The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-08-29
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railroad held a meeting Monday at
Savannah and declared S per cent
dividend on first preferred income
bonds.
-Enoch Henderson, negro OF
Moulton Heights, Ala. with scytne
blade, met a mob leader at his home
and moved him down. His act a"eo
the rest of the mob and they fed.
State Treasurer Showers, OF MIS-
sissippi, will not resign on account OF
the shortage discovered in the treas
ury, and it is probable that the COVER
nor will suspend him.
In the Virginia constitutional con-
vention Monday a delegate showed
the advantages of the single court sys-
tenn of Georgia and North Carolina.
Three cotton mills at Columbia,
S. c.. have shut out their operatives,
owners declaring they will not employ
union members.
-Four men were killed by the fall
of steel girders which were being
placed on the, Southern's new bridge
across the Congaree river, near Co
lumbia, S. c., Monday.
"A gusher came in Unexpectedly
and with tremendous force at Beau
mont, Texas, Monday. Two men were
killed in a vain attempt to control It.
The whites Of the Indian Territory
towns are driving the negroes from
their homes. United States officials
have interfered and threaten to call
for troops.
President Shaffer declares that the
efforts Of the civic federation to ses-
tie the strike are without his author
ity.
Three members Of the Chicago de-
tective department were placed on
trial Monday for alleged crookedness.
BY resolution the Texas leglsla-
ture denounces the steel trust and ex-
tends sympathy to strikers.
--latest advices from the isthmus
of Panama state that the liberals OF
Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia and Mic
aragua are backing the revolution,
hoping to organize great federation.
Lord Kitchener has received let
tiers from Steyn and Botha in which
they declare their purpose to continue
fighting.
Turkey will have to pay France
100000 francs as indemnity for the
alleged wrongs done French conces-
slonaires.
in spite Of deaths Of volunteer
subjects, the yellow fever experts at
Havana will continue their expert
ments.
Chief Westall, of the Havana
money order Office, states that he has
been robbed Of $4,000 belonging to the
Office.
Henry Noles, the negro who as.
saulted and killed Mrs. Charles VIII
Iiams, near Winchester, Tenn, was ta'
ken from prison by mob Sunday and
burned at the stake.
Two negro criminals in jail at
Greenville, Tenn, got into a fight in
their cell and one stabbed the other to
death.
Collector Hoey, Of Nogales, Ariz.,
denies that he ever had anything to do
with smuggling Chinese across the
border.
-Commenderies of Knights Tenn
plars from all over the country gath.
er at Louisville for their triennfal con-
clave.
Fireman killed and several per.
sons injured in wreck on the Seaboard
Air Line in South Carolina.
Word has been received at Manila
that Colonel Loreel and seventeen Of
ficers and men surrendered to the
Americans Saturday.
-Londoners think that France has
achieved only a paper victory when
Turkey decided that the purchase OF
the quays would not be profitable
investment.
The wedding of Henry M. Flagler,
the multi-millionaire, and Miss Mary
Lily Kenan took place at Kenansville,
N. c., Saturday. :
Hurricanes and floods sweep Sec
tions of New York, New Jersey and
PENNSYLVANIA. Over Jersey City two
storms met and destruction resulted.
AT Nogales, Ariz., Collector Hoey
and Inspector Jossey were placed un-
der arrest Saturday charged with &C.
cepting bribes to admit Cinnamon into
the United States.
1t Is believed at Pittsburg that ne
gotiatIons are in progress to settle
the steel strike. 1t is thought that
representatives Of the trust and strlk-
ers are in secret conference.
The threatened war between
France and Turkey has been finally
averted by the latters granting the
demands of the French government.
The czar Of Russia will meet the
kaiser of Germany on the yacht Hob
enzollern. Important questions Will
be discussed by the two rulers.
Miss Clara Mas. hospital nurse
employed in Cuba, wishing to become
immune, allowed herself to be bitten
by a yellow fever infected mosquito
Death resulted within seven days.
The grand jury Of Elmore county,
Alabama, has indicted ten white men
for participation in the lynching OF a
negro named White.
1t is reported that the Virginia.
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