Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items Of News Of The Past Week Gathered
fror, Various Sources.

Isaac Myers, colored, shot and killed
in Charleston last week. The negro
c)s inns that the shooting was an accident
and he surrendered himself at the police
station.
Hon. ID. III. McGill, for several years a
member Of the House of Representatives
from Greenwood county, has decided to
enter the race for Solicitor of the new
judicial Circuit just created by the
Legislature. Mr.. McGill is we'll known
attorney at Greenwood.
In connection with the recent election
of Judges, il is notable that Wofford
College has furnished 80 many men to
the Judiciary of the State Among them
are Associate Justice G. A. Woods, Judge
Klugh, Judge Dantzler, Judge Gage,
Judge Hydrick and Judge Prince, out
of ID.
In the Circuit Court at Manning ON
February IL, the case against Ned Mack,
colored, indicted for murder, was tried
and resulted in a verdict of guilty with.
out recommendation. A motion for a
new trial was overruled by Judge Klugh,
and the defendant was sentenced to be
hanged on Friday, March 81 next.
Col. JohnD. Cappelmann, of Charles
ton, has been appointed to succeed him
self as member of the board of visitors
OF the State School for the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind at Cedar Springs. Capt. N. A.
Walker, superintendent of that institu-
ton, reports the affairs of the school to
be moving along in n very satisfactory
manner.
Kenneth, the young son of State Sena-
tor Beasley, of Poplar Branch, N. c., is
missing and three hundred men were
ont ,svrv Gov, h
tried, bat have failed to find any trace
of the missing boy. Some think the boy
is dead, and others that he has been kid
mapped. The community is excited over
the affair.
A Washington dispatch says that the
House Committee on Military Affairs has
reported favorably on Joint resolution
providing that Union and Confederate
flags in the custody of the War Depart
ment shall be returned to tho proper
authorities in tho States in which the
regiments which bore the colors were
organized.
The infant son of Floyd Hall, who
lives near Saxon mills, at Spartanburg,
swallowed a medium-sized safety pin
few days ago, which lodged in the child's
windpipe. The dangerous impediment
to breathing and fatal obstacle was re-
moved from the larynx of the boys
throat, the operation being successful
one, and the child is getting along nicely.
G.. F. Slipp, an overseer in the Brogon
cotton mills at Anderson, was danger
ously cut Thursday by Marion Tice, an
operative In his department. 1t seems
that Mr.. Slipp had occasion. to reprove
Tice for unsatisfactory work. Tice re-
sented 1t, drew his knife and cut the
overseer in several places. Tice escaped
after the difficulty and has not yet been
captured.
William b. Martin and Benjamin K.
Bostick, two yonng white men of Scotia,
S. c., were drowned while hunting on q
stream in that vicinity last Saturday.
They were IN boat, accompanied by a
negro. Their boat struck snag and
was upset. The negro managed to make
failed in their efforts to reach point of
safety. Their bodies have not yet been
recovered.
Tom and Ed Laney, brothers and farm
ers, living near Cheraw, had fight
Saturday night. Tom advanced on Ed
with an axe, whereupon Ed shot him
three times, One shot took effect in the
abdaIsn and ii is thought it will cause
Tom Laney's death. 1t is said both
were drinking. The brothers have al
ways been very devoted to each other
and the affair is greatly regretted.
ACOnstitutiOn special from Commerce,
Ga, says: Rev. j. ID. Woodward, Bap-
tist minister charged with bigamy, has
been tried in Jackson Superior Court,
found guilty and sentenced by Judge
Russell to serve four years in the chain
gang. During the trial it developed that
Woodward had been married four times
and that three of his wives are still liv.
| ing. When brought into the court room,
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