The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-20
:Crean of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
ImPortan mt Events
Of Each Day.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!

anu were CIdTSeu Will LHe t1lAlo.
Miss Ole Cropsey, sister of the
dead girl, was placed on the stand
Monday in Elizabeth City, N. c., in the
trial Of James Wilcox. She declared
the dead girl was seen last when call
ed from her home by Wilcox.
The ship subsidy bill was passed
in the senate Monday by a vote of AZ
to 81.
Seven life savers and five sailors
were drowned off Cape Cod Monday.
The men clung to capsized boat un-
til exhausted and dropped into the sea
one by one.
"A test case involving the right to
employ little children in the factories
OF North Carolina will go to the su-
preme court. A mill was found guilty
Of working a 9-yearold child.
The death of Mrs. Annie M. Long,
OF Memphis, Tenn, who is supposed to
have died Of pneumonia, it is said, may
be followed by a startling sensation.
The burial OF Ex-Governor Altgeld,
Of Chicago, Sunday, was largely at
tended. Hon. W. ]. Bryan was one
of the honorary pallbearers.
Geronimo, the Apache chief who
has been in captivity fourteen years,
asks president for pardon.
Cecil Rhodes, the South African
maguate, is reported as being weaker.
During the day Sunday he took some
nourishment.
Emperor Bill has ordered war
ships to meet the deutschland, on
which is Prince Henry, when it ar
rives.
Lord Kitchener sends communica-
tion to British war office, London, de-
scribing the defeat of his troops and
capture of General Methuen.
Kruger has sent a message to the
Beers by special agent.
Heavy rains which fell Saturday
night and Sunday in various parts of
Georgia caused an alarming rise Of
streams, the damage to considerable
property and delay on railroads from
washouts.
The Georgia fruit growers and en-
tomologists met at Macon Friday. The
San Jose scale and its determination
was the principal question discussed.
The body of Engineer Matthews
was recovered Friday at the scene OF
the recent wreck near Williamson,
Ca, and sent on to Talbotton for in
terment.
Edward Field, representative of
the governor Of Rhode Island, was in
Savannah Friday making inquiries re-
garding the remains Of General Ma
thaniel GreeIe, which are to be in
TERED at Savannah.
Admiral Schley, in reply to invi.
tation of citizens of Jackson, Miss,
answers that he will probably visit
that city during his trip to the south.
west.
In the trial of James Wilcox,
charged with murder of Nellie Crop
sey, at Elizabeth City, N. c., Friday,
doctors testified that the girl was put
into the river while she was uncon.
scious.
The republicans have not agreed
on the Cuban question. The feeling
between the two factions is bitter.
Twenty thousand strikers rushed
for their old places at Boston Friday,
but didn't get them. There was TAX
Of renewal of the strike.
The banks of the United States
propose to combine and enter the mon
ey order field in competition with the
express companies and the govern
ment.
The first details Of the destruction
Of Shamaka, Russia, by earthquake
have been received at St. Petersburg
Twenty thousand people are without
shelter or food.
1t Is said that the compromise pro.
posed by republicans on the Cuban
| question will inure to the benefit Of the
sugar trust, which, it is said, has
bought the crop for two years.
Governor McSweeney, Of South
Carolina, has ordered an investigation
Of charge against a Spartanburg
magistrate who is alleged to have sent
three orphans to jail because their pa
rents death left them no means OF
| support.
king Edward held his first court
Friday night. 1t was the most daz
zling function since the early days OF
| the regin of Queen Victoria.
1t is believed that the Texas Bend
ers may have murdered fifty men
The bodies were pitched into bayous to
be eaten by alligators.
Lord Methuen, who was captured
by the Beers in the recent battle, has
| been released.
Because the Irish members of the
English parliament applauded the
news of Methuen's defeat King Ed
ward has boycotted the island.
The electric cars were run in Nor
folk, Va, Wednesday without military
guard. The street railway company
has declined to treat further with tho
strikers, accepting committee repor
as final.
"A party of men armed with rifles
left Bristol, Tenn, Tuesday Tor the
| southwest Virginia coal fields, where
an outbreak is feared On account O.
the demands of union labor agitators.
The great strike at Boston, Mass
has been settled by the influence ol
Governor Crane, Major Collins ant
! business men. Twenty thousand mer
will return to work.
Senator Nelson has sent com
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