The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-01-08
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Scream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
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night. Mayor Minis retired, and first
work Of new council was to arrange
to investigate police board.
Atlanta Water Power and Elec'
trio Company is enjoined from con-
structing railroad from Roswell to
Bull Sluice.
Thomas Conrad, assistant bag
gage master at the Macon, Ca, union
passenger station, was killed Monday
by Arthur Shivers, negro helper.
The Peoples bank OF Barnesville,
Ca, makes an assignment, closing a
long period of litigation.
AT Oneonto, Ala, Miss Alldreuge,
daughter of the sheriff, frees two
prisoners and elopes with one of
them.
Richmond, Va, has an epidemic
of smallpox, while deaths are still re-
ported from lockjaw caused by
wounds from toy guns
The South Carolina railroad COM
mission decides that the charges
against the Southern railway as to di-
verting cotton from Charleston have
not been proven.
Congress reconvened Monday af-
ter the holiday recess. The coal sit
uation was discussed in the senate.
In the house Mr. Bartlett had a sharp
spat with Speaker Henderson.
Governor Taft, of the Philippines,
will be named to succeed Justice Shi-
ras on the supreme bench. General
Luke Wright will succeed Taft as
Governor.
Former Premier 'agasta, Of
Spain, died at his home in Madrid
Monday All his associates in the lib
eral cabinet were at his bedside.
-Muscogee county, Ga, schools will
in the future use Uunied States histo-
ries of southern authorship.
Governor Terrell accepts invita-
tion to visit Savannah, Ca, on Feb
ruary g. An elaborate military pro-
gram is to be arranged.
The number of deaths from lock-
jaw caused by toy pistols reaches
twenty-seven, seven deaths being re-
ported from Charleston, s. c., and
many from Norfolk, Va.
The race between Teller and VOL
colt in Colorado is an interesting one.
Teller, the democratic candidate, has
four republican opponents.
Members of the Order of Railway
Trainmen and Conductors met at st.
Louis Monday to receive answer to de-
mand for increased pay.
Complete details of the wreck
near Birmingham on the Southern
Saturday night show that one man was
killed and twenty-eight injured.
The baby elephant Topsy, who has
killed three men, was electrocuted
Coney Island, New York, Saturday.
"A party of fifty-four negroes leave
Savannah for Liberia.
The Blue Ridge, Ca, Mining Com
pany is put into the hands Of receivers.
The annual report of State Treas
urer Whitfield shows Florida to be in
excellent financial condition.
I'm a recent fire at Gadsden, Ala,
one man is burned to death.
Georgia Society of New York will
give it's second annual banquet on
February 3.
Preachers Of Richmond are fight
ing the proposition to legalize Sunday
racing.
Henry Watterson, editor Of the
Courier-Journal Louisville, KY, makes
another attack on New York's -four
hundred"
AT Scranton, Pa, four houses
were destroyed by cave-in, caused
by the earth giving way over the work
ings Of mine.
Castro says his course is correct
and everything depends on the con-
duct of the allies.
-MeXicans claim the bubonic
plague came to their country from Chi
ma on a ship arriving December Is.
Hon. ]. R. Lamar, of Augusta, is
appointed associate justice Of the Geor-
gia state supreme court to succeed JUS
tice w. A. Little, who has resigned.
Capitalists propose the erection in
Atlanta, Ca, of a s1,OOO,00O car plant,
to be the largest in the southern
states.
Near Deatsville, Ala, Thursday,
Mrs. B. Lane filled a negro assailant
with buckshot, killing him instantly.
Three South Carolina women en-
ter suits against the Southern railway
for the death of the same man, all
claiming him as her husband.
Annual report of the North Carroll
ma state penitentiary shows that the
institution pays the state handsomely.
New Years receptions on both
continents were brilliant affairs That
at the white house was unusually daz-
zling.
-1ne sner1ns OF sixteen counties OF
Maine instruct their deputies to notify
dealers in liquor that they must dis
pose of their goods at once or suffer
the consequences.
United States Marshal Austin, of
Knoxville, Tenn, is charged with en-
deavoring to get into a rake-off coal
contract.
Governor McSweeney, of South |
Carolina, is being urged to bring suit |
against a paper which made certain |
harsh charges concerning him.
king Edward was proclaimed en-
peror of India at Delhi Thursday with |
great pomp.
The nrinca of Wales duke of Con-