The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-22
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Hannpnihds

Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings
Horny and York counties are trying to
vote out the dispensary.
Simp Nipper, colored, aged 20, shot and
killed little negro aged eight near john
ston on Sunday-in spirit of meanness-
AID then escaped.
Sumter, as we'll as York, is working
for the Presbyterian college now located
at Clinton, and is going to offer some
attractive inducements.
Engineer Cauble, Of Greenville, run
ming on the Southern, was so badly hurt
in wreck at Kings Mountain on Thurs
day that he died on Friday.
William Johnson, a young negro, was
hanged at Orangeburg last Friday for
criminally assaulling little white child.
He protested his innocence to the last.
Drs. F. D. Kendall and J j. Watson, of
Columbia, had fight on Thursday night
about patient, and the former stabbed
the latter seriously with pocket-knife.
Smith, the 11-year.old son of Glenn
Fuller, prominent citizen of Laurens
county, accidentally shot and killed him
self with shotgun on Friday while hunt.
ing.
The Southern freight depot at Blacks
burg, with its contents, was burned on
Monday night. Two box cars and three
fiat cars loaded with cross-ties were also
burned.
Arthur, the six-year-old son of J. s,
Bunill, a prominent farmer of Travellers
Rest, Greenville county, died on Thurs
day from the effects of being kicked by a
horse the day before.
Kinloch Higgins, aged 16, was convict
ed at Marion on Saturday of manslaugh-
ter-kllling Joe Byrd several months ago
penitentiary for four years.
Bennettsville is making efforts to get
the Presbyterian college, which is now
located at Clinton. Two wealthy citizens
of the town, Messrs. D. D. McColl and A,
]. Matheson, have subscribed $4,000 each
A meeting of several prohibitionists
was held in Columbia on Thursday night
They decided to call State convention to
inaugurate plan of campaign against the
sale of liquor, the time being LETT to
committee of ten.
The dispensary at Pickens was closed
| last Monday, through the efforts Of Gov
ernor Hayward. It seemed that the State
board of control wanted to keep the PLACE
! open even after the people had voted the
dispensary out of the county.
w. C. Irby, Jr, and ". T. Crews, both
of Laurens, have started weekly paper
called The Vidette in Columbia. In its
salutatory it says it is printed in the in
terest of the "reform faction" and will
support the dispensary as the best solu
ton of the whiskey question.
Mr.. s. n. Hardwick, passenger traffic
manager of the Souther railway, is to de-
liver an address before the State Press
Association at it's meeting at White Stone
Springs next month. His subject will
be: "The Story of the South-the Impetu:
and Progress of Its Development"
Ed. Milling, a negro about 1s years old
was arrested in Darlington last Saturday
charged with attempt at rape. BE entered
the house of Mrs. John Hatchell about L
o'clock at night through one of tht
windows during the absence of her hus
band. When he placed his hands or
the woman she awoke and gave the alarm
and the negro became frightened ane
fed. He was tracked with blood hounds
and caught and confessed the deed. There
is no excitement, and the law will be
/ allowed to take its course.