The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-01-07
Cream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
Important Events
Of Each Day.

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tured near Americus late Saturday
night and carried back to Webster.
President Williams of the Georgia,
Florida and Alabama railway, and =
party of officials have been on vish
to Cuthbert investigating, it is sup
posed, the proposed extension to Co
lumbus.
Fort Valley, Co.. suered q IRE
loss o. $4,000 Sunday morning.
Judge Emory Speer, of the federal
court; is to repeat his famous address
on Robert E. Lee for the benefit Of the
Macon city hospital.
The Knoxville division Of the
Southern has received the first two OF
a large number of 100-ton locomotives
which were Immediately put into sare
vice.
Nearly one hundred girls had
narrow escape from being cremated
near Springfield, KY, when st. Catnel-
inc academy burned to the ground.
-Advices received at Washington
lead the state department authorities
to anticipate an appeal from the sub
stantial elements of Santo Domingo
for either annexation to the Un1ten
States or q protectorate.
Sunday was a day Of funerals b
Chicago and for the first time in the
history Of the city all Of the people
who desired to bury their dead were.
unable to do so.
Rear Admiral Walker, who has
just returned from Panama, declares
that the people of the isthmns are
unit in support of the new government
The eastern states are deep n
snow. High winds prevail on the Al
lantic coast and steamers report rough
voyages.
Prince Frederick, of Schoenberg-
Waldenberg, accompanied ais petition
to the pope for .annullment Of his mar
riage with Princess Alice, daughter OF
Don Carlos, with g gold watch.
DIR. William Bauer, the German
ethnologist, las found an Indian tribe:
in Mexico which claims to be descend
ed from the Teutons Of Europe.
Revolution has broken out in UrU7s
quay and the entire republic has been
declared in state of siege.
Fred D. Beall, postmaster at Con-
dor, Ca, who was SO severely stabbed
by Wiley Martin, of Dublin, his broth
er-in-law, died Friday.
Contractor A. F. PickeA was ar
rested at Hawkinsville, Ga, Friday,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Felix Won Breisen, young scuiD-
tor married a young lady of Ashevills,
N. C. Work being scarce, he went
west. His wife not hearing from him
for more than year, got divorce. a
few weeks ago she received q letter
from him. He was left a fortune:
He returned home End they were re-
married.
Farmers Of North Carolina are re-
ported to be in better financial con-
dition than ever before, the advance
In cotton prices. being the cause. An.
advance in prices of tobacco Is pre-
dicted.
The fight of the Chattanooga Gem
tral Labor Council against the Stand
ard Manufacturing Company has end
ed, the company organizing branch
of the Garment Workers Union.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Of Chi
cago, ordered an inspection Of all city
theatres to ascertain il they were
protected by an. asbestos curtain. On
their report he ordered nineteen thea
tiers closed.
Nearly FIVE hundred democrats OF
Nebraska Friday night celebrated at
Omaha the ninety-ninth anniversary
of Andrew Jackson's victory over the
6rlIlSu dL INC" OlISdAS oAo eA0 S@ASAE
teenth annual banquet Of the Jackson
ian Club of Nebraska.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt In
augurated on New Years day, the ON
cial season in the nations capital with
a brilliant reception.
AT Pineapple, Ala, on organization
Of court to try five men charged with
;; lynching, the judges left the bench,
one Of them being disqualified, and
court dissolved.
Tom stancey, a convict in the lou
isiana penitentiary, killed Charles Ar
liant, captain of the watch, by shooting
, him with. pistol.
Alabama convict bureau officials
say that the state netted 100000 from
the hire of convicts for the year 1908
North Carolina had only one lynch
ing in 1908. TIE year previous there
! were eight lynchings in the state.
Captain Fred Pabst, head OF the