The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-02
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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsspt Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings. q
By vote Of 80 to 46, the house OF rep
resentatives last Saturday killed the bill
providing for making the South Carolina
College university.
~ A man who beat his wife was given ten
years in the penitentiary by Judge Gage
in Berkley county last week. The judge
said wife beaters ought to be hanged.
The fve-year-old daughter of R. W.
PEBBLES was killed by her brother only 9
year older last Wednesday. He was play
( Ing with his fathers gun. The accident
happened in Sumter county, about two
miles from the city.
In the court of general sessions for
Greenyille county last Thursday, John E.
Waldrop was found guilty of the murder
Of Samuel Maddox, the jury recommend
ing mercy. Waldrop is well-known
white farmer Of that county.
The house of representatives last Sat-
surday: passed bill to establish a State
armory. The bill provides for an appro-
priation Of $1,000 to erect a building in
Columbia in, which to store guns, tents,
and other military property of the State.
4 one Of the most destructive fires in the
history of Union broke ont in that town
last W Wednesday about 1:30 o'clock in the
afternoon, in the work shop Of the Bailey
Lumber Co. The fire consumed num-
ber of business houses, including three
story brick building. The loss is about
$4,000 u
Nathaniel Berkett, young negro, was
shot and killed at Greenwood in front OF
The postofice last Saturday night. The
coroner's jury Monday morning brought
1 fl a:yeriict that he came to his death
from s pistol shot wound at the hands OF
Hays, awell-known young bug
si1ess man. s, :. 2., s,
NE cotton oil mill at Bennettsviile was
destroyed BY FIRE last Wednesday about
s1ssoclock in the day. The fire caught in
. the Inter room and is supposed to have
stl,een started By q spark from passing
railroad engine. The loss is about $10o,-
s0O0 The min was the property Of the
southern Cotton Oil Company.
cont in Berkley county last week 1t
Wss shown that the killing Of the negro
sBookhardt took place in Orangeburg
scounty instead Of Berkley, and the case
] y MS transferred to Orangeburg for trial.
Judge Gage refused bail to the prisoners.
1 This Is the celebrated Eutawville lynch
{ ing case, where six white men are charged
gith numbering . negro.
& bill designed to protect primary elec-
/ tions was passed by the house OF repre-
sentatives It provides that q candidate
scsnnos hire man to work for him or
ssiye money aor liquor for the purpose OF
influencing votes Every candidate in a
primary must take an oath to this effect
and sfile With the clerk of court an item
ized statement Of expenses. Failure to
5file such statement will render an election
null and void.
Thetwo-yea child Of George cros.
land, q wealthy farmer and large real
estate owner Of Bennettsville, was burned
% death last Saturday night. Mrs. Cros-
bad ana Mr.. Crosland left the room for
& fcw moments to investigate noise at
athe barn. The child pulled lamp from
me table saturating its head and clothing
With oil. When the parents reached the
child il was enveloped in flames and still
holding the lamp. After three hours in.
tense suffering it died at II o'clock.
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