Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-01-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News OF the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

During the year 1901 the Secretary of
State received charter fees amounting to
SID ,577.70.
Of 270 officers of the Russian navy at
Port Arthur at the beginning of the siege,
$50 have been killed or wounded.
Japanese colonists in Texas celebrated
the fall of Port Arthur at Houston last
Wednesday with speech making and fire
works.
Garland McMakin, who lives near
Wexford, in Spartanburg county, killed
hog several days ago that weighed
1,075 pounds.
The blizzard, accompanied by intense
cold, which struck New York city Tues
day night of last week, caused seven
deaths from exposure in that city.
Senator Clay, of Georgia, introduced
in the Senate last week a bill granting
fifteen days leave of absence annually to
rural free delivery mail carriers.
After remaining out thirty minutes the
jury in the case of j. l.. f.. Jones, tried
at Spartanburg last Friday for the mur-
der of j. M. p. Young, returned verdict
of not guilty.
1t was definitely decided in the con-
ference bet" can President r, osevelt and
the leaders of Congress last Saturday
afternoon that no extra session of Con-
gress will be called this spring.
Eight of the crew of the towboat De-
fender lost their lives and more than
twenty were injured by the explosion of
the boilers of the boat, at the dock at
Huntington, w. Va, last Wednesday
night.
Last week bill was introduced in the
North Carolina Legislature repeating all
divorce laws and re-enacting the law of
twenty.one years ago, which made the
Biblical reason the only ground for abso-
Lutte divorce.
j. Walter Gray, Jr., of Greenville, has
brought suit against the Southern Rail
way asking damages in the sum of S2O,-
600 for injuries received in the wreck of
No. 81, the fast mail train, on December
II, 1908. The case will be tried in the
courts of Atlanta.
AT Owensboro, KY, last Saturday Rev.
w. W. Armer was found guilty of the
murder of his son and sentenced to 2l
years in the penitentiary. The father
mu, red the son, who was 2l years old.
bee SO he had gone to work for farmer
and had refused to return home.
At Butler, Tenn, last Saturday morn
ing, Clanton Donnolly and his l7-year- old
brother were preparing dynamite
charge to kill fish in the river when a
premature explosion occurred, destroy
ing both eyes of tho former and blowing
both bands of the latter off at the wrist.
George II. Williams, aged SO years,
formerly United States Senator from
Oregon, and Attorney General under
President Grant, and now mayor of Port
land, Ore, has been indicted by the grand
jury of Multnomah county on charge of
malfeasance in Office in refusing to en-
Enrcn thn StnfntpS nf
gambling.
A hoop on the Richland Distiling Com
pany's 5,000-gallon tank broke last
Wednesday and all the contents, worth
over $4,000, were lost. Employees
scooped in buckets small quantity from
the floor, which was flooded to the depth
of more than foot. In the deluge of
booze one man narrowly escaped drown
ing.
Business to the amount of S33, 600, 600
is shown by the shoe shipments from
Brockton, Mass, for 1901, a total of 622,-
0S5 cases. This is within 1924 cases of
the record held by the year 1901. The
gain this year over 1908 is "a ,635 cases.
The best month in 1904 was October,
with 81 ,I50 cases, and the lowest June,
with "a ,33i cases.
The Atlanta Cotton Mills, one of the
Oldest mills in Georgia, was last week
placed in the hands of a receiver by order
of the Superior Court The action was
taken i'm order to protect mortgage held
by the United States Mortgage and Trust
Co., of New York, for $780, 900, with
accrued interest amounting to over Sl0,-
600. The mill had been idle for some
months.
The Business Mems Club, of Waco,
Texas, has called conference of mer-
chants of the cotton growing States to
meet in New Orleans, January %, at the
same time the Inter State Cotton Associa-
tion meets in that city. The merchants
are expected to act in conjunction with a
committee of the Cotton Growers Con-
vention, and committee of bankers at
tending the convention and devise
definite plan for the warehousing of cot