The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-16
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

uoPPc1huSS'
J. W. Farmer, awhile man of Florence,
was fined by the mayor OF that city last
week for refusing to be vaccinated.
A movement has been started by farm
ers in Anderson county to have all cotton
covered with cotton bagging. This would
increase the consumption Of cotton by
about 5000 bales.
A German jeweler named F. G. Trefzer
has disappeared from his home in Union,
and his whereabouts are unknown. In
vestigation and inquiry have so far failed
to locate him. No reason can be assigned
for his disappearance.
Meetings were held in most counties Of
this State last week, and the farmers
pledged themselves to reduction in the
cotton acreage and amount of fertilizers.
County meetings are to be held at each
county seat next Saturday, the 18th inst.
The postmaster general has decided not
to remove the postmasters at Westminster
and Lancaster for contributing to the
expenses of delegates to Republican con-
ventions. All postmasters were warned
however, that any further violation would
mean dismissal.
Policeman W. J. Bean shot and killed
a negro in Charleston last week. He
tried to arrest the negro, who had pistol
in his hand and fired at the officer, the
ball taking effect in his foot. Bean then
fred, the bullet striking the negro in the
head, killing him.
The "New York and Florida Express"
a passenger train of the Southern Rail-
way, had a head-on collision with a
shifting freight in the railroad yards at
Columbia last Thursday afternoon. Many
of the passengers and train crew were
injured, but none seriously.
There is now some doubt as to whether
the bill to create new Federal judicial
circuit for the upper part of the State
will pass congress, but Senator Latimer
hopes to have it pass the Senate and thus
force the house to act on it. The race Tor
fudge is warm, although the district is not
created.
Fire broke out in the spinning room OF
the Lancaster cotton mill last Saturday
night, but was soon put out by the auto
matte sprinklers. Before the water could
be turned off damage to the amount OF
several thousand dollars was done to
some expensive machinery, which was
flooded. The loss is covered by insurance.
The fire originated in waste box.
About 4 o'clock Saturday morning the
Minor store in Sumter was again discov-
cred to be afire. This is the third or
fourth time that the store has been on fire
since the first time, Monday night week
ago. The fire last Saturday morning was
even larger and the damage greater than
on the first occasion. The insurance agents
have now placed guards over the store,
two to be on duty at night and one during
the day.
J. L. Fits, of Hampton county, was
sentenced to thirty days in the city prison
in Atlanta last week for violating the
ordinances in speaking his socialistic
views on the street without permit.
Fits graduated from the Citadel in
Charleston in 1898 with first honor, and
is a school teacher, but for some time past
he has been connected with a socialistic
paper, "The Appeal to Reason" published
at Girard, Kansas.
Senator Latimer is trying to get the
Government interested in draining the
swamp lands of this State. He hopes to
secure an appropriation to this end. The
amendments to the House bill making an
appropriation of $40, 900 for investigating
the cause of blight in rice, and for expert
ments in tobacco culture, and increasing
the appropriation for experimental road
building to $4,000, all of which were
proposed by Senator Latimer, were agreed
to by the Senate.
Houston Hembree was shot and killed
by Polk Odom in Spartanburg county last
week. Both parties are white. Herabree
and his two sons were out looking for
his sons wife who had left home. They
had guns, and went to Odom's house and
INQUIRED if she was there. They were
informed that she was not, and started to
leave, but short distance from the house
they were fired on by Odom and the old
man Hembree killed. One of the sons
returned the fire but did not hit Odom,
who has been arrested and is now in jail.
A negro named "Red" Davis was tried
at Columbia last week and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary for shooting
at some ladies while they were walking
the streets of Columbia few months
ago. Davis was on street car at the
time, and fired his pistol recklessly.
There was no motive shown for the shoot
ing. He Immediately jumped off the car
and escaped, but was captured few days
later. He must have been full OF mean
whiskey or did it for pure devilment. At
tlo +r;o3 ba doniad fhat he was the man.