The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-12-08
In THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
s Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.


and Happenings.
The records show that one building has
been erected in Greenville for every three
days the past year.
The Baptist State convention at Ches-
ter last week adopted strong resolutions
against the dispensary.
s Engineer James A. Jones was ground
to pieces beneath his engine in wreck t
Georgetown on Saturday, dying instantly.
= Mr.. James 7. Culbreath, prominent
member of the Newberry bar, died in a
hospitalin Atlanta last Saturday morning,
where he had gone for treatment.
4 a Beaufort farmer sold some sea island
cotton last week for so cents pound.
This is said to be the highest price paid in
thirty years for this grade of cotton.
The preliminary survey of the proposed
railroad from Sumter to connect with
I the Seaboard Air Line is now in progress.
!. It is believed the road will be built.
Robert W. Terry, young white man
3 of Sumter, attempted suicide last week by
I shooting himself with pistol, but the
wound is not likely to prove fatal, Ex-
cessiye drinking was the cause.
~ JEFF Pitts, colored farmer, has bought
400 acres of land for $4,000 near Madden,
Laurens county, and will establish ne
gro industrial school there, something
like Booker Washington presides over at
Tuskeegee, Ala.
5S5 An effort is on foot to have the three
Presbyteries Of the State-.Enoree, the
South Carolina and Bethel-to buy Chic
ora college, Greenville, and make it a
church institution. The city of Green
vile is asked for $4,000 of the required
sum.
- The largest verdict ever rendered in q
damage suit in this State was that in the
case of Mrs. Dorothy Brickman against
4 the Southern Railway for the death of
her husband who was killed in the Fish
ing Greek wreck last year. Mr.. Brick
man was the engineer. She sued for $780,
600, and the jury gave S55,O0D.
a commission has been issued to the
Charleston and Summerville Railway Co.,
which proposes to build an electric line
from Charleston to Summeryille. The
capital is to be million dollars. The
!; ;corporatars are J.J. o 'Connell, Congress
man George s. Legare, and Geo. 6. Ev-
ans, all Of Charleston, and Warran +.
Marten, of Philadelphia.
j. Madison James, white man, shot
and instantly killed his wife last Friday
night and attempted to shoot her mother.
The mother was at MS home and some
disagreement arose between her and
James, and the wife took her mothers
pars. James got a,gun and the inmates
! of the house fed, but he caught and shot
his wife on the front piazza, killing her
instantly. The others escaped and went
to the house of Mr.. Kelly, brother-in-
law. A brother of the dead woman, Mr.
sR. s. Kelly, went to the house early next
morning and James shot him, instantly
killing him. In the meantime Sheriff
Scarborough had been notified, and he
with posse attempted to arrest James,
who had barricaded himself in the house.
a. number of shots were exchanged, and
finally James was killed. Several mem
bers Of the sheriff's posse vera wounded,
but none seriously. James had been in
the asylum about year ago, hut had been
released as cured He is supposed to have
been insane. The tragedy occurred in
the Kellytown section of Darlington
county.
a COSTLY MISTAKE.
Blunders are sometimes very expensive.
Occasionally life itself is the price of q
mistake, bnt you'll never be wrong if you