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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1903
Page
4
The Reatore Courier notes weekly publication with Jaynes and mith Steck printers. Personal character communications under one hundred words are free as tributes or obituaries. longer notices charged at one cent per word with cash accompanying manuscript.
The Korean twins attract scientific study amid comparisons with Siamese twins and the Paris operated pair. One operated Parisian twin died from consumption. the survivor recovered and is adopted by the French surgeon. Early reports suggest the Koreans may live longer if active, with no health ailments yet observed.
Dr Hutchinson argues unsound fish linked to leprosy and Catholic fast days worsen spread. He claims Catholic converts face higher risk than Hindus and calls for fish ban on fast days and abolition of India's salt tax to aid fish consumption.
An early morning collision on the Southern Railway near Bryan west of Birmingham killed three engineers one brakeman and four firemen and burned twelve loaded freight cars. Engineers Acton and Johnson died later at hospital. cause unknown though speculation points to a sudden appearance of freight train No 75.
In Antwerp on May 27 the British steamer Huddersfield collided with the Norwegian ship Uto near Grimsby. The Huddersfield foundered, with twenty two Austrian and Italian immigrants missing or dead while the crew were rescued. The Uto suffered bow damage and 29 immigrants and six steerage passengers were aboard the Huddersfield at the time.
A passenger recalls seeing a black dog snatch a rolling newspaper dropped from a train near a farm in New York. The dog grabbed the paper, wagged its tail, and trotted across the fields toward the farmhouse as the train disappeared into a hillside cleft.
Sercoff, a 120 pound prospector, encountered a lioness in Anson Creek Canyon. He wrestled the beast, forced its jaw shut, and clamped his teeth in the neck to sever the jugular vein, ending the attack. Bernolt aided by pinning the hind legs while Honess blocked the claws.
The monument to Rev. W. M. Grier D D stands on the highest campus point facing the main building. The life size statue, eight feet two inches, is praised for its faithful likeness and inspiring posture attracting attention and grace to the campus. Philadelphia police recently burned 1800 slot machines seized from gamblers.
James Powell of Dent Richland county born July 20 1812 will be 91 in a few weeks and is named the oldest veteran at a Columbia reunion. He served in the Seminole War and Mexican War with Maxcy Gregg among others. The scene notes loyal age records and a gold handled milk umbrella gift for the oldest veteran. Senator Bailey of Texas reportedly profits from loans and cattle ventures and has sold Joe Bailey's Grape Vine Branch near Dallas for 300000 dollars.
Charleston May 22 A suit has been brought in the State Court seeking annulment of the lease of the South Carolina and Georgia railroad by the Southern. The action is brought for John Cart of Crangeburg by JH Bryan and Miller Whaley of Charleston. The complaint alleges that the lease was improperly procured.
Edgartown Mass May 25 Captain Horace Hillman and his Portuguese assistant Manuel Corretto have just returned from a portion of trip as the ship was towed 100 miles into the Atlantic by a great whale. It took two days to regain the distance the whale had covered in ten hours.
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