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The news & observer., 1905-01-10
FOR A PARR|C|DE
Arrest of Negress at Chap
ell Hill For Killing Her
Father.
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Chapel Hill, n. c., Jan 9.-Willis
Neville, colored, was shot dead here
Saturday night, probably about eleven
o'clock. The scene of the killing was
Potters Field a negro section lying
Immediately on the norts side of the
town. Neville lay Unnotlced in his
blood until yesterday morning about
nine o'clock, when one of his neigh
bors called at NevilIe's house and
found him dead The neighbOr imme-
diately reported the matter to the
dead mems son, who afterwards re-
ported the situation to the town au-
thorities.
The county authorities were notified
at once of the news of the murder and
the county coroner having moved from
the county, the clerk of the court ap-
pointed A. s. Barbee, Esq, of this
place, to act as spec. al coroner. Today
Squire arbee summoned DR.. Abernathy
and jury composed of Messrs. Hern-
don, Best Huskey, Ray, Williams, and
Hearn, and Hold. An inquest was
held, as the result of which the jury
returned the following verdict: THAT
Willis Neville came to his death as a
result of two pistol shot wounds in the
head. inflicted by the hand OF his
daughter, Sophie Neville"
Willis NeVilel and his daughter
Sophie lived in the same house. Willis
was fairly respectable negro of about
sixty years of age and a carpenter by
trade, at which ne worked regularly.
His daughter is about twenty-four
years old. She is a bad character
once married but now parted from her
husband. AS soon as the murder was
known suspicion fell ON this woman, as
t was remembered that she had made
some threats. Neville was murdered
in his own house which is surrounded
bY several other negro houses.
The appearance of the room and
house indicated that some struggling
had taekn place before the shooting
was DONE The two were on bad terms
and it seems that some difficulty arose
and the woman had moved Neville's
til ngs out of the house. The dead
rlan was found in one of the rooms on
the first floor, having fallen over the
frame of d beadStead, breaking some
Of the Stats, his head and shoulders ly-
irg on the floor, while his feet were
caught and hanging over the railing.
TWO p stol shot wounds were found.
One bullet entered the back of his
head behind the left ear and ranged
Upwards, also lodging in the brain.
Either shot, says DR.. Alternately, would
have caused instant death
IT seems that the first shot must
have taken effect While the man was
standing and the second after he had
taIeln.
With this situat or and suspicion.
Policeman O'Daniel arrested Sophia
Neville and this afternoon Squire Bar
bee held a preliminary hear.n ng of the
case. Fifteen witnesses were exam
ined. but no material facts of import
ance weer obtained The defence did
not gon on the stand or make any
public testimony
After the hearing OF the case the wo-
man was bound over without bail to
tho next term of Orange county Su
perior court.
Tomorrow Deputy Sheriff O'Dan ell
will take the woman TO Hillsboro and
theer she will he confined in the county
jttil To await her trial.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
SIMMONS SPEAKS
How the Senator Stands
On the Statehood
80,
Bill.
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Washington, ID. c., Jan. 9.-Repre-
sentative Small spent Sunday in Nor
folk with Mrs Small. who continues
10 improve, although it will proba bly,
be several weeks before she can leave
the hospital.
Representative Pou is now living at
the Montrose and Representative
hiuttz at The Colonial.
Messrs. c. w. B.good, OF the Attain
tic Coast Line, and G.. w. Brunson, ed
itor cf The Dispatch, both Of Whining
ton. are here. as is Mr.. Jack Harrison
ct Fayetteville.
Ensign HONS r. Winston, of the
Navy. son of DR.. Geo r. W4nston has
been granted a months leave of alb
sence and Will then be detailed foi
SPECIAL work and study iii steam en-
giEeering. This is a much coveted de-
tail and has been granted to Ensign
Winston on account of his excellent re-
cord.
Ex-State Representative F. r. Har-
his. of Northampton, and Mrs. Harris
were here today returning from thel
bridal "trip to the Northern cities. Mrs
Harris was Miss Sallie BlGunt PEBBLES
of Brachvile, Va.
Charles T. Rogers has been appoint
ed carrier of q rural route from New
port, Carteret county, which Will GO
into effect January Is.
Representative Webb was called
home to Shelby on account of the SER
ious illness of his nephew
Senator Simmons made a short
speech today in connection with the
Omn bus claims BILL He Will probably
speak in opposition to the bill giving
statehood Jointly to Arizona and New
Mexico. The Senator favors the prop
osit. on 10 admit oklahoma and Ind an
Territory as one State. but opposes the
iunion of Arizont and New Mexico. He
fayors the admission of each territory
as a separate State. In fact it is prob
able that the opponents of jo Mt state
hood for these two territories will fill
buster against the bill. if necessary, to
prevent its passage.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10

