The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-11-05

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Brief Summary Of Most
Important Events
Of Each Day.

-Four men lose their lives in the
wreck Of a freight train at Besemer
City, n. c., on the Southern railway.
President MacRae, of the board
Of trustees of the Southwestern Pres
byterian university, at ClarksVllle,
Tenn, in his annual repert opens the
fight against the proposed removal CT
the university to Atlanta.
The betting in New York is in ia:
vor of Mcclellan for mayor. Heavy
sums have been wagered on the DEM
ocratic candidate.
The navy department has issued
hurry orders to the cruiser Baltimore
to proceed to San Domingo, where
revolution is in progress, to guard
American interests.
Addressing an audience in Madi-
son Square Garden Dowie said that
elections went in Chicago according
to his orders and that in five years b.
expected to dominate the elections in
New York city.
Secretary Of the Interior Hitchcock
says that, while there have been e1-
tensive frauds in the public land de-
partment, the sums involved will not
reach s1S,eO0,000 He admits several
government officials are involved.
There are no developments in the
Far East situation, except an editorial
in a Russian paper urging the czar 20
teach Japan lesson.
Mexican officials deny that the
| life of President Diaz was attempted.
| They claimed that the man who urea
the shots was drunk and was cele-
brating.
At a meeting of the citizens OF
| Macon. called by Governor Terrell IN
! the interest of the Georgia building at
St. Louis, $500 was raised to assist
in erecting the structure.
The Eatonton, Ga, cotton mills
and electric plant, which have been IN
the hands OF receivers, have been
sold to J. 3. Floyd and Burke Floyd
| of Savannah, for $42,O0o.
! "A negro died in Savannah, Ca.
Tuesday night after drinking quart
Of corn liquor on a wager. He drank
1t in a bar and walked out and in
few minutes was a corpse.
! Mrs. L. @. C. Lamar, widow OF
the famous statesman and jurist, died
Tuesday night in Macon. Like her H.
lustrious husband, she was native
of Georgia.
! The Mississippi river convention
| at New Orleans resolved to ask the
United States to take charge OF the
levee system.
1t is reported that the body OF
young Wentz, the missing Philadel-
phia millionaire, has been found In
Wise county, Va. .....
Runs were made Tuesday on the
Lincoln Trust Company, the Mercantile
Trust Company and the Mississippi
Valley Trust Company, all OF St.
Louis. The runs were caused by ru'
mors from the outside. All demands
were promptly met.
After a chase lasting fourteen
months, and in which two continents
were traversed with detective III
pursuit, John Morrison, assistant cash
Ter of the Northampton bank OF Lon
don, charged with embezzfing 100000
I was captured in Chicago.
! Arthur Slater, Of Acworth. Ca,
was married to Miss Nellie Fred
ricks in jail at Binghamton, N. Y.
Their courtship began and was con-
summated in prison.
The Wesleyan Methodist church
of America will not bar the negro
from membership, but this action is
not to be construed as meaning social
equality. 1
At Guanajuto, Mexico, five shots
were fired at President Diaz, who had
| gone to that city to attend festival.
Hugh Mclaughlin, the leader OF
the Brooklyn democracy, declares that
he intends to knife the Tammany tick
ct. ... .-.....
The Dominican government cruis
er Independence is preventing mai
steamers entering the ports q
Puerta Plata, which is IN the handa
Of the revolutionists.
Sensational developments are ex
pected at a meeting of the creditors
of the Southern Car and Foundry
Company at Chattanooga, when Off
Gals of the bankrupt corporation vii
be asked to explain certain actions al
legged to be irregular.
Mrs. Iverson, of Monterey, Cal.
strangled her three children to death
saying that a supreme power hac
commanded her to kill them. She has
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