The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-07-16
Cream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
Important Events
Of Each Day.

reached Savannah in search of treas
ure said to have been buried on War
saw island by confederate blockade
runner.
The Augusta, Ca, council is in a
quandary over the city printing, The
Chronicle having refused to do the
| work for the price contracted for by
the city printer.
Three were drowned Monday at
Pensacola, Fla, by the wreck Of the
schooner Amelia Lyons. -..
The case of Ernest Haywood, OF
Raleigh, N. c.. charged with the muir
| der Of Ludlow Skinner, has been post
/ poned until September.
I TIE jury in@the case Of Fletcher
Turner, charged with peonage at
Montgomery, failed to bring in YER
dict and was discharged by Judge
Jones with sharp charge.
| james H.. Tillman, charged with
the murder of N. G. Gonzales at Co.
lumbia. s. c., was taken to Lexington
Monday. He was accompanied by his
uncle, Senator B. r. Tillman.
MANY deaths Of boys are reported
from lockjaw due to the use Of toy
pistols on July 4th. - -
| Assistant Secretary Of War San
ger has resigned. William Shaw Oil
yer, OF Albany, N. Y, will be appointed
to the position. ~
Associate Justice Brewer, Of the
| United States supreme court, declares
that every participant in lynching
is murderer, pure and simple.
During services in the Christian
Endeavor tent at Denver N cnday
night it was struck by q storm and
many of the eight thousand occupants
injured.
The prince of Wales visited the
United States squadron at Portsmouth
Monday, and took breakfast on board
the Kearsarge.
Owing to a conflict, between the
president and legislators of Haiti, a
state of siege has been proclaimed at
the capital.
< Dim. L. Perry, Of Milledgeville,
Ca, has been appointed superintend-
ent of tue new state asylum for. the IN
sane at Parsons, Kans.
After bidding his wife and chill
dren- goodbg, J. T. Cato, of Fort Val
ley, Ga. rode of with a negro and
when short distance from his home
blew out his own brains with a re-
volver.
"A negro created come excitement
in Spartsnburg, S. c., Saturday By an
nouncing that he would organize To-
cal chapter of negro Elks.
For eight years i4iss Willie Ray.
of ~Prentiss county, Miss, disguised
herself as a man and worked as a
farm hand. She both smoked and
chewed. ( 4 z y
1T is rumored that Judge Thomas
G. Jones, of thesAlabama federal court,
nay be given place in the circuit
court of appeals on account Of Ills
stand in the peonage cases.
Storm at Baltimore Sunday injur-
ed. about twenty persons and did $780,
900 damage to buildings.
Negro leaders at indianapolis aIe
taking steps to avert race war by
running worthless members of the
race out of the city.
Secretary Of War Root arrived at
Oyster Bay Sunday; and was the guest
OF the president. They conferred on
the Alaskan boundary and other ques-
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Several engagements have taken
place between Turkish and Bulgarian
troops on the frontier.
Funds are being subscribed in
England to send British rife team to
the United States next year to contest
for the Palma trophy. -
The condition of Pope Leo contin-
ues to show Improvement, and the doc
tors are greatly cheered over the prog
ress of their patient.
The Georgia Southern and Flori Ia
railroad refuses to let he Atlantic and
Birmingham cross it's tracks at Tlf-
ton, Ca, and the matter will probably
be carried into the courts. q
Owing to the continued rocking Of
cars armed guards are still kept on
the street cars In Richmond, Va.
The street car strikers at Beau-
mont, Texas, have won their demands
and have gone back to work.
Intense heat still prevails in the
great cities. Deaths and prostrations
were numerous Saturday.
Near st. Louis a crowded train
was wrecked by spreading rails. One
person was killed, four seriously and
twenty slightly injured.
Trustees of Mercer university at
Macon, Ca, met Thursday morning TO
prepare formal protest against enact
ment Of measure requiring two years
course in law schools.
At Lincoln. Nebr., James Rhea
was hurried to the gallows in order
to get ahead of court injunction to
prevent the execution.
The officers of the United States
European squadron were received By
the lord mayor of London. From
speeches made recently it seems that
Great Britain favors the expansion of
the Monroe doctrine by the United
States.
BY the overturning of skiff in
Mobile river four men were drowned.
There was no disorder at Rich
mond, Va, Tuesday. The cars are get
ting a good passenger traffic again.
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