The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-03-02
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.
The president has appointed Samuel D.
Jones as postmaster at Port Royal.
Efforts are being made to remove the
dispensary at Pendleton on account of
it's proximity to Clemson college.
A negro woman prisoner in the Rich
land jail knocked down the jailer with
bottle and made her escape last Wednes-
day.
There was destructive fire in the dry
kiln of lumber plant at McBee, in ker-
shaw county, on the Seaboard Air Line,
last Saturday night.
Beaufort lodge, Knights of Pythias, has
begun preparations for the entertainment
of the grand lodge of this State, which
convenes in that city in May.
The South Carolina Cotton Growers
Association will open an office in Colum'
hla this week. W weekly bulletins to the
farmers will be issued from this Office.
Dr.. J. VIM. Finn, one of the professors
at the South Carolina college at Colum-
bia, has resigned, the resignation to take
effect at the end of the present session.
Sam Marks, the negro convicted OF the
murder of white man in Darlington
county and sentenced to death, will hang,
his appeal to the Supreme Court Tor a
new trial having been denied.
w. St Julien Jervey, of Charleston. is
also announced as candidate for sollc-
itor of the first circuit. There are three
candidates in the field: two from Charles"
ton and one from Walterboro.
A house to house canvass is being made
in Edgefeld county by townships, each
farmer white and black being asked to
sign pledge that he or she will reduce
cotton acreage and the use of fertilizers
25 per cent each.
Arthur L. Hare, a young white man, %
years old, committed suicide with chloro-
| form on board the schooner Edgar q.
Ross at Georgetown one night last week.
His father lives at Toronto, Canada, and
the young fellow was sailor.
All corporations doing business for d
profit in this State are required to make
returns to the comptroller general Tor the
new franchise tax, which goes into effect
this year. FoIms will be furnished upon
application to the comptroller general.
The city of Asheville will entertain the
second annual Interstate Convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Associations
of North and South Carolina. The con-
vention will begin on Saturday, March
II, and close the following Tuesday night.
Senator Hale, of Maine, was elected at
the recent election for the fifth term of
six years each in the United States Senate.
If he serves out his term he will equal
Thomas Benton, of Missouri, who served
80 years, the longest period heretofore
recorded.
Harry Hatcher, young white boy liv-
ing near Florence, was danger ously shot
last Saturday by another boy. They were
, playing with gun when it was accident
ally discharged, the load taking effect in
young Hatcher's side. The wound is not
considered fatal.
Governor Hayward has named April
24th as the day for the general election of
solicitors in the two new circuits. Pri-
maries will be held before that date. There
are number of candidates, but Senator
Eugene S. Blease, of Saluda, has decided
not to make the race.
John Boggs, young white man, was
recently arrested at Beaufort for murder
committed in West Virginia. He killed a
young man who was his rival for the
affections of q young lady. He will be
taken back to West Virginia for trial.
Sheriff McTeer, of Beaufort, made the
capture.
Furman Thompson, colored, was COM
mitted to Jail in Walhalla last Thursday,
charged with criminal assault upon q
white girl about II years old (name not
ascertained) in or near Westminster, 5.
G.. A preliminary examination was held
by s. 81. Johns, magistrate, who sent the
case up to the court of general sessions for
Oconee county.
The infant son of Mr.. Floyd Hall, who
lives near Saxon mills, at Spartanburg,
swallowed a medium.sized safety pin
few days ago, which lodged in the child's
windpipe. The dangerous impediment
to breathing and fatal obstacle was re-
moved from the larnyx of the boys
throat, the operation being a successful
one, and the child is getting along nicely.
William T. Bell and George Bell, white,
were tried at the spring term of court in
Horry county last week and found guilty
of manslaughter. They were sentenced
to the penitentiary for eleven and five
years respectively. They were charged
with the murder of their aunt. This is
the case where an aged white woman was
killed by her husband and nephews in
Horny county some months ago.
The four-year.old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. T. Wright was drowned in an
empty post hole at Batesburg last Satur-
day. Several little girls were at the Wright
home playing hide and seek, when little
Annie Wright was missed. The little one
was found head first in the hole which
was partly full of water. Attempts to
revive her were Intellectual, and she must
have strangled Immediately upon falling
into the hole.
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