The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-11-09
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.


Chester county is soon to hold an
election on the question of voting out
the dispensary. Petitions asking. for
the election are now being circulated.
Thomas Godfrey, of Spartanburg, has
been found guilty of murder with recon.
mendation to mercy. Godfrey shot and
killed his neighbor, Thomas Jones, a few
months ago.
There is movement on foot to create
new county from portions of Greenvlile
and Spartanburg, with Greers as the
county seat. A survey of the proposed
new county is now being made.
Assistant Attorney General Youmans
has decided that tent shows do not have
to pay license of 500 day to the
counties in which they exhibit. He says
the license applies to circuscs only.
The Spartanburg county grand jury
have presented several dispensers and
members of the board of control of that
county. The charges are bribery and cor
ruption and failure to carry out the law.
Samuel R. Epps, prosperous white
farmer of Clarendon county, ffty-hve
wears old and widower, committed sui
eide last week by shooting himself with
q shotgun. BE had shown evidences of
insanity for several months.
The Greenville News has been sold to
Tompkins & Caldwell, owners of the
Charlotte Observer, they having bought
the interest of Mr. J. f. Richardson. MIR.
Caldwell is now president of the COM
pany, and the paper is to be improved.
A negro in Saluda county stole a cow
and calf last week. He was found with
the stolen property in his possession, and
ran but was captured. He said he had
bought buggy and stole the cow and
calf in order to raise $25 due on the Ve-
hicle.
Messrs. Masters and Bristow, who
bought the South Carolina Baptist and
changed the name to the Baptist Press,
have ordered a new outfit and will get
out their own paper A good deal of the
material has already arrived and been
opened up.
The dispensary advocates of Spar.
tanburg county employed lawyers and
endeavored to get an injunction from
Judge Klugh against holding the election
in that county on Tuesday, but the Judge
declined to grant the injunction and the
election was held.
James Byars was killed in Cherokee
county last Saturday by Madison Cook.
Both men were white farmers and fell
out while weighing cotton. Cook struck
Byars with heavy stick he was using in
weighing cotton, killing him instantly.
The wife of Byars was the only witness.
A woman who was assisting her hus-
band in balloon ascension at the Ander-
son county fair last week, became entang-
led in the ropes somehow as the balloon
went up. She held on until she was carried
about 800 feet in the air, when she fell.
She was instantly killed, her body being
badly mangled.
There was destructive fire in Union
last Monday morning about one o'clock.
1t broke out in the city stables where the
fire fighting apparatus was kept. The
fire wagon, reel. and portion of the hose
was destroyed, but the fine horses were
saved. The fire is thought to be OF in
cendiary origin, as the odor of kerosene
was strong.
The Laurens cotton mill fight goes
merrily on. Last week the Milliken side
were to have held a meeting and elected
a new set of directors and assumed con-
troll of affairs, but the Lucas interests
secured an Injunction against them. Now
the Millikens will seek TO have the in
junction dissolved. In the meantime Mr..
Lucas is still in charge and the mill is
makinp money