.
ence against Dispensary Constable w. b.
Rowell for killing Detective John c..
Blount, of the Atlantic Coast Line,
brought in verdict on last Saturday,
18th instant, of manslaughter with re-
commentator to mercy. Sentence was
suspended pending hearing a motion for
a new trial.
The household property of Mrs. Cassie
l.. Chadwick was sold at auction in
Cleveland. Ohio; last Friday, 17th instant,
Clothing to the value of between S4, 900
and $1,000, which Mrs. Chadwick held
to be exempt from the claims of her
creditors under the bankruptcy laws,
was not offered for sale.
Secretary of State John Hay, in Presi-
dent Rooscvelt's cabinet, seemed to be a
very sick man when he sailed for Europe
on the Star liner Cedrick last Saturday
morning, 18th instant. He had to be
supported by members of the party see
ing him of 1t was finally necessary to
place him in wheeled chair. Previous
to getting in the chair Mr.. Hay had two
sinking spells.
The administrator of the estate of Mrs.
Anuie S. McManus, whose home was at
Wilmington, y. c., has brought suit in
board Air Line railroad company for
$50. 900 damages. This suit is for the
killing of Mrs. McManus in the wreck
near Catawba Junction on the 19th of
September and is in the interest of her
husband and three minor children, all
daughters.
A dispatch of recent date to the
Chicago Tribune from New Orleans says:
An official proclamation has been issued
by Gen. Stephen d. Lee, commander-in-
chief of the United Confederate Vete-
rams, paying uustinted praise and tribute
to Congress for passing the battle flag
return measure, and to President Roose-
welt for his prompt signature. Gen. Lee
urges upon all parties, North and South,
who have colors in their possession to
return them at once to the State Capt.
tolls.
The Supreme Court on last Wednes-
day, 18th instant, sustained the verdict
in the Thrailkill case. This cause at
tracted much attention at the time of
the hearing at Saluda. Thrailkill was a