The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-03-05
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Brief Summary Of Most
lmporta mt Events
of Each DaY.

The Carter hearing was concluded
at Savannah, Ca, Monday, Captain
Gillette being the governments last
witness.
President Roosevelt has called the
senate to meet in extraordinary ses-
sion.
The house and senate worked far
into the night Monday night. In the
house the democrats continued to Or
struct legislation.
-Arraigned at Hamilton, Ohio, Al
fred Knapp, who has confessed to
numbering many women, pleaded not
guilty.
The postoffce department has
made public the correspondence in the
Indianola case. There is nothing new
in the correspondence.
The senatorial deadlock in Della
ware has been broken by the election
Of Alice (Addicks) for the long term
and Ball (anti-Addicfs) for the short
term. The result is considered an
Addicks victory.
An attempt in the British house OF
commons to disfranchise Galway be-
cause of the election Of Colonel Lynch
was defeated.
-Advices from China state that a
rebel plot to seize and sack the city OF
HicpnUar06
Terrific seas are running in the
English channel and many disasters to
ships are reported.
1t is reported that a detachment
of 200 men, led by an American, has
been annihilated in Honduras.
Atlanta Typographical Union ia
vors arbitration in settling existing
differences with the Employing Print;
ers' club.
William Ellis Farmer and his vic
tim, Captain James Christian, his
father-in-law, were buried at Jones'
boro, Ca, Sunday.
The Macon, Ca, police force
chaiged hands Sunday, Chief Patrick
Murphy taking charge to succeed Hon.
John T. Bouifeuillet, who will at once
take full charge of The Macon News
as editor in chief.
Attorneys for the prosecution in
the Skinner killing case at Raleigh,
state that 100 persons saw Haywood
fire the first shot at Skinner. 1t is
also stated that Haywood wrote con-
temptuous note to Mrs. Skinner, send
ing copy Of it to her sister.
-Twent-eight coal barges, carrying
$4,000 tons of coal valued at $4,000,
sunk in the Mississippi opposite Lake
Providence, La, Sunday.
AS the result Of heavy rains the
rivers of the Mississippi valley and
throughout the southwest are unusual
ly high and reports Of damages from
the floods come from many quarters.
The house held four hours ses-
sion Sunday and passed the district
bill.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad has agreed to an advance
in salaries of employees.
-Speculators in Ben Hur" tickets
are given heavy fines by Recorder
Nash R. Broyles at Atianta.
Major R. E. Wilson, doorkeeper
of the Georgia senate for a number
of years, died at his home near Spring
Place Friday.
Evidence given in the Carter hear
ing at Savannah alleges great extrava-
gance in the jetty work in Cumber-
land sound 1t is estimated that the
portion now intact cost the govern
ment $50 per cubic yard.
At Micanopy, Fla. burglars dyna-
mited a safe, but got little money, as
they failed to enter the vault.
President Roosevelt has sent a
message to the senate appealing for
Philippine legislation. He says fam
inc is imminent.
The ice manufacturers of the south
held their annual convention Wednes-
day in Atlanta.
Georgia troops who served during
the Spanish-American war will receive
an additional s5O,OO0 from the federal
government.