The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-02-11

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Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
Of Each Day.

-Ihe MISSISSIPPI mouse pdseeo
bill making attempted criminal assault
hanging crime. The maximum pen
atty has been heretofore ten years i'm
prisonment.
The republican state executive
committee of North Carolina passed
resolutions indorsiing Roosevelt and
approving the course of the admins
tration.
Major Keesler has been offered
the commandership of the state guard
by Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi.
It is thought Major Keesler will ac-
cepr.
State officials of North Carolina
declare the recent decision Of the su.
preme court in the bond case was
blow to state sovereignty.
The senate Friday agreed to loan
the St. Louis exposition an additional
sum of $4,6OO,OO0. Senator Patterson,
of Colorado, declared against silver,
and Senator Mallory, Of Florida con-
doned Roosevelt's Panama policy.
Mr.. Sheppard, democrat, of Texas,
one of the youngest members OF the
house, made determined and persist
ent effort in the body Friday to bring
about a reform in the matter Of dis
tribution Of seeds by the government
but failed.
Senator Hanna's illness is official.
ly pronounced by his physicians to be
irregular typhoid. The senator's con-
dition IS critical, but physicians hope
for recovery.
AT the convention OF the republi'
can editors in Washington, O. R. Nor
ris, of North Carolina, bitterly at
tackled the democrats OF the south.
The announcement of Judge Maddox,
of Georgia, that he will retire from
congress has caus I'd great regret
among his colleagues at Washington.
AT San Domingo the insurgents
deliberately fired on the launch of the
auxiliary cruiser Yankee, killing ]. c.
Johnson, the engineer. United States
Minister Powell has directed the cap
tain of the Yankee to take drastic
measures to avenge Johnston's death.
While riding at the head Of his
company of guards a. Potsdam Fri.
day, the German crown prince was
thrown from his horse but not serious
ly injured.
.-Sixto Lopez, the. Filipino agitator
will be deported from the Philippines
because he has refused to swear alleg
lance to the United States. ..
President Palma has issued de
cree increasing the Cuban customs du.
ties. The rates are more favorable to
Europe than America.
BY a volcanic eruption, on the
island Java several persons were burn.
ed to death and many injured. .-
S. Hill Terry, on trial at Whining.
ton, N. c., charged with the murder
Of his son-in-law, commits suicide n
his cell by slash1ng his throat with an
cid case knife. I'd,
Crazy negro woman near Walter.
boro, N c., chokes her 17-year-old
daughter to death, claiming that the
7 ord MN, m o D6od bor to ,,t tho oir1 RI
death.
The dead bodies of Fireman W. J
Madey and ex-Fireman J. J. Dunn
we're found Wednesday, in the ruins
caused by conflagration at Knoxville,
Tenn
Miners and operators who have
been in conference at Indianapolis,
have failed to reach an agreement on
wage scale. A strike of $4,000 min.
ers may follow.
I'm the postal trial at Washington
Wednesday, the defense introduced 4
note dated July I, 1903, for $4,000.
drawn by George Lorenz, in favor OF
August Machen. The note was in.
troduced to explain the remittances
forwarded by Lorenz to Machen.
AT the trial of Colonel Ed Butler,
the st. Louis millionaire politician, ,on
the charge Of bribery, J.--K. Murrell,
ex-member of council, and agent of the
alleged Doodle combine, totd how the
fund of s47,5Oo was divided among
councilmen.
-Efghty-nine of the ninety demo.
cratic members Of the Maryland legis'
lature met in caucus Wednesday night
and selected Isidor Raynsr for .ne
United States senatorship, thus breaE.
ing the deadlock that has existed for
weeks.
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, Of Teu-
nessee, will preach the baccalaureate
sermon at the University of Georgia
at, the next commencement.
There was a warm debate in the
senate Wednesday over the proposed
loan OF s4,GO0,000 to the st. Louis ex-