Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News oi the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

Andrew Carnegie will claim almost
line at accepting Mrs. Chadwick as one
of his daughters.
Sam Marks, the negro who killed
Hilary Langston, white, last fail was
sentenced in Darlington last Friday to
be hanged on Friday, May 5.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold last Saturday Cor the
sum of SS2,5OO. This ia the high record
price. The name of the purchaser is not
disclosed.
William E. Beattie, of Greenville, was
elected on 11th instant President and
Treasurer of the Piedmont Manufacture
ing Company, as successor to the late
James L.. Orr, at Il . special meeting of
the board of directors.
BY the breaking of cable in the
Shrewsburg coal mine, near Charleston,
West Virginia one day last week, four
miners were killed and ten others seri-
ously hurt Four of the injured will
probably die.
The late Col. James l.. Orr carried in
surance policies on his life to the amount
of Sl05,OO0. The first payment made
thereon was by the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company, last Wednesday, for
So, ,039. 40, at Anderson, through NJ. NJ
Mattison, State Agent.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
Senate the names Of all the members of
his Cabinet for reappointment except
that of Postmaster General Wynne. The
name of George Bruce Cortelyou, of
New York, has been submitted in HIS
stead. Mr.. Wynne goes to London as
Consul General to succeed Henry Clay
Evans.
A terrific rain fell over Northeast and
East Texas one day last week and con-
siderable damage was done in the wash
ing away of bridges and fences. Farm
ers will lose time, but crops are not in
jured. Trains are badly delayed as slow
orders have been issued on all roads.
Five inches of rain fell in less than three
hours.
One of Dutton's mines, near New
berry, Fla, one day last week, was the
scene of horrible tragedy. Lula Camp
bell killed Laura Stalks by cutting her
jugular vein and inflcting other injuries
on her body. The woman died from loss
of blood in twenty minutes. The cause
of the killing was the alleged intimacy
of the Starks woman and Lula's man.
Campbell. The woman was arrested aud
is now in Jail.
An American negro named John Wells,
from South Carolina, on being refused
admittance to a dance at Colon on the
9th instant, shot and killed policeman
and wounded two other persons. The
murderer was arrested and probably will
be sentenced to term Of imprisonment
in Chirqui Jail, as there is no capital
punishment in Panama.
Seventy-four indictments and six con-
victiohs is the record to date of the Fede-
raj Government in its prosecution of
fraud cases in Oregon and the Pacific
coast States, according to a compilation
of indictments recently made public by
order of the Secretary of Interior,
Hitchcock. SiXty-nine Of the persons
indicted or convicted are residents of
Oregon, being former government Off
cials, lawyers, or business men.
One of the oldest men in the new
Congress is Willian II. Tindall, of
Sparta, Mo. He was teaching school az
$40 month previous to his election
He was so sure of his defeat that he says
he did not think it worth while to spend
the cost of q postage stamp to decline.
and had never seen an elevator till few
weeks ago, when he visited ST. Louie.
The Secretary of the Treasury at
$3.50, 600 in favor of Mansfield, McMurray
and Cornish, lawyers, residing in the In
dian Territory, as fees for services rem
dered by them to the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians. The Secretary of
the Interior declined to approve the
claim on the ground that it was excess
i've. Congress, however, directed the
payment on the showing that it was
regular and in accordance with the con-
tract with the Indians.