The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-04-16
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ECream of News. :
Brief Summary Of Most
ImPortan mt Events
of Each Day.

low no divorce a Charleston woma:
has been granted alimony.
If the alleged safe robbers now OF
trial at Charleston are acquitted by
the federal court the state will at oncs
proceed against them.
The Mann liquor bill recently en-
acyted in Virginia is expected to dc
crease the number of saloons in the
state and at the same time increase
the liquor revenues.
Nothing was heard from Presiden;
Roosevelt Sunday. Wires in Yellow
stone park are down.
-Cloudburst at Henryville, Ind.
Sunday did great damage. Two lives
lost by the swelling of streams.
Two persons burned to death ant
several others badly injured by the
burning of a residence at indianapolis
Ind, Sunday.
President John Shelton Williams
of the Seaboard Air Line railway
thinks the decision in Northern Securi
ties Company case will prove a great
blessing.
-Gustave Meineicke, connected
with various German newspapers, is
dead.
Big improvements will be made
at once in the service of the STANDARD
telephone in Atlanta, Ga. A new $40.
900 switch board will be installed.
Georgia saw mills prepare to fight
increase in lumber freight rates to the
west. Action will be brought at once
in the circuit court of the United
States.
ed A. Isaacs, of Macon, was
elected president of the Georgia d.
vision of the Travellers Protective AS
sociation.
Miss Julia Rose, of Valdosta, Ga
has left for Sitka, where she Is to wed
man she has never seen. The 5000
mile journey was arranged through
a matrimonial advertisement.
While swimming in the st. Johns
river, Florida, FriCay, boy 18 years
old and a girl of 20 were drowned.
1t is rumord in Norfolk that Vice
President J. NJ. Barr, of the Seaboard
has been offered $4,000 year by the
Southern.
Tho Mississippi senatorial cam
paign was opened at Columbus Friday
Senator Money and Governor Longino
meeting in their nrst joint debate.
The explosion of the 12-inch gun
on the Iowa was caused Dy defec'
tive fuse. The battleship was so badly
damaged that she will go out of com
mission.
The flood situation in the Louis
lana district shows no improvement
About 100000 has been sunk in a vain
effort to close the Hy-nelia crevasse.
The records at Ellis island show
that more immigrants entered the
United States in the first week Of April
than in any similar period in history.
Army officers who are members
of the Metropolitan Club of Washing.
ton, which recently rejected General
Corbin, are so indignant that they
threaten to leave in body.
The Pennell inquest was ended at
Buffalo, N. Y, Friday. A statemen!
made by Pennell just before his death
was read in which he said his relations
with Mrs. Pennell were platonic.
Assistant Attorney General Beck
who represented the government IN
the anti-merger proceedings, says htat
the decision means that holding COM
panies" and Community of interest
plans are unlawful
The leaders Of the Holland striA'
ers have ordered the men to return to
work, but the strikers refuse to obey
The American minister at Bogota
claims that the Colombian government
has been seizing the property of Cit
liens of the United States.
Vice President Barr, of the Sea
board Air Line, is expected to succeed
Vice President Finlay, OF the Southern
when the latter succeeds Samuel Spen
Ger.
The American force under Cap
tain Pershing has defeated the MOros
One hundred Of the latter were killed.
The United States warship At
lanta prevented the bombardment OF
San Domingo by the dominican war
ship Presidente.
The first work of clearing the way
for the new passenger station at At
lanta was started Friday.
DIR. c. w. Byrd, pastor of the Firs!
Methodist church of Atlanta, declines
the presidency of the Wesleyan Fe
male college at Macon.
Three men were killed and fiTe
injured by the explosion of 12-inci1
gun on the Iowa off Pensacola Thurs
day.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals has delivered an opinion that
the Great Northwestern railway
merger is illegal.
ALL hope of closing the Hymeli'
crevasse has been abandoned. Louis
lana planters are preparing to move al
property possible.
The Dutch parliament has passcC