The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-12-14
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.
Edgefeld county voted out the dispen-
sary last Thursday by majority of about
two to one.
The election in Saluda county on the
dispensary question is to be held on the
10Th instant.
The girls at Winthrop college hissed
the board of trustees recently because the
board would not grant holiday at Christ
mas.
Hamp Smith, assistant town marshal OF
Hampton, was shot and killed last Thurs
day night by three brothers named Cook:
The men were drinking and the marshal
attempted to arrest them.
The Office of the county treasurer in
Georgetown was broken into Saturday
night but only the cash drawer was broken
open and about one hundred pennies
stolen. There is no clue to the guilty
party.
Lewis Broughton, negro, was shot
and killed by the chief of police of Greer,
Greenville county, last Friday. Brough-
on was an all round bad negro and that
policeman was attempting to arrest him
for selling blind tiger liquor. He opened
fire on the officer first, and fired three
times.
Mr.. M. D. Blackmon, of Columbia, was
killed in Lexington county last week by
the bursting of circular saw which was
being used for cutting wood. When the
saw few to pieces one of the fragments
struck him full in the face and cutting
deep into the brain. He lived only a
short time after the accident.
Hon. Altamont. Moses died in Sumter
last week, and was buried in that city
Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Moses was one
of the prominent men in public affairs Of
this State. He had been member of the
legislature for many years, and was chair
man of the ways and means committee
at the time of his death. He was Past
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias.
At special term of court in Williams
burg county last week, Arthur Williams,
jenkins Burrows, and Robert Scott, all
negroes, were convicted of the murder of
Mr., Julian Wilson and sentenced to be
hanged on January 18th. Mr.. Wilson
was murdered in country store in that
county short time ago, and the special
term of court was promised in order to
keep the eyroes from being lynched.
Williams made confession.
Brown Johnson, colored, an employe
of the Southern Power Company, en-
gagged in erecting poles between York
Vile and Glover, was blown almost to
pieces by discharge of dynamite on
Thursday. johnson was holding stick
of the explosive in his hand and was sit
ting with compaaions near fi:e The
dynamite exploded and caused box con-
tanning quantity Of. the same material
standing by to explode also. johnson
was so badly injured that he died soon
after. Alex Steward was painfully hurt.
Others were stunned but escaped injury.
The State Supreme Court last week
passed an order that j. S. Farnum must
produce in that court the papers which
he refused to show the dispensary inves-
tigating committee. The date fixed was
last Monday, at which time Farnum's at
torney appeared and asked for further
time, saying that the papers were in the
hands of q man in Georgia, who was now
off on hunt and could not be reached.
The court gave him until next Monday
to produce the papers. Farnum is beer
dispenser in Charleston, and it is thought
these letters, if ever brought to light, will
throw much light on dispensary matters.