The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-01
In THE PALMETTO STATE.

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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The Southern Baptist convention will
establish home for the children of mis-
sionaries. It is to be located in Green
vile, and residence has been selected.
1 Judge Parker has declined to come to
Charleston to the proposed ratification
meeting in bis honor, and Senator Till
man also cannot be present. Other speak
ers will be invited.
A sort of general row occurred at
campaign meeting in Florence county
last Wednesday, in which one man was
severely stabbed and his head badly cut,
while another had his nose broken. The
cause of the row was politics and whis-
key.
Mr.. B. C. Farmer, of Allendale, COM
mitted suicide at the Carlisle hotel in
Union county last Thursday by shooting
himself with pistol. The dead man left
note asking that his father at Allendale
he notified. No reason is assigned for
the act.
Henry Jones, negro, was hanged at
Pickens last Friday. he killed young
white man at Easley some months ago,
who was acting as constable and gone to
arrest him. Jones on the scaffold warned
the negroes against the possession and
use of firearms.
A negro named Spencer Barnes was
shot and killed at negro church near
Edgefeld last Wednesday night. There
was a sort of free fight going on and
Barnes tried to act as peace-maker and
was shot by two brothers named Hollo-
way. The negroes made their escape.
Elijah Wood, a farmer near Ridge
Spring, was given a teaspoonful OF car
bolic acid in water by his son and died
shortly afterwards. The boy gave the
dose by mistake, he seeming not to under
stand the directions of the doctor. who
told him to put the acid in water and ap-
ply to his fathers foot for poison oak.
Butler Holt, the white man who was
arrested for the murder of the mysterious
white woman in Columbia, but who was
supposed to be is wife, has been released
from custody, as his wife is alive and
well. She appeared in Newberry last
week, where she had come from Bath,
and the authorities then released Holt.
The murder is still a mystery.
Solomon Roberts, negro whose home
is at Easley, while attempting to board a
moving freight train at Wellford, IN
spartanburg county, Tuesday morning,
slipped and fell under the boxcar, the
wheel severing his left leg. He was in
the act of grabbing the ladder at the rear
end of the car, when his hold slipped and
he fell. His leg was amputated below
the knee.
A section of the front beach on Sulli-
vans Island washed away at four O'Clock
last Friday morning. No houses were
destroyed, but the caYe-in came within 20
feet of two residences. The excavation
made is 80 to 80 feet deep and covers an
area of 100 by $50 feet. The channel OF the
ietties is thought to have caused the cave
in. There is some excitement among res
idents of the island.
Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, of Hickory
Grove, York county, shot and killed a
negro man about 10 o'clock last Thursday
night. The negro attempted to drag Mr..
Smith out window of his house and al
most tore his shirt off. he warned the
negro away but he came again at him,
when he used bis shotgun with fatal effect.
The negro was said to have been insane
but MI. Smith was not aware of it.
Carlyle Mckinley, chief editorial writer
of the News and Courier, died at his home
at Mount Pleasant last Thursday, after
long illness. He was the author of IAN
Appeal to Pharaoh" an argument for
deportation of negroes to Africa which at
tracted much attention and which first
appeared anonymously and was attrib-
uted to Henry W. Grady and others. 1t
was warmly commended by the late Sir
Henry NJ. Stanley IN a personal letter to
the author. Some of his poems have been
widely quoted. He was distant relative
of the late President Mckinley. The body
was carried to his old home in Lexing-
ton, Ca, for burial.
r, Snnter county last Thursday K. T..