Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News oi tho Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

y. w. Dean, Charleston policeman,
killed a negro last Saturday in self
defense.
Johann Hoch, the founder of the wife
trust, confesses to his many marriages,
but denies killing any of his wives.
Preparations are being made for the
establishment of q $4,000 cattle and
poultry farm about ten miles from Co.
lumbia.
In Chicago last Friday morning fire
destroyed the 6story building of the
General Electric Co. The loss is quar-
ter million.
Mrs. William Wallace, widow of the
late Col. William Wallace, 90 years of
age, died at her home in Columbia last
Friday morning.
On account of i'll health Col. 7. Larry
Can't has been compelled to again retire
from journalism, and has sold his inter
est in the Rome (Ga.) Herald.
For some reason, not generally, known
the dispensary at Pickens was closed
Tuesday of last week and remained
closed the rest of the week.
Sheriff ID. B. Douglas, who had just
entered his fifth term as sheriff of Ches.
terfield county, died at his homo at
Chesterfield last Thursday. he was 60
years old.
The manufacture of cigars in the South
iS rapidly on the increase. Nearly every
towniand city has one or more factories.
Greensboro and High Point, in North
Caroliha, will each soon have an indie
pendent Cigar factory.
The, most serious burglary in Montreal
In years occurred on the morning of
February III, about 8 o'clock, when the
two safes in the Office of Ives G. Levalee,
jewellers, were blown open. 1t is thought
from. $4,000 to $4,000 worth of dia-
monds were secured in addition to- a lot
of fine gold.
The dog that bit w. M. Marshall at
, EatOnton; Ca, about two weeks ago was
shipped to the Pasteur Institute at At
lanta for inves tigation. From its brain
two rabbits were inoculated, one of
which has since died from a well-devel-
| under treatment at the Pasteur Institute
Marion Parr was convicted of the MUIR
der of Yonng Shealey in Richland county
last week 1t tbs out of the usual in that
| county, being the first white person con-
victed of murder in that county for o
number of years. The counsel for Parr
have given notice of a motion for a new
trial, but it is doubtful if this will
amount to anything. He was convicted
on circumstantial evidence.
| A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
|
by the military in conflict which took
place at the katherine Iron Works, at
Sosnovice, last Thursday. The strikers
| were attempting to put out fire in a
furnace of the smelling department. when
the conflict with the troops ensued.
The soldiers fired three volleys and
finally scattered the workmen.
A strong petition, it is understood, is
being circulated at Clemson College for
the removal of the dispensary at Pendle-
ton. This dispensary was destroyed by
fire few days ago and the inspectors
are now endeavoring to straighten ont
the accounts. 1t ia said by the authori-
ties that the students secure whiskey and
beer from this dispensary and that its
removal is desired.
Anderson Mail, February 9th: "Mrs.
| j. Norton Hunter died at her home in
{ Pendleton at o'clock Wednesday after
noon, after having suffered a stroke of
paralysis early in the morning. Mrs.
Hunter is survived by her husband aud
hv one child % yonng Lady Of Ie or II
years of age. She was formerly Miss
Pinkhind and had great many friends
in Anderson. The inJerment took place
in the Episcopal church at Pendleton.
Because her two children, aged re.
spectively 1S months and three years,
were afflicted with asthma, from which
she herself had suffered since childhood,
Mrs. Elsie Loux, of Bloomfield, N. j.,
after putting the little ones to bed
turned on the gas and lay down beside
them to die on the night of February H.
Her husband had gone off on visit
The next day the room was entered by
neighbors, who found the two children
dead and the mother dying. She left q
letter to her husband imploring his for.
giyeness and stating her reasons for com
mitting the deed.