Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-12-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Paragraphs of Interest Gathered frnm,
the --latest Press Dispatches.

Thursday, aged IT years.
In the city election in Newberry
last week Cole l.. Blcase was elected
mayor, defeating Mayor j. J. Lang
ford, who has served for two years.
Mr.. Blease received 3l5 votes, as
against 2S9 for Mr.. Langford
Mrs. Julia Tinsley, OF Sandy
Springs, Greenville county, aged 6 =,
and J. f.. Greer, OF Williamson,
aged rs years, a veteran of the Civil
war, were married last Wednesday
afternoon. This was the third mat
jrimOnial venture for each.
Announcement that the bcquests
Oi the late John Stuart Kennedy, the
New York millionaire, to the Presby-
terian board of foreign missions, will
amount to S500,O00,000 Instead Of
$1,000,000, as had been stated at the
time OF his death, was made at the
Layman's Missionary Convention in
Harrisburg, Pa, last week.
In his message to Congress Presi-
dent Taft will strongly urge the en-"
actment of legislation authorizing a
postal savings bank system, and Post
master General Hitchcock, in his
Forthcoming annual report, it is said =,
will devote considerable space to this
Republican national platform.
For the first time in surgical his
tory, n babe six months old was oper-
atcd on for appendicitis, the opera
sion having been performed in De-
troit, Mich., last Thursday. The OPP
GRAFTON was performed by one Of the
City'S leading physicians and sur
Gc0nS with the result that the child'S
life was saved.
The Western North Carolina Con-
ference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, had before it, at its
session at Hickory last week, a reSO-
luton proposing to change the OH
ciai name. of the church to that of the
Episcopal Methodist Church. 1t was
referred to the committee on memo
rials to the General Conference, which
will meet at Ashevillc next May.
The little daughters OF Howard w.
Glisan. OF Cumberland. Md, narrow
ly escaped death from arscnical poi
Sonng last Wednesday night. A
prize in Il package OF candy was a
metal whistle. which the children, Of
the ages of 5 and ,, blew, the poison
coming from the whistle. A physi
clan worked over them for some time
before they were out Of danger.
I'm fashionable apartment in
New York, Mrs. Daisy vonAlar-
low, p years Of age. wife Of Clyde
vonMarlow, magazine art editor,
recently OF Dayton, Ohio, died We'd
nosday last. supposedly from the ef-
frctS OF poison. A bottle which had
contained a deadly fluid was found
on a bureau in Mrs. Won MarlOw'S
room. Whether the poison was taken
accidentally is not known.
President Tart and family had a
genuine THANKSGIVING dinner last
Thursday. A mammoth turkey sent
10y Horace VoSc, OF WcSticy, r. l.; Il
h0-pOund mincc pie, sent by the bak-
ers Of New York city, and a 2G-pound
"Billy POssum", the plumpcst ever
trapped in the Georgia woods, made
mp the big spread on the table in the
White House dining room. All the
preSidcnt's family. except Robert.
who is in school in New Haven. din"d
with him.
Miss Belle Jones. IS years Old. a
daughter OF merchant OF Amstor-
dam. Ga, is dead As a result OF being
hItUm EN a rattlCSnukc while walking
III the flower garden ut her home one
day las seek. The snake was COilcd
under u rose bush and struck Miss
Jones As sh" was gathering flowers.
YhC snall" struck the girl on the leg
between the ankl" and the knee and
chung there. She ran screaming to
the house. dragging the snake with
her. Her cries aroused her father
who Snatchrd the snake with his
hands and killed it, Physicians were
summoned. but were unable to save
che girl. She lived only five hours.
Fearing that her little granddauGh-
Ser would step i'm front OF rapidly
moving passenger train on the Sea
HOarh Air Line railway, at ClaXtOn.
Ga, last Thursday, Mrs. Mary Hall.
wife Of wealthy man Of that place,
starred TO cross the track to the lit
tie girl, and vas struck and instantly
9Nlled by the tram, her neck and both
arms being broken. rh@ child was
standing within few feet OF the
spot where the bleeding body of her
grandmother was thrown.
lnllamcd by liquor. Owen CHM. 4
wealthy farmer Of Snow Hill, Wayne
county, North Carolina, entered the
home Of his son-in-law. Samuel Joy
ncr, late one night last week, and
opened fire upon Joyner as he lay in
bed. Escaping the first few shots,
9oyner managed to reach his pistol,
and, returning the fire, killed CHM
instantly with the first bullet. Ear
lier in the day CHM made an attack
upon his wife and shot and painfully
wounded his young son, who was
making a valiant defense OF his mo-
ther, and who finally worsted his ia
cher. CHM had been on protracted
debauch