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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1905
Page
7
The Columbia State Fair closes after a week of packed hotels and boarding houses with crowds spilling into streets. Officials estimate attendance well over 16 000 as railroads and organizers could not confirm totals.
In King and Queen county, W D Coker fatally shot his wife and two young daughters before killing BB Gressitt who confronted him at sunrise. Officers arrived to find Coker dead after the gunfire. The Cokers had moved from South Carolina years earlier. Mrs. Coker, formerly Miss Robbie Roy, was a cousin of Governor Montague's wife.
The Oconee dispensary issue went to a vote on a Tuesday with about ten to one against retention. Ten counties including Cherokee and York supported leaving, while one Florence countered. The piece cites a light turnout and calls Oconee’s result a place on the roll of honor for voting no, noting registration issues discussed by locals.
William Leduc, a farmer, shot and killed Charles Nickel the mayor and bank cashier in the Bank of Chenoa. Hugh Jones was wounded while pursuing the assailant. Leduc retreated into a bank vault, later surrendered to the sheriff as a large armed crowd gathered outside.
A Durham special reports Governor Glenn reduced W R Murray president of the Murray Company from two years on the ore to two years in jail. Murray will still draw pay and run the business from his cell with a duplicate set of ledgers and contracts. Other notes include the Cope widow suing for 76000 in damages and Edward G Cunliffe pleading guilty to two larceny counts in the Adams Express robbery case.
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