The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-03-23
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Comptroller General Jones will distri-
butte Sl19,OO0 of dispensary money to the
schools this week.
None of the up-country mills will JOIN
the Duncan mills in Uuion in establish.
ing ten-hour working day.
The State teachers association will be
held at Clemson college on June 29th,
during the session of the State summer
school.
A petition is being circulated in Spar
tanburg county asking for an election on
the question of voting the dispensary out
of that county.
Judge G. W. Gage is i'll in Charleston,
and Judge R. W. Memminger is holding
court there this week. Judge Gage was
taken sick after arriving in the city.
In Greenville county last Friday a
white boy named Dudley Hunter was
accidentally shot and killed by his young
friend, Patrick Davis, while out hunting
Two cotton mills in the city of Union
have adopted the ten hour day. 1t is said
that the other mills of that county and
Spartanburg will not make the reduction
The annual convention ofthe travelling
statesmen of this State is to be held in
Spartanburg April 18th and 18th. Ad'
dresses will be delivered by prominent
men.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 for public library for the city OF
Anderson if the city will furnish the lot
and agree to give $1,000 year for main
tanning the library.
Robbers blew open safes in two stores
at Pinewood, Clarendon county, last
Saturday night, but only small amount
of money was secured. The parties made
good their escape.
The Supreme Court has denied the
appeal of Thrailkill, and he will have to
serve his sentence of life imprisonment in
the penitentiary. Thrailkill is white
man from Saluda county who killed man
named Burton.
The Southern train from Asheville to
Columbia was wrecked near Spartanburg
last Friday. The train was derailed at a
switch at Spartanbprg Junction. No one
was killed, and only few people were
slightly injured.
Vincent Chicco, the Italian blind tiger
king of Charleston, is candidate Tor the
legislature to fill an unexpired term. he
promises to raise trough house" in Co.
lumbia if elected. 1t is hardly to be ex-
pected that he will be elected.
Monazite has been discovered in the
creeks and branches of Grove township,
Greenville county. A New York concern
has bought the rights from many farms at
$500 q ton for crude ore. When refined
monazite is worth about $1,000 ton.
The stock company which is to publish
the Carolina Field, new weekly paper at
Georgetown, has been organized and q
first.class printing outfit purchased. Jas.
Henry Rice, Jr., is to be the editor. 1t is
expected to issue the paper about the first
of April.
Mai. w. F. B. Haynsworth, an aged
and prominent lawyer OF Sumter, died
suddenly at his residence in that city last
Thursday morning. Maj. Haynsworth
was a prominent and influential citizen,
and will be greatly missed. He was ~
years old.
The dispensary investigating committee
met for the second time in Columbia last
week, but nothing was done. The COM
mittee wanted some information from
the State board of directors as to the State
dispensary, and these officials declared II
would take thirty days or more to pre-
pare it.
The Chesterfield county grand jury
found no bill against D. G. Mcintosh, Of
Cheraw, charged with criminal careless
ness in causing the death of G. w. Tray
wick. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Traywick was shot while down at the Pee
Dee river at Cheraw while inspecting
lumber. Mr.. Mcintosh was shooting at
sparrows with small rife some distance
away, and it was claimed that one OF his
shots killed Traywick.
A negro named McClennan was shot
and killed at Dillon last Sunday after
noon by D. G. Atkinson, white man.
Atkinson was guard at the cotton mill
during the quarantine of the mill village
on account of small pox. He kept the
negro from going up town a few days
ago, and the negro made threats. Sunday
afternoon McC1ennan renewed the diff
Guilty and fired once at Atkinson, who
drew his pistol and fired several shots,