The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-09-21
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.

and Happenings.
Senator Tillman made a speech in
Marion last Saturday on the dispensary
and again said that Governor Hayward
should take action in the dispensary mat
ter.
Melvin Virgins, young white man
committed suicide near the town OF
Marion last week. He used a shot gun
and his body was found in the road near
his home.
A rumor has been in circulation fol
some weeks that white man plowing on
the farm of Rivers Bros, three miles from
Cheraw, turned up pot with $4,000 in
gold. The story is not generally believed.
Warren Scruggs, Jr., fifteen years old
son of Warren R. Scruggs, fell from inside
the dome of the State capitol on Tuesday
to the marble floor 60 feet below and was
instantly killed, the back of his head be-
ing crushed in.
NJ. S. Scruggs, dispenser in Green
Vile, has resigned his position, and gives
as his reason that the dispensary election
in that county is not far off and the dis
pensary is doomed, so he might as well
seek other business.
Special Referee Boggs has made his re-
port to the supreme court in regard to the
Pickens dispensary election, in which he
shows that more than one.fourth of the
voters signed the petition and that the
election was fair.
Greenville's grand jury has caused vari-
Gus people who handle county money to
refund q considerabl amount to. the coun-
ty treasury. Some men cannot long
handle public funds without some of it
sticking to their fingers.
FL. Nagle, white man, was held up
on the streets of Columbia last Sunday
night by a masked highwayman and
robbed of $40 in cash and his watch and
chain. It is not known whether the rob-
Der was white man or negro.
Eugene S. Blease, who recently shot
and killed ]. B. Coleman, his brother-in-
law, at Saluda, because Coleman was too
intimate with his wife, was granted bail
by Associate Justice Gary at Abbevslle
last Monday in the sum of $4,000. He
gave the required bond.
Testimony was taken before Referee
Judge Jas. F. Izlar last week in Charles
ton as to the right of the dispensary in
yestigating committee to examine GER
tain letters of ]. S. Farnum, beer dis
penser. The hearing was adjourned un-
til Sept. 2sth, when Farnum will offer
evidence for his contention.
An election on the dispensary question
was held in Marion county Tuesday Of
this week, and the dispensary was voted
out by vote of five to one. Senator
Tillman's speech there last Saturday evil
IDENTIFY didn't do much good. Fact is, the
people are getting rather tired OF Till
mans attempts at dictation.
1t is likely that Bennettsville will get
the Presbyterian college. Mrs. Beckwith
who gave that town its magnificent grad
ed school building, has subscribed $40, 900
and twelve acres of valuable land for
site. The subscriptions of Bennettsville
to get the college amount to about $67,-
600. The board is to meet in Columbia
the 2Sth to decide where the college shall
be located.
Arthur Sterrett, commercial traveller
representing the house Of Daniel Miller
& Co., dry goods and notions, committed
suicide in the Spartanburg Inn, at Spar
tanburg, last Sunday morning by taking
laudanum. He arrived there about one
o'clock that night from Charlotte, went
to the Spartan Inn, took a room, and
about 3 O'clock he swallowed the lauda-
mum. The hotel waiter attending him
perceived what he had done, and gave
information. DR.. Potts was called in and
it was thought that Sterrett would recov-
er, but he suddenly fell into an uncon-
scious condition and died about o'clock.
His brother, who lives there, was notified
and had the body sent to his home, and it
was sent to Charlotte this afternoon for
burial. He was about 80 years old, un-
married, and his headquarters were in
Charlotte: