The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-03-26

{ Cream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
of Each Day.

Engineer Miller, fireman thompson
and a neg tramp were killed.
A case is now in the courts OF
Alabama which may stop all bets by
wire in that state.
Ernest Haywood, who killed Lud-
low Skinner, at Raleigh, was indicted
for murder Monday.
Mr., Wentworth, of Boston, has
left his fortune, estimated at $l0oO,'
600, to found an industrial school.
Alderman Ruxton, OF Chicago,
wants to fine every landlord 500 who
rejects a tenant because of me lalter's
many children.
Secretary Of War Root has an
nounced that there is no--lng IN the
charges filed by Estes G. RrthDone
against General Leonard Wood.
The outbreak in China has be-
come so serious that France may send
troops into the disturbed provinces.
1t is reported that British ship
has seized the enezuelan gunboat Res
taurador for alleged piratical acts.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the
American woman serving a life SEN
tence in England on q charge OF pol
soning her husband, will be released
next year.
-Surigao, Island Of Mindanao. has
been captured by the Filipino rebels
The American commander and sever
al others were killed.
After desperate fighting the city
Of San Domingo has been taken by
the rebels. Many were killed and
wounded on both sides.
In a veto message Governor Fra
zier, of Tennessee, scored dispensa-
ries, CHASING them with open bars.
The report of Commissioner OF
Agriculture McLin, Of Florida, which
has just been issued, contains some in
teresting statements concerning the
penal system in vogue.
James R. Keene, the multi-million-
aire, def1es New York city to collect
the taxes assessed against him.
The president has reappointed the
negro Crum, whose nomination failed
Of confirmation, collector at Charles
ton.
1t is stated in New York that the
deal by which the Rock Island will
take over the Frisco has been COM
pleted.
The steamers Plymouth and City
Of Taunton collided in dense fog on
Long Island Sound. Six persons on
the Plymouth were killed.
Serious trouble impends in Donin-
go and Haiti. The United States war
ship Atlanta will go to the islands 10
protect American interests.
In an early Sunday morning row
at Knoxville, Tenn, Will Collins killed
one man and seriously wounded All
other.
1T is claimed that cotton mill op-
orators bear the market when they
could make money by keeping prices
up.
JEFF Grogan, a negro murderer,
committed suicide in the Huntsville,
Ala, jail by cutting his throat with a
niece of tin.
"A white man, claiming to be from
Pennsylvania, has been arrested at
Columbia, S. c., charged with selling
fake insurance to ignorant negroes.
Snow to the depth Of IL inches
foil at St. Joseph, Mo-, Sunday.
Cincinnati now has mysterious
tragedy. Three dead bodies of the
Betty family found in their fiat. Mr..
Betty on his coming home in the morn:
ing finds bodies of wife and babe. He
lies down by wife's body and soon is
asphyxiated.
Three masked robbers boarded an
electric car between Los Angeles and
Monica, Csl, on Saturday night and
ordered hands up. The robbers were
fred on by passenger, who, in turn,
began shooting passengers. One pas
senger was killed and three others
wounded. The robbers escaped.
Mexico City is to have modern
system of underground telephones.
Very Rev. Frederick William Far.
rar, dean of Canterbury, is dead, aged
II.
The Venezuelan congress unani.
mously declines the resignation OF
President Castro.
The empress dowager Of China
has ordered an appropriation Of half
million taels for Chinese representa-
ton at St. Louis exposition.
President Samuel Spencer denies
that he will retire from the Southern
Railway and be succeeded by W. W.
Finley.
"A complete roster Of the officers
and enlisted men who served In the
federal and confederate armies will
be prepared by the government.
Miss Marion Burdick, daughter OF
Edwin L. Burdick, testified Mo1day
at the inquest, but nothing OF impor
tance was elected from her.
Safe robbers got in their work
Monday at Chattanooga, Tenn, and
at Lincolnton, N. c.
-Four prisoners were released from
prison at Jackson, Miss. Tuesday morn.
ing by a woman.
The First national bank Of Jack
sonville, the oldest bank in Florida,
closed its doors Monday.
-Thirty.four graves will be opened
at Philadelphia in an effort to obtain
evidence against tie negro vodoo doc