Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-15
rAs NEWS N salEr FoRm.
items 81 News Of tho Past Week aa,herad
from Various Senrces

The Standard Oil Company has reduced
the price of all grades Of refined oil one
cent gallon.
The State Fair Society held q meeting
IN Columbia last week and condemned
side shows in connection with the fair.
If it be really true that Mr.. Johann
Hocb, OF Chicago, had twenty>nine wives
the question might be raised as to
whether he should be- Imprisoned for
polygamy or awarded Carnegie hero
medal.
The Government finances show de-
ficit of only S29,0OO,0O0 for the seven
elapsed months of the fiscal year Score
tary Shaw thinks that eau be made up
easily enough, but Speaker Cannon,
beset upon one sido by the demands for
river aud harbor Improvement appropria-
tions and upon the other by the Presi-
dents insistence upon great naval cOu-
struotion work, looks upon it as littlo
more difficult.
Many farmers are perplexed. They ap-
preciate the situation aud wish to cut
down cotton acrvage and the supply of
fertilizers, but having rented lands and
made contracts with hands before the
slump in cotton do not know how to get
at it. A suggestion has been made that
If land owners would consent to receive
part OF rents in other crop products than
cot ton their tenants would very cheer
fully reduce both cotton acreages and
fertilizer purchases -Barnwell People.
Judge Purdy recently filed several i'm
portant decisions in Columbia. Among
others he set aside the verdict in the
case of NJ. p. Tribblo vs. Western Uuion
Telegraph Company. Col. Tribble sued
and gotta verdict of 81 500 because Ger
tain telegram informing hirn ct a-desth
in his family was not promptly delivered.
Judge Purdy gave several legal reasons
for setting aside the verdict, but the
principal one, perhaps, was that he held
the verdict &c DC excessive. A new trial
has been ordered.
Representative Aiken has succeeded in
getting the pension claim of Capt. G. A.
sion bureau. He has been working on it
for months. The bureau has allowed
Capt: Milford pension of $40 per month
for life and accrued pension aggregating
81, 100. Mr. Milford was captain of Com
pany A, First South Carolina Infantry,
in the Spanish. American war. He con-
tracted typhoid fever while in the SER
vice and was permanently injured by it.
Mrs. Morena A. Morse, prominent
woman OF brunswick county, North
Carolina, died in a most unusual manner
and under very peculiar circumstances
several days ago. Accompanied by seve-
raj relatives, she went to Baptist
church, the place of worship of the Morse
family. During the service she gave her
experience, and testified to her faith and
acceptance of God, aud she was ready to
go whenever the Master called her. She
sat down, and the next moment fell over
dead. The attack, following the procla.
nation of faith, caused much excitement
among the congregation.
An unusual charge has been docketed
in police court against ID. w. Gill, citi-
zen of Rose Hill, Ga. His neighbors
allege that he put poison on his turnips
in order to kill their chickens. They are
more aggrieved at the alleged use of
poison than over the death of the chick.
ems. This case brings up some interest
ing points. 1t is contended that Gill had
the right to ring the necks of the chick
ems If they were trespassing in his gar
den, but that poisoning them is differ
ent matter entirely. His side of the case
has not yet been stated. When the case
was called in recorders court recently it
was continued.
j. w. P. Hope, of Yorkville, was badly
bitten and olawed by a cat one afternoon
last week. He was seitting chair,
with his right hand hanging d. .yn, when
the cat, which was lying under the chair,
Il,
biting and scratching it quite severely.
In trying to draw his hand away from
the animal it was pulled through the
rounds of the chair and Mr.. Hope had to
choke 1t off. A young lady boarding
with the family was also severely bitten
and scratched by the cat in her efforts to
assist Mr.. Hope. The cat has been in
the family for a good many years and
was looked upon as pet, Mr.. Hope at
tending mostly to its feeding.
A young woman, described as Louise
Scroeder and Louisa Adams, was shot
and instantly killed in New York on last
Sunday by Emil Bollinger, q janitor, who
was All ssted after being seriously injured
in an attempt to escape. The shooting
took place in the dining room of "a hotel
on Third avenue, where the woman and
two men had been during the night.
Bollinger, who had been sitting in
another part of the room Watching the
trio for some hours, suddenly advanced
to the table ct which they sat, and, draw
ing revolver, fired twice, shooting the
woman through the neck and through
the heart. AS she fell Bollinger threw
away the pistol and started to run, when
he was attacked by the woman's COM
panions, and in the struggle that ensued,
was thrown down stairs and severely in
jured. When removed to tho hospital
two more revolvers were found on him.
Bollinger's only explanation was that he
shot her because she ruined his life.
Bollinger's wife is said to have lef. him
two years ago on account of his atten-
tion to the woman whom he killed Sun