The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-01-09
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Robert Ware Grasty, ex-secretary
to Mayor Minis, Of Atlanta, Ca, was
caught at Rapidan, Va, Monday. He
will be returned to Atlanta to answer
charge Of forgery.
The depot commission met in At
lanta Monday and directed the COVER
nor to prepare proposition to be sub
mitted to the railroads.
Within twenty days work will be
started on the sinking Of five oil shafts
near Rome, Ga. Chicago capitalists
are on the ground. One Of them, an
expert, says there are undoubted evl
dences OF petroleum deposits.
The United States supreme court
Monday affirmed the decision Of the
lower courts in the case OF 1sadore
Minder, Of Macon, convicted Of murder
and sentenced to die.
-Goyerncr Aycock has signed the
death warrant Of six North Carolina
criminals, all Of whom will die on the
gallows on Wednesday, January 2s.
"A test Of the governments floating
dry dock at New Orleans was made
Monday with the battleship Illinois, 1t
is said the test was in every way sat
isfactory.
&C. B. Keener,. of Forest. Hill, La,
is in jail charged with numbering his
two children, both infants. They were
found by the mother with their skulls
crushed in.
1t is evident that the friends Of the
Panama Company will make hard
fight to prevent the passage Of the
Nicaragua canal measure.
Rear Admiral Schley called on
President Roosevelt Monday and, it is
stated, appealed from the decision OF
Secretary Long.
The United States supreme court
has ordered that Greene and the Gay.
nors be removed to Savannah, Ca, for
trial. The court held that there was
probable cause to believe the defend
ants guilty.
In the trial of Nicely, Rathbone
and others for postal frauds in Cuba,
Reeves took the stand Monday. His
evidence was greatly tangled, and Nee
ly remarked his innocence would be
established if Reeves continued.
The text of the resignation Of Sec
retary Gage and the reply Of President
Roosevelt in acceptance was made
public at Washington Monday.
"A collision between two freight
trains on the Southern occurred Sat-
urday night near Rex, Ga, causing the
death Of three men and total destruc'
ton of thirty cars by fire.
Nicely, Rathbone ct al. were placed
on trial in Havana Saturday in Cuban
postofice embezzlement cases.
Georgia supreme court decides
that the resolutions passed by the leg.
islature is constitutional and states
financial embarrassment is averted.
Objections to acceptance of Car
negie's offer Of s10,0Oo,O0o to govern
ment has been removed, and the first
steps taken to open big educational In
stitution in Washington.
Robert Ware Grasty, former sec
retary to Mayor Minis, Of Atlanta, has
left for parts unknown, leaving for
geries to the amount Of $725.
Extensive preparations are being
made by the people Of Columbus, Ca,
for the good roads convention to be
held in that city on January 16 and II.
in the will Of the late Roswell A..
Roberts, of Yonkers, N. Y, the Presoy-
terian church OF Griffin, Ca, was CIV
en- $4,000. Mr.. Roberts was a member
of this church before the civil war.
The result OF the Ohio republican
caucus by which offices OF senate were
given to Foraker and those OF house
to Hanna men is the chief topic OF dis
cussion in the political world.
w. J. Bryan addressed a pro-Boer
meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday
night. He hoped the South AFRICANS
would continue the struggle until they
whipped the British.
-Pekin, China, is dressed in gay col
ors, preparatory to the courts re-en'
trance. Foreign ministers will not
witness the ceremonies.
Judge Robert Falligant, one OF the
best know and able men OF Georgia.
died at Savannah Friday.
There were two hangings in Geor-
sia Friday. John Robinson, VINO mur-
dered Bertha Simmons, was executed
at Sylvania, and Ernest Outland, VINO
murdered Thomas Mitchell, dieo Oh
the scaffoId at Dublin.
Central railroad officials have been
investigating the cause OF the e1plo'
sion of q locomotive at Macon, sy
which five men lost their lives ana
are unable to attach the blame to any
one.
The sheriff Of Lee county, Ala
bama. is willing to deliver Uurlan for'
ter who killed Joseph Fincher, when
q decision is reached as to which coun'
ty has the Jurisdiction over the pris'
oner.
The steamer Walla Walla was cut
down by an unknown vessel on tne
Pacific coast and quickly went to the
bottom. 1t is thought that twenty
lives were lost.
The representative OF Germany al
Caracas has handed to President Gas
tro a statement Of the kaiser's ae
mands. A limit is fixed to the time IL
which Castro must reply.
Tuscaloosa, Ala, opened It's ols
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