The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-21
Cream of News. !
Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
Of Each Day.

Of Each Day.
Col. W. A. Hemphill, bushes:
manager of the Atlanta Constitution
died suddenly at his home in that city
Sunday night of heart disease.
| The southern portion Of Georgia
was visited Sunday by electrical storm
| and one man was killed at Waynes
boro. many houses blown down and
struck by lightning AMI cotton whip
ped from bolls and ruined.
Extensive preparations are under
way for big street fair in Macon, Ga.
which will be the greatest ever held
there.
Good dividend is declared by the
directors of the Central of Georgia,
and many improvements made.
-Watkin Newman, a young farmer
living near Jefferson City, Tenn, Is
murdered, robbed and cremated and
house set on fire by burglars.
--senators Bacon and Clay, of Geor.
gia, are having a merry war in Wash
ington over the removal of the post
office in Elberto: from one building
to another, and the matter has as
sumed such a phase that it has been
held up until the return of the post
master general.
Two brothers, one killed and the
other fatally wounded. are the vic.
TINS of a wreck near Cincinnati, Sun
day.
The tariff treaty between the Uni
ted States and China is successfully
launched.
Generals DeWet, Botha and Della
rey met King Edward on the royal
yacht off Cowes Sunday An hour was
spent in pleasant conversation.
Lessee Of Convict Freeman says
pardon papers issued by Governor
Gambler were not received.
Mayor Vardtman's pan to use
taxes paid by each race for support OF
the schools in Mississippi meets with
strong opposition.
North Carolina Masons will erect
s125,o00 temple at Charlotte.
Institute of South Carolina being
held at Clemson college is really a
school for farmers.
The millions of Charles Fair are
claimed by the relatives Of his wife.
-Alata, a Mexican town near Culia-
can, is destroyed by a tidal wave.
Thirty lives are reported lost.
Hon. Dudley NJ Hughes has again
been elected president Of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society.
Congressman Latimer and former
Congressman Hemphill, candidates for
United States senate in South Carroll
ma, engaged in fight at Gaffney
Thursday, but were quickly separated.
Wealthy Tampa, Fla, citizen killed
and his wife probably fatally wounded
Thursday by q Cuban.
Mysterious search for buried
treasure is being made in Mississippi
canebrake, where it is thought old
man secreted 100000 in gold before
the war.
"A warrant for the arrest of Gov
ernor Kimball, Of Rhode Island, Is
Issued. Governor Kimball is charged
with SANDER and malicious prcsecu-
ton.
Offended at rumors to the effect
that the Aero Club Of America had not
made bona fide offer of $4,000, San
tos Dumont sails for France
Deputies fire on strikers at a
Washery near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Fair. r"'o.
tives Of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt,
are killed in France in automo.. =,
wreck.
Governor Gambler and the Geor-
gia prison commission call on Early
county authorities to show cause why
their convict camp should not be bro
ken up because of w. B. Freeman's IL.
legal detention.
The Georgia prison commission
turns down petition of ginners, who
protest against competition by gin at
state farm.
An increase in pension rolls in
Mississippi Of 25 per cent s expected
from applications for blanks caused by
act Of legislature appointing county
boards to pass on applications.
The next Grand Army encamp-
ment may be held in Atlanta, Ga. Ohio
veterans favor the idea.
Georgia State Agricultural Socie,
ty meets In Macon, and sensation Is
sprung by speech Of Hon. W. l.. Peek,
OF Rockdale, in which he said the
state had no college of agriculture at
the university and offered a resolu-
tion that one be established in connec-
ton with the experiment farm.
General Jake Smith, broken-heart-
ed at treatment received from the gov
ernment, is searously i'll and may not
recover.
State farm of Mississippi shows
net profit Of more than 100000 for
past season.
With forged orders from wealthy
women of Savannah, smooth female
swlnder secures s1,7s9 worth of dia=
monds from jewelers. and gets away
with goods.
Petition Is being circulated in
Bibb county to the prison commission
for the pardon Of young Harry Jeiner,2
who Is serving life sentence In peni=
tentiary for murder of peddler.