The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-12-12
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| w. ]. Smith, Campbell county
| Georgia. farmer, was killed by troll
| ley car near Fort Mcpherson Monday
night; an unknown man and his horse
was killed by a relief car sent to thu
| scene Of the accident.
| The Georgia house of representa-
| tiyes passed the bill Monday appropri
ating $4,000 to the state militia fol
1902.
The South Georgia Methodist con
ference adjourned Monday in Macon
and appointments for the coming veal
were announced by Bishop Galloway
Next conference will be held in Thom
asville.
Charles R. Armstrong, a promi
nent merchant of Jacksonville, Fla.
was placed on trial Monday for the
murder CT his wife, whom he shot
down last May. Insanity will be the
Lefense.
Senator and Mrs. M. S. Quay, with
their son and daughter and Attorney
General Elkin, of Pennsylvania, arriv
ed in Jacksonville, Fla, Monday. Sen
ator Quay, because Of Ill health, was
| ordered there by his physician.
Senator McLaurin, owing to his
exclusion from the democratic caucus
attacked the democrats in the senate
Senator Tillman replied, challenging
McLaurin to resign, but the latter de-
clined.
ANDREW Carnegie has written to
President Roosevelt offering s10,0O0,'
900 to the United States for the estab
lishment of great university at Wash.
ington.
Cashier Fleishman, Of the Farm.
ers and Merchants bank at Los An.
seles, CAL, has stolen 100000 Of the
banks funds and decamped.
Senator Frye has introduced a
new ship subsidy bill. 1t differs prin.
cipally in form from the old measure
1t is stated that resident Roose.
velt will oppose any attempt by his
party to reduce the south's represen'
tation on account of the alleged dis.
franchisement of the negro.
Nicaragua mas signed treaty leas
ing to the United States in perpetuity
o strip of land miles wide across her
territory, which covers the route of
the canal.
The threat Of the Russian finance
minister to retaliate if the pending
German tariff bill is passed, has caus-
ed excitement in Berlin.
President Castro, of Venezuela
talks in saucy manner regarding
debts due to the Germans. He says
they mast wait for their money and
asserts tlat if Venezuela is invaded he
will exterminate the German forces.
Three boys, the eldest scarcely
ten. years of age, at Montgomery, Ala,
were sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary. They caught drunken coun'
tryman in an alley and relieved him Of
$50.
An ugly fight is on in the senate
over the appointment of Rooster to
the South Carolina collectorship. His
opponents allege that he once took
part In "lynching bee."
The republican leaders held con-
ference Saturday to devise fiscal legis-
lation for the Philippines. A bitter
party struggle is likely to arise over
the question.
Resolutions have been introduced
In the labor federation convention urg-
ing workmen to hold aloof from the
militia and demanding the public own
ership of all public utilities.
The matrimonial infelicity of
Queen Wilhelrlna has starteled Eu-
rope. Prince Henry does not appear
in public, as he would be mobbed if
he did. The young queen spends hours
alone and in tears.
In wreck on the Central Of Geor-
gia railway in Macon Sunday morning
two negro women were killed, another
fatally injured; seven people were Sc.
riously and about forty painfully hurt.
The cars were .splintered and burned.
A defective switch caused the wreck.
The authoritative statement is
made that the Edison Electric Illumi-
mating Company has acquired the
street railway interests OF Savannah,
Ga.
"A crusade has been launched in
Mississippi by the federal authorities
against an alleged trust formed by oil
men. The latter are said to have the
best OF the fight so far.
Rev. ]. w. Bradford, pastor Of the
Methodist church at Brookside, Ala,
was shot and killed Sunday by Justice
of the Peace R. D. Coffman. The trag-
edy followed a denunciation of the JUS
tice made from the pulpit by the cler-
gyman.
The body of Jesse N. Hawkins, a
merchant Of Lexington, KY, was found
Sunday in the shadow Of the church
where he worshipped. He was the vic
tim of an assassin's bludgeon and bull
let.
Hon. Burke Cochran addressed a
pro-Boer meeting at Chicago Sunday
night and predicted that the struggling
South Africans would win in the end.
"A physician at Pittsburg, Pa, an
nounces that he has discovered sure
cure for the lockjaw. That he has tried
the serum on three patients with re-
markable success.
Governor Gambler, of Georgia. has