The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Throughout the State.

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primary ir the ninth circuit has been
officially declared as follows: Jervey
ais; Logan 1874.
Thos. J. Jackson, a young man llv-
ing about four miles from Bowman,
was struck by a falling limb
while driving a wagon Of fertilizer
and instantly killed.
The Business League OF Marion
gave a smoker on Friday night, at
which Governor Hayward and other
prominent South C%arolinians were
present.
Attorney General Gunter has rem
dered an opinion in which he holds
that the town of Batesburg can not
legally exempt the new winter hotel
at that place from taxation for a term
of years.
The state board of health will meet
in Greenville on the nth to prepare
rules and regulations under the new
act in regard to vaccination. The
State Medical society will meet at
the same time.
The dead body Of Rebecca Planter,
a e woman, was found floating in
Broad river, near Columbia, on Fri
day afternoon. 1t is stated there
seems to be no doubt the woman was
choked to death and thrown into the
river.
At an early hour on Saturday
morning the guard house at Lowndes-
vile was burned, John Alabama, col
ored, who had been placed in the
guard house late during the afternoon
before charged with violation of con-
tract, perishing in the flames.
Babe Gilmer, of Greenville, charg-
ed with stabbing Engineer Wilson, OF
the Greenville News plant, waived
preliminary and was released on
bond, and Immediately after his re-
lease was married to Miss Vivian Bel
lotte.
The Italian peonage cas- in the
United States court in Charleston has
resulted in a mistrial. The case was
brought against an Italian contrac-
tor at the Pom Pom mines and his
guards, who were charged with hold
ING Italian miners in a condition OF
slavery.
While doing the giant swing.in the
gymnasium in the Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing at Monaghan cotton mills, Green
Vile. Archie Holiday slipped from
the horizontal bar and fell to the
floor, breaking his neck. Holiday
was about 20 years of age, and was
generally regarded as a flrst-class
operative.
Rennie L. Cade, a young man 22
years of age, was drowned in the Sa-
vannah river, near Bordeau, in Able
Vile county, on Thursday evening.
One of his laborers had gone to
Georgia and Cade had obtained a
warrant for his arrest, and with a
posse was at the river waiting for
the negro. 1t is supposed that Cade
ATTEMPTED to swim the river to get
one Of the bots on the other side.
Mrs. Jones MCGEE, the young wife
of a prosperous planter Of Anderson
met a horrible death on last We'd
nesday afternoon. She lay down be-
fore the fire with a four-weeks-oid
infant in the cradle beside her. Her
husband returned to the house and
found his wife's clothing burned
away, the infant painfully injured and
the house ablaze. Mrs. MCGEE died
after eight hours of agony.
AIDE Hennon, a colored boy about
IA years of age, was carried to Aiken
on Thursday night and lodged in JAIL
charged with a criminal assault upon
the five-year-old daughter of Mr.. e.
7 Dicks, of that county. When the
negro was taken to Aiken he said that
a confession which he had made was
forced from him by the man who beat
him so terribly, and now he declares
that he is not guilty.