The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-09-07
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.

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Judge James F. Izlar has been appoint
ed to hold the special term Of criminal
court in Aiken county, beginning next
week.
Dispenser Fortune, of Charleston, who
was found to be $2,700 short, and who
left home, has returned, and it is said will
settle up the shortage.
A number of farmers in Chesterfield
county have signed an agreement that
they will not pay over forty cents per
hundred for picking cotton before the 18th
of October.
The dispensary investigating commit
tee is in session in Sumter this week.
Much rottenness in the dispensary in
Marion county was unearthed at the ses-
sion on Tuesday.
Greenville will invite the Confederate
veterans to hold their State reunion in
that city during the annual fair of the
Piedmont Fair association for the week
beginning October 24th.
Bishop A. Coke Smith, who has been
seriously i'll at Asheville, N. c., has i'm
proved so much that he is able to be out
on the streets again. 1t is now thought
that he will fully regain his health.
The big planning mill of the Atlantic
Coast Lumber Company at Georgetown
was destroyed, with large quantity of
dressed lumber, on Thursday. The loss
was over $4,000 and is fully covered by
insurance.
The cotton warehouse at Johnston was
burned last Saturday night. There were
perhaps 1000 bales of cotton in the ware
house and on the platform of the South
ern Railway nearby, nearly all OF which
was burned. The loss is about $50,0G0.
Several citizens were severely burned
while moving bales of cotton out of reach
of the flames.
Mr.. D. T. Outzs, cashier of the Bank of
Johnston, died at his home in that town
last Monday, as result of the burns he
received at the fire which destroyed the
cotton warehouse at Johnston last Satur-
day night. Mr.. Outzs with others went
in to save the books, and while thus en-
gagged he was so seriously injured that his
death came three days later.
A hearing was had before Judge Town
send in the Union dispensary case on
Tuesday, and he decided that the election
was legally held and ordered the dispen-
saries in that county closed. 1t is prob
able that the dispensary advocates will
now take the case to the State supreme
court and that the dispensaries will re-
main open while the case is pending.
Former Supervisor Speegle, of Green
vile county, was carried on mattress
last Friday to point within the South
Carolina line and gave bond for his apv
pearance at court. Speegle is charged
with embezzlement of the county funds,
and has been i'll at Hendersonville, N. c.,
for some time. He could not give bond
in North Carolina. 1t is thought he will
never recover.
District Attorney Capers has appointed
Mr.. T. w. Bacot assistant attorney. Mr..
Bacot is citizen of Charleston and is
well known in the State, having been a
member of the legislature for a number
of years as well as member of the con-
stitutional convention. He is Demo
crat and the appointment has no political
significance. Mr.. Capers offered the po-
sit:on to Republican lawyers whom he be-
lieved to be competent, but they declin-
ing he was compelled to 60 outside his
party to secure suitable man.