The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-01-29
:Crean of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
Importa mt Events
Of Each Day.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

W lCdNc WuSu
Eli Rogers, a crazed man of Union
count, North Carolina, Monday after
noon killed Miss May Presley and a
negro boy.
The democrats of the Alabama
legislature in joint caucus Monday
nominated Senator Pettus to succeed
himself.
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, is
making a fight on the Panama canal
treaty.
The house has adopted a resold-
ton calling for information in regard
10 the Indianola affair.
Tie Afro-American council has is
:ucd an address condemning rho south
for IS treatment of the negroes.
Philip Doblin, who swore that
I.emuel Quigg offered Congressman
Lessler $4,000 for his vote, confesses
that he perjured himself.
Judge William R. Day, OF Ohio,
has been offered and accepted the 20
s'tion of associate justice of the Un'.
ted States supreme court.
Lieutenant Armstrong, of Ala
bama, is dead of the smallpox at Ma
Mia.
At Durham, South Africa, the bu-
bonic plague is committing such raw
ages that the people are fleeing.
Three alleged widows are suing
for damage for the death OF negro
fireman at Spartanburg, S. c.
AT Wartburg, Tenn, Morris Jett,
a youth, was killed by an exploding
gun. His aged grandmother died after
hearing Of his death.
Steamer Dawson City, eighty-six
days out from Nome. reaches Port
Townsend, Wash, with no losses.
Senator Teller says if he is re-
fused a certificate of election by the
governor of Colorado, he viii carry his
case to the United States senate.
John D. Rockefeller is bothered by
letters telling him how to better his
weak stomach, the result of some joker
who reported that Rockefeller would
give $1,000,0O0 for cure.
Volcano ssromboli, on st. Vincent
Island, is again in eruption.
1t is announced that the blockade
Of Venezuela will be raised at once
under satisfactory terms.
In the elections in France Satur-
dav Count Boni de Castellane was re-
turned to the chamber of ueputies.
Venezuelan foreign and war min
listers assert that the Panther hreo
first at San Carlos~---~~--~. -,'-~---
Solomon Hotema, famous Choc-
taw Indian who has acted as represent
ative, senator, judge and Presbyterian
minister in his nation, is now IN the
federal prison at Atlanta to serve lie
sentence for murder.
An unknown white woman walked
on a bridge on the Central below Ma
con, knowing that a train was just oe-
hind her. She was decapitated.
DIR. Eugene Foster, Of Augusta
one of the best known physicians IN
Georgia, is dead of heart failure.
-Laymen in Mississippi are object
ing to alleged caucusing before the
election of DR.. Lloyd as bishop OF Mis-
sissippi.
United Mine Workers receive re-
port of wage committee. The miners
will make demand for an advance.
The United States, in the canal
treaty, agrees to pay Colombia Slo,'
100000 for her rights in routes across
the isthmus.
Colonel Arthur Lynch was convict
ed of high treason at London and SEN
fenced to death.
king Oscar of Norway and sweden
will resign the government to crown
prince temporarily.
Cement and water plants costing
s20OO,O0O will be constructed at Gar
tersville, Ca, by Chicago capitalists.
The Millard Lee insanity case IS
dismissed from the superior court anu
will be taken to the supreme court.
The Panama canal treaty was
signed at Washington Thursday.
Horace Aivers, prominent real
sstate man of Savannah, Ca, has been
fined $3.50 by Judge Pope Barrow Tor
renting property for gaming purposes.
While stealing coal Thursday
morning, Jane Mayo, a negro woman,
of Macon, Ca, received two loads OF
buckshot. She was found dead late IN
the morning.
The North Carolina democratic
senatorial caucus was fairly stampeded
Thursday night when Watson ran
ahead of Overman, needing only sew
en- votes to win the nomination.
At Spartanburg, S. c., a 3-year-old
girl feeds strychnine pills to her In
FAINT sister, causing almost instant
death.
The deadlocks in Colorado and
Delaware legislatures, in selecting can
didates for senator are tight ones.
German cruisers bombarded Fort
San Carlos at Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Thursday.
Herr Bebel, socialist, in the Ger
man reichstag, said the emperor was
crazy to play the first role in the
world.
The volcano Soufrierer, on st. Vim
cent island, is in eruption again.
The general headquarters OF the
Southern Bell Telephone and Ieie
graph Company, with all the executive
n..,z of tbo oonoo oary eyceDt Pr6Sl-