The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-01-26
IN THE PALMETTO STATE,

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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
= KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
A bank has been organized at Lake
City, Williamsburg county, with capital
stock of $25,OOO.
John Clegg, the Greenwood white man
who is charged with killing his son, has
been admitted to bail in the small sum OF
$1,000.
In many counties of the Statemeetings
of farmers have been held recently, and
pledges made to use less fertilizer, reduce
the acreage for this year, and hold cotton
for ten cents.
One little white boy shot and killed
another white boy in Newberry county
last Saturday. 1t was an accident-the
result of playing with an "unloaded gun"
while playing "war."
Judge R. o. Purdy has granted bail in
the sum of $4,000 to W. B. Rowell, the
Florence dispensary constable who shot
and killed Jos. c. Blount, railroad de-
tective, in that town several weeks ago.
James. A. Watson, of Yorkville, COM
mitted suicide last Friday morning about
nine o'clock by shooting himself in the
head with shotgun. He was respected
citizen of that town and an old Confeder-
ate soldier.
The warehouse of the Bolton cotton
mill was partially destroyed by fire last
Wednesday morning about five O'Clock.
Three hundred bales of cotton and seven
ty bales of cloth were burned. The loss
is about $4,000, fully covered by insur-
ance.
John Clegg, white man and former
policeman of the city of Greenwood, is
in Jail there charged with. the murder OF
his son, boy about fourteen years old.
1t seems that the father shot the boy while
in drunken frenzy, and they will at
tempt to prove that it was accidental
Senator T. NJ. Raysor, of Orangeburg,
has introduced bill providing that the
salaries of the chief and associate justices
of the State supreme court be increased
from $2,850 year to $500. It seems
that the bill will pass the Senate. What
will be its fate in the house remains to be
seen.
A weekly newspaper is to be establish
ed at Georgetown, which will have as it's
chief object the advertising of the great
natural advantages and undeveloped re-
sources of the coast country of South Car
olina. 1t will be operated by stock
company which will have a capital stock
of $4,000. Mr.. Jas. Henry Rice, Jr., will
be the editor.
It seems that Calhoun county will be
established. The State board of canvass.
ers decided against the contest of the e]ec-
ton in Greenwood county. The matter
is now up to the legislature, and there is
little doubt but that the county will be
created. There is only one thing to- de-
feat it, and that is the lack of territory
left in Edgefeld, A survey of that county
is now being made.
There was an explosion in the heating
plant of the State house in Columbia last
Friday morning which came near wreck
ing the entire plant. 1t is claimed that
some one turned of the water from the
boilers during the night and in the morn
ing when the engineer started the fire
there was an explosion in one of the
boilers, which completely wrecked the
pipes and came near tearing out the whole
end of the boiler. The Senate has ap-
pointed committee to investigate the
occurrence.