The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-24
$Creaum1f i of News.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
Of Each Day.

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The dead body Of an unknoNa
man was found in the ChattahoocAee
above West Point, Ga. II is beloved
he was murdered and thrown in Uhs
river.
At a conference Of the republicans
in New York Sunday it was decided
to let Platt remain as leader Of he
party in the state. while Odell win be
made chairman Of the state committees.
Professor Gayley, Of the Univer-
sity Of California, who Is opposed 10
co-education, calls his poetry class .
lot of "giggling girls," and dismiaes
class and hurriedly leaves room.
Hon. Charles w. Thompson, ssa-f
gressman from the Fifth Alabsana
district, died at Washington, D. 8,
Sunday of pneumonia.
The condition Of Postmaster Cen
eral Payne, who Is Ill at Washingasa,
is reported to have improved.
Confederate veterans at Grenada,
Miss, pass resolutions denouncing ne
recent lynchings in that state.
Department Of agriculture esti-
mates the cotton crop Of the world for
19o2-o3 at 17,179,769 bales.
Burglar In New York kills one ~
liceman and mortally wounds anosher
oney
American steamship New York,
from New York for Southampton.
grounded off Cape La Hague, Franesl
and later the same day collided WITH
another ship in the English channel. &
Lord Beresford, commanding Bsit=
ish squadron in Mediterranean, enter
tains Emperor William on his Hagshf1:
An American while looping the
loop" at Geneva, Switzerland, falls and
! is fatally injured.
Booker T. Washington has vriefel
a letter to Mayor Chappell, Of Colum.
bus. Ca, thanking him for the act Of
Columbus in erecting q monument TO
Bragg Smith. the negro who lost his
life while trying to save city oA,s
cial.
The committee in charge Of the
relief Of the Gainesville, Ga, storm
sufferers has made it's final report
showing over $4,000 distributed.
Henry Williams, the negro who as-
saulted Mrs. Shields at Roanoke, pa
was hanged there Friday. No demol-a
stration was made, but troops Fere.
held at their. armory.
The bill validating the merger Of
! the Southern and the Mobile and Ohio
passed the Mississippi senate Friday
after a bitter fight. It had already
! passed the house. &
Daniel Sully, tbs. great cotton bull,
announces that he, is unable to meet
his engagements. Great excitement
followed in New York and New er.s
leans.
"A majority of the subcommittee aff
the house judiciary committee fnas
that the charges against Federal judge
Swayne, Of Florida, have been sas,s
tanned.
| The officers of the United Maes
Workers have finished counting che
vote and report that great majority
has been cast against strike. =
General Leonard Wood was eoAs5
flrmed as major general by the senate
Friday.
The court house fight was ended
in Worth county, Ca, Wednesday.
when the proposition to move the
county site from Isabella to Sylveaeer
was carried, by q vote OF 2,126 to ~
Colonel L.,W. CAackenboss, OF the
Third Mississippi regiment Of infantry,
who has attracted much attention by@
his refusal to resign, pending char1es
OF embezzlement, has finally teEde1eAs
his commission to Governor paSda-
man.
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i In the open hearth department, the
steel mill at Ensley, Ala, is closed
down. The management Is taking sa'
vantage of the shut down to make
needed repairs.
Judge Emory Speer in decision
in peonage cases differs with Judge ".
T. Newman who has ruled in similar
cases.
Thirty Russian. students, seveaa. !;
Of them women, have been ordered to
leave Germany for protesting against
the government permitting Russian
police spies to watch Russian rest
dents in Germany.
AT Budapest, the palaces of En-.
peror Francis Joseph and the Arch
duchess Clothiede were stoned Wei
nesday because the buildings were not
decorated in honor of the anniversary