the case, We're investigated today by
District Attorny Jerome,
The affidavit on which the commit
ment was issued was made public to-
day by Justice Wyatt, who was the
issuing Justice. 1t bears the name OF
Victor c. Mich. of this city, but does
not give his occupation. In this aft
dav,t Mich recites that on certain
specified days of the present month he
saw Mr. Duke in a hotel and that "he
appeared TO be in an abnormal cOndi-
ton and deponent verify believes that
said Brodic l.. Duke is disordered in
his senses and unfit to be at large.
Assistant District Attorney Lord
said that he understood that the man
agement of the Park Avenue Hotel
where Mr.. ana Mrs. Duke had been
stopping, had made the first complaint
which resulted in Dukes removal to
Bellevue Hospital Mr.. Lord said he
believed that the hotel management
had approached the friends and rel
atives of Mr.. Duke, but that these
friends could find no way to reach
Duke.
Mr. Lord continued:
THE hotel people kept INSISTING
that something must be done and fl
nally we were asked to advise a pro-
ceeding to have Duke committed to
some place to be examined as to his
sanity / took the affidavit and laid
it before Justice Wyatt who issued the
regular, formal commitment for the
detention Of Duke in Bellevue Hospital
for five days to be examined as 10 his
sanity
The $4,000 worth of securities
found on Duke were still in the office
of the District Attorney today. Mr..
Lord said and We're being examined
Mrs Alice DeSplaineS, friend and
companion Of Mrs. Duke. was in the
District Attorneys office under sub
poena. but did not go before the grand
jury She made an affidavit and will
return to give further testimony on
January 13.
Dr. Maurice A. Sturm told Assist
ant District Attorney Lord today that
Mrs. Duke was suffering from nervous
prostration and could not come to the
District Attorneys office for two or
three days.
Lawyer John d. Lindsay announced
today that Laurence Duke, son OF
Brodie l.. Duke had instructed him to
bring an action for the annulment OF
Brodie l.. Dukes marriage to the
former Miss Webb. He said:
Il know nothing of any criminal
proceedings in the matter. We have
placed all the facts in our possession
in the hands of the District Attorney
and it is for him to decide whether
or not any criminal action will be
taken
Mr.. Lindsay said he knew nothing
about a statement attributed to Mrs.
Duke that an offer of $500, 600 had
been made to her on condition that
she consent to annulment of her mar
riage EIe said that he was confident
that no offer had been made.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
TWO MEN ARE SUSPENDED.
II i1oElow Investigation of the Land
Frauds Cases.
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Wash:.., ton, Jan. 9.-As the result
Of the Investigation and prosecution Of
the land fraud cases IN oregon. tne
President today signed an order sus-
pending from Office James II. Booth
and Joseph T. Bridges respectively
register and receiver of the United
Sfates nd Otfive at Rosebury. ore
gon. The action is on the recon-
nendation of Secretary Hitchcock and
was based on a telegram from Assist
ant United States District Attorney
Ieney, who alleged that the affairs of
the Roseburg office We're in bad con-
dition. Special Agent Neuhausen has
been ordered to take charge of the
Rosebur@ office.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
INDIANS. NEGROES. HALE BREEDS
Against These Elements Controlling
Morgan Speaks in Opposing
tie Statehood Bill.
GBy the Associated Press.

