The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-04-13
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.

q. L. Cade, a young white man Of Alb
beville county, wes drowned while trying
to swim the Savannah river last week.
Mr.. F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, says that
he will not run for governor. There are
plenty of patriots, however, who hope tol
the lightning to strike them.
Snow fell for few minutes in New
berry last Thursday afternoon. The
flakes were large but melted rapidly
Snow in April is uncommon.
While doing the giant swing at the !?
NJ. C. A. gymnasium at Monag han mills
Greenville, last Thursday night, Archie
Holiday, a young white man twenty
years old, fell and broke his neck.
The dead body of Rebecca Planter, a
negress, was found in Broad river at Co.
lumbia on Friday. She bad been chokeo
to death and her body thrown into the
water. Her husband is in jail charged
with the crime.
An election was held in Asheville, n
c., last Thursday ON the question of sub
stituting a municipal dispensary for the
saloons, but the saloons won by a large
majority. The campaign was one of the
most bitter in the history of the city.
Thos. J. Jackson, young white man,
was killed near his home at Bowman,
Orangeburg county, last Thursday about
10 o'clock, by falling tree. He was
driving home on wagon with load OF
fertilizer when the limb of falling tree
strnck him on the side of his head, caus.
ing instant 6eath.
Mrs. Jones McGee, of Anderson, wife
of prosperous young planter, was burn.
ed to death last Wednesday. She laid
down before the fire with four-weeks-
old infant in the cradle beside her. When
her husband returned to the house he
found his wife's clothing burned away,
the infant painfully burned, and the house
ablaze.
Marion Parr, the white man recently
convicted of murder in. Richland county,
will no doubt hang. A petition was pre-
sented to the governor asking for the ap-
pointment of commission to inquire into
PARIS sanity but the solicitor and trial
Judge afe not in favor of such a course,
and it is likely that the execution will
take place tomorrow.
A commission has been issued by the
secretary of State to company at Ben
nettsville, Marlboro county, for cotton
warehouse. (. The capital is $4,000, and
the purpose is to store cotton and hold 1t
in order to carry out the plans of the cot:
ton growers association. This is to be
the first warehouse in the State for the
movement.
Thomas Austin was struck on the head
with rake by Thomas Ross in Green
vile last Sunday afternoon, and died two
days later from the effects of the blow.
Austin was drinking and became angry
while wrestling with Ross. He pulled off
his coat to fight and advanced on Ross,
who picked up the rake and knocked
him down. Ross surrendered to the
sheriff, and has since been released on
bond.
Charles Oliver, conductor on South
ern freight train between Charleston and
Columbia, was killed at Stilton, near
Orangeburg, last Thursday morning by
William Mickle, a brakeman on the same
train. Mickle is young white man about
.21 years old. He says Oliver attacked
him with knife while provoked at the
delay of the train by a hot box which
Mickle was trying to remedy. Witnesses
to the alteration say divers attack on
Mickle was without provocation. Mickle
was stabbed in the left shoulder by Oliver.
He then retreated short distance and
picked up an iron bolt which he threw at
Oliver. The missile struck him on the
head, crushing his skull. Mickle went to
Orangeburg and surrendered.