The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-08-22
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will be a contest of "fiddlers." There
will be prizes offered for the best,
poorest, the lean and the fat.
Farmers in Mississippi are send
ing agents to the cities and towns for
labor to help gather their crops. La
Dor is growing very scarce.
The post Office inspector at Nor
folk, Va, has ordered the mail Of the
Fidelity Mutual Company held. 1t has
thousands of contracts out.
The number of persons who per
ished by the sinking of the steamer Is
lander has been placed at sixty-seve1.
The passengers were asleep when the
steamer struck.
The steamer City of Golconda
went down near Paducah. KY, Monday
and sixteen persons-ten Of them wo-
men-were drowned.
Two negroes were lynched at
Pierce City, Mo-, Monday for assault
ing and numbering white girl.
Monday the steel trust succeeded
in placing in operation some Of the
plants which have been crippled by
the strike.
BY the explosion Of shell at Fort
Riley, Kans., Monday, two soldiers
were killed and seven injured.
Admiral Schley's attorneys have
challenged the right Of Admiral How
ison to serve on the court Of inquiry.
-Four men were blown to pieces
and a roundhouse destroyed at Her
kimer, N. Y, Monday by an explosion
of dynamite.
An explosion of benzine at Phi!a-
delphia kills three, Injuries twenty and
destroys property valued at 100000.
The Textile Workers Union will
disband and members will unite with
the Federation of Labor. A ten-hour
day will be demanded in the south.
Americans stopping at a London
hotel leave because negro delegates
to the ecumenical conference are ar.
irving. The proprietor refused to
make any distinction as to his guests.
1t is reported in London that ].
Pierpont Morgan has bought the city
line Of steamers owned by Glasgow
parties.
The British surprise Boer laager
and kill twenty, but are forced to re-
treat.
Colombia has requested the Uni
ted States not to interfere on the 18TH
mus until requested to do so.
-Ruskin commonwealth of social
lists, near Waycross, Ca, is breaking
up, having proved failure. Sheriff
will sell the property.
The people Of Harmony Grove,
Ca, criticise the verdict in the Gus
Fellows trial. They say the negro
should have been hanged.
Officers have succeeded in recap
turing seven of the ten prisoners that
escaped from Jail at New Berne, N. c.
Confederate veterans had a grand
time at their reunion at Lexington,
Ky. It is estimated that there were
over ten thousand of the old soldiers
present.
The steamer Islander struck an
iceberg off Douglas island and went
down, carrying sixty-five to eighty
persons.
The steel trust has smuggled
strike breakers from the south into
the Monessen mills.
Treasurer Hayden, Of the New
York branch of Swift & Company, is
missing, together with large sum of
money.
The carriage manufacturers Of
Cincinnati have discharged all union
men and will run their plants non
union.
General Macarthur has reached
San Francisco from the Philippines.
He says war has caused many natives
to revert to barbarism.
Mr.. Kruger, in an interview, says
the Beers will never yield until grant
ed full independence.
Ecuador has joined forces with
enezuela and has sent an army
across the border of Colombia.
1T is alleged that continental Eu-
rope is forming an anti-American COM
binatiOn.
Ben Hill Madden was shot by
Henry Smith at Concord. Pike county,
Georgia. Smith caught Madden in
the room where his children were
sleeping.
"A third oil well is now gushing at
Sunnybrook, Tenn.
H. Hauser, a Wilmington, N. c.,
jeweler, Is charged with incendiarism.
At fire In his establishment evidence
was seen of his guilt.
international Typographical I'm
ion adjourned Saturday after weeks
meeting at Birmingham, Ala.
Communication has been restored
throughout the storm swept section.
The property loss is great, but few
lives were lost.
The strikers have succeeded in
closing the Bay View plant of the Illi-
nois Steel Company. Fourteen hun
dred men will 60 out.
The crops have failed in European
Russia and over forty million people
are IL danger Of starvation.
France, Germany and Great Brit
ain will send warships to the isthmus
Of Panama to guard their interests.
-1he parliament of Great Britain
,,oe prorooro6 Saturday Thoro woc