The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-08-20
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: Cream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
Of Each Day.


half cents an hour in wages and
strike is probable.
Lewis Virgins, last surVivoS OF
the cruiser Shenandoah, that sailed
the seas under confederate colors' TOR
nine months after war ended, and who
died Saturday, was buried at Colum-
bus, Ca, Sunday.
Raleigh, N. c., will vote on dts-
pensary question on September 8.
Citizens of Florence, S. c., IN
mass meeting declared boycott on
the products of the tobacco trust. -
Alabama legislature reconvenes
on the first Tuesday in september.
The president and his fanny
Sunday morning attended divine sei-
vices or board the battleship Kear.
sarge.
President Roosevelt Sunday after
noon addressed O gathering OF Catho-
lies at Oyster Bay on decency OF
speech and conduct.
Justice David Brewer, in an arti-
Gle on lynching, says that speedy ac-
tion by the courts would have ten
dency to allay the mob spirit.
AT Washington the opinion pre-
walls that, owing to the differences
among republicans, there will be no
financial legiflation at the extra ses-
sion of congress.
Statistics show that the deaths
among the negroes in cities far exceed
the births. The urban nepro popula'
ton is decreasing, except as 1t Is In
creased by arrivals from the country.
"A petition has been forwarded
from Panama to the Colombian con-
gress urging the passage Of the canal
treaty.
Because he was socially snubbed
by Reina Castillo, President Cabrera,
of Guatemala, has thrown the former
into prison.
The Bulgarian government has
presented a memorandum to the pow
ers charging the Turks with unspeak-
able atrocities in the disturbed dis
tricts of the Balkans.
Albany, Ca, officials deny the pub
lished story of the lynching OF white
man and a negro at Hartsfeld for as
saulting a white woman.
! The two boys from Atlanta and
Savannah, Ca, who were shanghaied
and shipped aboard South American
steamer, will be detained at Santos,
Brazil, by the American consul.
Fifteen negro prisoners make their
escape from Jail at Washington, N. c
Tennessee will have an exhibit OF
her products at the Worlds fair In st.
Louis.
"A. E. Batson was executed at
Lake Charles, La, Friday. for the
murder Of family Of six persons.
Coal and coke company of Bir'
mingham, Ala, sold its property to
Pennsylvania company.
-Forty-nine lashes were laid on the
bare back Of negro, 23 years old, by
his father, at police station In Macon,
Ga. The fellow was given the prefer
ence of term Of chaingang or whip
ping. He chose the latter. His father
did the whipping.
Secretary Root has issued state
ment in regard to the duties of the
chief Of staff.
-Jett and White were convicted OF
the murder of Attorney Marcum and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
In an address at Dixon, Ills, Fed.
eral Judge Grosscup declared that the
governornment must supervise mono
poles in order to save the nation.
The British parliament has been
prorogued. There was nothing in King
Edwards speech Of special interest.
The Turkish gendarme who killed
the Russian consul at Monastir has
been executed in obedience to the re-
quest Of the czar.
Announcement is made in New
York Of the merging Of Seaboard Air
Line railway eystem with Rock Island
and Frisco interests.
The dreaded Mexican boil weevil
has at last crossed to this side OF the
Mississippi river and much appreheu-
sion is felt.
The Georgia legislature adjourned
its summer session at $50 o'clock
Wednesday evening amidst great re
joicing.
The West Indies cyclone, which
swept the island of Jamaica last Tues,
day, did fearful work in the destruc'
tion of life and property.
Before adjournment, Wednesday,
the Georgia house. of representatives
agreed to senate amendments to the
convict bill, and the measure is no7
up to the governor.
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.
An American fishing smack was
caught poaching in Canadian waters
Wednesday and was badly shelled by
a Dominion gunboat.
The Georgia legislature and Gov
ernor Terrell take up the whipping of
Mamie DeCris, a young woman convict
at the state prison farm, and order IN
7estigation.
Experts declare that the will IT
The late G.. W. Collier, Of Atlanta, Ca,
Is an impression copy and other start
ling testimony is given.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, whom