Washington, Jan. 9.-After tn pas
sage of the mnibus Claims Bill and
liking January IS for the delivery OF
addresses in memory Of the late SEN
ator Hoar. the Senate devoted the day
to tne Statehood Bill. Mr.. Morgan
spoke for two hours against the bill.
The speech of Mr.. Morgan followed
closely the arguments he made against
the Statehood legislation proposed two
years ago, but he SPOKE particularly
Of the character of the population OF
New Mexico and indian Territory. He
declared that the trainers of the Con-
StitCtion We're OF the white race, and
that it was not the inanion hat Mexi-
cans, Indians, negroes and half breeds
should be brough into citizenship.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
THE FARMERS OF FRANKLIN.
\ BuSinc S. Like Arrangement foi
Holding Cotton for Better
Prices
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(Speclal to News and Observer
On Saturday delegates from every
township in the county besides large
number of others interested in the cot
ton situation met here in the court
house. \ good crowd was present.
showing the very best elements of
Franklin 5 farmers, men of influence
and intelligence. The meeting was
called to order by Mr.. G. p. Harris.
of Mapleville and j. j. Barrow acted
as secretary. Mr.. q. w. Ford a
prominent merchant and farmer ad-
dressed the convention after which
three delegates from each township
were appointed to attend the State
meeting on the 11th. of the Cotton
Growers Association.
Remarks being called for Messrs.
a. W. Aston. w. p. Neal. J. O. Green
responded. MIR. Aston saying that he
would not force his customers TO sell
their cotton at present but he would
make arrangements to carry them un-
til next October. The tenor Of all the
talks was to the effect that holding
cotton now and decreasing the acreage
for this year were absolutely essential
to the desired end.
The convention was the most inn
portant one held here, for the reason
The news & observer., 1905-01-10

He said that il Arizona and New
Mexico were admitted into the Union
this class of citizenship would con-
troll the elections and that bribes and
WhiSkey might control them
Mr.. Mallory presented the minority
report Of tho Merchant Marine Com
mission. IL was referred to the Com
mittee on COGmerce.
he Omnibus Claims Bill was passed
with several committee amendments.
1t carries direct appropriations
amounting toAabout $2,S00,000. The
Senate adjourned until tomorrow.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
The Lack OF jurisdiction.
(Rv the Associated Press. }

Washington, Jan. 9.-The Supreme
Court of the United States today dis
missed for want of jurisdiction the
case of Fullerton vs. The State of
Texas. Fullerton was convicted under
a Texas State law of keeping bucket
shop, and appealed the case to the
Supreme Court, alleging that he wa,
engaged in Interstate commerce. The
chief Justice said in dismissing the
case that the Federal question had
been raised too late in the proceeding
in the State courts.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
EDITOR LOSES HIS HOME.
Destroyed by Fire Supposed to Have
Started IN a Closet.

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Newton, n. c.. Jan. 9.--The home Of
+. NJ. Williams, editor Of the Enter
prise, was destroyed by fire today,
most of the furniture and clothing be-
ing saved. The house was too far
far from the center Of town TO De
saved The fire started in a closet
supposedly from a coal in the chill
drens nightcIothes. The building
was insured, but the loss was a severe
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
Southern's Palm Limited.
BY the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 9.-The oSuthern
Railway inaugurated its winter train
between New York and st. Augustine.
the Sout&ern's Falm Limited. today
the first train leaving New York 1886
D. ~. reaching St. Augustine $50 y. m.
tomorrow. 1t will run daily except
Sunday until April.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
TO ANNUL TIE MARRIAGE.
1By the Associated Press

IBN IIIH -ASsOOItttOtl I 7.sS.
New York. Jan. 9.-The commit
ment of Erode l.. Duke. half brother
of j. g. and B y. Duke. the tobacco
capitalists to sanitarium for exami-
nation as To his sanity and the sensa-
iional developments growing out OF
The news & observer., 1905-01-10
Bate is ReIfominated.
(By the Associated Press. }

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 9.-The Dem
OCratc executive caucus today re-uom-
mated United States Senator w r.
Bate. The Republicans will vote fol
Congressman w. =. BroWnloW.
The news & observer., 1905-01-10

Fayetteville, N. c.. Jan. 9.-The
Fayetteville Military cSnpany will at
tend the inauguration.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
DEATH TO MOTHERHOOD.
Woman Tried to Kill HorseIi to Escape the
Latter.

