The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-15
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

mond, We.
Martin F. Ansel, of Greenvilie, has
been appointed special judge at Green
vile for the week beginning September
10th, in place of Geo. W. Gage, who is
still too i'll to preside.
Mr.. Charles A. Calvo, Jr., formerly
proprietor of the Columbia Daily Regis
ter and State printer, has purchased the
St. Matthews Record. Mr.. Calvo is an
all.round newspaper man.
The town of Clinton, by 81 to rs, has
voted 5000 in bonds for establishing 9
water and light plant, and J. A. Bailey, j.
T. Robertson and R. z. Wright have been
elected commissioners of public works.
A survey has been made of the proposed
new county to be cut of from portions OF
Edgefeld, Abbeville and Greenwood, with
Mccormick as the county seat. An elee.
ton on the question will be held soon.
Two white men we're arrested in Rich
land county recently charged with voting
twice in the first primary. Nothing was
done with them, however. 1t is nighttime
something was being done to purify our
primaries.
McFadden's meat market in Rock Hill
was broken into last Saturday night and
robbed of about $500. The safe was
blown open. This shows that the safe
crackers have begun their work in this
State again.
J. Wand Smith, white, about IS years
old, committed suicide in Spartanburg
city last Friday morning by shooting
himself through the left breast with 2s
calibre rife. Dependency caused oy Ill
health is supposed to be the canse.
A young man named P. Ramsey Bow
ers, lost his arm in gin at Luray, Hamp-
ton county, last Saturday while ginning
cotton for NJ. o. Youmans. He was a
SON of DR.. Bowers. The doctors had to
amputate the arm above the elbow.
The city Of Sumter has decided to have
a carnival or fall festival the latter part
of November or thereabouts. The pur-
pose of the fair is to advertise Snmter,
and if this idea is carried out it will no
doubt be good thing for the city.
DE. Hydrick and G. P. Sanders, both
spartanburg attorneys, will make the race
for Judge of the seventh judicial circuit,
now held by D. A. Townsend, OF Union
who will stand for reelection. The elec'
ton will be held during the coming ses'
sion of the general assembly.
Ben. F. Foreman, prosperous mer'
chant and planter of Ellenton, committed
suicide last Friday by shooting himself
with pistol. He talked of business re-
verses and about ten o'clock that morning
walked to the rear of his store and shot
himself. 1t is believed that his financial
affairs are in fine shape.
Harry Wright, ten-year-old white
boy, was shot and instantly killed al
Bennettsville last Friday by a negro boy
named Edgar Mccoy. There is no ques'
ton but that the killing was accidental
Mccoy was trying to close the breech OF
gun when it was discharged, almost
tearing off Wright's head.
While engaged in fight in Richard
ardson's beer dispensary in Greenville on
Monday Of last week Henry CRANKY
struck Ote Mace on the head with beer
bottle from the effects of which he died
on Wednesday night. On Tuesday there
was another fight in this same beer dis
pensary in which John Collins nose was
chewed of by Lum Ward.
A fearful wreck occurred on the Sea-
board Air Line last Friday morning about
one o'clock at Catawba river, near Rock
Hill. A passenger train fell through the
trestle and few minutes later an engine
and caboose came along and fell in on
the passenger train. Four lives were lost
and a number of people injured. The
railroad authorities think the track was
pulled up in order to wreck the train.
VIII. McCaw, reporter for the Co.
lumbia State, was attacked on the streets
of that city last Saturday afternoon by
two low-down white men, Leon Shull and
Charley Stone, who were mad because
shulrs name had been published in the
paper the day before in connection with
police court proceedings. McCaw defend
ed himself well but was oVerpowered'
Newspaper men ought to go armed to
protect themselves against thugs and
towards.
In neighboring town mind reader
demonstrated to party OF ladies' and
gentlemen his ability to read newspaper