Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-12-19
SHORT NEWS.

The Sultan Of Turkey possesses The
largest Turkey carpet known. 1t is val
ued at $4,000.
I; is rumored that j. Fraser Lyon'l
Assistant Attorney General will be NJ. p
DeBruhl, of Abbeville.
A grand gathering of the dignitariei
of the Mormon church was held in
Craven hall, in Columb bia, Sunday.
Trains in North Dakota and other sec
tions of the Northwest were snow-b bound
on Friday. Snow, in some places, was
twenty feet deep.
All the boiler makers at the Southern
Railway shops in Columbia have walked
out on account of the employment OF a
non-union man.
The Southern will now nave six divi.
sions in this State-the Charleston, Co
lumbia, Greenville, Spartauburg, Rock
Hill and Charlotte.
Nine sailors. belonging TO the crew OF
the battleship Hindustan, were drowned
near Portsmouth, Eng, on Monday by
the upsetting of q cutter.
Rev. j. w. Wollipg, d. D., is on his
way homo from Brazil and reached New
York Saturday. His address will be
1t25 Lumber street, Columbia, s. G. -
The Southern Express Company and
the post office officials are urging people
to send their presents ahead of time 80
as not to congest traffic about Christmas.
A number of Rev. G. w. Creighton's
friends have invited him to preach in
Nsw5erry two Sundays each month-in
the court house or some hall.
Observer.
Thirty members Of revolutionary
fighting organization were arrested in
Moscow on Monday. Large stocks of
arms. ammunition, dynamite and bombs
were seized.
George Burnham, Jr, general counsel
for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Company, recently convicted of larceny,
was sentenced last Monday to serve two
years in the State prison.
The case of George Hasty, who slew
Milan Bennett, of 1.-THE Nothing But
Money" company at Gaffney, has been
appealed to the Supreme Court for COM
mutation OF sentence.
The tunnel through Lookout Noun
tain, at Chattanooga, for the Southern
railroad has just been completed, 13
months from the beginning of the work
The tunnel is 5000 feet long.
Attorney General Moody has notified
the prison authorities in Valdosta, Ca,
that Greene and Gaynor will be removed
from that prison unless special privileges
allowed them are discontinued.
Twenty million dollars is the estimated
value of the debris left by the San Fran
cisco catastrophe. Its weight is given at
100000 tons, and it is figured that it
would require train 600 miles long to
carry it.
1t is rumored that Rev. G. w. Creigh-
ton will preach two sermons a month in
the court house at Newberry as an inde-
pendent preacher. 1t is said that sub
scriptions to Mr.. Creighton's paper have
been pouring in.
In the mayors court of Anderson there
were "a cases, with $245 in fines during
the month of November, 1905, as against
166 cases and $8l7 in fines for November,
loO5. The improvement is attributed to
the removal Of the dispensary.
There is an exodus of negroes from
the islands about Charleston They are
seeking employment in towns. Pla ters
are worried, but are counting on s.our-
ing help from the next load of immi-
grants from Bremen.
The Southern and Western Railway
Company was fined $1,000 in the United
States Court in Charlotte, N. c., on Fri
day for peonage, and the contractors,
Mark Baxter and w. w. McElray, were
fined $l,OOO each. They were convicted
of holding laborers in their employ by
force.
Catholic dignitares all over the coun-
try are expressing their views of the
French situation in response to requests
of the press. They generally agree that
God will visit His vengeance on the
French nation for their action. The
property that is being taken by the gov
ernment is all that has been given to the
church for charity or pious purposes,
and the monks and clergy are being
forcibly elected.