A dispatch from Philadelphia sa, 8
Dreading additional cares OF mother
hood, Mrs. Bessie Brandow, 2I years
old, who lived with her husband and
two yoang children in a small alley
between Eighth and Ninth streets,
in the rear of Kater, attempted to
commit snicide shortly before 8
O'Clock this morning by outing her
throat with butcher knife. The
woman is in the Pennsylvania Hos
pital in a serious condition.
For some time Mrs. Brandow has
been complaining of the hardship
with which she was burdened, and
to neighbors often expressed her de-
sire to end it all. She was tired of
living, she told Rosa Stein, neigh
Dor, and death would come as a well
come relief to all her cares and
sorrows. Her husband never took
her seriously, aud tried his best to
cheer her with stories of brighter
days to come, but the young wife
would not be consoled.
This morning, after the husband
had gone to his work, Mrs. B,,ndow
provided breakfast for herself and
children, and she had just about con-
cluded putting away the dishes when
a sudden desire for death came upon
her, and in an instant she had
snapped up the big table knife. I'm
hesitatingly she plunged the knife
into her neck and ripped her throat
from ear to ear. Her thrust, how
ever, was not sufficiently strong to
sever the jugular vein, and this alone
may be the means of saving her life.
With the blood squirting from an
ugly cash, the mother made her way
to the front window and tapped on
the glass to attract the attention of
her neighbors. Ruth, her eldest
child, followed her, weeping pitifully
at the gruesome spectacle her mother
presented. Neighbors were quick to
respond to the summons for help,
and in few minutes the woman was
on her way to the hospital.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
The Great 0yama.

Grant was only forty two when he be-
came lieutenant general of the Union
armies, says the Chicago Tribune. But
Lee was nine years older when he fought
his first great battie-at Malvern Hill
than Napoleon was when he fed from
Waterloo. Moltke was sixty-six years
old when he overthrow the Austrians ut
Sadowa and seventy when his genius
triumphed in the Frauco-Prussian war.
Nogi is fifty-four, Kuroki is sixty-two,
Oyama is sixty-four. 1t seems probable
that changes in methods of warfare have
been factor in putting middle-aged
and old men in command of modern
armies. Things had changed when old
Moltke, a soldier of books and maps,
could sit impossible at the end of tele-
graph wire and direct the conquering
movements of more than half million
men according to a plan he had drawn
up months before. Oyama is a cool,
long old fellow, who has mastered
the science and the art of modern war
by long years of study and experience.
Future great commanders probably will
be good deal like him.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
C Corporation Assessments Increased.

A number of increases were made by
the Comptroller General last week on
returns by foreign corporations under
the license tax act. The return of the
Georgia Chemical Co. for business done
in this State was $4,000. and this was
raised to S1S5,7O2. The return of the
Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. was
81, 1lS,3O4, and after going over the
figures this was changed to $l,3o5, ,951.
There are some further returns relating
to personal property in this State and in
New Jersey, whore the company is char
tered, that will have to be Strengthened
out. The return of che Southern Cotton
Oil Co. was raised from $925,OO to
100000. There are number of other
concerns yet to be raised.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
Special Order for Miss Lee.

A New Orleans dispatch says the fol-
lowing special orders have been issued {:
headquarters United Confederate
Veterans, New Orleans, La.
Special Orders No. 34.-A feeling of
sorrow, deep and profound, will enter
every Southern home when it is learned
that Miss Mildred Lee, the youngest
child of our imm rtal chieftain, Robert
E. Lee, died suddenly in this city last
Wednesday.
Gifted by nature with wonderful
mind, the liberal education which her
idolized father gave her, improved and
broadened by extensive travel and close
observation, set her apart as an ideal
representative of the womanhood of the
South, and her queenly and courteous
bearing called forth the admiration of
all who were 80 fortunate as to know
her. She was devoted to the old soldiers
of the Confederate armies, and was
never so happy as when in conversation
with one of them, or talking to others of
the glorious deeds of our boys. Her un-
timely death is a distinct loss to the
whole South, and an extreme grief to
every Confederate veteran.
"By command of
"Stephen d. Lee,
General Commanding"
Official: William e. Mickle,
AAit Gan ool Hh;of &c ckoG
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
Letter to }. o. Werner, waIhalIa.

Dear Sir A painter complained that
our cans are too full; unhandy; spill.
I It's way we have; tbs handler not TO
be full; but we have q weakness FOR full.
measure. Our gallon contains eight
pihts; the usual gallon is seven.
Well think it over again; but we like
a full can How much short would you
likea barrel? Sevsn gallons would be
the proportion.
Shott measure suggests that the short
age is probably not in the cheapest in.
gredieut
Guess We'll stick to four quarts to q
gallon, and fifty gallons barrel
The name to go by is Devoe leads :
zinc. Yours truly,
W II. w. Devoe o. Co.
P. S.-J. w. Bell, Walhalla. G. W.
Gignilliat, Seneca, and Matheson Hard
ware Co., Westminster, sell our paint.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12

