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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1893
Page
1
A dispatch from Beaufort on September 5 describes urgent calls for U.S. government assistance to relieve 15,000 affected on Coosaw and neighboring islands after a cyclone. Officials warn of possible epidemics and starvation without rapid aid, detailing drownings, unburied livestock, housing destruction, and crowded shelters while noting private relief efforts and planned distribution points.
In Charleston Swan a Harpers Ferry era case unfolds as C J Swan a Tillman era liquor constable serves three months for contempt after seizing whiskey without a warrant. Gov Tillman vows appeal and lawmakers debate receiverships while Morgan proposes a joint Senate House finance committee to study monetary reform.
An attempted express train robbery west of St Louis ended with a dynamite blast and gunfire. No injuries reported. The robber captured was jailed after an initial lynching attempt was deterred. In Columbia, S.C., discussions between attorney H W Thoughes and the governor led to postponing the royalty conference with phosphate companies to Beaufort for a full territorial inspection.
The State Board of Examiners agreed on a plan to establish school book depositories in every town and place, buying all books for public schools and selling at near wholesale prices. Private dealers may still operate if they match terms, with a proposed ten percent handling cost and no full monopoly. Mayfield argues the plan will lower costs and benefit public education, citing Clemson College savings as proof.
Telegram reports relief from New York and Savannah toward Beaufort and St Helena after a hurricane ravaged sea islands. Citizens, banks, and firms pledged funds and supplies, with committees to distribute aid and hire workers for rations. Dr. J W Babcock notes active relief and forthcoming subcommittees to ensure distribution and health safeguards.
Sept 5 in South Carolina Edgar Giles thirteen son of W I Giles employed at Standard cotton mill shot himself with a forty cal Smith & Wesson pistol in his home. Earlier that day a quarrel with Laney over a broken velocipede and the use of a house related to the trouble. Giles confronted by his father at dinner and again after work, Edgar frightened and fled then fired a single shot through the heart. The physician's arrival was too late. Burial took place at Laurelwood cemetery this afternoon.
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