Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items OF News OF the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

The city of Anderson pays their alder
men $5 for each meeting they attend.
Citizens of Pickens are registering to
be ready to vote in the dispensary ques-
tion.
The annual Southern Baptist Conven-
| tion will meet in Kansas City, Mo-, on
May IL.
The Superior Court in Augusta, Ga,
granted twenty two divorces on last Sat
urday.
A negro boy was killed by falling in a
mud mill at Glendale, Spartanburg coun-
ty, last Friday.
The Sam Jones tabernacle meeting
begins in Cartersville May Ia and con-
tinues until May 21.
The Comptroller General has called a
meeting of the State Board Of Equaliza-
tion for the 10th instant.
The fertilizer factories have all agreed
to use cotton bags for guano, according
to the farmers wishes.
Twenty-Five carloads of strawberries
were shipped from Lake city, Williams
burg county, last week.
William Mickle, the brakeman who
killed Conductor Oliver some weeks ago
was acquitted at Oraugeburg Thursday
last
Arthur and j. ID. Hooks, brothers,
aged III and s years, were drowned while
bathing in pond near Cheraw last Mon
day.
The waste house at tho Richland cotton
mills in Columbia was struck by light
ming on the 4th and set on fire, but it was
put out before any damage was done.
Jesse Stradt, aged %, was killed by a
base ball during game at Gillett, Ark. 3,
on Monday. He was at the bat and was
/ Ia ,,f hall fl,a1 1,,o I, ~
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is hunt
! ing and fishing this week in the vicinity
of Georgetown, but there is not near so
much fuss made about it as there is about
Tedd's hunting in Colorado.
| John Henderson, colored, aged 20, was
convicted at Sumter on Monday of the
murder of his wife with a butcher knife
| in December last, and was sentenced
to be hanged on June
Mrs. j. Harelson Read was killed by
| lightning on Saturday in her home in
Georgetown county. Her husband and
daughter and friend in the room with
her at the time were not hurt
Frank Haven, secretary of the Albany
n Y, board of underwriters, was shot
and killed on Monday by Miss Julia
Cravcr, a clerk in his office. She says she
did not think the pistol was loaded and
pointed it at him in fun.
/ Instead of forcing Governor Hayward
to serve a third term it will be good
| plan to have general clearance of State
| House officers at the next election. 1t is
time to discontinue the system of rotation
from one Office to another or from clerk
ship to a State office. In recent years
| there has grown up somewhat of a State
| House ring, and it is time to put it out of
business entirely. Governor Heyward's
election broke the slate three years ago,
but the rotation in Office crowd still has
a pretty strong grip OH the State House.
Sumter Watchman
The farmers of this county are turning
loose their cotton at rapid rate, tho
streets for some days bearing striking
resemblance to the cotton season from
the many cotton-laden wagons drawn up
in front of the stores The bottom seems
to nave dropped out of the holding move
| mont and the spectators and others who
want cotton are getting it at their own
price. The outlook is gloomy for the
Cotton Growers Association. If the sea-
son is propitious and a big crop of cotton
is produced this year we look to see cot
ton selling for 5 cents in September and
Octoi ,r. The only salvation of the South
is lort crop of cotton. 1t is not too
late 90 reduce the cotton acreage and
plan. ,her crops that can be utilized at
home 'mter Watchman.