The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-10-19
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.
Anderson county is to vote on the dis
pensary question next month.
Petitions are being circulated in Beau
fort county to vote on the dlspensary
question.
The Greenville policeman who was in.
dicted for gambling has been dismissed
from the force.
The annual session of the Presbyterian
Synod of South Carolina is in session at
Rock Hill this week.
The State law and order league is to
meet in Columbia during Fair week, on
Wednesday evening.
Four negroes have been arrested and
placed in Jail at Kingstree charged with
the murder of Mr.. Julian Wilson.
The Baptist Press, of Greenwood, nom
mates Jos. A. Mccullough, of Greenvllle,
for governor as the candidate OF the pro-
mbitionists.
The increase in sales of the various dis
pensaries in the State for the last three
months was about 100000 over the pre-
ceding quarter.
There were three more holdups by high
wsvmen on the streets of Columbia last
Saturday night. One man resisted anu
the robber ran of.
Secretary of the navy Bonaparte is to
visit Charleston on the occasion OF the
presenting of the silver punch bowl to
the cruiser "Charleston."
The bonded Indebtedness of Greenwood
is s102,OOO, and the tax rate is twelve
mills. Yet Greenwood is one OF the most
prosperous towns in the State.
J.E. Speegle, ex-supervisor of Green
vile county, who was under lndlctment
for mis- appropriation of funds, died last
Tuesday. He had been i'll for some time.
Mrs.H.G. Sheridan attended the State
meeting of the WomaD's Home Missions
Society of the Methodist church at Darl-
ington last week, as delegate from the
Bamberg auxiliary.
A policeman in Greenville has been ar
rested for gambling. The sherlh OF the
county swore out the warrant against
him. The case is to be tried in the circuit
court, and the officer was released under
$50 bond.
Weldon Kay shot and fatally wounded
Joseph Shedd at the cotton mill village
in Anderson last Saturday while playing
with pistol. They were boys about II
years old. The shooting was clearly an
accident.
An attempt was made to lynch negro
in Williamsburg county Saturday night,
but the sheriff and solicitor prevented the
lynching and succeeding in dispensing
the crowd. The negro was charged Win
the murder of Mr.. Wilson.
The Edgefeld Advertiser says that the
dispensary will be voted out beyond all
shadow of doubt when the election IS
held on December z. Over one half OF the
voters in the county signed the petition
asking for the election.
Marcus c. Bailey, late engineer in the
! Orangeburg cotton mill, was given q
verdict of $1,000 damages last week
against the mill for having a portion OF
his Q8QQ Cut Ou Wy eu0 pump 49, 'AS w.
gine room. BE sued for $4,000.
/. State bonds to the amount of $12,50O
have been stolen from the State treasur-
er's Office, and warrant has been issued
for Daniel Zimmerman, former bond
clerk in the Office, charging him with the
theft. He is missing, and has not been
arrested yet.
TT. Murray has been appointed treas.
urer of Dorchester county, to succeed j.
M Whetsell, " ho was removed on account
of shortage in funds. The shortage has
been paid. and the citizens of St. George
are dissatisfied because Governor hey
ward would not reinstate Whetsen.
Ex.Congressman Geo. W. Murray, a
negro, will have to serve a sentence OF
three wears in the State penitentiary for
forgery. He was convicted in Sumter
county and appealed to the State Supreme
court. Murray was trying to swindle
some negroes out of land is what caused
his trouble.
James Brigham, young white man,
was run over and killed by a Seaboard
train in the town of Cheraw last Tuesday
nipht, His head was severed from his
body. Brigham had bought quart OF
whiskey from the dispensary few hours
before he was killed, and the broken
bottle was found near his body.
Charlie McRae, a colored boy, while
fooling with a double. .barrelled shotgun
on the Mickle place, near Camden, last
Wednesday accidentally shot Edward
Kelly another colored boy, and killed him.
McRae seems to handle a gun rather care
lessly. as about a month ago he shot
Kelly's brother through the ear, inhicting
only slight wound.
At q meeting of the board of directors
held in Greenville last Saturday, Govern
or D. G. Hayward was elected president
of the Standard Warehouse Company.
The company has capital stock of $780,
600, and controls two warehouses at Co.
lumbia, one at Greenville, Greenwood,
and Anderson, while others are to be
erected for the purpose Of enabling farm
ers to hold their cotton.
In 8 section of Aiken county, known as