Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News OF the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

The preachers who are objeCting TO
the acceptance by the church of John D.
Rockefeller's 100000 gift to missions
should remember that an old negro
preacher once said, "Pd take money FUN
de debbil of l could git it. fer 1 could
spend it better dan dc debbil could"
Robert Quick, of Strathroy, Ontario,
while cutting the hair of his brother
Alfred, was seized by an attack of homi-
cidal mania and strangled him to death.
Quick, who is a widower, lives about a
mile and half from this town. He was
arrested after the news of the murder
was spread by his small children.
j. F. Swanney, foreman of the book
binding department of the Queen City
Printing Company, of Charlotte, N. c.,
was instantly killed last Saturday, 25th
instant, by an electric car. Swanney was
riding a wheel and attempted to cross
the track in front of a rapidly moving
car. He was knocked from his bicycle
and his body ground to pulp beneath the
wheels.
President Roosevelt recently appointed
| Gen. Rosser, who was brigadier gene
raj in the Confederate army, postmaster
at Charlottesville, Va. AT the time the
appointment was made it was intlmated
that better position might be provided
| for Gen. Rosser in the future. 1t is un-
derstood now that he will be nominated
as United States marshal for the West
ern district of Virginia OH the expiration
of the term of present incumbent, S.
| Brown Allen.
+. II. bravo, president of the Drayo
Contracting Company, of Pittsburg, has
forwarded all papers necessary to the
organization of company for the de-
velopment of Cherokee shoals, on the
Savannah river, and it is thought this
valuable property W IL be soon developed.
Georgia and South Carolina have both
given consent for the erection of dams
across the river, and as soon as the cleo
trio plant is in working order, Judge w.
F. Cox will erect cotton mill near the
scene.
Miss Eliza Mabry, student of Win
throp college, underwent n very thrilling
experience Monday afternoon. She fell
down the elevator shaft in the rear of
the North dormitory, and, surprising to
relate, she was uuinjured, with the ex-
ception of a few bruises and general
shaking up. She was leaning over tho
rail which surrounds the shaft when her
support gave way and she plunged down
ward n distance of three stories. She
struck AN iron bar in the course of her
descent, and this undoubtedly broke the
force of her flight and saved her life.-
Rock Hill Record.
Near Dunbarton last Thursday morn
ing James III. Skinner shot and Instantly
killed Miller Anderson. Both parties
are well known and are residents of Dun
balton, Il station in Barnwell county on
the Atlantic Coast Liae Railway. Mr..
Anderson was planter, Mr.. Skinner a
merchant, and both have families.
About month ago, it seems, the two
men had difficulty, since which time
their personal relations have not been
pleasant. Thursday morning Mr.. Skin
ner was bird hunting when he met Mr..
Anderson Words were passed, the
quarrel was renewed. and then the hOmi-
eide. Mr. Skinner gave himself up to
the Sheriff.
What might have been horrible acci-
dent and was a miraculous escape. oc-
Cured Saturday morning at y. III. Orig
gers lumber plant in the eastern part of
Columbia. Will Fowlcs, a negro, was
caught in some shafting and whirled
round and round, his body striking the
ceiling and yet he was not killed. The
negro had gone up to this shaftng,
which was placed some II feet above the
floor and as he was placing IA small belt
on it's pulley, one of his shirt sleeves
became entangled in the turning shaft.
ing. Round and round he went, perhaps
40 times. He made no sound, being ter
ror stricken, and his clothing was being
torn from him. Finally he fell to the
floor, without a stitch of clothing on his
person. The whole occurrence took but
a minute, and by the time the machinery
had been shut down Fowles was ON the
floor