The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-09
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Charleston has four candidates for one
of the new judgeships: W. St. Julien
Jervey, R. W. Memminger, T. W. Bacot
and W. b. Parker.
Innis Hood, colored, was committed to
Greenville Jail on Thursday, charged
with numbering his wife that day by
shooting her with shotgun.
W. E. Catlin, of Danville, Va, and
negro mau were drowned While duck
hunting in boat in Black river, near
Georgetown, on Thursday.
Dennis Wood, white man, is in Jail at
Greenville, charged with numbering his
wife last Thursday. he is said to have
beat her first and then shot her.
The city of Gaffney has had two months
of prohibition, and her citizens are much
pleased at present conditions. 1t would
be hard to muster corporars guard to
vote the dispensary back there.
The O'Neal Street Methodist church in
Newberry was burned Monday night
about ten e'cfock. The fire is supposed
to have originated from the furnace.
The loss is $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
The mayor of Greenville has issued
orders to the police to close every gamb-
ling joint in that city. BE says hereafter
he will send gamblers to the chain gang
the question of accepting fines not being
considered.
The store of John Fitzmaurice, dry
goods merchant in Columbia, was des-
troyed by fire last Saturday night. The
stock was worth $4,000, with insurance
of $4,000. The stock of dry goods store
next door was badly damaged, as was also
shoe stock.
A white boy, sixteen years old, has been
arrested in Charleston, charged with set
ting the many fires which have occurred
in that city recently. About $50, 900 worth
of property was burned in the fires claim
ed to have been set by him. 1t is said he
has confessed.
The Miner store, one of the largest
department stores in the city of Sumter,
was destroyed by fire Monday night. The
loss is about $4,000. Mr.. Carson, secre-
tary of the company, was cut by falling
glass as he entered the building to get
out the books.
The Darlington Light and Water Com
pany has sold its plant to Northern
syndicate which is buying the water and
light plants in many towns of the Pee
Dee section. This syndicate will operate
plants in Marion, Mullins, Timmonsville,
Darlington, and other places.
A young woman was attacked by a
negro on the streets of Darlington while
going home from her sisters just after
dark on Monday. A noise in nearby
dwelling frightened him away, but he
left his finger marks on her neck. He
was hunted by bloodhounds, but was
not caught.
At a negro funeral in Columbia last
Sunday the hearse was drawn by fifty
negro men. The streets were covered
with ice and so slippery that horses could
not keep their feet, so a rope was attached
to the hearse and it was drawn by mem
bers of the order to which the dead
negro belonged.
Court is being held in Hampton this
week, Judge D. A. Townsend presiding.
Mr. W. s. Smith is acting solicitor in
place of Solicitor James E. Davis, who is
in Columbia at the engrossing depart
ment of the legislature. There are three
murder cases to be tried, all being negroes.
Two white men have been convicted of
breaking into box car.
In drunken row between several white
men and negroes at the Kaolin mines
near Langley, in Aiken county, last Satur.
day afternoon, one negro was killed and
several badly wounded. One white man
will die from his wounds and others are
seriously injured. 1t is said the white
men were drunk and started.the trouble.
Several whites and negroes have been
arrested and put in Jail at Aiken.
There is bill in congress to provide
another Federal Judge for the upper
counties of South Carolina, new dis
trict to be created. It is said the bill will
II