The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-03-10
-OuTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Tter,s Of Mo- & Less Interest Con-
densed Throughout the State.

Fifteen persons were sentenced to
Germs i'll the penitcutiary from Char
:estou county this week.
The sore OF H. II. Griffin, IN
G~~cnvillc, was burglarizcd on Sun
S.v night and several hundred dol
I3rs worth oi goods were stolen.
Columbia is making elaborate pre-
oarations ior the approaching session
q The Conference Tor Education III
thc South, to be held in that city DUR
:nc the last week in April.
The body oi John ". McCracken
va, found on Monday morning near
s. Stepl?cn,. The verdict OF the coFo-
1cy:s iury was that the deceased came
to his death by either falling or be-
;r,r thrown from train.
Miscreants entered the cloth room
loi the Monagan mills, iii Greenvllie'
On Sunday night and cut open more
shan fifty bales of cloth. A good deal
Of cloth and other articles were found
missing
Or 6 NJ. Orr was on Monday
elected president of the Orr cotton
mills, in Anderson, to succeed MS
brother, the late Col. James. L. Orr.
Dr.. Orr has been vice-president OF
,*he mill since its organization.
An old colored woman died IN Un-
ION county on Sunday, reputed to
have been ITO years old. 1t is stated
that she had belonged to the Worthy
family for generations, and that up to
the time of her death her mind was
perfectly clear.
Edgar Sampson, the negro boy
charged with having attempted to
commit an assault upon the flve-year-
<o1d daughter of Mr.. J. NJ. Rivers, OF
Columbia, has been arrested at MS
home in Elliott, in Lee county, and
lodged in the jail at Bishopvllle.
Peter Thomas. colored, was struck
~ a passing Seaboard Air Line train
at Norway, in Orangeburg county,
and killed. 1t is said tha: the negro
was drinking during the morning,
and she either went to sleep on the
track as the result Of his liquor: or
was 100 drunk to get out OF the way
of the approaching train.
CONGRESSMAN George S. Legare, IN
whose homer President Roosevelt has
decided to name one of the new bat
eleships South Carolina, has returned
20 Charleston from Washington.
Congressman Legare declared that
the naming of the batt' ship after
this state was another evidence of the
presidents friendly feeling for the
south
Some night ago a basket contain
1nc we'll dressed baby about three
months old was found on the front
oiaz.a steps of Mr.. Whit Moore,
n Darlington Mr.. and Mrs. Moore.
.xho have no children, took the little
one in. and it is receiving the best OF
care There is no clue whatever to
the child's parertage The baby is
girl, has dark hair. and is, OF course,
-ercrted to be good looking.
The discovery OF case OF smallpox
among the witnesses III attendance
uDo.1 the United States circuit court
in Florence caused an adjournment
Of that court on Tuesday morning to
the city hall, where two civil cases
were disposed OF This work COM
pleted, the grand jury was dismissed
and the court adjourned to meet IN
Columbia on next Tuesday morning.
Wafle Policeman Fields, OF Oar
.gington, was taking negro, Ed. Will
son. from the mayors court to the
guard house on Monday the prisoner,
WHO had been sentenced to so days
.sn the chain gang for carrying con-