The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-04-04

excellent shape and the project will in
no wise be altered or cut by the re-
fusal OF the government to make the
$3.50, 900 appropriation.
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Tribute to Dead Baristers.
The Greenville Bar Association pass
edresolutions touching the late Judges
Wallace Witherspoon, and Fraser. A
number of addresses by members OF
the bar were made. Judge Benetpaid
tribute to the memory of the dead
jurists and the resolutions were order
ed spread on the records, and court
adjourned as mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased judges.
Charleston Police Scored.
The finding of the body of NJ. B.
Hemmingway in cell at the Charles
ton police station after he had been
dead nearly twenty-four hours has
aroused public indignation, and de-
nunciations of the department are
severe.
Hemingway was without funds
and asked for lodging. It is supposed
that he killed himself Immediately
after entering the cell. Not until the
cell wcs wanted for prisoner twenty
four hours afterward was the door
opened. The officer of the day, whose
duty it was to make report of the
mans presence, occupied quarters just
opposite the cell, but he failed to make
proper inspection.
Hemingway was the son of prom.
inent merchant and planter in George
town, and being in the city late at
night without funds, found it neces'
sary to seek shelter at police head
quarters.
In an editorial which seems to rep.
resent the sentiment of the community,
The Charleston Post demands a reor-
ganization of the entire police depart.
ment, and points out the poor system
by which man could kill himself un-
der the eye of the officers and remain
dead for twenty-four hours before be.
ing found.
Constable Uses Gun.
'Bud" Darby, aged twenty-one, was
mortally wounded near Campobello
one night the past week by j. Broadus
Mabry, constable for Magistrate Poole.
The constable had gone to Darby's
home to arrest him for theft and was
met by Darby with a pistol and his
wife with an ak. Darby fred at the
officer, grazing his ear. Constable
Mabry drew a gun and fred at Darby,
hitting him squarely in the stomach.
Darby is only twenty-one years of age,
but hos been in numerous serious
scrapes. The United States govern
ment has been after him, charging him
with robbing the postofice at Gowens'
vile. He is said to have been hiding
in the far-famed Dark Corner OF
Greenville county.
Will Not Abandon Port Royal.
A Washington special says: The
scene of the negotiations for the trans
fer of the naval station now at Port
Royal to Charleston has been trans.
ferred to New York. Mrs. Lawton's
attorney called at the navy department
where he had long conference with
Rear Admiral Endicott. Nothing
definite was decided at that time. Ad-
miral Endicott wrote to Mrs. Lawton
making last proposition to her i'm
mediately after this conference. he
then left for New York and will have
another conference while there with
the attorney after receiving Mrs. Law
toms reply.
The navy department has decided to
use Port Royal as winter station for
the training squadron. Therefore it
is unlikely that the naval station there
will be altogether abandoned. Dredg-
ing operations when completed will
give a channel of sufficient depth to
accommodate all but the very largest
vessels.
Slump In Price Alarms Growers.
A recent Columbia, S. c., special is
highly important and significant in re-
gard to the subject of reduction OF the
cotton acreage this year:
"The recent drop in the price OF cot
ton has had the effect of alarming the
planters, who have been making prep
arations to plant larger acreage than
for several years past. They believed
that TO- cent cotton had come to stay,
but the recent slump has awakened
them to a sense of the danger OF over
production, and they now realize that
with big cotton crop next season
scent and 6-cent cotton may be ex-
pected. That would mean growing
cotton at loss, and to avert such a
contingency steps are already being
taken to bring about curtailment in
acreage"
| Money Still Missing.
A New York dispatch says: Presl.
dent Hendrix. of the National Bank OF