Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-11-17
BRIEF BITS OF CURRENT NEWS.
Recent Events Chbonicled i'm Short
and Concise Form.

pointed postmaster at Washington,
succeeding the late BENJAMIN F..
Barnes. He has been 25 years in
the postal service.
4, The Fretwell Cotton Company, of
Anderson, has filed a suit for SS1S.12
against f. j. Rhody, well known
young farmer of Anderson county,
for failure to deliver cotton under a
contract made last August, for which
he was to receive IL cents pound.
Control of the Western Union Tel
egraph' Company yesterday passed
to the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company and long step was
taken toward the merging of the
telephone and telegraph companies
into a corporation with a capitaliza-
ton of nearly $1,000,000,000.
Alonzo Jamison, a telegraph mes
senger, Is years old, and John Max
well. 10 years old, were drowned in
the Alabama river Monday afternoon
when their small boat overturned in
the swift eddies about small island
one mile above Montgomery. Adial
Thrasher, fifteen years old, who was
also in the boat, swan ashore, una
BILE to answer his companions cries
for aid.
The body Of 5-year-old Frank De
Rosa, of New York, who Is supposed
to have been kidnapped ten days ago,
and for whom wide search has been
made, was found Sunday jammed in
the top Of chimney at his aunt's
house in East-Sixty-third street,
where he had been visiting with his
mother when he suddenly disappear
ed. The coroner is Of the opinion
that the boy was strangled and push
ed up the chimney.
Belated messages arriving by devi-
Gus routes from Jamaica and Haiti
say terrible havoc has been wrought
in the West Indies by wind, rain and
earthquake. The first accounts Of
the disaster are supplemented with
news that places the property loss in
Jamaica alone at $5,0O0,00O and de-
clares the death list may run into
the hundreds. Gable service Is still
disordered and dispatches can get
through only in occasional flashes.
Thos. j. Crews, of Durham, N. c.,
who was on a visit to Timmonsville,
S. c., to see his daughters, Mrs. Henry
and Mrs. Mckenzie, was found Sum
day morning in a dying condition on
the cement walk in front of Mrs. Nc
ANS"HiS - iSoiuShSS. iiS uiOu Sooh al
ter he was found. He was sleeping
in the second story and went to bed,
apparently we'll. In fit of somnam-
bulism he walked out of the window
and fell. He was 70 years old, and
highly respected.
A model of the new battleship
South Carolina" one Of the alI-big-
gun vessels of the navy, has been
placed on exhibition in the corridor
of the Navy Department at Washing
ton to wear the slate graz war paint,
which has been adopted by the de-
partment. The model is also distinct
i've, because 1t has two of the new
style military masts now being in
stalled on the battleships in the
navy. 1t attracts great deal of at
tention among naval officers and
other visitors to the building.
Archer Christian, the left half
back on the University Of Virginia
foot ball team, injured last Saturday
at Washington, D. c., in the game
with Georgetown, died Sunday morn
ing from cerebral hemorrhage. Pro-
foundly stirred by this fatality, the
district attorney has sworn In
speedy jury of prominent citizens,
whose duty 1t will be to suggest some
OF the game and to look into the
question of brutality and indiffer-
ence following such accidents. The
death of Christian has put an end to
all foot ball playing by Georgetown
and Virginia for this season.
Calvin Bowden, the fifteen-year-
old son Of Joe Bowden, a prosperous
farmer Of Anderson county, met a
horrible death while working in his
fathers gin house last Friday His
clothes were cfIght In the shafting
and his left arm was torn from the
body, the right arm and both legs
broken, and his body otherwise hor-
ribly mangled. His clothes, with the
exception of his shoes and socks,
were torn from his body in threads.
He was found a few seconds after
the accident and died in short time.
His father was In Anderson when the
accident occurred, and when he re-
turned to his home and was apprised
of 1t he was Frustrated with grief.
The mail steamer La Seyne, run
ming between Java and Singapore, on
her way to the latter port collided at
o'clock Sunday morning with the
steamer Onda, and sank within two
minutes. Seven European passen-
&c !, including the Baron and Bar
oness Beniczky, the captain of the
La Seyne, five European officers and
eighty-eighu others, comprising ma
tive passengers and members of the
crew were drowned. The rescue of
siXty-one persons, practically from
the jaws Of shoals Of sharks, formed
a thrilling incident of the wreck. The
accident occurred in a thick haze.
The majority Of those on board were
caught in the berths and carried
down.