The sarcophagi of ancient Egyt
seem to have at length given up
their great secret, hitherto supposed
to have been unfathomable as the
sphinx itself-that of embalming,
says the London Globe. Mr.. Barthe-
lot, permanent secretary of the
Louvre Museum, as the result of long
analytical examination of the oils
and ungents which have resisted the
action of time in tombs of the fifth
and sixth dyhasties, dating back
$500 years, demonstrated that the
oil was simply castor oil as is still
used in Egypt to-day, while oxidiza-
tion has produced effects analogous
to those resulting from the action of
nitric acid on fatty matters, such as
have been observed in oils of the
ancient monuments of Rheims.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12

aud parens, affeotionate, tender and
indulgent; as Christian, humble,
sincere and devoted"
Several of the 8 Revolutionary
heroes are represented by numerons
descendants in Piokens and Oconee
counties, and in the war between the
North and South gave of their blood
and treasury, for what they deemed q
righteous cause, as freely as did their
ancestors for American independence.
Whoever can aid the noble women,
who compose the ID A. K. Chapter
of Oconee in their patriotic efforts to
perpetuate the names and valor of
our heroic forefathers, will be engag.
ing in sacred cause. N. b. Cary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $3.50.

BY clubbing arrangement with the
Charleston Semi-Weekly News and Cou
rier we are Offering that paper and The
Keowee Courier for $l.50 per year. The
Keowee Courier is recognized not only
as the best paper in Oconee county, but
it is rated among the best county papers
in South Carolina. The Semi Weekly
News and Courier is an excellent Jour
nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur-
days, gives the detailed news of South
Carolina as special feature, and carries
the full Associated Press dispatches
from all over the world. The combina-
tion of the two papers at $l.50 gives our
present readers, as we'll as new sub
scribers, an opportunity to secure two of
the best papers in the State (three papers
a weekly for 80 cents more than the regu-
larprice of either. Let us send you two of
the very best papers in South Carolina
for almost the price of one.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
Stanford viii Read In Court.

San Jose, Cal, March 31.-The will
and codical of Mrs. Stanford have
been proven and admitted to probate
and letters of administration issued. BY
the terms of the will 81, ,OOO,O 900 are left
in trust to Ariel Lathrop and descendents
OF d. 8. LathrOp, her brothers; 81 900, 900
in trust to her nieces, Jennie l.. Lawton
and Amy l.. Hanson, and the children of
Christine l.. Cunning; $1,OOOOOO to
Charles g. Lathrop; S125,O to various
charitable institutions of San Francisco
and San Jose, and the remainder of her
estate to the trustees of Leland Stanford,
Jr., University.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12

The United States colors, which floated
over Fort Sumter at the time of its sur
render in April, 1861, and which after
ward were raised over that fort at the
time of its recapture by Union forces in
April, 1864, were spread out on the floor
of the reception room of the Secretary
of War recently and were viewed by
Secretary Taft and other officials. These
flags were recently turned over to the war
department under the provision of the
will of the widow of Gen. Anderson, in
the possession of whose family the
standards have been since the war. Sec
retary Taft directed that they be placed
In glass case in the reception room of
the department.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-12
Changed His Mind.

A tramp, dirty and ragged to the
last degree, called at house on the
door of which was doctors sign. A
large, rather ne-looking wo-
man opened the door.
"Scuse me, LADY," said the tramp,
"but / jist called to ask if the doctor
hid any old clothes he'd let me have.
You see, Pm kind O. bad off fer all
kind o clothes, an I'd be much
o5leedged fer any thing the doctor
could let me have, an amt pertick-
Ter as to the fit"
The woman smiled and made re-
ply;
"I am the doctor!"
"Sufferin' Moses!' CALCULATED the
tramp as he made bee-line for the
gate.-December Lippincott's.
For some years there has been on
foot movement all over the country
to instill into the public school pupils
spirit of healthy patriotism, says
the Sante Fe New Mexican. In
many of the States compulsory flag
laws have been enacted, compelling
each public school to own and to dis
play, during school hours and at des.
ignated times, an American flag
New Mexico has fallen in line by
enacting a compulsory flag law, and
requiring daily salute to the flag
The salute will be in the following
form: The pupils stand facing the
flag in the attitude of military
salute and recite in concert: 81
pledge allegiance to my flag and tc
the republic for which it stands, one
nation indivisible, with liberty and
justice for ALL"