The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-11-23
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

lin THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punssnt Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The citizens of Greenville county do
not want the constables removed from
that county, and want the extra tax put
on to keep them.
In an interview with reporter in
Charleston on Friday, Senator Tillman
said the dispensary is "the only issue in
South Carolina"
Bankruptcy proceedings in the United
States Court at Charleston have been be-
gun against Thos. q. Duncan, late presi-
dent of the cotton mills at Union.
The municipal election of Newberry
takes place next Tuesday. There are
only two candidates for mayor and not
more than two in any ward for aldermen.
The State Baptist convention is to meet
in Columbia the first week in December,
while the annual conference o. the
Methodist church will be held in Spar
tanburg.
Harry Ward, the colored sexton of the
Episcopal church at Yorkville, has been
arrested for selling liquor. he kept his
supply Of whiskey in the vestry OF the
church.
Mrs. Martha Orr Patterson, of Green
Diego, California, last week, from the ef-
fects of which she died a few days later in
that city.
A young. white boy named Charlie
Hodge, 16 years old, committed suicide
in Sumter last week by shooting himself
through the head with pistol. No reason
is assigned for the act.
Senator Tillman was in Charleston last
Friday, and visited the new navy yard
now under construction. He declined to
talk politics. He was on his. way home
from leeturing tour in Florida.
Harvie Jordan, president of the South.
ern cotton growers association, is advis--
ing all farmers to hold the remainder OF
their crop for fifteen cents. He says the
crop is shorter than was generally sup
posed.
Governor Hayward has dcided to send
dispensary constables back to Union
county, conditions there having grown
intolerable, but constables will be with
drawn from Greenville and Spartanburg
counties.
Sam Coleman shot and instantly killed
Tom Watkins at Batesburg last Sunday
afternoon. Both are negroes. Coleman
says the shooting was an accident, but
the circumstances make it appear to have
been murder.
It is said that Thos. G. Duncan will
fight the bankruptcy proceedings against
him, which have been instituted by the
mills of which he was president, and q
bank, and that sensational developments
may be expected.
White girls are now employed as wait.
ers at the St. John hotel in Charleston
and they are giving perfect satisfaction
This is certainly step in the right direc.
ton, and one which will do much toward
solving the negro labor problem in the
South.
The monument to n. G. Gonzales, edi.
tor of the State, who was killed by j. B.
Tillman, will be unveiled in Columbia to.
day. Appropriate exercises will be held
The money to erect this monument was
raised largely through the efforts Of the
women ofColumbia.
Governor Hayward has made requisi-
ton on the Governor of Georgia for the
man in Jail at Swainsboro, supposed to be
Dan G. Murphy. In case the party is
really Murphy, he will be brought back
to the South Carolina penitentiary to
finish his life sentence.
Mrs. John Hinson, of Flat Rock Town
ship, Lancaster county, while standing
by the fire in her room one day last week,
holding her baby in her arms, suddenly
tainted and fell in the fire. Both she and
the baby we're horribly burned, and 1t is
doubtful if either will recover
Governor Hayward is of the opinion
that the dispensary constables will be
needed in Greenville and Spartanburg
| counties. Whiskey was sold in these
counties unlawfully under the bar room
and dispensary regime, and of course it
will not stop because the dispensary has
| been voted out.
W. Hampton Cobb, probate judge of
Richland county, was seriously Injured
by an explosion of gas in his Office in
the county court house at Columbia last
Monday morning. The gas had been &C.
cumulating in the vault of his office,
where he kept important papers, since
Saturday, and when he opened the vault
and struck q match, the explosion oc-
CURED. He was badly injured, and the
result may be serious.
Suit has been begun by the Columbia
Water Company against the Meals Shoals
Power Company Of Union for $50, 900
damages on account Of a lack of water
in the Broad river. A Atemporary injunc.
tion was granted before Judge Townsend
at Union last Friday, and the case will be
heard in Yorkville December 9th. The
Union company holds the water of the
river to such an extent that several indus
tries in Columbia are idle for lack of
power.
The chief of police of Augusta notified
Governor Hayward last week that man
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