The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-11-24
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.
Alex Joseph, 12-year-old negro, is in
jail at Rock Hill charged with two cases
of arson. He was caught setting fire to
farmers barn.
Mr.. s. B. Plumer, of Paterson, New
Jersey, has been in several towns in the
State recently, prospecting for place TO
establish silk mill.
Ex-Governor Hugh S. Thompson died
/: at his home in New York last Sun
3 day. The funeral and burial took place
in Columbia yesterday.
William Sowell and Walter Hough,
young men of Lancaster, fought with
8 pistols on Friday. Hough was shot in
the body and hand, Sowell was shot in
the leg and was cut with knife.
G.. W. Blackwell, IS years old, an oper-
atiye in the cotton mill at Dillon, was
struck by freight train near that town
last Thursday and instantly killed. He
had been drinking and went to sleep on
the track.
Young Carroll Hook, the eleven-year-
old son of Mr.. j. W. Hook, of Batesburg,
died last Saturday of hydrophobia. He
was bitten about two months ago by a
dog supposed to be mad He was treated
by local physicians and a maidstone ap-
piled and he had apparently recovered.
Phillip Maltry, German, proprietor of
the Wright's hotel barber shop in Colum-
bia, committed suicide at his home last
Thursday morning by strangling himself
with a cord. He tied heavy cord around
his neck and frightened it by twisting with
stick. Business reverses and bad health
caused the deed.
julius Dill, negro driver, was found
with bullet through his heart in front
of what is known as the Rock House near
Greenyille last Monday. The team he
had been driving was picked up before
the body was found, some distance away.
There is no clue He had only 25 cents
/ in his pocket on the trip.
Benet Haynes. a white man, IS or 2e
years old, was shot last Sunday evening at
Donalds in Abbeville county by Claudio
Addison, young white woman. 1t seems
that Haynes and another man went to the
house of Irene Long, aunt of the girl.
The two men got into quarrel about a
watch and we're ordered to leave. All
left except Haynes. He was finally put
out of the house but in the yard he grab
bed scantling and threatened to kill the
Long woman. She called to her niece for
help, who came to the window and shot
HAYNES three times with an American
bull dog pistol. He staggered across the
road and died in few minutes. The two
women have been carried to Abbeville
and lodged in Jail. The men were drink
-ng, and the killing is the result of whis-
key and women.
A sensation is on in Saluda county. A
few weeks ago two white men named
Morse and Henderson met in the road in
that county. They were enemies and a
shooting frolic ensued, the result of which
was that Morse was killed and Henderson
badly wounded. Acting on the advice OF
Solicitor Thurmond, Governor Heyward
{ offered reward of 800 for the capture
of Henderson. Later this reward was
paid to one Maj. r. S. Anderson, of Edge
field, he presenting at the governors Of
fee a receipt signed by the sheriff and his
son as iailer saying that they had received
the body of Henderson. The receipt bore
the official seal of the sherif's Office. 1t
now appears that Anderson did not arrest
Henderson at all, but that it was done by
the sheriff. The sheriff says that he signed
paper presented to him byN. G. Evans,
a lawyer of Edgefeld, who said it was a
paper to be used in getting bail for Hen
derson.
A COSTLY MISTAKE.
Blunders are sometimes very expensive.
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