Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News Of the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

The question of dispensary or no dis
pensary in Union will soon be nut directly
before the voters. The supervisor, hav-
ing acted on petition just presented to
him, has authorized an election to be
held on Tuesday, May 9th, to vote on this
important question.
Edward Parkharz, 81 years old, has
been arrested for the murder of Mrs.
Sarah Rosenberg, whose dead body was
found in her rooms on Saturday. He
confessed to have murdered the woman
for the purpose of robbery and $12, says
a dispatch from New York.
1t was reported in railroad circles in
Atlanta, Thursday, that from all that
could be learned up to this time only half
the peach crop of Georgia for last year
will be realized this coming season. AS
last year the cars shipped from that State
amounted to 4 300, this means according
to railroad officials, only from 1000 to
$500 cars for 1905.
Lonnie Robertson, young negro from
the lower part of Anderson county has
been lodged in Jail for shooting Will
Black, a negro who was paying too
much attention to the formers wife.
Black was dangerously wounded, and
the chances are that he will not recover.
His arm had to be amputated, and he is
suffering from wounds in the head and
shoulder.
The inquest held over the dead body of
Abe Mcdaniel, the old negro who was
killed by mob last Saturday night in
Sullivan township, ID miles wost of Lau-
rens, was held yesterday. The daughter
of the dead man claimed to have recog-
nized p. 81. Baldwin, white man and
near neighbor, as one of the mob. They
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jury found verdict accordingly. Bald
win was arrested and is now in the hands
of the sheriff
jury rendered verdict for the full
amount demanded by the plaintiff in the
case of Carroll, executor of the estate of
f. G. Stacey against the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty Company. of Baltimore, which was
tried in the United States Circuit Court
in Greenville last week. The verdict was
for S5,23l, the full amount of the policy
carried by the late Mr.. Stacey with tho
interest that had accrued since it became
due.
Jim Mccullough, young man of An
derson county, about 26 or 27 years of
age, committed suicide last Friday after
noon by shooting himself in the heart
with shotgun. 1t is not known that
he ever intimated that he had any inten-
tion of killing himself, although he said
some time ago that he would just as soon
be dead as alive. He was suffering at the
time with rheumatism and for some time
the family circle has not been as pleasant
as it might have been and it is thought
that for these reasons he committed the
rash act. He went out in the yard and
placed the gun against the garden fence
and called his brother who was working
nearby, and then fired the fatal shot.
The cases against defendants arrested
in connection with the Kershaw lynching
have been dismissed by Magistrate Casky.
The solicitor withdrew the prosecution
of all others for whom warrants had been
assured. The motion of the solicitor for
the continuance of the preliminary on the
ground that he was not ready was first
argued and refused. Newbold and Howie,
detectives, were called, but did not ap-
pear. The defendants attorneys then
made motion to dismiss, because the
State failed to produce any testimony
whatever and because the warrants on
which the defendants were arrested were
sworn out before the magistrate and
signed by him while beyond his jurisdic-
ton in Chester county. The motion was
granted.
Osborn Mitchell! was shot and killed by
the marshal of Tallulah Falls, Ga, last
Friday in an effort to arrest him and one
Grade Langston, who had imbibed too
much mountain dew before the train
from Clayton had reached Tallulah. Two
reports are circulated as to the justifica-
tion of Marshal Lockaby il firing in the
effort to arrest. One report is to the effect
that the deceased shot and seriously
wounded Claud Askew, who had acted as
marshal in the fore part of the day, and
snapped his pistol three times at Mr..
lockaby, when he was attempting to ar
test those who were drunk and noisy on
the streets. The friends of the deceased
say he was backing away from the mar
shall when shot, and that they saw no
effort on the part of the deceased to kill
or wound the marshal