The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-08-13
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Brief Summary OF Most
important Events
Of Each Day.

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vestigation.
Experts declare that the will Ct
the late G. W. Collier, of Atlanta, Ca
| Is sn impression copy and other start
ling testimony is given.
Central of Georgia railroad direc-
! tors order per cent dividend on first
preferred income bonds.
: Train strikes wagon at crossing
in Terrell county, Ca, and two ne
groes klllea.
Charles Johnson Is sent to chan
gang at Americus, Ca, for defraudlng
! negroes on the ex-slave pension fraud.
The amount due state of Alabama
by Tax Collector Booker, of Lee corn'
ty, who failed to make returns is now
said to he s7.425.
-Southbound train No. 35, of South
ern, was wrecked by some miscre'at
near Sastonia, n. c., H4onday night.
Nobody killed. Engineer and two pos
tai clerks injured.
Two negroes attacked five white
men in Greenville county, South Caro-
lima. One of the white men is dying
and the other four were slightly
wounded
Board of arbitration to adjust dit
ference letween Alabama miners and
operators met at Birmingham Monday.
A large number of witnesses will Ie
examined.
Postmaster General Payne has de-
cided to try baggage men as mail
clerks on certain trains.
The hustle 4ost by Mrs. Van
Clerke. in which she had hid $1,000,
has been found. The moeny was still
in the hustle.
Governor Durbin, of Indiana, has
written to President Roosevelt, stating
that the latter letter on lynching has
sounded keynote.
The trial of the Humberts contin-
ues at Paris. Nine Humbert is the
star of the trial, frequently denouncihg
the judge and the witnesses as liars.
The murder of the Russian consul
at Monastir has complicated the Bal
kan situation. The czar has demand-
ed the exemplary punishment of tae
murderer and also of all civil and MIL
iterv officers at MOnaStir
DIR. J. w. Lee, Methodist minister
and pastor Of St. Louis church; ridi-
cules high church views of Episcopal
lians
The Atlanta board of health Will
hear the dairymen, anent the milk
muddle, If they wish to talk, but will
probably not order an investigation un-
less specific charges are made.
Augusta, Ca, will probably follov
Atlanta's example and order an insp -
tion of milk. .
charleston, s. c., was yisitel by a
terrific electrical storm Sunday Three
persons killed by lightning in and
around the city.
"A report was current that Dewey,
the absconding cashier of the bank at
Newbern, N. c., had committed suicide
in New York. 1t proved untrue.
South Carolina negro woman de-
capitates her two children and throws
their heads into the fire.
President Roosevelt has written a
letter on the lyncning evil to Governor
Durbin, of Indiana. The president
thinks that speedy action by the courts
in criminal cases would lessen lynch
ing. 2
"A large meteor fell in Indian Tee.
ritory Sunday night, which illuminated
a. wide section of country. -. =
The color line in the navy IS wor-
rying the administration. There are
only 500 negroes in the navy, out the
officers want to get rid of them. {
Boiler of the saw mill of the Min
nesota Lumber Company, at Cutting,
Ca, exploded, killing one negro and
injuring nine oher employees. :
1t is thought Cashier Deweys
stealing from the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank, at Newberne, N. c., will
exceed s120,Oo0. +
Returns from the primary election
in Mississippi verify former reports
that Money won the senatorship and
Vardaman the governorship.
Twenty-Five employees of Wallace
Bros, circus We're killed and many
others injured in railroad wreck in
Michigan.
What purports to be the will Of
the late king of Yap reached Savan-
nah, Ca, Wednesday. By the terms
of this document, the Savannah wild
ow gets nothing from the estate.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, whom
Roosevelt greets as "Speckie, old boy, %
was received by the president at Oys'
ter Bay Friday Baron Speck appea:'
ed in full court costume.
The Georgia Dairymen's Associa.
ton adjourned at Athens Wednesday