Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-19
eLeANINes FROM PRESS DISPATCHES
What is Going on In the state and Nailon-
General Information.

| Augusta, Ca. April 1O.--The Chronicle
will say tomorrow morning that Mr..
Thomas w. Loyless has bought the con
troll of the common aud preferred stock
OF the Augusta Chronicle, and that Mr..
H. ii Cahaniss resigns as president and
bn siDess manager. He will be succeeded
in the business management by Mr.. 10y
less, who has been editorand part owner.
Mr.. Loyless announces that tho Chroni-
ole will continue to be run rs strictly
non-partizan Democratic newspaper and
will not be controlled by any faction or
special interest. Y, is understood that
the price paid for the control was on the
basis ofs$60,00O, which is an increase OF
$4,000 over the price of two years ago.
Prescott, Ariz., April GAS result of
an explosion in the United Verde mine
at Jerome, owned by Senator Clark, five
men are deadsand five oChers seriously
injured. LiThe accident happened just as
the shifts were being changed and all the
ensexcept 12 bad %been raised to the
surface. On account of tho heavy rains
surface water had found it's way to that
portion of the mine where fire has been
smouldering several years and steam
thus generated caused the explosion,
| blowing out the bulkhead erected to
keep the fire from spreading. M
| Birmingham, April S.-W. II. Hill, "a
well-known and prosperous merchant of
Smythe, five miles from Birmingham,
was killed and robbed in thicket near
that place this afternoon about O'Clock.
He wee shot four times with shotgun.
1t was payday in Smythe, and Mr.. Hill
is known to have had considerable money
with him.
| Abbeville, April 7.-Rennie L. Cade, a
young man % years of age, was drowned
in the Savannah river, near Bordeau, in
this county, last evening. One of his
laborers had gone to Georgia and Cade
had obtained warrant for his arrest,
having heard that he expected to come
over the river last night Cade and
Sheriff Lyon were at point nearby.
Cade proposed that one of them should
swim the river to get one of tho boats,
which were on the other side. The posse
declined to swim. Cade left them with
out saying anything more, and, being
absent some time, they went down to the
river and found his clothing on the bank.
Nothing has been heard of him since.
Anderson, April 7.-Mrs. Jones NJ Gee,
the young wife of prosperous pla, ;er,
met horrible death Wednesday after
noon. She laid down before the fire with
four-weeks.old infant in the cradle
beside her. Her husband returned to
the house, found his wife's clothing
burned away, the infant painfully injured
and the house ablaze. Mrs. MCGEE died
after eight hours of agony. She was the
daughter of B. f. West and leaves two
young children.
Chatham, Va, April S.--As the result
of most horrible mistake Mrs, Mamie
Bowe lies dead at her home near Concord
Church, nine miles from this place, with
bullet wound through her heart, shot
by her owp y her 12-year- old daugh-
ter, Win" dead in the same room
from dose of strychnine, acci-
dentally IN niDistered by her mother in
the place of quinine, and her 10-year-old
son, Cabell, is desperately i'll in an ad-
joining room from strychnine poison ad-
ministered in like manner. J.T. Hall,
who lives near the Bowe home, was
aroused from his slumbers early this
morning by the screams of woman. Mr..
Hall and his son at once repaired to the
Bowe home. They were met at the door
by the woman, who told them she had
killed her children by mistake. Mrs.
Bowe also stated that after learning of
here fatal error she had herself taken
both strychnine and carbolio acid. While
Mr.. Hall was administering to the boy,
Mrs. Bowe left the house. A few minutes
later her body was discovered near the
door with bullet through the heart. A
pistol, with one chamber empty, was
lying near her.
Asheville, N. c., April S.-Eugene Har-
ris, aged 10 years, was hit in the back of
the head by batted ball during prelimi-
nary practice prior to game of base ball
here this afternoon, and died in fifteen
minutes, his neck being dislocated. The
lad was pitching and failed to success
fully dodge terrific liner that was
driven in his direction by the batter, g
man of 25 years.
Judge j. @. Klugh, of Abbeville,