The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-10-06
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

In THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The town of Elloree, Orangeburg
county. now has bank, it having opened
for business last week.
MI. J. Frank Breeder, one of Marlboro
most prominent citizens, died last week.
He was large and successful planter.
Judge ]. T. Hay, of Kershaw, will be
candidate for Judge of the fifth circuit
against Judge Ernest Gary, the incumbent.
The Ministers Union, of Spartanburg,
has fled protest with the railroad CON-
mission against the running of freight
trains on Sunday.
The Mystic shriners held their fall ses'
sion at White Stone Springs last week,
and had great time. This is "side-
1ine'' of Masonry, being the place where
the fun comes in.
VIC. Horlbeck, well-known young
man, committed suicide at his home in
Charleston last Friday afternoon byshoot-
ing himself in the head with pistol. he
had been in poor health recently.
Magistrate S. NJ. Youmans was tried fol
the second time in Manning last week for
the killing of Jno. R. Keels few months
ago. After deliberation of six minutes
the jury returned verdict of not guilty.
A wreck occurred on the Atlantic Coast
Line near Latta, in Marion county, last
week, caused by collision between g
through freight and passenger train. The
engineer and two. passengers were in
iured but not fatally.
Mr.. Yates Snowden has resigned his
position on the editorial staff of the News
and Courier, and he and Mrs. Snowden
have gone to New York, where he will
take a course of lectures at Columbia Uni
yersity. MI. Snowden will be engaged in
study for year.
Pratt Miles, young white man, cut his
throat with a razor in Spartanburg last
Saturday and died the next day. He had
been sick for some time and was very
despondent, saying that his family would
be better off ii he were dead. he leaves
a wife and three children.
In Mayesville last Wednesday night
Policeman s. F. Hurst was shot and killed
by j. Ed. Anderson, the depot agent. The
shooting was the result of personal
trouble, and the published report puts
Anderson in the light of being justified.
Anderson used Colts automatic pistol,
and all the six bullets fired took effect in
the breast and abdomen. Hurst died in
stantly.
Sam Marks, the negro who killed
white man named Hill Langston by
knocking him in the head several weeks
ago, was tried in Darlington last week,
found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged
November 11th. The military company
was on duty during the trial, but there
was no demonstration by citizens. Moses
Hair, an accomplice in the crime, was
sentenced to the penitehtiary for life.
A family row occurred at Vance's, near
Holly Hill, in Orangeburg county, last
Wednesday between Elvin Smith, his two
sons, Tom and John, and his son-in-law,
Cass Stoutamire. Stoutamire shot at El-
win Smith, missing him, the shot entering
the neck of John, the young son OF Smith,
who had run between the two. Tom, an
older son of Smith, then took up the quar-
rel and shot at Stoutamire, wounding him
in the arm. Neither is seriously wounded
and both are doing we'll at this time.
Last Monday morning about eleven
o'clock negro went to the mouse o. MI
Raleigh Neill, a prominent farmer who
lives about eight miles north of the town
of Lancaster, and made improper propos-
ais to his wife. Mrs. Neia stepped back
into an adjoining room and brought out
her husbands gun, which frightened the
negro off. 1t was unloaded however. Mr..
Neill had gone to Lancaster at the time.
The lady soon gave the alarm and a
crowd gathered but did not succeed in
capturing the brute.
Ernest Il. Miller, of Charleston, young
white man about 10 years of age, was
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun last Sunday afternoon. He and a
friend had been out hunting on Morris
Island and were in their boat about to
start back to the city. In handling an
oar he struck the hammers of his gun,
-, l:z.horro6 II the load takin effect